IMAGE CREDIT: “Monsters” TV seriesYou can always count on a nostalgic tangent on this show, and today is no exception. It comes during the “Featured DVD Of The Week Which Means Absolutely Nothing” or F.D.V.D.O.T.W.W.M.A.N. for short. On Tuesday the complete series of MONSTERS will come out. For those of you who don’t remember it, the show was similar to TALES FROM THE CRYPT and TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE. The intro featured a monster family sitting down to enjoy their favorite show, MONSTERS together. The little girl, who clearly takes after her mom, is delighted that she made Candied Critters, which looks like some sort of small lizards. Gotta love the 80s!

GOTHAM, a new Batman-less TV series that takes place in Gotham City (yes, someone thought this would be a good idea) is moving forward as quickly as ever. The show bypassed the pilot season and went straight to series. Fox has now announced some of the cast for the upcoming pilot. Aside from casting someone who looks like Jesse from BREAKING BAD — according to our chat room — to play a young Oswald Cobblepot, they’ve also cast Hawthorrr… err, I mean Jada Pinkett-Smith to play his crime lord boss named Fish Mooney. The show is centered on a young James Gordon (yes, someone thought we’d rather watch him wonder Gotham than Batman) and that role has been filled by for THE O.C. star, Ben McKenzie. He’s played a cop before in TNT’s SOUTHLAND and he’s been in Gotham City before as the voice of Bruce Wayne and Batman in the animated feature BATMAN: YEAR ONE. This gets us debating whether this should should go the crime procedural route and whether or not that’ll be interesting. Dennis wouldn’t mind seeing a LAW AND ORDER: GOTHAM. And I wouldn’t either. I’d love to see a courtroom scene where they’re trying to cross examine Mr Freeze. Or Gordon and his grizzled partner are chasing Joker through a dark alley. I guess we’ll have to wait and see on this one.

Meanwhile in the movie department at Fox, someone had the ‘fantastic’ idea to cast a black guy in the role of Johnny Storm for the upcoming FANTASTIC FOUR reboot. Now I know that sentence might have sounded a little racist, but that’s not what I meant. If you want to change the ethnicity of a comic book character, don’t you think you should change the ethnicity of his immediate family members too? In this case, his sister Susan, who is also a member of the Fantastic Four? That thought didn’t occur to the casting director on the film, so we’re going to have a black Johnny Storm and a white Susan Storm and what will likely be a pretty weak explanation of why. Our guess is one of them will be adopted. Or they could go the route of Malcolm’s daughter in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK and not explain it at all.

There’s also a rumor going around that Dr. Doom may be a chick in the movie. And speaking of chicks in movies… Millennium Films has found a director for its upcoming THE EXPENDABELLES. The movie, which is a female version of THE EXPENDABLES will be directed by Robert Luketic. It also sounds incredibly awful. Since there’s no cast yet, we come up with a number of suggestions for who we think should star in it.

Another awful movie Robert Luketic made was MONSTER-IN-LAW starring J.Lo and Jane Fonda. A woman in South Carolina was arrested after she failed to return a VHS copy she rented… back in 2005! Turns out she’d forgotten about the rental during a move out of state and when the video store didn’t hear back from her, they filed a report with police. That report led to a warrant for her arrest which didn’t pop up until just last week. Best part of all, the video store isn’t even in business anymore!

Like a boner in middle school, Hulk Hogan just won’t go away. He’s set to return to WWE during the debut of the new online streaming WWE Network that launches today! It’s unclear if he’ll be doing any serious rough housing. Wouldn’t want him to break a hip after all. He’s also going to be appearing on WRESTLEMANIA XXX which airs in April. As for the WWE Network, it’s available on a number of devices, the Roku and the latest game consoles. For $9.99 a month you get as much 24/7 streaming body slams and screaming into microphones as you can take.

After their initial release in 2011, the Nike Air MAG shoes Marty McFly wore in BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART II are finally getting the key power lacing feature they had in the movie. Nike originally released the boring ol’ manual lacing version to raise money for Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s foundation. They sold 1,500 pairs of the shoes and raised $6-million. Sadly though, the shoes didn’t lace themselves like everyone wanted them to. Well now, in 2015, the year the movie is set in, one of Nike’s designers says they will have power lacing shoes! What would you pay for a pair of these? We share our price point on today’s show.

I wonder if the judge could see Oksana Grigorieva’s pussy from behind the way Mel Gibson claimed he always could as she left the court room losing the remaining half of a shitty settlement she was supposed to get from the LETHAL WEAPON star. All she had to do was not talk about Mel publicly. Apparently the few statements she did make during a Howard Stern interview were enough for a judge to cancel the remaining $375,000 worth of installments she was to get from Gibson. I mainly threw this story into the rundown as an excuse to play Gibson’s funny phone rants again.

California may have cut many of its deficits, but according to Tim Draper, a venture capitalist, the state is ungovernable. He wants to split it up into six smaller states. This isn’t the first time this idea has been suggested. However, he did get the go-ahead from the state secretary to start a petition. If he gets all the 807,000 signatures needed, the proposal will be put on the 2016 ballot. What would these new states be called? You’ll find out on today’s show. So sit back, relax, turn up your speakers and grab a bowl of Candied Critters.