Opening

Matt wants to start using only original music instead of Star Wars and Doctor Horrible clips.

Ben wants to make reading Amazon book summaries a recurring segment.

Ben calls it "The Year of the Pun" because they started using puns for episode titles.

Awards

Episode Title of the Year

№ 242 Need an Ark? I Noah Guy.

• № 219 The Council of Nerdcea Convenes and Other News
• № 241 Noah Pun Intended
• № 276 It’s Comic Con, Not Comic Can’t and Other News
• № 287 The Cult of Sherlock

Video of the Year

Ben's Paradise Lost series

• Crossover with the Ben De Bono Beer Show
• X-Men: Days of Future Past review
• Warehouse 13 review
• VALIS book review

Ben started a "Fantasy and the Academy" video series, discussing Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, and Steven Erikson from an academic perspective.

He's considering a chapter-by-chapter sacramental reading of The Lord of the Rings.

He started another channel for his series "Reading the Summa", where he's reading Thomas Aquinas's entire Summa Theologica.

Topic that The Sci-Fi Christian Should Have Covered

Top 10 Classic Sci-Fi Movies

• The World of Neal Gaiman
• Orphan Black review
• Snowpiercer review
• Art and Subjectivity

Video Game of the Year

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

• The Last of Use: Left Behind (expansion pack)
• Titanfall
• Wolfenstein: The New Order
• Destiny

Ben played Wii U Mario and Zelda, but no 2014 video games.

Book of the Year

The Martian (republished)

• Shadowplay
• The Legend of Drizzt
• The World of Ice & Fire
• Marvel Encyclopedia (expanded in 2014)

TV Show of the Year

Doctor Who

• Continuum
• Orphan Black
• Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
• The Flash

Movie of the Year

Guardians of the Galaxy

• Interstellar
• Noah
• Captain America
• Transcendence

Disappointment of the Year

How well Transformers: Age of Extinction did at the box office

• Gotham
• Nicholas Cage's Left Behind
• Edgar Wright leaves Ant-Man
• The Last of Us: Left Behind

Most Shocking News

Ben's love for squirrels

• Guardians of the Galaxy wins the summer box office
• The pope says he would baptize aliens
• Heroes: Reborn announced
• Edgar Wright leaves Ant-Man

Lack of Follow-Through

Not finishing Heroes Rants

• Not finishing Excavating the X-Files
• Alan Moore episode
• Christmas Musical episode
• Movie commentary episode

Time Loop of the Year

№ 269 The SFC Time Loop: Top 5 Superpowers You Would Want In the Mission Field

• № 227 The SFC Time Loop – Was Jesus a Zombie?
• № 240 Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Review
• № 258 The SFC Time Loop: The Superhero Renaissance
• № 288 The SFC Time Loop: LOST: Part 2.5

Guest of the Year

Allen and Aaron Reini (№ 221 Interview with the Creators of “Flight of the Angels”)

• Dave Clements and David Hunt (№ 222 Superhero Spotlight On The Superior Spider-Man)
• Clay Morgan (№ 224 What Haunts Us?)
• Strangers and Aliens (№ 226 Aliens and Strangers Part 1: The Alien Agenda)
• Des Anderson (№ 289 LOST: Part 3)

Funniest Episode of the Year

№ 279 Ben Sees a Marvel Movie and Other News

• № 252 Ancient Alien Astronauts
• № 255 Owen Wilson’s Big Break and Other News
• № 286 Good Advice from Ben De Bono
• № 293 The Disney World Disaster

Movie Review of the Year

№ 241 Noah Pun Intended and № 242 Need an Ark? I Noah Guy.

• № 244 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Movie Review and № 294 Make it Happen, Cap’n
• № 256 X-Men: First Class Movie Review and № 257 Excavating the X-Men
• № 273 The Longevity of the Planet of the Apes
• № 278 Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Review
• № 281 It’s Anakin, Not Ana-Can’t and № 282 It’s a Trap!

Top 5 of the Year

№ 250 Top 25 Things We Want to Experience by Episode 350

• № 239 Top 5 Sci-Fi Villains
• № 260 Top 20 Comic Book Movies
• № 269 The SFC Time Loop: Top 5 Superpowers You Would Want In the Mission Field
• № 275 Top 5 Topics We’ve Never Done

Episode of the Year

№ 224 What Haunts Us?

• № 220 Does God Exist?
• № 234 Taking a Stand on “The Stand”
• № 237 The Impossible Puzzle
• № 264 Indiana Jones and the Theology of the Holy Grail
• № 285 The Bible as Art
• № 287 The Cult of Sherlock

Matt is no longer trying to get to Episode 1000 by 2016.