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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.... more
FAQs about A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight:How many episodes does A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight have?The podcast currently has 311 episodes available.
December 18, 2023A Special Presentation 220: It's Magic, Charlie Brown!In this episode, we look at the Peanuts special that's so normal that it's weird. Snoopy learns to do witchcraft and damns Charlie Brown to a living hell of invisibility. Also, Charlie Brown kicks the football??????!??!?!...more1h 3minPlay
December 11, 2023A Special Presentation 219: Garfield in the RoughWhat happens when everyone's favorite fat cat goes camping and encounters an escaped panther from the zoo? Well, that's pretty much it. Join us as we look at one of the lesser Garfield specials, we were gonna talk about "It's Magic, Charlie Brown!", the snoopy special with which it was originally paired, but we got too distracted talking about commercials for McDonalds and the concept of cable TV....more1h 18minPlay
December 04, 2023A Special Presentation 218: Mandrake (1979)Mandrake the Magician has, for some reason, not made the jump to the big screen in this latest round of superhero mania, but the globe-trotting crime-fighting magician of the comics page has so much potential that we can’t help but imagine a much better movie than we got with the sole Mandrake film adaptation: this 1979 made-for-TV lost dud starring Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch and James Hong from everything that James Hong has ever been in....more1h 23minPlay
November 27, 2023A Special Presentation 217: Tubby the TubaIt's after Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for everyone's favorite Thanksgiving special -- Tubby the Tuba! You know Tubby the Tuba, right? You will soon! Join us for this look at everyone's favorite opera for tiny tots about a tuba who joins the circus and also goes to adopt an orphan melody and there's a frog. This all seemed like a really good idea in the early 70s! The important thing to remember is that Pixar was NOT involved....more1h 38minPlay
November 20, 2023A Special Presentation 216: Garfield the Movie [2 of 2]The fat orange cat finally got his big screen debut in 2004 with Garfield the Movie, the culmination of Jim Davis' long-time dream to see Garfield in theaters. Was it everything that it was cracked up to be? Why on earth did they CG Garfield but not Odie? We answer the big questions as we try to wrap our heads around the dumbest studio decision in film history....more50minPlay
November 13, 2023A Special Presentation 215: Garfield the Movie [1 of 2]The fat orange cat finally got his big screen debut in 2004 with Garfield the Movie, the culmination of Jim Davis' long-time dream to see Garfield in theaters. Was it everything that it was cracked up to be? Why on earth did they CG Garfield but not Odie? We answer the big questions as we try to wrap our heads around the dumbest studio decision in film history....more1h 1minPlay
November 06, 2023A Special Presentation 214: Raggedy Ann & Andy Watch-Along! (With Glumdrop!)What was the movie that traumatized you as a kid? For Mike it was a movie that was once so rarely aired it was rumored not to exist, but its recent rediscovery on YouTube has brought its wonderful, egregiously over-animated horror into thousands of unsuspecting households. Join us this week for some exposure therapy, as Ethan and Glumdrop (co-authors of Joy Traveler, the sci-fi creepypasta novel you probably still haven’t read) hold Mike’s hands and pet him gently as we work our way through the entirety(!) of Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure....more2h 19minPlay
October 30, 2023A Special Presentation 213: Halloween 4-Ever!It wouldn’t be a spooky Halloween without a spooky podcast where we watch terrifying eldritch cartoons! This year we’ve got Jack O’ Lantern (1972), Fat Albert’s Halloween Special (1977), and Mad Scientist (1988), plus an assortment of short subjects that features the work of animation pioneer Ub Iwerks. Now YOU tell one!...more2h 15minPlay
October 23, 2023A Special Presentation 212: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown & Play it Again, Charlie BrownWe're back on our Peanuts bullshit! Today we look at TWO, yes, TWO, Peanuts specials that are so slight you might not even believe they were actually specials! Come for Peanuts, stay for tales of bible camp, vampire monkeys, and anime dog fart pranks!...more1h 58minPlay
October 16, 2023A Special Presentation 211: Blondie's Blessed EventBetween 1938 and 1950, they released 25 Blondie movies -- 4 in 1942 alone!!! This week we look at a random one, Blondie's Blessed Event -- which brings us both the birth of Cookie and also the big screen debut of Hans Conried!...more1h 27minPlay
FAQs about A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight:How many episodes does A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight have?The podcast currently has 311 episodes available.