The Cartoncast

The Cartoncast

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The Cartoncast episodes

  • 102 - Phineas and Ferb
    Cartoncast Evil Incorporateeeeed! The Cartoncasters invite you all to
    behold our new Joke-inator. By flagrantly brandishing sitcom formula with
    an ironic edge, this device creates cartoons at an almost fiendish pace.
    And just when you think you've adapted to the formula, it fires an out of
    place song at you, causing disorientation, irritability, and in rare cases,
    thrombosis. Don't worry though - at least once an episode, you'll be
    rescued from the monotony by an animal secret agent in a funny hat. God
    bless you, Perry the Platypus. God bless you.
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  • 101 - Bootlegg'd - 5 Centimeters per Second
    You will often hear Ben and Zane relentlessly make fun of shows we don't
    like, or get excited and rave about shows we do like, but we're starting a
    new hundred episodes with an oddity: relentlessly making fun of a movie we
    genuinely enjoyed, and which less cynical people find emotionally resonant.
    It's beautiful, it's meaningful, it's short, and it's just so, so full of
    its own message. Enjoy the cherry blossoms.
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  • 100 - Jackie Chan Adventures
    No beating around the bush on this one - we both adore this show. Jackie
    Chan is a knockoff Indiana Jones that gets inducted into the MIB to hunt
    the 7 magical crystals and make the world safe from a dragon demon statue
    that summons shadow ninjas. Ease off the throttle JCA - you had us at Hak
    Foo. Enjoy as we rightly praise a show that captured our hearts unlike any
    other.
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  • 99 - Scrambl'd - Wallace and Gromit
    Ben and Zane were enjoying a cheese tour of northern England when they bit
    into a local sample. Something was...off. The cheese was crumbly, but not
    in a good way. In fact it felt and tasted like clay! It started moving on
    its own, just very very slowly. Rather than touch it further with their
    hands, the Cartoncasters set up a Rube-Goldberg-esque contraption to do
    away with the dreary dairy. Ah well, at least they still had each other!
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  • 98 - Batman: The Animated Series
    It was Ben and Zane's hardest case yet, a real Riddler of a mystery. They
    would need some help from the local photographer, Devan, to get to the
    bottom of it. And it paid off - she had taken a treasure trove of pictures
    and video, exhaustively researching the very same case. She found that
    there was one common factor behind the string of disappearances of villains
    in the city: massive amounts of guano left behind at the scene. But what
    could be doing this? Who would drain the blood of dozens of hard-working
    megalomaniacal job-creators, yet be smart enough to evade capture. But in a
    vast city of people throatily declaring "I am Batman," where could they
    find the elusive Man-Bat?
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  • 97 - Hellsing
    Ben and Zane probably shouldn't have wandered through the desolate streets
    of London that late at night. They were chasing a hot tip about a vampire
    running amok, just being generally creepy and nihilistic. Luckily, local
    professor of the supernatural, one Dan Caves, was willing to outfit them
    everything they'd need to survive the task. Silver crosses, impossibly
    heavy guns, and over-the-top faux british accents that'd send the ranks of
    the undead running. Cor and blimey, police girl.
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  • 96 - Sonic the Hedgehog
    Finding themselves under immediate threat of roboticization, Ben and Zane
    enlisted the help of Joshua to navigate the post-apocalyptic hellscape
    their humble village had become. Despite the victorious battles that soon
    followed, nothing ever seemed to get better. They made up slang and
    listened to the ancient music to entertain themselves, all the while
    planning how to defeat their eternal enemy: the French.
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  • 95 - Bootlegg'd - Bee Movie
    The bizarrely-memetic Bee Movie was an odd spike in the twilight of Jerry
    Seinfeld's career, and one he oddly but in a lot of effort to make happen.
    What is it that's so memeworthy? Why did Jerry Seinfeld do it? Do the
    tenets of Bee Law inherently favor yellowjackets or bumblebees? These
    questions, and many, many more are asked in this Bootlegg'd segment.
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  • 94 - Clerks: The Animated Series
    Ben and Zane were investigating the inside of their freezer when, wouldn't
    you know it, they got locked in and had to reminisce about a show they
    vaguely remember watching once. They called up Nate and Craig to join them
    in this Secret Room and, rather than have them help the Cartoncasters out,
    they all talked about pop culture references for a while. Also they own a
    store now.
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  • 93 - Jem and the Holograms
    The Cartoncasters were trying on various costumes at the mall, judging the
    quality of their respective bulges (someone had to), when they were
    enraptured by a performance in the middle of the mall. It was none other
    than Jem, pop idol extraordinaire. She dazzled onlookers with her fashion,
    glitter, fortune, and fame, not to mention the supercomputer in the back of
    the set working the lights. The show turned out to be truly (truly truly)
    outrageous, and the two knew that no matter how many concerts they'd go to,
    no one else would be the same. And the holograms.
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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.