A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

We talk about the history of Garfield and Friends, including the born-on-third-base story of US Acres, but then we digress into talking about Bill Watterson's comic opinions and the Garfield musical. And other stuff. We all miss Lorenzo Music and also... Thom Huge! Did you know it's pronounced Hoogie? Who knew???

All children of the 80s remember Heathcliff! Or, at least, they remember this version: the one where's he's paired with the Cadillac Cats. Heathcliff was originally a comic strip but the Cadillac Cats are a wholly original invention of this series... do they hold up? Are they a worthy pairing with Heathcliff? It turns out... not so much. Some REAL spicy hot takes about Riff Raff in this one, folks...

Everyone knows Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats, but Heathcliff has a long history of getting paired with random other cartoons for reasons. First they paired him with a bunch of Halloween monsters (???) and of course eventually they paired him with Riff Raff. But between those attempts, Heathcliff shared the screen with another funny pages staple: Marmaduke. Why not?

Ethan has long been recognized as the world's foremost Transformers maniac. This week, he shares with us WHAT makes Transformers transform and proves that, indeed, they are more than meets the eye. Mike encounters Transformers in their native habitat for the first time. We also compare a typical Transformers episode, "The Desertion of the Dinobots," and the show's big screen adaptation Transformer...

Ethan has long been recognized as the world's foremost Transformers maniac. This week, he shares with us WHAT makes Transformers transform and proves that, indeed, they are more than meets the eye. Mike encounters Transformers in their native habitat for the first time. We also compare a typical Transformers episode, "The Desertion of the Dinobots," and the show's big screen adaptation Transformer...

It's Sweden's favorite son, Peter No tail! The story of a cat with no  tail and a harrowing parable about the dangerous rise of nazism, Peter  No Tail has been a picture book, a comic, a stage play, an asteroid and  now... an animated film! Join us for discussions of gormless cats and  the confusion about what you call that genre of story featuring rabbits  in waistcoats.

It's Sweden's favorite son, Peter No tail! The story of a cat with no tail and a harrowing parable about the dangerous rise of nazism, Peter No Tail has been a picture book, a comic, a stage play, an asteroid and now... an animated film! Join us for discussions of gormless cats and the confusion about what you call that genre of story featuring rabbits in waistcoats.

It's the new year! Welcome to 2023! No flying cars, but, here, have a new episode of A Special Presentation as compensation! This week, Ethan wanted to look at not just the 1986 Peanuts new year special "Happy New Years, Charlie Brown!" but also 1981’s "Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown," because of a certain interesting thematic correlation: Linus being a complete pimp. You can learn more fr...

Netflix made an adaptation of Little Nemo in Slumberland. In that, it's about someone named Nemo and it happens in Slumberland. Jason Momoa stars as Flip (not a racist clown this time) and takes us on a merry adventure through the world of shiny shiny doorknobs!

I ran to the kitchen, what did I see? A Christmas podcast, from Mike and Ethan to ME! Our war on Christmas continues with a five-special marathon, all about Christmas and all involving BEARS! Christmas seems to have a lot more to do with bears than you’d think, huh? Our partygoers are subjected to The Twelve Days of Christmas, Why The Bears Dance At Christmas, Santabear’s High Flying Adventure, Sn...

After looking at Heavy Metal, the adult cartoon for 13 year olds, we  look at Robot Carnival, the adult cartoon for adults! It's a feast for  the eyes with every kind of robot story that Japan has to offer!

After looking at Heavy Metal, the adult cartoon for 13 year olds, we look at Robot Carnival, the adult cartoon for adults! It's a feast for the eyes with every kind of robot story that Japan has to offer!

Heavy Metal magazine, the magazine for everything cool when you're 13,  was adapted into a film that's everything cool when you're 13! Mike's  old friend Puppers, a connoisseur of both Heavy Metal the magazine and  Heavy Metal the movie AND the Heavy Metal's original soundtrack pick  Blue Oyster Cult, joins us to ROCK ON!!!

Heavy Metal magazine, the magazine for everything cool when you're 13, was adapted into a film that's everything cool when you're 13! Mike's old friend Puppers, a connoisseur of both Heavy Metal the magazine and Heavy Metal the movie AND the Heavy Metal's original soundtrack pick Blue Oyster Cult, joins us to ROCK ON!!!

This week, Ethan found some comics that no longer exist, obscure failures from the backwaters of long ago... can Mike recognize any of these unknowns? Join us for this little guessing game and then stick around for some babble about the comics in the US military newspaper The Stars and Stripes.

Can’t get enough Annie? Are you an Annie-maniac, zany to the max? Well, you’re in luck, because they finally made a sequel to the beloved 1982 musical! Except the whole cast is different. And we skipped WWII entirely. And it’s in England. And there’s a mad scientist, a fortune teller, a suspicious man with an eye patch, the Lost Boys, drugged milk, an explosive rocket, a plan to blow up Buckingham...

Did you ever watch a movie and think “They should have just published a ‘The Art Of…’ book and not finished the movie”? That’s Felix all over! Although Mike was unable to join for this podcast, he did thankfully cry a magical golden jellybean that summoned Glumdrop, whose bag of tricks includes the webcomic Pizzadventures and the creepypasta novel Joy Traveler, to help Ethan tread water through a...

BOO! The crowd is back, bigger and spookier than ever! Morbiose, Rocketshark, Poundforpoundcake, Fattyatomicmutant are back, plus first-timer Glumdrop, to once again simulate the beloved post-trick-or-treat tradition of sorting candy on the sofa while you watch a whole night of Halloween specials! We’ve got The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane (1972), Follow That Goblin (1992), Legend of Sleepy...

We're looking at another Annie this week, this time it's the 2014 version with Quvenzhane Wallis, Jamie Foxx, and Cameron Diaz. Annie's been updated for 2014! And only for 2014. It's the most 2014 movie ever made... and it was made in... 2014!!!

Eyyy, it's Jacob Bisonowitz... I mean Jackie Bison! When the Simpsons changed animation history, all the other networks scrambled to catch up... you remember Fish Police, you remember Family Dog, you remember Capitol Critters... but do you remember Jackie Bison? Oh, YOU WILL.

Time for Timer! Remember Timer? The anthropomorphic circadian rhythm that appeared on Saturday morning nutrition PSAs throughout the 80s? Yeah, of course you do. In a previous episode, we revealed that Timer made his debut in TV special that taught you all about physical health. Well, Timer came back... this time he's teaching us about MENTAL health! Sort of! Timer's going inside the brain of a mo...

They've tried to bring Mad magazine to the screen many times, from MadTV to the infamous Mad movie Up the Academy... today we look at The Mad Magazine TV Special, probably one of the most solid efforts! Matt Keeley of Kitty Sneezes joins us to look at Mad's Auto Manufacturer of the Year, the Academy Awards for parents, the Oddfather, and more!

They've tried to bring Mad magazine to the screen many times, from MadTV to the infamous Mad movie Up the Academy... today we look at The Mad Magazine TV Special, probably one of the most solid efforts! Matt Keeley of Kitty Sneezes joins us to look at Mad's Auto Manufacturer of the Year, the Academy Awards for parents, the Oddfather, and more!

In the early 90s, in the wake of The Simpsons, all the other networks  decided that they also wanted some hot adult animated sitcoms. Capitol  Critters was born out of that desire. It's about vermin living under the  White House and, while it was never able to make the topical political  jokes its premise demanded, it made up for that short-coming with  BAFFLING RACISM.

In the early 90s, in the wake of The Simpsons, all the other networks decided that they also wanted some hot adult animated sitcoms. Capitol Critters was born out of that desire. It's about vermin living under the White House and, while it was never able to make the topical political jokes its premise demanded, it made up for that short-coming with BAFFLING RACISM.