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The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burn...

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burn...

It's not just comics that get their own TV adaptations. Sometimes sit coms become cartoons because... reasons? Mike Vago of Why Isn't This a Movie , author and Onion AV Club contributor , joins us this week to look at some of the misbegotten attempts to bring sit coms to the... well, to the same screen really! Learn about the Duke boys on a race around the world, I Dream of Jeanie with her new bum...

Garfield was so popular, is it any wonder that he wasn't just adapted into cartoons but into other mediums as well?  There are Garfield books, Garfield movies, Garfield... coloring books!? In this episode, we look at two (2) classic Garfield coloring books. Kids love to color!

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times  of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime  movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much  love in this thing and... well, it's A THING. Join us for our second episode deep dive into this Nemo thing!

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much love in this thing and... well, it's A THING. 

Free for All is an oddity of a strip. Created by Brett Merhar in the waning days of the newspaper comic strip monoculture ie the late 90s, it was syndicated for but a single year... but Merhar still managed to convince Showtime into greenlighting a series. It wasn't good.  Join us for a mega-stuffed 2 HOUR episode where we talk all about the bizarre anomaly that was Free for All, a weird webc...

This week, Mike and Ethan look at this weird Charlie Brown special that is NOT associated with any holiday, it's all about that overly-civilized, underly-dogified dog Snoopy eating 100 pizzas and having a nightmare that he's a Klondike gold rush sled dog. Also in this episode, Mike retells the story of his own nightmare, that time that he ate two (2) weed brownies and journeyed to a witch's sabbat...

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special   Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for  every  one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to  miss  out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into  another full  episode! We're joined this time with our good friend Aurelina...

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special  Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every  one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to miss  out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into another full  episode! We're joined this time with our good friend Cage of Mirrors !

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to miss out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into a full episode!

We're rounding out our Christmas season with a look at The Smurf's Christmas, one of like 8 smurf Christmases. This IS thematic because, as you Belgians may already know, the Smurfs was originally a comic over there. This week, we welcome special guest Aurelina , creator of Furry Found Footage and Mike's old podcasting partner from SHOW . Let's smurf it up as we discuss just WHO is that mysterious...

Garfield, Odie and Jon go to visit Jon's family on the farm for Christmas in a most unusual Christmas special. Mike didn't like it when it premiered in 1987, but we're reassessing it today! 

Did you know that there was a Rugrats comic strip? It sucked, of course. Just lots of boring puns about babies, but it did two important things: It was a better baby comic than Marvin and it gave us an excuse to watch A Rugrats Chanukah for our 2020 Decemberween Festival of Holiday Specials. Mike and Ethan discuss their extremely sketchy understanding of the Jewish faith and also why Angelica is t...

It's the holiday season, so we're looking at some holiday specials! Today we watched Rankin Bass' The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, based on a book by L. Frank Baum. And since there WAS a comic strip, Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz, based on a different L. Frank Baum book... what the heck, we'll count it. L. Frank Baum was never content to rely on pre-existing canon for his stories, so o...

This week, we thought we would look at Fabulous Funnies, a 70s Filmation series that brought all the best comic strips of the 20s to life! So we thought, why not get the scoop from someone who was actually there? Veteran cartoon writer Buzz Dixon , most famous for his work on GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony, Inhumanoids, Jem, Cowboys of Moo Mesa, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and literally EV...

This week, we were GOING to look at some more comic-themed commercials, but then we watched... a music video?... about Zippy the Pinhead. And it turns out that we have A LOT to say about Zippy the Pinhead. Join us for a discussion of this weird music video and also all things Zippy from the Zippy the Pinhead stage play to the secret history of San Francisco's Doggy Diner.

Welcome back to the podcast where Mike and Ethan talk about adaptations  of newspaper comics into other mediums. Did you know that before he was a  children's author Dr. Seuss was a newspaper cartoonist? A political  cartoonist, technically, but it still counts for our mandate! Because we  declare it to be so! We thought to look at one of two Seuss cartoons  that wasn't ba...

Welcome back to the podcast where Mike and Ethan talk about adaptations of newspaper comics into other mediums. Did you know that before he was a children's author Dr. Seuss was a newspaper cartoonist? A political cartoonist, technically, but it still counts for our mandate! Because we declare it to be so! We thought to look at one of two Seuss cartoons that wasn't based on a pre-existing property...

We're taking a break from our usual format for an EXTRA special  Halloween episode, on THIS most holy of nights HALLOWEEN, a day earlier than our usual posting time, to invite all our BEST pals to watch some  beloved classic Halloween specials with us! We're joined by friends of  the pod vorejokesdotjpg, poundforpoundcake, atomicfattymutant, and dungeonmaster11 to watch The Hallowee...

We're taking a break from our usual format for an EXTRA special Halloween episode, wherein we invited all our BEST pals to watch some beloved classic Halloween specials with us! We're joined by friends of the pod Moodyferret, vorejokesdotjpg, poundforpoundcake, and Morbiose to watch Lumpkin the Pumpkin, Raggedy Ann & Andy in: The Pumpkin that Couldn't Smile, Halloween is Grinch Night, and Witc...

It's the Addams Family! They're creepy AND they're kooky and altogether ooky. Ten years after the 1960s series ended, the original cast got back together for this special Halloween reunion that involves a Great Pumpkin analogue, a long-lost twin brother, a pair of super oiled up body builders (it doesn't really make sense in context), and (of course) some criminals trying to steal the Addams fortu...

Mike and Ethan continue a month of Halloween coverage with the classic Peanuts special that has defined Halloween for generations, with all the great bits that you know and love -- the Great Pumpkin, the jerkfaces who give Charlie Brown rocks during trick or treat (???) and Snoopy's WW I flying ace delusions. What a weird special.  In retrospect, Peanuts is bizarre.