The Blob Show!

An amorphous Greek casserole becomes mutated after being mistakenly struck by a UFO beam.  Tony and Charley investigate the 1999 Blob parody THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT MOUSSAKA (d. Panos H. Koutras) while baking their own eggplant dish.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of The Blob Show— and my phone approaches insufficient storage— I thought I'd compile an olio of segments I couldn't bear to trash.  These are largely from the show's early development when Tony and Charley were trying to find their voice and Joey was, literally, trying to find her legs.   

Charley and Tony discuss three film adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN including those by Marc Munden (2020), Fred M. Wilcox (1949), and Agnieszka Holland (1993).  And death.

With the magic of editing, Tony usurps Charley's experimental maze cartography episode to discuss the dichotomy of maturity and nonsense in Jan Švankmajer's 1971 stop-motion adaptation of Lewis Carroll's JABBERWOCKY (with a little help from Ringo Starr).

Tony and Charley discuss highlights from MGM's Tom and Jerry shorts of the Fred Quimby, Hanna/Barbera era including: SPRINGTIME FOR THOMAS (1946), THE YANKEE DOODLE MOUSE (1943), MOUSE TROUBLE (1944), QUIET PLEASE! (1945), THE LITTLE ORPHAN (1949), THE TWO MOUSEKETEERS (1952), MOUSE IN MANHATTAN (1945), THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1941), THE CAT CONCERTO (1947), JOHANN MOUSE (1953), and PUSS GETS THE BOOT (1940).  We tie it all together with a Blob Bites segment discussing "What About Blob?", a 2019 episode of Boomerang's The Tom and Jerry Show.

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, S. 244/2 is performed by Martha Goldstein, CC in the public domain

https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/

After months of trying to figure the game out, Tony and Charley finally finish the 1989 Nintendo puzzle adventure DAVID CRANE'S A BOY AND HIS BLOB: TROUBLE ON BLOBOLONIA.  This episode quickly devolves into an excuse to eat jellybeans and also has the strange coincidence of featuring an appearance by Daft Punk on the day they announced their breakup: further proof that The Blob Show will stop at nothing to drive a well-regarded property into the ground.

An homage to our Norwegian listeners, Charley unearths her first found-footage movie-- André Øvredal's TROLLHUNTER (Trolljegeren)-- and grapples with the medium.  We also discuss the differences between being 4 and 5 years old, whether or not one can believe Valentine's Day, and the differences and similarities of TROLLHUNTER's Norwegian trolls and FROZEN's Norwegian trolls.

In the latest episode of Charley-on-Charlie, we celebrate a couple of birthdays: Charley turns five (as a reminder to change the show description) and Charlie Chaplin's THE KID turns 100!  

Charley introduces Tony to the Paul Rudish's shorts series MICKEY MOUSE and we discuss our favorite surrealist slapstick moments from season one.  We also walk through the Capcom/Hudson Soft release MICKEY MOUSECAPADE (Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no Kuni no Daibouken;ミッキーマウス 不思議の国の大冒険 1987/1988) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and tease a future crossover episode discussing Floyd Gottfredson's Phantom Blot and how it morphed into the blob-related Shadow Blot in another Mickey Mouse video game, EPIC MICKEY (2010).

Also discussed: The Adventures of Captain Comic (1988), Ub Iwerks, Osamu Tezuka, Robert Clampett

Charley and Tony count down their top ten films (+1) of 2020.  Spoilers in the remaining show-notes.

Films mentioned: Shadowed (d. Lotta Losten and David F. Sandberg), The Haunted Swordsman (d. Kevin McTurk), Death Blood 4: Revenge of the Killer Nano-Robotic Blood Virus (d. Chris DePretis), Nomadland (d. Chloé Zhao), Sonic the Hedgehog (d. Jeff Fowler), Driveways (d. Andrew Ahn), Stargirl (d. Julia Hart), The Kid Detective (d. Evan Morgan), Soul (d. Pete Docter and Kemp Powers), Possessor (d. Brandon Cronenberg), Over the Moon (d. Glen Keane and John Kahrs), Lovers Rock (d. Steve McQueen), System Crasher (Systemsprenger d. Nora Fingscheidt), The Mortuary Collection (d. Ryan Spindell), Scoob! (d. Tony Cervone), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (d. Charlie Kaufman), WolfWalkers (d. Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart), I'm Your Woman (d. Julia Hart), Onward (d. Dan Scanlon), The Invisible Man (d. Leigh Whannell), The Slug Finger (d. Lily Shaul), The Painter and the Thief (Kunstneren og tyven d. Benjamin Ree)