When Ben told me we’d be talking about the Rumik shorts, I must have gotten confused and thought he meant this.
This podcast hit a few snags. First, we were supposed to do the episode with both Kittyhawk and Abby, but the first recording only featured Kittyhawk. We attempted a second, for which we only had Abby. In spite of what seems like a cursed podcast, it ended up working out fine, because most of what we talked about between the two shows were unique enough to stitch them together and make one super gigantic podcast!
Breaking my no-epic-length rule, this one is well worth the listen, filled with lots of laughs and the silliness of Rumiko’s cartoons. We were initially only going to talk about the Rumiko shorts, but due to some miscommunication, we ended up talking about virtually everything under the sun.
I’m ashamed to admit that I blew it, folks. Here we do a Roadrunner episode, and I completely forgot to put in the most appropriate sound byte describing this classic cartoon. So here it, courtesy of Weird Al from the movie UHF.
Yep, we talk about everyone’s favorite chase cartoon. Tom and Jerry was good. Syvester and Tweety were better. But no one beats Coyote and Roadrunner! We contrast and compare with other chase cartoons, and we even talk about Ralph Wolf.
Later in the episode, we talk a little bit about Tom & Jerry as well as early television Hanna-Barbera cartoons. We also talk about Blanchard’s favorite topic, which is John Semper and Spider-Man. We have a mini discussion about John K. and even engage in the riveting topic of how Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship.
Yep, it’s gonna be one of those rambly episodes. Oh, but they’re all rambly.