Bonus Episode: Potluck

Saskatoon - Steak, Fish, and Wild Game

So...hungry.

This special is a collection of pre and post shows since the beginning of the podcast. Such a variety of collected material could only go by one name: Potluck! So please feast, guests, on this assortment of various topics. We talk with animator and artist Pablo Praino, webcartoonist and favorite guest Kittyhawk, and Timothy Groves.

Topics Covered
Power Rangers
Thor
Transformers
internet reviewers
Les Stroud beating the tar out of Bear Gryls
polar bears!

Episode 47: Superman Doomsday


Superman Doomsday

Superman gonna be okay, Uncle Lar'?

Here we go. The members of Animation Aficinados and Tooncast Beyond are going to let our powers combine! Today, we’re talking about Superman Doomsday, the DC Universe animated film in which Superman Doomsday, a movie in which one of the two titular characters dies twenty minutes into the movie and is never seen again. Can you guess which one? (Hint: It wasn’t Superman)

This is the extended cut of the show. You get more than ten minutes of extra audio! Our usual cold opening, plus a post-show!

This episode was about:
That skirt
The saga of the super mullet
Brokeback Luthor
Solid Snake with super powers
Puking up a bucket of blood
Superman: filthy, dirty murderer
You will NOT believe that Adam Baldwin can fly.
Blanchard enjoyed a lobotomy
Courtesy flush or upper-decker? Decisions, decisions.

Craterface Superman

Revealed for the first time in this film is Superman's struggles with acne as a child.


Sleazy Jimmy

Jimmy Olsen: Pimp. Seriously, how did we forget to mention this?!

Episode 46: TV’s Mr. Neil’s Top Ten Animated Movies

I Go Pogo

We have met the enemy, and he is us!

Hiya folks! It’s finally here. My very own top ten animated films! These are ten films absolutely, positivitely guaranteed to delight and entertain any and all who watch them! Plus, for no additional charge, I have included FIVE FREE HONORABLE MENTIONS! What a bargain!

Joining Ben and me today is Stephanie O’Donnell of the webcomic Perfect Agent. I was also very honored to have Kittyhawk of Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki sit in on this episode.

Discussed
This ain’t no Art Clokey!
We’ve found the cement factory level!
Wrong-sounding Muppets
Otomo? Oshii? Oh, what’s the difference?
Goat-Woman
NO DOGS ALLOWED!
Phantom limbs that crush
Akira is NOT on this list!
Disney fired 1000 workers; hires a Xerox machine
SUUUUUUPERMAN!

Yeah, you knew this movie would be in here somewhere

Episode 44: The Transformers

The Optimus Prime puppet from the so-called "Season 5"

"Are Kup and Hot Rod gonna be alright, Uncle Prime?" "Kup and Hot Rod are gonna be just fine, Li'l Tommy."

How has it taken 44 episodes to get to this?! Ben and I sit down with TFG1 Mike and JT from Saskatoon to talk about robots that turn into cars, planes, and boomboxes. Yes, it’s The Transformers. At last, this day has come!

I know that it’s not great storytelling. Heck, the show can barely go an episode without contradicting itself. But when it comes to creating iconic characters by the seat of its pants, nothing… I mean, NOTHING tops G1 Transformers. Optimus Prime, Megatron, Hot Rod, Starscream, Jazz, Soundwave, Grimlock, Ironhide, Cyclonus, Kup, and many, many more.

Today, we make fun of G1 a lot, but it’s all out of love.

Topics Discussed
GET THAT CRAP OUT OF MY ROBOT SHOW!!!
Optimus Prime: Death and Resurrection
The immaculate conception of Spike Witwicky
Robots with souls
Gay love Autobots
Of Mice And Dinobots
“No one’s ever really disabled as long as they have COURAGE!”
“Don’t sneak up on me, Tommy!”
Daniel cries like a baby
Rodimus listens to old Cure albums and cuts himself
The birth of AKOM
Toy-accurate Ultra Magnus makes us cry
Targetmaster contortionists
Ninja consultants
A life support system that you wear into battle
Putting dead giant robots into wooden caskets
The F*@!ING CYBERNETIC SPACE CUBE!!!
The Go-Bots movie SUCKS!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone

Grimlock! Shhh!

Proof that Rodimus is a terrible leader. Optimus would NEVER have taken Grimlock along on a spy mission.

Daniel jumps down Arcee's empty neck!!

And Mike Blanchard wants an explanation for why I think that this is a terrible episode. Isn't it obvious?!??!

The dying and rising Optimus Prime

Here's the guy I pray to every Sunday!


Cartoon Commentaries #1 – Thundercats(2011) #7 “Legacy”

She looks like she's eaten some sandwiches and done some armcurls

She looks like she's eaten some sandwiches and done some armcurls

Tonight, me and TV’s Mr. Neil watch Episode 7 of the 2011 reboot of Thundercats!  This is the first pure commentary track episode we’ve done.  Just find a commercial free version of Episode 7, synch with us, and away we go!

Topics Covered
Where’s the damn intro?
The book is the fucking Animus!
Hotter than Cheetara? HELL YEAH
A Rankin-Bass Universe? ehh…
The Space Opera is here! (then gone)
Leo(Liono)’s Toy Form!