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Saturday Morning Obscurities

Saturday Morning Obscurities is a fun look back on half-remembered kids entertainment of yesteryear. Adult siblings Melissa and Jams rewatch shows and movies of their childhood, showcasing underrated gems, finding the weird moments in popular shows you thought you knew, and discovering oddities even they"ve never seen before! Join us every other Saturday for a movie or a handful of TV episodes, maybe a guest appearance, and a lot of nostalgia and laughs.

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All Episodes

01:11:01

Ep 33 Sheep in the Big City

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2022/02/05

We're talking about an old favorite, the 2000 Cartoon Network show Sheep in the Big City! Sheep is a sheep who is wanted by General Specific and his Top Secret Military Base for a sheep-powered ray gun. With his farm in danger, Sheep escapes to the Big City to hide out from the military and try to make a living on his own. We discuss the omnipotent narrator, the interstitial commercials, the stainless steel wig, the combination of gags, wordplay, and pervasive loneliness, that episode of Pokemon

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01:08:21

Ep 32 Olive, The Other Reindeer

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/12/25

It's Christmas! We watched the 1999 TV special Olive, The Other Reindeer. Olive is a dog who loves Christmas. She hears on the radio that one of Santa's reindeer has broken their leg and can't fly, and Santa will have to rely on "all of the other reindeer" to make Christmas happen this year. Olive believes it is her destiny to be this reindeer, even if she has no idea how to fly. We talk about the punny character names, the mailman who hates Christmas packages but loves everything else about his

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01:37:44

Ep 31 (Ft. Daoud) Beast Wars: Transformers

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/12/11

Co-host of the Axalon Archives podcast Daoud (He/Him) is joining us to talk about the 1996 Transformers series Beast Wars. The Maximals and the Predacons have landed on prehistoric Earth and are fighting over the "protoforms," Transformers who have yet to take form, forge an identity, and choose a side. We discuss the early CGI graphics, the surprisingly deep existential themes, a snake/scorpion with a Texas accent, the difference between Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal, and how the Josie and the

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01:22:22

Ep 30 We‘re Back! A Dinosaur‘s Story

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/11/27

We're back with "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story", the 1993 animated movie about dinosaurs who are given human intelligence and dropped in modern New York City. The dinosaurs crash the Macy's parade, befriend a lonely greaser kid, and stop a scary circus. We discuss the brothers New Eyes and Screw Eyes, even more hot dog talk, the Thanksgiving setting, and how the movie Moonstruck did not involve any werewolves. Also, we spend probably too long talking about teeth in this episode, so if you

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01:39:47

Ep 29 (Ft. Jake Mason) Sonic Underground

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/11/15

Jake Mason (he/him) joins us to talk about 1999's Sonic Underground, a show where Sonic is a lost prince who reunites with his siblings Manic and Sonia to overthrow Robotnik with the power of rock n roll. We discuss the show's lack of an ending, how Sonic's family wears clothes but he doesn't, Orson Welles, pumpkin spice, and vaporizing your enemies and then inhaling them. Follow Jake: @jj_mason And check out his

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01:20:18

Ep 28 Courage the Cowardly Dog

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/10/30

We're celebrating the first anniversary of the podcast and our Halloween special by showcasing a Saturday Morning Giant: Courage the Cowardly Dog! Courage is a small fuschia dog with inconsistent shape-shifting powers who tries to save his elderly family from a wild assortment of supernatural foes. We discuss the show's mixed-media use of digital effects and live action, the eerie landscapes, the small moments of humanity for Eustace, inexplicable Christopher Walken impressions, and we share

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01:39:13

Ep 27 Phineas and Ferb

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/10/16

We have another Saturday Morning Giant episode for you, focusing on a more well-known cartoon: the Disney Channel musical feel-good comedy Phineas and Ferb. Our titular characters are two brothers who love to invent outlandish contraptions, much to the frustration of their older sister, who can't get their parents to see the mischief they're getting into. Oh also, they have a pet platypus who's really a secret agent fighting a mad scientist. We discuss the dense visual gags, running jokes, and

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01:42:16

Ep 26 Ghostwriter

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/10/03

We're getting spooooky and educational with the 1992 PBS show Ghostwriter, about a spirit orb that sends messages to a group of Brooklyn kids who love to solve puzzles and mysteries. Due to a mix-up, Jams watched only the first five-episode arc of the show and Melissa watched only the final four-episode arc. Nine episodes, across three years of the show, with two siblings trying to piece the overall story together. We discuss a party parrot, a brief cameo by Samuel L. Jackson, the shocking

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01:22:33

Ep 25 Butt Ugly Martians

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/09/18

We watched the 2001 CGI show Butt Ugly Martians, about a trio of alien soldiers who are sent to destroy Earth, but instead just want to hang out in an abandoned arcade. The Martians team up with some hoverboard-riding teenagers and a paranoid TV star to defend Earth from other alien threats. We discuss the Martians' rock-n-roll inspired names, the puddle episode, whatever a "hover park" is, the iDog, and the physics of eating while invisible. Jams: @JamsWilk Melissa: @WilkyWit Questions or

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01:24:03

Ep 24 Flint the Time Detective

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/09/03

We're talking about an old favorite, a very silly time travel anime called Flint the Time Detective. Flint is a prehistoric caveboy who was fossilized and then revived in the 25th century, and even though he's a child with no training, the Time Bureau makes him one of its top agents. His job is to save Time Shifters, cute creatures with a variety of powers who have been lost to history. We discuss Flint's dad being stuck as a talking rock, disinterested anime boys with their hands behind their

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01:29:46

Ep 23 Ōban Star-Racers

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/08/21

We watched the French-Japanese animated series Oban Star-Racers, about a girl who tries to reconnect with her absent father after he left her behind for his career managing starship races. He's been approached by a cosmic entity to represent Earth in a race where the winner will be safe from impending galactic attack. His daughter, too scared to reveal herself as the forgotten child and pretending to just be an unrelated aspiring racer, is swept along to become part of the crew. We talk about

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01:22:15

Ep 22 The Looney Tunes Show

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/08/07

We watched Cartoon Network's 2011 series The Looney Tunes Show, which reinvents the classic characters for a sitcom format where Bugs and Daffy are mismatched roommates in a modern human city. Bugs is trying to live a quiet life and date Lola, while Daffy is getting into schemes like running for city council, taking cosmetology courses under his girlfriend's name, and changing his name to Professor Duck and then teaching a college political science course. We discuss the show's surprisingly tight

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01:24:31

Ep 21 (Ft. Sera) Mummies Alive!

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/07/24

*Due to an unrealized error, there is a slight echo in this episode that couldn't be edited out. Sorry and thanks!* Special guest Sera (she/her) brings us a true blast from the past with Mummies Alive! Four mummies awake from their sarcophagi in 1997 San Francisco, sworn to protect the pharaoh's lost son Rapses, who they believe is a cool boy with a skateboard named Presley. They live in a secret room in the history museum when not fighting Scarab, an evil sorcerer with inefficient plans. We

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01:18:58

Ep 20 Kidd Video

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/07/10

We watched Kidd Video, a 1984 show about a teen rock band that is transported into a magic musical realm called The Flipside, where the devious Master Blaster wants to harness their music energy to take over the world. The show starts with live action kids who become animated, voiced by the same actors, and every episode ends with a return to live action for a music video! We talk about how, despite the fact that the show is named after a single character and that character is named Kidd Video,

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01:09:52

Ep 19 Rupert

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/06/26

We watched the charming 1991 cartoon Rupert, about the whimsical adventures of a bear in plaid pants and his other dapper animal friends. We see him go to Gameland, Toyland, and Mirrorland, and he falls in and out of all of these realms completely nonplussed. We discuss the very peaceful vibes of the show, bringing back tiddlywinks, the best Spider-Man to comfort you when you're in danger, whether or not Raggedy Ann is a clown, and what if there was a Toy Story movie where the toys mistook a human

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01:14:14

Ep 18 Fighting Foodons

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/06/12

We watched a 2001 anime from the Fox Kids block, the pun-heavy Fighting Foodons. Long ago, a king asked which of his dinner options was the "strongest" and his chefs developed magic meal tickets to stick on their dishes to bring them to life FOR COMBAT. Now, the land is embroiled in a rebellion with food as their weapon, and a young boy named Chase hopes to become a great foodon chef like his dad. We try to make sense of a foodon as a sentient living creature and how long it can possibly live,

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01:19:12

Ep 17 Phantom of the Megaplex

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/05/29

We're covering our first Disney Channel Original Movie, the overstuffed but underrated Phantom of the Megaplex! A small town movie theater is preparing to host a blockbuster Hollywood premiere, but a mysterious cloaked figure is sabotaging every aspect of the night. It's up to the theater's overworked teenage staff and two cinephile children to see the pattern in the mayhem and stop it before a giant inflatable dinosaur crushes all the celebrity guests. We talk about the film's huge cast of players

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01:07:21

Ep 16 The Raccoons

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/05/15

We tried watching something we'd never seen and recommended by Tanner, the 1980s Canadian cartoon The Raccoons! This charming show follows the misadventures of Bert Raccoon as he fumbles in trying to pull off great stunts to please his friends. He makes Evergreen Forest fun, but local crabby millionaire Cyril Sneer has all the money in the world to try and make the forest as quiet as he wants it. We talk about Bert obliviously intruding on his best friend's marriage, how the show is mostly

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01:12:02

Ep 15 Cartoon Network Groovies

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/05/01

We're doing a special episode on the "Groovies," the short music videos that would air during Cartoon Network commercial breaks. These would feature remixed audio and visuals, or original songs with experimental new animation, covering both contemporary shows from the Cartoon Cartoon block and old Hanna-Barbera classics. We discuss the existential hellscape of "Circles," the Powerpuff Girls concept album behind "The Signal in the Sky" and "Go Monkey Go," the lack of Ed Edd n Eddy continuity in "My

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01:32:56

Ep 14 (Ft. Tanner) Hoze Houndz

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/04/17

Tanner (They/Them) is our special guest this episode and they've brought us the Canadian fever dream Hoze Houndz, a show about cartoon dalmatians who are supposedly firefighters, but mostly just get into a series of absurd sci-fi misadventures. The houndz fall into a time travel portal, get brain-swapped with a rival team of cat firefighters, join a cult obsessed with lint, flash some cash, and are kidnapped by pirates in an episode inexplicably featuring the Canadian folk band Great Big Sea. We

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