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Half-Ass Productions
Half-assing it for over a decade and a half! Pioneers of the game show track, even before this production group had it's name, Half-Ass Productions has lived up to its name from ALL-CON 2006 to the present day! JediCole and Mrs. JediCole have proudly brought a myriad of game show productions to ALL-CON over the past 18 years from incarnations of Match Game to the ever-popular Don't Lose Your Geek Card series. Join us all weekend long for the full Games and Theory experience in Lantana I!
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www.jedicoleuniverse.com
THU 11:00 AM: ALL-CON Opening Ceremony (45 mins.)
Room: AMETHYST (Lobby) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
An ALL-CON tradition!
Every journey has a beginning. Let your convention weekend journey begin in the best possible way with a lively overview of an experience 20 years in the making!
Join Cole ''JediCole'' Houston, veteran of all prior 19 years of ALL-CON Dallas, as he acts as your guide to the entire four-day event ahead. There is a lot ground to cover (with over 300 events in this year's lineup) and precious little time to inform and entertain the show's early arrivals. For over a decade now JediCole has been introducing attendees, new and seasoned, to an overview of what is in store for them in a rapid-fire orientation on ''Your Favorite Con'' and he is more that up for the challenge yet again!
Category: Presentation
THU 4:00 PM: Don't lose your Geek Card Classic (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Two convention families blended from the audience members compete for fun and cheap prizes. Contestants drawn at random must be aged 14 or older.
Category: Game Show
THU 5:00 PM: Screen Time (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
The ever-popular Screen Time game show returns with lots of movie trivia and movie quote surprises! Four games in one show--the biggest challenge being recognizing famous movie quotes that are read as if you typed them out and gave them to your grandma to read! If you love movies, really LOVE movies, you have found your game show with Screen Time. ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
THU 10:00 PM: Don't Lose Your Geek Card: Hey Kids, Comics! (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
It has been quite a while since there was a comic book edition of ALL-CON's oldest game show...and that is about to change! From the minds of Cole ''JediCole'' and his former Hey Kids, Comics! co-host Andrew Farmer, comes this special semi-reunion version of this classic show! Do you know She-Hulk from Shi? Man-Bat from Batman? Swamp Thing from Man-Thing? Then you just may know a thing or two about comics! The Hey Kids, Comics! edition of Don't Lose Your Geek Card will challenge your knowledge of comic character secret identities, teams, armored characters, and even ''The Star Wars'' in comics! Eight categories, 40 questions, three contestants, and nine (total) Geek Cards will be in play for this game show that flies off the spinner rack and into the Games and Theory suite! ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
FRI 5:00 PM: Peanuts, Get Yer Peanuts! (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
In honor of ALL-CON 2025 guests Duncan Watson and Melanie Kohn, and in celebration of Charles Shultz's 50 year comic strip run, the Games and Theory gang present a Peanuts trivia quiz that will have you saying ''Good grief!'' in the best possible way. Yes indeed! Grief can be good when you participate in a lively game show all about ''Good ol' Charlie Brown'' and friends, some of pop culture's oldest living children! From Snoopy and Woodstock to the Van Pelts and beyond, this collaboration of Half-Ass Productions and other producers will be more anticipated than the arrival of the Great Pumpkin! ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
FRI 6:00 PM: Do You Like the Star Wars? (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
DYLTSW? will feature a category for every one of the nine films of the ''Skywalker Saga''! Three contestants who really know their Star Wars will compete for one of a variety of amazing prizes! All questions will be from Episodes 1 through 9 of the Saga, with a random surprise category sprinkled throughout the game. If you consider yourself an expert on the cinematic incarnations of ''The Star Wars,'' this is your game show!** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
FRI 8:00 PM: JediCole Universe Live! (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
JediCole returns to The JediCole Universe for another year and you are invited to join him! Be a part of ALL-CON's second-longest-running talk show (of four in 21 years*) with all of the timeless antics you have come to expect. This, because you have come to expect that JediCole won't have time to come up with any genuinely new material in time for 2025!
Audience participation is the order of the day as your host and his to-be-announced guests invite you to play along with such features as ''It Came From the Dollar (and a Quarter) Store!,'' the return of ''What Would Comic Book Villains Do?', and the inevitable game show, ''You Can't Win!'' Plus there is that whole challenge to eat some oddball dollar store find along with Cole and friends.
*Fandom at Random DFW, JediCole's Morning After, The JediCole Universe Live, JediCole's Insomnia (in order of first and/or last ALL-CON appearance).
Category: Discussion
FRI 11:00 PM: Screen Time: Rated R (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Mature
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Screen Time is one of the most popular game shows at ALL-CON. But it can be a bit reserved in keeping with the family atmosphere of the convention. But late at night...that's a different story! Host JediCole reveals that he does in fact know all the ''swear words'' when Screen Time lets loose with the ''Rated R'' version. Expect lots of movie trivia, fun starring role movie games, and all the drolly read movie quotes you love with Screen Time, only with a large volume of cussing found in favorite movies that are assuredly not appropriate for children. Audience members must be 18 years of age or older to attend or be contestants in this edition of the show. ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
SAT Noon: Generation Gap (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Ever since ALL-CON 2016, JediCole has produced a themed game show that mirrors the annual theme of the convention. With the 2025 theme of ''Generations'', this was the obvious approach to paying homage in game show format! The Generation Gap tests your knowledge of pop-culture icons spanning, quite frankly, the generations. From the movies and TV shows of 1984 and 2004 to trends in toys and video games and even that 50-year-old American comedy institution, Saturday Night Live! Three contestants will vie for the big prize in this lively game show for the ages…and all ages! ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
SAT 7:00 PM: Someday Monkey Not Play Piano Song (45 mins.)
Room: ONYX (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Teen
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Zach Schrotter; Dean Phillips; Jason the X; Shawn Padilla
With a title like this, it's got to be something unusual!
Cole ''JediCole'' Houston delves into an aspect of popular culture that is decidedly not his forte - music!
Cole hosts this lively panel which will feature members of Games and Theory as well as some familiar faces at ALL-CON on a journey through music and lyrics and what we sometimes hear and hear incorrectly. From the obvious, like your odd ''One Ton Tomatoes'' and ''Bathrooms on the Right'' to more obscure and decidedly personal anecdotes on lyrics that sounded like something wholly other to tales of fun encounters with popular songs.
The hand-picked panelists will ''play it by ear'' in an interactive exploration of decades of popular music that affords the audience a chance to get in on thact. No singing required!
Category: Game Show
SUN 9:00 AM: JediCole's Morning After (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions; Happy Cat Productions
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston; Zach Schrotter
ALL-CON's longest running talk show is back! To make it worth sleepy, hung-over, and otherwise worn out ALL-CON attendees' efforts to wake up early on Sunday morning, JediCole brings the fun in the A.M. with all kinds of laughs and surprises. Get over that hangover from Saturday night, drag yourself to the Lantana Room at 9 AM on Sunday, and join in on the annual antics! JediCole and friends will be looking for YOU on Sunday morning!
Category: Discussion
SUN 11:00 AM: The Fault in Our Star Wars (45 mins.)
Room: QUARTZ (Lincoln, Upper) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Speaking: Cole ''JediCole'' Houston
Show me on the Death Star where Star Wars hurt you...
The one thing all Star Wars fans have in common is disappointment. Not overall disdain for the cultural juggernaut that is ''The Star Wars'', bur rather point where the Saga let us down. Even the most loyal aficionado of George Lucas' cultural phenomenon has been put off to some degree by one or more of the franchise's movies and television shows. With so much to love there is often a little bit to hate.
Cole ''JediCole'' Houston expands on one of his favorite episodes of his past podcast, ''The Rantcor Pit Live'' in a panel that explores his personal journey as a Star Wars fan from that fateful summer of 1977 through the present day. While the Disney era is often the target of fan-boy disdain, expect a more even-handed approach to revelations of the times that Star Wars fell just a bit flat from the 80s through today.
Special surprise guests will be joining the panel and will be announced as they are confirmed.
Category: Game Show
SUN 1:00 PM: Screen Time (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
The ever-popular Screen Time game show returns with lots of movie trivia and movie quote surprises! Four games in one show--the biggest challenge being recognizing famous movie quotes that are read as if you typed them out and gave them to your grandma to read! If you love movies, really LOVE movies, you have found your game show with Screen Time. ** As with all game shows, get there early to get in on the potential contestant pool. Some game shows have a pre-show qualifying quiz and contestants are chosen at random from the contestant pool.
Category: Game Show
SUN 2:00 PM: Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! (with Grand Prize Drawing) (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions
Brainchild of Games and Theory Executive Producer Cat Houston, this is the game show where EVERYONE is a contestant! The Games and Theory producers will divide the audience into teams and then ask each group trivia questions in turn. Anyone who thinks they know the answer is encouraged to raise their hand with an enthusiastic ''Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!'' with the first to acknowledge being picked to answer. A correct answer sends the audience member to the prize table to draw for a prize level and take home something fun. Each team makes the rounds until the questions arrive back at the first team and the rotation starts anew. Audience members are encouraged to let others have a chance at prizes if they have already won two themselves, ensuring everyone gets a little something for joining the fun. By far the most chaotic game show annually. It is also the show that has the highly anticipated Grand Prize drawing! All weekend long Games and Theory game shows, as well as many other non-game show events produced by the Games and Theory crew, give out two-part drawing tickets to all who attend these shows from beginning to end. On Sunday, after Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! concludes, tickets are gathered and one lucky attendee will take home the Grand Prize for 2025! What are we giving away? What additional random cool stuff would we rather give away that put in storage for a year? You will have to wait until Sunday to find out.
Category: Game Show
SUN 3:00 PM: It's a Wrap! (45 mins.)
Room: LANTANA I (Breezeway) Rated: Everyone
Produced By: Half-Ass Productions; Happy Cat Productions
We are done. Wrapping it up with all the thank yous and luv yous. We are here because you are here. Here's to 20 more years of fun and Games at Our Favorite Convention!!
Category: Game Show
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