It’s been 3 months since Kyle and Luke commandeered this podcast to dominate it with talk of things animated, and the current Rasey-Dahlby southwest sojourn has opened the window for another opportunity to do so. This time around, the how has three distinct components. Part 1: Luke & Kyle talk about obscure TV cartoon shows of the 80’s and early 90’s that society has completely forgotten about. Part 2: Show creators versus the broadcast companies that are providing them with a TV show: Where is the fair place to draw the line when it comes to control? Part 3: We talk about some of our favorite current working voice actors. We forego almost all of the usual Bad Rapport recurring segments, but we do have cartoon related comedy music tracks by TV’s Kyle & Worm Quartet (donate to his Kickstarter!), and music from Kidd Video, Alf, Spongebob Squarepants, Strawberry Shortcake, Ren & Stimpy, Futurama, Beavis & Butthead, and Teen Titans (Puffy Ami Yumi). Until next time, no more tabby pot pie for me before bedtime.
Episode length: 2:52:48
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Monster High is a series of books, as well as dolls. I saw a few of the books in the kids store I work in, but never took the time to read any of them.
As for cartoons based on pre-existing franchises, one of the oddest choices was the one based on the “Where’s Waldo” books. To this day, whenever I see a Waldo book, the theme song gets stuck in my head (http://youtu.be/mrgFXYzKXUU)
Kids Cartoons based on R-rated movies seemed to have been a thing in the 80’s and 90’s, as I remember shows based on Rambo, RoboCop, The Toxic Avenger, Conan The Barbarian, and Highlander.
Good luck with Kamen Rider Fourze, Luke. It currently only airs in Japan. Hopefully, Kyle can hook you up with some English-subtitled versions. If you liked shows like Power Rangers, you’ll like Kamen Rider.
Wow, it takes this much effort to listen to this colossal episode that nobody’s replied yet!
Luke, because of that song of yours, and the video, I ended up buying the Skud Omnibus. Already had the videogame for my Saturn, like you, but I’d bought that without really knowing the character. Did love the Omnibus, though, and made sure to share it around to my friends.
So I’m wondering if you, or any of the listeners, are familiar with Adam Warren’s comics work. Dirty Pair, Gen 13’s, Marvel’s Livewires, and most recently, Empowered. Emp’ book 7 just got released, and I really wonder what it’d be like to give Warren a saturday morning cartoon.
Details about the SCUD PC game can be found here, including a review of the game: http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/43-action/23963
Congratulations on the Logan Whitehurst award, Luke!
I found this episode very enjoyable. I can associate with how much detail Kyle knows about cartoons and found myself learning things and interested in what he had to say.
I add my congrats, too. Although I’ve only listened to the first half of the episode, it all brings things back. Maybe I mentioned it before, but I would love to get my hands on one of the complete hour-long episodes of “Uncle Croc’s Block,” the series that got Filmation thrown off the ABC Network forever. Would TV’s Kyle have a source for this?
There was some fantastic content here. Lots of information I had never heard about before. I really enjoyed this, although throughout the whole thing I kept finding myself wanting to yell “No, call him back later and go feed the starving kitties!”
One quick note in your H. Jon Benjamin crossover idea: on Home Movies, besides playing Coach McGuirk, he also voiced one of the other main characters, Jason.
John DiMaggio also did fantastic work in Zombie College (http://www.mondominishows.com/index.php?IdEpisode=231&episodesPage=0&series=13). Try listening to the voice cast of Zombie College without feeling like you’re watching Futurama & King of the Hill put together. (If you’re unfamiliar with it, the web series was created by Eric Kaplan and also featured Billy West, David Herman, Pamela Segall, Tress MacNeille, and Maurice LaMarche.) It’s a shame Icebox.com went under so quickly. It was a great idea & allowed big names in the field to play with ideas unlikely to appeal to a network, but at least Mondo Mini Shows bought up a lot of the cartoons produced there so that they can still be seen.