Episode #120 - "Vigilante Bromance" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Yawn of Justice"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Pilsner (Dirk); Wild Turkey + Diet Pepsi with Lime (Otto)
• The usual introductory rigmarole, FaceSpace Likers and mop-up.
• Referenced: Episode #73 - "Thud: God of Carboloading"
• Using bias lighting to improved perceived contrast for HDTV and reduce eyestrain. Primer here:
  
• New Vizio TVs are coming two weeks after Dirk bought last year's model. Of course. Also the pros and cons of extended warranties.
• Fact Check: Irvine, CA is in Orange County, down by LA, not in Silicon Valley.
• First Music Break: 2016 Best Actress Academy Award-winner Brie Larson, "She Said"
  
• Referenced: The Sessions@AOL performances:
  
  
• Doctor Who returns to streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime.
• Official Girlfriend of the Culture Vultures Emma Stone and Jonah Hill to star in a Netflix sitcom.
• Otto reviews Dardevil S2.
• Referenced: The Hot Crazy Matrix:
  
  
• Second Music Break: Kate Nyx, "What Would Peggy Carter Do?"
  
• First look at the cast of Wonder Woman.
  
• Happened After Taping: Cinema Sins took Sucker Punch to the woodshed:
  
• Dirk reviews the dumpster fire which is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
• Referenced: The Ars Technica review which calls BvS "the Showgirls of superhero films."
• Referenced: The Cinefix video review where they try to spin the fail as being not-so-bad.
• Referenced: The episode where Ben Affleck's Batman casting broke: Episode #16 - "Shiny Happy Dystopian Futures"
• Referenced: The teaser trailer for The LEGO Batman Movie:
  
• Third Music Break: Carmel Liburdi, "Big Mistake"
  
• Hulk Hogan smacks Gawker down for $140M, putting the entire network of sites at risk. 
• Referenced: Mundane Matt's reaction video to the verdict and his videos about being SWATted and the first follow-up.
  
• Dirk switched to Project Fi. Stay tuned for updates.
• Microsoft put a Twitter bot online to pretend to be a millennial girl and the Internet trained it to be a racist Nazi in a day. Some of "her" worst tweets (trigger warning!) and an experienced bot maker explains how poorly M$ prepared for the inevitable.
• How the video of a guy solving Rubik's Cubes while juggling them was faked.
• Stop spamming the video of the "crazy Arby's guy" because it's fake and Dirk will junk-punch you!
• David Letterman is looking hobo these days.
• RIP: White Shadow star Ken Howard and Garry Shandling. 
• Pawn Stars schlub Chumlee is busted for drugs and guns. 

Unused Alternate Titles: "I Was The Harbinger" or "Delivered To A Farm Up North" or "The Dog My Neighbor Owns" or "Trainwreck Also" or "Hammers Don't Apologize To Nails" or Everyman Tough Guy" or "Lilith Fair with Swords" or "Premenstrual Fantasy Island" or "The Xanadu of Fantasy Comic Book Movies" or "More Murdery Batman" or "Even The Fire Is Dark"