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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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01:30:18

A Special Presentation 235: Marmaduke (2022)

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2024/04/08

Marmaduuuuuke! He's a big dog.

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01:21:00

A Special Presentation 234: A Storm in April

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2024/04/01

Once again, we're spending some time with Canada's favorite sons: The Foobs! Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse has an animated special all about the birth of April! What's the deal with April? Let's investigate!

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01:15:12

A Special Presentation 233: Jane and the Lost City

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2024/03/25

Jane was a saucy 1940s British comic strip about a sweet young thing names Jane, famous for fighting nazis and losing her clothes through various contrived and saucy means. Jane was credited with helping the British drive back the axis in Burma, but does this late 80s big screen adaptation capture the sauciness of the original strips? We investigate!

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00:45:16

A Special Presentation 232: The Folks Behind the...

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2024/03/18

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

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01:11:08

A Special Presentation 231: The Folks Behind the...

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2024/03/11

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

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01:00:55

A Special Presentation 230: The Folks Behind the...

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2024/03/04

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what it takes to be a folk behind a funny. But you gotta listen to the notes that they're NOT playing!

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00:56:52

A Special Presentation 229: Curiosity Shop [2 of 2]

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2024/02/26

In 1971, Michael Eisner decided he was going to make a commercial competitor for PBS's then ascendant Sesame Street. The result was Curiosity Shop, a show about four kids going to a curiosity shop run by the absent Mr. Jones. It featured music, puppets, and animation -- including appearances by the cast of Miss Peach, Dennis the Menace, BC, and Wizard of Id. Only two episodes remain, so we take a look.

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00:57:47

A Special Presentation 228: Curiosity Shop [1 of 2]

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2024/02/19

In 1971, Michael Eisner decided he was going to make a commercial competitor for PBS's then ascendant Sesame Street. The result was Curiosity Shop, a show about four kids going to a curiosity shop run by the absent Mr. Jones. It featured music, puppets, and animation -- including appearances by the cast of Miss Peach, Dennis the Menace, BC, and Wizard of Id. Only two episodes remain, so we take a look.

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01:25:09

A Special Presentation 227: Dennis the Menace

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2024/02/12

In 1993, everyone's favorite menace, Dennis, made the jump to the big screen -- in a film that could almost be good if John Hughes wasn't so dedicated to recreating the success of Home Alone. Walter Matthau is forced to carry an entire film by himself, but, damn, does he do it!

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01:32:33

A Special Presentation 226: Rock Odyssey w/ Morbiose

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2024/02/05

In the early 80s, Hanna Barbera decided to take a little risk and tell the entire history of post-war America through the medium of rock and roll music and also put Scatman Crothers in it as a talking jukebox. It's like if Fantasia kind of sucked but was also about the most obvious boomer pleasing aspects of rock music. Morbiose joins us to talk about this weird rock oddity!

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01:12:53

A Special Presentation 225: GoBots: Battle of the...

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2024/01/29

It's Ethan's birthday, so we're taking a little detour from our usual wheelhouse to look at another 80s cartoon robot franchise... The GoBots! You may remember them as the poor man's transformers... and you'd probably be right! Are the GoBots going places or should they be going home? Ha ha, get it? Please yourself then.

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01:13:44

A Special Presentation 224: Mickey's 60th Birthday [2...

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2024/01/22

Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse!!! To celebrate Steamboat Willie finally, FINALLY falling into the public domain, we look at the 1988 television event Mickey's 60th Birthday, when a wizard makes Mickey lose his mojo and then he meets the cast of Cheers and Family Ties (big sit coms at the time, ask your parents). We ended up talking for two hours because we get distracted by talking about the bizarre history of Roger Rabbit, Jim Hensen's traveling puppet medicine show, the bullshit of

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01:04:51

A Special Presentation 223: Mickey's 60th Birthday [1...

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2024/01/15

Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse!!! To celebrate Steamboat Willie finally, FINALLY falling into the public domain, we look at the 1988 television event Mickey's 60th Birthday, when a wizard makes Mickey lose his mojo and then he meets the cast of Cheers and Family Ties (big sit coms at the time, ask your parents). We ended up talking for two hours because we get distracted by talking about the bizarre history of Roger Rabbit, Jim Hensen's traveling puppet medicine show, the bullshit of

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00:54:26

A Special Presentation 223: Rudolph's Shiny New Year...

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2024/01/08

We're leaving our wheelhouse to discuss everyone's favorite Rankin Bass new year's special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year." Rudolph has to go to the archipelago of last years to save the baby new year and the important thing is that there's dinosaurs. A lot of questions are raised about how this worlds works, however.

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00:59:05

A Special Presentation 222: Rudolph's Shiny New Year...

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2024/01/01

We're leaving our wheelhouse to discuss everyone's favorite Rankin Bass new year's special "Rudolph's Shiny New Year." Rudolph has to go to the archipelago of last years to save the baby new year and the important thing is that there's dinosaurs. A lot of questions are raised about how this worlds works, however.

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02:09:45

Ugly Sweater Party 2: Turtlenecks In Time

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2023/12/25

It’s the season of giving… ourselves a break and just watching a ton of shows at once! Happy holidays once more from Mike and Ethan and our whole crew of cool friends that we invite over every year. Rocketshark, Morbiose, Fattyatomicmutant (from your favorite Tumblr memes!) and Glumdrop have joined us for some startlingly cynical Christmas specials: The Moo Family, the True Story of O Christmas Tree, and even the Christmas episodes of Sam & Max and Bump In The Night! Everybody’s waiting for the man

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01:02:15

A Special Presentation 220: It's Magic, Charlie Brown!

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2023/12/18

In this episode, we look at the Peanuts special that's so normal that it's weird. Snoopy learns to do witchcraft and damns Charlie Brown to a living hell of invisibility. Also, Charlie Brown kicks the football??????!??!?!

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01:17:22

A Special Presentation 219: Garfield in the Rough

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2023/12/11

What happens when everyone's favorite fat cat goes camping and encounters an escaped panther from the zoo? Well, that's pretty much it. Join us as we look at one of the lesser Garfield specials, we were gonna talk about "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!", the snoopy special with which it was originally paired, but we got too distracted talking about commercials for McDonalds and the concept of cable TV.

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01:22:49

A Special Presentation 218: Mandrake (1979)

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2023/12/04

Mandrake the Magician has, for some reason, not made the jump to the big screen in this latest round of superhero mania, but the globe-trotting crime-fighting magician of the comics page has so much potential that we can’t help but imagine a much better movie than we got with the sole Mandrake film adaptation: this 1979 made-for-TV lost dud starring Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch and James Hong from everything that James Hong has ever been in.

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01:37:16

A Special Presentation 217: Tubby the Tuba

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2023/11/27

It's after Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for everyone's favorite Thanksgiving special -- Tubby the Tuba! You know Tubby the Tuba, right? You will soon! Join us for this look at everyone's favorite opera for tiny tots about a tuba who joins the circus and also goes to adopt an orphan melody and there's a frog. This all seemed like a really good idea in the early 70s! The important thing to remember is that Pixar was NOT involved.

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