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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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00:56:57

A Special Presentation 140: Mars Attacks! w/ Alex of...

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2022/06/06

Oh no, the martians are invading!! This week, we're joined by Alex of Saucer Cinema and Dead Crustacean to talk about Tim Burton's magnum opus, Mars Attacks, based on the Topps trading cards and starring Jack Nicholson (twice!), Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Marie, and Frank Welker (providing the Martian acks!) Does Burton capture the over-the-top mayhem of the original cards? Or should he have directed Topps' Dinosaurs Attack! instead? ACK ACK ACK ACK!!!

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01:01:58

A Special Presentation 139: Mars Attacks w/Alex of...

A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight ·

2022/05/30

Oh no, the martians are invading!! This week, we're joined by Alex of Saucer Cinema and Dead Crustacean to talk about Tim Burton's magnum opus, Mars Attacks, based on the Topps trading cards and starring Jack Nicholson (twice!), Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Marie, and Frank Welker (providing the Martian acks!) Does Burton capture the over-the-top mayhem of the original cards? Or should he have directed Topps' Dinosaurs Attack! instead? ACK ACK ACK ACK!!!

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01:03:57

A Special Presentation 138: Marmaduke (2 of 2)

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2022/05/23

It's a BIG discussion about a BIG dog! Not Howard huge, not Clifford, it's Marmaduke! We watch the 2010 big screen debut of Brad Anderson's Big Dog. So it's time to lead, follow, or get out of the way as we marm your dukes with Marmaduke. Marmaduke is dead. (Stay tuned for the discussion of the moral universe of Big Mama's House!)

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01:01:57

A Special Presentation 137: Marmaduke (1 of 2)

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2022/05/16

It's a BIG discussion about a BIG dog! Not Howard huge, not Clifford, it's Marmaduke! We watch the 2010 big screen debut of Brad Anderson's Big Dog. So it's time to lead, follow, or get out of the way as we marm your dukes with Marmaduke. Marmaduke is dead. (Stay tuned for the discussion of the moral universe of Big Mama's House in part 2!)

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01:35:03

A Special Presentation 136: Where the Toys Come From

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2022/05/09

Where do the toys come from? Have you ever wondered that? Well, some toys wonder that. In this episode, we look at the Disney Channel original film from 1983, "Where the Toys Come From," in which wind-up toys Peepers and Zoom take us on a magical tour of the Tomy toy factory and shows us how toys are conceived, designed, and assembled. Come for the toys, stay for the discussion of Popeye magazine and our incredibly tenuous connection to the ostensible theme of this podcast!

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01:40:56

A Special Presentation 135 w/ Tom of Flash in the...

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2022/05/02

Ello, govna! Shine yer shoes fer ya? It's an all Bri'ish episide of A Special Presentation, it is! Cor! Blimey! Chazzwazzer! Today we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan, our resident expert on British culture, to discuss Britain's favorite daughters, the Fat Slags, and how they made their less than successful transition from the pages of Viz to the silver screen. Mike talks about how extremely mad he is about the Geri Halliwell storyline a lot in this one.

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01:01:21

A Special Presentation 134 w/ Tom of Flash in the...

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2022/04/25

Ello, govna! Shine yer shoes fer ya? It's an all Bri'ish episide of A Special Presentation, it is! Cor! Blimey! Chazzwazzer! Today we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan, our resident expert on British culture, to discuss Britain's favorite daughters, the Fat Slags, and how they made their less than successful transition from the pages of Viz to the silver screen. Mike talks about how extremely mad he is about the Geri Halliwell storyline a lot in this one.

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01:09:55

A Special Presentation 133: The Garfield Show (2 of 2)

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2022/04/18

We're back to talking about Garfield. Ethan and Mike both remember the Napoleon of Garfield adaptations, the TV series Garfield and Friends, but this is... The Garfield Show, the French co-produced CGI show. It's also got Garfield. We look at two episodes, Fast Friends (wherein Garfield competes for food with a very fast ferret) and Long Lost Lyman (where we finally solve the mystery about Jon's long lost roommate!)

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00:59:14

A Special Presentation 132: The Garfield Show (1 of 2)

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2022/04/11

We're back to talking about Garfield. Ethan and Mike both remember the Napoleon of Garfield adaptations, the TV series Garfield and Friends, but this is... The Garfield Show, the French co-produced CGI show. It's also got Garfield. We look at two episodes, Fast Friends (wherein Garfield competes for food with a very fast ferret) and Long Lost Lyman (where we finally solve the mystery about Jon's long lost roommate!)

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01:27:35

A Special Presentation 132: It's the Easter Beagle,...

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2022/04/04

We're back with more Peanuts specials! There's like a million of these. This one is the Easter one! You know, Easter... that holiday that everyone... tolerates. I mean, there's eggs, there's chocolate... it's okay. In this episode, we look into the history of baked sugar diorama eggs and talk about which Sweet Pickles character comes to collect you when you die. Oh, also we talk about Peanuts.

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01:29:04

A Special Presentation 131: There She Is!

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2022/03/28

There She Is!! (Korean: 떳다 그녀!!) is a South Korean Flash cartoon series produced by a three-person team and hosted on the Korean website SamBakZa. Based on comic strip 'One day' (Korean: 어떤날), that makes it fair game for our purposes! Let's check it out and learn about how cat/bunny love is not a crime!

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01:36:54

A Special Presentation 130: The 12 Tasks of Asterix

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2022/03/21

We're back discussing France's favorite short king, Asterix the Gaul. Last time, we spoke about the first Asterix film, which series creators Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo were not consulted about and which they hated so much that they got the potential sequel scrapped. But this later film, Asterix and the 12 Tasks, DID involve Goscinny and Uderzo and it's one of the most beloved of the Asterix films. Is it that good? Let's take a look!

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01:20:43

A Special Presentation 129: Sinfest

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2022/03/14

Mike decided to do something very stupid and did a deep dive on Twitter into 22 years of the webcomic Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida, the famous early 00s dude bro comic that did a hard turn into sex negative second wave feminism in 2011 and then a harder turn into TERF maga chud Q-anon anti-vax lunacy in 2019. But could Sinfest be saved? In this episode, we talk about the trajectory of the webcomic itself as well as our suggestions for how to mold this mess into something that might work as an animated

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01:07:25

A Special Presentation 128: Asterix the Gaul (2 of 2)

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2022/03/07

You know Asterix, of course! He's the hottest comic character on five continents! This little dude is beloved by comics fans everywhere except the United States! So if you're an uncultured American, join us to learn about this little barbarian who uses a magic potion to kick Roman ass in his first ever animated feature film.

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01:02:09

A Special Presentation 127: Asterix the Gaul (1 of 2)

A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight ·

2022/02/28

You know Asterix, of course! He's the hottest comic character on five continents! This little dude is beloved by comics fans everywhere except the United States! So if you're an uncultured American, join us to learn about this little barbarian who uses a magic potion to kick Roman ass in his first ever animated feature film.

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01:03:25

126: FLASHBACK! The Value Mountain Trail (& Marshall...

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2022/02/21

Your hosts Mike and Ethan are no strangers to weird children’s books, as any fan of our coloring books episode knows. (Are there any?) This week we look back at 2018, a more innocent, pre-pandemic world, when the two hosts got together in the real world to record some fun videos about locally published children’s books! First we have a short subject about Marshall the dog (or is he?) going on a tour of a lollipop-filled hospital, followed by a cowboy adventure which stars JACK PALANCE! …or it would

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00:59:32

UNAIRED PILOT! Garfield: A to Z Zoo

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2022/02/14

Way back in 2018, Mike and Ethan were messing around with some YouTube videos, and got into a huge digression about comic strips. That’s right, the podcast that always digresses from comic strips started as a digression INTO them! Witness the sticky conception and awkward birth of Special Presentation as we take you through our very first comic strip adaption: Garfield A to Z Zoo, one of the richest fonts of weirdness that Garfield’s world has to offer. Watch the video version at

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01:05:15

A Special Presentation 124: The Dreamer of Oz

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2022/02/07

Last week we looked at the comic strip Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz, so this week we're looking at a biopic of that strip's creator: L. Frank Baum. This made-for-TV movie starring John Ritter and Rue McClanahan was a favorite of Ethan's as a kid, so we see if it holds up. How much fiction does it mix with fact? Well, one thing is for sure: L. Frank Baum was DEFINITELY an old west gunslinger.

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01:07:10

A Special Presentation 123: Queer Visitors from the...

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2022/01/31

After L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz was a book and a play and a musical extravaganza, it was also a comic strip. Your favorite characters the scarecrow, the tin woodsman, the...uh... Jack Pumpkinhead, the gump, and (in theory) the wogglebug escape from Oz and encounter mundane real world situations where they dispense trivia. Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz originated the most popular meme of '04 to '05 "What did the wogglebug say?" Sources say it was popular, apparently. Times were

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01:28:37

A Special Presentation 122: Computer Magazine Comics

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2022/01/24

This week, instead of looking at COMICS THAT GET TURNED INTO OTHER THINGS we're looking at OTHER THINGS THAT GET TURNED INTO COMICS... specifically video games! In case you didn't know this, there used to be these things called magazines and some of them were about video games. Mike literally only knows about Computer Gaming World magazine, so Ethan introduces him to several comics from Nintendo Power magazine... and beyond!

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