Tonight, we are joined by Rick from “United States of Geekdom” to talk about The Jungle Book! I met Rick at Dallas Stripcon at the beginning of August, and we had a blast! I broke his mind multiple times, and yet he keeps coming back!
Topics Covered
Jungle Peter Pan!
The Right to Bear Arms!
Louis Prima’s Widow is a bitch!
Tigers that ooze class
The Disney Xerox look
Walt spinning in his grave
Ben explains Amazing Spider-Man again
Jerry Nelson
Original Voice – Do Not Steal
Also, check out Neil’s appearance on Episode 38 and Episode 39 of Toocast Beyond.
We’re joined this week by Kittyhawk, who has just landed in Australia! We talk about sports anime, a topic that we expected to be filled with sweaty, half-naked people and strangely erotic training montages. What we got was a bunch of soap operas with sports as a backdrop.
If you like sports, you might be interested in some of these. There’s a little something for everyone, whether you like baseball, soccer, rugby, kickboxing, wrestling, tennis, or even majong. (Yes, majong.) We also cover some of the manga.
After the show, we have our now-standard bonus segment, where we get an update from Kitthawk and talk about the upcoming Archie Comics gender swap issue, with pencils by our pal, Gisele Legace!
Topics
Trying out for the WWWA
We’re going to Koshien!
Three hours of commercials occasionally interupted by a football game
Where have all the sexy sports anime gone?
Battle Athletes: Too loli to be enjoyed
Ayane’s High Kick really sucks
Secretariat The Animated Series
There’s that bear again
Wiping out the dinosaurs
Reverse-Dale
Archina and Jugs
If it wasn’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college
This show makes me feel dirty.
Prince of Tennis
A nice zoom-in on Sabrina’s boobs, cleaverly disguised as a close-up on Salem! We see what ya did there, Gisele!
After the panel, we have a series of outtakes from 2011. We talk sodas and animation outsourcing with Kittyhawk. Then we talk about a variety of geek topics with Thomas Revor. We have a brief conversation with Mike Blanchard. And finally we GET IN THERE! with Ben Heckendorn!
Yes, it’s the Ben Heck bonus show that we promised over a year ago, and it’s totally worth the wait!
It’s time for HER to pay!
Topics
The ups and downs of pocasting
Coke vs. Soda
Fes’ gigantic burger
The circle of outsourcing
The Day The Clown Cried
As Tears Go By
Clancy Brown is always the villain
“Who the hell is Ben Heck?”
Colorized film versus 3-D conversion
Where the hell did the real George Lucas go?
Acting on the green screen
Wicker Man… comedy
Possumus Woman
Tonight’s episode is dedicated to the Hanna-Barbera explosion of the 70s. Hanna-Barbera’s output ballooned exponentially during this period. They became the undisputed kings of Saturday morning. There is so much content from this era that it alone was enough to fuel the early days of Cartoon Network and later Boomerang.
Joining us tonight is the always delightful Kittyhawk, artist and writer of Sparkling Gneration Valkyrie Yuuki. For seventy minutes, the three of us sit and compare notes from our favorite cartoons from this era. There is so much that we each brought stuff to the table that nobody else had heard of.
We talk about:
The All-New…
Boomerang
Cartoons based on sitcoms
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
The Roman Holidays
Blue Falcon & Dynomutt
Jabberjaw
Speed Buggy
All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Help! It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!
The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show/The Flinstone Comedy Hour
Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels
Mutley/Mumbly
Robonic Stooges
Pac-Man
Devlin
and Godzookiiiiiii
…IN SPACE!!!
You jumped over some of my buses!
No wonder Kittyhawk calls this the drug era.
Hmm… This setting looks familiar!
Well, at least Hanna-Barbera kept its star roster active. Even if it was in the Laff-A-Lympics.
John Kricfalusi is the man who gave us Ren & Stimpy, The Ripping Friends, A Day In The Life Of Ranger Smith, and…uh…He-Hog(?). He also rose to fame when he joined Ralph Bakshi on the late 80s cartoon classic, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.
I’m really looking forward to listening to this today. John K… he has opinions. He hates a lot of the cartoons that I like, including Animaniacs. He has a lot of opinions about how the animation industry should be run and yet only has about three seasons worth of television under his belt in nearly 25 years of being independent.
But I also have to give him credit. When creator-driven cartoons returned to television, he was on the front line. He is one of the most imitated animators in the world. He pitched Rough Draft Studios to Cartoon Network and brought quality animation to Korean animation, where it didn’t exist before.
So the guy has his ups and downs. He has so many attributes in common with his hero Bob Clampett, both positive and negative.
Here is Mike Blanchard’s opinion of John K. cartoons…
