Saturday Mourning Cartoons

It's the round THREE of our Pocket Monster Madness Month and the gloves are coming off!  We've got heavy weight Pokemon stepping into the ring against Beyblade, our underdog.   Who will survive this carnage?  Will you "choose" Pokemon and Ash's ability to be thwarted by the environment and his surroundings?  Or will Beyblade make the concept of battling dreidels fun and exciting?  

Tune in for a new pulverizing match as Pocket Monster Madness Month continues on the Saturday Mourning Cartoons podcast!

Ring that bell to start the battle because this week we have Shaman King and Yo-Kai Watch stepping into the cartoon octagon!  Shaman King is our second seed versus the new cartoon on the block, Yo-Kai Watch.  Who will emerge victorious?  Will it be Shaman King with their inability to identify a lead character who is unable to button his shirt?  Or Yo-Kai Watch where our hero Nate is enslaved by a ghost to forever have to break up this parents arguments over yogurt?  

Tune in for a new knock-down-drag-out as Pocket Monster Madness Month continues on the Saturday Mourning Cartoons podcast!

Get ready for the bracketed insanity that is Pocket Monster Madness Month!  Stepping into the ring is our #1 seed, Yu-gi-oh!, versus our #8 seed, Bakugan Battle Brawlers.  Will it be the Blue Eyes White Dragon or Drago from Vestroia?  Who will triumph?  Who will collect all of the things and ask their parent for permission to buy all of the toys?  We have renowned expert Melanie Harker joining us to help us with this impossible task.  

The next four weeks will be a brutal onslaught of pocket monster show versus pocket monster show.  Join us as we get into our first ever Pocket Monster Madness Month, right here at Saturday Mourning Cartoons.

The SMC crew is moving "faster than a speeding bullet" out of our superhero month with one of our favorites; Justice League Unlimited.  The sheer size of the show just makes everything feel so epic in scale and we watched the final two episodes of the series which proves to us that this is an amazing cartoon.  Loads of heroes, tons of villains, a team up between heroes and villains to battle a mutual foe?  We watched the episodes "Alive" and "Destroyer" and were gleefully excited at how well everything still holds up today.  Put on your spandex and everyone "assemble" for the Justice League Unlimited.  

Join us next week as we launch into Pocket Monster Month!

Thankfully, we live in a world where Zoid battles have been regulated.  At SMC we can't even begin to believe a world where Zoids aren't regulated, which is why we've brought back Jamal Newman to discuss proper upkeep and maintenance.  Zoids is about a young hot head pilot, named Bit Cloud, who pilots a special Zoid named Liger Zero.  What's the relationship between man and machine?  Should the Blitz Team change the name of these team to something cute and adorable? And why is the character Jamie about as useful as an alarm clock?  All of this and more when we discuss Zoids!

We're continuing our February super hero theme month with Static Shock.  Dave was down and out with the "sickness" (probably a Zombie or the Disturbed song), so Jamal Newman and Melanie Harker join Sean.  Sean had no idea that Static was based on a comic book character, Jamal laments that he was a baby in the 90's, and Melanie asserts that she's a renown expert on time travel.  Surprisingly, we picked a very emotional episode of this series where the writers did an amazing job showing our heroes vulnerable side through the flashback of Static losing his mother.  Things take a twist when that flashback become reality and Static gets his wish to see his mom again when he meets a "Bang Baby" with the power to control time.  Does Static change the past?  By interacting with the past, does it change the future outcome?  Is time travel in a cartoon really confusing?  (Yup, it's super confusing)  All of this and more on this weeks SMC featuring Static Shock!

This week Sean and Dave have invited Allison Keene and Melanie Harker to watch an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man where Deadpool guest stars.  How many times will the show Ultimate Spider-man break the 4th wall?  How many times will Spider-man and Deadpool avoid using "the k-word?"  How many chimichangas will we serve over the course of this episode?  (hint: a lot!)  Get ready to delve into the world of "the merc with a mouth" and get excited as Ryan Reynolds continues to make fun of his previous super hero attempts on the big screen!

We are wrapping up the second installment of our month long New Year's Nicktoons with CatDog.  Do you like Cats?  Do you like Dogs?  Do you like David Cronenberg style body horror?  Then get ready for CatDog!  I'm not even sure where to go with this one.  Both Sean and Dave had a difficult time watching two things that are awesome independently (cats and dogs), yet are horrible when fused together at the waist.  Double oy.

It never seems that Norbert and Daggett ever really get, truthfully, "angry" in a show that includes the word in the title.  It's really not more than childish behavior and/or a slap fight; standing sibling rivalry.  Dave and Sean build a damn dam in week three of our ongoing New Year's Nicktoons saga with "The Angry Beavers."  We landed on an episode that placed Norb and Dag into a B horror film with Oxnard Montalvo (the beaver's hero) and a cast that includes a Toluca Lake, Man Servante, and all of the monsters from the evil of Dark Pool that you can imagine!  Buckle up and let your imaginations run wild and try not to let your brains get snatched by an object from another dimension that feed on the very fabric of time and space!

Move it, FOOTBALL HEAD!  Sean and Dave are continuing their second week of our New Year's Nicktoons series with Hey Arnold!.  The episode that we watch this week is a little bit of a departure from the normal series and should have been the series finale.  We watched the 5th season episode "The Journal" that talks about Arnold's parents and the story of how he was born.  It's touching, a little sad, and will leave you with 100 questions!  So, kick back on your stoop and relax with this weeks episode of Hey Arnold!