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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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01:04:35

A Special Presentation 255: Archie - To Riverdale and...

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

2024/08/26

Archie's big appeal is that he makes being a teenager look SO COOL. So what if Archie was middle-aged? What then, smart guy? This TV special about Archie's high school reunion posits just such a scenario -- and the crazy thing? It's not too bad. But you wouldn't think it considering that we mostly talked about Christian media rip-offs and fucking the muppets.

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01:02:14

A Special Presentation 254: Archie - To Riverdale and...

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

2024/08/19

Archie's big appeal is that he makes being a teenager look SO COOL. So what if Archie was middle-aged? What then, smart guy? This TV special about Archie's high school reunion posits just such a scenario -- and the crazy thing? It's not too bad. But you wouldn't think it considering that we mostly talked about Christian media rip-offs and fucking the muppets.

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01:32:56

A Special Presentation 253: Alf Loves a Mystery

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

2024/08/12

This week, Alf WILL be seen tonight! Did you know that Alf loves a mystery? It's true! In a bizarre and forgotten ritual known as the PRIME TIME SPECIAL STARRING ALL YOUR FAVORITE SIT COM CHARACTERS TELLING YOU ABOUT UPCOMING SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS SERIES, Alf pens a caper about stolen jewels and junior gumshoes. And Foofur's in it too!!!

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01:00:38

A Special Presentation 252: Hollywood Dog [2 of 2]

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

2024/08/05

Hollywood Dog was a pilot for a proposed live action/animated sitcom about a dog that lived in Hollywood, based on the comic from the LA Weekly by R.P. Overmyer. For a long time, this was considered lost media - but now it's been found! It's exactly what you would expect from a show called Hollywood Dog, but join us for a discussion of early 90s commercials and our very good ideas for a political movement based on free chips.

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01:00:09

A Special Presentation 251: Hollywood Dog [1 of 2]

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

2024/07/29

Hollywood Dog was a pilot for a proposed live action/animated sitcom about a dog that lived in Hollywood, based on the comic from the LA Weekly by R.P. Overmyer. For a long time, this was considered lost media - but now it's been found! It's exactly what you would expect from a show called Hollywood Dog, but join us for a discussion of early 90s commercials and our very good ideas for a political movement based on free chips.

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01:35:30

A Special Presentation 250: Asterix at the Olympic...

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2024/07/22

It's Asterix! You all know and love Asterix, that indomitable Gaul who conquered both Rome and the hearts of a continent in his wacky adventures. This week, we look at Asterix's move into the live action arena with Asterix at the Olympic Games, joined by our good friend resident Flemish-Belgian comic knower Jerna!Find more of Jerna's work at: https://bsky.app/profile/jernacious.bsky.social https://jernacious.itch.io/ https://jarnevanvooren.com/

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01:09:06

A Special Presentation 249: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T...

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

2024/07/15

Dr.Seuss was a newspaper political cartoonist and that TOTALLY makes any Seuss vehicle fair game for our show, so says us! This week we look at the 1953 flopstravaganza The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, with digressions about Star Wars and the horror of childhood piano lessons.

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01:57:56

A Special Presentation 248: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T...

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

2024/07/08

Dr.Seuss was a newspaper political cartoonist and that TOTALLY makes any Seuss vehicle fair game for our show, so says us! This week we look at the 1953 flopstravaganza The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, with digressions about Star Wars and the horror of childhood piano lessons.

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01:24:29

A Special Presentation 247: The Garfield Movie [2 of 2]

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

2024/07/01

Join us as we go where we've never gone before: The movie theater! We took a look at the Garfield Movie, currently in theaters, the fat cat's first foray into cinema since the live action Garfield series! Were we surprised? We were surprised! And you will be too as we talk about the lasagna that makes you gay, the TV that glowed, and also the correct spelling of the word "eggcorn."

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01:02:06

A Special Presentation 246: The Garfield Movie [1 of 2]

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

2024/06/24

Join us as we go where we've never gone before: The movie theater! We took a look at the Garfield Movie, currently in theaters, the fat cat's first foray into cinema since the live action Garfield series! Were we surprised? We were surprised! And you will be too as we talk about the lasagna that makes you gay, the TV that glowed, and also the correct spelling of the word "eggcorn."

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01:34:07

A Special Presentation 245: Garfield Goes Hollywood

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2024/06/17

In honor of the new Garfield movie in which Garfield goes Hollywood, we looked at the classic Garfield TV special... Garfield Goes Hollywood! In theory, we instead mostly talked about the lasagna that makes you gay. Oh, we're gay now btw. Probably because we ate the lasagna that makes you gay!

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01:27:19

A Special Presentation 244: Lucky Luke

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

2024/06/10

It's Lucky Luke, the Franco-Belgian comic about the American west, adapted into a cartoon series by Hanna Barbera. We were so excited to talk about it that instead we ended up talking about Willy Wonka, fentynal the cop killer, and Donut the gay Christian dog. Any excuse NOT to talk about Lucky Luke!

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00:56:14

A Special Presentation 243: One of a Kind Marcie

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

2024/06/03

We take a look at an episode of the most recent Peanuts adaptation, the one from Apple TV: One of a Kind Marcie. This is probably the first ever Peanuts property to center Marcie. How does it hold up? How's the Peanuts world without Charles Schultz? And, most importantly of all, what are the Peanuts characters' political affiliations?

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01:04:20

A Special Presentation 242: Kid Power [2 of 2]

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2024/05/27

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a better future. And Rankin-Bass's animated adaption "Kid Power" certainly shares that ethos. Join us for a discussion of the mildly didactic Kid Power TV series. (WARNING!!! There's some discussion about racism in this one)

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01:01:14

A Special Presentation 241: Kid Power [1 of 2]

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

2024/05/20

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a better future. And Rankin-Bass's animated adaption "Kid Power" certainly shares that ethos. Join us for a discussion of the mildly didactic Kid Power TV series. (WARNING!!! There's some discussion about racism in this one)

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01:06:03

A Special Presentation 240: Dick Tracy specials w/...

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

2024/05/13

After the failure of the Dick Tracy movie, Warren Beatty was so mad at the studio that he decided to make sure the studio never regained the rights to make another Dick Tracy movie. To that end, every 12 years or so he makes a weird avant garde art piece dick tracy zoom interview intended to be seen by no one... but which allows him to retain copyright! Artist, author and adventurer Ryan Estrada joins us to talk about these delightful exercises in spite.

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01:31:17

A Special Presentation 239: Bernard and Huey

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2024/05/06

Jules Feiffer's comics in the Village Voice were THE THING back in the swingin' 60s or maybe the 50s, but we still remember them best as the thing that the last liberal wanted to read before he got got by Milo and Cutter John in Bloom County. Well, Feiffer wrote a movie script based on his comics back in the 80s and it got lost for 30 years, but now they found it and they made it. Bernard and Huey... get old!

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01:12:10

A Special Presentation 238: Prince Valiant (2 of 2)

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

2024/04/29

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's probably trying to teach you something! In 1997, Prince Valiant was adapted into a theatrical film with Katherine Heigl, Ron Pearlman, Warwick Davis, and Joanna Lumley, which, in a different world, might have filled the Krull-shaped hole in our hearts... If only!

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01:07:12

A Special Presentation 237: Prince Valiant (1 of 2)

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

2024/04/22

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's probably trying to teach you something! In 1997, Prince Valiant was adapted into a theatrical film with Katherine Heigl, Ron Pearlman, Warwick Davis, and Joanna Lumley, which, in a different world, might have filled the Krull-shaped hole in our hearts... If only!

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01:49:06

A Special Presentation 236: The Weird Adventures of...

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

2024/04/15

This week, we're going back... back... back in time to look at the very FIRST ever comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. America couldn't get enough of the adventures of a short guy and a tall guy who hung out together. Come for the weird Mutt and Jeff stitched-together Frankencartoon, stay for a long digression about Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and a brand new anti-woke movement just for Travel Lodge bear cosplayers.

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