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

A tale of two brothers... brothers who love horrible movies, engage in bizarre misadventures, and sound like Salem the Cat and Zim. The Angry Beavers debuted in 1997, with the Nicktoons era in full swing, and proceeded to absolutely annoy the president of Nickelodeon, and then be overshadowed by that pineapple-dwelling fellow two years later. Now, over 20 years later, James introduces Pemmy to thi...

Arguably the last of the successful Scooby-Doo clone shows, Captain Caveman debuted as part of the Scooby's All Stars block and went on for three years worth of adventures with Dee Dee, Brenda and Taffy. Pemmy and James reminisce about this series, it's legacy and how squeezing a cartoon mystery into 11 minutes isn't always the best idea!

After 19 years on television, Lassie's classic series came to a close, and the beloved collie would appear immediately following that in what is objectively the WORST cartoon we've seen for the purposes of this podcast! Filmation turned out a show with boring action, horrendous voice acting, a complete lack of visual continuity in some points, and other decisions that left one of our hosts ready t...

Over about three years, King Features Syndicate TV brought brand new Popeye cartoons to the television market to compete with the syndication of the Paramount theatrical shorts. Two hundred and twenty of these were made in that span of time, featuring work from creators like Jack Kinney, Gene Deitch and Lou Scheimer. There's truly no other Popeye media quite like these, folks; these wild, freewhee...

This month it's all about EC Segar's famous sailor man, who's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach! Popeye, Olive, Wimpy and Bluto feature in some of the finest work Fleischer Studios put out, using physical models for backgrounds, wonderful facial animation, brilliant ad lib dialogue from Jack Mercer and company, and only a very few bits that haven't aged that well. Listen Sesame! ......

With almost 100 years of theatrical shorts, feature length films, TV series and more to draw upon, the Looney Tunes themed podcast That's Not Quite All Folks has a lot to draw from, which makes it a good thing Marc and Jordan are almost never at a loss for words. Pemmy and James invite them to talk underutilized characters, Seven Arts, their favorite episodes of their podcast, and more!

Chuck Jones all but reinvented Daffy Duck when turning him into a deuteragonist opposite Bugs Bunny, and continued this evolution when Daffy took on a wide variety of genres, typically alongside Porky Pig. Westerns? Check. Science Fiction? Check. Swashbuckling Epics? Check. Fourth wall breaking madness?? Check and double check! It's our 20th episode, and there's no better little black duck to spen...

Long story short, we're taking some time off while one of us sorts out medical issues. We will return!

Sufferin' Succotash! We finally return to the world of theatrical short subjects with a look at Warner's clownish cat of many, many, MANY lives! Sylvester may be best known for being paired with Tweety Bird or Speedy Gonzalez, but past those roles he's been all over the place being pummeled by dogs and kangaroos, singing on fences and fearing for his life opposite some of Termite Terrace's spookie...

Scooby Mania meant networks wanted more teens solving mysteries, and Hanna-Barbera were happy to oblige with many, many shows over the course of the 1970s that tried to recapture the success of the Meddling Kids formula. Clue Club was one right in the middle of the road of this trend in terms of storytelling quality, and our hosts wind up mildly split on it while simultaneously dreading the worse...

Zoinks! It's the single most popular TV cartoon franchise to ever come from Saturday Morning! It's a Great Dane and four teenagers in pursuit of people in ridiculous costumes! Scooby Doo and the Mystery Inc gang have teamed up with celebrities, matched wits with every monster you can think of, and endured the indignity of working with a kid named Flim-Flam, and it all began with this 1969 producti...

What could be more appropriate for Halloween than a cartoon starring a vampire, a werewolf, and a Frankenstein's monster? Except the Drak Pack isn't especially spooky, more in line with the comedy-adventure shows Hanna-Barbera had been making for over a decade by this point. It's goofy, more than a little hokey, and made mostly watchable by some genuinely fun voice acting. So whack "play" on this...

Capcom's imaginative, visually striking fighting game series comes to syndication courtesy of Graz Entertainment. It's not good. At all. In fact this is by far the worst cartoon we've reviewed on this podcast so far, and that's AFTER James removes his bias against what they did to one of his all time favorite video game characters here. Hopefully the end result of this podcast is worth the pain we...

Take a snickering shaggy dog blended with a mild mannered TV detective, add some cartoon villains who are over the top even by Saturday morning standards, and let them do battle for about seven minutes a week, and you get this Hanna-Barbera semi-classic! Before Mumbly joined the ambitious crossover Laff-a-Lympics, he made a name for himself amidst reruns of Tom & Jerry and Grape Ape cartoons....

It had to happen eventually, and with two of the American voice actors coming to the convention we're affiliated, now was the best time to look at the original animated adaptation of Akira Toriyama's inescapable action franchise. Specifically we dive into the first two episodes, establishing the unusual start of the friendship between Goku and Bulma, and the plotting of Emperor Pilaf. Our wish is...

CH Greenblatt presents Jellystone! A perfectly calm, coherent and pedestrian cartoon where nothing ever gets destroyed and nobody does anything remotely insane. Nope... not at all... you're not buying it, are you? Seriously, the Hanna-Barbera characters make their triumphant return in this HBO Max series and our hosts couldn't be happier.

He's the chief, he's the king but above everything he... bombed in prime time?! Given the lasting legacy of Top Cat and his crew, which includes multiple appearances in other HB shows, a pair of feature films in Mexico and South America, and much more, it's a surprise his original run was only one season. Pemmy and James explore why this series has endured for as long as it has thanks to brilliant...

Putty Puss, Mussel Mutt, Ding Dog, Rhubarb, Sparkplug and Stutts. This Saturday morning toon's basically forgotten, and that's kinda rough! When WB vets Friz Freleng and Bob McKimson team up with Scooby Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, they came up with this series best explained as Top Cat meets Mission Impossible in the late Wild West period. While the gadgets are sometimes contrived, the s...

Don Bluth's laserdisc games helped keep arcades interesting for just long enough while the console side of video games was going bust, and Ruby Spears capitalized on it with the Saturday Supercade series on CBS. Space Ace was one of seven total games adapted into this anthology series, and it's... not great. It's a mild sight better than some of the other shows on it, sadly. Special thanks to Kris...

The boys and girls of Termite Terrace created hundreds of memorable cartoons, giving life to characters who are a part of our history and heritage. Even characters like these in today's podcast, who only had one appearance to their name during the run from 1933 to 1964. Guest Billy D'Ettorre joins us as we look at the one hit wonders "Horton Hatches the Egg," "The Dover Boys at Pimento University,...

"Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, on the P&J show!" Imagine some of the crazy things we'd see in the cartoon we covered last time (Wacky Races) played completely seriously, except hampered by one of the wildest Japanese-to-English dubs ever outside of the likes of Prince of Space, and that comparison is NOT a coincidence! It's our first foray into anime, folks, and we hope you enjoy it....

And away they go! Two of the least daredevil daffy... umm... there's nothing alliterative that describes podcast hosts. So much for that gag. As you're about to hear, Pemmy and James LOVE the Wacky Races cartoon and much of its legacy which rings through Hanna-Barbera's work following its run on CBS. And much of it is due to a mustachioed do-badder and his snickering shag rug of a dog sidekick. 

Boldly going where no TV series had gone for roughly three or four years, Filmation and Paramount reunited Gene Roddenberry, DC Fontana, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and much of the rest of the Star Trek team for this two season Saturday morning production. We've got "sterile" Tribbles and angry serpentine would-be-Gods aplenty, with special guest Christopher Frank to boot!

Practically falling into the laps of Friz Freleng and David DePatie, the Pink Panther was the brainchild of Blake Edwards and gave theatrical short subject cartoons one last grand hurrah before disappearing into the realm of being financially unviable. Cooler than the entire cucumber section of a grocery store on the North Pole, the Panther would wage wits with the Little Man and more often than n...

Take equal parts Star Wars and Conan, dash in some Mad Max for flavor, and you get one of the most stylish cartoons to ever come out of Ruby Spears! Thundarrr, Ariel and Ookla quest across the world to free oppressed people from power mad wizards across twenty one episodes. With outrageous antagonists designed by Jack Kirby, and glorious illustrated backgrounds, this series was truly ahead of its...