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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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01:24:06

A Special Presentation 315: Wednesday w/ Steph...

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

2025/10/20

Steph Cherrywell, author of Unboxing Libby and The Ink Witch, joins us to talk about Wednesday, the rather Monster High-esque new Addams Family iteration. Jenna Ortega is finding her niche in a world with four different kinds of monsters and also whatever the hell the Addamses are supposed to be this time round.

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01:22:56

A Special Presentation 314: Commercial Break with...

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2025/10/13

Longtime friend of the pod Mike Westfall of Advent Calendar House has returned, and so have the comic strip-themed commercials! Mike, Mike, and Ethan get to wax nostalgic and share personal stories about their favorite comic strips and the products they advertised; Snoopy is certainly here, but you'll also see Popeye, Garfield, Annie, Andy Capp, and even Ziggy?? Hope you like Zingers!

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01:16:00

A Special Presentation 313: Flash Gordon

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2025/10/06

It's Flash Gordon! Not the movie with Queen, it's a Filmation joint that's so incredibly boring that we got derailed into doing an improv session about the Monarch and Mrs. Dr. the Monarch from Venture Brothers dealing with an unexpected bout of blueberry inflation.

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01:33:16

A Special Presentation 312: Rock and Rule w/ Tom of...

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2025/09/29

In honor of the passing of Nelvana, the little animation studio that could, we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan to look at their most ambitious project: Rock and Rule [1983], the rock and rule fantasmagoria about a cyberpunk furry future where legendary Superrocker Mok is on the hunt for a voice that can summon a demon for reasons of evil!

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00:59:30

A Special Presentation 311: Rock and Rule w/ Tom of...

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

2025/09/22

In honor of the passing of Nelvana, the little animation studio that could, we're joined by Tom of Flash in the Pan to look at their most ambitious project: Rock and Rule [1983], the rock and rule fantasmagoria about a cyberpunk furry future where legendary Superrocker Mok is on the hunt for a voice that can summon a demon for reasons of evil!

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01:22:29

A Special Presentation 310: Snoopy Come Home

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2025/09/15

It's an actual Peanuts theatrical movie: Snoopy Come Home! It's both more and less than the Peanuts television specials. It's the special where we learn what the relationship between Charlie Brown and Snoopy is really about.

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01:10:20

A Special Presentation 309: Life is a Circus, Charlie...

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2025/09/08

We're back on our bullshit this week with TWO Peanuts specials wherein Snoopy almost leaves Charlie Brown for (the same?) girl dog.

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00:57:21

A Special Presentation 308: Big Johnson shirts

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2025/09/01

We intended to talk about two Peanuts specials, but we got distracted and just talked about Big Johnson shirts for an hour. It's a Big Johnathon!

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01:36:36

A Special Presentation 307: The Neighbors w/ Ryan...

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2025/08/25

Friend of the pod Ryan Estrada returns to tell us about the exciting, intense, and lucrative world of Korean webcomics (or, as they call them in Korea, webtoons)... turns out that in Korea webcomicking is a profession that gets you some respect! Then we take a look at Korean thriller "The Neighbors," about a serial killer and his suspicious apartment building neighbors, also based on a webtoon!

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01:20:21

A Special Presentation 306: Fantastic Four FIRST STEPS

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2025/08/18

Can it actually be??? A good Fantastic Four movie? After Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four (2015), one would hardly even dare hope!

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01:13:53

A Special Presentation 305: Pokey the Penguin

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2025/08/11

The Ur-webcomic Pokey the Penguin is being adapted into animated form. And they said it couldn't be done!

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01:24:26

A Special Presentation 304: The Fantastic Four (2015)

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2025/08/04

The Fantastic Four are back and they're still not very fantastic! Boy! They suck!

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01:01:59

A Special Presentation 303: The Fantastic Four (2005)

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2025/07/28

They keep trying to make movies about the Fantastic Four and they keep SUCKING. There's nothing fantastic about this turkey, wah wah wahhhh!

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01:22:27

A Special Presentation 302: Dennis the Menace,...

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2025/07/21

Before they made the Dennis the Menace theatrical movie, they made the Dennis the Menace made-for-TV movie, wherein Dennis discovers a dinosaur bone and shenanigans ensue.

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01:01:17

A Special Presentation 301: The Beebee Beagle Show

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2025/07/14

Hanna Barbera is known for ripping stuff off, so of course they tried to rip off the Muppet Show. How did it? Ehhhhhhhhhh...

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01:00:27

A Special Presentation 300: Saturday's the Place [2...

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2025/07/07

Did you know that cartooning is a waste of time and paper? Janet from Three' Company sure thinks so as a reporter assigned to interview veteran cartoonist Ted Knight in this attempt to get kids to watch Saturday morning cartoons!

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00:59:33

A Special Presentation 299: Saturday's the Place [1...

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2025/06/30

Did you know that cartooning is a waste of time and paper? Janet from Three' Company sure thinks so as a reporter assigned to interview veteran cartoonist Ted Knight in this attempt to get kids to watch Saturday morning cartoons!

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01:28:46

A Special Presentation 298: Saturday Morning Supercade

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2025/06/23

Remember the good old days when they had to sell kids on the exciting cartoons that were going to be on Saturday morning by making a prime time special about Scott Baio opening a disco in Hazzard County, Alabama, and getting extorted by Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane? Also the Sid and Marty Kroft puppet was there? We sure do.

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01:24:09

A Special Presentation 297: Q*Bert

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2025/06/16

We're breaking our own rule to ostensibly talk about the Q*Bert cartoon from Saturday Morning Supercade, but actually we got distracted to talk about Hazbin Hotel and other stuff instead. Cuz Q*Bert suckkkks! The coloring book is way better.

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01:25:27

A Special Presentation 296: Rupert and the Frog Song

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2025/06/09

Paul McCartney is, as you might know, one of the Beatles. Then he did that frog song.

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