Dic Geeks

Taking a cue from every mid 90s geocities website we spend a good half hour talking about the DiC dub of Sailor Moon. But with fewer sparkly gifs.

Woah, dude! For our first ever Live Action DiC movie recap, we're starting with a film so diculous that it's re-diculous; 1998's 'Meet The Deedles'. Directed by then-stuntman Steve Boyum and starring Steve Van Wormer and the late Paul Walker as beach-bum millionaire brothers turned trainee Park Rangers, Meet the Deedles is a wacky comedy which has more surfing than likable characters. And considering there's literally two surfing scenes, that's a problem. 

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Did you know that in 1996 DiC released a fantasy miniseries based around Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy? We didn't either.  I'm, not sure anybody does. 

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While Gadget Boy isn't exactly the worst Dic trash we've seen so far, it /is/ yet another case where the cartoon itself is so mindblowingly boring and cheaply made that we have little to say about it other than briefly mocking how bad the animation and writing is before promptly moving on. I mean, above all else, this is literally just Inspector Gadget again but...shit. That's pretty much the only way we can summarise it. Shit. https://mostlykobolds.com

Well. It's happened. We found something worse than Super Show. Urghhhhhhhhh.

Despite their soft and cute exterior, The Care Bears is a powerful brand that has possibly the most depressing backstory ever. Instead of being this adorable little thing built up by a small family from Scandinavia or some shit like that, Care Bears were literally created by corporate business types. Their entire existence is to be cute accurately emotional mascots for greeting cards and such and not much else. This quickly spiralled into a full on craze with young girls, thus leading to more and more merchandise. Which eventually lands us on this cartoon from Dic. Each episode segment is about 10 minutes each, and has a self encased story of "Care Bears find kids. Kids have problems. Care Bears fix problems via mild assistance or straight up brainwashing the person causing the problems. Episode ends." And if you think I'm acting ridiculous or edgy about this? Well, no. I'm really not. It's actually like this. With all that said, how does it stand up today? Listen in and find out!

Hoo boy, here we go, hitting up yet another big one. You might remember last time we looked at a well loved "classic" DiC show, it ended in us completely tearing it apart. Well fear not dear listener, for we actually enjoyed this one! A combination of bouncy animation with fantastic voice acting (at least on Long John Baldry's part) made this really rather entertaining. Do listen in for our full thoughts, wont you?

All music this episode is from DiC & Sega. And Grieg, for some reason.

In 1984, Jean Chalopin made a mistake that would soon become a very common trend in DiC's catalogue. Unlike the actually very good cartoon also feautring a funny, sassy fat orange cat, Heathcliff is just a confusing mess of bad writing and jokes without any pacing or timing. Somehow, it holds a 6.8 on iMDB, but that said Super Show also holds a 6.3 on the same site. I'm not sure how either of them have such a high rating, but I completely understand Heathcliff being held somewhat higher than Super Show. Oof. 

Opening music is the credits theme from Garfield and Friends.
Ending music is "Robotnik_II" by diskkunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVli0334lD0
Intro and History music is "Train Machine" and "Mad Art in Museum", both from the Inspector Gadget soundtrack.

The pair tackle the first cartoon based on the popular computer game series. No, it's not the one with the acapella group. We wish it was.

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