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What A Cartoon! - Captain Planet "A Hero For Earth"
🕑 Added 2019-05-06 05:03:28 +0000 UTCWe're the Planeteers, and you can be one too on this week's eco-friendly podcast! Henry and Bob go back to 1991 when global warning was a less imminent threat, and we deconstruct the super heroics of Captain Planet. We talk about how Ted Turner's pet project grew into a movement of more environmentally conscious kids, as well as how the show was both incredibly corny and correct about so many things that still threaten our future! So let your powers combine and listen now!
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Brian Rude
I just got around to listening to this episode and I loved it. You guys made it into one of the funniest episodes of this show with your lighthearted complaints about the writing and acting - I think I like episodes like this more than the ones about cartoons I legitimately enjoy! As someone else mentioned, Bob's "sleepy actor" voice cracks me up. Also, I just finished the episode on the way to work, and the first thing I see in the local news is that LeVar Burton is originally from Sacramento, where I live, and that he's returning next week because a park is being dedicated to him. What a fun coincidence.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
Being a younger millennial than you guys (allegedly, the age range of generations is spotty at best), I don't know if I ever watched this show as a kid, so my only knowledge of it comes from cultural osmosis and I was kind of shocked how damn boring even the first episode of it was
