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The What A Cartoon Schedule is Changing!
🕑 Added 2021-04-24 16:31:00 +0000 UTCHey everyone, the podcast embedded in this post provides an audio version of this update, but if you want a text-based version that's easier to reference, we're more than happy to provide it below.
Starting in July of 2021, we're changing the What A Cartoon schedule a bit—and don't worry, the PTA has not disbanded. As we did at the start of 2020, we're scaling back What A Cartoon a bit to better suit our production pipeline, and because of that we'll soon be producing two episodes of What A Cartoon every month. (And the What A Cartoon Movie schedule will remain unchanged.)
There's a much more detailed explanation of our decision in the podcast, but to make a long story short, our What A Cartoon episodes take a lot of work—often three to four times as much as an episode of Talking Simpsons or an episode of one of our miniseries. And for the sake of transparency, What A Cartoon isn't the most popular podcast we produce, so while we would never want to end it, we've decided it would be a better idea to shift some of our limited resources to content that's more in-demand (and give ourselves more time to produce each WAC episode).
So how will this change our podcast output? Not much, actually. So we don't have too many gaps in content, the first and third Monday of every month will feature a new episode of What A Cartoon, while the second Monday of every month will be the new home of Talking Futurama. And we'll still be posting What A Cartoon Movie on the final Monday of every month.
Of course, a handful of months out of the year feature five Mondays, and in that case, the fourth Monday will just be an off week. (This schedule, of course, is for our Patreon listeners on the $5 and up level, so if you're listening to this as a non-Patron, shift our new schedule forward one week and remove Talking Futurama from the equation.)
Because this new schedule means there will be fewer episodes of What A Cartoon per year, we're also winding down the $50 episode request tier and currently working with those patrons to get their final selections in. But this doesn't mean your input on What A Cartoon is over, and in the future we may have some ways for our listeners to choose the subject matter of certain episodes.
So, to wrap things up:
- Our new What A Cartoon schedule begins in July.
- What A Cartoon will now release on the first and third Monday of every month.
- Talking Futurama will now release on the second Monday of every month.
- What A Cartoon Movie will continue to release on the final Monday of every month.
- For the months of the year that feature five Mondays, the fourth Monday of the month will be an off week with no new episode.
Thanks for understanding, and once again, we couldn't do any of this without our great listeners. Scaling back on What A Cartoon will allow us to be more productive and also give us the opportunity to spend more time on every WAC episode without taking too many resources away from our other podcast series. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below and we'll get back to you ASAP.
Comments
Talking Simpsons
It's a possibility but we haven't decided at the moment. - Bob
Kyle
With the King Size Homer Tier going away is there any chance you might occasionally put up a poll for a listener voted What A Cartoon Episode, similar to how you put the monthly movie selection to a vote?
Joe Hodgson
I feel like you're missing an opportunity by making that random fifth Monday a dead zone when Louie has been waiting in the wings for years now for his chance to host his own podcast. Great job on all the content, fellas. Keep up the good work!
katie lamont
Sounds great!
Unfortunate for me, since WAC is the only podcast I'm subscribed for. It's primarily the history half that I listen for, but I'm guessing that's also the part that takes the most work since it's a new history to research for every new show covered.
Bob Mackey
Thanks for sticking with us!
Bob Jerry
Just joining the chorus to say WAC is the reason I joined the Patreon. But all makes sense / not planning on changing my subscription based on this change. Thank you!
Dayken
WAC is my favorite non-Simpsons feature of yours, but you put out so, so much quality content on a steady basis that I don't blame you in the slightest for wanting to lighten your workload. Less episodes is a hell of a lot more preferable than seeing you guys burn yourselves out.
Fatamatician
WAC is the reason I joined the patreon, but I feel you guys crank out an insane volume of content. I think for your well-being alone this is a good move. Thank you for all the work that you do.
Chris Tar
I mean I wouldn't volunteer less episodes but you do what you have to do. I'd rather you guys maintain a spark and desire leading to quality podcasts that we enjoying listening and you like makimg then burn yourself out and just have it be an awful death march to fill numbers
Thad Komorowski
Wow so instead of like 12 episodes a month we get 10. Still an insane workload, guys, I salute you.
Two WACs a month is still a lot of work for you guys. I’d rather have fewer shows than burn you guys out.
WaC is like my favorite thing! All the work is greatly appreciated regardless of the new schedule, take care of yourselves 👍
Matthew
Completely understandable. You guys are excellent content creators and deserve work life balance. Nothing but support over here. Also, I think Nina would support submitting the first season of Clone High as one of the options for the fall bonus series.
