The Pemmy, Krissi & James Kinda-Sorta-Hopefully Funny Cartoon Podcast

CH Greenblatt presents Jellystone! A perfectly calm, coherent and pedestrian cartoon where nothing ever gets destroyed and nobody does anything remotely insane. Nope... not at all... you're not buying it, are you? Seriously, the Hanna-Barbera characters make their triumphant return in this HBO Max series and our hosts couldn't be happier.

He's the chief, he's the king but above everything he... bombed in prime time?! Given the lasting legacy of Top Cat and his crew, which includes multiple appearances in other HB shows, a pair of feature films in Mexico and South America, and much more, it's a surprise his original run was only one season. Pemmy and James explore why this series has endured for as long as it has thanks to brilliant voice acting and genuinely good writing.

Putty Puss, Mussel Mutt, Ding Dog, Rhubarb, Sparkplug and Stutts. This Saturday morning toon's basically forgotten, and that's kinda rough! When WB vets Friz Freleng and Bob McKimson team up with Scooby Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, they came up with this series best explained as Top Cat meets Mission Impossible in the late Wild West period. While the gadgets are sometimes contrived, the show is still pretty fun!

Don Bluth's laserdisc games helped keep arcades interesting for just long enough while the console side of video games was going bust, and Ruby Spears capitalized on it with the Saturday Supercade series on CBS. Space Ace was one of seven total games adapted into this anthology series, and it's... not great. It's a mild sight better than some of the other shows on it, sadly.

Special thanks to Krissi Harding from James' other podcast, Gaming Street Irregulars, for helping with the intro!

The boys and girls of Termite Terrace created hundreds of memorable cartoons, giving life to characters who are a part of our history and heritage. Even characters like these in today's podcast, who only had one appearance to their name during the run from 1933 to 1964. Guest Billy D'Ettorre joins us as we look at the one hit wonders "Horton Hatches the Egg," "The Dover Boys at Pimento University," "One Froggy Evening" and "Three Little Bops." 

"Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, on the P&J show!" Imagine some of the crazy things we'd see in the cartoon we covered last time (Wacky Races) played completely seriously, except hampered by one of the wildest Japanese-to-English dubs ever outside of the likes of Prince of Space, and that comparison is NOT a coincidence! It's our first foray into anime, folks, and we hope you enjoy it. Okle dokle!

And away they go! Two of the least daredevil daffy... umm... there's nothing alliterative that describes podcast hosts. So much for that gag. As you're about to hear, Pemmy and James LOVE the Wacky Races cartoon and much of its legacy which rings through Hanna-Barbera's work following its run on CBS. And much of it is due to a mustachioed do-badder and his snickering shag rug of a dog sidekick. 

Boldly going where no TV series had gone for roughly three or four years, Filmation and Paramount reunited Gene Roddenberry, DC Fontana, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and much of the rest of the Star Trek team for this two season Saturday morning production. We've got "sterile" Tribbles and angry serpentine would-be-Gods aplenty, with special guest Christopher Frank to boot!

Practically falling into the laps of Friz Freleng and David DePatie, the Pink Panther was the brainchild of Blake Edwards and gave theatrical short subject cartoons one last grand hurrah before disappearing into the realm of being financially unviable. Cooler than the entire cucumber section of a grocery store on the North Pole, the Panther would wage wits with the Little Man and more often than not made it look easy. Just as easy as revisiting these cartoon classics.

Take equal parts Star Wars and Conan, dash in some Mad Max for flavor, and you get one of the most stylish cartoons to ever come out of Ruby Spears! Thundarrr, Ariel and Ookla quest across the world to free oppressed people from power mad wizards across twenty one episodes. With outrageous antagonists designed by Jack Kirby, and glorious illustrated backgrounds, this series was truly ahead of its time. We're joined by Justin Toner to enjoy "Mindok the Mind Menace" and "Master of the Stolen Sun Sword."