Old School Lane

In this episode of Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats, Arun and Patricia concludes Tim Burton Month with looking back at the 2005 stop motion animated film Corpse Bride. Based on a Jewish folktale named The Finger, Corpse Bride takes place in a Victorian town in England where a young man named Victor, the son of fishmongers, is arranged to being married to the daughter of an aristocratic family named Vic...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Paul "Gunterfan1992" Thomas discuss about the 2023 animated series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, the third installment of the Adventure Time series. Taking place years after the events of Adventure Time, Simon Petrikov is living as a curator of life around his time over a thousand years before the Mushroom War at Ooo. Not fee...

Arun and Patricia continue Tim Burton Month on Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats with talking about the 1993 stop motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas. In a town filled with monsters, ghouls, ghosts, witches, vampires, and werewolves lives Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and planner of Halloween. He grows bored of the same routines every year and wanders into the woods where he comes a...

Continuing with Tim Burton Month at Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands. Peg Boggs, an Avon saleswoman, discovers a strange human with scissor hands at an abandoned mansion named Edward. Edward's creator had passed away many years prior and had been living alone, so Peg decides to take him home and introduces him to her family and neig...

It's the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company! In this special episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Chris "RowdyC" Moore from TV Trash discuss about their favorite protagonist, sidekick/companion, antagonist, setting, art style/animation, songs/soundtrack, story, favorite film, and more from each of the eras they've covered so far.

In this episode of the Roald Dahl Retrospective, Arun and Patricia talks about 4 shorts exclusive on Netflix written and directed by Wes Anderson, the writer and director of Fantastic Mr. Fox. They are The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, The Rat Catcher, The Swan, and Poison starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Rupert Friend, Richard Ayoade, and Ben Kingsley. The Wonderful Worl...

Old School Lane is going to a spooky direction on Casual Chats this October with Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats. For this year, it's Tim Burton Month. Patricia and Arun starts things off with his second film Beetlejuice released in 1988. Adam and Barbara Maitland, a couple who recently passed away from a car accident, are trying to cope with being ghosts trapped in their house and seeing a new fa...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and Arun from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the 1993 animated series Animaniacs in honor of its 30th anniversary. In 1930 at the Warner Bros. lot, the animation studio Termite Terrace created the Warner Bros. and sister named Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. They created so much chaos that the studio stored away their cartoons in a vault and locked them in the w...

In this special bonus episode of In Search of the Crystal Skull, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2023 film The Little Mermaid, a live action remake of the 1989 animated Disney film of the same name. Ariel, a young mermaid, falls in love with a prince named Eric who lives in the surface. Her father King Triton forbids her from going to the surface and prefers she stays in the ocean with him and...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2016 Blue Sky Studios animated film Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth and final film in the Ice Age franchise. Manny and Ellie's daughter Peaches is about to get married to a young mammoth named Julian and ready to move out, but then an asteroid is about to crash the Earth and destroy everything. It's up to...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2015 Blue Sky Studios animated film The Peanuts Movie based on the Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schultz. Throughout the course of one year, Charlie Brown tries to get the courage to talk to The Little Red Haired Girl, perform well on his school's talent show, write a book report, learn how to dance for the dance...

Today would've been actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director Paul Reubens' 71st birthday. He's best known as his character Pee-wee Herman, but he has done other films and TV shows such as Cheech and Chong: The Next Movie, Nice Dreams, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Matilda, Mystery Men, Blow, Chowder, Adventure Time, Batman: The Brave a...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2014 Blue Sky Studios animated film Rio 2, the sequel to the 2011 film Rio. Three years have passed since Blu and Jewel moved into the bird sanctuary and have three kids. They're living a comfortable domestic life which Jewel disapproves of and wishes to return to the wild. They see on the news that Julia and Tulio...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2013 Blue Sky Studios animated film Epic. Loosely based on the children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce, Epic is about a teenage girl named Mary Katherine who moves in with her father after her mother dies. Her father, a professor who is dedicated to looking for a group of creatures who...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia return to the Ice Age franchise with the 4th installment Ice Age: Continental Drift released in 2012. Taking place years after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Manny and Ellie's daughter Peaches is a teenager who wants to fit in with the other mammoths, but is looked as "weird" because she's half possum. Her friend Lewi...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia discusses about the 2003 Nickelodeon animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot in honor of its 20th anniversary with the team behind Teenage Robot: Rebooted, a project creating a fanmade 4th season of the show, and My Life as a Teenage Robot Fanbase, a group where they praise and recollect their memories of the show. They talk about their introductions of...

In this episode of PixMix, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2023 Pixar animated film Elemental co-written and directed by Peter Sohn, the director behind of the 2015 film The Good Dinosaur. In Element City where plants, water, clouds, and fire reside, a young woman of fire named Ember lives with her parents in Fire Town where they run a store called The Fire Place. They wish for her to take it...

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia bend the rules a bit by discussing about the 2023 animated film Nimona based on the 2015 graphic novel by N.D. Stevenson. A commoner named Ballister Boldheart is being knighted in the Institute for Elite Knights where ordinarily people who are descendants of royalty from Queen Glorith would be chosen. Things go horribly wrong when he is...

In this episode of PixMix, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2021 Pixar miniseries Dug Days based on the 2009 film Up. Taking place after the events of Up, Carl Frederickson and Dug the dog settle in a new home after selling Charles Muntz's blimp. Dug is learning about being a domesticated dog for the first time dealing with puppies, strange smells, birds, and squirrels. This would be the la...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about their memories growing up playing with the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo by looking through Arun's game collection.

It is the 30th anniversary of the 1993 Nickelodeon variety show Weinerville. In honor of the occasion, the cast and crew of the series come together to recollect on their memories of working on the show, answering fan questions, and other fun surprises. Cast and crew appearing on the livestream consist of: Marc Weiner- Creator, writer, puppeteer of Weinerville. Max Weiner- Singer, song writer, art...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Manny Oramas aka HumbleArtsy, the creator of the Weinerville Wiki page, talk about the 1993 Nickelodeon variety show Weinerville in honor of its 30th anniversary.

In this special episode of the Roald Dahl Retrospective, Arun and Patricia talk about their experience of traveling to Great Missenden, England to visit the Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre as well as looking around the small, quaint village where he wrote his children's books.

In this episode of DreamMachine, Patricia and Arun discuss about the 2022 animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the sequel to the 2011 film Puss in Boots, a spinoff film of the Shrek franchise. Puss is on his 9th and final life and he doesn't take it remotely seriously until Death goes after him and easily defeats him in a sword fight. Puss decides to retire and live in a house filled wi...

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guest Arun Mehta from The Arun Mehta Show discuss about the first season of the 2023 Disney Channel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur based on the Marvel comics of the same name, originally Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby. A young 13 year old girl from Lower East Side, NY named Lunella Lafayette builds and activates a dimen...