A Special Presentation 367: Phantom 2040

Do you want to know how to do magic? Well, if you collect enough boxtops and send away, maybe all your favorite Big G cereal mascots can help show you how to do some magic. Presto Chango! Abracadabra! Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids!

It's Halloween and the crew is here to watch an ever-slenderer selection of Halloween "classics" from many different generations! This year Mike and Ethan welcome back DMXI, Fattyatomicmutant, Glumdrop, and of course Rocketshark to enjoy a selection of Halloween specials with the very specific theme "Starts with W". We'll be looking at Woody Woodpecker in Spook-A-Nanny, Witches In Stitches, Who Spooked Rodney? and our feature attraction, The Worst Witch!

It's the third Addams Family Movie... the one where none of the original cast showed up, except for Lurch and Thing. This Made-for-TV sequel does boast a stacked cast, including Tim Curry, Daryl Hannah, Ed Begly Jr, and Jerry Messing, but how does it measure up? Surprisingly decent!

It's the Phantom -- ie The Ghost Who Walks -- but this time he's in an extremely 90s cyberpunk future dystopia made by the Aeon Flux guy. It's actually pretty good! Also, we discuss the concept of elfpunk.

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 along with us here: https://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_04_vote.html

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 along with us here: https://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_04_vote.html

MacGuyver? No! The Guyver!

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!

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!

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!