On this installment of the 2024 Spooktober Celebration, we look back to a forgotten cult classic with an extended, fascinating post-life based on the dedicated work of one super fan. A network special from a bygone era about the true reason of the season - partying and mob justice - we breakdown the fascinating animation and character design on display before going LONG on the attempts to turn this into a franchise forty-five years after the fact.

Film covered for the podcast was Witch's Night Out. Directed by John Leach and written by Leach and Isobel Jean Rankin. Original airdate October 27, 1978.

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Making good on our Spooktober promise to bring back some old favourites, we are taking another look at one of the greatest Canadian produced shows and one of the best examples of introducing the horror genre to kids - Martin Mystery. What other show for kids would attempt a parody of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining? And set it in British Columbia?

Episode covered for the podcast is episode 15 "Haunting of the Blackwater." Written by Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliot. Directed by Stephane Berry & Gregory Panaccione. Original airdate March 3, 2004.

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On this week's Pride special, we are taking you back to a dark time for LGBT representation in children's entertainment where the idea of a same-sex kiss was shot down by corporate meddling in the pre-production phase. Ok...maybe not that far back. Back in 2017, a little Nelvana magical girl show could have been one of the first steps forward for moderate representation of LGBT characters. Unfortunately for Mysticons, Nickelodeon was not willing to support the production team's vision. And we needed to sell toys...a capitalist tale as old as time.

Episode covered for the podcase was episode 7 "Scourge of the Seven Skies." Written by Grant Sauvé. Directed by Matt Ferguson. Original Canadian airdate September 24, 2017.

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris jump on the Paddington hype train to discuss the only adaptation of the marmalade loving bear to be produced by the Great White North with The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997). Mostly we chat about Michael Bond's storybook character, his enduring appeal and legacy, and our personal histories with Paddington while sifting through the utterly comforting vibes and pleasant aesthetics of the 1997 CINAR adaptation.

Episode covered is Episode 2 "Paddington Goes Underground / Paddington in the Ring / Mr. Curry Lets Off Steam."

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris get back into poorly conceived and try-hard offensive adult animation with the unexpected adaptation of a controversial cartoonists' therapeutic newspaper cartoons. While chatting about John Callahan's fascinating career, work, and enduring legacy, we dive into the=is strange attempt to turn him into a household name through the medium of adult cartoons with the seemingly forgotten series QUADS!. Despite our best efforts to talk around it, we nevertheless dissect the bad humour, bad aesthetic, and all-around bad taste it left in our mouths after watching.

Episode covered is Episode 7 "Gonad's Faust."

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris go back to school with a maniacal phantom creeper in the basement with Flying Rhino Junior High. While once again bemoaning how hard it is to find any research on the shows we cover, we discuss show creator Ray Nelson Jr.'s unique approach to character design and the spurious merits of edutainment in a post-Magic School Bus world. Plus, we dissect the unmistakably incel vibes from the show's main villain.

Episode covered is Episode 2 "Phantu's Curse."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie mock God's design with animalistic abominations and unbridled gross-out humour with Nelvana's Spliced. While speculating on what the evil doctor's plan was for all his animal hybrids on his abandoned island, we chat about the show's animation style and classic inspirations and the long lost comedic art of "RAAAAANNNNNDOOOOOM" style jokes. Plus, Sylvie has some choice words for the recent Station Eleven adaptation and both wonder what kind of animal hybrid they would choose to be. 

Episode covered is Episode 6 "Honorary Freak" / "Come to the Dork Side."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie channel their ki energy and raise their power levels to unreached numbers with the second official episode of anime side series CanaDub. We chat about the Dragon Ball Z dubbing and localization efforts by Saban Entertainment and Vancouver based Ocean Groups to make the intergalactic tale of martial arts palatable for western audiences. While skirting over DBZ and its importance to anime history and our memories of it, we delve into the important narrative and thematic changes made to Toei Animation's flagship series (something something "another dimensions"), the voice cast and their interpretation of these classic characters, and the sole reason why this dub lives in infamy. 

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On this week's episode, Chris has to answer for his terrible 14-year old taste as he and Sylvie take a look at the oddity that was Sons of Butcher. While attempting to answer the all-important question of "why it look like that?" we look into the unique production history of the strange, rock comedy born from the mean streets of Hamilton. And of course, the many, many ways it has aged poorly. 

Episode covered is Episode 2 "Huntin' the Legend."

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On this week's episode, it's just a prank bro as Sylvie and Chris analyze the many harebrained antics of self-proclaimed master prankster Andy Larkin with the series What's With Andy? While digging into our culture's odd fascination with pranking and practical jokes in the early 2000s, we chat about the show's interesting production history, its animation style and influences, and get at the central question of the series of what exactly is WITH Andy? Spoiler alert: like most prankster, he's kind of a sociopath.

Episode covered is Episode 6 "101 Underpants/Playing Dead."

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On this week's episode, we take to the skies with hybrid motorcycle/planes in the floating world of Atmos in Nerd Corps Entertainment's Storm Hawks. A vestige of the trends apparent in late 2000s CGI animation, we chat about the many influences which helped craft its unique look and its detailed attempts at sci-fi fantasy world-building and astro-turfing a franchise. 

Episodes covered are Episode 1 & 2 "Age of Heroes Part 1 and Part 2."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie continue exploring the vast archives of animation that is the National Film Board of Canada with another pairing of short films which couldn't be anymore different. Our conversation somehow steers from fancy-footed lumberjacks who please the girls completely and rotoscoping to the "pyschological realism" and confluence of animation techniques used to represent the broken ambitions of a once promising animator.

Films covered are John Weldon's Log Driver's Waltz (1979) and Chris Landreth's Ryan (2004).

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris jack into the mainframe and earn their real gamer cred by talking about Mainframe Entertainment's seminal series ReBoot. After a lively chat about its production history and the rapidly evolving status of CGI animation in the industry, we dissect the reasons why we find the landmark series paradoxically holds up while also feeling wonderfully dated at the time.

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On this week's episode, we are stepping into the cutesy goth aesthetic once more with a stop-motion series that we could politely classify as being "inspired" by the works of Tim Burton. A misfit group of unfortunates at a ramshackle orphanage trying desperately to be adopted despite their colourful deformities - you'd think that would lead to a couple of good chuckles over this forlorn found family. You'd be wrong, because What It's Like Being Alone drops the ball in more ways than you can imagine. Incidentally, have you ever watched The Oblongs?

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 10 "Lucky Lucy, Or You Got To Know When To Hold Them." Directed by Rob Stefaniuk and written by Brad Peyton and Karen Walton. Original airdate August 28, 2006.

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On this weeks episode, we are joined by friend of the show Thomas Wishloff to talk about the coming-of-age orthodontic body horror that was Braceface. While analyzing how it approaches the metaphor of the prickliness of growing up and how maturely it represents the experience, we talk about the ways it held up and remains relevant. Until we somehow get completely derailed by an impromptu game of "Six Degrees of The Exorcist" or something. 

Episode covered is Episode 8 "The Worst Date Ever. Period."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie tap into their inner weeb and start a side series analyzing the crucial part the Canadian animation industry played in localizing and dubbing all your favourite anime from your childhood. For the inaugural episode of "CanaDub" we chat about the one named Sailor Moon and how a Mississauga company worked under incredibly stressful conditions to bring her Sailor Scout adventures to the West. While delving into the nuances and mandated changes that came with adapting anime for an international audience, we talk about Sailor Moon's importance in anime history, our memories of it, and the state of anime dubbing within the industry at the time. 

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie temp it up by taking a look at one of the most mid-2000s adult flash animated cartoons Odd Job Jack. We chat a bit about the state of flash animation in the aughts while also touching on labour rights, the show's baffling ability to pull guest stars, its dated animation and humour, and its strange legacy (or lack thereof). Also: if you have not gone to the official Odd Job Jack website, we highly recommend it.

Episode covered is Episode 13 "American Wiener."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie wonder why a pantheon of Greek gods settled in a Canadian metropolis to teach some teenagers how to save the world in Class of the Titans. While digging into our cultural fascination with Greek mythology that peaked in the mid-2000s, we chat about the show's style influences, what makes a good origin story for a team of heroes, the nuances and pitfalls of adapting ancient myth for contemporary audiences, and why Sylvie decided to binge the whole series....

Episodes covered are Episode 1-3 "Chaos 101 Part 1,2, and 3"

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris travel down to where there is not a lot going on to try and chat about the cynical retread of a Canadian sitcom classic with Corner Gas...Animated. While grappling with the fundamental question of "WHY DOES THIS EXIST??" we also talk about the troubling trend of lazy animated adaptations of live-action media, the merits of the original Saskatchewan set series, what gets lost in the medium translation, and some unflattering stuff about Justin Trudeau.

Episode covered is Episode 18 "Paper Sashay."

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris shake a stick at the hyperactive weirdness of Stickin' Around. While gawking at the unbridled strangeness of its parody heavy comedy, we attempt to break down it's unique, squigglevision animation, it's abstract approach to colour theory and backgrounds, how it provided a realistic depiction of the devolving nuclear family in the 90s, its interesting origin as a trauma allegory, and how exactly it holds up 20 years later. A 

Episode covered is Episode 33 "Slime a Bean/Voice of Doom."

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris invite you to run with us as we take a look at a certified classic (that's a little before our time) in The Raccoons. We discuss the inescapable trend of environmentalism in kid's entertainment and whether or not that resonates anymore, the incredible career of show creator Kevin Gillis, the amazing new wave soundtrack, how important the series became in the history of Canadian animation, and the strange relationship dynamics of talking trash pandas.

Episode covered is Episode 4 "The Evergreen Grand Prix"

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On this weeks episode, Chris and Sylvie begin a side series exploring the vast archives of animation that is the National Film Board of Canada. While discussing the importance of the NFB and it's impact on the discussion and production of animation in Canada, we also chat about two films produced through the organization, while flying off on weird tangents about "yeeting," French Painters, Canadian geography, war propaganda, and so much more.

Films covered are Norman McLaren's Neighbours (1952) and Anita Lebeau's Big Drive (2011).

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie go full A.S.C.A.B (All Space Cops Are Bastards) with Marathon Media's Team Galaxy. While chatting a bit about the storied production relationship between France and Canada, we discuss the show's suspect politics, the aesthetic of Marathon Media's many anime inspirations, the voice acting industry, and so much more!

Episode covered is Episode 39 - "Intergalactic Exchange"

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie listen to their animal instincts and check out Life's a Zoo.tv, a "timely" parody of reality television from 2008. We chat about the evolving cultural opinion of reality television, the difficulties in producing good animated television aimed for adults, cock rocker Danko Jones for some reason related to Canadian broadcasting mandates, our fondness for stop-motion animation and so much more!

Episode covered is Episode 2 - "You Snooze, You Lose It." 

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On this week's episode, to celebrate the early access release of a Greek mythology inspired roguelite sequel that one host is hooked on, we are taking another look at a wonderful artifact from the 2000s pop culture Greek mythology craze - Class of the Titans. While debating whether or not we've entered into another phase of this phenomenon, we breakdown a classic episode involving bait-and-switch plot twists, the personification of death, will they won't they romance, and Mt. Olympus cuckoldry. If you haven't beaten Hades II yet and really want to give Cronus his just desserts, then boy do we have the episode for you.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 27 "Cronus Vanquished." Written by Richard Clark. Directed by Brad Goodchild. Original airdate September 5, 2007.

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On the premiere episode of Cartoon Night in Canada, Chris and Sylvie take a look at the monochrome misadventures of a precocious, insolent grade-schooler with Angela Anaconda. After a brief chat about why we are fascinated by Canadian animation, we talk the unsettling appeal of the show's unique aesthetic, the surprisingly mean-spirited tone of its humour, its unexpected relevance and connection to anime's boom period of the early 2000s, the show's enduring legacy, and how it may have ruined one 4channers life. Episodes covered are Episode 19 - "View to a Brinks"/"Injury to Insult" and Episode 54 - "Jimmy Jamal, Super Beetle"/"I'm With Stupid."

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie program a fashionably (heh) late Mother's Day episode, and wind up accidentally programming a Pride celebration episode! In the next installment of our big hitter series, just in time for the new reboot season, we are taking look at the flagship series from Marathon Media that blends action, style, and barely disguised fetishes - OMG it's like, Totally Spies!

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 36 "Mommies Dearest." Written by Michelle & Robert Lamoreaux. Directed by Stephane Berry. Original Canadian airdate April 9, 2003.

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Howdy campers! On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie are talking about the strangely lucrative trend of "celebrity vanity cartoons" with one of the most beloved Canadian comedians of all time. John Candy conquered Hollywood in the 1980s, but the '90s brought a new venture - Saturday Morning Environmentally Conscious Cartoons! It's Camp Candy, and if you think John Candy wasn't going to smuggle a bunch of his sketch comedy buddies from SCTV into his big NBC cartoon, you would be dead wrong.

Episode covered for the podcast is "Saturday Morning Polka Fever." Written by Tino Insana. Directed by Winston Richard.

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Prompted by the ongoing genocidal campaigns effecting the people of Palestine, Chris and Sylvie decided to tackle an animated documentary from 2017 that endeavored to portray the Israel-West Bank Barrier in a nuanced perspective based on an outsider's perspective. It failed. Miserably. While visually it stuns through a masterful mixing of animation techniques by Alberta based filmmaker Cam Christiansen, as an adaptation of a self-serving, close-minded monologue written by British playwright David Hare back in 2009, its biases and outdated views are apparent and frustrating.

Wall (2017). Directed by Cam Christiansen. Available to stream on the NFB website: https://www.nfb.ca/film/wall/

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We are back on our anime bullshit with another all-time classic series that was introduced to us Canadians by a dub produced in Vancouver. It's Rumiko Takahashi's seminal Shonen series Inuyasha, a beloved series that Sylvie and Chris were first introduced to through the YTV anime programing block "Bionix." As with all CanaDUB episodes, we break down the phenomenon of the series, its release in Canada, and the dynamics, performances, and reception of its dubbing produced by the fine people over at Ocean Productions. Plus, Sylvie gives her definitive breakdown of what constitutes a Little Guy™.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 51 "Inuyasha's Soul, Devoured." Written by Junki Takegami and directed by Satoshi Toba. Dub directed Karl Willems, Teri Snelgrove, and Marc Matsumoto. Original Canadian airdate April 4, 2004.

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Howdy Campers! Ever want to spend your summer vacation with some cryptid counsellors and a boundless hyperactive energy?? Then do we have a surprise Canadian entry in the Disney XD lineup for you! It's Camp Lakebottom - a sugar-rush of a throw-everything-at-the-wall camp comedy that gave one of the hosts an ear-splitting headache. Otherwise, it's a fun time! #SasquatchFraser

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 44 "Fright Club/Bottomdome." Written by Evan Thaler Hickey and Robert Pincombe/Shelley Hoffman respectively, and directed by Rob Walton and Cilbur Rocha respectively. Original airdate August 28, 2015. (Full episode is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4neFNMN2HE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiG-r1Y_1TE).

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Like...whatever, it's Daft Planet.

On this week's podcast, we are looking back at a time when the vibe of the young generation was blasé, sarcastic, and all-around disaffected, which made it very hard to make cartoons that spoke to them. In the early 2000s, Teletoon tried to court this demographic with a flash-animated, pop culture-obsessed portrait of dispassionate teens who are too cool to care...even about a Requiem for a Dream spiral of addiction for video games and boy band music. It's cool, I guess, I don't know.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 5 "Requiem for a Game." Directed by Jon Minnis and written by Brent Donnelly and Derry Smith. Original airdate October 10, 2002. (Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOvdlN33_ys)

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For the 100th episode of Cartoon Night in Canada, Chris and Sylvie tackle a big hitter in the Canadian cartoon canon. A formative series for both hosts whose latent film buff personas could be traced partially back to it, it seemed like the only choice for a milestone episode to finally cover personal favourite Being Ian. A hilariously relatable portrait of an amateur filmmaker finding his way against his disapproving family, essentially Being Ian is Ian James Corlett's The Fabelmans.

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Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 7 "Little Camp of Horrors." Directed by Andy Bartlett and Josh Mepham, and written by Dennis Heaton. Original airdate June 7, 2005.

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Break out those early-2000s haircuts and Hot Topic accessories, it is once again time for our Spooktober Celebration! And to kick it all off, we are taking a look at the scariest thing our country's television industry has ever produced - a mopey, pseudo-gothic live-action teen drama about an evil comic book...that is technically animated. In our most contentious episode to date, Sylvie and Chris check out Dark Oracle on its 20th anniversary - an alleged blend of live-action and animation that is just barely the latter. But at least we get a lot of early-2000s nostalgia and discover how aesthetically influential this little show about a comic book that tells the future truly was.

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 1 "Dark Oracle." Written by Heather Conkie & Jana Sinyor. Directed by Ron Murphy. Original airdate October 2, 2004.

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On this week's episode, we get downright filthy (yet educational) as we chat about the "thin gross line" that is the Bureau of Grossology and how they are the last line of defense against acts of gross themed terrorism committed by a rogues gallery of barely disguised fetishes. We are back grappling with the mid-2000s obsession with gross-out humour and edutainment with the aesthetically pleasing production of Nelvana's Grossology. It mostly holds up!

Episode covered for the podcast was episode 32 "Stinko." Directed by Kevin Micallef and written by Richard Clark. Original airdate October 11, 2008.

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie finally put to bed the hot-button media debate of our age - Is RoboCop PoLiTiCaL?? While the Paul Verhoeven 1987 masterpiece is unassailable on this front, what about the oft forgotten attempt to soften the hard edges of the NSFW sci-fi satire for Saturday morning television that premiered a year later? What gets lost in translation when you take one of the hardest R-rated movies ever released that poignantly and painfully tackles reagonomics, capitalism, dehumanization, and the militarization of the police force and make it for kids? And the most pressing question, does this make RoboCop technically Canadian?

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 4 "The Brotherhood." Written by John Shirley and directed by Bill Hutton & Tony Love. Original airdate October 22, 1988.

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie do what they do best and ponder the grotesque biological and terrifying existential implications of a show for literal preschoolers with William Joyce's George Shrinks. How does a three-inch child with the ingenious mind of an inventor make his way through a world not built for his size? Can his tiny worldview help save his dismal local hockey team? And what in god's name did the parents go through when they went through the body horror nightmare of giving birth to a child the size of a cockroach?! All this and more on our needlessly deep discussion on a delightful and inoffensive show for toddlers.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 33 "Coach Shrinks." Directed by Brian Lee and written by Jennifer Pertsch. Original airdate January 14, 2003.

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In honour of Black History Month, we are using our side series highlighting the innovative and significant animation produced through the National Film Board to spotlight the work of one trailblazing black artist. The paint-on-glass animation of Haitian-Canadian animator Martine Chartrand has been used in her visually stunning work to explore the enduring flow of Black history and culture throughout the makeup of Canada's identity. Whether it be a a montage of centuries of significant events in Black Soul (2000) or one unlikely friendship that irrevocably changed two lives in Macpherson (2012), her intricate and gorgeous work is worth spotlighting any time of the year.

Films covered are Black Soul (2000) and Macpherson (2012). Links: https://www.nfb.ca/directors/martine-chartrand/

Chartrand's official website: https://martinechartrand.net/index.html

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Believe It or Not, those coffee table books of weird and strange facts from around the world were once a part of a thriving media empire that at one point included cheaply produced French-Canadian Satutday morning cartoons. Sylvie and Chris catch up with the Ripley brand in the late 90s and discover a surprisingly educational and admirable attempt to translate the compendium of global oddities into a jetsetting, mystery-busting adventure series. Outside of the signature, lowly Cinar animation, the show surprisingly holds up. Plus, our scorching hot takes on the 2018 horror film Winchester. Episode 7 covered for the podcast was "Ghost of the Mystery House." If you liked what you heard and wish to support the show, please consider subscribing and leaving a nice review on your podcatcher of choice. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CartoonNightPod?s=20 Chris' Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cinemacreep Sylvie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sylvieskeletons Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn Logo designed by https://www.rachelsumlin.com/

On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie boot up an old copy of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and contemplate the history of CGI animation while talking about a wrongfully forgotten show from that history's awkward, transitional years. It's Xcalibur - a sword-and-sorcery tale that was made with so much passion the still nascent technology behind its animation could not match. If you put the show in context, it holds up pretty well. If not, well...

CORRECTION: In this podcast we refer to the region of France that speaks the Occitan language as "the Occitan region of France." We meant to say "the Occitan-speaking region of France" which encompasses multiple regions to the south including Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Centre-Val de Loire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitania, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 1 "The Sword of Justice." Directed by Didier Pourcel. Written by Benjamin Legrand & Amélie Aubert. Original airdate September 1, 2001.

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On this week's episode, Sylvie and Chris look back at the mid-2000s flirtation with martial arts cinema and wonder aloud what exactly a legendary claymation company from jolly ol' England was doing collaborating with Decode Entertainment. It's Aardman Animation's Chop Socky Chooks (no, that's not a slur! It just Aussie for Kung-fu Chicken). A high-concept tribute to martial arts cinema from an innovator in claymation that is neither A). interested in martial arts cinema, or B). claymated. This was Flushed Away era of Aardman Animation we're dealing with, people.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 14 "Karaoke Zombies." Directed by Sergio Delfino. Written by J.D. Smith. Original Canadian airdate June 14, 2008.

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie struggle to find anything of value to say about a show for preschoolers that is the epitome of lazy edutainment. A cobbled-together variety program which lets the creators of Thomas the Tank Engine and stock footage from 60 years ago pad the runtime, there is nothing to the paltry animation of Salty's Lighthouse beyond the decades old footage it records over. Yes, turns out this was a secret CanaDUB episode all-along that took the British nautical puppet show TUGS and made it more Canadian. We had nothing to talk about here, so we mostly let Sylvie politely hijack the episode to teach Chris about the rarely discussed Canadian classic Theodore Tugboat. We pulled a real Salty's Lighthouse and padded our own runtime this week...yet we showed more effort, somehow.

Episodes covered for the podcast are Episode 19 & 20 "Strike Up the Band" & "Blanketly Blank." Animation directed by Sue Peters and Jeff Hall, and written by Barry Harman, Steve Edelman, and Scott Guy respectively. Original airdates February 6th and February 13th, 1998.

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This week on the program, the CNIC Detour takes us back to college to work through those awkward, zany growing pains of living on our own, finding our identity, and never going to class or bothering with our actual education. From the desperate offices of MTV Animation comes a surprisingly touching, superbly crafted, and well-aged exploration of college life from the mind of a 19-year old who won a contest. It's Undergrads, and it is way more insightful and hilarious than you would expect. Plus, some unfortunate discussion about our cancelled episode 91 and we share our own uncomfortable college experiences.

Make sure to follow Pete William's Kickstarter campaign for the Undergrads movie for updates.

And here is a great article by Ben Cohen on the show's enduring popularity in Canada years after it flopped on MTV.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 6 "Roommates." Directed by Jerry Popowich. Written by Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky, Josh A. Cagan & Andy Rheingold. Original Canadian airdate September 23, 2001.

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On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie answer the call of neglected kids in distress and save the day with cheap novelty toys with Captain Flamingo. While reminiscing and lamenting the bygone era of superhero media that was not under the conglomerate thumb of Marvel and DC, we chat about this utterly charming cartoon about forsaken kids in a world of uncaring, absent adults and the reality-warping powers of too much comic books. Plus, some diatribes about A.I. art (as we are want to do).

Episode covered is 6a/b, "Ack Give my Backpack Back Jack/Appointment Terror." Written respectively by Myra Fried and Steve Wright. Both directed by Eduardo Soriano, Brad Neave, Oscar Perez Jr. and Tyler Schroeder. Original airdate March 28, 2006.

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On this week's episode, we convince you to get paranoid about your pet cat and how they might be orchestrating your imminent demise with Kid vs. Kat. A deliberate throwback to the classic adversarial Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, we find ourselves talking about what we would call a "modern classic" from Rob Boutilier - the current name behind Apple Tv's Peanuts franchise.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 12 "House of Scream/Planter's Warp." Written by Roger Fredericks and Leslie Midiner. Storyboarded by Jamie LeClaire and Kent Webb. Directed by Rob Boutilier, Josh Mepham, and Greg Sullivan. Original airdate May 2, 2009.

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Happy 2024 everybody!!!

What better way to ring in the new year than with some unfinished programming from last December and a show that is the most technically Canadian thing we have ever covered. Heavily inspired by Japanese pop culture, based on a Canadian manga series and a 2010 film by a cult British director, and animated by one of the most critically acclaimed Japanese studios in the past 10 years for Netflix - there is barely any "Canadianess" in this series. But no matter how hard you try, you cannot stop us Canadian weebs from lamentably claiming Scott Pilgrim as one of our own.

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 1 "Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life." Directed and Storyboarded by Abel Góngora. Written by Bryan Lee O'Malley and BenDavid Grabinski. Original airdate November 17, 2023.

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On this week's episode of Cartoon Night in Canada's tribute series where we celebrate the anime co-productions this country tried to get off the ground in the 2000s, we return to an old favourite in the TMS produced Cybersix to really ponder whether or not we oversold or undersold how inexplicably horny it was last time we covered it. A lycanthropy love triangle, the best cape animation you'll ever see, and a litany of fetishes snuck into the margins make for one of the best pseudo-animes of all time. We send the awful year of 2023 out to pasture with a banger of a show.

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 10 "Full Moon Fascination." Directed by Keiko Oyamada. Written by Barry Whittaker. Original airdate 9, 1999.

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It's heavy hitter time here on CanaDUBcember! On this week's podcast, Chris and Sylvie let 'er rip against roaming gangs of pre-teens with devastating spinning tops containing the trapped souls of demigods. It's Beyblade!

Is it a toy commercial? Kind of? Is it a gag dub? Kind of? Does it hold up? You better believe it!

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 1 "The Blade Raider." Original canadian airdate May 31 2002.

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On this week's journey into Canada's mid-2000s flirtation with that mysterious entity known as anime, a YA novel series about mounting giant arachnids in the hollow earth becomes nothing more than a blip in the storied careers of two titans of the industry. Brought to you in part by PA Works and Bee Train, it's another slapped together mélange of anime tropes and obvious inspirations that was somehow not just an excuse to sell toys. Calling all Spider Riders!

Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 1 "The Inner World." Original Airdate March 26 2006.

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Throughout the entire month of December, we are in the spirit of celebrating with an entire month dedicated to covering what everybody associates with the holidays...ANIME!!!! Specifically, CanaDUBcember is an entire month spotlighting the exciting cross-cultural exchange of the anime boom in the early-to-late 2000s and the still felt effects it had on the media landscape. Not just officially licensed dubs produced here in Canada, but how Canada took a hands on approach to capitalizing on a popular culture shift through co-productions, anime inspired aesthetics, and tons of other surpriseses.

We are kicking off the month with a "classic" in the "solely produced to sell toys and card games" of 2000s anime. The underwhelming, incomprehensible, and heavily dated Yu-Gi-Oh/Beyblade coattail rider somehow produced in part by our friends at Nelvana - Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 1 "Bakugan: The Battle Begins." Directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto. Original Canadian airdate February 24, 2008.

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