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The unloved Tom & Jerry cartoons. Are they really that bad or just misunderstood?
Discussed:
Gene Deitch’s Tom & Jerry
70s and 80s Hanna-Barbera
Ruin Explorers
CLAMP
Love Hina
…And one confession from Neil that brings the house down
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Would YOUR child watch this guy?!
We also briefly mention the upcoming Bozo: The Lost Tape special, to air this Sunday. Bozo himself is not a cartoon (those Larry Harmon cartoons don’t count!!!), but he’s so tied to our love of animation that it would have been a crime not to mention him.
Stick around after the show for some rare clips and even more off-topic banter.
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Powerful Living Rocks
In 1986, another transforming toy robot movie was released to theaters. Yes, I know. Transformers, Robotech, and Gobots all in one year. What were these companies thinking?
Battle Of The Rock Lords was meant to kick off a Gobots spin-off, the Rock Lords, powerful living rocks! This film is the only recorded attempt to kick off a series which never actually took place. Not only did the Rock Lords grind to a halt, but so did the Gobots. The Gobots were dead and buried months before the Transformers movie followed its lead in theaters.
This film features the talents of Telly Savalas, Margot Kidder, Roddy MacDowall, Michael Nouri, Frank Welker, and Peter Cullen.
Topics
Walking and talking
Sticker faces
Toy-accurate designs
Riding on a lava boat
Hanna-Barbara’s B-Team
Leader-1 is Jimmy Carter
Turbo is the Gacy clown
Scooter saves the day
Telly Savalas neither knows nor cares who Cy-Kill is
Margot Kidder passed up Superman III for this
The Rock Lords theme is utter butt rock
Gobotron vs Unicron
Not actually from the movie. Look how much cooler Fitor looks in Japan!
The true evolution of Scooter.
Stop complaining that we don’t do our podcast like other shows on the internet. We’re not them.
Read the description. It’s at the top of the page. Stop complaining that we gloss over stuff. Occasionally, we do full plot reviews, but in general, what you hear is what you get. We’re a round-table discussion show. Not a reviews podcast. Period. End of discussion.
If you want a reviews show that slavishly goes over the entire plot with lame jokes episode after mind-numbing episode, go watch That Guy With The Glasses. You’re not going to get that here.
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More than a three-episode fourth season; Japan got a whole new show!
Look again. This ain’t no Optimus Prime!
Now that you know who he is…
Oh never mind. You know the joke by now.
Seriously! What is it with Transformers hanging out with damn kids?!