x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Cartoon Night in Canada

Chris Luciantonio

We"re on a nostalgic journey to dig through decades of Canadian animation to find the good, the bad, and the just plain weird cartoons of the Great White North. Every week, Sylvie and Chris take a look at an animated something or other from their shared experience of growing up in Canada to see what holds up, what left an impact on us, and what is best left in the past.

tv & film tv reviews

All Episodes

00:57:36

Episode 120 - Rotting Hills

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/11/09

On this fashionably late episode of our Spooktober Celebration, we're packing up and moving out to a zombie apocalypse...localized entirely in a small rural Northern Ontario municipality. Rotting Hills is a cast away from the time Nelvana Animation tried to participate in the animated anthology craze that gave us the 2000s television animation boom with it's FunPak. It's a coming-of-age comedy about living among the living dead that is, if we are being generous, not that well thought out. Rotting

en-ca

00:59:14

Episode 119 - Witch's Night Out (1978)

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/10/19

On this installment of the 2024 Spooktober Celebration, we look back to a forgotten cult classic with an extended, fascinating post-life based on the dedicated work of one super fan. A network special from a bygone era about the true reason of the season - partying and mob justice - we breakdown the fascinating animation and character design on display before going LONG on the attempts to turn this into a franchise forty-five years after the fact. Film covered for the podcast was Witch's Night Out

en-ca

01:13:09

Episode 118 - Martin Mystery "Haunting of the...

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/10/12

Making good on our Spooktober promise to bring back some old favourites, we are taking another look at one of the greatest Canadian produced shows and one of the best examples of introducing the horror genre to kids - Martin Mystery. What other show for kids would attempt a parody of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining? And set it in British Columbia?Episode covered for the podcast is episode 15 "Haunting of the Blackwater." Written by Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliot. Directed by Stephane Berry &

en-ca

01:00:26

Episode 117 - Dark Oracle

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/10/05

Break out those early-2000s haircuts and Hot Topic accessories, it is once again time for our Spooktober Celebration! And to kick it all off, we are taking a look at the scariest thing our country's television industry has ever produced - a mopey, pseudo-gothic live-action teen drama about an evil comic book...that is technically animated. In our most contentious episode to date, Sylvie and Chris check out Dark Oracle on its 20th anniversary - an alleged blend of live-action and animation that is

en-ca

01:04:59

Episode 116 - Kid vs. Kat

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/09/21

On this week's episode, we convince you to get paranoid about your pet cat and how they might be orchestrating your imminent demise with Kid vs. Kat. A deliberate throwback to the classic adversarial Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, we find ourselves talking about what we would call a "modern classic" from Rob Boutilier - the current name behind Apple Tv's Peanuts franchise.Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 12 "House of Scream/Planter's Warp." Written by

en-ca

01:15:01

Episode 115 - Barbie™ of Swan Lake

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/09/14

In the second installment of our new series - The Untitled Barbie Movie Side Series ? or maybe The MFBCU (Mainframe Barbie Cinematic Universe) ? - we are returning to the janky CG Barbieland produced right here in Canada with a classy, 100% faithful Tchaikovsky adaptation. Canadian girls love ballet, Barbie toys, tragedy, and the dulcet tones of Kelsey Grammer, so how could this go wrong?Film covered the podcast is Barbie of Swan Lake. Directed by Owen Hurley. Written by Elana Lesser & Cliff

en-ca

01:14:15

Episode 114 - CanaDUB: The Story of Saiunkoku (Ocean...

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/09/07

We're back! After a long summer hiatus, Chris and Sylvie are back to push their pro-dubbing agenda once more with the latest episode of CanaDUB. While Studio Madhouse's The Story of Saiunkoku is a perfectly competent shōjo romance surrounding court intrigue and economic disparity, the real interesting story can be found in the state of the anime distribution industry at the time. Chris and Sylvie break down the influential ramifications for the industry surrounding the unfortunate release

en-ca

00:58:43

Episode 113 - The Brothers Grunt

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/07/27

On this week's episode, we tackle an ugly little footnote in the career of Ed Edd n' Eddy creator Danny Antonuuci that has been memory-holed from the line-up of MTV Animation. A grotesque gross-out comedy featuring five perpetually pained creatures who tortuously fill your eyes and ears with bad vibes. It's The Brothers Grunt, and it is not what we would call an easy watch."Episodes" covered are Episode 1,2, and 6 "The Ceremony, Make Mine Grunt, and Scrub Me Sammy."

en-ca

01:07:35

Episode 112 - Jane and the Dragon

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/07/20

We are back with a favourite topic of ours we will always go far out of our way to dissect and ramble on - the awkward growing pains of CGI animation. We've entered the mid-2000s and what we are calling CGI's "scene kid years" with Jane and The Dragon. A beloved children's book adapted by two veritable titans of the film industry: our beloved Nelvana with their noted pedigree in CGI animation, and Wētā Workshop who is best known for their work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of

en-ca

00:51:34

Episode 111 - Cybersix "The Eye"

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/07/06

On this week's episode, we are returning to an absolute classic - another steamy monster-of-the-week chapter from Cybersix, a show that burned briefly, but burned brightly to set high standards for television animation and storytelling unseen at the time beyond the likes of Batman: the Animated Series. Will our gender-fluid, leatherclad antifa supersoldier overcome the sociopathic nazi child and his soul-sucking eye creature? Tune in to find out! And as a little bonus, Sylvie takes us down a

en-ca

00:47:48

Episode 110 - NFB Pride Showcase 2024

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/06/29

For our annual celebration of all things queer at the National Film Board of Canada, we have a hell of a double feature for Pride month. You wouldn't think we could pair a hand-drawn, deadpan porno-parody tale of repressed Fox sexuality with a touching, empathetic, clay-on-glass portrait of queer romantic love within the developmentally-disabled community. But we found a way! It's a tonal mishmash of a double-feature - a classic NFB showcase for Pride month. #ToomasDidNothingWrongFilms

en-ca

01:14:55

Episodes 109 - Mysticons

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/06/22

On this week's Pride special, we are taking you back to a dark time for LGBT representation in children's entertainment where the idea of a same-sex kiss was shot down by corporate meddling in the pre-production phase. Ok...maybe not that far back. Back in 2017, a little Nelvana magical girl show could have been one of the first steps forward for moderate representation of LGBT characters. Unfortunately for Mysticons, Nickelodeon was not willing to support the production team's vision

en-ca

01:12:54

Episode 108 - What It's Like Being Alone

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/06/15

On this week's episode, we are stepping into the cutesy goth aesthetic once more with a stop-motion series that we could politely classify as being "inspired" by the works of Tim Burton. A misfit group of unfortunates at a ramshackle orphanage trying desperately to be adopted despite their colourful deformities - you'd think that would lead to a couple of good chuckles over this forlorn found family. You'd be wrong, because What It's Like Being Alone drops the ball in more

en-ca

01:02:51

Episode 107 - Class of the Titans II

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/06/08

On this week's episode, to celebrate the early access release of a Greek mythology inspired roguelite sequel that one host is hooked on, we are taking another look at a wonderful artifact from the 2000s pop culture Greek mythology craze - Class of the Titans. While debating whether or not we've entered into another phase of this phenomenon, we breakdown a classic episode involving bait-and-switch plot twists, the personification of death, will they won't they romance, and Mt. Olympus

en-ca

01:19:38

Episode 106 - Totally Spies!

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/06/01

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie program a fashionably (heh) late Mother's Day episode, and wind up accidentally programming a Pride celebration episode! In the next installment of our big hitter series, just in time for the new reboot season, we are taking look at the flagship series from Marathon Media that blends action, style, and barely disguised fetishes - OMG it's like, Totally Spies!Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 36 "Mommies Dearest." Written by

en-ca

01:11:38

Episode 105 - Camp Candy

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/05/18

Howdy campers! On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie are talking about the strangely lucrative trend of "celebrity vanity cartoons" with one of the most beloved Canadian comedians of all time. John Candy conquered Hollywood in the 1980s, but the '90s brought a new venture - Saturday Morning Environmentally Conscious Cartoons! It's Camp Candy, and if you think John Candy wasn't going to smuggle a bunch of his sketch comedy buddies from SCTV into his big NBC cartoon, you

en-ca

01:06:21

Episode 104 - Wall (2017)

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/05/11

Prompted by the ongoing genocidal campaigns effecting the people of Palestine, Chris and Sylvie decided to tackle an animated documentary from 2017 that endeavored to portray the Israel-West Bank Barrier in a nuanced perspective based on an outsider's perspective. It failed. Miserably. While visually it stuns through a masterful mixing of animation techniques by Alberta based filmmaker Cam Christiansen, as an adaptation of a self-serving, close-minded monologue written by British playwright

en-ca

01:17:07

Episode 103 - CanaDUB: Inuyasha (Ocean Dub)

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/05/04

We are back on our anime bullshit with another all-time classic series that was introduced to us Canadians by a dub produced in Vancouver. It's Rumiko Takahashi's seminal Shonen series Inuyasha, a beloved series that Sylvie and Chris were first introduced to through the YTV anime programing block "Bionix." As with all CanaDUB episodes, we break down the phenomenon of the series, its release in Canada, and the dynamics, performances, and reception of its dubbing produced by the fine

en-ca

01:09:25

Episode 102 - Camp Lakebottom

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/04/20

Howdy Campers! Ever want to spend your summer vacation with some cryptid counsellors and a boundless hyperactive energy?? Then do we have a surprise Canadian entry in the Disney XD lineup for you! It's Camp Lakebottom - a sugar-rush of a throw-everything-at-the-wall camp comedy that gave one of the hosts an ear-splitting headache. Otherwise, it's a fun time! #SasquatchFraserEpisode covered for the podcast was Episode 44 "Fright Club/Bottomdome." Written by Evan Thaler Hickey and

en-ca

01:07:16

Episode 101 - Daft Planet

Cartoon Night in Canada ·

2024/04/13

Like...whatever, it's Daft Planet. On this week's podcast, we are looking back at a time when the vibe of the young generation was blasé, sarcastic, and all-around disaffected, which made it very hard to make cartoons that spoke to them. In the early 2000s, Teletoon tried to court this demographic with a flash-animated, pop culture-obsessed portrait of dispassionate teens who are too cool to care...even about a Requiem for a Dream spiral of addiction for video games and boy band music

en-ca

142 results

Similar Podcasts

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

David Yontef

Nerd Culture - A Gamekings Podcast

Blammo Media

UPodcast

UPodcast

The Writers Hangout

Sandy Adomaitis

The Sarah Fraser Show

Sarah Fraser