This week we kick some spoot with Norb and Dag in the classic Nicktoon, The Angry Beavers. We take you through the series' surprisingly long development, the career of creator Mitch Schauer, the show's rejected final episode, and so much more before diving into the shorts "Up All Night" and "Dag For Night." So put on some comical boxers and listen along to find out if these beavers are angry, or just passive-aggressive!
2019-09-02 03:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to September, you lovely subscribers to the Talking Simpsons Network! We hope you're enjoying your Labor Day weekend (or just your regular weekend if you don't have that where you live). We've got a big month of podcasts coming your way, and that includes the What A Cartoon Movie!
As usual, September will feature a brand new movie podcast discussion exclusively for our $10+ supporters, and we ask for your help to choose! And we open up the voting to our $5 patrons as well becaus...
2019-09-01 17:08:57 +0000 UTC
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We made it through the long podcast days of summer and have arrived in September with even more old cartoon goodness! This month will have five awesome episodes that run the gamut of cult hits, anime classics, vintage Nicktoons, and Comedy Central oldies! Plus, this month will see not one, but TWO POLLS, as we ask you lovely patrons to help us choose a new What A Cartoon Movie! subject AND our fall 2019 miniseries of exclusive podcasts!!
And if you're not yet a subscriber, signing up at...
2019-08-30 19:15:26 +0000 UTC
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Back again is our pal Matthew Jay (The Deep End, Cartoons 101) for a fun chat about one of Homer's most shameful episodes of the series. Let's see, he nearly kills his father on at least three occasions and is too disgusting even to the strangest people on earth. All that, plus the filt...
2019-08-28 04:43:42 +0000 UTC
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We've reached the end of yet another month on the Talking Simpsons Network, which means it's time for our community podcast! This time around, we dish on the tons and tons of exciting—and not-so-exciting—news coming out of Disney's D23 conference, gripe and grouse about the recent viral Simpsons/Trump video, and then discuss former Simpsons composer Alf Clausen's lawsuit against the show. And, as always, we read and respond to your questions and comments from our recent batch of episodes....
2019-08-27 01:44:07 +0000 UTC
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Strap on your proton packs and grab your PKE meters, as we head back to the late '80s toy-fueled toon, The Real Ghostbusters! We uncover how the fairly adult film transitioned into a Saturday morning blockbuster, the many changes the show went through, and the many talented folks who worked on Real Ghostbusters (both in America and Japan). Then we dig into one of the most celebrated episodes of the series, the apocalyptic Ragnarok And Roll! Who YOU gonna call?
2019-08-26 03:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Our $10 Patreon subscribers got quite a treat in August with the monthly What A Cartoon Movie! We did the brand new, Netflix-hosted reboot of Rocko's Modern Life, Static Cling! If you're not yet a premium subscriber, here's a preview of that special podcast as we explore just how the new Nicktoon came to be! And if you want the full podcast, just pledge $10 at Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons to get Static Cling and all our previous What A Cartoon Movie! podcasts!!!!!!
2019-08-24 04:44:13 +0000 UTC
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After almost 23 years a brand new Rocko is here, and the movie has quite a lot to say about the power of nostalgia! We dive deep into the film that just released on Netflix, about how it came to be, its progressive story, and many deep references to the show. PLUS, we dissect the final episode of the original series Future Schlock which is directly connected to Static Cling! Listen and be made whole by this brand new installment of the classic Nicktoon!!
2019-08-24 04:21:41 +0000 UTC
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If you missed the chance to see one of our many live shows in San Francisco and Portland, the good news is we'll soon be headed to Seattle to do a panel at PAX West 2019 with special guest, the great comedian and professional comedy writer, Mike Drucker!
When: Saturday, August 31st at 12:30pm
Where: PAX West, The Sasquatch Theatre
And here's the panel description, str...
2019-08-23 22:51:30 +0000 UTC
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This week we have a mix of dingos and lobsters as we're joined again by Imran Khan! After some blissful sick days playing video games, Lisa is thrust back into school unprepared for a test, leading her to cheat and make things more and more complicated. In a totally unrelated story, Homer befriends a lobster named Pinchy and, well, things don't turn out so well for one of them... Listen now, mate!
2019-08-21 03:50:18 +0000 UTC
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You've probably never heard of Chihayafuru, but after this episode of What A Cartoon!, it just might be the next anime series you get into! At the request of this week's special guest, voice actor, YouTuber, and anime expert SungWon Cho, this time around we're taking a loo...
2019-08-19 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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We've gone granola this week as we welcome back Giant Bomb's Alex Navarro to discuss Homer's hippie conversion! We talk about The Summer of Love, bare feet, NARCs, Beatles covers, Billy Joel, and so much more as Homer becomes the hippie his mother wanted him to be. Try not to freak out as you listen along to this week's far out podcast!
2019-08-14 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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If you weren't paying attention to TV between 1993 and 1994, you might have missed Mighty Max: one of the best cartoons to be made entirely for the sake of selling toys. Despite its cynical roots, the show's creators were somehow on an extremely long leash, which gave this micro-size action figure adaptation a surprisingly dark and serious tone. On this episode of What A Cartoon!, Kat Bailey joins us to explore a surprisin...
2019-08-12 04:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Season 9 has come to an end, but not everything was broadcast! The DVDs had a number of deleted scenes, and we're here to present them to you with our audio commentary! We give you insight and history all in our classic podcast style!!
2019-08-10 16:33:41 +0000 UTC
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Season 9 has come to an end, but not everything was broadcast! The DVDs have a number of deleted scenes, and we're here to present them to you with our funny commentary! We give you insight and history all in our classic podcast style!!
2019-08-10 15:29:15 +0000 UTC
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Talking Simpsons headed to Hollywood for this star-studded episode, and we got the help of the hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Played?, Nick Wiger, Heather Anne Campbell, and 2019-08-07 05:37:21 +0000 UTC
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Jeremy Parish of Retronauts returns for the what might be the most '80s anime ever made! We're covering the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA that was one of the first big hits for uncut Japanese cartoons in the United States! We look at the show's influences, BC's complicated legal history, its many influences from American films, and we chat about the very...
2019-08-05 04:00:01 +0000 UTC
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A brand new month means another opportunity to pick the subject of our monthly premium podcast, What A Cartoon Movie! Each month we record a fresh, extra-long podcast about an animated film, and then release it for our $10 Patreon subscribers. And when we open up the voting, we want to let all the $5 folks have a chance to be heard as well so they can help pick episodes they might one day enjoy.
But August is a little different!! As we mentioned in our most recent community podcast, thi...
2019-08-01 14:56:10 +0000 UTC
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Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about the 1996 classic Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for more than THREE HOURS! Listen now to this free preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level to hear the whole thing and all the previous What A Cartoon Movie! ...
2019-07-31 17:37:10 +0000 UTC
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The dog days of summer are upon us once again, and we fully recommend you stay inside and listen to podcasts until this whole "summer" thing blows over. And lucky for you, we've got a bunch of great What A Cartoon! episodes planned for August, featuring our expected wide variety of subject matter. First we'll be talking about an early anime classic, then a surprisingly mature and well-written series ...
2019-07-31 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It's Halloween again, and that means it's time for one of the most violent Treehouse trio of stories yet, all with animation writer Alan Denton as our guest! We chat all about killer hair, splashing Regis' eyes, and the scandalous history of Jerry Springer in American pop culture! So get ready because this podcast is going to SUCK............... your blood!
2019-07-31 04:36:43 +0000 UTC
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It's the end of another month, so once again it's time to explore what's going on in the Simpsons world and our world with another episode of the Talking Simpsons community podcast! This time around, we mourn the loss of the amazingly talented voice actor Russi Taylor, go over the latest Simpsons news from Comic-Con, and talk about the Simpsons' recent Emmy nomination. And, as always, we respond to your questions and comments from our most recent round of episodes. Thanks so much for your sup...
2019-07-31 02:50:53 +0000 UTC
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Just one year before their '90s finale, MTV's original animated bad boys hit the silver screen in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. This adult animated adventure did the unthinkable by not only getting the TV-addicted teens out of their house, but on a cross-country adventure across Clinton-era America that's full of chills, thrills, and self-romance! And on this episode of What A Cartoon Movie!, we dive deep into the history of both Beavis and Butt-Head and their kickass movie, and give our b...
2019-07-30 18:10:39 +0000 UTC
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We welcome back Matthew Jay (The Deep End, Cartoons 101) for a millennial classic that's a tribute to anime, robots, video games, wrestling, comic books, and all the other pop culture we love! Yes, we head to New Jersey in 2004 for the lost Toonami series Megas XLR! We go deep in how th...
2019-07-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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The ninth season of Simpsons is in the history books for the podcast, so we're here with our usual end of season wrap up exclusively for Patreon subscribers. Henry and Bob did some deep research on the series to find the many big news stories that broke during the broadcast of season 9, plus the hosts pick their favorite/least favorite episodes of the year! Listen now to learn so much more about the most tumultuous season in series history!
2019-07-26 06:00:00 +0000 UTC
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It's Phil Hartman's final appearance on Simpsons, and joining us for this exploration of his career is Scott Gairdner, writer/actor/creator of Moonbeam City/discoverer of Tiny Fuppets/cohost of Podcast: The Ride! We chat about our childhood memories of Hartman, our last Troy McClure video, and also a story about Bart accidentally killing a bird t...
2019-07-24 03:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Third Impact has arrived on our podcast as OK KO: Let's Be Heroes' showrunners/animation experts Ian Jones-Quartey and Toby Jones return for our Evangelion episode! We go deep into the career of Hideaki Anno as he went from an animation prodigy to one of the most...
2019-07-22 03:28:58 +0000 UTC
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This week we're facing Homer's midlife crisis and Chris Cabin of the podcast We Hate Movies joins us for the occasion! Homer learns he's actually 39 and he searches for meaning in what years he has left, finding inspiration in the life of Thomas Edison. But when that fails, things really fall off the rails with scary inventions, running over ghosts, and toi...
2019-07-17 05:14:19 +0000 UTC
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At the dawn of the new millennium, no figure stood higher for nerds than Kevin Smith. Fresh off of his last major motion picture and right before his first attempt at closing the book on the View Askew-niverse, Smith fraternized with mass-market television with an animated interpretation of his silver screen debut. Like many of the shows from the early '00s prime-time cartoon boom, Clerks crashed hard, but the few episodes it produced remain dear in the hearts of anyone who grew up cutting th...
2019-07-15 04:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Season 10 has begun and Gamespot's Kallie Plagge is back to help us with back to school shopping! This week Lisa deals with a new kid being way too grown-up for Springfield Elementary, while Bart is forced into the grease business by Homer! All this and Marge's plans for an emu farm in this week's podcast! Listen now and DMY!!
2019-07-10 04:00:01 +0000 UTC
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