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

Before Smash Brothers, before any of the Capcom crossover fighting games, before just about any significant gaming crossover, there was a humble little cartoon on NBC called Captain N. DiC let kids live vicariously through Kevin Keene as he's sucked into the worlds of Mega Man, Metroid, Castlevania and more... except a LOT was changed in the translation from cartridge to cartoon. Krissi Harding re...

50 Episodes?? YABBA-DABBA-DOO!!! As massive Hanna Barbera nuts, Pemmy and James couldn't think of a better show to watch for this little milestone than their most successful foray into prime time television. The Flintstones ran a solid six seasons with the brilliant voice acting of Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet and Mel Blanc at the helm, cementing Hanna Barbera as a force in entertainm...

Pemmy and James wonder if the makers of the original Highlander movie expected anything like this to be spun off from it: a cartoon set 700 years after the apocalypse, where the Immortals give up killing each other except for one malcontent named Kortan. Still, there's prophecy, Macleods, swordplay and some remarkably done backgrounds in this animated series that in many ways feels like a product...

Great Scott! The very first original cartoon series from Universal's then newly minted animation firm was a direct follow up to the Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale-helmed movie trilogy. Except... not precisely. The series isn't considered canonical to the films, and looking at these episodes there's any number of potentially valid reasons why. So head back in time with us to the radical 90s as we see...

Underwater adventures! A teenage rock band! Exotic monsters! And best of all, a talking shark! How could Jabberjaw possibly be bad?! Well, there was the fact that the writers at Hanna Barbera have been going to the same "teenage mystery/adventure" well for seven years now and it was starting to dry up. Despite this, Jabberjaw remains one of the company's more memorable characters, and this week we...

Arguably one of the most popular series of shorts DePatie-Freling put together that's not directly tied to the Pink Panther film franchise, a debonair ant is perpetually pursued by a back-talking aardvark. What separated this from other chase cartoons? SASS. So much SASS. That and a really catchy soundtrack from Doug Goodwin! 

Daffy was most frequently at his Daffiest under the directorial vision of Bob Clampett. The rubbery animation and wild, exaggerated takes he employed made the screwy duck probably his most effective character to express his individual sense of what was funny. Pemmy and James explore one of Bob's earlier Daffy cartoons co-starring with Porky Pig in Porky's Last Stand, before diving into a trio of B...

Hey kids! It's a fresh syndicated start that'll warm anyone's heart! Well, at least it'll make it laugh. Yogi's Treasure Hunt was a key part of the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block of shows, bringing the first generation of funny animal characters back to form and returning Dastardly and Muttley to the company after a rights dispute. It started modestly, but ended with some of the most unusu...

We've had a lot to say about Hanna-Barbera's meddling kids style shows of the 1970s, but what of the properties that made them a household name in the first place? The best place to start is by packing this pic-a-nic podcast for a trip down to scenic Jellystone Park for a look at one of their most popular characters, Yogi Bear! With 2 shorts from his time as part of the Huckleberry Hound Show and...

With Wrestlemania just coming around the corner, Pemmy and James are joined by the Uncharted Territory's podcast's own Chad Olson to turn back the clock to the era of the very first Wrestlemania and the WWF's quest to broaden their audience. Partnering with DiC, we got cartoonish exaggerations of personalities who were themselves already larger than life and sometimes very un-PC, and some of the w...

Break out the varied polyhedral dice, it's time to revisit the first major piece of D&D related media ahead of the big movie coming out at the end of the month! Six kids get stranded in a non-specific realm loaded with D&D beasties via an amusement park ride, and regularly match wits with the ruthless (and not very wise, just look at his stat sheet) Venger. It racked up a solid three seaso...

Podcast listeners, Transform and ROLL OUT! No other boys toy line to get a cartoon in the 1980s seems to have had nearly the longevity that the Transformers have had. The mix of science fantasy, boisterous characters and imaginative designs just clicked into place like a well built Leader Class toy, in spite of all the wild animation errors and goofy scripts. So what was the secret? Pemmy and Jame...

JAWBREAKERS!! They were the odd ducks of Cartoon Network's first real burst of original programming. The brainchildren of Danny Antonucci, Ed, Edd & Eddy's misadventures in their cul-de-sac usually ended in pain and humiliation in equal measure. The unique animation and bizarre slant on the kids' slice of life format made it a sleeper hit that ran for 10 years with new episodes on and off for...

Room-a-zoom-zoom! The Josie variation of the Scooby Doo mold is put into action on the race track as Speed Buggy adds elements of Speed Racer and the Love Bug into the mix. Is Tinker the most unlikely mechanical genius out there? Is Debbie the most underrated female character in Hanna Barbera's library? Can James withstand the sheer number of times relationships of space and volume are plain old i...

From her roots as Dan DeCarlo's creation named after his wife, Josie McCoy's eight year journey from comic books to cartoons took some interesting turns before she and the Pussycats even hit the airwaves. Once they did, their show was somehow more than the sum of its parts, and sits alongside the likes of Top Cat and Wacky Races as one of Hanna Barbera's best single season efforts. So come on and...

The holiday season is wrapping up, and as Krissi Harding helps Pemmy and James warm up from their misadventure, they enjoy a look back at two more vintage Christmas specials. A Garfield Christmas and A Claymation Christmas Celebration both debuted on CBS on December 21st of 1987, making them natural fits to review together, and possibly set the stage for some of the subjects we're planning on tack...

The weather outside is frightful, but the podcast is so delightful, and... ummm... yeah, I can't finish the lyric. Seriously, folks, a lot of what we've been looking at this fall has pointed us to this very Christmas special, one of the four most well known of its ilk. It's a tale of the consequences of bullying, of misfit toys and oddball prospectors, and a truly memorable performance by Burl Ive...

Due to scheduling conflicts, the Ed Edd & Eddy episode is delayed and to maintain our schedule we're breaking the glass on this emergency fill-in episode. If you've listened to this for any length of time, you probably noticed we tend to refer to this big old list of shows, shorts and eventually movies we want to look at. So here's a behind the scenes look at Pemmy and James going over what ca...

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, in a cartoon made as cheap as they can. Pemmy and James are joined by Kylepedia to look at the very first cartoon starring Marvel Comics' most iconic hero of them all. It's a debut that gave us Dr. Octopus' ever-changing haircut, a propeller boat made entirely of webs, and that theme song that hasn't left the public consciousness since the show debuted. 'Nuff Said.

We're putting on the nonsense, and realizing that perhaps it's too much for even us! Pemmy and James look at this Rankin Bass production animated by British group Halas and Batchelor Studios which adapted the works of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash and many more. It's limericks, riddles, puns and poems with a Laugh-In format, a goofy cast of jokesters and not a lot of structure, making it...

When Fred Silverman wanted more Scooby, he sure got it! These hour length episodes cemented the great dane and the Mystery Inc crew in the pop culture firmament by pairing them with the likes of Batman, the Three Stooges, Sonny and Cher and many more. Since Halloween is coming up, though, Pemmy and James thought it most appropriate to revisit their episode with the Addams Family, which coincidenta...

What scares a notorious chicken-heart like James Irish more than the classic horror tropes? Absolutely wretched cartoons like Quacula, which was introduced to him by Pembroke W. Korgi. James swore revenge soon after. Seriously, the B-Feature in the ABA format for the Heckle and Jeckle revival on CBS is proof that even Frank Welker can only elevate bottom of the barrel material by so much. Also thi...

Scheimer and Prescott get their hands on the Terrytoons characters and turn out one of the most random, fast paced productions of the 1970s. Is it any good? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh... not really, but it is still strangely enjoyable, at least to Pemmy. We break down this bonkers show in our easily imitated fashion!

Identical characters distinguished only by their voices, Heckle and Jeckle joined the ranks of cartoon trickster royalty courtesy of Paul Terry's production unit, distributed by 20th Century Fox. They were some of the most critically lauded shorts that studio ever made, but have they aged as well as, say, the Looney Tunes or MGM's Tex Avery shorts? Pemmy and James look at two of the best of the bu...

Rankin Bass, purveyors of stop motion holiday specials and mid 80s action shows, dipped their toes in the Saturday morning scene for a spell in the late 60s and early 70s, with this particular show hitting right in the middle of that period. Featuring character designs by Paul Coker inspired by the books by Kenneth Grahame, the adventures of Tobias the Dragon and Mr. Toad would have fit in perfect...