Cartoon Time Machine

Katie has asked Scarlett to watch a lot of international animated films, but this one from the same team that brought you “Fantastic Planet” is…hmmm. Not “Fantastic Planet.” Tune in as the Ani-Mates discuss “Gandahar,” ask big questions like "what is Christopher Plummer doing here", and try to figure out just what exactly is going on here and why the Amazon subtitles are so very bad.

On this positively cracking episode of Cartoon Time Machine, the Ani-Mates discuss the newest Wallace & Gromit film, “Vengeance Most Fowl.” Feathers McGraw is back and out for revenge! Can our plucky claymation heroes save the day once more? Or, more accurately, will that job fall entirely on the long-suffering Gromit? Ah, it feels like coming home… if your home was the British countryside ren...

It’s time for another Cartoon Clash, where we pit some of our favorite animated characters against each other in a 1v1 tournament to see which one is the ultimate champion. Will Scarlett actually win one of these? Or has Katie come up with another ludicrously OP character to take home the champion’s belt? We don’t actually have a belt, it’s theoretical. Just like Scarlett’s chances of winning.

The Dragon Prince is back for one final (?) season! Does season 7 of the hit Netflix animated series stick the landing? Or will this tale of fantasy, dark magic, dragon politics, and rad lesbian queens go down in flames? Find out on this week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine!

We’re starting off 2025 right by playing our “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” style game where we click through IMDb until we connect a random animated series with a specific prolific voice actor. This time, we’re hunting for Eric Bauza, frequent Looney Tunes star and general man-about-town of animation.

It’s our last episode of 2024! As is tradition, the Ani-Mates ring in the new year by discussing the next year in animation. What does 2025 have in store for us in the cartoon world? Tune in to find out!

Friend of the podcast Jack is back to talk about the second season of the hit Netflix animated series “Arcane”! They discuss the gays, robot messiahs, and found family with your resurrected wolf man father.

To celebrate the holiday season, the Ani-Mates are tapping into one of the best parts of this time of year: the music! Unfortunately, many classic holiday songs don’t have animated specials to go with them. Katie and Scarlett are here to change that with their pitches to create the next “Rudolph” or “Frosty the Snowman.” Which songs deserve their day in the cartoon spotlight? Find out on this week...

Katie is out this week, so Producer Rachel is here to talk with Scarlett about Moana 2! Does the sequel to the popular 2016 Disney animated film live up to the high expectations set by the original? Or should we tell it to “Get Lost”?

The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by re-gifting a beloved cartoon! In the biz, we call that a “reboot”. But this isn’t just any installment of “Pitch That Reboot.” We’re putting a holiday spin on our pitches by pitching a holiday special for one of our favorite animated series, Gravity Falls! Do these pitches belong on the nice list? Or will they be getting a lum...

Happy Thanksgiving! This week on Cartoon Time Machine, the Ani-Mates talk about an animated movie that should become a Thanksgiving staple alongside the turkey, stuffing, and that weird thing Americans do where we put marshmallows on potatoes for some reason. That’s right, it’s Wes Anderson’s stop motion classic “Fantastic Mr. Fox”! Join us as we learn about family, forgiveness, and how all crime...

It’s our four-year anniversary! Time has flown, but we alway come back to the show that inspired us to make this podcast: Animaniacs! For this anniversary, we’re celebrating the little things. Not the full segments but the little vaudevillian bumpers that padded the runtime and warmed our hearts. Join Katie and Scarlett as they talk about their favorite Animaniacs interstitials. Will this be a goo...

It’s your turn to roll as we dive back into the Legend of Vox Machina, the animated series based on the Critical Role Dungeons & Dragons actual play campaign. The Ani-Mates have gathered their own D&D party once again to discuss the third season of the show and yup you clocked that runtime correctly! In the time it takes to fight an ancient red dragon, the party will discuss deviations fro...

Katie is out this week, which means friend of the show Jack will be joining Scarlett to talk about the new animated film from DreamWorks, “The Wild Robot.” This movie is being hailed as one of the best movies of the year, but does "Lilo & Stitch” and “How to Train Your Dragon” director Chris Sanders bring the heat? Find out on this week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine…and then call your mom and...

Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookiest day of the year, the Ani-Mates are dusting off an old childhood classic that you may remember airing on Cartoon Network back in the early 2000s. No, it wasn’t a fever dream, it’s “Scary Godmother”, and this CGI animated special is very real. Does it hold up to modern scrutiny? Or is the uncanny valley the scariest thing about it? 

Welcome to a Monster Mash of a Cartoon Clash! Katie and Scarlett continue their celebration of the Halloween season by pitting some of their favorite cartoon monsters against each other to see who wins in a Halloween head-to-head fight! And in the meantime, we’ll see how many rhymes for “mash” Katie can come up with.

Spooky season is officially upon us, which means it’s time to start thinking about our costumes! Katie and Scarlett break down all the cartoon-themed costumes they’d love to try out, as well as some that would work for a group or a couple…assuming they could convince others to join in the fun!

Welcome to the timeless tale of the hubris of man, in which someone makes a deal with the devil and receives a terrible curse in return. Of course this is referring to the deal Scarlett made with Katie which led to Katie showing her various surrealist Czech films. The strange film up for discussion today is “Faust”, where puppets and stop motion mix with live action to create just…just the wildest...

The Ani-Mates are back with their Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-style game where they scour IMDb to see how many clicks it takes to connect a random animated series with a prolific voice actor. This week: relative newcomer Max Mittelman!

It’s back to school time! Well…not for Scarlett, but for Katie and a lot of other people! Join the Ani-Mates as they discuss cartoon schools and the highs and lows of the animated education system!

Happy 200th Episode! What better way to celebrate 200 episodes of Cartoon Time Machine than with a little early Christmas present for ourselves? Resident Christmas Carol expert Beth joins the Ani-Mates to discuss the holiday classic Muppets Christmas Carol, objectively the best Christmas Carol adaptation and honorary animated film. ...Let us have this, we made 200 episodes.

Fall is almost here, and that means its time to cozy up with some good food, gather your friends and…go on a dungeon crawl? That’s right, this week the Ani-Mates delve into the first season of the hit anime “Delicious in Dungeon” to see what sorts of monsters are cooking. Oh, and also Scarlett may be wrong about soup.  

Let’s talk about SPORTS! Scarlett knows nothing about sports, so she’s called in a ringer in their friend and sports-enthusiast Dylan, who is here to talk about the various ways the worlds of cartoons and sports have intermingled over the years and how they may continue to interact in the future. 

The Ani-Mates are back with some more Moon Girl Magic! On this week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine, Katie and Scarlett talk the first half (?) of Season 2 of the Marvel animated series. They’ll discuss pre-teen love, PTSD, and lesbian desert scientists. 

It may be a Tale as Old as Time, but Beauty and the Beast is also another Disney movie Katie hasn’t seen! Scarlett takes it upon herself to educate her fellow Ani-Mate…and also get on a soapbox. Or two. Or three. Listen, Scarlett has a lot of feelings about this movie, okay? Tune in to Cartoon Time Machine and find out why women will always choose the bear!