The Cartoncast

The Cartoncast

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  • 83 - Earthworm Jim
    Ben and Zane were crawling around eating dirt on a dare, when Gary Lane,
    notable groovy guy, stepped up to them to tell them the good word of the
    Great Worm Spirit. Instantly hooked, they all trotted toward the nearest
    Church of the GWS, but were unfortunately crushed by a falling cow on the
    way there. Truly, the Great Worm Spirit gives with one end, and... ehh...
    does something gross with the other end.
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  • 82 - Disney's House of Mouse
    Ben and Zane went to the new club in town, the House of Mouse, hoping for a
    pleasant evening of Fivel movies and Sherlock Holmes references. But what
    they found terrified them. The whole estate had been left untended for
    ages. Long-rotten bodies had been exhumed and made to dance in a macabre
    performance, and everyone from the greeter to the waiter was but a shadow
    of their former selves. They begged to be freed from their eternal show,
    but even the Cartoncasters' strongest venom could not stop the power of the
    magic kingdom.
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  • 80 - Bootlegg'd - Lupin III - The Mystery of Mamo
    Join the Cartoncasters for this special Bootlegg'd segment, where we look
    at an anime film for the first time. Lupin III is a very successful, long
    running franchise, which showcases a Japanese twist on the much beloved spy
    genre. Its long history produced many incarnations of Lupin III with wildly
    varying quality, similar to the history of James Bond. The Mystery of Mamo
    is one of the more beloved examples, with all that quick-witted Lupin
    goodness, mildly soured by an emergency injection of Heinlein right at the
    finish.
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  • 79 - Popeye the Sailor
    Ben and Zane were touring the 1930's with the help of their Time Lord
    friend Phil. They took in the old-timey horse races and...sock hops?
    Anyway, as they passed the docks, they were shoved out of the way by a
    gigantic, meaty man. A sailor saw this and jumped out of his boat, using
    his clearly-diseased arms to take down the bully, punching him into several
    steaks. As the Cartoncasters went to leave, the sailor started muttering
    something that they couldn't understand, something about olive oil and
    "just needing a bit more of the green stuff."
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  • 78 - Capitol Critters
    It's been a while since Ben and Zane checked in with Buster Bunny. Time had
    not treated him well. The disillusionment of adolescence left him ripe for
    distraction and the glory of mob mentality. He fell in with the wrong
    crowd, started disrespecting his momma, and filled his dissatisfaction of
    the underclass with lewd distractions and senseless violence. If only he
    would listen to us say that in a race war, there is no victor.
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  • One-Legg'd - Gravity Falls
    Greetings, mystery eggberts! Because Ben shows no signs of watching this
    great show, Zane is using the nuclear option and just recording an episode
    without him. Helping him investigate the strangeness of the situation is
    Ethan, certified twin and conspiracianado. Listen as Ethan and Zane drop
    hints about the secret history of the U.S. government, dire visions of the
    future, and the lifelong question of what happens to the little light in
    the fridge when you close it.Ethan is full of spiders. Don't go peeking.
    born lie bit you florid mess.
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  • 77 - Daria
    While talking about the latest episode of Sick Sad World (are people
    illegally cutting baseball diamonds in half? Three sides and you're out,
    next on Sick Sad World!), Ben and Zane saw the new girl in school walk by.
    But then they got distracted by the weird kid's gambling ring, and the
    teacher's rampage, and the spat between the Canadian couple, and by the
    time they got back around to looking at the new girl they just kind of
    stopped caring. La la la la la.
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  • 76 - Thundercats
    Ben and Zane were visiting Eternia - sorry, Third Earth - and found a
    fascinating war unfolding around them. Apparently, some renegade members of
    a barbaric race were subjecting the natives to a dogmatic psuedo-mysitcal
    religious mandate. The leader of this band, He-man - excuse me, Lion-O -
    called himself 'The Lord of the Thundercats', and ruled by divine right.
    His mission, he said, was to lead a crusade against the so-called great
    evil of Skeletor - oh forget it.
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  • 75.5 - Scrambl'd - Kid Radd part 2
    In the second part of our in-depth summary of Kid Radd, we follow Radd from
    his quest to find powerful allies to fight the Moderators up through the
    dramatic conclusion and epilogue. As the party goes in and out of video
    game parodies, the author moves between drama and comedy to convey the
    central themes which are restated, just, so many times.
    Read Kid Radd here
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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.