A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

Welcome to episode 29 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )      discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  In this episode, we look at the also-ran series The Kid, an adaptation of Gahan Wilson's deliciously morbid Nuts strip from National Lampoon magazine. Mike also...

Welcome to episode 28 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )     discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This is our first time dipping into For Better or For Worse, the extremely nice and extremely Canadian comic strip about that extremely nice and extremely Canadian fam...

Welcome to episode 27 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )    discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This time , we meet those second rate superheroes THE DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH! What do you get when mandrake the Magician, Flash Gordon, Lothar, and the Phantom team up? You...

Welcome to episode 26 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )   discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This time  we're talkin' about that lovable blobfish ZIGGY! We were supposed to post this for Christmas but OOPS we forgot XP So enjoy Ziggy's Gift!  See more of Ethan a...

Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @gtron ) welcome special guest Travis ( @DMXI )   to discuss Garfield's 9 Lives, comparing the book to the animated   special, both of which are weirdly fucked up in their own ways. Listen   as Mike repeatedly forgets that Jim Hensen is NOT the creator of   Garfield.  There are just two many lives in this compilation,...

Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @gtron ) welcome special guest Travis ( @DMXI )  to discuss Garfield's 9 Lives, comparing the book to the animated  special, both of which are weirdly fucked up in their own ways. Listen  as Mike repeatedly forgets that Jim Hensen is NOT the creator of  Garfield.  There are just two many lives in this compilation, so we had  to divi...

Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @gtron ) welcome special guest Travis ( @DMXI ) to discuss Garfield's 9 Lives, comparing the book to the animated special, both of which are weirdly fucked up in their own ways. Listen as Mike repeatedly forgets that Jim Hensen is NOT the creator of Garfield.  There are just two many lives in this compilation, so we had to divide it into 3 parts.  Enjo...

Did you know that there's a comic strip themed theme park in Florida called TOON LAGOON? There is.  Does it suck? Maybe. But what if there was a GOOD comic strip theme park? In this episode, Mike and Ethan discuss their ideas for a GOOD comic strip theme park!

We're talkin' Dilbert again, you know the cat! He's your favorite office drone  written by a hypnosis magician who lives in a house shaped like  Dilbert's head. We literally talked about Dilbert so much that we had to  break it up into two episodes, so enjoy our SECOND Dilbert episode  wherein we talk about the last episode of the Dilbert TV series and also about Scott Adams Th...

We're talkin' Dilbert, you know the cat! He's your favorite office drone written by a hypnosis magician who lives in a house shaped like Dilbert's head. We literally talked about Dilbert so much that we had to break it up into two episodes, so enjoy our FIRST Dilbert episode wherein we talk about the first episode of the Dilbert TV series.

Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )  talk about a comic that you might remember more as a TV series but was also a theatrical movie: It's BEEFcliff the movie. Or possibly Meatcliff the movie.  Listen as we talk about cats, CATS, and a brilliant plan to make sports interesting. PUT ON YOUR GRAVY HELMET AND DIVE IN! Music  courtesy   of @morbiomatic ! See more of Et...

Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) talk about another comic strip's misguided stab at animation.  This week we look at the most obscure adaption ever, a cartoon with NO WIKIPEDIA ENTRY, it's Bad Baby.  What's Bad Baby? That's exactly what we asked too.  TOSSED SALAAAAAD AN SCRAMBLED EGGGGGGGS. Music  courtesy  of @morbiomatic ! See more of Ethan at http://www.the...

We're back after having missed our Christmas week update for no other reason than that Mike's computer died. But now it's all better!  So join Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) for another discussion about a comic strip's misguided stab at animation.  This week we look at It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown.  It's a thing that absolutely exists and we have no id...

It's the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we're looking Johnny Hart's BC specials, because, believe it or not, there was a point in time when BC had enough cultural cache that people were willing to watch not just one but TWO terrible specials based on that property. But wait, how can there be a Ch...

It's the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss  animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we discuss our OWN ideas for specials based on comic strips! What would you do if you had to make a ____ holiday special?  Find out our wacky ideas in this very special episode!  Also we must have been hungry while we were recording, cuz we...

It's the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we   discuss a relic of the 70s, where Popeye and every terrible comic strip character that infested the awful funnies page of the 70s meets a man who hates laughter.  By the time we're done, you'll agree... if the funniest thing in your worl...

It's the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we  discuss TWO specials, both related to the holiday that we are encountering this week: THANKSGIVING! We're looking at Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and Garfield's Thanksgiving.  Also check out our new theme music, courtesy of @morbiomatic !...

It's the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron ) discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we discuss a cartoon and a comic that are both very near and dear to us and to every person who enjoyed comics while growing up during a certain period of history: It's Bloom County or possibly Outland or possibly Opus... but the important thing is it's A W...

Ok this episode is late but for once it's NOT my fault.  Apparently there was some sort of bug in the website upload system or something that prevented it from working... but now it's FINALLY working!  So join us for the extremely timely EASTER special just in time for Thanksgiving. It's Bil Keane's terrible little pun-making tykes! They're doing their thing! Mike and Ethan have lots to...

Welcome to episode 9 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )    discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we have a warning about drugs.  Drugs, as it turns out, are bad.  Please enjoy this podcast where we watch a video wherein your favorite cartoon all-stars tell...

Welcome to episode 9 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )   discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips. This week, we've got a SPECIAL thematic episode: Because it's Garfield's Halloween special!! And it's up in time for Halloween! This one is a little different than usual... listen and se...

Welcome to episode 8 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )  discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  Except it's not a newspaper strip this time!! And it's not an animated special!! This time we're talking about a WEBCOMIC adapted into a RADIO PLAY!  It's the Sabrina Online radio p...

Welcome to episode 7 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )    discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This week we discuss It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown - it's depressing and you like it that way cuz it's Charlie Brown!  Also check out our new theme music, c...

Welcome to episode 5 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike (@bitterkarella) and Ethan (@Gtron)   discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This week we discuss Flashbeagle, Charles Shultz's disastrous attempt to cash in on the zeitgeist and a special so completely devoid of substance that we can't help but get derailed into talking abou...

Welcome to episode 5 of A Special Presentation or Alf will Not be Seen Tonight, the podcast where Mike ( @bitterkarella ) and Ethan ( @Gtron )  discuss animated specials based on newspaper comic strips.  This week  we discuss not one but TWO specials, both focused around beautiful tropical getaways. Who enjoys their tropical dream vacation more, Garfield or Cathy? This week we compa...