Alright, so you're reading this which means God didn't suck you up into the sky in a blaze of golden light and rich choir ahhhs. It also means that somewhere, Harold Camping is crawling under a rock and plans to remain there for eternity. While one biblical event slipped by, another was taking place. A woman on our show! Now the way I said that sounds like we are vag-deprived and creepy. The truth is, it's tough getting a female on who enjoys our brand of humor and whose schedule compliments ours. But the stars aligned, timing worked out, Dennis and Jabari couldn't make it and so their seats were filled with our friends Wendy and once again, Chad. And finally Chad opens up and actually talks on the show. He was on twice before and said a grand total of 5 sentences. If someone out there goes back and actually counts that, I'd be impressed, because I just guessed and am too lazy to actually check myself.
It took no time at all for the Rapture jokes to hit the web and even more so, Facebook. In an instantaneous Photoshop frenzy there were even depictions of the late Macho Man Randy Savage — who had died the day before — coupled with Jesus in various WWE poses. No time was wasted posting the Jesus-jabs from leaving empty clothing in a public place, to a Dominos Pizza deal good only for Rapture Day. The Intertubes had it all!
From the Rapture to racism we float with another edition of "What Is Michael Bay Up To?" A nerd-rant E-Mail came in this week going off on those who sacked the visceral sack birth idea shown in TRANSFORMERS-2. The point made by our listener was that these 'sacks' weren't conjured up by the Bay-inator as many fans believed, but instead were first mentioned in one of the older cartoon series. To which this E-Mailer argued, you aren't aloud to complain about them unless you know the franchise yourself. Before you go off on something that isn't cannon... make sure that it isn't actually cannon.
But it's not just jelly-covered embryonic robots people were pissed about in the second film. They weren't too fond of Bay's blatant racist robot duo, Skids and Mudflap. Both of which could reference something brown. Well Mr. Bay heard your fist shaking and vowed that these Transformers wouldn't be in the next movie. And if you can find them in it, he'll pay you a hefty cash reward. More on this during today's show.
While we're on the subject of large sums of money... let us talk now about Seth MacFarlane. Fox has dumped an enormous amount of money into this funny fellow. In return he's given them 3 television shows, with just 1 of those actually being any good. But that could change in a couple of years. MacFarlane could have 2 hits come 2013 when he revives our Bedrock buddies Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. A long time coming, MacFarlane will finally get his chance to put his twisted twist on the 60's Hanna-Barbera animation. We ponder the possibilities of what this show will be like. Good, clean, family fun like the original? Probably not. Funny-ass toilet humor run amok? Probably. Will it do the franchise justice? That's the 900-pound Stegosaurus in the room. As clever and as funny as FAMILY GUY is, we can't help but think Seth is going to 'dirty it up' with his crude humor. Not that it won't be funny. But is THE FLINTSTONES really an appropriate platform for it? They make vitamins for kids! A million strong and growing for Christ sake... oops, please don't take me! The 21st has past! It's too early to judge and in all honesty we'll be watching, curious to see what he does with it.
Did I mention we have a FEMALE sitting in today? Wendy is from Hawaii... so what better way to honor her presence than with some hilarious Hawaiian laws. Not the strangest we've heard, there are a few though that are worth a couple-a-coconuts. Some Wendy doesn't even believe are real. "It's The Law" winds up this episode. With all this Rapture-talk the last few days we need some time to repent so we're taking next week off. You can come back though June 5th and we'll have several more new reasons to guarantee our spot in hell.
