What A Cartoon! - Danny Phantom "Mystery Meat"
Added 2021-10-04 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
Chosen by premium Patreon subscriber Professor Gascan, it's our first-ever podcast on the controversial Butch Hartman and his sophomore series, Danny Phantom! How did this action series make it onto Nick in 2004? What is its online legacy with fans? And what about mocking vegetarians? All of that in one big podcast, so go ghost and listen now!
I thought it was funny you guys mentioned how Butch Hartman seemed like the type to play a handsome soap opera doctor because he actually does voice a character in Fairly Oddparents that's pretty close to that: https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Rip_Studwell
Kevin
2021-10-08 21:55:41 +0000 UTC
I watched Fairly Odd Parents and Ned's Declassified, so I was watching Nick shows at the time & Hartmann's own, so I have no idea why I missed this. Friends I would meet about 4 years later would talk about it fairly often and I became familiar with the theme song (which is DEFINITELY a Pokemon rip-off) but somehow I just never watched an episode until this week's WAC, and I kind of wish I'd gotten into it on the ground floor. But hey, no time like the present at least
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2021-10-07 00:06:47 +0000 UTC
I can finally add something to the research that when Danny and Dash are in the principals office and the principle refers to Dash scoring “4 touchdowns in a single game” that is a 100% married with children reference because that is what al Bundy is known for and says more often than anything else in the show lol
Tyler the Destroyer
2021-10-05 13:47:10 +0000 UTC
So don’t hold out ant hope for voice in the game both of the Kart Racers games don’t have them. It so odd not a woohoo or ow nothing just reuse the ones you got something.
Cossover
2021-10-05 12:41:04 +0000 UTC
I know its been like a month since you recorded, but Colleen O'shaughnessey was confirmed for Sonic 2
Dylan
2021-10-05 03:59:55 +0000 UTC
No one made a Mystery Meat joke when they were discussing the Trans possibility of the show.
Michael Branson
2021-10-05 03:03:48 +0000 UTC
About the weird pacing in Danny Phantom, I wonder if they were still operating under a two 11 minutes mindset. This show has two acts instead of three acts like most half-hour shows. Ray Angrum has the storyboards for Episode #18 on his website and the cover page says "Life Lessons - #136 - Act 2". Compare to say an Avatar storyboard where act 3 of episode 19 is labeled as "319 - 03" instead of "357".I couldn't find any scripts that prove this was how they were written though. Since this isn't produced by Frederator, Fred Seibert wasn't able to just upload them to his Scribed page like with Fairly OddParents.
As for Nicktoons being widescreen, Nick was really behind compared to the rest of the industry. To add to what Harry Thorton said, Disney, Warner Bros., and Cartoon Network all switched to widescreen in 2000, 2002, and 2005 respectively. But Nick wouldn't switch to widescreen until episode 21 of T.U.F.F. Puppy in 2011.
ToonJay723
2021-10-04 16:14:00 +0000 UTC
Is he your friend and whole lot more?
Frank Grimes
2021-10-04 14:24:36 +0000 UTC
I was in middle school when this premiered and was right up my alley even though I didn't have cable at the time. Nick.com had some NickGo blip service where you could (shockingly for 2005) watch new episodes of most shows for free. I think my interest in it petered out fast as I got older and almost all episodes followed the same beats and delved more into kiddy humor. still shipped Sam and Danny hard, though
Blake R.
2021-10-04 14:21:56 +0000 UTC
Funny that Henry should bring up how Superman cartoons always make a point of him not using his X-Ray vision to peep at girls, because there actually IS a version of the character that did it: In the early Smallville episode "X-Ray" Clark really does look into the girls' locker room with his X-Ray vision. Since he's still developing his powers and isn't in control of them yet, it's shown as this thing he accidentally did that only shows up temporarily, but he SURE has a big smile on his face as he's looking in at Lana naked.
On widescreen cartoons in the 2000s: Simpsons became widescreen with the switch to HD in early 2009. But also, Disney Channel cartoons from the early-to-mid 2000s were surprisingly ahead of their time, all made in HD and widescreen years before said tech was common. So when you watch something like Kim Possible on Disney+, it isn't cropped or upscaled because it was always made that way. It's an impressive level of future-proofing on Disney's part.
Harry Thornton
2021-10-04 13:15:51 +0000 UTC
He’s a Phantom~
Christoper Cross
2021-10-04 11:58:32 +0000 UTC
You mentioned Denver the Last Dinosaur and now that theme song won't leave my head 😩 lol
2021-10-04 11:18:29 +0000 UTC