WEBVTT - Episode 84: The Disney Afternoon 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.400 Hey, Hey, Hey, how's everybody doing. Welcome to another episode 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.160 of Nerdificent. I'm your host, if you widy way and 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.560 sitting across from me as always is very under the 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.439 weather Danny Fernandez. Yes, you know what, Actually it made 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.880 my voice sound even better, like drop down an octave 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.280 or what I was going to say. Maybe it makes 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.760 it sound a little goofy wow sound a little I 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.240 would like to Alreadie um introduce Eddie up top already 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.440 I had to avoid laughing because I didn't introduction. It's 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.120 always the fun thing about being the guest where you're like, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.600 how long do I be quiet? You're the voice that 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.120 you hear. Is the co creator and co executive producer 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.240 of Historical Roast on Netflix. Also at the Comedy Store, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.240 That is Eddie Firth. Hey, thank you for having me guys. Yes, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.760 I'm excited. This is one of those fun ones where 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.120 it's like two of my best friends I've known forever 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.560 and now we get to just sit down and talk 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.120 about I know what we did when we were kids. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.720 Oh yeah, it's it's it's gonna be a good time. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.759 I love it. If he would, um, I totally cut 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.400 you off. I was about to say what you were 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.880 geeking out about this week? Oh man, I think what 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.640 I'm getting out about is Life is Strange too. I've 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.560 been playing through the chapters and this one's fun. Uh, Danny, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.880 did you ever hear the first Life is strange? It's 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.400 kind of like it's more it's like an indie ish game. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.360 Like it's it's like like like the Beach House of 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.280 video games, where like there's some buzz, mainstream buzz, but 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.880 they're pretty still pretty indie. But the first one follows 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.600 a girl and it has a lot of queer representation, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.080 and the whole thing is like she finds out she 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.080 has these special powers where well, the second one continues 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.080 that same trend, but it's too uh like Mexican kids 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.600 and they are and it's like, really isn't afraid to 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.160 touch on, you know, the race relations of it all, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.160 And it's really I don't know. I think that's the 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.320 fun of narrative games, where it's like like because they 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.400 don't it's not like you know how sometimes where when 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.280 video games are media approach race, it's very heavy handed 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.680 and straight up, but like there are microaggressions that are 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.320 happening to them that you are forced to notice because 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.280 you are experiencing those traumas as the player. I was like, 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.000 this is what really makes the real work and and 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.080 like really forcing like like obviously as a person of color, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.240 you're gonna like be more wary. But now, as like 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.680 if you were like you know, like a white person 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.840 who might not be looking out for this, you are 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.679 wary where you're like, oh, maybe just maybe you can 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.680 get like how like it's it's just a little bit 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.919 like oh, there's second meanings to things where people said 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.520 like um, without spoiling too much, like you're kind of 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.959 on the run, and like there's a line that's just like, well, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.239 why would you run away if you're innocent? And it's 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.359 like if as as a player who has experienced everything, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.160 you know exactly why you ran away, Like it's so clear, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.519 but like having that question post you seem so incredulous, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.520 But it's like, yeah, that's a question that a lot 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.160 of people deal with of like well, if you're innocent 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.280 then because like now you can see how quickly you 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.000 know why you would do that. Anyway, I'm having a 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.320 good time for I already know it's gonna make me cry. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.560 At the end, the two boys are so very cute, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.000 and it's so I just love that we're out here 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.680 doing stuff like that. That PC. I always playing PC. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.240 But it is available on all consoles, and the last 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.200 episode of isn't out yet, it's coming out December five, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.560 so you can like play and binge the first because 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.600 they break the game up in the episodes. It's very 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.960 similar to like the Tailtale games, where it's like it's 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.080 a it's a heavily narrow, heavy narrative game where it's 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.720 based on your choices. So that's it's it's super fun. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.120 So even even if you're not quote unquote gamer and 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.840 are afraid of the mechanics, is very easy to pick up. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.720 Not even if you don't play video games. I think 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.480 I as like I still play. I play a lot 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.040 of sports video games. There was a point I always 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.480 call it the line of delineation. For me was call 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.640 of duty. Like I was a big I loved video games, Sonic, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.200 Mario Brothers, all the early platforms, and then when we 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.320 got to the like when we really indulged in the 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.840 third person shooter, I was like, ah, I don't get 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.599 it in the same way. So I like, I like 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.640 that it's an easier an easier play, all right, and 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.120 you just add one more thing to my to my 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.119 nerding out, uh is the Sonic? The New Sonic looks 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.520 good and it's already been reported from folks that it 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.200 wasn't under crunch that they, you know, gave the animator's 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.160 ample amount of time. I still stand by my statement 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.080 that I think they should get points on a movie. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.800 If people don't know what points is, it's basically a 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.120 percentage of earnings of a movie. Because they truly saved 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.720 this movie. And I think this movie is going to 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.200 do numbers now because like now you have the story 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.360 is they're like not of the actual movie, but the 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.560 story of the creation of it is there. And the 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.200 fans feel like they made they felt like they made 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.280 it happened. So I think just that alone is gonna 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:21.280 make it just do so well. I saw a part 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.359 of that trailer. It really did interest me. The idea 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:28.080 that he had set off some sort of electric signal, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.120 like he's living in the wrong world, and it was cool, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.440 like it was good, but then he starts playing baseball 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.039 by himself and he looked like that that intrigued me. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.120 I'm definitely am definitely interesting and I only watched the tidbit. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.000 I don't like watching trailers because trailers just give away 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.719 too much now, so like I'll just watch. I just 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.400 wanted to see the New Sonic and then I was 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:54.039 done and anything. What about you, Eddie? There's two things? 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.080 Can I can? I thee with two things I have been. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.080 I've been binge watching to hlight Zone for the last 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.120 two months, like these were I already talked about it 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.840 before we started. How could I? How could I not? 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.200 It's so I grew up. Every New Year's Eve channel 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.719 leven w p i X in New York would play 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.640 the marathon and that was our New Year's Eve. It 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:24.680 was make pigs in a blanket and bagel pizzas and 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.680 and watch twilight Zone. And I don't know why, but 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.440 my comfort food in the last two months has just 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.119 been watching twilight Zone, just around the clock. It really 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.400 does hold up. Like I remember, after our episode, I 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.080 went through and I watched it and obviously they're the 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.880 stuff that is dated is dated in a way that's 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.880 like interesting because it gives you insight into the time 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.720 that it was made, like the first episode being this 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.760 idea of a man will go crazy and the time 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.560 it takes to make it to the moon, Like that 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.320 is history, that's like living history of Like this is 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.920 their perception of what space travel was before you actually 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.120 had proof of it. So yeah, I I highly support 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.560 anyone who decides to binge Twilight Zone. I just like 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.120 giving Danny hard time about it. It's there, there is 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:13.600 this incredibly there's this weird this is this great timelessness 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.080 to it. But it's very accessible. I appreciate too. I 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.679 appreciate that they're basically like twenty five minute episodes twenty 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.000 two minutes. That half hour format makes it very easy 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.560 to just they're simple. They don't overdo anything, even down 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.440 to the set pieces, like looking at and realizing that 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.600 for the most part, if it was shot on a 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.880 sound stage, it looks almost like a high school play, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.920 but a really well done one. I had downloaded an 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.680 audio book that I had started to listen to but 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:44.680 haven't finished about The Twilight Zone because look, I know 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.760 Rod Sterling couldn't have written every single episode that he 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.640 didn't like, but like there's some where it says he 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.360 did where I'm like, look, I know you didn't write 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.880 I know you didn't write all of these. It literally 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.880 says it in the credits, But how prolific he was 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.160 in making that show. When you look at each season 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:06.440 is twentysomething episodes, and they did that many, and it's 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.920 just it's a fascinating watch and it really I love 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.000 how it does hold up. There is a timelessness to 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.800 it that just kind of in black. There's quaintness to 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.200 it as well. So I've been watching that like crazy. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.640 The other thing, I was lucky. I was in New 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.200 York last week and I had a day to go 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.960 over to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.640 and they have this incredible Jim Henson exhibit. I mean, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.960 obviously Kermit and Miss Piggy and Big birden Elmo are 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.000 all there, but they showed some of these clips from 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.840 him on the Ed Sullivan Show when they had him 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.199 on all the time, and all these all the different puppetry. Right. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.480 This bit, this one bit that really intrigued me was 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:46.000 it was clearly like piping that you would use for 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.959 like air ducts, right, like just this cylinder, but they 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.559 he turned these into these dancing puppets on the Ed 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.760 Sullivan Show to this song jazz time a rag jazz 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.520 or something like that. And it was just this puplicity 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.920 of it, and I don't know. I definitely watched a 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.920 couple of clips of The Muppet Show and other Jim 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.640 Henson stuff. I sat there in awe watching Kermit ride 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.439 a bike, realizing I I genuinely had no idea how 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.119 he wrote a bike, and I was like, that's it's practical. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.559 It's not, it's not, it's it's an effect that they 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.080 had to create in real life. That that was real 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.880 magic to me. So being that close to all the 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.640 puppets and all the bits and being able to see 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.400 it in a museum and walk in and see it 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.720 like that captivated me. Last week I had I had 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.079 a blast doing that. Well, I'll have to check that out. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.000 I'm being in New York in a few weeks and 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.680 I'm definitely gop that it's worth it. I think the 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.400 Museum of the Moving Image is also the perfect size museum. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.760 It's basically two floors of museum, so you don't feel 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:48.280 like it's like I love the Museum of Natural History 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.679 in New York, but it's way too big. I can 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.640 never see it and so I just get lost for 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.880 for like two hours, and I'm like, you know, what 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.720 I'm leaving this stuff. I'm done this, but that I 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.880 got through the whole thing in like two hours or so. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.480 It was like a nice afternoon. Took the subway out 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.480 if you if you have time, it's I think that 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.360 that exhibits up for a while too. You'll enjoy that. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.760 What about you, Danny, what did you get out about? 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.120 You know? Um, they just announced that they're going to 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:20.160 make a new Zoro with a female lead. So I'm 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.679 seeking out you know about sending that to my reps. Um. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.280 But also I just think that's cool and um, of 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.640 course everybody has tagged me in the new Selina series. Yes, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.480 I saw all the tags. Um definitely also already aware. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:37.880 I think a lot of people tagged me in it. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.320 And some people would be like why didn't you audition 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.400 for this or whatever, and like we don't always fit 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.400 the demo. I don't know, if you know, it's about 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.400 your growing up, not already grown up. Um, so if 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.400 they wanted that, they already have that. J Lo did 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:55.120 that of her already grown up. Also, like it's so 0:10:55.240 --> 0:11:00.760 funny because it's like like if the idea I understand 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.280 and it should have been I hope or you should 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.679 audition for this, but why didn't. It's such a there's 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.480 so many factors at play. Lots of times by the 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.560 time we hear about it, it's been done. For example, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.720 friend of the pod good friend of mine, Jessica gaw 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.160 was just announced head writer of the She Hulk Show, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.120 and I immediately texted her, I like in light speed. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.199 I was like, please tell me that room asn't full. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.559 She's like, it is full, And I was like, I 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.480 imagine because by the time they announced anything in TV, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.520 it is full, just like when they announced the new 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.720 Um hey Man, they had a full room. When they 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.959 announced the Magic of the Gathering show, they it's just 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.680 like by that time, and you just have to have 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.439 either someone in the know, which is usually because like 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.600 they're it's starting within the same agency or something like that. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.599 But like, yeah, um, I can speak from direct experience 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.360 on that that when we when we did Historical Roles 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.520 last year, when they announced it, Yeah, I was literally 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.760 in the writer's room sitting next to Jeff Ross and 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.760 the article came out like we were working, like we 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.560 were in the middle of a workday. This wasn't news 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.760 to us. We were already three weeks into the product 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.840 like we were. We had decisions made, choices picked out, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.520 and it came out and it was more just one 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.840 of those nice afternoons and the riders and we're like, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.800 oh good now everyone knows, but there's no people were 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.680 then trying to We're in the middle, like we're almost done, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.480 we have to finish this soon, Like, yeah, why didn't 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.160 you just just so you know, that's how so why 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.480 didn't you audition for Zoro? I'm going to there, Yeah, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.319 what's it? Where's it is it? It's a movie or 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.719 a series, and it's a series. I think, where's it 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:40.079 going to be? Disney Plus? Well, yeah, because Disney had Zoro. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.280 But I don't know, um, not entirely. I know where 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.480 it's going to be. It's going to be on the 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.120 new Warner Brothers app and there's gonna be a crossover 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.319 where now a female Batman is going to have her 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.959 parents killed outside the theater. I can even the I 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.800 hear just the rumblings of Nerd even at the joke 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.920 of that idea, just like what anyways, that is what 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.400 I'm geeking out about. And uh, today we're talking about 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:18.000 Disney nineties Disneys, these Dick's Disney tune block, which when 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.679 I hear I immediately think of Duck Tails Chippendale. That's 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.160 so funny. That was in my head. Duck Tails. Oh, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.480 there's only two more I would add to that, so 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.760 duck Tails, Chippendale, Tailspin. I was a big dark Wing 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.000 duck fan. But also that's a dangerous goof Troop when 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.800 when goof Troop came out, because that was on the 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.280 heels of the movie and when we were like, we're 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.560 going to get more of this. It wasn't as good 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.040 as the movie, but it was. I mean I watched that, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.160 I watched it all that they think they did two 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.080 episodes at once with that as well, and it was 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.360 it was awesome. Yeah, let me just tell you, I 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.400 goof Troop to me, just nothing compares to a Goofy movie, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:04.080 not even Disney movies because it's so different, like even like, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.240 of course Lion King is iconic. Speaking of Lion King, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.480 a part of this block was also to Moon in Pumba, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.760 but um, the Lion King of course iconic, like you know, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.080 award winning. But there's an underground not so underground anymore 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.960 cult following of a Goofy movie and how weird it 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.560 was in the soundtrack being so original and like pop 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.800 at the time, and you know, they literally have a 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.640 possum part in it. Um. Yeah, So goof Troop just 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.080 wasn't quite the same, but we're going to talk about 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.760 it because it is on here. Also, did you know 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:47.120 that Pete is a cat? P is a cat? The cat? Yeah? 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.200 I always forget that. So Goofy, you know, and Max 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:58.080 are dogs, Pete and PJ are cats. Isn't that fascinating? Anyways, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.680 we're going to uh, we're going to talk about this 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.680 nineties block. It was actually so the Disney Afternoon Block, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.520 which was later known internally as the Disney Kellogg Alliance 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.800 if you can think of brands for for branded purposes. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.840 It was created for syndication two hours. It was actually 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.880 only two hours animated television programming block that was produced 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:27.440 by Walt Disney Television Animation. And something fascinating that you 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.880 were saying, Eddie, was how the shows came out. Can 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:37.960 you explain to people, m HM about the blocks. There 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.600 were two shows that were initially that we're already being done, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.040 like Gummy Bears and Duck Tails were already TV shows 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.040 that were happening, so they were lumped into it at 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.440 first as a way to draw people in, but the 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.520 way they lay it out, which really as even as 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.760 a kid, this interested me. They put them all together, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.479 like the first season was Adventures of Gummy Bears, Ducktails, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.200 Rescue Rangers, and Tail Spin. The next year they would 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.920 drop the first show, the lead in show, so Gummy 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.120 Bears got cut. They'd slide every show up a half 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.160 an hour, and the new show that they were adding 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.120 to the lineup came at the end of the block, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.680 and that was obviously they're building towards that last half 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.080 hour because that's the most kids are home from school, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.600 everybody's watching at that point. They can lead into it 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.120 and then their new shows. So like the second season, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.720 instead of Gummy Bears being at the top, duck Tails 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.720 opens the two hour block and dark Wing Duck their 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.360 new character is now closing it out and then and 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.440 they just cycle through that. So that was their way 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.040 of transitioning shows was whatever whatever was on at three o'clock. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.480 It kept the lineup fresh every year, and you were 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.680 guaranteed the three to four years of each show, but 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.680 then it was gonna go away and something new every 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.200 year comes in at the end of the block and 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.960 Bumps Up, which I find really interesting too because this 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.760 was the same year that like Tiny Toon Adventures came out, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.960 So this is at the beginning of the nineties, and 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.320 then Batman animated series is going to come out. So 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.920 you have all of these afternoon cartoon blocks that are 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.720 yea heavily competing with each other, and Disney's ideas to 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.359 keep it fresh constantly. I love that, right, keep it fresh, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.240 keep rotating something new in get rid of a show, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.800 even if it's one of your You're because this isn't 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.920 Gummy Bears trending on Disney Plus right now. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.760 these all are technically, but yeah gummy Bears. And I 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.080 think it was funny because the Mandalorian, well, it came 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.080 out with one episode, so then everybody was like, what 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.080 else am I going to do on here? And then 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.639 everyone's been like binging the old block of shows, so 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.199 so the Mandalorians coming out weekly that, yeah, I was 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.520 so like, I was so surprised because friends for another 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.520 friend of the pod, Adam Lavick, when he was like 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.840 the episode one was good, I was like, why is 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.679 everyone only watching one episode? Now? I know I do 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.600 not have Disney. Plus I'm still like, I don't know 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.119 what I'm gonna pull the trigger on that, honestly, So 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:58.879 I have a little treat for y'all. Um some crime 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:10.320 slipping the cracks up the snack. It's no space stee 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:24.760 no too small, got it? Damn he did not get Honestly, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.440 my most I mean, aside from duck Tails of course, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:34.120 who who, I'm very sick and dark wing duck like, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:40.560 let's get dangerous, yeah tailspin um Mine, which actually technically 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.679 is not on this block, is uh the Adventures of 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:51.080 Winnie the Pooh that was on their Saturday block, like Recess, 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.320 you know, pepper in and then they're throwing pepper range 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.480 cool for seventh grade. A lot of these shows also 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.800 wound up on Disney Channel. Yeah, Katum and put them 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.560 on their network. Oh yeah. The the the soundtrack to 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.720 all of them had to me classic theme songs, even 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.680 down to the actual I don't know if you guys 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.640 remember this one. Disney Afternoon had an opening theme song, 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.720 so you tune in at three o'clock and it's not 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.600 like they just jump into gummy bears or ducktails. They 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:24.440 played the Disney Afternoon theme song, which was then on 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.200 a CD, Like I got the soundtrack as a kid, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.560 and it had gummy bears, it had gummy berry juice, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.320 It had songs, all of the theme songs and then 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.240 some songs that were secondary songs on each show. But 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.000 the Disney Afternoon theme song was great. It's so funny 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.320 when you think about how much of our media is supplemented, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.960 Like you know, it's easy to forget because you know 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.719 whether or not your parents support it. But like my 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.680 daughter Naomi loves p J Mask. P J Mask is 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.680 a new Disney during your show about these kids who 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.159 turned into heroes, you know, at night using their pajamas, 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.080 and like there's a tour they do of like p 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.879 J Mask Live and so uh and like I was like, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.840 all right, well, I guess I gotta take you to this. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.439 Oh that's amazing. I definitely went to one of those 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:17.800 Nickelodeon live tours that they were doing. Yeah, the soundtrack 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.639 was great. It just oh my god. It was one 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.520 of the first CDs. I right, we were just getting CDs. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.080 A six year old. I had like a little CD 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:26.919 player in my room, so I'd play that one and 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.280 played Disney Afternoon. And I I also loved that this 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.040 was a time where this is something I don't I 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.560 don't watch enough cable anymore. Maybe they're still doing this, 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.400 but they had bumpers and wrap arounds, a little intros 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.760 and outros to it, like some of the most simple 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.320 bumpers right, like usually a bunch of paintbrushes painting Disney 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.919 Afternoon on but like those bumpers were Oh yeah, I 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.919 still get caught watching bumpers for that or for Channel 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.679 eleven or anything. Just watch it over and over. Yeah. No, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.160 this was definitely such a fun time. 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