Episode 20- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

For today's epsiode, we watched the "classic" animated series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. And we can all thank Filmation for making the term "classic" hold no meaning for us.

Listen in as we discuss the complexities of smartphone map systems. We also learn about Giancarlo's (not so) secret fantasies about robot horse/non-robot human relations. All of this is in an effort to not really focus on "Origin of the Sorceress," the somewhat confusing and convoluted episode focusing on the beginnings of the "He-Man" character The Sorceress (in case you couldn't guess) and why her nemesis is a giant Moses. Plus, learn what a robot horse not programmed to be sentient thinks, courtesy of the magic of a computer that translates non-sentient horse robot thought into very robot words. It's as good as it sounds, folks.

Plus, in our interview segment, the Sorceress stops by and we even learn that's she's an Eternia ex-pat living in the states and we discover her real name is not Teela-Na as we were led to believe by every single piece of evidence we found. Earth-shaking stuff, folks.

Thanks for listening, and if you like us, maybe you should subscribe or tell someone that we exist. We know we'd appreciate it.

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And if you want to play along at home:

Episode 19- Snorks

In this episode, we return to the unrelenting mediocrity of Hanna-Barbera in the 80s by watching The Snorks. 

This time around, we talked about a terrible clarinet and snare drum quartet Andrea was in in 6th grade that played Bryan Adams "Everything I  Do (I Do It For You)", Tim and GC play by the syntactical rules of The Snorks while singing the theme to a much better show. If you do'nt know those syntactical rules, don't worry, we help you out with that, just like the shows, by strictly defining when and how to  substitute the word "snork" for other words, actual words. Sean does stuff and then totally does not leave 90% of the way through the recording so he could make his improv practice. And as a group, we do our best to make  some high quality fish/sealife puns, we perform a little bit of Hamlet gets performed, and we discuss how sassy eels that act as wheels aren't sassy the way they would have been if they were on a better Hanna-Barbera show, Thundarr the Barbarian. That's a joke. Clearly we mean the late 70s Fantastic Four. The one with H.E.R.B.I.E.

Thanks for listening. You should snork a snork about this show. And check out the website about the contest. Also "snork a snork" means "tell a friend". 

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And here is the episode we watched in all of its Hanna-Barbera nonsensical terribleness:

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."
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* 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:

Episode 16- Muppet Babies

Hey everybody, we're back with a new episode. We really turned our formula on its ear by watching something we enjoyed, an episode of Muppet Babies.

During this episode, we're a man down, as someone had the unmitigated gall to be sick and not present. But the remainder of the team carried on, stalwart and bold, like the fearless troopers we are. 

Anywho, in this episode you will thrill as we discuss Sean's potential contraction of Space AIDS, Tim discusses his unabiding love of June Cleaver, we forge new paths as we try and determine why this show actually holds up a entertainment (as opposed to what we normall watch) and we interview Skeeter, the only cast member who didn't do any other projects with the rest of the Muppet crew. Here's a hint, Skeeter's got some problems folks...

Enjoy and why not tell a friend? Listen on iTunes, Stitcher or right here, rate, email us follow us@SMDGpodcast.

And if you want to enjoy what we watched, here you go, crew:

Episode 15- Ewoks

Hello there Grippers (a new name for our fan base, we’re just trying it out), because if there is anything we learned from this cartoon, it’s how much nicknames help make sense of everything. In today’s episode we watched the pilot episode of the 1985 Ewoks cartoon/forest fire PSA entitled, “The Cries of the Trees.”

Listen as we talk about the Ewoks’ love of certain presentation styles, their love of their own confusing language and their love of dropping manure on other Ewoks. They’re a very positive society. We also discuss ABC’s hatred of the actual Star Wars trilogy. The ORIGINAL Star Wars trilogy. I know, right?

Also, in retrospect, we think we’ll drop the “Grippers” lingo. Even though it’s still better than most of the names they created for Ewoks.

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Tell one person about this podcast and we'll nominate you for "SMDG Person of January," an award in honor of January Jones.

Watch what we watched for very confusing context below: