Penny Men

Welcome back to the 64-Bit Podcast, where the facts are fuzzy, the cartoons are forgotten, and the nostalgia spirals out of control!

We’re neck-deep in non-Disney animation this hour, wading through forgotten features, rotoscoped nightmares, and flea-bitten flops! From Mr. Bug Goes to Town to Rock-a-Doodle, from Ferngully to Wizards, the Penny Men and co. dust off the animated underdogs and ask: “Was this real, or did we dream it on beta tape?”

In this cinematic safari, we talk Rumpus McFowl-level deep cuts like Pinocchio in Outer Space, uncover cursed Hanna-Barbera disco tapestries (Galaxy Goof-Ups, anyone?), and revisit the glitchy grandeur of Bakshi rotoscope epics!

Bonus: we solve Goofy’s genealogy! Kind of!

Also featuring:

• A space cowboy fart musical
• Three Bugs Bunnies
• 0% Space Jam 2 forgiveness
• 100% Wally Wood lore
• And Goof Troop canon chaos!

History? Art? Therapy session? All of the above!

Grab your VHS tape, rewind the CRT, and settle in for the definitive guide to everything not made by Walt!

🎬 Featuring:

• 3 cartoon historians
• 30+ obscure films
• Infinite tangents

Listen! Watch! Get Bluth’d!

Welcome back to Name That Duck, where the feathers fly and the facts get foggy! It's hour two of the greatest duck-based quiz show in podcast history! We're talking McDucks, Coots, Quackleys, Gearlooses, and more—fifty ducks deep and counting!

In this installment, we barrel through DuckTales deep cuts, European comic canon, and questionable family trees! Did you know Scrooge has a cousin named Rumpus McFowl? We didn’t either, until now! From Magica Dispel’s crow-brother Poe to Darkwing Duck’s shadowy nemesis Negaduck, it’s all here!

Bonus: a visual quiz—so if you're listening on a platform that supports video, switch to watch mode! You won’t want to miss the visual clues and chaos.

Duck fatigue? Never heard of it!

Most listened-to duck episode? We're calling it!

Missed Simon McDuck? We didn’t!

🦆 Featuring:

• 100 ducks
• 4 exhausted hosts
• 0 apologies

Listen! Watch! Quack!

Welcome to the pond, pals! It's the debut of Name That Duck! Tom hosts a quiz that’s less about right answers and more about unearthing forgotten lore, as Greg, John, and Ben scramble to remember who’s a McDuck, who’s a Coot, and who just honks! From Grandma Elvira to Sir Quackly, from Gladstone's ridiculous luck to Daisy’s questionable relationship status — it's all on the table! We also pay tribute to Carl Barks and Don Rosa, the true architects of Duckburg history! Did we mention interdimensional nephews?

This first hour covers the early canon: Scrooge’s medieval ancestors, Donald’s confusing cousins, and all the forgotten relatives who appeared once and never came back! Is that Donna Duck on a unicycle? Did Grandma Duck marry a guy named Humperdink? Who gave Donald a pet falcon and why?

We attempt to answer these questions with 50% certainty and 100% confidence!

Bonus: We name multiple ducks that may or may not have been Donald in disguise! You decide!

Before there was duck lore, there was duck confusion! Welcome to Hour Zero — the unhinged prelude to the greatest avian quiz show in podcast history! The mics are hot, the rules are unclear, and the title is still up for debate!

In this episode, we set the stage with some light bickering, a lot of shouting, and one host desperately trying to maintain order! Is this a game? A bracket? A Disney deep dive? Who can say!

No ducks are named, but a lot of names are dropped! Expect heated debates about what counts as a "duck", who's wearing pants, and how many Goofys is too many Goofys!

🦆 Featuring:

• pre-game chaos
• unsanctioned duck trivia
• at least three failed cold opens

This is Hour Zero! The quiz hasn’t even started! The nonsense is already in full flight!

Welcome to the gate! It’s locked! It's glowing! It's humming something that sounds suspiciously like the DuckTales theme backwards! And behind it? Goblins! So many goblins!

In this storytelling gauntlet, each Penny Man delivers their take on a tale with just one prompt: Goblin Gate. Gregory pitches a slapstick medieval fantasy where pizza delivery scrolls are sacred texts and dumb guys get stuck doing dumber things! Ben goes off the rails into a late-night VHS noir about a washed-up DJ/cop whose trauma is animated—and goblin-shaped! And Tom? Tom’s Goblin Gate is still buffering… but when it hits, it hits weird!

It’s worldbuilding without a net. Canon-breaking, genre-fusing, goblin-spawning nonsense! And somehow, it almost makes sense!

🌀 Featuring:

• 3 writers, 1 title
• 7 types of goblin (minimum)
• 1 detective with turntables
• 2 separate uses of the word “lair”
• A delivery boy’s code of honor
• A terrifying number of sound effects

Open the gate! Or don’t! It’s already too late!

We pitch! We derail! We goblin!

Welcome back to The Penny Men!

The Penny Men return to the barrel-busting quiz of destiny, and things get even weirder in the mid-90s French CGI jungle!

Gregory and Tom face off against Ben’s relentless Kong slideshow, trying to remember: is that a baby, a clone, or just Bluster with hair gel?

We get:

• Kong Fu vs. Kung Fu Kong (two names, same headache)

• Baby Donkey Kong becoming Baby Kong becoming… another Baby Kong

• Leo Luster, the Stefan Urkel of the Donkey Kong universe

• Kiddy “a.k.a. Dinky” Kong, Dixie's cousin/babysitting nightmare

• Tiny Kong, who shrinks, then grows up, then maybe shrinks again

• Lanky Kong, the gangly balloon-animal of the family

• Chunky Kong, who tragically drowns in a GBA remake (RIP, big guy)

• And Bink, the skeletal barrel-tossing minigame Kong that absolutely no one asked for

Along the way, the boys derail into Rude Dog and the Dweebs, Fraggle Rock, Mutt and Jeff’s violence juice, Sunset Boulevard, and the eternal mystery of what the “double trouble” in Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble was supposed to be!

Can you name that Kong? Or are you just here for Goblin Gate, Baby Kong jokes, and Urkel dance callbacks?

🎙️ The Penny Men are back and they’ve traded their capes for barrels — it’s time for the Donkey Kong Quiz of Doom!

Gregory insists on sketching gorillas instead of answering questions, Tom bravely guesses the existence of “Ping Pong Kong,” and Ben won’t rest until the mystery of whether Donkey Kong Jr. ever grew up is solved once and for all!

Expect:

• 🦍 Arguments about whether Cranky Kong is a cranky dad or an ancient grandpa
• 🎶 A musical intro that proves the Penny Men are 75% harmony, 25% chaos
• 🎨 Gorilla doodles that will never make it to the Smithsonian
• ❓ A quiz so bananas it could only happen in Kong Country

Will our heroes finally separate their Donkeys from their Diddys, or is the whole family tree just one big barrel roll of confusion?

The boys go full Who’s Who as Tom hosts the ultimate DC Comics lightning gauntlet!

Gregory and Ben are tested on:

• Golden Age Oddballs: Woozy Winks, Happy Terrill, The Weed (yes, really)!
• Sidekick Shenanigans: Doiby Dickles, Gleek, and TikTok Tyler (not that TikTok)!
• Forgotten Teams: Thunder Agents, Freedom Fighters, and the New Fantastic Four!
• Villains Who Shouldn’t Exist: Arms Fall Off Boy, Captain Pollution, Captain Strong!
• Publisher Soup: Charlton, Quality, Milestone, Wildstorm, and even Archie’s MLJ heroes!

It’s a marathon of deep cuts, encyclopedic tangents, and Crisis-on-Infinite-Rules-lawyering — capped with the eternal question:

Pre-Crisis or Post-Crisis?

Catman struts, Scat Cat scats, and somebody brings up MC Pee Pants before the mic is even on! From there it’s a whirlwind of Ultra-Humanite brain swaps, Hitler’s head in a jar, and a mini-series that might just be the Watchmen of the Justice Society!

New Frontier, Iron Munroe, and the endless question: which Garth are we talking about this time?

Tom once again dons the Quizmaster cape, forcing Ben and Gregory to wrestle with the secret identities of:

• Thomas Tresser (cross-dresser? not quite)!
• Tolano, the Batman of Planet X (yes, the Zurr-En-Arr one)!
• Tina Wezzo (try Phantom Girl, not Tommy Wiseau)!
• Todd Rice (turns out Obsidian isn’t just a rock)!
• Tora Olafsdotter (a.k.a. Ice Ice Baby)!
• Travis Morgan (Warlord! not Lady Cop, sadly)!
• Tula the Aquagirl (with bonus walrus trivia: Tusky lives)!
• Val Armorr (wax on, wax off, Karate Kid)!
• Van-Z (the original Nightwing, with Superman’s identical cousin drama)!
• Vic Sage (the Question, in Hub City no less)!
• Victor Fries (or Zero, or Schwarzenegger, or all of the above)!
• Victor Stone (Cyborg, Cyberion, and maybe the seventh Metal Man)!
• Vril Dox (Brainiac, Brainiac 2, Brainiac 13, Pulsar Stargrave, Indigo… somebody call Mojo Jojo to sort this out)!

Along the way:

• Nicholas Cage as Egghead
• Steve Martin as King Tut
• Word association with Banacek
• And an impromptu horse-name lightning round (Tusky, Winged Justice, Stridor, Night Stalker, Chuck D. Head)!

It’s part nine of the most overcomplicated DC Comics trivia showdown ever — where the points are fake and the Brainiacs are numbered weird!

The Penny Men return for Part Eight of the never-ending DC Super Character Quiz of Doom™—and somehow it only gets stranger from here!

Crash Test Dummies confusion? Check! A tangent on the Tasmania cartoon? Naturally! Half a dozen heroes who were definitely raised by condors? You better believe it!

This round features:

🦎 Chameleon Boy vs. Chameleon (and the Marvel one too, kinda)!

🧪 Metamorpho, the Element Man (not the Elephant Man, sorry)!

⏳ Hourman! Or Our Man, depending on how possessive you’re feeling!

🐝 The Red Bee, with his belt-buckle bees!

🌌 Space Ranger and his little buddy Krill, aka the Pink Lightbulb!

🥋 Judo Master and his sidekick Tiger (not Punchy, not Hatcha)!

🐲 Lady Shiva, Richard Dragon, and a Bronze Tiger cameo!

🔮 Psycho-Pirate No. 2, because of course he had to show up!

🎭 Selina Kyle roll call: Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt—plus everyone from Michelle Pfeiffer to Halle Berry to Anne Hathaway!

🦅 Midway City mix-ups with Hawkman & Hawkgirl!

🧵 Ragman, the hero literally stitched together from his neighborhood!

🎨 Rainbow Raider, aka Roy G. Bivolo (yes, that’s his real name)!

⚙️ Two different Robotmen, because why not!

🌌 Scott Free, Oberon, and the escape act of Mr. Miracle!

Also featuring:

• The debate over Shaggy Man’s many defeats
• The Sandman confusion spiral
• And the tragic realization that everyone should’ve remembered Ragman!

Quizmaster Tom throws curveballs, Gregory and Ben flail wildly, and yet—every so often—they actually get one right!