The Cartoncast

The Cartoncast

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The Cartoncast episodes

  • The Sixth Annual Cartony Awards
    Ahh, the exalted Cartony awards. The envy of every cartoon-related
    self-aggrandizing navel-gazing podcaster for miles around. An opportunity
    to purge the bitter bile from our minds, to start another year with a clean
    slate by acknowledging the worst, best, and hairy chest of the past year.
    So take a load off, reminisce about why these cartoons am so horny, and try
    not to fall prey to the wandering kunai with chain.
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  • 154 - My Life as a Teenage Robot
    Ben and Zane were on the beat again, following up on a lead about a teenage
    girl who was a little more… chrome than most. They met Jenny, a new kind of
    robot with more different attachments and extensions than could possibly
    fit. Her abilities were impressive, but unfortunately her development ran
    out of funding before they could install that ‘interesting dueteragonist’
    upgrade.
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  • 153 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    The Cartoncasters were in a bind. Yes, “again,” get off my back!
    Their…whew… let’s say dog was missing. Kidnapped! Kidnapped by, like, a
    confused cat burglar. And the cat burglar was in cahoots with, uh, maybe a
    salon? And the salon… I can’t do this. Yadda yadda, Ace Ventura’s on the
    case, whatever, just don’t make me look at him any more.
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  • 152 - Yu-Gi-Oh!
    Ben and Zane were in a bind. They had to raise a lot of money to fix their
    microphone’s audio quality, which for some reason kept getting translated
    into a brooklyn accent. But the only jobs available were all related to an
    obscure card game with really flimsy rules and blatantly injected
    melodrama. It was only by wearing ridiculously stiff costumes that they
    were able to get the creator to listen to their plight. It sure was lucky
    that he had such an investment in children’s cartoons. This must be what
    they call the heart of the cartoons, kaiba-boy.
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  • 151 - Scrambl'd - FF7 Remake Cutscenes
    Ben and Zane wanted to do their part to help the planet, so they joined
    AVALANCHE. The Cartoncasters liked it at first - they didn’t have to work
    in the radiation mines, they had all the propaganda they could want, and
    the ladies in the group seemed very interested. But the promises of daring
    missions and glory faded away as they spent their day selling water filters
    and haggling with the local Madam. At least they would be done soon, as
    there’s only… 150 MORE HOURS?!
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  • 150 - Static Shock
    Ben and Zane mixed up their plane tickets and went to the fictional Dakota
    instead of the real one. There they met a superhero with lightning powers.
    Initially the Cartoncasters were beside themselves with fanboyism - they’d
    heard of Static’s exploits for a long time. But as time went on, the
    superhero descended into speaking in 90’s hip-hop slang and manifested
    crushing self-doubt. The Cartoncasters didn’t have the heart to tell him
    that they preferred Soul Power.
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  • 149 - Bootlegg'd - Rango
    What does it take to win the Oscar for Best Picture for Animated Feature?
    Does it take a story of high adventure, complex comedy, and social
    commentary? A grand epic with new and beautiful animation techniques that
    questions the nature of the self and its relationship to art and history?
    Can it handle having a mushy middle and a confused ending? It can if the
    Disney/Pixar movie that year was Cars 2.
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  • Unshell'd - Inside Out Word Pages
    It was only a matter of time. The Cartoncasters could put off the
    inevitable no longer. Dan Caves of The Cocktail Party Congress was finally
    able to pin down the cartoonologist duo to discuss a favorite of his, a
    little known (but lotly loved) series known as Inside Out Word Pages. The
    task was a daunting one, but with the help of Dan Caves, a pocket
    thesaurus, and the steady guiding hand of Anubo, they were able to avoid
    being judged.
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  • 148 - Dinotrux
    When Ben and Zane found the keys in that excavator, they knew there was
    only one option: tool around in it until they got caught or caused a fire,
    whichever comes first. What they didn’t expect was to unearth a complete
    skeleton of a T-Rex. The Cartoncasters gazed at its beauty and its
    potential, the sheer power of such a creature. But without any real meat on
    it, no connective tissue, no capacity for growth, it would never achieve
    greatness. Then they got distracted by this cool iguana that got glued to a
    screwdriver and totally destroyed the skeleton.
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  • 147 - Lloyd in Space
    Ben and Zane were all set up in their rooms, ready to record a podcast (in
    space). Setting up their space-microphones and sipping cosmic water, they
    pressed record. After a couple of intergalactic hours, their space-podcast
    was complete (in space).
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About The Cartoncast

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As we describe it, this is the '8th grade lit paper' of cartoon podcasts. It involves a deliberate investigation to what makes old cartoons tick, and a healthy respect for digression. Also eggs.