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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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01:25:12

A Special Presentation 81: Woke

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2021/04/12

It's time to stop sleeping and open your eyes to the true nature of this imperialist settler-colonial state we call America. Or, as the kids say, to get Woke! This week, we look at Woke, a new Hulu series based on the work of Keith Knight of the K Chronicles. It's also about Toast and Butter, which, it turns out, is not a real show.

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01:28:26

A Special Presentation 80: Jugman with Steph Cherrywell

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2021/04/05

This week, we welcome our good friend Steph Cherrywell, the mind behind comics like Muertitos, Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy, and Widgey Q. Butterfluff, to talk about Jugman, a sort of Encino Ma tribute? Rip-off? starring Archie and his gang. What happens when Jughead's cavenman doppelganger runs rampant through Rivderdale, drawing buffaloes all over rich guys' foyers and eating bugs and ruining cyber-themed eating establishments?

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01:09:20

A Special Presentation 79: The Adventures of Mark...

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2021/03/29

The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

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01:02:19

A Special Presentation 78: The Adventures of Mark...

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2021/03/22

The newspaper connection here is small but significant (wait til the end to discover!), but that's enough justification we nee to do this viewer request: It's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Will Vinton's insane tour de force homage to the writings of Mark Twain which the Internet loves for that one bit (You know the bit.)

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01:11:55

A Special Presentation 77: Annie (1982) (2 of 2)

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2021/03/15

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burnett.

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01:06:04

A Special Presentation 76: Annie (1982) (1 of 2)

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2021/03/08

In the early 80s, there was a very popular Broadway musical adaptation of the old comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, everyone's favorite serial about an orphan and her war profiteering sugar daddy. Then they turned that popular musical into a not so popular (but weirdly enduring) film. Join us for our first of two episodes about the 1982 Annie movie with Tim Curry, Bernedette Peters, and Carol Burnett.

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01:03:06

A Special Presentation 75: Animated Sit Coms with...

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2021/03/01

It's not just comics that get their own TV adaptations. Sometimes sit coms become cartoons because... reasons? Mike Vago of Why Isn't This a Movie, author and Onion AV Club contributor, joins us this week to look at some of the misbegotten attempts to bring sit coms to the... well, to the same screen really! Learn about the Duke boys on a race around the world, I Dream of Jeanie with her new bumbling genie sidekick, and the horror of Rick Springfield and Miss Tickle!

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01:37:34

A Special Presentation 74: Garfield Coloring Books

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2021/02/22

Garfield was so popular, is it any wonder that he wasn't just adapted into cartoons but into other mediums as well? There are Garfield books, Garfield movies, Garfield... coloring books!? In this episode, we look at two (2) classic Garfield coloring books. Kids love to color!

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01:10:22

A Special Presentation 73: Little Nemo in Slumberland...

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2021/02/15

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much love in this thing and... well, it's A THING. Join us for our second episode deep dive into this Nemo thing!

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00:57:12

A Special Presentation 72: Little Nemo in Slumberland...

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2021/02/08

Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic from the way, way, way back times of the old days, but in 1989 they tried to adapt it into this anime movie. They really, really wanted to do something great. There's so much love in this thing and... well, it's A THING.

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01:59:20

A Special Presentation 71: Free For All

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2021/02/01

Free for All is an oddity of a strip. Created by Brett Merhar in the waning days of the newspaper comic strip monoculture ie the late 90s, it was syndicated for but a single year... but Merhar still managed to convince Showtime into greenlighting a series. It wasn't good. Join us for a mega-stuffed 2 HOUR episode where we talk all about the bizarre anomaly that was Free for All, a weird webcomic-eque Bloom County clone with a ferret, and also stick around for some SURPRISING backstage news about the

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01:02:37

A Special Presentation 70: What a Nightmare Charlie...

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2021/01/25

This week, Mike and Ethan look at this weird Charlie Brown special that is NOT associated with any holiday, it's all about that overly-civilized, underly-dogified dog Snoopy eating 100 pizzas and having a nightmare that he's a Klondike gold rush sled dog. Also in this episode, Mike retells the story of his own nightmare, that time that he ate two (2) weed brownies and journeyed to a witch's sabbat. Mike is ALWAYS telling that story!

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00:40:03

A Special Presentation 69: Advent Calendar 3

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2021/01/18

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to miss out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into another full episode! We're joined this time with our good friend Aurelina!

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00:56:42

A Special Presentation 68: Advent Calendar 2

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2021/01/11

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to miss out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into another full episode! We're joined this time with our good friend Cage of Mirrors!

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01:12:13

A Special Presentation 67: Advent Calendar

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2021/01/04

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't want you to miss out, so we combined all the short 2-minute Advent snippets into a full episode!

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01:05:50

A Special Presentation 66: The Smurfs Christmas with...

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2020/12/28

We're rounding out our Christmas season with a look at The Smurf's Christmas, one of like 8 smurf Christmases. This IS thematic because, as you Belgians may already know, the Smurfs was originally a comic over there. This week, we welcome special guest Aurelina, creator of Furry Found Footage and Mike's old podcasting partner from SHOW. Let's smurf it up as we discuss just WHO is that mysterious stranger who's threatening the smurfs and does goodness make the badness go away?

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01:01:29

A Special Presentation 65: Garfield's Christmas Special

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2020/12/21

Garfield, Odie and Jon go to visit Jon's family on the farm for Christmas in a most unusual Christmas special. Mike didn't like it when it premiered in 1987, but we're reassessing it today!

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01:08:50

A Special Presentation 64: A Rugrats Chanukah

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2020/12/14

Did you know that there was a Rugrats comic strip? It sucked, of course. Just lots of boring puns about babies, but it did two important things: It was a better baby comic than Marvin and it gave us an excuse to watch A Rugrats Chanukah for our 2020 Decemberween Festival of Holiday Specials. Mike and Ethan discuss their extremely sketchy understanding of the Jewish faith and also why Angelica is the best rugrat.

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01:40:47

A Special Presentation 63: The Life and Adventures of...

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2020/12/07

It's the holiday season, so we're looking at some holiday specials! Today we watched Rankin Bass' The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, based on a book by L. Frank Baum. And since there WAS a comic strip, Queer Visitors from the Land of Oz, based on a different L. Frank Baum book... what the heck, we'll count it. L. Frank Baum was never content to rely on pre-existing canon for his stories, so of course his take on Santa is extremely unique.

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01:57:05

A Special Presentation 62: with Special Guest Buzz...

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2020/11/30

This week, we thought we would look at Fabulous Funnies, a 70s Filmation series that brought all the best comic strips of the 20s to life! So we thought, why not get the scoop from someone who was actually there? Veteran cartoon writer Buzz Dixon, most famous for his work on GI Joe, Transformers, My Little Pony, Inhumanoids, Jem, Cowboys of Moo Mesa, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and literally EVERY cartoon of the 1980s, was gracious enough to sit down with us for a conversation about his first

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