Episode 19 – Muppet Babies

Nanny

The stuff of horrors.

We’re down in the basement, putting on a show. We’re joined this week by Stephenie O’Donnell, Aisaku, and Pablo Praino. We talk about the first and only good kid-ified cartoon ever made, Muppet Babies, by the only man who could ever pull off such a show, Jim Henson.

 

We talk about why the show worked. We talk about how it influenced other shows. We even talk about that one segment that everyone forgot about.

Topics discussed:
Muppet orphans.
Headless Nanny.
TARDIS is the nursery.
Scientology propaganda.
Breaking up the Muppet sausage fest.
Bean Bunny, Robin, and Janice show up.
Baby Fonzie jumps the shark.
The dark side of Frank Welker.
That piece of trivia that everybody knows.
Neil drops a bit of season 2 trivia that nobody remembers.
Shemp is better than Curly, and lots of other digressions.
And it all takes place in an autistic kid’s brain.

Muppet Babies Live!

Giant Muppet Babies on stage!

Yeah! That's the TICKET!

Check the date. Stephenie went to see Muppet Babies Live two weeks before Jim Henson's death.

Power Rangers Aficionados DEBUTS!

Matt Senko morphs into an Aficionado!

Matt Senko is FOREVER RED!

Welcome to the Power Rangers Aficionados! We’re joined this week by DVD PodBLAST’s Matt Senko! Matt was an extra on the original Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. We’re also joined by Geekcast’s own Jonathan Toderian.

We sat down this week look back upon the 18-year legacy of Power Rangers. Every show in the series is mentioned, and nearly all of them discussed. We even talk about the “lost episode”. Strangely, nobody mentioned Bulk and Skull.

Show topics:
Trainwrecks! (…and the people who watch them)
Behind the scenes of the Zordon Era
Giant robots assembled by helicopters
Goosing your Zords
Rodent Senseis
Dogs can be rangers, too
Quantasaurus Rex
Skating robot trains
Trapping enemies in YuGiOh cards
Evil Rangers
Emo Rangers
Zsa Zsa needs rent money
Mr. Belding does karaoke
Matt looks for a dull rusty knife
Jesus doesn’t tap
However, lying makes Baby Jesus cry

Piston Punch!

Piston Punch!

TrainZord

CHOO-CHOO! CHOO-CHOO!

Actor inside of the Quantasaurus Rex costume:

Darren T. Mangler in a Jenny Craig commercial: