How's It Hold Up?

Betty Boop's exploring culture this week! By which I mostly mean bones. Also, Bimbo is there, briefly! Perhaps more importantly, our old friend Koko the Clown has returned, with a significant scene at the beginning of the short! But does this short hold up to the weirdness and wackiness of past Boop shorts, or does it fall short? Listen to find out!

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The 2022 Halloween Spookaboo has arrived, and with it a spooktacular Scooby-Doo film! This is one that a certain generation no doubt saw a lot as children, and it's also one of a series of Scooby-Doo films where the monsters are real, Scrappy is there, and the rest of the gang outside of Scooby and Shaggy are absent. It's not the most loved era of Scooby-Doo, to be sure, and yet many look back on this film fondly. Does it deserve a rewatch, or is it best left lying in our memories? Listen to find out!

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In this season of ghouls, let's watch a short made for a different season. Yes, we're dropping in on Jolly Saint Nick here, but this is more than a tale of holiday fun... it's also a tale of censorship! What could possibly need to be censored in a short about Santa Claus? Listen to find out!

The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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It's time to answer a burning question for Kingdom Hearts 3 fans: who's that purple elephant in the Winnie the Pooh world? The answer is "Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV", or Lumpy, for short. He's a child heffalump who was introduced in 2005's "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" and appeared again in "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie" from later that same year. What's his deal, what are these movies, and are they any good? Listen to find out!

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Did you know that we elected our first woman President all the way back in 1932? In a Fleischer cartoon, anyway. Still not in real life yet!  But anyway, how do ol' Betty's campaign promises and speeches hold up 90 years later? Listen to find out!

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It's time for the sort of film you don't usually see. Stylistically, it's closer to caricature street art than your typical Disney movie. There's almost no spoken dialogue. And the main hero is an old woman and her old dog. Together, they're on a mission to save their son from the mafia, and they just might need some help along the way. Does this oddball adventure hold up almost 20 years later? Listen to find out!

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A fun night at the Klondike Bar goes awry, first with a stranger being rescued from the cold, then with a mean brute shooting up the place and kidnapping that same stranger! It's up to Mickey and his pal Pluto to rescue this stranger (Minnie) from the brute (Pete), but does this little mouse have what it takes to take on such a large foe? And perhaps more importantly, is this adventure one worth watching? Listen to find out!

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The most expensive animated film created at the time of its release, Metropolis is a movie based partially on a silent film and partially on a manga. It also released in the perfect window for the broadcasting rights to be bought up by Adult Swim, allowing the movie to make its mark on anime-loving American teens of the 2000s. But expensive doesn't always mean good, and neither does nostalgia. Rewatching this film in 2022, does it still hold up? Listen to find out!

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It's time to actually watch a Betty Boop cartoon, instead of a Talkartoon! Yes, Betty has her own series now, having officially taken the reigns as Fleischer Studio's main star. She unfortunately wouldn't actually keep this title for long, but let's enjoy it while it lasts. In this one, Betty and friends are experiencing a certain lack of gravity that's making everything go haywire! Is this wild ride a fun one, or one best forgotten? Listen to find out!

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If you watched television in the 90s, you may recall the live action adventures of Xena and Hercules, both of whom had their own long-running shows. But did you know that the two teamed up in an animated film, too? Does this animated team-up have the charm that the live-action series had, or is it a flop of epic proportions? Listen to find out!

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