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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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01:04:27

A Special Presentation 275: Dog City [1 of 2]

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2025/01/13

In theory, we meant to talk about Dog City (part of the Jim Henson Hour) but instead we ended up talking about the muppets in general, the Jim Henson hour, the origin of homo sapiens and the inevitable death of our species because of billionaires, and also how lazy Bill Watterson is.

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01:12:54

A Special Presentation 274: The Adventures of Tintin

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2025/01/06

Tintin is the biggest thing since Asterix, but, if you live in America, you might not have heard of him. He's a boy reporter who has adventures. Kids love Tintin (except for his controversial 1939 adventure "Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors.") Anyway, you might not know Tintin, but Hollywood still thought you'd like a Tintin movie. Here it is!

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01:09:15

A Special Presentation 273: Snoopy Presents for Auld...

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2024/12/30

The Peanuts are back and it's another New Year's special! Apple TV has updated the Peanuts gang to tell a story of Lucy having an existential crisis. That's right. Lucy. Not Charlie Brown. It's Lucy.

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02:06:33

Ugly Sweater Party 3: The Dark Knit Rises

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2024/12/22

Ho ho ho, garbage for all the good little children! We've got the whole gang of pals back for another quadumvirate of questionable Quistmas specials. Mike and Ethan have holiday regulars Morbiose, Rocketshark, DMXI, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop, whom we're sure you're all well familiar with by now, for such wintry delights as Nilus The Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (with Chuck E. Cheese!), Robotech: Season's Greetings, and Transformers Animated: Human

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01:41:13

A Special Presentation 271: Winnie the Pooh (2011)

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2024/12/16

So, technically, there was a Winnie the Pooh comic strip, so it is totally within our wheelhouse to do an episode about Winnie the Pooh (2011)! Is it more or less in line with AA Milne's vision of the chubby little bear all stuffed with fluff? Check it out!

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01:25:56

A Special Presentation 270: The 1989 Macy's...

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2024/12/09

It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most importantly, though, ALF is here! Let's join Alf for a walk down memory lane if we can think to talk about anything beyond the commercials. Stay tuned

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01:03:16

A Special Presentation 269: The 1989 Macy's...

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2024/12/02

It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most importantly, though, ALF is here! Let's join Alf for a walk down memory lane if we can think to talk about anything beyond the commercials. Stay tuned

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01:03:45

A Special Presentation 268: The 1989 Macy's...

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2024/11/25

It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most importantly, though, ALF is here! Let's join Alf for a walk down memory lane if we can think to talk about anything beyond the commercials. Stay tuned

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01:06:34

A Special Presentation 267: Bonvoyage Charlie Brown...

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2024/11/18

What if Charlie Brown went to France? That's what this, the final early stage Peanuts theatrical feature film asks. Snoopy gets into typical Snoopy hijinks, but this special explores the limits of what you can do with the Peanuts formula with some nice atmospheric mystery creepiness. Snoopy loves a mystery!

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01:00:27

A Special Presentation 266: Bonvoyage Charlie Brown...

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2024/11/11

What if Charlie Brown went to France? That's what this, the final early stage Peanuts theatrical feature film asks. Snoopy gets into typical Snoopy hijinks, but this special explores the limits of what you can do with the Peanuts formula with some nice atmospheric mystery creepiness. Snoopy loves a mystery!

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01:52:19

A Special Presentation 265: Halloween 5-EVER

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2024/11/04

If it's Halloween it must be Saw, er I mean Special Presentation! Six of our regular crew, including DMXI, Rocketshark, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop have joined us for the spookiest... well, not really. The most Halloween-themed... OK honestly some of these are more HARVEST themed than Halloween. But join us if you will for The Pac-Man Halloween Special, Marc Summers' Magical Mystery Special, and Spookley The Square Pumpkin!

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01:15:50

A Special Presentation 264: The Spirit [2 of 2]

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2024/10/28

Frank Miller was a big deal, briefly, right after Sin City and 300, so they thought, heeeey, why not let him write and direct the big screen debut of Will Eisner's superhero comic strip The Spirit? Frank Miller brings his signature style and incomprehensible fashy sensibilities to this big of hot garbage. Never have you watched Samuel L Jackson and Scarlet Johansen embarrass themselves so!

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01:01:00

A Special Presentation 263: The Spirit [1 of 2]

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2024/10/21

Frank Miller was a big deal, briefly, right after Sin City and 300, so they thought, heeeey, why not let him write and direct the big screen debut of Will Eisner's superhero comic strip The Spirit? Frank Miller brings his signature style and incomprehensible fashy sensibilities to this big of hot garbage. Never have you watched Samuel L Jackson and Scarlet Johansen embarrass themselves so!

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01:05:21

A Special Presentation 262: Transformers One

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2024/10/14

Technically, we're cheating on this episode, but it's OUR show, so we can cheat if we want to: We both happened to see that new Transformers movie, Transformers One, so we thought we would talk about it. Ethan, a life-long Transformers fan and aficionado, and Mike, perpetual newbie, have big opinions on this film. In short: It's pretty darn good! If you like robots and sci fi, give it a shot!

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01:18:34

A Special Presentation 261: The New Scooby Doo Movies...

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2024/10/07

So technically, this counts cuz the Addams Family was a comic! For legal reasons, they had to bury this episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies where Scooby Doo meets the Addams Family! Mike and Ethan have very different opinions on Scooby Doo, but first enjoy a prolonged conversation about MEAT.

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00:56:45

A Special Presentation 260: You're a Good Sport,...

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2024/09/30

We're back to our roots, watching Peanuts specials! God, there's so many of these. There's like a million of them. This week, we're looking at "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown" and "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" - two Peanuts specials about Charlie Brown being forced to participate in team sports that he hates! He actually wins, though. WHAAA!??

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01:25:59

A Special Presentation 259: Popeye w/ Morbiose!

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2024/09/23

One of our favorite recurring guests Morbiose returns to talk about Popeye... and not just ANY Popeye, but the live action motion picture starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. Morbiose has good feelings for MOST of this film, except for ONE thing, and Mike is really mad about Harry Nilson's funeral dirge music.

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01:09:33

A Special Presentation 258: 5 Years! [2 of 2]

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2024/09/16

Can you believe we've been doing this podcast for 5 years? We sure can't! Join us for a trip down memory lane where we ostensibly talk about our most popular episodes, but as usual, we get sidetracked to talk about random stuff like Piers Anthony and also babies. Mike has a new niece so he's talking about babies a lot lately!

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01:01:55

A Special Presentation 257: 5 Years! [1 of 2]

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2024/09/09

Can you believe we've been doing this podcast for 5 years? We sure can't! Join us for a trip down memory lane where we ostensibly talk about our most popular episodes, but as usual, we get sidetracked to talk about random stuff like Piers Anthony and also babies. Mike has a new niece so he's talking about babies a lot lately!

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01:13:02

A Special Presentation 256: Hey Hey Hey It's Fat Albert

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2024/09/02

This was never a comic strip, BUT it WAS a TV special... so this week we're looking at the long lost but recently rediscovered 1969 special HEY HEY IT IS FAT ALBERT, the special that inspired the later TV series. We talk about how it is Fat Albert time and also the complicated legacy of his creator.

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