A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

In the early aughts, Animation Magazine ran an annual feature called the Pitch Party -- a contest where eager readers could spend $300 to submit a postage-stamp sized jpg pitching their dream cartoon in the hopes that some animation executive might see some potential in their idea and make all their Hollywood dreams come true. How many cartoons were created through the Pitch Party? A whopping zero...

In the early aughts, Animation Magazine ran an annual feature called the Pitch Party -- a contest where eager readers could spend $300 to submit a postage-stamp sized jpg pitching their dream cartoon in the hopes that some animation executive might see some potential in their idea and make all their Hollywood dreams come true. How many cartoons were created through the Pitch Party? A whopping zero...

MacGuyver? No! The Guyver!

Half of the team from "Over the Hedge" made this comic strip about a family dealing with the stresses of modern life and it got made into the most mid-00s sitcom ever. From Canada. We finally found a sitcom husband worse than Irving!

Half of the team from "Over the Hedge" made this comic strip about a family dealing with the stresses of modern life and it got made into the most mid-00s sitcom ever. From Canada. We finally found a sitcom husband worse than Irving!

There's no stars left in the sky, cuz they're all here at the 1983 First Annual Yummy Awards -- as NBC shows us their new Saturday line-up, in a show with Howling Mad Murdock, Mr. T, the kid from Silver Spoons, Gumby, Foobie the robot, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie!

There's no stars left in the sky, cuz they're all here at the 1983 First Annual Yummy Awards -- as NBC shows us their new Saturday line-up, in a show with Howling Mad Murdock, Mr. T, the kid from Silver Spoons, Gumby, Foobie the robot, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie!

Hey, I found a shoe, that's weird. But what's important is, we're taking a trip back to the 90s and Waldomania to take a look at the saturday morning Where's Waldo cartoon! Or "Where's Wally" as it's allegedly called in its native Britain. So don't 'wally', FattyAtomicMutant and Ethan will find Mike by next week!

Eric IS Bananaman! And you can too! Listen, that is, as Ethan and Tom from Flash In The Pan extol the virtues of potassium and being nutty.

Mike forces Ethan to watch Animalympics cuz it's Mike's birthday and he likes the Noah's Ark disco bit

We really hate this show.

More tiger sharks!!!

Finally!!! it's the tiger sharks!!!

We're zeroing in on the Tiger Sharks, the true reason for the existence of The Comic Strip, but first, yea, we must pass through the valley of the shadow of Karate Kat. Could Karate Kat actually be the worst segment of the Comic Strip? With Mini Monsters and Street Frogs, it's got some stiff competition. Also, he's lean, he's mean, a karate machine!

We're continuing our discussion of the Comic Strip with Street Frogs. Who can do hip hop better than a frog can? Who indeed.

Well, it's called "The Comic Strip," so even though it's not an actual comic strip, we're gonna count it! Today, we're looking at the TV series that killed Rankin Bass, "The Comic Strip." Actually, we talked so much that this is mostly about Mini Monsters, which is a summer camp where Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy, and all your favorite monsters go to camp. A...

Well, it's called "The Comic Strip," so even though it's not an actual comic strip, we're gonna count it! Today, we're looking at the TV series that killed Rankin Bass, "The Comic Strip." Actually, we talked so much that this is mostly about Mini Monsters, which is a summer camp where Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy, and all your favorite monsters go to camp. A...

This week, we look at some REAL obscure stuff: two of the 36 circa 1979 film strips commissioned by the US Department of Education to teach children about the importance of having a job, "People Have Different Skills, Charlie Brown" and "Schoolwork is Important, Charlie Brown," starring the Peanuts gang and their new latina friend Delores. We also look at "It's Dental...

This week, we look at some REAL obscure stuff: two of the 36 circa 1979 film strips commissioned by the US Department of Education to teach children about the importance of having a job, "People Have Different Skills, Charlie Brown" and "Schoolwork is Important, Charlie Brown," starring the Peanuts gang and their new latina friend Delores. We also look at "It's Dental...

It's the final Super Mario Brothers, in theaters as we speak -- in this one, Mario and Luigi save the whole galaxy! The big selling point of this one is that we get to see Yoshi, but Mike is real mad that Birdo got done dirty. Everyone should be asking, where is Birdo?

The month of MAYrio continues with our look at the first modern Super Mario Brothers Movie! It's got Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Seth Rogan, and all your favorite Mario characters, except Birdo. So everyone should be asking, where's Birdo? Anyway, this one is pretty solidly okay.

It's da Mario Brothers in their live action debut! This famous turkey, with an all-star cast including Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper turkey is often called one of the worst movies of all time -- but is it actually bad? We posit that, in fact, it's good. Also, wow, that whole King Koopa thing really hits different in the reign of Trump. This ain't no game!

For the month of MAYrio, we're looking at various adaptations of the Mario Brothers video games! Next up: The Wizard. Is it a Mario Brothers movie? Well, it's got Mario and it's got some brothers. Fred Savage and Christian Slater star in this classic Nintendo commercial about family and also hustling traveling salesmen at video games.

For the month of MAYrio, we're looking at various adaptations of the Mario Brothers video games! Next up: The Wizard. Is it a Mario Brothers movie? Well, it's got Mario and it's got some brothers. Fred Savage and Christian Slater star in this classic Nintendo commercial about family and also hustling traveling salesmen at video games.

It's summer, so you know what that means: For the month of May, it's MAYrio! We're looking at a different Mario movie every week, because it's our podcast and we want to! We're starting off with the 1986 anime Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! , possibly the earliest ever adaptation of the video game characters to the screen. How does it compare? Pr...