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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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01:08:49

A Special Presentation 180: Dear Mr Watterson [2 of 2]

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2023/03/13

Everyone loves Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip that everyone loves! Bill Watterson is famously reclusive, so he doesn't appear in this documentary which delivers approximately 0 new information but still manages to feel worthwhile.

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01:01:25

A Special Presentation 179: Dear Mr Watterson [1 of 2]

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2023/03/07

Everyone loves Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip that everyone loves! Bill Watterson is famously reclusive, so he doesn't appear in this documentary which delivers approximately 0 new information but still manages to feel worthwhile.

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01:49:12

A Special Presentation 178: Garfield and Friends

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2023/02/27

We talk about the history of Garfield and Friends, including the born-on-third-base story of US Acres, but then we digress into talking about Bill Watterson's comic opinions and the Garfield musical. And other stuff. We all miss Lorenzo Music and also... Thom Huge! Did you know it's pronounced Hoogie? Who knew???

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01:14:25

A Special Presentation 177: Heathcliff aka Cats and Co

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2023/02/20

All children of the 80s remember Heathcliff! Or, at least, they remember this version: the one where's he's paired with the Cadillac Cats. Heathcliff was originally a comic strip but the Cadillac Cats are a wholly original invention of this series... do they hold up? Are they a worthy pairing with Heathcliff? It turns out... not so much. Some REAL spicy hot takes about Riff Raff in this one, folks! Prepare yourselves!

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01:04:31

A Special Presentation 176: Heathcliff and Marmaduke

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2023/02/13

Everyone knows Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats, but Heathcliff has a long history of getting paired with random other cartoons for reasons. First they paired him with a bunch of Halloween monsters (???) and of course eventually they paired him with Riff Raff. But between those attempts, Heathcliff shared the screen with another funny pages staple: Marmaduke. Why not?

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01:46:37

A Special Presentation 175: Transformer TV Show &...

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2023/02/06

Ethan has long been recognized as the world's foremost Transformers maniac. This week, he shares with us WHAT makes Transformers transform and proves that, indeed, they are more than meets the eye. Mike encounters Transformers in their native habitat for the first time. We also compare a typical Transformers episode, "The Desertion of the Dinobots," and the show's big screen adaptation Transformers: The Movie (1986).

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00:54:44

A Special Presentation 174: Transformer TV Show &...

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2023/01/30

Ethan has long been recognized as the world's foremost Transformers maniac. This week, he shares with us WHAT makes Transformers transform and proves that, indeed, they are more than meets the eye. Mike encounters Transformers in their native habitat for the first time. We also compare a typical Transformers episode, "The Desertion of the Dinobots," and the show's big screen adaptation Transformers: The Movie (1986). (NOTE: Mike screwed up the audio so that's why it sounds like we're interrupting

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01:08:33

A Special Presentation 173: Peter No Tail (2 of 2)

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2023/01/23

It's Sweden's favorite son, Peter No tail! The story of a cat with no tail and a harrowing parable about the dangerous rise of nazism, Peter No Tail has been a picture book, a comic, a stage play, an asteroid and now... an animated film! Join us for discussions of gormless cats and the confusion about what you call that genre of story featuring rabbits in waistcoats.

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01:11:46

A Special Presentation 172: Peter No Tail (1 of 2)

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2023/01/16

It's Sweden's favorite son, Peter No tail! The story of a cat with no tail and a harrowing parable about the dangerous rise of nazism, Peter No Tail has been a picture book, a comic, a stage play, an asteroid and now... an animated film! Join us for discussions of gormless cats and the confusion about what you call that genre of story featuring rabbits in waistcoats.

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01:05:57

A Special Presentation 171: Happy New Year, Charlie...

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2023/01/09

It's the new year! Welcome to 2023! No flying cars, but, here, have a new episode of A Special Presentation as compensation! This week, Ethan wanted to look at not just the 1986 Peanuts new year special "Happy New Years, Charlie Brown!" but also 1981’s "Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown," because of a certain interesting thematic correlation: Linus being a complete pimp. You can learn more from this excellent video: https://youtu.be/IbHPpTmCgd4

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01:21:42

A Special Presentation 170: Slumberland

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2023/01/02

Netflix made an adaptation of Little Nemo in Slumberland. In that, it's about someone named Nemo and it happens in Slumberland. Jason Momoa stars as Flip (not a racist clown this time) and takes us on a merry adventure through the world of shiny shiny doorknobs!

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02:04:38

Special Presentation: A Very Beary Ugly Sweater Party

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2022/12/26

I ran to the kitchen, what did I see? A Christmas podcast, from Mike and Ethan to ME! Our war on Christmas continues with a five-special marathon, all about Christmas and all involving BEARS! Christmas seems to have a lot more to do with bears than you’d think, huh? Our partygoers are subjected to The Twelve Days of Christmas, Why The Bears Dance At Christmas, Santabear’s High Flying Adventure, Snowden’s Christmas, and even Koopa Klaus is coming to town— with a bear! (The bear is “Captain” Lou

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01:17:49

A Special Presentation 168: Robot Carnival (2 of 2)

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2022/12/19

After looking at Heavy Metal, the adult cartoon for 13 year olds, we look at Robot Carnival, the adult cartoon for adults! It's a feast for the eyes with every kind of robot story that Japan has to offer!

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01:16:50

A Special Presentation 167: Robot Carnival (1 of 2)

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2022/12/12

After looking at Heavy Metal, the adult cartoon for 13 year olds, we look at Robot Carnival, the adult cartoon for adults! It's a feast for the eyes with every kind of robot story that Japan has to offer!

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01:06:08

A Special Presentation 166: Heavy Metal w/ Puppers (2...

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2022/12/05

Heavy Metal magazine, the magazine for everything cool when you're 13, was adapted into a film that's everything cool when you're 13! Mike's old friend Puppers, a connoisseur of both Heavy Metal the magazine and Heavy Metal the movie AND the Heavy Metal's original soundtrack pick Blue Oyster Cult, joins us to ROCK ON!!!

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00:58:59

A Special Presentation 165: Heavy Metal w/ Puppers (1...

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2022/11/28

Heavy Metal magazine, the magazine for everything cool when you're 13, was adapted into a film that's everything cool when you're 13! Mike's old friend Puppers, a connoisseur of both Heavy Metal the magazine and Heavy Metal the movie AND the Heavy Metal's original soundtrack pick Blue Oyster Cult, joins us to ROCK ON!!!

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01:27:04

A Special Presentation 164: Guess the Comic!

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2022/11/21

This week, Ethan found some comics that no longer exist, obscure failures from the backwaters of long ago... can Mike recognize any of these unknowns? Join us for this little guessing game and then stick around for some babble about the comics in the US military newspaper The Stars and Stripes.

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01:14:21

A Special Presentation 163: Annie: A Royal Adventure

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2022/11/14

Can’t get enough Annie? Are you an Annie-maniac, zany to the max? Well, you’re in luck, because they finally made a sequel to the beloved 1982 musical! Except the whole cast is different. And we skipped WWII entirely. And it’s in England. And there’s a mad scientist, a fortune teller, a suspicious man with an eye patch, the Lost Boys, drugged milk, an explosive rocket, a plan to blow up Buckingham Palace, and a plastic substitute that can be used for evil… a lot goes on! And then they sing

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01:03:11

A Special Presentation 162: Felix: The Cat: The...

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2022/11/07

Did you ever watch a movie and think “They should have just published a ‘The Art Of…’ book and not finished the movie”? That’s Felix all over! Although Mike was unable to join for this podcast, he did thankfully cry a magical golden jellybean that summoned Glumdrop, whose bag of tricks includes the webcomic Pizzadventures and the creepypasta novel Joy Traveler, to help Ethan tread water through a sea of really good goobs and remarkably little story continuity.

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01:59:18

Halloween EEKtacular 3: Ghouls, Ghosts & Goblinization

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2022/10/31

BOO! The crowd is back, bigger and spookier than ever! Morbiose, Rocketshark, Poundforpoundcake, Fattyatomicmutant are back, plus first-timer Glumdrop, to once again simulate the beloved post-trick-or-treat tradition of sorting candy on the sofa while you watch a whole night of Halloween specials! We’ve got The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane (1972), Follow That Goblin (1992), Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1972), The Maker (2020), and A Claymation Comedy of Horrors (1988), plus bonus featurette The

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