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01:05:02

A Special Presentation 365: Animation Magazine Pitch...

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2026/10/05

In the early aughts, Animation Magazine ran an annual feature called the Pitch Party -- a contest where eager readers could spend $300 to submit a postage-stamp sized jpg pitching their dream cartoon in the hopes that some animation executive might see some potential in their idea and make all their Hollywood dreams come true. How many cartoons were created through the Pitch Party? A whopping zero! But we look at the 2004 entries and rate them according to our own esoteric criteria. You can follow

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01:11:02

A Special Presentation 364: The Guyver

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2026/09/28

MacGuyver? No! The Guyver!

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01:00:24

A Special Presentation 363: Committed [2 of 2]

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2026/09/21

Half of the team from "Over the Hedge" made this comic strip about a family dealing with the stresses of modern life and it got made into the most mid-00s sitcom ever. From Canada. We finally found a sitcom husband worse than Irving!

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01:00:31

A Special Presentation 362: Committed [1 of 2]

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2026/09/14

Half of the team from "Over the Hedge" made this comic strip about a family dealing with the stresses of modern life and it got made into the most mid-00s sitcom ever. From Canada. We finally found a sitcom husband worse than Irving!

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01:22:27

A Special Presentation 361: The ABC Yummy Awards [2...

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2026/09/07

There's no stars left in the sky, cuz they're all here at the 1983 First Annual Yummy Awards -- as NBC shows us their new Saturday line-up, in a show with Howling Mad Murdock, Mr. T, the kid from Silver Spoons, Gumby, Foobie the robot, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie!

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01:11:48

A Special Presentation 360: The ABC Yummy Awards [1...

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2026/08/31

There's no stars left in the sky, cuz they're all here at the 1983 First Annual Yummy Awards -- as NBC shows us their new Saturday line-up, in a show with Howling Mad Murdock, Mr. T, the kid from Silver Spoons, Gumby, Foobie the robot, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie!

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01:00:41

A Special Presentation 359: Where's Waldo (And Mike?)...

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2026/08/24

Hey, I found a shoe, that's weird. But what's important is, we're taking a trip back to the 90s and Waldomania to take a look at the saturday morning Where's Waldo cartoon! Or "Where's Wally" as it's allegedly called in its native Britain. So don't 'wally', FattyAtomicMutant and Ethan will find Mike by next week!

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01:16:42

A Special Presentation 358: Bananaman featuring Tom!

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2026/08/17

Eric IS Bananaman! And you can too! Listen, that is, as Ethan and Tom from Flash In The Pan extol the virtues of potassium and being nutty.

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01:05:51

A Special Presentation 357: Animalympics

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2026/08/10

Mike forces Ethan to watch Animalympics cuz it's Mike's birthday and he likes the Noah's Ark disco bit

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01:15:06

A Special Presentation 356: Animal Crackers

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2026/08/03

We really hate this show.

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00:53:35

A Special Presentation 355: Tiger Sharks [2 of 2]

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2026/07/27

More tiger sharks!!!

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00:59:01

A Special Presentation 354: Tiger Sharks [1 of 2]

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2026/07/20

Finally!!! it's the tiger sharks!!!

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01:11:04

A Special Presentation 353: Karate Kat

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2026/07/13

We're zeroing in on the Tiger Sharks, the true reason for the existence of The Comic Strip, but first, yea, we must pass through the valley of the shadow of Karate Kat. Could Karate Kat actually be the worst segment of the Comic Strip? With Mini Monsters and Street Frogs, it's got some stiff competition. Also, he's lean, he's mean, a karate machine!

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00:59:18

A Special Presentation 352: Street Frogs

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2026/07/06

We're continuing our discussion of the Comic Strip with Street Frogs. Who can do hip hop better than a frog can? Who indeed.

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00:50:04

A Special Presentation 351: Mini Monsters [2 of 2]

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2026/06/29

Well, it's called "The Comic Strip," so even though it's not an actual comic strip, we're gonna count it! Today, we're looking at the TV series that killed Rankin Bass, "The Comic Strip." Actually, we talked so much that this is mostly about Mini Monsters, which is a summer camp where Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy, and all your favorite monsters go to camp. As you do.

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01:00:25

A Special Presentation 350: Mini Monsters [1 of 2]

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2026/06/22

Well, it's called "The Comic Strip," so even though it's not an actual comic strip, we're gonna count it! Today, we're looking at the TV series that killed Rankin Bass, "The Comic Strip." Actually, we talked so much that this is mostly about Mini Monsters, which is a summer camp where Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy, and all your favorite monsters go to camp. As you do.

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01:01:59

A Special Presentation 349: Peanuts Film Strips [2 of 2]

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2026/06/15

This week, we look at some REAL obscure stuff: two of the 36 circa 1979 film strips commissioned by the US Department of Education to teach children about the importance of having a job, "People Have Different Skills, Charlie Brown" and "Schoolwork is Important, Charlie Brown," starring the Peanuts gang and their new latina friend Delores. We also look at "It's Dental Flossophy, Charlie Brown," about flossing. We ramble a lot in this one, so enjoy talk about about

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01:08:47

A Special Presentation 348: Peanuts Film Strips [1 of 2]

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2026/06/08

This week, we look at some REAL obscure stuff: two of the 36 circa 1979 film strips commissioned by the US Department of Education to teach children about the importance of having a job, "People Have Different Skills, Charlie Brown" and "Schoolwork is Important, Charlie Brown," starring the Peanuts gang and their new latina friend Delores. We also look at "It's Dental Flossophy, Charlie Brown," about flossing. We ramble a lot in this one, so enjoy talk about about

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01:04:48

A Special Presentation 347: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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2026/06/01

It's the final Super Mario Brothers, in theaters as we speak -- in this one, Mario and Luigi save the whole galaxy! The big selling point of this one is that we get to see Yoshi, but Mike is real mad that Birdo got done dirty. Everyone should be asking, where is Birdo?

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01:26:26

A Special Presentation 346: The Super Mario Brothers...

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2026/05/25

The month of MAYrio continues with our look at the first modern Super Mario Brothers Movie! It's got Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Seth Rogan, and all your favorite Mario characters, except Birdo. So everyone should be asking, where's Birdo? Anyway, this one is pretty solidly okay.

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