Episode 18- Robocop

In honor of the new Robocop, we watched an episode of the animated Robocop, our second straight R-rated movie turned into a kids cartoon. What a world we live in, right?

This time around, we learn Andrea's nickname, which has led her to legal trouble, Giancarlo fantasizes about some sexy cartoon ladies (never done that before, right?), some of us try to one up each other on Nixon references, and we talk about X-men for the thousandth time on a episode that's not at all about the X-men. Yes, we finally adress the regulation of Cyclops' optic blasts. Please notify Stockholm for our physics Nobels, please.

We also get a visit from ED-260, and boy has he gotten into some murder-related hijinx since the show. 

We're also running a contest which you can enter and win your own SMDG art!

Enjoy and listen. Listen on iTunes, Stitcher or right here, rate, email us follow us @SMDGpodcast. Truly, it is your move, creep. (I'm only quoting the movie, I do not think you're a creep at all, ESPECIALLY if you're actually listening to our podcast!)

Also, here's the episode of Robocop that we watched: 

In which we announce our contest

Totally relevant gif of Toonces the Driving Cat

Yes, it's the first ever contest that your humble podcast hosts have ever sponsored. We need your help to build up a wider audience. We think we're funny and entertaining. We want to share our funny and entertaining selves with more of this crazy world. Sure we won't cure cancer, unless the cure to cancer is incredibly stupid conversation about twenty year old cartoons*, but we think we can at least help people remember shows they barely cared about it in the first place.

* SPOILER ALERT: it turns out that it is the cure to cancer, but we don't learn that until 2138, when the cartoons of 2118 turn out to be made of anti-cancer medicine that only works when you talk about them stupidly.

He could be a fan. YOU could
turn him into a fan...

So what can you do to enter this contest? Basically you can do anything that spreads the news about our podcast that we can verify. Can you rate/write a review on iTunes*? Do you have a facebook? Do you have a twitter? Do you have a tumblr? Do you have a blog, a vlog, a film called The Desolation of Smaug? Any of those would make great avenues to say "Hey people, this is a podcast that I find entertaining. You should listen."
called "

* For pure clarification to the world, any review on iTunes works, we can't induce you to write positive ones. So any review will count.

Every time you do something on some electronic medium (and you know, alert us to that fact) you'll get your name put in for an entry. The prize? A snazzy piece of original SMDG artwork. Any of the episode art is yours in a high quality print or original (if it was designed on the computer, which some were, I can't just give you my computer. I need it.) You get to pick which episode. Or if you're really desperate for something I haven't done, you can suggest the art for a future episode, and I'll give you that original work.

We're going to run this contest through the end of March, we'll say Friday March 28 at midnight eastern. We'll do the drawing and announce the winner during the next episode of the show, and contact the winner. So send us an email, a tweet, leave a note on our facebook page, or a comment on this blog post (ie, the one you're reading now) to tell us what you did and where we can contact you.

Hopefully someone enters this thing...

Episode 17- Rambo

We are back and we are once again down one host. But luckily, we have four hosts normally, so it's not like there are awkward pauses. And one of the remaining host most certainly doesn't leave in the middle of the recording but gets edited in a way that makes it appear that she is there the whole time... certainly not!

In this week's episode, we watched the pilot of one of the very first children's cartoons based upon an R-rated movie- "Rambo". Because what makes for better kid's cartoon than a character that's most politely described as a "rather disturbed Vietnam Veteran who murders lots of people"? We also discuss how sexy closeups of animated muscles can be, the effectiveness of push-based combat, the lack of engineers on the writing staff of the "Rambo" cartoon, and we have an amazing interview with the extremely intimidating Sergeant Havok who had his eyelids removed.

We also make a two big announcements- one about a contest (go here for more details) and one about a live show (don't go anywhere right now, because we don't have details set!)

Enjoy and listen with a loved one or a disturbed Vietnam vet. Or both. Listen on iTunes, Stitcher or right here, rate, email us follow us@SMDGpodcast.

And here's the thing we watched: