A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

Feb 02 2025 280 ep. 77 mins 118
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A podcast where two obsessive lovers of 1980s newspaper comics discuss said comics and the 1980s animated specials based on them.

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A Special Presentation 278: The Brave Little Toaster [2 of 2]

Feb 02 2025 77 mins  
For Ethan's birthday, we're looking at the NOT QUITE DISNEY classic, The Brave Little Toaster, based on the Thomas Disch story of the same name. It's about five brave appliances who go out in search of the boy who loves them. It's a weird one, but it's fun!

A Special Presentation 277: The Brave Little Toaster [1 of 2]

Jan 26 2025 60 mins  
For Ethan's birthday, we're looking at the NOT QUITE DISNEY classic, The Brave Little Toaster, based on the Thomas Disch story of the same name. It's about five brave appliances who go out in search of the boy who loves them. It's a weird one, but it's fun!

A Special Presentation 276: Dog City [2 of 2]

Jan 19 2025 90 mins  
Okay NOW we're talking about Dog City, Jim Henson's favorite thing to direct. It's about a city that's all dogs. Ladies and gentlemen, it's gone to the dogs! They're all dog puppets and also they do car chases!

A Special Presentation 275: Dog City [1 of 2]

Jan 12 2025 64 mins  
In theory, we meant to talk about Dog City (part of the Jim Henson Hour) but instead we ended up talking about the muppets in general, the Jim Henson hour, the origin of homo sapiens and the inevitable death of our species because of billionaires, and also how lazy Bill Watterson is.

A Special Presentation 274: The Adventures of Tintin

Jan 05 2025 72 mins  
Tintin is the biggest thing since Asterix, but, if you live in America, you might not have heard of him. He's a boy reporter who has adventures. Kids love Tintin (except for his controversial 1939 adventure "Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors.") Anyway, you might not know Tintin, but Hollywood still thought you'd like a Tintin movie. Here it is!

A Special Presentation 273: Snoopy Presents for Auld Lang Syne

Dec 29 2024 69 mins  
The Peanuts are back and it's another New Year's special! Apple TV has updated the Peanuts gang to tell a story of Lucy having an existential crisis. That's right. Lucy. Not Charlie Brown. It's Lucy.

Ugly Sweater Party 3: The Dark Knit Rises

Dec 22 2024 126 mins  
Ho ho ho, garbage for all the good little children! We've got the whole gang of pals back for another quadumvirate of questionable Quistmas specials. Mike and Ethan have holiday regulars Morbiose, Rocketshark, DMXI, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop, whom we're sure you're all well familiar with by now, for such wintry delights as Nilus The Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas, The

A Special Presentation 271: Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Dec 15 2024 101 mins  
So, technically, there was a Winnie the Pooh comic strip, so it is totally within our wheelhouse to do an episode about Winnie the Pooh (2011)! Is it more or less in line with AA Milne's vision of the chubby little bear all stuffed with fluff? Check it out!

A Special Presentation 270: The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring Alf [3 of 3]

Dec 08 2024 85 mins  
It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most importantly, though, ALF is here!

A Special Presentation 269: The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring Alf [2 of 3]

Dec 01 2024 63 mins  
It's Thanksgiving, so we're breaking our own rule... or are we? The 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is, of course, a cavalcade of disgusting American excess, whether you're here for the Garfield balloons, the marching band composed entirely of Ronald McDonalds, the prancing majorettes, or that weird float where skeletor is riding a dragon. Most importantly, though, ALF is here!