It's the Fabulous Funnies -- a 1970s cartoon that adapts Alley Oop, the Katzenjammer Kids, and other beloved comics of the last century into the most boring, didactic series you've ever seen. The kids will love it, I guess. It notably does NOT include Tumbleweeds. Hmm.

Fattyatomicmutant joins us to talk about Beakman's World, the COOL kids' science show in the late 90s that gave kids an alternative to stodgy old Mr. Wizard and Bill "hello fellow young people" Nye. Did you know that it was actually based on a comic strip? Yup, it's based on You Can with Beakman and Jax! Jax was not included in the TV series.…

By now you've surely heard that, sadly, this is the last year Halloween will be legal in America. They can't stop us from tricking and/or treating! Join Mike and Ethan and our Halloween havoc-wreakers, Fattyatomicmutant, Rocketshark, DMXI and Glumdrop, as we gather around the TV in a candy-addled stupor to yell back at the screen. This year we've g…

Steph Cherrywell, author of Unboxing Libby and The Ink Witch, joins us to talk about Wednesday, the rather Monster High-esque new Addams Family iteration. Jenna Ortega is finding her niche in a world with four different kinds of monsters and also whatever the hell the Addamses are supposed to be this time round.…

Longtime friend of the pod Mike Westfall of Advent Calendar House has returned, and so have the comic strip-themed commercials! Mike, Mike, and Ethan get to wax nostalgic and share personal stories about their favorite comic strips and the products they advertised; Snoopy is certainly here, but you'll also see Popeye, Garfield, Annie, Andy Capp, an…

It's Flash Gordon! Not the movie with Queen, it's a Filmation joint that's so incredibly boring that we got derailed into doing an improv session about the Monarch and Mrs. Dr. the Monarch from Venture Brothers dealing with an unexpected bout of blueberry inflation.

In honor of the passing of Nelvana, the little animation studio that could, we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan to look at their most ambitious project: Rock and Rule [1983], the rock and rule fantasmagoria about a cyberpunk furry future where legendary Superrocker Mok is on the hunt for a voice that can summon a demon for reasons of evil!…

In honor of the passing of Nelvana, the little animation studio that could, we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan to look at their most ambitious project: Rock and Rule [1983], the rock and rule fantasmagoria about a cyberpunk furry future where legendary Superrocker Mok is on the hunt for a voice that can summon a demon for reasons of evil!…

It's an actual Peanuts theatrical movie: Snoopy Come Home! It's both more and less than the Peanuts television specials. It's the special where we learn what the relationship between Charlie Brown and Snoopy is really about.

We're back on our bullshit this week with TWO Peanuts specials wherein Snoopy almost leaves Charlie Brown for (the same?) girl dog.

We intended to talk about two Peanuts specials, but we got distracted and just talked about Big Johnson shirts for an hour. It's a Big Johnathon!

Friend of the pod Ryan Estrada returns to tell us about the exciting, intense, and lucrative world of Korean webcomics (or, as they call them in Korea, webtoons)... turns out that in Korea webcomicking is a profession that gets you some respect! Then we take a look at Korean thriller "The Neighbors," about a serial killer and his suspicious apartme…

Can it actually be??? A good Fantastic Four movie? After Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four (2015), one would hardly even dare hope!

The Ur-webcomic Pokey the Penguin is being adapted into animated form. And they said it couldn't be done!

The Fantastic Four are back and they're still not very fantastic! Boy! They suck!

They keep trying to make movies about the Fantastic Four and they keep SUCKING. There's nothing fantastic about this turkey, wah wah wahhhh!

Before they made the Dennis the Menace theatrical movie, they made the Dennis the Menace made-for-TV movie, wherein Dennis discovers a dinosaur bone and shenanigans ensue.

Hanna Barbera is known for ripping stuff off, so of course they tried to rip off the Muppet Show. How did it? Ehhhhhhhhhh...

Did you know that cartooning is a waste of time and paper? Janet from Three' Company sure thinks so as a reporter assigned to interview veteran cartoonist Ted Knight in this attempt to get kids to watch Saturday morning cartoons!

Did you know that cartooning is a waste of time and paper? Janet from Three' Company sure thinks so as a reporter assigned to interview veteran cartoonist Ted Knight in this attempt to get kids to watch Saturday morning cartoons!

Remember the good old days when they had to sell kids on the exciting cartoons that were going to be on Saturday morning by making a prime time special about Scott Baio opening a disco in Hazzard County, Alabama, and getting extorted by Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane? Also the Sid and Marty Kroft puppet was there? We sure do.…

We're breaking our own rule to ostensibly talk about the Q*Bert cartoon from Saturday Morning Supercade, but actually we got distracted to talk about Hazbin Hotel and other stuff instead. Cuz Q*Bert suckkkks! The coloring book is way better.

Paul McCartney is, as you might know, one of the Beatles. Then he did that frog song.

Oy Vey, Toy May! continues as Mike Westfall of ⁠Advent Calendar House⁠ joins us to talk about the Huggabunch movie, a bunch of babies who have one solution for every problem: HUGGING! It can cure death too.

Oy Vey, Toy May! continues as Mike Westfall of Advent Calendar House joins us to talk about Dear Poochie, an anime about a dog who writes an advice column but also goes o globe-trotting adventures with her robot sidekick!

We continue Oy Vey, Toy May! with a look at TWO attempts to adapt Mad Balls, the classic 80s toy that combined the two great tastes that go great together (balls and grossness), to the small screen: A show about a punk rock group of Mad Balls who just wants to rock in defiance of the fascist government of the Mad Ball planet... and a show about Mad…

It's Toy May, oy vey! And we're looking at the VHS live-action special made to promote the very heavily promoted late 80s toy My Pet Monster, whose unique selling proposition was that he came with orange breakaway handcuffs.

LIVE from BABScon 2025! We attended the final Bay Area Brony Spectacular, where we ran a panel comparing Hasbro's 1986 box office bombs -- My Little Pony the movie, GI Joe the movie, and Transformers the movie. Were they as bad as 1986 critics thought? The answer is maybe.

This is the first time that we've looked at an AWARD WINNING comic adaptation... it's Ghost World, starring a young Scarlet Jo Hansen, a young Thora Birch, and a young Stephen Buschemi. Come for the Ghost World, stay for the UN-PC ranting about rude tourists!

We're going back to the 80s to visit the last gasp of the classic Garfield TV specials -- Garfield's Feline Fantasies. What Garfield had an active imagination and imagined that he was James Bond and Indiana Jones at the same time? It would be kind of like this.

We're continuing out look at adaptations of 1960s Underground comix with a look at this attempt to update Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to this modern, cell-phone-having world of 2020. The brothers are no longer furry or fabulous, they're just the Freak Brothers. Wow, I guess you can't even be fabulous or furry anymore because of …

We're continuing out look at adaptations of 1960s Underground comix with a look at this attempt to update Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to this modern, cell-phone-having world of 2020. The brothers are no longer furry or fabulous, they're just the Freak Brothers. Wow, I guess you can't even be fabulous or furry anymore because of …

They made a sequel to Fritz the Cat and it doesn't involve either Robert Crumb or Ralph Bakshi, and, boy, you can really tell! They added more farts and racism, but somehow the old magic just isn't there!

They made a sequel to Fritz the Cat and it doesn't involve either Robert Crumb or Ralph Bakshi, and, boy, you can really tell! They added more farts and racism, but somehow the old magic just isn't there!

Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat is p much synonymous with underground comix and the 60s counterculture. Ralph Bakshi's interpretation is extremely Ralph Bakshi, and Crumb hated it. But Crumb hates everything cuz he's a CRUMugeon. We look at an adult cartoon that is extremely good at being a Ralph Bakshi joint. It beats Fire and Ice, that's for sure!…

Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat is p much synonymous with underground comix and the 60s counterculture. Ralph Bakshi's interpretation is extremely Ralph Bakshi, and Crumb hated it. But Crumb hates everything cuz he's a CRUMugeon. We look at an adult cartoon that is extremely good at being a Ralph Bakshi joint. It beats Fire and Ice, that's for sure!…

We look at The Boondocks,the Adult Swim TV series adaptation of Aaron MacGruder's comic strip of the same name. In today's media environment, it may surprise you that a comic and TV show with such an unapologetic Black viewpoint (and so much George W Bush era satire) was able to get past all the old media gatekeepers. We discuss the comic strip tha…

We look at The Boondocks,the Adult Swim TV series adaptation of Aaron MacGruder's comic strip of the same name. In today's media environment, it may surprise you that a comic and TV show with such an unapologetic Black viewpoint (and so much George W Bush era satire) was able to get past all the old media gatekeepers. We discuss the comic strip tha…

It's finally here... after 279 episodes, we're finally doing Over the Hedge, probably the biggest comic strip adaptation of all time until Garfield the Movie. It's based on the comic strip of the same name, but, since the original strip is the biggest nothingburger on the comics page, they had to give it a major glow-up... into a star-studded extra…

It's finally here... after 279 episodes, we're finally doing Over the Hedge, probably the biggest comic strip adaptation of all time until Garfield the Movie. It's based on the comic strip of the same name, but, since the original strip is the biggest nothingburger on the comics page, they had to give it a major glow-up... into a star-studded extra…

For Ethan's birthday, we're looking at the NOT QUITE DISNEY classic, The Brave Little Toaster, based on the Thomas Disch story of the same name. It's about five brave appliances who go out in search of the boy who loves them. It's a weird one, but it's fun!

For Ethan's birthday, we're looking at the NOT QUITE DISNEY classic, The Brave Little Toaster, based on the Thomas Disch story of the same name. It's about five brave appliances who go out in search of the boy who loves them. It's a weird one, but it's fun!

Okay NOW we're talking about Dog City, Jim Henson's favorite thing to direct. It's about a city that's all dogs. Ladies and gentlemen, it's gone to the dogs! They're all dog puppets and also they do car chases!

In theory, we meant to talk about Dog City (part of the Jim Henson Hour) but instead we ended up talking about the muppets in general, the Jim Henson hour, the origin of homo sapiens and the inevitable death of our species because of billionaires, and also how lazy Bill Watterson is.

Tintin is the biggest thing since Asterix, but, if you live in America, you might not have heard of him. He's a boy reporter who has adventures. Kids love Tintin (except for his controversial 1939 adventure "Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors.") Anyway, you might not know Tintin, but Hollywood still thought you'd like a Tintin movie. Here it is!…

The Peanuts are back and it's another New Year's special! Apple TV has updated the Peanuts gang to tell a story of Lucy having an existential crisis. That's right. Lucy. Not Charlie Brown. It's Lucy.

Ho ho ho, garbage for all the good little children! We've got the whole gang of pals back for another quadumvirate of questionable Quistmas specials. Mike and Ethan have holiday regulars Morbiose, Rocketshark, DMXI, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop, whom we're sure you're all well familiar with by now, for such wintry delights as Nilus The Sandman: T…

So, technically, there was a Winnie the Pooh comic strip, so it is totally within our wheelhouse to do an episode about Winnie the Pooh (2011)! Is it more or less in line with AA Milne's vision of the chubby little bear all stuffed with fluff? Check it out!

It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most…

It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most…