Dic Geeks

When Ivan Reitman tried to recapture the magic of Ghostbusters, it was only natural that he'd also try to recapture the magic of the The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. Unfortunately, Evolution was no Ghostbusters. When their town continues to be attacked by an alien force, two community college teachers, a trainee firefighter and the token girl get to work. 

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Mark and Emma hit up the pre-Heyward DiC cartoon "Ulysses 31" today, and are pleasantly surprised by it! The French-Japanese animation was based off the story of Homer's Odyssey, wherein Odysseus travels a long journey back home after the ten year battle of the Trojan War. Except here they sci-fied the heck out of it and now it's a story of a bloke called Ulysses (the latin name for Odysseus) who, after a run-in with Zeus, now has to travel to the Kingdom of Hades in order to restore life to his entire ships crew, who have become as lifeless as stone. Not lifeless enough for them all to conveniently travel into the cargo hold, but hey. Fascinating ship designs, awkward voice acting and brilliant hair package up this little 80s oddity quite nicely. But what did we think of it? Well my dear friend, listen and find out!

For those curious of the current ranking of what we've seen thus far: 1. Where's Wally? / 2. Inspector Gadget / 3. Dinosaucers / 4. Super Mario Super Show.

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Good fucking lord. Fuck this show. That's all you need to know.

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Hey there, Wally Watchers... er, I mean Podcast listeners! This week, we're talking about Dic's 1991 cartoon based on Martin Handford's 'Where's Wally' picture books; a series that probably shouldn't have been and yet turned out pretty good! 

More like DinoSIGHcers right lads? ...Lads? Ah well, this week we watch the first four episodes of Dinosaucers, a cartoon that seems to be made entirely to try and recreate the success of Transformers via having a half-arsed tv show to match up with the pretty decent looking figurines. Except those figurines were never actually made until the rights to them were later sold to a Brazillian company, some good few years later. It goes just about as well as you'd imagine, and due to the fact that theres so little info about the show and the fact that its so bland to the point that there really isn't much to say about it overall, Emma goes off on one and reads out every character's Wikipedia entry. There's too many.

All music from this episode is either from Dinosaucers, Inspector Gadget's soundtrack or Next Weeks Cartoon.

Mark & Emma watch four episodes of the original Gadget series, and consequently talk in depth about both it's history and also about our specific thoughts and things of note with regards to both the characters and indeed the plotlines of the episodes. We hope you enjoy this special pilot episode of our new podcast as it's been a lot of fun to produce overall! 

All music save for the song at the end is directly from Inspector Gadget's own soundtrack, which is remarkably pretty good.

Aforementioned ending song was created by YouTube user EricEsparzaMusic, so shoutouts there, please don't stab us in the eyes for randomly using it oh god