What A Cartoon!

In the year of the wonderous webcrawler's return to the Spider-Verse, we're also returning to his classic Saturday morning TV series for the second half of the epic two-parter meeting mutants. Yes, we're returning to the second season of the 1994 Spider-Man Animated Series for his crossover with the X-Men, which has origins in both comic books and newspaper pages. Learn all about that, Henry's lov...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1998's A Bug's Life! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A Cart...

What if Everything Everywhere All at Once starred a foul-mouthed, perverted, yellow duck? We've all kept ourselves up at night mulling over that question, ignorant of the fact that Duckman answered it in 1996! On this episode of What A Cartoon, join us as we dip back into Duckman and explore "The Once and Future Duck," a season three episode that shows how high-concept this short-lived USA series...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2004's The Incredibles! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A C...

This month's subject is long overdue, as we're covering one of the biggest toy commercials/cartoons of the 1980s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Your hosts were the exact demographic this 1987 show was aimed at, so we have tons of pizza-powered memories of the green machine as we go over the history of the first miniseries while watching one of the best-looking episodes of the original run. All tha...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2019's Toy Story 4! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A Carto...

Thanks to the generous patronage of Andrew, we're taking another look at American Dad! Back in 2018, we covered an episode from one of the earlier seasons, but this time around, our subject matter hails from season 19 of this enduring animated sitcom. If you haven't checked in on American Dad since it moved to TBS nearly a decade ago, you might be surprised by just how strange and experimental it'...

Our most recent live-action April Fools reaches its end on the Talking Simpsons Network , which means we've got an awesome podcast about another non-animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers will hear us talk about 1986's Little Shop of Horrors (The Director's Cut)! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10...

April has arrived, spring has sprung, and it's once again time to cover a live-action subject on the What A Cartoon podcast. And this time around, we're digging into the oft-referenced but never-fully-discussed sketch series, Mr. Show with Bob and David. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross might be renowned comic (and at times, dramatic) superstars in our current era, but back in 1995, they were scrappy...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2000's Chicken Run! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A Carto...

Chosen by premium patron ToonJay, we're covering one of the most influential toons from the start of the millennium: Invader ZIM! We go into the seemingly impossible circumstances that led a 22-year-old Jhonen Vasquez to make a Nicktoon, how 9/11 and Columbine affected it, and how it got a second life after cancelation! Then we dig into two of its best episodes, one about time-traveling pigs and t...

A superheroic month of podcasting comes to a close on the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got an awesome podcast about another animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1997's TV movie Batman/Superman: World's Finest! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to he...

We're up, up, and away with this pair of Superman classics chosen by premium patron Devin! Yes, we are going all the way back to the golden age of animation to discuss our first Fleischer Studios series on the podcast, so we go deep into the history of those creators as well as the creators of Superman. Then we take a look at two of the best action cartoons of all time (which are also in the publi...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1941's Dumbo! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A Cartoon Mov...

Happy new year! As we podcasters wrap up our holiday break, we're taking a week off from Simpsons to give you listeners a special treat: FIVE HOURS of Disney Renaissance chat! In case you didn't know, each month we do a premium podcast, What A Cartoon Movie , for our $10 Patreon subscribers , and now we're giving everyone a taste of the massive animation podcast fun we have each month. So to provi...

The Talking Simpsons Network is taking a week off for the holiday season, so to fill the content gap, we've decided to post an episode of our Patreon-exclusive TalKing of the Hill podcast miniseries! If you like this episode and want to hear the rest (with more to come every month), head over to Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and sign up at the $5 level. Once you do, you'll have immediate access to a...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2003's classic, Tokyo Godfathers! Listen now to this free extended preview of Satoshi Kon's holiday movie, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the who...

The world can never get enough Sam and Max. Despite existing in fits and starts—an indie comic here, an adventure game there—Steve Purcell's dog and rabbit duo have never truly left us over the past 35 years. Heck, they just starred in a 2021 adventure game! But the characters' biggest brush with fame came in the form of a one-season Fox Kids' cartoon that, despite its budget and intended audience...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2012's ParaNorman! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our previous What A Cartoo...

Hey folks, we've got a new exclusive miniseries for all of our $5 and up subscribers at  Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons ! Every Friday through the end of 2022, we'll be launching a brand-new episode of  Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series Season 2—which will cover our eight (additional) favorite episodes of this legendary cartoon. And if you're curious as to what this Patreon-exclusive miniseri...

Thanks to premium patron Jason, we're covering our first-ever Disney Channel original, Kim Possible! We travel back 20 years to the age of beepers--when things were or weren't "the drama" as we dig into the adventures of Kim, Ron, Sheego, and the rest. Learn how the series was created, what the stars are doing now, and follow along as we discuss the season one episode Kimitation Nation. That's the...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us deep into one of the most 1980s-style films ever, The Transformers The Movie from 1986! Listen now to this free extended preview about the toy toon, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current...

This week, it's time to believe in the podcast that believes in you! Thanks to premium patron Devin, we're finally taking a look at Gurren Lagann: the late '00s anime sensation that's also the first series directed by future Studio Trigger co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi. Listen in as we explore this anti-Evangelion and its big, stupid robots, crazy bursts of animation, and stirring speeches—basically...

Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2022's Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of...

Now that we covered Garfield's Halloween toon in 2018 , A Garfield Christmas in 2020 , and Garfield's Thanksgiving in 2021 , it's now time to complete the tale with the hit Saturday morning toon, Garfield And Friends! Learn how Mark Evanier, Jim Davis, Phil Roman, and many others adapted the fat feline for seven years and 121 episodes from 1988 to 1994. Then, we dig deep into an episode full of me...