As Black Friday descends upon the world, Dave, Mac, and Michael detox from their Thanksgiving indulgences and Twilight New Moon mania. Michael offers awards season reviews The Lovely Bones, Up in the Air, and Broken Embraces; Mac puts his Ben 10 seal of approval on Alien Swarm; Blu-ray reviews of Cars, Monsters, Inc., and Santa Buddies; Dave enjoyed his 500 Days of Summer but no longer wishes to be My Sister's Keeper; deconstructing George Clooney's box office appeal; and interpreting Thanksgiving coloring book images with high-larious results.

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Erich, Steve, Jon, and Dave gather around the seasonally decorated table to celebrate (U.S.) Thanksgiving with a discussion of gaming turkeys. Among the bounty of stinkitude: Devil May Cry 2, the reboot of Shinobi, Hard Drivin', Outlander, StarTropics, and hated levels from otherwise loved games like Uncharted 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, Gears of War, and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Feel free to join the rest of the junkies in the new Blast Processing! discussion forum.

Yule have a great time with this week's episode, as Kent and Michelle come to the shocking realization that those gifts just aren't going to buy themselves. Couch Entertainment News dishes out tidbits on the pending Steven Spielberg/Stephen King cable project; Dustin Hoffman's no Focker; New Moon sucks $140 Million; Vampire Diaries pre-Christmas marathon; Avatar tweaks going down to the wire; and more. Connor weighs in with his impressions of Addition & Subtraction Rap from Rock 'N Learn and the holiday-themed Scruff: A Christmas Tale. And Greaties of the '80s charges into the fray, with a look at the 1989 Broderick/Washington/Freeman civil war epic Glory.

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This week, Clark spotlights music from the films of actor Liam Neeson. You'll hear selections from Darkman (1990), Leap of Faith (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Rob Roy (1995), Michael Collins (1996), The Haunting (1999), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Love Actually (2003), and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). In addition, Clark reviews Neeson's latest film, Five Minutes of Heaven. Enjoy!

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Dave, Mac, and a slowly recovering Erich talk Under the Dome, the new Stephen King novel; Discovery Channel's new documentary on Jack the Ripper; review MST3K: Volume XVI, Ben 10 Alien Force: Volume 5, Stunt Rock, and Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (Blu-ray); determine who really was inside that Chewbacca costume; identify unsuspecting fictional serials killers; and play everyone's favorite new game -- guess the plot of that random DVD review.

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Inspired by this week's big Nintendo release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Erich, Tim, and Adam don their plumbers caps for a mini-roundtable discussion on Mario games past, with highlights, lowlights, and nostalgia galore. Before they get to the mushroom-fueled fun, however, it's all about games they've been playing, including Borderlands, Halo: ODST, Modern Warfare 2, Dead Space: Extraction, Beatles: Rock Band, and Torchlight.

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It's an unseasonably warm November as the Dynamic Dixons talk Christmas lights, acrophobia, and beagle brush-bys. Couch Entertainment News weaves its way through changes in the Disney schedule, the passing of actor Edward Woodward, Twilight hype, online Avatar goodies, and more. To things off, Greaties of the '80s looks back at the formative years of a legendary sleuth in Young Sherlock Holmes.

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While you're waiting on the apocalypse to arrive, tune in to this week's edition of The Sounds and Sights of Cinema, which offers film music selections from disaster movies. John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Debbie Wiseman and others are featured as we present music from The Towering Inferno, Volcano, Flood, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon, Deep Impact, and The Poseidon Adventure. In addition, Clark offers his thoughts on Roland Emmerich's world-destroying blockbuster 2012 and features music from the film.

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While Dave, Mac, and Mike wait breathlessly for John Cusack to save the world, they recall post-apocalyptic hijinks of yore (remember Woops! ???), an early assessment of ABC's V, a brief Mad Men Season 3 post-mortem, getting wet for Stallone's new epic The Expendables, trying to make sense of Xavier: Renegade Angel, absorbing the entire undisputed universe of Rocky Balboa on Blu-ray, build your own Alpha Male super team, if Michael Bay had directed it, and Roland Emmerich re-imagines Hitchcock.

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Dave pinch hits for a sickly Erich and recruits the Newfie Wonder Twins, Jon and Steve to help carry the burden. Marvel as the three fill 50 minutes with talk of Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Borderlands, Brutal Legend, and Tekken 6, while indulging in such nonsensical digressions as the Arrested Development side-scrolling beat'em-up, their to-date Game of the Year choices (Jon and Dave are on the same page and no, it's not XBLA Streets of Rage 2), most-anticipated releases in the next couple of months and, finally, the Negative Nancy segment where they each find fault in a beloved 2009 release.

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