Before Rudolph, and the Grinch, and a Charlie Brown Christmas and all of the classic animated Christmas Specials that you all know and love, there was a little old man with poor eyesight who was brought to life by one of the scrappiest animated studios there ever was.  This week is about the first (that we know of) animated Christmas Special, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, and how it paved the way for all the Christmas specials to come. 

This story is about a lot of things. It's somehow about tigers, Sea World Ohio, the world's tallest drop tower, Fabio getting hit in the face by a goose, and so much more, but above all, it's about Kingda Ka, formerly the world's tallest and fastest rollercoaster, and sister coaster to Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster.  For decades, Kingda Ka stood with her records untouched, but soon she'll be dismantled for parts, marking the end of the roller coaster wars as we knew them.  

Years before the release of Toy Story, when computer animation was still in its infancy, several guys from the UK, riding high on the success of their animated Dire Straits music video, got a wild idea:  What if they made a computer animated cartoon...in the late 80's?  

Reboot Rewind Documentary - https://youtu.be/OuAfWhsI-F8?si=ORdxQEAZJgX4NB-D

In 2004, when Kellogg's cereal released a contest to determine what new flavor of cereal they would release in South Korea, they had no idea that they were about to kickstart a sixteen year fight for justice. The contest was between Chocolate and Green Onion Chex, and when the results of the voting weren't what Kellogg's wanted, they had to resort to drastic measures.

An episode all about everyone's favorite programming block Toonami! 

Nowadays, comic conventions happen all over the United States, and the world, in many major cities, with the most well known being San Diego Comic Con, in San Diego California.  Many people assume that San Diego was the first, but that isn't true!  Comic Conventions got their stars years earlier, in the midwest, headed by several teenage boys armed only with a dream and some impressive industry connections.  

A rerun of episode 20, about the controversial Sega Game "Night Trap". 

In the late 60's, during the tail end of construction on Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando Florida, the Disney Company entered into a partnership with the Florida Citrus Commission.  The commission would sponsor Disney's Tropical Serenade show, while disney would make a mascot for them to help sell orange juice.  This mascot was the Orange Bird, a cute little canary with an orange for a head.  But, what does this cute, innocent character have to do with notorious anti-gay activist Anita Bryant?  

Link to our new SHONM Merch collection!

Nowadays super hero movies are their own genre of film, but what was the first one?   Which film kickstarted the trend, which film was so iconic that it made permanent changes to the comic if was based on and which film was the first big hollywood blockbuster success?  

On one side we have Nintendo, a video game company that has survived through two video game crashes and two world wars.  On the other side there's Pocket Pair's indie video game Palworld, which has been accused of infringing on two of the Pokemon company's patents.  Sure Nintendo has a history of being incredibly litigious, but is this story as cut and dry as it seems?  Is this really a case of a small spunky studio having to face off against one of the most powerful companies in their industry?  Or does Pocket Pair have some skeletons in their closet and a habit of stealing game assets?