The Animated Arcade

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, we start the 1995 Street Fighter cartoon with “The Adventure Begins”! And John goes on a lengthy digression about Canadian voice actors! (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - Our histories with Street Fighter (17:17) - The Adventure Begins (56:20) - Cast and writers (01:17:30)...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! The Street Fighter cartoon starts next time, but first: This week, John Aaron are joined by three guests to talk about 1994’s Street Fighter: The Movie! Rebel Taxi Mortal Kombat cartoons - https://youtu.be/eVNcPfIPfJ0?si=RmIHVmH1yt293NMQ   Red Cyclone - The Grammar Club - http...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, Part Three (of Three) of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show Ranking Specials: The Zelda Cartoon! Plus, we create our definitive 13 episode supercut of Super Mario Bros!(00:00) - Zelda Cartoon Ranking (16:27) - Zelda Cartoon Worst To Best (26:58) - Mario Cartoon Super...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! This week, it's the second of three ranking specials for "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda": the Super Mario Bros. Live Action shorts!https://tiermaker.com/create/super-mario-supershow-cartoon-episodes-mario-19516217 Our Theme Song: “After-School Keyboard Club” by Xennial - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xennial/single/after-school-k...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! This week, it's the first of three ranking specials for "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!/The Legend Of Zelda": the Super Mario Bros. cartoon shorts! (00:00) - Intro (03:11) - Rankinghttps://tiermaker.com/create/super-mario-supershow-cartoon-episodes-mario-19516217All Our Episodes! - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKmbD3QbEO8W2iufeDmcMiatr...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Mario is dreaming about Elvira! Can he save “The Ghoul Of My Dreams” from a mummy? Then, it’s the last episode of Zelda! When Ganon is overthrown by his minions, they launch...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, guest star Cyndi Lauper needs the Mario Bros. help to find her friend Capt. Lou Albano! It’s a worldwide effort when “Captain Lou Is Missing”! Then, the last Mario short blo...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! Here comes a REAL Star Wars Holiday Special! First, it’s a damn depressing Christmas as the broke Mario Bros. share some holiday cheer with a bearded sleigh-jacking victim in “Sant...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper has come to reclaim his “repaired” bagpipes from the Mario Bros.! Can Mario stall long enough for Luigi to recover “Rowdy Roddy’s Rotten Pipes”? T...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Luigi covertly coaches Mario in the language of love to impress his fiancee(!) Roxanne (Vanna White) in Cyrano De Mario! Then, the crew help a faceless treasure hunter conqueror...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, it’s a radical rerun as the Super Show serves up a second helping of “Tutti Fruitti Mario”! (We would’ve skipped it, but we had a guest) Next, the Series Finale Energy continues...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/"The Legend Of Zelda"! First, the Mario Bros. contend with an extremely noisy neighbor in "Opera"! Then, King Koopa invades Brooklyn in what REALLY feels like a series finale (but isn't) in "Flatbush Koopa"!...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. try to impress a baseball scout (Joe Ballen)! Will he see potential in these “Two Bums From Brooklyn”? Then, the Mario crew have to save Aqua Land from Barra...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Luigi is learning French to impress women! Can Luigi put his skills to use in spite of Mario’s jabs? Then, the Mario Crew are sentenced to life in prison by the corrupt Judg...

(Updated with better audio) We ran out of recorded episodes! Here's a Clip Show made of our favourite shorts from YouTube/TikTok! We probably should've taken a Christmas hiatus... Our Theme Song: “After-School Keyboard Club” by Xennial - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/xennial/single/after-school-keyboard-club/   Cover Song Compilation - ⁠ https://youtu.be/3h8Kcwgyi4s?si=BoHRzisvYDOoAwNh⁠   Art...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Mario accidentally kills Mrs. Periwinkle’s (Nedra Volz) goldfish, Kenneth! Can the Bros. find a replacement, or is it “Goodbye, Mr. Fish”? Then, to save his friends from Bil...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, an infatuated pizza delivery girl (Eve Plumb) has the hots for Mario! Luigi is skepical, until he sees all the free deliveries from Mario’s “Pizza Crush”! Then, the King of Hyrul...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. have a Royal Pain as The Queen (Vikki Bakken) hides from the public with the Plumbers in “No Way To Treat A Queenie”! Then, who’s afraid of the Big Bad Koopa? A f...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. are trapped in a cliche when Luigi tapes a line between Mario’s messy side and his clean side of the shop! Can Doc Freud (Gary Shwartz) bring together “A Basement...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Mario has to be nice to Luigi for a whole day to be “Chippie Chipmunk” Of The Month! Can he put up with Luigi until Mr. Gibbel (Fred Travelina) arrives with his prize? Then, a bo...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, Mario is struck with stage fright while shooting a commercial in "Adee Don't"! Can TV star Tawney Tyler (Melanie Chartoff) salvage the sinking situation? Then, things get a littl...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! Inspector Gadget (Maurice Lamarche) returns to help the Mario Bros. follow a treasure map! Can the goofy gumshoe find “The Treasure Of Sierra Brooklyn”?  Then, Ganon plans to use a magi...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, it’s a Mailbag Catch Up Special! (00:00) - Intro (01:43) - Stealing powers from other podcasts (07:36) - Super Mario World cartoon (12:10) - Food Fight (starring Charlie Sheen) (14:55) - Elvin Lives, Superman 2025 vs Fantastic Four: First Steps (32:39) - Other video...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, in “Glasnuts” the Mario Bros. see red when Mikhail Gorbachev (Martin Garner) drops by to learn how to make pizza! Will the kooky Commie like his culinary creation? Then, we flash...

Welcome to The Animated Arcade Podcast! John and Aaron watch, review, riff on, and share trivia about video game cartoons! This week, they continue through “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"/”The Legend Of Zelda”! First, the Mario Bros. win a contest to have radio host The Wonderfully Wacky Willy White (Gary Owens) broadcast with them from the Plumbing shop! Can the Bros. keep their energy u...