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Episode 211 - "It's like Schroeder's Piano: He's Either Playing It or He's Not"

Welcome back my friends to the geek debate that never ends. It's episode 211 of the Fair Use Law podcast, proving once again that we never will forget.

One thing we are legally obliged to remember is the first of two new sponsors of our fine program. I give you Rosebud Frozen Peas:



In this episode, recent news of the Microsoft Store actually being a "thing" sparked quite the conversation on why this idea can never work. Thankfully, as an appendix to said conversation, someone put to music another reason this idea is doomed to fail as badly as the Zune:



Wondering what kind of other products the Microsoft store might sell to get the common folk to rummage their shelves? Well I hear Master Chief has expanded his repertoire to include hosting this exciting exercise video:



What's that, brain? Oh yeah, our second sponsor! I give you the commercial that is single handedly responsible for Jermaine's Emmy nod from the good ol' Outback steakhouse:



One topic of contention on the show was whether or not the female singer of Lacuna Coil was hot: not because anyone thought her ugly but only because apparently only Baker has ever seen pictures of her. After the podcast, of course I did my research using a government grant and can concede that yes, you can in fact masturbate Lacuna Coil-y:



And finally, in an attempt to get some kind of educational subsidy money from the Connecticut Board of Education, our podcast is proud to teach you the way with some light conversational Norwegian:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Mega Man - The Wily Wars

Every Saturday, we here at Fair Use Law like to put our feet up and cleanse the pallet with some fine video game music. Today we feature 10 beautiful minutes of Mega Man: The Wily Wars, featuring some of the classic Mega Man themes redone for the Sega Genesis in much higher quality:

Words of Wisdom From Ol' Hacksaw

As the weekend begins, let's remember the grizzled Jim Duggan and he expounds the secret to life to a funky techno beat:

Katamari Monkey and Rooster Love To Roll

Do you like to roll things? Like eggs? Or jelly beans? Then join Monkey and Rooster as they get their gobs literally smacked with new Katamari Forever gameplay footage.

Never Gonna Give Your Team Spirit Up

Just like a good digital monster, sometimes a meme digivolves into something that's greater than the sum of its parts and accidentally creates what we call in the business a "work of godlike art." Behold, gentlemen:

Episode 210 - "Have you ever poked a Slowpoke? It's not good times."

Salutations and welcome to episode 210 of the Fair Use Law podcast. That's right, we've been doing this for 210 years. We're what you might call "pros" in this podcasting "business."

This week I believe we literally touched on every topic ever conceived for human conversation, and a few of them unfortunately do not have direct YouTube links I can share with you. But fear not, I will still provide you the news, baby birds: Beware of Cheney's Secret Perfect Dark kill squad and certainly we hope that pack of smokes was worth 23 Quadrillion dollars.

Thankfully, we have a special guest to bring us the rest of the shownotes' YouTube clips. Someone let Gillberg know it's time to make his entrance:



We talk a lot about Total Recall on this podcast, especially the Nintendo video game version for me, since I wasted FunCo credit on it many moons ago. But just how would Total Recall the movie sound if AR'd by a Nintendo Entertainment System?



We also discussed the complete bizarre duet of Scott Weiland's Barbarella that took place with Cyndi Lauper on VH-1 many moons ago. Here it is in all its YouTube Glory, so come share the misery:



All the jelly beans do, in fact, taste like tangerines indeed.

The blogs were a'blaze this week when on Jermaine of Flight of the Conchords received an Emmy nod for Best Leading Man in a Comedy, leaving his comedy and musical partner Bret completely in the cold. Could it be the academy remembers his Oscar-worthy turn as "Outback Steak Customer/Spokesman?"



And this week's Tribunal revolves around toys of our past being made into big screen motion pictures. My pick just happened to also share with it what might be the worst American dubbed anime opening ever:



Randy's pick, however, was a bit more obscure. Luckily, some very enterprising film students in high school already laid the ground work in a mock trailer. Let's pitch this to Hollywood, stat:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Gun.Smoke

Every Saturday, Fair Use Law likes to cleanse its blog palette with some video game music from days gone by. This week, we get our 8-bit western hoedown started with Gun.Smoke, the most confusingly named game in NES history. Show of hands: how many of you didn't notice the period and thought it was just a space-shoot-em-up turned into a Gunsmoke licensed video game with high production values?

Fair Use Law Salutes WWE's New Themes

As you may know, the Tribunal are always fans of things just left of center. Unfortunately, in the field of wrestling theme songs, things have been a little stale for years. Generic metal riff that offers no indication of that wrestler's personality and has zero ability to interest a live crowd?



CHECK. Even Ric Flair doesn't approve.

But lately things have been going a bit better in WWE land. Many new wrestlers have debuted using actual gimmicks which allows the WWE composers to actually generate some masterpieces all their own. The first true masterpiece of this era, no doubt, is WWE Divas Champ Maryse's:



Then you have Yoshi Tatsu, a gifted Japanese wrestler who shares a name with a dinosaur who loves eating with his tongue. The WWE does not disappoint and goes all the way to Donut Plains 1 for inspiration for his theme, "J-Pop Drop:"



And lastly, probably the best theme on WWE TV right now goes to Zack Ryder. Formerly stuck in a bland tag team with a lookalike generic wrestler, he has since gone on his own and developed an entertaining gimmick of Long Island Douchebag/Future Tool Acamedy drop out. And they somehow found the perfect way to reflect that in his theme music:

Never Gonna Give Scribblenauts Up

Proving once again that if God programmed a video game, it would be Scribblenauts, here's a preview of some of the things hidden in the very bowls of said masterpiece:

Pop Music Redone 8-Bit: Careless Whisper

While I know Seether covering Careless Whisper pissed off one member of the Tribunal since he was planning on doing it himself, the official video is almost enough to make up for that fact to me. Either Seether went to the guys who do Code Monkeys for G4, or found someone to rip them off hardcore, leading to what may be the most insane video on TV right now:

Episode 209 - "Quote from a Movie: Accusation of Not Getting It"

Ladies and interwebs, I give to you more corn Episode 209 of the Fair Use Law podcast! This week, the tribunal takes a bit of a break and provides to you a bit of pop culture breaking news and political-free Free Association Theater.

However, as to not bring the podcast to a screeching audible halt on-air, I will use these shownotes today to pay tribute to the new Neon Genesis Evangelion movie: You Can (Not) Advance, which just came out in Japan and has been recapped all over the interwebs. This has, of course, led to my Eva fanboy mind being blown in the best possible way.

Things I am excited to see when this gets fansubbed, in spoiler form so turn away now if you want to remain an Eva 2.0 virgin:

Asuka talks to a hand puppet she carries around, they skip 3 episodes of "Who is the Fourth Child" needless drama but just replacing Toji with Asuka, We have a new pilot who isn't full of angst and emo, Asuka has a Steal Princess-esque eye patch, no stupid mindrape from an angel, and the entire movie revolves around school kids cooking each other lunches... as the biblical apocalypse looms over them

To celebrate Anno finally writing a version of Evangelion that doesn't require a prescription of Klonopin to get through, I present to you our Fair Use Law tribute to all things Neon Genesis!

The following video is what YouTube was created for, and you probably never knew it existed ("Mountains of cocaine... tons of Cocaine"):



Proving two great tastes always taste great when slammed together, I present to you Toji and Kensuke's Bogus Journey:



When sending 14 year olds off in giant robots that cost billions to make, it's always best to provide them some defensive combat training. I present to you, recently declassified from NERV HQ, their training video "How Not To Be Seen:"



And lastly, I give you legitimate, authorized Eva easter egg fun. At the end of the last DVD in the Platinum Collection boxset, if you switch the audio track during the credits of episode 26, you get Shinji (via his English dub voice actor Spike Spencer) ranting about all the questions the TV series ending left for the characters and the viewers alike:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Gremlins 2

Every Saturday, Fair Use Law likes to cleanse its blog palette with some video game music from days gone by. This week we spotlight the NES game based on one of our favorite sequels of all time: Gremlins 2. A licensed top down platformer that featured enemies such as "giant bouncing tomatoes" should not have music this great!

Slap Your Troubles Away With Autotune

There can be only one infomercial guy, and by virtual of being in lockdown for punching hookers, Vince ShamWoW has outlived Billy Mays. It's a sad day for us all, but someone with editing skills and autotune found a silver lining. He remixed the latest SlapChop ad into a catchy rap song, and because they are a reputable company that is honest, SlapChop Co is now just airing it wholesale as its own creation on cable channels. I actually thought I was having a fever dream when this came on at 4 in the morning yesterday:

Late Night With Optimus Prime

This one David Letterman sketch is about 2 centimeters away from being a Family Guy cutaway gag in and of itself ("Man, that idea bombed worse than the time Optimus Prime took over as host of the Late Show!"), but thank god Letterman got there first to do it better:

Good Music You Should Know About - Shaka Ponk

What better way to begin the week than with some funky music you just might not have ever heard of? Today we feature Shaka Ponk and their gem of a classic, Hell'o. Shaka Ponk is an unclassifiable French band, equal parts rock, industrial, dance, techno, and rap music. If you can keep yourself from moving in your chair while listening to this song, you are not human:

Episode 208 - "You don't even want to know where I inject the Cobra Starship."

Welcome to another week of the Fair Use Law podcast, your #1 place to recount the current Celebra-pocalypse while safe in your mundane, everyday life bunker.

Of course, much like the rest of the internet, you really don't know what you had until it's gone. Like Billy Mays. Sure, he could be loud. Sure, he could be annoying when you just want to watch some late night Comedy Central Presents. But boy could he order McDonalds in just the way to make me smile:



A few weeks ago, on G4's awesome Attack of the Show, they had the showdown between the ShamWoW SlapChop and Billy May's Quick Chop. Behold the greatest battle of this decade:



Fred Travalena also passed away this week, proving that, much in life, he died doing a horrible impersonation of Michael Jackson. I don't speak ill of the dead, but I will speak ill of this horrible David Letterman appearance:



We also discussed the recently launched Issue 15 of City of Heroes, which promises the ability to change genders and such very soon. Male... Female... it's almost as important as Hero vs. Villain!



And lastly, we discussed the outcome for this fall's schedule in lieu of superhero and comic tinged shows. One of the big ones we're still looking forward to is ABC's Americanized of the UK's No Heroics. What a little taste? Here's the trailer for the UK original:

Video Game Music Sorbet: Pulseman

Every Saturday, Fair Use Law likes to cleanse its blog palette with some video game music from days gone by. This week is a double special secret probation treat as we bring you the music of the Sega Genesis game Pulseman, a game that sadly was only released in the United States through the failed Sega Channel system. If you dig the music, perhaps you could hit up a few "legit gaming sites" *wink* and find yourself a copy to play?

Anime Stops Copies Me!

What do you get when you mix the audio of Metalocalypse with the animation of Ouron Host Club, an anime full of insanity and pretty boys for girls to fawn over? You get: Stops Copies Me:

Be a Man, Hulk

Don't be scared. Are you running from Macho? That's what I heard.

A special dedication for Randy's son, Seth!

Geisha is... ROBOT!

Arena rock will be forever changed thanks to the wonders of Robogeisha. Geisha Missle, indeed!