By The Power

The alien world of Mer is being devoured by an evil substance known as Dark Water. Only Ren, can stop it by finding the lost Thirteen Treasures of Rule!, Stimpy would be no help at all.

If you like your cartoons starring characters that can't look you in the eye then you are going to love this Hanna-Barbera 'classic', We give it a good old rating.

This week we also discuss Hot Dog murders, Hang Glider hanging, say hello to Hello Kitty and wonder if James is planning on getting everything wrong tonight.

Our award winning quiz is present and we even squeeze in some food chat.

The episode we watched was S01E13 The Dark Dweller.

We hope you are hungry as we start this episode wondering about the squads favourite American foods.

We then travel south and back about 500 years to discuss one of Stuart's childhood passions 'Mysterious Cities of Gold'. He compares it to a kids version of 'LOST' and the rest of the team dont quite agree.

We play another round of the worlds best podcast quiz, there is a would you rather thats cartoon influenced and the usual arguing and bad joke telling that it seems Jamie and James are fighting over.

The episode we watched was S01E17, and yes it has boobies! Rock hard ones.

This weeks episode of By the Power is presented by Steven Spielberg! or at least the cartoon we are covering is..

Freakazoid is a zany cartoon made by the guy who did batman and the folks behind Animaniacs so its no real suprise that its insane with a little touch of a dark side.

And that description also fits the BTP squad pretty well.

Join us this episode for our regular features, our irregular features and if you sent us an email to see if that was featured.

The episode we watched was from Season 2 and its episode 2 'The Freakazoid'.

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It’s time for another super (long) episode from the ‘By The Power Squad’ as Stuart, James, Jamie and Kane discuss Spider-man.. The one from 1994.

We ask what’s going on with Venom’s lips?! admire the Aerosmith linked theme, score the episode and reminisce about one of the best marvel cartoons of the 90’s (“X-Men was better” - Stu).

We have a fantastic ‘Would you rather’ and a controversially scored episode of everyone's favourite quiz ‘Whose line was it anyway’.

All that and Jamie describes how he has been getting busy this week, tells an amazing spider-man joke or two whilst Kane has a bone to pick with James.

AND there is a bonus 20 minute Spider-man quiz at the end! For free.

This week we watched ‘Spider-Man’ (1994) Episode ‘The Alien Costume: Part 3’.

Its teeny tiny Bear time in a cartoon this week that many have probably forgotten ever existed.

But not James he never forgets! so bear with us as we wonder what on earth he was thinking, and paws for thought to contemplate a James theory!

We try to identify a quote in the stunning podcast quiz taking the world by storm "whose line was it anyway?" and chat about a deep and insightful would you rather.

As always we of course rate and discuss the episode we watched witch was from Series one and its Episode one:-

"Stupid tiny bears that are slightly racist do stuff for 20 minutes which is way too long and it makes no sense and god its bad. who chose this cartoon anyway?"

or its official title "The big spill".

The Transformers! The Trans-Formers.. Transformers.. Robots in disguise.

In a rather Highbrow episode that's more than meets the eye we chat about everyones favourite bots, the tension Ratchets up a notch in another guess the quote quiz and it's Red Alert time when it comes to making up Transformers jokes.

For a Mega(tron) 'would you rather' we ask which is better metal or flesh and blood.

In a sad departure for season 2 there are no pigeons but we hope you dont Slag us off and can still enjoy the episode without Hounding us about it.

The episode we watched was S01E14 "Heavy Metal War"

"Coo Coo Ka Choo" possibly goes down as one of the funniest ever punchlines! Jamie discusses this joke and explains the deep storytelling behind this weeks Cartoon 'Hey Arnold!' episode 'The Pigeon Man'.

Yes its another cartoon involving pigeons! this time chosen by Kane who scores the Episode VERY highly, and he also notices a flaw in James' plan to communicate with his fellow humans..

Yes thats right James is back and so are the rest of the squad with all our (slightly rusty after the enforced break) nonsense, a 'Would you Rather', another award winning episode of our game show 'who's line is it' and we end the episode with possibly the funniest joke I have ever heard.

This weeks episode was Hey Arnold, The Pigeon Man S01 E14b

The Raggy Dolls! This week an awkward group of misfits and weirdos who get rejected for being different talk about this classic British cartoon starring some weird dolls.

Jamie picked an episode starring a Pigeon, Stu can talk to Pigeons and based on next weeks cartoon choice Kane may be a Pigeon Fancier.

After discussing the cartoon rather briefly, the boys invent a new type of doll, pitch some game show ideas and choose their preferred host who continues to ignore them on twitter..

And our Season 2 features make another show stopping appearance including the funniest joke James has ever told.

This week we watched 'The Raggy Dolls' Season 1 Episode 3 'The Pigeon Race'.

The BTP squad have made it to a second season.. Expect a more mature serious show that takes an intellectual look at 80's animated media.

In this Powerfully Extreme 'Centurions' episode we talk about an absolutely classic cartoon and toy combo, have a brand new feature or two, rate the episode 'Cyborg Centurion' and discuss Northern Sheep, peeing on ourselves and how James would be fine with wearing one pair of Underwear a week.

So not so serious really as we quickly devolve into more of our patented nonsense and mickey taking that we have become "famous" for.

The episode we watched and Rated was S01E51 of Centurions 'Cyborg Centurion'

It's a Bonus 'By the Power' Episode.

Games Workshop are getting into animation and its about time!

We ask if instead of Warhammer+ which launches August 2021 what if they had released a cartoon in the 80's!

Would da Ork Boyz be da Stars an show us Umies wot dey got? Jamie a huge Ork fan gives us his pitch.

James has dreams of a Brave group of Space Marines saving the day but becoming tainted by Chaos (James assumes everything is tainted by Chaos eventually I think?).

Kane thinks a Blackstone fortress would make a great setting, with a band of adventurers trying to find some mysterious artifacts.

Stuart has the only correct answer which is of course that any 40K cartoon must be about the heroic Ultramarines who are perfection in blue.

So listen in to see if we work out how an 80's cartoon could adapt the 'Grim Dark', truly horrible world of 40k into a kid friendly Saturday morning show.