#10: Cat's Don't Dance and The Recurring Recalcitrance Of Corporate Animation
Release Date: 09/18/2022
Show #3: The Dick Tracy Animated Canon VS Dick Tracy (1990)
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Veteran of the force Joseph Wade responds to our call for backup in taking down the notorious criminal enterprise comprised of the many screen incarnations of yellow-coated copper Dick Tracy! For a newspaper comic strip Ol' Dick has quite the heinous rap sheet on the animated side outside of a Daffy Duck short. The live-action cohort exists in the shadow of Warren Beatty's hubristic effort, celebrating its 25th anniversary of biting on the style of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. Is there a place in this world anymore for an old-fashioned two-fisted dick and his gallery of gruesome goons? Our...
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Show #2: Predator - Killer Of Killers VS Predator
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The terms "versus" and "Predator" have historically been a volatile combination, comparable in potency to when a popular franchise tosses off a haphazard animated tie-in to gin up interest in its next instalment. However director Dan Trachtenberg, not content with only getting the Predator universe back to fighting form in the celebrated Prey, seeks to do equal justice to the cartoon counterpart with a fatal four-way anthology piece. Besides expanding the scope of the new films' story to the stars above, Killer Of Killers gets Predator back doing what he does best: pitting the...
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Show #1: Our Past VS Our Future (featuring Community!)
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At long last our animation investigations have resumed, and a reintroduction is in order! Niall and Dwayne lay out their bona fides for the task ahead of them before unveiling the patented DOA system for colliding pop culture particles into each other. To calibrate this baby the late 00s self-aware sitcom Community fits the bill, focusing on one of its later form experiments in GI Joe parody and how it fits against the show's regular dalliances with other genres & mediums. Many memories are unearthed, regrets are shared and much excitement builds for what's to come. It can be scary coming...
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DOA SOTSM Test 19-05-25
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Test upload of old episode in the DOA format. Delete later!
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#12: Phil Tippett's Mad God
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In this holiest of seasons it is only right to give thanks for those most devout adherents to the creation of totally sick visual spectacles that will shadow our subconscious for the long nights to come. Monster-making-maestro Phil Tippett spills forth with a passion project three decades in the making that pushed him past the brink of sanity, though is the world ready to accept his divine message? The Bible is recited; dreams are interpreted; a video game is shamelessly referenced and swiftly apologised for; and even through all the layers of muck we have the stomach for a Podcast Repaste....
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#11: Sublimations feat. Private Snafu, The Legend Of Pipi and The Best Of The Worst Cartoons
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SOTSM gains access to a tranche of classified cartoons and disseminates then wantonly to the listening public! Award -winning animators lend their talents to the war effort in Private Snafu; the next crop of young recruits show off their skills to recount The Legend Of Pipi; and an unexploded ordinance marked too hot for TV is carefully examined lest we are exposed to The Best Of The Worst Cartoons. It's for your ears only!
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#10: Cat's Don't Dance and The Recurring Recalcitrance Of Corporate Animation
Drawn Or Alive
Warner Brothers mergers with dire consequences for the animation wing of the company have been making the headlines lately. Making the headlines AGAIN you mean, as this saga has repeated itself in one form or another since at least 1997 when Cats Don't Dance was on the receiving end of such shabby treatment. Even the combined efforts of cartoon project Mr Fixer Mark Dindal, the wisdom of dancing sage Gene Kelly and an Old Hollywood aesthetic sure to please the broken down old bastards on the board weren't enough to stop these cats getting tossed out into the street. It's been taken into the...
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#9: Sublimations feat. Genndy Tartakovsy's Popeye, Ramayana and Phil Tippett's Mad God
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Everything old is new again! Genndy Tartakovsky is back on a hot streak though the sparks of past ambitions smoulder with the recent divulging of an extensive animatic for his cancelled Popeye film. Here & now the second series of Primal is off to a savagely satisfying start; toyetic tangents on The Animist and Starscream OVA; India/Japan co-pro Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama appears to mortalkind for a commemorative new release; and a more disgusting deity descends after 30 years as renowned stop-motion animator Phil Tippett summons a Mad God.
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#8: We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and The Fading Dinosaur Renaissance
Drawn Or Alive
The cultural phenomenon they called the Dinosaur Renaissance found many modes of expression for making ancient giant lizards cool again. The trouble lay in precisely -who- was deciding what made them cool to begin with; Steven Spielberg certainly contributed his fair share to the craze with Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time preceding it, though tapping the screenwriter of Moonstruck to adapt a twenty page picture storybook for a cinema feature was perhaps a touch hubristic. Four directors; an expensive voice cast; the baffling resurgence of Bing Crosby impressions in the early 90s; they...
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#7: Sublimations feat. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Scavengers Reign and Tigtone
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Like a pharaoh of antiquity a great man departs our mortal plane before his time, yet leaves behind a magnificent legacy that will endure for generations. Niall and Dwayne bid farewell to Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi, a key player in getting this friendship together and ergo without whom this show might never have happened! A sci-fi survival short is embiggened as the forthcoming Scavengers Reign; a-questing we will go into the unhinged fantasy world of Tigtone; and surprising nobody Dwayne watches new cartoons about old Star Trek rendered in an even older style. A curse upon all who...
info_outlineWarner Brothers mergers with dire consequences for the animation wing of the company have been making the headlines lately. Making the headlines AGAIN you mean, as this saga has repeated itself in one form or another since at least 1997 when Cats Don't Dance was on the receiving end of such shabby treatment. Even the combined efforts of cartoon project Mr Fixer Mark Dindal, the wisdom of dancing sage Gene Kelly and an Old Hollywood aesthetic sure to please the broken down old bastards on the board weren't enough to stop these cats getting tossed out into the street. It's been taken into the warm homes of a dedicated contingent over the years, though will notorious musical holdout Niall be swayed by its charms? As is often the case with these yokes the answer is obvious: LET'S PUT ON A SHOW!