Retroscoping

Alexa and Nathan dig into the new year with Disney's 15th animated feature film, Lady and the Tramp. Grab your furry friends and bone up on the film's complicated origins, iconic moments, and doggie delights. 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

"Happy Dan the Cynical Dog" by Ward Greene

Lady sketch by Joe Grant

Cinemascope 

Larry Roberts

Peggy Lee

Barbara Luddy

Second Star to the right and stream on til morning! Alexa and Nathan discuss Disney's 14th animated feature film and its pan-orama of problems. They talk pixies, pirates, and the boy who never grew up (and the surprising ways he hasn't aged well. Ladies, you deserve better!). 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

J.M. Barrie

The Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Ranger J Audobon Woodlore (aka. if Smee was a Park Ranger)

Arthur Rackam's Peter Pan Illustrations

Trina Schart Hyman's Peter Pan illustrations

Follow Nathan and Alexa down the rabbit hole into Walt Disney's 13th animated feature film, Alice in Wonderland. Feast on delicious cakes of chaos and other tasty tidbits on our wander through Wonderland. 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Alice Liddell

A Caucus Race

Eating Oysters in months that end in R

"Mad as a hatter"

Ed Wynn

Kathryn Beaumont

Bibbidi-bobbidi-be kind. Nathan and Alexa talk mice, magic, and the stroke of midnight. How casting the lead role was it's own Cinderella story! And which one of Cinderella's philosophies has turned into a pumpkin over time.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Charles Perrault

Helene Stanley

Songwriters Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston

June Foray

Ilene Woods

Mice Singing in Normal Voices

Please do not clothe the birds. (Pigeons in hats)

Eleanor Audley

The Wicked Stepmother & Stepsisters at Disneyland 

Tally-ho! Alexa and Nathan stay inside during the COVID19 quarantine and wrap up the package film era while social distancing with Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Roger Deakins

Leonard Maltin

Bing Crosby

Mickey's Christmas Carol

The Hays Code

Kenneth Grahame

Washington Irving

J. Pat O'Malley

Great snakes of cotton candy! In feature film #10, Nathan and Alexa reunite with the Caballeros, discover a lost Disney Princess, and learn to pickle responsibly. Listen up, it's "Melody Time!"

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

New York Times Review of Melody Time

Apple Pickles

Johnny Appleseed

Bobby Driscoll

Jiminy Cricket is back... with a vengeance. Alexa and Nathan find out what is a Bongo and what is a Bergen while discussing outdated love rituals and other ghosts of pop culture eras past.

CONTENT WARNING: Brief discussions of domestic violence behaviors. Parental discretion advised.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

"Too Good to Be True" love song from Bongo

Mickey and the Beanstalk

Willy raises the roof

Edgar Bergen

Billy Gilbert

In this film you've surely never seen, Alexa and Nathan uncover a hidden connection to Disneyland, learn the word "boogie woogie," and give this film an award.

Fun Fact: This episode was recorded before COVID19.  Time travel with us back to a simpler time.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Fred Moore

The Martins and the Coys

Blue Bayou

All the Cats Join In

Without You

Casey at the Bat

Two Silhouettes

Peter and the Wolf narration and music

After You've Gone

Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet clip

The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met

Grab your snappy serapes for The Three Caballeros! Alexa and Nathan embark on Disney's original magic carpet ride across Mexico and into a whole new side of Donald Duck they wish they could unsee.

CONTENT WARNING: Brief discussions of lewd behaviors. Parental discretion advised.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Cold-Blooded Penguin clip

The Flying Gauchito clip

Baía clip

Las Posadas clip

You Belong to My Heart and Donald's Surreal Reverie clip

Jesusita en Chihuahua dance clip

Behind the scenes footage of Carmen Molina's "Jesusita" dance

Saludos Amigos! And join us on the fastest international trip you'll ever take! Nathan and Alexa introduce the 1940's package film era and discuss the shortest Disney Feature film, the ultimate Photoshop brush, and how cartoons fought the Nazis.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Clip from the 1990 Sing Along VHS tapes

"Donald Duck Visits Lake Titicaca" clip

"Pedro" clip

"El Gaucho Goofy" clip (in Swedish)

"Aquarela do Brasil"

Daffy Duck in "Duck Amuck" clip