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A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

A podcast where two obsessive lovers of 1980s newspaper comics discuss said comics and the 1980s animated specials based on them.

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01:02:15

A Special Presentation 220: It's Magic, Charlie Brown!

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2023/12/18

In this episode, we look at the Peanuts special that's so normal that it's weird. Snoopy learns to do witchcraft and damns Charlie Brown to a living hell of invisibility. Also, Charlie Brown kicks the football??????!??!?!

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01:17:22

A Special Presentation 219: Garfield in the Rough

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2023/12/11

What happens when everyone's favorite fat cat goes camping and encounters an escaped panther from the zoo? Well, that's pretty much it. Join us as we look at one of the lesser Garfield specials, we were gonna talk about "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!", the snoopy special with which it was originally paired, but we got too distracted talking about commercials for McDonalds and the concept of cable TV.

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01:22:49

A Special Presentation 218: Mandrake (1979)

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2023/12/04

Mandrake the Magician has, for some reason, not made the jump to the big screen in this latest round of superhero mania, but the globe-trotting crime-fighting magician of the comics page has so much potential that we can’t help but imagine a much better movie than we got with the sole Mandrake film adaptation: this 1979 made-for-TV lost dud starring Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch and James Hong from everything that James Hong has ever been in.

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01:37:16

A Special Presentation 217: Tubby the Tuba

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2023/11/27

It's after Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for everyone's favorite Thanksgiving special -- Tubby the Tuba! You know Tubby the Tuba, right? You will soon! Join us for this look at everyone's favorite opera for tiny tots about a tuba who joins the circus and also goes to adopt an orphan melody and there's a frog. This all seemed like a really good idea in the early 70s! The important thing to remember is that Pixar was NOT involved.

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00:49:56

A Special Presentation 216: Garfield the Movie [2 of 2]

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2023/11/20

The fat orange cat finally got his big screen debut in 2004 with Garfield the Movie, the culmination of Jim Davis' long-time dream to see Garfield in theaters. Was it everything that it was cracked up to be? Why on earth did they CG Garfield but not Odie? We answer the big questions as we try to wrap our heads around the dumbest studio decision in film history.

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01:00:22

A Special Presentation 215: Garfield the Movie [1 of 2]

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2023/11/13

The fat orange cat finally got his big screen debut in 2004 with Garfield the Movie, the culmination of Jim Davis' long-time dream to see Garfield in theaters. Was it everything that it was cracked up to be? Why on earth did they CG Garfield but not Odie? We answer the big questions as we try to wrap our heads around the dumbest studio decision in film history.

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02:18:58

A Special Presentation 214: Raggedy Ann & Andy...

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2023/11/06

What was the movie that traumatized you as a kid? For Mike it was a movie that was once so rarely aired it was rumored not to exist, but its recent rediscovery on YouTube has brought its wonderful, egregiously over-animated horror into thousands of unsuspecting households. Join us this week for some exposure therapy, as Ethan and Glumdrop (co-authors of Joy Traveler, the sci-fi creepypasta novel you probably still haven’t read) hold Mike’s hands and pet him gently as we work our way through the

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02:14:44

A Special Presentation 213: Halloween 4-Ever!

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2023/10/30

It wouldn’t be a spooky Halloween without a spooky podcast where we watch terrifying eldritch cartoons! This year we’ve got Jack O’ Lantern (1972), Fat Albert’s Halloween Special (1977), and Mad Scientist (1988), plus an assortment of short subjects that features the work of animation pioneer Ub Iwerks. Now YOU tell one!

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01:57:38

A Special Presentation 212: It Was a Short Summer,...

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2023/10/23

We're back on our Peanuts bullshit! Today we look at TWO, yes, TWO, Peanuts specials that are so slight you might not even believe they were actually specials! Come for Peanuts, stay for tales of bible camp, vampire monkeys, and anime dog fart pranks!

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01:26:02

A Special Presentation 211: Blondie's Blessed Event

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2023/10/16

Between 1938 and 1950, they released 25 Blondie movies -- 4 in 1942 alone!!! This week we look at a random one, Blondie's Blessed Event -- which brings us both the birth of Cookie and also the big screen debut of Hans Conried!

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00:54:55

A Special Presentation 210: Dick Tracy w/ Morbiose [2...

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2023/10/09

We're back on our Dick Tracy bullshit! This week, our good friend Morbiose joins us to talk about the 1990 Dick Tracy movie, starring Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, and a whole host of A list actors disguised under several hundred pounds each of foam rubber.

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01:01:48

A Special Presentation 209: Dick Tracy w/ Morbiose [1...

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2023/10/02

We're back on our Dick Tracy bullshit! This week, our good friend Morbiose joins us to talk about the 1990 Dick Tracy movie, starring Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, and a whole host of A list actors disguised under several hundred pounds each of foam rubber.

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01:09:21

A Special Presentation 208: Garfield Originals

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2023/09/25

There's a new Garfield show out and it's made exclusively for the French Internet, but if you love algorithm-friendly gray content slurry then you're gonna love... this ersatz Garfield stuff.

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01:34:52

A Special Presentation 207: The Dick Tracy Show (2 of 2)

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2023/09/18

DickTracy was adapted to the small screen in the early 1960s and you know what that means: lots and lots of racism!! The Dick Tracy Show featured remarkably little Dick Tracy but lots and lots of racism. It has... not aged well. But you know what will always be in style? Two white guys talking about racism. Enjoy!

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01:01:28

A Special Presentation 206: The Dick Tracy Show (1 of 2)

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2023/09/11

Dick Tracy was adapted to the small screen in the early 1960s and you know what that means: lots and lots of racism!! The Dick Tracy Show featured remarkably little Dick Tracy but lots and lots of racism. It has... not aged well. But you know what will always be in style? Two white guys talking about racism. Enjoy!

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01:27:15

A Special Presentation 205: Fearless Fosdick

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2023/09/04

Fearless Fosdick is a comic-within-a-comic from Lil' A bner -- this Dick Tracy parody was ostensibly Lil' Abner's favorite comic, but it was really just an excuse for Al Capp to goof on Dick Tracy. Fearless Fosdick was popular enough in his own right to get adapted into a puppet show... and if anything, this show proved that everything is more fun with puppets!

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01:48:09

A Special Presentation 204: Crayon Shin-chan: The...

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2023/08/28

Friend of the pod Steph Cherrywell joins us to talk about Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back, one of the bazillion Crayon Shin-Chan movies and the one to greet the new millennium with a surprisingly heart-felt mediation on the seductive and destructive powers of nostalgia. Somehow how poignant when we're living in 2023, the year that all the suddenly middle-aged Xers got weirdly obsessively fascistically nostalgic and also decided that their childhood has been

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01:02:27

A Special Presentation 203: The Big Stuffed Dog

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2023/08/21

It's another Charles Schultz oddity... about a giant Snoopy plush that is never identified as Snoopy. He's just The Big Stuffed Dog. When a whiny little kid is separated from his dog that he loves so much he never bothered to name it, said plush goes on a series of melancholy and pointless adventures. It's The Big Stuffed Dog on NBC!

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00:54:56

A Special Presentation 202: Here Comes Natefield (2...

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2023/08/14

We're back on our bullshit with another look at Nathan Mazri, the legendary entergagpreneur behind Garfield Eats. This week, we talk about Nathan's newest venture: a three episode podcast called Natefield that is "sponsored" by his "app" Egeez. Also a large digression about racist food.

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01:17:02

A Special Presentation 201: Here Comes Natefield (1...

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2023/08/07

We're back on our bullshit with another look at Nathan Mazri, the legendary entergagpreneur behind Garfield Eats. This week, we talk about Nathan's newest venture: a three episode podcast called Natefield that is "sponsored" by his "app" Egeez. Also a large digression about racist food.

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