The Ink and Think Hour

The Ink and Think Hour

By Lin Darrow and Jeremy G.LeisureAnimation & Manga
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The Ink and Think Hour episodes

  • EP 14 - Peter Pan (1953): Growing Up, Gender Roles, Queer Pirates, and Little Mothers

    In this episode, we discuss:

    - racism, sexism, and the white male fantasy in the Edwardian boy's adventure story,
    - the depiction of childhood as the time in your life that you can act however you like without regard to the consequences your actions have for other people,
    - the accidental, backwards subversiveness of the game played by the Indigenous characters and the Lost Boys,
    - the subversive potential of Smee as the pirates' mother,
    - how much we love Captain Hook as campy, theatrical dandy, and
    - the sudden and arbitrary importance of appearing honourable in the last 20 minutes of the movie.

    1 hr 14 min
  • EP 13 - Alice in Wonderland (1951): Nonsense, Madness, Authority, and the Art of Teaching in the 21st Century

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -the politics of literary adaptations and why the cartoon is the ideal medium for adapting Alice,
    -how the world can feel like nonsense when the logic you learn in school doesn't hold true in 'real life',
    -how to recognize what kinds of authority need to be rebelled against and what kinds of authorities should be respected,
    -how silly language is and how easily we can play with it,
    -how rote memorization isn't actually learning (and how honing your critical thinking skills is), and
    -our dream that Alice could become a socially-just lawyer/suffragette/elected official.

    1 hr 33 min
  • EP 12 - Cinderella (1950): Class, Predestiny, and Putting a Mouse in Our Babes Gallery

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -how much of this movie is actually about the mice,
    -the Tremaines' need to denigrate Cinderella's inherent class value to make themselves feel better,
    -how much work shady, shady Cinderella has to do to choose kindness,
    -Cinderella's inability to identify the prince (or, perhaps, her calculated performance of not knowing who the prince is so that he will fall in love with her),
    -our uncertainty about what Cinderella's queenship might be like, and
    -Jaq the mouse's potential as a romantic partner.

    57 min
  • EP 11 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949): Fabulous Manias, Horsemen (both BoJack and Headless), and Prospective Spectral Husbands

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -The Adventure of Mr. Toad being a Beatrix Potter story (if Beatrix Potter wrote stories about devastatingly disastrous characters),
    -Angus MacBadger's 'Scottish' accent that is so bad we theorize that he is not Scottish in-universe,
    -some wild theories about why Toad Hall is weirdly both human-sized and animal-sized at various points,
    -the moral obligation of the idle rich to respect and care for the people affected by their excessive lifestyles,
    -the ethics of being fabulous (**spoilers for the BoJack Horseman finale 27:13-29:35**),
    -Ichabod Crane's scholarly, metropolitan threat to an agricultural town,
    -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as a proto-Beauty and the Beast, and
    -whether we'd most like to marry Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, or the Headless Horseman.

    55 min
  • EP 10 - Melody Time (1948) - Could you stay friends with the horse who yeeted your life partner into space?

    ***In light of the current political climate, we decided to re-record portions of this episode to make our critiques of American power structures more clear. As a result, you may notice slight variances in the audio quality. These variances should be resolved for future episodes.***

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -the limits of our love for anthropomorphic musical instruments and shorts about the seasons changing,
    -our projection of a good, old-fashioned lesbian love story onto a cute little Christmas card romance,
    -the movie's investment in exploring a pioneer version of Americana and its celebration of the Christian-American expansion into the Western frontier,
    -the misadventures of a little tugboat who is a menace and a miscreant but who ultimately wants to be good,
    -the return of our boy José Carioca, and
    -our various opinions about whether or not we would stay friends with a horse if he sent the other to space.





    1 hr 4 min
  • EP 9 - Fun and Fancy Free (1947): Would You Willingly Join Jiminy Cricket for a Night Out on the Town?

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -the retconning of Jiminy Cricket as a 'conscience' without a care (despite the fact that he sees how awful the world is),
    -our choices for a better host for the movie,
    -the use of face-slapping as a courtship ritual in an inherently kinky bear culture,
    -Jiminy Cricket crashing the worst party ever (where a little girl is seemingly held hostage by a middle-aged ventriloquist and his drunk and deeply depressed puppets),
    -our differing opinions on whether or not it would be fun to hang out with Jiminy Cricket in a neutral location, and
    -Disney's really clever and inventive take on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

    43 min
  • EP 8 - Make Mine Music (1946): Jazz, Americana, and the Unnecessary Death of a Hyper-Talented Whale

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -how this film fulfills our dream of a jazz Fantasia,
    -the roots of America's gun violence problem in a short with a high body count,
    -censoring boobs, slimming butts, and the rules that govern the relentless pursuit of pleasure in the 1940s,
    -the fragile masculinity of a showboating, All-American proto-Gaston baseball player,
    -being emotionally invested in a clandestine love story between two resilient hats, and
    -the tragedy of a The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met singing his only sold out show in Heaven. 

    1 hr 8 min
  • EP 7 - The Three Caballeros (1944): Unpacking Donald Duck's Upsetting Desires

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -Jeremy's distaste for this film as a discerning gay child,
    -the goofy display of misremembering in 'The Flying Gauchito,'
    -our appreciation of Aurora Miranda's appreciation of chaos,
    -the Aracuan bird's not-malicious attempts to kill Donald Duck and José Carioca, and
    -our sincere wish that he was successful so that we didn't have to watch 20 minutes of women generously suffering Donald Duck operating as a sex mosquito in a horny fugue state.

    54 min
  • EP 6 - Saludos Amigos (1942): Tourism, Translating Cultures, and Jeremy's Deep, Sincere Apology

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -the mixed-bag nature of the short collection,
    -Disney’s explicit cultural exchange project,
    -our deconstruction of the film’s advertisement of a romanticized, “strange and exotic” Latin America,
    -our speculation about how Pedro the plane keeps himself from being “another martyr to the mail system,” and
    -the introduction of Lin’s newest favourite Disney character.

    32 min
  • EP 5 – Bambi (1942): oh Bambi we love you get up

    In this episode, we discuss:

    -the movie’s failure to escalate in places where it might have been interesting for it to escalate,
    -how a tenth of the movie is Bambi struggling to stand up,
    -Bambi’s weird, withholding deadbeat (ghost?) dad,
    -the horniest Disney song ever written (which seems to have been scrubbed from the internet), and
    -the human perception of the cyclical nature of the natural world.

    59 min

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