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Alongside flying, what kid doesn't dream of being able to talk to their pets and other animals and they'd talk back? The wish fulfilment premise of The Wild Thornberrys became a launching point for a fun adventure/comedy series and a better than average educational vehicle, too. Having Tim Curry ham it up as an eccentric nature show host certainly helps, too! We finally return to the world of Nicktoons with this episode, and pay a small tribute to a much-loved YouTube personality in the process.

What started as an attempt to do a Peppa Pig style show for Australia turned into a global sensation that attracted audiences far beyond the preschool age group it was intended for. Bluey and her family and friends learn as they go and grow, with warm humor and storytelling based on real experiences. Cary Woodham returns to the podcast to take us on a trip to get to know the Healers if not for real life then for some approximation of it.

Hey folks, here's the story 'bout Betty the Booper, she was a real sweet boop-a-doop-a-dooper. From being an unnamed poodle singer in a supper club to starring in the Fleischer's first color cartoon, animation's fabulous flapper dazzled audiences with her charm and the adorable voices of Mae Questel, Margie Hines and others. As her earliest version entered the public domain a short while ago, we take a look at a quartet of her short subjects.

Even if the yule log has stopped burning and the eggnog is all drank up, the holiday cheer doesn't have to end on the 25th, right?? ... work with us here, this is what happens when a regular podcast schedule meets the realities of awkward holiday timing. Bakertoons returns to the podcast to help us check out the final member of the Festive Four, Frosty the Snowman, and the special that took a dysfunctional family to the big time in Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. You'd think there's not a lot of daylight between the two, but since both star rotund, not so bright protagonists, it actually kind of works out.

The current era of Disney animated musicals arguably peaked right here, folks. Encanto was a brilliant, heart tugging movie about family bonds and overcoming trauma, filled to the brim with memorable characters and songs. It's been analyzed up and down, left and right, front to back, what could our podcast crew possibly add?? Well, to do it, they went and recruited Northern Belle Rogue, themselves an Encanto superfan, and hopefully you all enjoy the results.

She walked so He-Man, My Little Pony, the Transformers and more could run. Strawberry Shortcake, from the pens of Barbi Sargent and Muriel Fahrion for American Greetings, was picked up by Kenner and aimed to be a multimedia smash via televised specials to help promote the character's world and toys on secondary, independent TV channels. Through this six-year journey, surprising connections to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Ed McMahon and Frank Zappa all wind up caught in the precocious six-year old's garden. Artist Mary Bellamy joins us for a berry good time!

He's fearless! Scarless! ... a little too careless. He's Dynomutt, and in 1976 he joined up with Scooby-Doo on the latter's new home on ABC. While Scooby's formula was still mostly working, things were getting a little sillier with the great dane at the same time. Half the show were the Scooby mysteries you knew, and the other half was a very goofy take-off on the formula established by Adam West's Batman series. And it was a decent hit, too, apparently, so let's see how this package show held up!

Dracula! Frankenstein's Monster! The Wolf Man! And this time not in the form of young crime fighters but from Universal, their most famous shepherds, and developed by comics legend Marv Wolfman!! What should have been a surefire thing turned out to be one of the most horrifying horror-themed failures in animation history, especially since Marv wasn't actually writing any of these episodes. We think you'll agree they could have really, REALLY used him!

THIS EPISODE IS NOT FOR KIDS!!! I CANNOT SAY IT ANY MORE PLAINLY THAN THAT!!! I mean, yeah, most of you reading this know that, and that Hazbin Hotel is a uniquely conceived adult-oriented cartoon. The fandom for this series is massive and includes our own Krissi Harding, who picked this show for her birthday selection and introduced it to James and Pemmy. So come join us for a happy day in Hell, and hear your hosts say things they never once imagined would come out of their mouths! Trigger warning: discussions of depictions of sexual assault are included on this episode. Please take care of yourself first and foremost.

We turn once more to Fox Kids, the legendary Saturday morning programming block that gave us Bobby's World, X-Men, Eek the Cat, the Tick, and... this show. Piggsburg Pigs, created by Fred Silverman's daughter Melissa and produced by Ruby-Spears, feels like the last gasps of the 70s and 80s style of Saturday morning fare before the revolutionary creator-driven works that would define the decade took over the zeitgeist. These pigs only made it one year before hitting the butcher's block, and we're going to look at why it might have been a mercy killing!

Heavens to thunderous theatricality! Hanna Barbera's scenery chewing mountain lion finally takes center stage after popping up here and there, and everywhere even! Whether matching wits with Major Minor or just trying to achieve his dreams of stage notoriety, few characters in the company's repertoire were quite as verbose. So don't exit stage left, or any direction, before checking out this episode!

Alternate Title: The Ballad of a Brooklyn Broom Bandit What started as a spat over DuckTales turned into Fox making their own kids entertainment, with an ambitious take on J M Barrie's tale of the boy who never grew up. It's a story of the intricacies of the public domain, schedule slip-ups, ensemble darkhorses and the brilliance of the one and only Tim Curry. We hope we did right by this almost forgotten gem.

Looks up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a bird in something akin to a plane!! Super Chicken was a project Jay Ward had tried to get to air for over seven years by the time it reached ABC in 1967, when it finally did as part of George of the Jungle. One sip of the super sauce and Henry Cabot Henhouse III fights like a comet! I mean, comets can only fight by crashing into things, so I'm not wrong, am I?

After 100 episodes of pratfalls, birdcalls, stock gags, flea bags, wild takes and corn flakes, we finally get REALLY TWISTED! It's the wild story of Felix the Cat's 1990s revival series that was as turbulent behind the scenes as it was surreal on the screen. Marc and Jordan from the That's Not Quite All Folks podcast join us as we break down and build up a true cult classic first season that took a drastic turn in the second. FUN!!

Righty-O! It's Felix, the Professor, Poindexter, Rock Bottom, and the rest of one of the most enduring 1950s television animated series of all time. It's also DEEPLY strange with oddball gags and the episodes being split in two roughly three and a half minute parts. So does it hold up at all? Would you believe "maybe"? Come see what we pull out of the bag of tricks this time!