13 Halloween Episodes To DIE LOLing Over!

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are such fun times of the year! But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Halloween is first and here are some of my favorite TV episodes to get you in the mood. Some are scary, some are silly and some are just plain fun!  

1. Psych - This Episode Sucks Season {S6 Ep3}. I became a huge Psych-O SDCC and this episode is one of my most favorites. Vampires and laughs!

2. Chuck - Chuck vs the Sandworm {S1 Ep6}. Chuck will always hold a special place in my heart. This show made me more nerdy! I love all the costumes and Star Wars references!

3. Castle - Vampire Weekend {S2 Ep 6}. Nathan Fillion dressed as a "space cowboy," need I say more?!

4. The Office - Halloween {S2 Ep5}. This is a show that knows how to do a Halloween episode. Funny costumes and characters. An Office classic.  

5. Dexter - Dexter {S1 Ep1}. A great place to start your Dexter journey. Great mood and set up to an amazing show.

6. Goosebumps - One Day at Horrorland {S3 Ep 6&7}. My favorite of the Goosebumps books! Now the entire series is available on Netflix.  Can you say marathon?! 

7. Community - Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps {S3 Ep5}. Season three is where the show really starts to get amazing. This episode is perfect. One of my top favorites and a great way to get into this amazing show.

8. Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror: Lisa, Bart and Homer's nightmares {S2}. I find that the earlier Treehouse of Horrors are the best. Maybe because I was younger when they were beginning to come out and their scary factor was more real to me. 

9. The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. A classic that will never die!

10. The Walking Dead - Days Gone Bye {S1 Ep1}. SO happy to have this show back on, but this first episode sets up an amazing series and could be a movie all it's own.

11. Home Improvement - Haunting of the Taylor House {S2 Ep6}. Home Improvement was such a fun family show, they just don't make them like this anymore. I wish all TV shows could do Halloween episodes that last!

12. Are You Afraid of the Dark - The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors {S1 Ep8}. Where my fascination with vampires began!

13. Glee - The Rocky Horror Glee Show {S2 Ep5}. Great music and wonderful performances. I don't watch Glee anymore, but I still enjoy their music!

What are your favorite Halloween TV episodes??  Share them in the comments below!

TV Shows To Binge Before San Diego Comic Con

If this is your first year or your tenth year, these are the shows to watch, learn, love and repeat every year before San Diego Comic Con!

San Diego Comic Con 2010: Preview Night

I'm so very excited that San Diego Comic Con has finally arrived! I have been waiting for it since the last day of last years con. I feel more excited for it this year than last year which was my first year. We headed downtown at 5:30pm and made it to our parking spot in the convention center parking garage around 6:15pm. The traffic downtown was crazy and we kept getting re-routed. I paid for parking passes in the convention center for everyday, and that was the best $50 I have spent! We parked and took one flight of stairs up to the convention center. Getting our passes was quick and painless, even got the boy's without them being there. After we had our passes, we headed over to get our free stuff! Our HUGE WB bags, badge lanyards and comic con magazines. Out of the four WB bags we got, I was HOPING for a Chuck one...I didn't get one, we got 2 Batman and 2 Scooby Doo bags. But oh well, I was just ecstatic to be there at the con!

With our badges on we headed down to the show floor. We headed over to get a Con T, but I got side tracked by the Futurama comic booth. There I bought my #49 and #50 comics and got a free itunes download of the first episode of the new season, SWEET! Now back to the T shirt line we go, got at the end, to find out it wasn't the end and then proceeded to go to the end and the Hunny left me there to go get his Gears of War toy and I found out that I was still not at the end of the line, so scratched that and headed over to the Toynami booth to get my Futurama Nibbler stuffed animal, but couldn't find the end of that line either, so ran over to find the hunny in his line. He was so happy to get his toy then he helped me find the end of my line. Come to find out that Nibbler isn't actually there, he is in China and they will ship it to me. While waiting in that line, I spotted a guy with a Chuck bag folded up like he didn't care, so my hunny being the best Hunny there is asked him to trade w/ us and he did! So that made my night! Thanks random dude!

 That was the last thing we were able to do before we had to head to the train station to pick up the bros and their friend. But their train was running late so we could have stayed at Con later:( It is so over whelming being in the show hall, I kept having to remember to look around and take it all in and remember that i want to look for my celebs! It was hard to take everything in! But so excited for tomorrow 1st things 1st need to get that shirt!

ps pix today where only taken w/ iPhone quickly better ones to come tomorrow!

pps we ate some of my cookie cake and it is amazing!!!

San Diego Comic Con 2010: Day 3

One of the longest days of my life! We all woke up at 4am! It was still dark outside! We ended up parking very close to the elevator at the convention center, better than yesterday when it took us forever to find a parking spot. We headed up to where the ballroom 20 line begins an NO ONE was there! We were suspicious of this, so two of us stayed in that line, and the others went looking for the possible real line. They ended up finding it and it was already quite long! Some people camped over night! At 715am they let us head inside to the ballroom 20 line. To get to this line we had to go upstairs then outside down to the end of the convention center an then inside back the way we came. As soon as we walked in the door we got a blast of freezing cold air and that continued because the line stopped with us right next to the AC vent. We all froze! We sat in this line till 9am, then they let us into the ballroom.

We ended up getting all of our seats together in the 8th row back from the stage in the near middle. The Chuck panel began promptly at 10am. Beginning with a video telling us that Chucks mom is going to be Linda Hamilton from the Terminator movies. Jeffster then came on with a dance video to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, introduced by Zach Levi and Joshua Gomez. The video ended and Jeffster came out dancing to the song stated above, as well as the rest of the cast! The cast then started tossing out Ts designed by Zach. Black with Nerd printed on it. Zach, Adam and Joshua were all wearing them. We didn't get one:( But this panel was great! Very fun and made me remember why I love the show so much. Adam Baldwin got huge applause when mentioning Serenity and Capt. Awesome said after 2 years they still have to hear about his old show that has been cancelled a while! LOL 

The hunny got this great shots of Adam after the panel was over.

Next up was Family Guy and The Cleveland Show. Family guy showed clips from the new Star Wars movie they are making, answered questions and Seth/Stewie sang a song live along with a cartoon they showed. Which was quite amazing and funny:) The Cleavland Show did a table read of a comic con episode they are developing for their season finale this year, it was actually quite good and I haven't really watched the show before, made me want to. Next panel was prob my 2nd favorite thing so far this con, FUTURAMA panel!! They showed a special mini episode of comic con in the year 3000 and clips from upcoming episodes, all very funny and like the old stuff, which was awesome! The cast was there this year and they also did a table read and it was AMAZING hearing the voices of Fry, Bender and Leela LIVE, so awesome! We stayed after that for the beginning of the Simpsons panel where they showed a few scenes from the upcoming Treehouse of Horror episode, I laughed:) FINALLY panels were done and we just walked the floor and went to the Marriott's fulfillment room to pick up some swag. While walking there was saw the rooms where Morgan Suprlock is filming the SDCC documentary. By then we were way tired, wore out and hungry! After sitting in the car for about 30 mins we decided to head to In n Out burger for a quick snack before our dinner at China Camp. We decided this around 330, were done eating a bit after 4 and waiting in the China Camp parking lot, to eat again, for about 45 mins! The boys gorged themselves and I was hardly hungry...now to finish getting some pix up on FB and Shutterfly for tonite and 2morrow the last day of SDCC 2010 ends with the Castle panel, possibly Glee and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:)

San Diego Comic Con 2011: Day 3

Good family picture....

Tired family picture...3rd day waking up at 6am.

Our early rising was for the Being Human panel at the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel.  When we arrived to the line at 7:30am there were already over 200 people in line.  And after our arrival the line BLEW UP!  We were let in around 9:30am for The Attack of the Show panel.  @The_Gamer_Geek was super excited about this one, he LOVES this show and was able to meet the hosts the day before, also very happy about that:)  For that panel we ended up being about 14 rows back.  After that the family left and the hunny got us up a few more rows for the Sanctuary panel.  This was break time for us, as the Being Human panel wasn't until afterwards.  

FINALLY the time was upon us...we moved up a couple more rows and they showed a lil preview of next season (which they had only been filming for a week) and it was exciting!  The three main actors Sam Witwer (my favorite), Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington (the hunny's fav) were AWESOME.  They were super talkative, personable, friendly and very FUNNY!  This was deffinalty one of the highlights of my con.  

We left directly after that and walked around the floor a bit.  Phineas and Ferb were having a signing.

And I decied to finally venture into the Perry mobile and guess who was standing right next to me Mr. Perry himself Dee Bradley Baker!  

Someone in line was nice enough to snap a picture of me with him.  

After reuniting with the family downtown to get our FREE Cowboys and Aliens Ts, I saw a tweet from The Nerd Machine that there were 40 tickets available for the Nathan Fillion panel at their Nerd HQ, and we were RIGHT by it, so The Music Maven and I ran over there and were able to get in, right as Zachary Levi was beginning the panel!  

We even had Chuck actors Joshua Gomez (Morgan Grimes) and Ryan McPartlin (Capt. Awesome) sitting directly behind us!!  

Zach introduced Nathan and gave him the sweetest hug...awwwww!!

Nathan began with wishing and wishing and wishing how much his co-star Jewel Staite could be there and we were all like....????? and then.....

She walks out! :)  Nathan then said he would so much rather Jewel be there than Adam Baldwin! and then......

ADAM came out!!!  This was such a great panel.  They talked about nothing in particular but it was super funny and at sometimes sweet and of course always charming!  

Then the end they posed for the 200 attends.  It was a awesome and intimate setting...so thankful for Twitter!  

After the panel we headed downstairs to check out NERDHQ.  I LOVED the Lego Nerd Machine and The Music Maven bought me my NERD HQ Hat...which the Hunny ended up stealing from me!

By this time we were exhausted from 4 days of SDCC and early call times!  We walked through the Hard Rock Hotel, where I had to stop for a picture with my FAV magazine, then just hung out on a bench in front of the hotel to take a load off!  Shortly after sitting down we saw Nathan Fillion walk out "in disguise" he was wearing exactly what he was wearing to the NERD HQ panel but with his "disguise."  Will post a picture of it in tomorrow's blog post, since he might want to walk around the con with it tomorrow too:) THAT WAS FUN!

AND GUESS WHO DECIDES TO WALK BY!?  THE CAST OF BEING HUMAN!!  It happened so fast that I didn't grab them for a picture, but got a nice one of my Sam.  We also ended up seeing Nick Swardson from Grandmas Boy, a G4 personality and The Punisher, Thomas Jane.  

We ended up resting there for 2 hours, by that time the Being Human cast came back around and just hung out right in front of us.  I walked over and said hi to Meaghan Wrath and she was pleasantly surprised to find out my name was Megan too, and I got a picture with her.  The other seamed busy and were all talking with Thomas Jane, so I didn't want to butt in...but someone else decided to, sooooooo.....

I was able to get a picture with all three of them and Sam Witwer had his arm around me nice and snug :)  I was so excited afterwards that I didn't see if the Hunny wanted a shot with his Sam the werewolf...soooooo  

We grabbed him and the Huny was super happy to get a shot with his man crush:)  This MADE both of our SDCC!!!

After this the zombie walk was coming to an end where we were standing, so @The_Gamer_Geek was happy to be able to catch the tail end of it.

This was hands down, THE best SDCC day I have had in the 3 years we have been going!  Next year I'm just going to camp out in front of the Hard Rock Hotel!  One more day to go!!!

San Diego Comic Con 2012: Day 1

We ended up not walking up too early, but I could NOT sleep!  I was too excited!

Our first official SDDC 2012 stop HAD to be the Defiance Cafe to check out all the awesomeness that is my Hunny's game!

In the Defiance chair at the Defiance bar {lots of being a proud wifey this blog post!}.

Eating lunch at the Defiance Cafe.  Me and the Hunny.

The Hunny, @The_Gamer_Geek and Dad.

After lunch, we headed over to NERDHQ where we both got to try out the new Tomb Raider game and looks really good, the Hunny loved it!

Took a quick lil pic in the photo booth {might have to go on the Christmas card this year! :)}

 Shot of the outside of NERD HQ.

LOVED this awesome art work of Capt. my Capt.

We tried out the Nintendo louge at the Marriott and scored a free T.  Last year we went on the last day with the last 20 minutes, so were happy to try out the new Mario Bros. game and Mario Kart 7 without having to rush AND getting Ts that were our size!

Cute lil Hypnotoad toy at the Kidrobot booth that I missed out on...it was sold out :(

One of my SDCC favs Elijah Wood doing his Wilfred signing at the Fox booth. {He was my very 1st crush back in the day!}

The beauty Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck but now on Dexter!

Chillin' out on the Extra WB lawn which was outside the Hilton Bayfront Hotel.  It was a free stage to everyone, even if you didn't have a badge.  With lots of WB stars showing up throughout the day.

We the stars of the new show Arrow {Stephan Amell and Katie Cassidy.} which sounds awesome, can't wait to watch it on The CW this fall!

We initially went to the WB Extra stage to see a Chuck table read with fans taken from the audience, BUT there were a few guest surprises....Mark Christopher Lawrence {Big Mike}.

Mekenna Melvin {Alex, Casey's daughter}.

Adam Baldwin {John Casey}.

 Vik Sahay {Lester of Jeffster}.

AND the one and only Zachary Levi {Chuck}, who ran right past me while we were hanging out at NERDHQ early in the day! :)

My awesome swag of the day was my Dexter bag and pin, my favorite of the con...stuff from the Defiance Cafe, our cute NERD HQ photo booth photos, Mario tee from the Nintendo Booth and a HUGE Wilfred bag (which was found in the Gaslamp).

I have found that I have been either really picky on my swag, or there is a lot less this year than in previous years...after this...I get to sleep for a few hours, then down to get in line for Firefly 10th anniversary panel line...hoping to get GREAT seats for the panel and the Community panel too!

How are you all faring...love to hear everyone's SDCC stories! :)