The Pemmy, Krissi & James Kinda-Sorta-Hopefully Funny Cartoon Podcast

A dozen Mr. Meeseeks' held me (James) at gunpoint until I agreed to do this episode. As if breaking out of an asylum with a dozen loaded weapons, Rick and Morty may not have revolutionized adult-aimed animation, but it sure did revitalize it with its freewheeling style and sheer outlandishness. We look at two of the most famous episodes, Total Rickall and Pickle Rick, and hopefully come to the rig...

With his murderous glare under an unwieldly mop of red hair, Sideshow Bob may never have successfully killed Bart Simpson, but he wound up being the perfect vehicle to illustrate how the series grew within the first five years of its existence on television. After all, the series is now nearly forty years old, and condensing its history into just one podcast episode would drive the guy writing thi...

Returning from the murky waters of primordial network television, it's Time (again) for Beany! Bob Clampett's puppet characters Beany Boy, Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent and their cast returned to ABC in 1962 with a Mattel sponsorship and one of the most pun laden shows this side of one of Jay Ward's fever dreams. Hop aboard the Leakin' Lena with us as they lampoon everything they can get their han...

Humbly beginning as a yukking yokel in an audience, this lanky fellow carved out a tremendous legacy of wild slapstick and expertly timed comedy for a company mostly known for things far more cute and charming. Goofy's short subject cartoons are some of the best work the studio turned out in their heyday, and Pemmy and James take a look at four standouts among the bunch: Mickey's Service Station,...

Get equipped with Podcast Download! Mega Man ditched the green makeover from Captain N and grew up about half a decade in 1994 when Ruby Spears brought the super fighting robot to syndication. The result was a more faithful take on the Blue Bomber but not without quirks. Many, many, MANY quirks, and not all of them good ones. So dust off those old cartridges and come join us!

Call her, beep her, or if you're Disney rely on her to help get over the slump their animation division were in during the early 2000s! Kim Possible made massive waves for the company and helped establish the Disney Channel as a third viable source for first run animation opposite Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. This globetrotting cheerleader garnered four seasons and two made for TV movies, all...

It's the classic boy meets girl story, except complicated by arranged engagements, martial arts mayhem, and a gender bending curse that makes the boy get into romantic trouble from every possible angle. Ranma 1/2 is Rumiko Takahashi's smash hit manga, adapted into anime in 1989 and after a false start in a crummy timeslot it became a massive hit at home in Japan and would help herald bigger things...

Like a bolt from the blue after years of oh so serious Batmen, the Brave and the Bold revived the wilder, sillier elements of the caped crusader and the surrounding DC Comics history. Drawing from material ranging from the golden age up to the most recent iterations of characters like Blue Beetle and the Atom, this is what your hosts would consider "Exhibit A" when making the case that campy does...

With the next Mario movie a little under a week from release, our hosts return to DiC's divisive take on the franchise with the first of two Saturday morning installments they made. The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 took the brothers to a more accurate to the games Mushroom Kingdom, but did it without half the cast of the Super Show and with a massive time crunch for production. It's a wild rid...

Sorry, Mario, but your podcast is in another castle. Or, rather, will have to come out next week due to life interfering with all three hosts at once last week! But we were prepared for just such an emergency by having recorded in advance a sure-fire hit replacement, featuring one of the most durable and enduring comedic duos in animation history, Tweety & Sylvester. Join us as we enjoy all th...

After the vintage feel of What's New and the downright wild Get A Clue, the Scooby Gang dive into arguably the darkest material they've tackled to date. Mystery Incorporated is the high watermark for the franchise in terms of serialized storytelling and genuine stakes, all with a loving eye to what made the whole thing click in the first place and for Hanna-Barbera in general. Fan artist Office An...

Deep within the halls of power of Little Tokyo, a malicious fox- wait, rat, he's a rat in the English version. That's the biggest liberty taken with the original Kyattō Ninden Teyandē when Saban got the rights from Tatsunoko to localize it and wound up without much in the way of scripts, translated or otherwise. The end result is the gag dub to end all gag dubs, somehow even wackier than the alrea...

Alongside flying, what kid doesn't dream of being able to talk to their pets and other animals and they'd talk back? The wish fulfilment premise of The Wild Thornberrys became a launching point for a fun adventure/comedy series and a better than average educational vehicle, too. Having Tim Curry ham it up as an eccentric nature show host certainly helps, too! We finally return to the world of Nick...

What started as an attempt to do a Peppa Pig style show for Australia turned into a global sensation that attracted audiences far beyond the preschool age group it was intended for. Bluey and her family and friends learn as they go and grow, with warm humor and storytelling based on real experiences. Cary Woodham returns to the podcast to take us on a trip to get to know the Healers if not for rea...

Hey folks, here's the story 'bout Betty the Booper, she was a real sweet boop-a-doop-a-dooper. From being an unnamed poodle singer in a supper club to starring in the Fleischer's first color cartoon, animation's fabulous flapper dazzled audiences with her charm and the adorable voices of Mae Questel, Margie Hines and others. As her earliest version entered the public domain a short while ago, we t...

Even if the yule log has stopped burning and the eggnog is all drank up, the holiday cheer doesn't have to end on the 25th, right?? ... work with us here, this is what happens when a regular podcast schedule meets the realities of awkward holiday timing. Bakertoons returns to the podcast to help us check out the final member of the Festive Four, Frosty the Snowman, and the special that took a dysf...

The current era of Disney animated musicals arguably peaked right here, folks. Encanto was a brilliant, heart tugging movie about family bonds and overcoming trauma, filled to the brim with memorable characters and songs. It's been analyzed up and down, left and right, front to back, what could our podcast crew possibly add?? Well, to do it, they went and recruited Northern Belle Rogue, themselves...

She walked so He-Man, My Little Pony, the Transformers and more could run. Strawberry Shortcake, from the pens of Barbi Sargent and Muriel Fahrion for American Greetings, was picked up by Kenner and aimed to be a multimedia smash via televised specials to help promote the character's world and toys on secondary, independent TV channels. Through this six-year journey, surprising connections to Rudo...

He's fearless! Scarless! ... a little too careless. He's Dynomutt, and in 1976 he joined up with Scooby-Doo on the latter's new home on ABC. While Scooby's formula was still mostly working, things were getting a little sillier with the great dane at the same time. Half the show were the Scooby mysteries you knew, and the other half was a very goofy take-off on the formula established by Adam West'...

Dracula! Frankenstein's Monster! The Wolf Man! And this time not in the form of young crime fighters but from Universal, their most famous shepherds, and developed by comics legend Marv Wolfman!! What should have been a surefire thing turned out to be one of the most horrifying horror-themed failures in animation history, especially since Marv wasn't actually writing any of these episodes. We thin...

THIS EPISODE IS NOT FOR KIDS!!! I CANNOT SAY IT ANY MORE PLAINLY THAN THAT!!! I mean, yeah, most of you reading this know that, and that Hazbin Hotel is a uniquely conceived adult-oriented cartoon. The fandom for this series is massive and includes our own Krissi Harding, who picked this show for her birthday selection and introduced it to James and Pemmy. So come join us for a happy day in Hell,...

We turn once more to Fox Kids, the legendary Saturday morning programming block that gave us Bobby's World, X-Men, Eek the Cat, the Tick, and... this show. Piggsburg Pigs, created by Fred Silverman's daughter Melissa and produced by Ruby-Spears, feels like the last gasps of the 70s and 80s style of Saturday morning fare before the revolutionary creator-driven works that would define the decade too...

Heavens to thunderous theatricality! Hanna Barbera's scenery chewing mountain lion finally takes center stage after popping up here and there, and everywhere even! Whether matching wits with Major Minor or just trying to achieve his dreams of stage notoriety, few characters in the company's repertoire were quite as verbose. So don't exit stage left, or any direction, before checking out this episo...

Alternate Title: The Ballad of a Brooklyn Broom Bandit What started as a spat over DuckTales turned into Fox making their own kids entertainment, with an ambitious take on J M Barrie's tale of the boy who never grew up. It's a story of the intricacies of the public domain, schedule slip-ups, ensemble darkhorses and the brilliance of the one and only Tim Curry. We hope we did right by this almost f...

Looks up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a bird in something akin to a plane!! Super Chicken was a project Jay Ward had tried to get to air for over seven years by the time it reached ABC in 1967, when it finally did as part of George of the Jungle. One sip of the super sauce and Henry Cabot Henhouse III fights like a comet! I mean, comets can only fight by crashing into things, so I'm...