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Episode 96: John Kricfalusi

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John Kricfalusi

John K – Professional Screwball

Joy! It’s the John K episode! John K was the groundbreaking animator who brought us Ren & Stimpy, The Adult Party Cartoon Show, The Ripping Friends, and two new Ranger Smith cartoons.

Tonight, we’re joined by internet animator Spazkid! Please check out his YouTube channel.

We talk about:
Creator-driving cartoons! What a concept!
Working on some of the worst cartoons of all-time
The astonishingly short list of Spümcø programming
“A Day In The Life Of Ranger Smith”
“Boo Boo Runs Wild”
GEORGE LIQUOR! AMERICAN!!!
Eating a girl’s face off
Ripping Friends
Powered Toast Man!
Jimmy The Retarded Boy
The Three Stooges
Games Studio
Bob Jaques
Bob Clampett
Ed Benedict

Ren and Stimpy

The cartoon that changed everything.


Eddie's clean hand

Eddie’s clean hand


Taken from "Stimpy's Invention"

Actual production note from Nickelodeon: “Change duck to woodpecker.”
John K’s response: “No.”


Disciplinary action!

John K pays homage to classic H-B cartoons with the help of Ed Benedict!


Ripping Friends

Weird show, but still animated better than most cartoons on at the time.


Hot Dog and Bun

John K tried to get this obviously dirty joke onto Fox Kids. And he kind of succeeded.




Episode 93: Cartoons Based On Fighting Games

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Street Fighter II Movie

Admit it. You got it for the shower scene.

Tonight we have JT from Saskatoon joining us on our first ever Live Broadcasted episode! And what do we talk about? Cartoons based on fighting games!

Surprisingly a lot of American productions in this list, but it’s still mostly anime. We again talk about the horrors on USA Cartoon Express while mostly trying not to repeat ourselves. But as bad as that was, some of the anime ain’t much better. I even mention my all-time worst anime experience on this episode.

Topics Covered
BISON!!!
Jiggly boob characters
The Ambigously Gay Duo
Chun-Li’s shower scene
Jobbing Cammy
They found Captain Winkie
I like turtles
The Derrivery Guy!
Learn what a succubus does!
Conveyor belts – Obobo’s only weakness
Kevin Nash can’t move
Street Combat – secretly a Ranma game
And lots of help from the chat room!

Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer

A fucking ugly ass anime with the worst dub track I have ever heard!


Darkstalkers

What is happening in this scene? Why are these cartoons drawn so badly. Goddammit, USA Cartoon Express!!! I thought you were cool once!


Double Dragon

Touching swords.




Episode 92: The Jungle Book

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The Bare

The Bare


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

Original Voice – Do Not Steal

Also, check out Neil’s appearance on Episode 38 and Episode 39 of Toocast Beyond.

Episode 90: The Silver Age of Hanna-Barbera

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The Roman Holidays

Hanna-Barbera’s OTHER out-of-time family comedy.

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!!!

Devlin

You jumped over some of my buses!


Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch

No wonder Kittyhawk calls this the drug era.


Partridge Family 2200 AD

Hmm… This setting looks familiar!


All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

Well, at least Hanna-Barbera kept its star roster active. Even if it was in the Laff-A-Lympics.


Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

I don’t even remember this episode.



Nerdist Podcast interviews John K.

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The Nerdist Podcast

The Nerdist Podcast

Link: The Nerdist Interviews John K

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…