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Update: What A Cartoon! January Podcast Schedule Change
🕑 Added 2020-01-10 19:42:03 +0000 UTCHey everybody! Just sending out this small update on our What A Cartoon! podcast plans for this month. Previously our schedule for January said that Street Sharks would be next, but some guest planning issues mean it'll be moved to February. In its place, Sunday night's Patreon episode will be Batman: The Animated Series' "Almost Got 'Im," previously planned for the week after. And after that, we've got a special surprise to go in its place.
The third What A Cartoon! podcast in January 2020 will be:
Bucky O’Hare and the Toad Wars - "Home, Swampy, Home [Patreon Date: 1/20/20 - Free Feed Date 1/27/20]
At special request of a premium Patreon supporter, we're going back to the early '90s and one of the strangest toy tie-ins ever broadcast. Based on some wild comics and made in the shadow of turtle ninjas, this space adventure of rabbits versus toads played out across 13 episodes, and involved many veterans of comics and Marvel Productions. We'll be covering the fourth episode of the series in detail, so get ready to board the Righteous Indignation soon!
In the US markets Bucky's DVDs are out of print, but finding it on, say, Dailymotion or even YouTube is just a Google search away (allegedly).
Apologies for the late change in schedule, but we hope you all enjoy all the podcasts we've got up our sleeves for the rest of the month. And don't forget, The Animatrix won the poll, so look forward to hearing about the anime anthology very soon!
Comments
David Prosper
Seconded! The show was a weird revelation to me as a kid, I caught it as part of a weird block with Mr Bogus (does anyone remember that at all?) on like 6:00 am on a Saturday. The theme song was enough to get me but the show was so incredibly bizarre that I was sucked right in. Years later we found a Bucky O'Hare tape for a buck at the discount bin in Sam Goody's near my college (along with a copy of the Clerks animated series, which was a hell of a pairing). We watched it during our after-school, uh, "chill cartoon time." That's when we also caught all the very obvious NAZA references in the Toads/Komplex (ex: the double reverse-swastika pupils in Komplex, among a million others!!) . So Bucky O'Hare, weirdly enough, enjoyed a second life as a weird in-joke for my group of friends in college, where we showed the tape to every stoner liberal arts major who loved watching incredibly weird things.
Joe Hodgson
To whom ever requested this: good choice! I have tons of affection for this show and consider this probably the best episode from the series, it's just the right amount of clunk with some genuinely enjoyable parts that makes you wonder if it could have been an actual good show with more money/better direction instead of a perfectly cromulent piece of 90s animation. And yes, nobody cares about making money off of the show so it's even all on YouTube for those who want to watch (and the DVDs were actually never in print in the US so pirate with a clear conscience North American residents).
