The Cartoncast

By Ben and Zane

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.... more

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The podcast currently has 262 episodes available.

The Cartoncast episodes:

September 23, 2017 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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September 07, 2017 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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August 11, 2017 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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July 29, 2017 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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July 15, 2017 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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July 01, 2017 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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June 18, 2017 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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June 04, 2017 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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May 20, 2017 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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April 29, 2017 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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FAQs about The Cartoncast:

How many episodes does The Cartoncast have?

The podcast currently has 262 episodes available.