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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

01:27:04

Ep 13 Jackie Chan Adventures

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/04/03

We're doing our first "Saturday Morning Giant" episode this week looking back on a well-remembered show, Jackie Chan Adventures! This animated version of Jackie Chan is a mild-mannered archeologist who just happens to be excellent at martial arts. He stumbles into a dangerous world of magical artifacts, and it's up to him and his chaotic niece Jade to stop a sentient dragon statue from gaining control of 12 Zodiac-themed talismans. We read the surprisingly detailed Wikipedia profiles on the

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01:05:07

Ep 12 Evolution: The Animated Series

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/03/20

For our first Saturday morning cartoon based off a movie, we watched 2001's Evolution: The Animated Series, aka Alienators: Evolution Continues. A meteorite carrying alien organisms crashed into a small Arizona town and scientists at the local community college figured out how to stop it, but there's always another organism hiding out there, growing into another threat. Now they ride around town in a fire truck fighting alien monsters with dandruff shampoo. Definitely real science at work! We talk

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01:09:26

Ep 11 Cubix: Robots for Everyone

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/03/06

This week we're talking about the candy-colored CGI adventure Cubix: Robots for Everyone. Everyone? Everyone! Connor moves to Bubbletown, a city full of robot companions, and he's determined to find one for himself. He fixes up a junk robot no one believes could be repaired again, and with the power of friendship, the robot unlocks transformative abilities and helps Connor and his friends fight off the evil Dr. K. We discuss kids with jobs, the villain's bonkers lair, and Burger King toys. Remember:

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01:19:47

Ep 10 (Ft. Jacq) The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon...

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/02/20

Our friend Jacq (she/her) joins us for a discussion on the infamous flop Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, a 2012 musical movie for young kids where the audience was encouraged to get up and dance along in the theaters. Goobie, Zoozie, and Toofie are celebrating their friend Schloofy's birthday when his five magical birthday balloons float away, and they have to race across Lovely Loveville to collect them again. The adventure takes them to a diner that only serves gross milkshakes, a

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01:17:27

Ep 9 Tom & Jerry: The Movie (1992)

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/02/06

We watched 1992's haunting Tom & Jerry: The Movie, the one where they realize the other one can talk -- a revelation that does nothing to improve their animosity. The cat and mouse befriend a young orphan girl named Robyn, and help her escape her money-hungry guardians to find her adventuring father, who she believes is still alive after he was lost in an avalanche.We encounter a gang of aggressive jazz cats, a fat dog on a skateboard, and a hand puppet that may or may not be sentient. Also, it's a

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Ep 8 Comparison: Sealab 2020 & 2021

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/01/23

We're doing a special comparison episode talking about Hanna-Barbera's 1972 attempt at edutainment, Sealab 2020, and Adult Swim's irreverent 2000s version, Sealab 2021, which re-used the original animation with new audio tracks. "Scientist-pioneers" of all ages work in an underwater base studying the ocean and its creatures, encountering dangers like radiation barrels, compasses you can't read, and a misbehaving dolphin. In 2021, no one cares about real marine science, they're just arguing about

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Ep 7 Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2021/01/09

This week we tried looking at a more recent show, the 2010 Disney XD cartoon Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil. Kick is a 10-year-old Evil Knievel determined to make every part of his life into a cool stunt, regardless of how this conflicts with his family's plans. Melissa describes scenes she remembers that we couldn't actually watch because only one episode of this show was available to stream? We talk about how this show is still holding onto some stereotypical gender roles while the cartoon

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01:22:56

Ep 6 The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (2000)

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/12/25

Our special guest this week is holiday cheer as we watch the 2000 animated movie The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, a St. Nick origin story based on a book by L. Frank Baum. Nicholas was abandoned as a baby and adopted by a loving community of fairies, and now that he's an adult and traveling among the humans for the first time, he sees many children in need. With a heart of gold and 50 identical handcrafted toys of the same cat, he sets out to deliver joy to the people, and no rock monsters

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01:28:51

Ep 5 (Ft. Christina Woods) Wacky Adventures of Ronald...

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/12/12

Our first special guest Christina Woods (she/her) is here to talk about The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, a series of VHS tapes that you could only get at McDonald's. In the "Visitors From Outer Space" video, aliens land in McDonaldland, Hamburglar agrees to go on vacation with them, and the rest of the gang has to fly a rocketship across the galaxy to save him from being lost in space for the rest of his life. We talk about the familiar cast and crew that animation studio Klasky Csupo

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39:32

Ep 4 Science Court

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/11/28

This week we serve and observe the 1997 edutainment show Science Court, animated in "Squigglevision"! Lawyers Doug Savage and Alison Krempel represent petty citizen disputes in Science Court, bringing in a wild variety of experts to better understand how natural law rules our everyday lives. We talk about the visual gags packed into every scene, kids who are smarter than adults, and how this was probably the first time we heard the voice of H. Jon Benjamin. More clipping in this episode, but Jams

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43:47

Ep 3 Hamtaro

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/11/14

We're talking about Hamtaro, a very cute early 2000s anime about hamsters! Laura and her family move to a new town, and while she's busy settling in at a new school, she has no idea her hamster Hamtaro is sneaking out every day to visit a clubhouse full of other neighborhood hamsters where they have little hamster adventures. We discuss how the massive cast of characters leads to surprisingly nuanced personalities, merchandise this show did have and should have had, and eggs with

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01:07:56

Ep 2 So Weird

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/10/30

In our first spooooky episode, we're talking about the 1999 Disney Channel original show So Weird. Fiona Phillips runs a supernatural website as she travels around America on her singer-songwriter mom's tour bus, encountering strange phenomena from ghosts to gremlins. The real mystery is how this bus can fit a whole teenage girl's bedroom and still have space for six other people. We discuss special effects makeup, alien merchandise, and just some nice brothers. Warning: Clipping audio for the

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56:39

Ep 1 Ulysses 31

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/10/30

In our inaugural episode, we're talking Ulysses 31, a space opera version of The Odyssey! In this 1981 French/Japanese animated adaptation, Ulysses angers Zeus and is cursed to fly around in space and find the Kingdom of Hades before he can return home. His only companions are his son Telemachus, a handful of robots, a young alien girl, and a giant room full of the floating bodies of the rest of the ship's crew stuck in suspended animation. Every ship's gotta have a floating body room! We talk about

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02:11

Teaser!

Saturday Morning Obscurities ·

2020/10/17

Welcome to Saturday Morning Obscurities! Our sibling hosts introduce themselves, detail the premise of the show, and forewarn you of some small audio stumbles in the first few episodes. Join us October 31st for the launch of our full episodes!

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