Cartoon Night in Canada

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie channel their ki energy and raise their power levels to unreached numbers with the second official episode of anime side series CanaDub. We chat about the Dragon Ball Z dubbing and localization efforts by Saban Entertainment and Vancouver based Ocean Groups to make the intergalactic tale of martial arts palatable for western audiences. While skirting over D...

On this week's episode, Chris has to answer for his terrible 14-year old taste as he and Sylvie take a look at the oddity that was Sons of Butcher . While attempting to answer the all-important question of "why it look like that?" we look into the unique production history of the strange, rock comedy born from the mean streets of Hamilton. And of course, the many, many ways it has aged poorly.&nbs...

On this week's episode, it's just a prank bro as Sylvie and Chris analyze the many harebrained antics of self-proclaimed master prankster Andy Larkin with the series What's With Andy? While digging into our culture's odd fascination with pranking and practical jokes in the early 2000s, we chat about the show's interesting production history, its animation style and influences, and get at the centr...

On this week's episode, we take to the skies with hybrid motorcycle/planes in the floating world of Atmos in Nerd Corps Entertainment's Storm Hawks. A vestige of the trends apparent in late 2000s CGI animation, we chat about the many influences which helped craft its unique look and its detailed attempts at sci-fi fantasy world-building and astro-turfing a franchise.  Episodes covered are Epi...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie continue exploring the vast archives of animation that is the National Film Board of Canada with another pairing of short films which couldn't be anymore different. Our conversation somehow steers from fancy-footed lumberjacks who please the girls completely and rotoscoping to the "pyschological realism" and confluence of animation techniques used to repres...

On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris jack into the mainframe and earn their real gamer cred by talking about Mainframe Entertainment's seminal series ReBoot. After a lively chat about its production history and the rapidly evolving status of CGI animation in the industry, we dissect the reasons why we find the landmark series paradoxically holds up while also feeling wonderfully dated at the t...

On this weeks episode, we are joined by friend of the show Thomas Wishloff to talk about the coming-of-age orthodontic body horror that was Braceface. While analyzing how it approaches the metaphor of the prickliness of growing up and how maturely it represents the experience, we talk about the ways it held up and remains relevant. Until we somehow get completely derailed by an impromptu game of "...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie tap into their inner weeb and start a side series analyzing the crucial part the Canadian animation industry played in localizing and dubbing all your favourite anime from your childhood. For the inaugural episode of "CanaDub" we chat about the one named Sailor Moon and how a Mississauga company worked under incredibly stressful conditions to bring her Sail...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie temp it up by taking a look at one of the most mid-2000s adult flash animated cartoons Odd Job Jack. We chat a bit about the state of flash animation in the aughts while also touching on labour rights, the show's baffling ability to pull guest stars, its dated animation and humour, and its strange legacy (or lack thereof). Also: if you have not gone to the...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie wonder why a pantheon of Greek gods settled in a Canadian metropolis to teach some teenagers how to save the world in Class of the Titans. While digging into our cultural fascination with Greek mythology that peaked in the mid-2000s, we chat about the show's style influences, what makes a good origin story for a team of heroes, the nuances and pitfalls of a...

On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris travel down to where there is not a lot going on to try and chat about the cynical retread of a Canadian sitcom classic with Corner Gas...Animated. While grappling with the fundamental question of "WHY DOES THIS EXIST??" we also talk about the troubling trend of lazy animated adaptations of live-action media, the merits of the original Saskatchewan set seri...

On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris shake a stick at the hyperactive weirdness of Stickin' Around. While gawking at the unbridled strangeness of its parody heavy comedy, we attempt to break down it's unique, squigglevision animation, it's abstract approach to colour theory and backgrounds, how it provided a realistic depiction of the devolving nuclear family in the 90s, its interesting origin...

On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris invite you to run with us as we take a look at a certified classic (that's a little before our time) in The Raccoons. We discuss the inescapable trend of environmentalism in kid's entertainment and whether or not that resonates anymore, the incredible career of show creator Kevin Gillis, the amazing new wave soundtrack, how important the series became in th...

On this weeks episode, Chris and Sylvie begin a side series exploring the vast archives of animation that is the National Film Board of Canada. While discussing the importance of the NFB and it's impact on the discussion and production of animation in Canada, we also chat about two films produced through the organization, while flying off on weird tangents about "yeeting," French Painters, Canadia...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie go full A.S.C.A.B (All Space Cops Are Bastards) with Marathon Media's Team Galaxy. While chatting a bit about the storied production relationship between France and Canada, we discuss the show's suspect politics, the aesthetic of Marathon Media's many anime inspirations, the voice acting industry, and so much more! Episode covered is Episode 39 - "Intergala...

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie listen to their animal instincts and check out Life's a Zoo.tv, a "timely" parody of reality television from 2008. We chat about the evolving cultural opinion of reality television, the difficulties in producing good animated television aimed for adults, cock rocker Danko Jones for some reason related to Canadian broadcasting mandates, our fondness for stop...

On the premiere episode of Cartoon Night in Canada, Chris and Sylvie take a look at the monochrome misadventures of a precocious, insolent grade-schooler with Angela Anaconda . After a brief chat about why we are fascinated by Canadian animation, we talk the unsettling appeal of the show's unique aesthetic, the surprisingly mean-spirited tone of its humour, its unexpected relevance and connection...