Moira Quirk, perhaps best known as Mo from Nickelodeon's gameshow Guts, stops by to reminisce. We discuss how she got the job, if she ever climbed the Agrocrag, and what it's like to be in Skyrim.

When the 8-bit NES first came out, it was so popular that Nintendo ran a hotline for people who were stuck in games. At nearly any hour, you could call and reach a live “game counselor” who could help walk you through whatever level was giving you trouble. This week on The Jeff Rubin The Jeff Rubin Show, my guest is a former game counselor. 

This week DC Pierson and I discuss the fantasy kingdoms we would most and least like to live in.

Cole Stryker has written books about 4Chan and Internet anonymity. Here, he explains why both are important.

This week NYU Game Center professor Eric Zimmerman stops by to discuss how to teach game design, what games go on the syllabus, and if Tetris will last forever.

Former WWE writer and current comedian Matt McCarthy talks about the creative proccess behind pro wrestling, what makes a match memorable, the hardest part of working in the WWE, and what it's like to have Vince McMahon as your boss.

A videogame debate club rematch featuring guest judges, a live band, and surprise guests. Recorded live at NYC Podfest.

Sean Howe stops by to discuss his book "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story," interviewing Stan Lee, and how Marvel has influenced everything.

Amanda and Tyler are the Portlandia based artists responsible for the art of Portlandia. Here they explain how they find what they find, how a costume can fill in a character's backstory, and which sets are real places you can visit in Portland.

Freestyle Love Supreme creates hilarious improvised music. But don't take my word for it! You can hear them freestyle in first five minutes of this very episode, before we break down how they do it.

This week I am very pleased to present The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show 2012 Year-End Jeff-tacular. I have gone back and asked nearly all of 2012’s Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show guests to spend five minutes describing their favorite thing of the year. Answers ranged from movies to music to software to once-in-a-lifetime days. 

We're living in a golden age of TV and Alan Sepinwall's new book, The Revoloution Was Televised, traces the origins of this renessaince through the history of twelve key shows - Oz, The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Wire, Buffy, Lost, 24, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.

Matt Graham (Conan, SNL, Scrabble World Championships) discuss the strategy of high-level Scrabble, his incredible board game collection, and why Scrabble is really a game about math. Plus, how to win without memorizing the dictionary!

Jason Michael Paul produces a touring Zelda symphony, and here he explains what it takes to represent the Nintendo brand.

Wayne White was a set/puppet designer on shows like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Beakman’s World, as well as music videos like Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight Tonight. Wayne is the subject of the new documentary Beauty is Embarrassing, and on this week's show you'll hear from both him and the film's director.

Jason Narvy and Paul Schrier have appeared in several hundred episodes of Power Rangers, making them by far the show's longest-running characters. This week we get their unique perspective on the iconic show.

Dr. Robin Rosenberg studies what makes superheroes tick. Here she diagoses Batman, The Joker, The X-Men, Green Arrow, and Buffy.

A live recording of the CollegeHumor panel at Comic Con! Jeff moderates a conversation about creating nerdy internet comedy with Susanna Wolff, Patrick Cassels, Brian Murphy, Caldwell Tanner, Owen Parsons, and Andrew Bridgman.

Justin Wong is one of the greatest fighting game players in the world, holding multiple world titles in games like Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Mortal Kombat 9. But how did he get so good?

First week of the month is usually an off week for The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, but Pat and I were gonna talk about Looper anyway. So we recorded it.

This week Jeff talks to Jay Levey, who has been Weird Al's manager for over 30 years. In addition to managing one of the most unique and successful artists in pop music history Jay, atypically for a manager, collaborated with his client on the creative. He has directed many of Al's music videos including Eat It and cowrote/directed the stone-cold classic UHF.

Talkin' criticism and Oogieloves with AV Club editor Keith Phipps.

Ben Blumenfeld talks about what it's like to design something for a billion people.

This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show - an appetizer of Expendables 2 chat followed, at 18:30, by an hour of Breaking Bad discussion. We discuss everything through Breaking Bad s05e07 (the second to last episode of 2012). 

Here's a list of things Fred has done that we talk about on this epsiode - writing for Letterman, writing/producing Cheers, editing the National Lampoon, writing a Choose Your Own Adventure novel and, believe it or not, more.

Remember the Olympics opening ceremony and the 7,500 well choreographed extras? Ever wonder how they got so well choreographed or where they came from?

Paul Scheer (The League, NTSF:SD:SUV::, the "How Did This Get Made" Podcast, Human Giant, 30 Rock, Party Down, Bob's Burgers, Happy Endings, Childrens Hospital, Parks and Rec, EVERYTHING GOOD?!?) stops talk about his favorite terrible movies.

Streeter Seidell and Emily Axford share their coolest facts.

Dr. Will Brooker, a man who wrote his PHd thesis on Batman, returns to discuss The Dark Knight Rises. Spoiler warning - the entire film is discussed in detail pretty much immediately.

The Metagame (http://www.metaga.me) is a game designed to facilitate arguing about videogames, so I invited Adam Conover (@adamconover) and Jared Logan (@jaredlogan) over for a round.

A look behind the scenes of the classic trivia game, You Don't Know Jack.

Pat Cassels, Dan Meth, Sarah Schneider and Josh Ruben celebrate episode 50 with their unwanted DVDs and a dream.

The Tommy Westphall Multiverse is a map that charts the crossovers between over 250 shows and unites them into a single continuity (http://bit.ly/B6xHK). In this episode, we talk to the man behind the map.

Two Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show favorites return for two segments - one on E3 and one on Prometheus. Prometheus chat starts around 37:00. There's a very clear warning before we get into spoilers (which we do pretty quickly).

A look back at Game of Thrones season 2 with Jon Gabrus, plus some behind-the-scenes details of the season finale from Dothraki Langauge creator David Peterson. WARNING: This episode is basically nonstop spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2.

Action Park afficiando Seth Porges explains exactly what made Action Park so dangerous, and a bonus story from a previous Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show guest.

The Star Trek Experience was an attraction in Vegas. This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, two former employees (and current Star Trek Improv actors) describe what it was like to work there, the customers who came in character, the weddings that took place daily, and which celebrities got hammered on Borgspheres before riding the rides. PLUS! A followup to last week's Andrew WK impostor theory.

Pat drops by to pull back the curtain on everything and reveal Hollywood's deepest secrets. Warning: do not listen unless you want your mind blown. We also discuss The Oogieloves.

Justin Tyler of Comic Book Club stops by to help disassemble what made the Avengers so good. WARNING - This episode makes the (reasonably safe) assumption you saw Avengers and is full of SPOILERS.

Henri Mazza, The Chief Creative Officer of the Alamo Drafthouse, explains how to program the world's best movie theater.

Jake Goldsbie, who played Toby on Degrassi, discusses what it's like growing up on a Jeff's favorite show, when he knew Degrassi was getting big, and what he's up to know.

Pete Holmes stops bya to discuss his incredibly weird podcast, You Made It Weird.

The co-authors of the incredible oral history I Want My MTV stop by to talk about the 400 people they interviewed for the book, MTV's influence, and why the 80's were the best decade for music.

Onion/SNL/IGN/Kid Icarus (!) writer Mike Drucker joins us to discuss Mass Effect 3 and it's controversial ending. Spectre status is recognized.

A nerderer's row of guests! Scott Wiener reports back from Pizza Expo, Jon Gabrus analyzes Angry Birds, Owen Parsons pontificates on Ninja Turtles, and Pat reviews The Hunger Games.

Craig Rowen stops by to talk about the time he asked for a million dollars, then lied and told everyone he got it.

You know mc chris from his music and work on Adult Swim, now learn about all the cool nerd stuff he owns.

Oren Brimer stops by to talk about his work at The Daily Show as well as Front Page Films (www.frontpagefilms.com).

Owen Parsons joins me on a safari of interviews at ToyFair. Pictures and links to the products discussed at http://bit.ly/y5LJyO

One of my most highly requested guests sits down to talk about one of my least requested topics. The first 2/3rds of the show have no Downton Abbey spoilers and there's a clear warning before specifics.

This week Francesco Marciuliano talks about how he became the writer of the nationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth, the life of a newspaper cartoonist, what made Peanuts so great, and The Muppets.

David Peterson explains how he took the approximately 30 Dothraki words George RR Martin created when writing Game of Thrones and extrapolated it into an entire language.

This week Jeff's guest is AndrewSmith1986, the #2 commenter on Reddit and moderator of some of the website's most popular sections including pics, funny, and IAMA.

http://www.reddit.com/user/andrewsmith1986

DC Pierson is adapting his novel for film. We talk about the proccess, some of the best literary adaptations, some of the worst, and also MF Doom.

Dan Rollman of RecordSetter.com discusses where his love of records came from, some of the most impressive records he's ever seen, and officiates an on-the-air world record attempt by Jeff. PLUS - a followup to last week's movie episode answers some of li

Jeff, Pat Cassels, and Ben Rodgers analyze the films of 2012, but can they beat the gong?

J. Elvis Weinstein talks about the difference between writing for Mystery Science Theater vs. writing for a live audience vs. writing for America's Funniest Home Videos.

Adam Cornelius directed The Ecstasy of Order, a documentary about competitive Tetris. Here he tells us what skills you need to compete, how good you have to be, and why NES Tetris is the definitive version.

Jon Finkel is arguably the greatest Magic the Gathering player ever. He's also been a part of a Blackjack card counting team, played professional poker, and currently manages a hedge fund. On this week's show, we find out how all these things are related.

Jeff and Casey Johnston visit the International Quidditch World Cup to figure out how it's played and who is responsible. 

Jeff talks to two writers from his favorite show, which happens to be a Canadian high school drama for teens.

Chris Gethard discusses why he's excited about public access, Big Lake, and revisits a letter he once wrote to X-Factor.

Jeff, Sarah Schneider, Pat Cassels, and Adam Frucci sit down for a round of Battlestar Galactica, but who is the Cylon infiltrator and can the other three figure it out in time? SPOILER/AWESOMENESS ALERT - this episode contains in-depth discussion of the entire Battlestar Galactica series.

Amir stops by to talk about Jake & Amir and his role in the upcoming Harold & Kumar 3D.

This week's guest is Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of The Perry Bible Fellowship (pbfcomics.com) plus Pat Cassels returns to 100% the summer movie revue.

Comics discussed in this episode include:

Colonel Sweeto - http://pbfcomics.com/129/
Turtle City - http://www.collegehumor.com/picture/44212
Ballerina - http://sotf.inertia.fi/?p=125
Puppy Wish - http://pbfcomics.com/24/
Instant Bacon - http://pbfcomics.com/10/
The Throbblefoot Aquarium - http://pbfcomics.com/176/ 
Punch Bout - http://pbfcomics.com/167/
Eggnancy- http://pbfcomics.com/208/
Robin hood - http://pbfcomics.com/205/
Prank Dragon- http://pbfcomics.com/174/
Uncle Duncan - http://pbfcomics.com/250/

The other comic, whose name we never get quite right, is A Natural Look by Matthew K - http://matthewkfanclub.com/?p=1001

Settlers of Catan creator Klaus Teuber joins us all the way from Germany to talk how he created the game, his favorite house rules, and the potential for future Catan expansions.

A conversation with Dr. Will Brooker, a man wrote a PHd thesis about Batman. 

Pat hosts a Breaking Bad panel featuring Jeff Rubin and Entertainment Weekly's Darren Franich. SPOILER WARNING - Breaking Bad plot details through season 4, episode 12 are discussed.

Improv Everywhere creator Charlie Todd discusses the origins of the prank collective, the trouble with flash mobs, and the two occasions where he's had trouble with the police.

DC Comics just relaunched every single one of their comics. Comic book writer Alex Zalben helps us figure out why and if it worked. There are 52 new comics. At least a few of them must be worth checking out. 

PLUS: Jon Gabrus (from the JRJR Show about Game of Thrones) returns to talk about the gameshow he's hosting on MTV and White Castle.

Everyone loves roller coasters but which are the best, what makes them so great, and where do they come from? This week we find out with roller coaster designer Jonathan Gordon of Gordon Rides and Robb Alvey of ThemeParkReview.com.

Everything Is Terrible doesn't just uncover incredible videos that have been forgotten to time, they also use editing to weave them into something entirely new. This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show we talk about where the clips come from, their collection of 1,500 copies of Jerry Maguire, and the unbelievable Everything Is Terrible movie that's made entirely of found footage.

Kumail Nanjiani (Letterman, Conan, Franklin & Bash, The Indoor Kids podcast) stops by to talk about the holiday season's most exciting games, and also Skyward Sword.

This week High Times magazine's Senior Cultivation Expert Danny Danko stops by to talk about being a pot nerd, appreciating the differences between different strains, and the dominance of the High Times softball team.

Muxtape was one of the last great music sites shut down by the RIAA. This week we discuss it's rise and fall with creator Justin Ouilette. 

Also, what the hell, let's talk about Mass Effect at the end too.

Jeff and CollegeHumor's Pat Cassels discuss the great cinematic experiences of the summer including Harry Potter 7, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers 3, Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern, X-Men, and… LA Noire?

The Daily What is one of Internet culture's most influential sites. In this episode we talk to the editor/only employee Nitzan to learn how it got there, and what it takes to stay on top.

Jeff and Sarah Schneider interview Lee Roy Myers, writer/director of "30 Rock: A XXX Parody," "The Office: A XXX Parody," and yes, "Who's The Boss? A XXX Parody." Jeff still manages to connect it all to Transformers.

According to Yelp, Scott's Pizza Tours is the #1 rated tour in New York City - but how did Scott start this operation, how does he choose what pizza places to visit every week, and how much pizza does he eat for research, and is this really his full-time job? These answers and more in this week's Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show.

http://www.scottspizzatours.com

Jon Gabrus and Jeff discuss the incredible first season of Game of Thrones. Along the way there are slight detours into The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Dungeons and Dragons, Lost, Deadwood, and masturbating on horses.

The first half of the conversation is spoiler free, so even those that haven't watched Game of Thrones can listen. You will be very obviously warned before specifics from the show are discussed. The spoilers only pertain to the first season of the show and the first book in the series- further books are not discussed.

Show Links

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That article from the Penn State newspaper - http://bit.ly/oxjudT

Rose McGowen in Conan - http://yhoo.it/myX3Wb

Pete plays guitar and Nintendo for a rock band called Anamanaguchi. Here he explains how that works, and what it was like to do the soundtrack for the Scott Pilgrim videogame.

Theme/outro music by The Bikini Carwash Company

Find out what to expect from this podcast in the spectacular 0th episode of the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show!