Cartoon Time Machine

Get ready to roll because this week, Katie welcomes back their DnD party to discuss Season 2 of The Legend of Vox Machina. Does the new season live up to the high expectations set by Season 1? Or is it a critical fail?

Happy Presidents’ Day! In honor of the holiday, the Ani-Mates stage a mock debate between two worthy animated candidates for the very-real title of President of Cartoon-dom. Who will win this hypothetical election? Tune in and find out!

This week love is in the air inside the Cartoon Time Machine and the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis. Join the ani-mates to "talk" about Valentine's day specials of their favourite cartoons.

Listeners, we CARE about you. We care about you SO MUCH. Are you uncomfortable yet? Well strap in to about an hour of Scarlett having a minor nostalgic breakdown over one of her favorite childhood films, The Care Bears Movie. Alternative title: Katie is a good sport.

Welcome back to another edition of “Where’s That Voice Actor?”, the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”-inspired game where the Ani-Mates scroll through IMDB, trying to connect any animated media back to one prolific voice actor. This week, Katie and Scarlett showcase Frank Welker, the voice of some of your favorite cartoon dogs and lovable dimwits.

This week, Katie introduces Scarlett to the wild world of Czech cinema and it’s delightfully creepy use of puppetry and stop-motion animation with Alice, a 1988 film based on the classic Lewis Carroll novel. Join us for this truly an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole!

This episode was a long time coming…much like Season 4 of the series we’re talking about this week: Netflix’s The Dragon Prince! Join the Ani-Mates as they discuss great representation in modern cartoons, the legacy of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and how literally everything can be discussed in DnD terms.

This week, Scarlett has asked your favorite cartoon characters what their New Year’s Resolutions are and Katie will try to guess which resolution was made by which character. Because Scarlett’s New Year’s Resolution is to make this show more difficult for Katie.

In this episode of The Cartoon Time Machine, Katie is left alone by Scarlett and decides to briefly run you all through a good number of the new animated releases for 2023 (film and television). Hop on in and look into the future of animation to see what you might want to look forward to.

All Aboard the Polar Express! This week, the Ani-Mates trade their Cartoon Time Machine for another magical transportation device as they talk about this motion-capture animated Christmas film. Is it as traumatizing as Katie remembers? Will Scarlett work out her childhood Santa-related angst? Find your seat, punch your ticket, take your motion-sickness pills and come along for the ride!

On this week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine, it’s time for another edition of “Katie Watches Disney”, where Scarlett shows Katie the animated Disney movies that they’ve somehow avoided watching for all these years. This week, it’s time for Katie to finally see 2013’s mega-hit Frozen. Will it live up to the hype? Or is it better to just let it go?

As the holiday season approaches, everyone is scrambling to get gifts for each other…including your favorite cartoon characters! Join the Ani-Mates as they throw your favorite characters into a Secret Santa gift exchange and see what chaos ensues as they try to find the perfect presents.

The holidays are officially upon us! So what better way to celebrate than with the ultimate holiday movie…in that no one can quite agree on which holiday this movie is for! That’s right, we’re finally doing a full episode on Tim Burton’s (or really, Henry Selick’s) Nightmare Before Christmas!

Katie is out this week, so Scarlett welcomes back to the show our producer Rachel! She and Scarlett caught a early screening of Guillermo Del Toro’s new stop-motion animated film, Pinocchio, and give their spoiler-free review of the movie before it arrives on Netflix next month.

Scarlett is under the weather, which means it’s time for your classic Sick Day! Join the Ani-Mates as they bring the Cartoon Time Machine back to the sick days of our childhoods and all the daytime cartoons that helped us feel better during them.

Scarlett returns to the Cartoon Time Machine, just in time to discuss the new stop-motion animation film by director Henry Slick, Wendell & Wild.

This week on the Cartoon Time Machine: one of the Ani-mates goes on vacation so the only correct response is to throw a rager... a critical role rager. Hop into the time machine with several guests to discuss thoughts, wants, and worries about Legend of Vox Machina season 2 (and season 3).

On this Creator Spotlight episode, the Ani-Mates discuss legendary stop-motion filmmaker Henry Selick, in honor of his latest animated film Wendell & Wild.

Halloween month continues as the Ani-Mates discuss the first season of the Disney animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee! Join in the spooky fun as they talk about curses, friendship, Jewish representation, and why middle school is basically the worst time to be alive.

Scarlett takes the wheel of the Cartoon Time Machine to talk about one of her favorite childhood specials, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School! Will this spooky classic live up to the nostalgia? Do ghouls just wanna have fun?

It’s our 100th Episode! To celebrate this milestone, the Ani-Mates welcome guest hosts Beth and Caleb to talk about one of the greatest animated series of all time, Gravity Falls! Join us as we laugh, cry, and uncover the mysteries of the universe by discussing this amazing show and how much it means to all of us.

Ever see a live action movie and think, “Well that was pretty good, but you know what would make it BETTER? If it was a cartoon!”? Well, if you have, then this week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine is for you! Join the Ani-Mates as they discuss which live-action movies are most deserving of an animated series spinoff.

This week, the Ani-Mates are traveling back in time to their childhood and their favorite bedtime stories, picture books, and unnecessarily intense chapter book series and discussing which of these children’s classics deserves its own animated movie or series. Climb aboard the Cartoon Time Machine for this nostalgia fueled episode as Katie gets way too deep into Warrior Cats lore and Scarlett ramb...

What is it about cartoons that make us love to hate a character? From Elmer Fudd to Eric Cartman, this week the Ani-Mates discuss the best of the worst, the characters who are just so darn likable we want to watch them fail over and over again.

This week’s episode of Cartoon Time Machine is a royal affair as the Ani-Mates reflect on animation’s notable Kings and Queens, Princes and…you know what, it’s mostly Princesses. Tune in to find out how many Disney Princess movies Katie has actually seen! Hint: it’s not a lot.