The Cartoncast

The Cartoncast

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The Cartoncast episodes

  • 92 - Spice and Wolf
    It was finally time for Ben and Zane to get new anime body pillows to
    snuggle up with, so it became necessary to brave the greatest fantasy
    adventure setting: the marketplace. The merchants were formal and
    entertaining, but their bartering system was too complicated and the church
    kept showing up to accuse the Cartoncasters of various sins and
    abominations. Buying things was easier back when you just had to make a
    sacrifice to the wolf god.
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  • 91 - Danny Phantom
    Well, it finally happened. Mortality caught up with Ben and Zane and they
    were sucked into the Ghost Dimension (tm). Who knew eating that many raw
    eggs could be dangerous? Thankfully a slightly-angsty yet highly
    uninteresting ghost, Inviso-Bill, happened to point them in the right
    direction to get home. He seemed to be in some weird undead-plane feud with
    local vampire Vlad Plasmius. The Cartoncasters wisely decided to head back
    to their mortal coil, despite Vlad looking really, really cool.
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  • 90 - Bootlegg'd - Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
    Ferngully: The Last Rainforest has long been a blind spot in the Cartoncast
    catalog, but one we took pleasure in rectifying. This was the clearest
    expression of a single idea we've encountered yet, and is fondly
    remembered. As a piece of environmentalist literature, it falls somewhat
    short of a full message, but as a piece of entertainment it passes with
    flying colors. We found the "romantic subplot" to be especially compelling,
    if a little queasy. However, as Zane wisely said, our children, and our
    children's children, are 'the next great elder to be in the future'.
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  • 89 - ReBoot
    The Cartoncast was updating their servers, and everything was going
    smoothly until Ben and Zane found a virus hiding in the code. They tried to
    get in there with some forceps, but he was pretty wily. Finally, they sent
    in a Guardian, programmed to mend and defend, to defend its friends, to
    befriend to the end, and to end the virus. It did the job just fine, but it
    kept showing up when they played games, hacking the variables, radicalizing
    the AI, degenerating the graphics, until they couldn't even win at Pong.
    They banished the guardian back to the Net, confident it would never come
    back...
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  • The Third Annual Cartony Awards
    The Third Annual Cartony Awards are upon us, and it's a real "Slam Dunk."
    Eh? Eh? Our crack team of egg scientists have been working at a steady boil
    all year to bring you the finest cartoons. So take out your lab notebooks
    and be ready to write down any evidence that, once again, we have no idea
    what we're doing.
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  • 88 - Animaniacs
    Well, it finally happened. The grain silo around which The Cartoncast
    headquarters was built finally burst open, releasing three ancient beasts
    (I'm gonna go with dogs?) into the world. These malicious beings of
    anarchy, chaos incarnate, ran amok in the headquarters, confounding the
    mild-mannered employees to the point of insanity. Only with the help of
    some good-natured lab rats and a chipper young possum could Ben and Zane
    seal them in their prison tomb to sleep another thousand years. Or until it
    got renewed, whichever came first.
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  • 87 - The Weekenders
    Ben and Zane were just... just so tired you guys. It's been a long week.
    The Cartoncasters were looking forward to some well-deserved rest, spending
    time with a few friends, maybe go on a pizza run. Unfortunately, on Friday
    it looked like they would have to spend the whole weekend running around
    and dwelling on an easily-solved problem. After a real slog on Saturday
    they asked mom for advice, but it was all too reasonable. Finally, on
    Sunday they learned the true meaning of friendship or something. Which they
    forgot by next Friday.
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  • 86 - Slam Dunk
    Ben and Zane decided to take a hiatus from watching cartoons and popped
    down to the local basketball court. Despite some very troubling ethnic
    stereotypes, they had a reasonably good time, until Hanamichi Sakuragi
    showed up. This Kuwabara-looking goofball dramatically jumped into the
    backboard about fifty times before the Cartoncasters decided to pack it up.
    They would have asked him why he was doing it, but you just don't question
    a basketball genius.
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  • 85 - Bootlegg'd - The Brave Little Toaster
    Come to life and join Ben, Zane, and Dan for the adventure of a lifetime,
    or at least until our warranty is up. The Brave Little Toaster is a classic
    film made by proto-Pixar-people that gets a bad reputation for its honest
    take on serious themes (with a few...gratuities). Great for children,
    adults, and anyone willing to confront their own mortality. Plus toast!
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  • 84 - Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
    Ben and Zane were doing their part by making sure no totalitarians were
    hiding in the closet, when opening the door created a gateway to another
    universe. The inhabitants were strange: humanoid animals with bizarre
    features who only spoke in rap lyrics. They met with a funky fresh
    resistance leader and his ragtag band of hype men who tried to enlist them,
    but honestly, the whole trip took a lot out of them, and they just wanted
    to kick back and enjoy some quality TV.
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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.