Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, how's everybody doing. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Nerdificent. I'm your host, if you widy way and
Speaker 1: sitting across from me as always is very under the
Speaker 1: weather Danny Fernandez. Yes, you know what, Actually it made
Speaker 1: my voice sound even better, like drop down an octave
Speaker 1: or what I was going to say. Maybe it makes
Speaker 1: it sound a little goofy wow sound a little I
Speaker 1: would like to Alreadie um introduce Eddie up top already
Speaker 1: I had to avoid laughing because I didn't introduction. It's
Speaker 1: always the fun thing about being the guest where you're like,
Speaker 1: how long do I be quiet? You're the voice that
Speaker 1: you hear. Is the co creator and co executive producer
Speaker 1: of Historical Roast on Netflix. Also at the Comedy Store,
Speaker 1: That is Eddie Firth. Hey, thank you for having me guys. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. This is one of those fun ones where
Speaker 1: it's like two of my best friends I've known forever
Speaker 1: and now we get to just sit down and talk
Speaker 1: about I know what we did when we were kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 1: I love it. If he would, um, I totally cut
Speaker 1: you off. I was about to say what you were
Speaker 1: geeking out about this week? Oh man, I think what
Speaker 1: I'm getting out about is Life is Strange too. I've
Speaker 1: been playing through the chapters and this one's fun. Uh, Danny,
Speaker 1: did you ever hear the first Life is strange? It's
Speaker 1: kind of like it's more it's like an indie ish game.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's like like like the Beach House of
Speaker 1: video games, where like there's some buzz, mainstream buzz, but
Speaker 1: they're pretty still pretty indie. But the first one follows
Speaker 1: a girl and it has a lot of queer representation,
Speaker 1: and the whole thing is like she finds out she
Speaker 1: has these special powers where well, the second one continues
Speaker 1: that same trend, but it's too uh like Mexican kids
Speaker 1: and they are and it's like, really isn't afraid to
Speaker 1: touch on, you know, the race relations of it all,
Speaker 1: And it's really I don't know. I think that's the
Speaker 1: fun of narrative games, where it's like like because they
Speaker 1: don't it's not like you know how sometimes where when
Speaker 1: video games are media approach race, it's very heavy handed
Speaker 1: and straight up, but like there are microaggressions that are
Speaker 1: happening to them that you are forced to notice because
Speaker 1: you are experiencing those traumas as the player. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what really makes the real work and and
Speaker 1: like really forcing like like obviously as a person of color,
Speaker 1: you're gonna like be more wary. But now, as like
Speaker 1: if you were like you know, like a white person
Speaker 1: who might not be looking out for this, you are
Speaker 1: wary where you're like, oh, maybe just maybe you can
Speaker 1: get like how like it's it's just a little bit
Speaker 1: like oh, there's second meanings to things where people said
Speaker 1: like um, without spoiling too much, like you're kind of
Speaker 1: on the run, and like there's a line that's just like, well,
Speaker 1: why would you run away if you're innocent? And it's
Speaker 1: like if as as a player who has experienced everything,
Speaker 1: you know exactly why you ran away, Like it's so clear,
Speaker 1: but like having that question post you seem so incredulous,
Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, that's a question that a lot
Speaker 1: of people deal with of like well, if you're innocent
Speaker 1: then because like now you can see how quickly you
Speaker 1: know why you would do that. Anyway, I'm having a
Speaker 1: good time for I already know it's gonna make me cry.
Speaker 1: At the end, the two boys are so very cute,
Speaker 1: and it's so I just love that we're out here
Speaker 1: doing stuff like that. That PC. I always playing PC.
Speaker 1: But it is available on all consoles, and the last
Speaker 1: episode of isn't out yet, it's coming out December five,
Speaker 1: so you can like play and binge the first because
Speaker 1: they break the game up in the episodes. It's very
Speaker 1: similar to like the Tailtale games, where it's like it's
Speaker 1: a it's a heavily narrow, heavy narrative game where it's
Speaker 1: based on your choices. So that's it's it's super fun.
Speaker 1: So even even if you're not quote unquote gamer and
Speaker 1: are afraid of the mechanics, is very easy to pick up.
Speaker 1: Not even if you don't play video games. I think
Speaker 1: I as like I still play. I play a lot
Speaker 1: of sports video games. There was a point I always
Speaker 1: call it the line of delineation. For me was call
Speaker 1: of duty. Like I was a big I loved video games, Sonic,
Speaker 1: Mario Brothers, all the early platforms, and then when we
Speaker 1: got to the like when we really indulged in the
Speaker 1: third person shooter, I was like, ah, I don't get
Speaker 1: it in the same way. So I like, I like
Speaker 1: that it's an easier an easier play, all right, and
Speaker 1: you just add one more thing to my to my
Speaker 1: nerding out, uh is the Sonic? The New Sonic looks
Speaker 1: good and it's already been reported from folks that it
Speaker 1: wasn't under crunch that they, you know, gave the animator's
Speaker 1: ample amount of time. I still stand by my statement
Speaker 1: that I think they should get points on a movie.
Speaker 1: If people don't know what points is, it's basically a
Speaker 1: percentage of earnings of a movie. Because they truly saved
Speaker 1: this movie. And I think this movie is going to
Speaker 1: do numbers now because like now you have the story
Speaker 1: is they're like not of the actual movie, but the
Speaker 1: story of the creation of it is there. And the
Speaker 1: fans feel like they made they felt like they made
Speaker 1: it happened. So I think just that alone is gonna
Speaker 1: make it just do so well. I saw a part
Speaker 1: of that trailer. It really did interest me. The idea
Speaker 1: that he had set off some sort of electric signal,
Speaker 1: like he's living in the wrong world, and it was cool,
Speaker 1: like it was good, but then he starts playing baseball
Speaker 1: by himself and he looked like that that intrigued me.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely am definitely interesting and I only watched the tidbit.
Speaker 1: I don't like watching trailers because trailers just give away
Speaker 1: too much now, so like I'll just watch. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to see the New Sonic and then I was
Speaker 1: done and anything. What about you, Eddie? There's two things?
Speaker 1: Can I can? I thee with two things I have been.
Speaker 1: I've been binge watching to hlight Zone for the last
Speaker 1: two months, like these were I already talked about it
Speaker 1: before we started. How could I? How could I not?
Speaker 1: It's so I grew up. Every New Year's Eve channel
Speaker 1: leven w p i X in New York would play
Speaker 1: the marathon and that was our New Year's Eve. It
Speaker 1: was make pigs in a blanket and bagel pizzas and
Speaker 1: and watch twilight Zone. And I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: my comfort food in the last two months has just
Speaker 1: been watching twilight Zone, just around the clock. It really
Speaker 1: does hold up. Like I remember, after our episode, I
Speaker 1: went through and I watched it and obviously they're the
Speaker 1: stuff that is dated is dated in a way that's
Speaker 1: like interesting because it gives you insight into the time
Speaker 1: that it was made, like the first episode being this
Speaker 1: idea of a man will go crazy and the time
Speaker 1: it takes to make it to the moon, Like that
Speaker 1: is history, that's like living history of Like this is
Speaker 1: their perception of what space travel was before you actually
Speaker 1: had proof of it. So yeah, I I highly support
Speaker 1: anyone who decides to binge Twilight Zone. I just like
Speaker 1: giving Danny hard time about it. It's there, there is
Speaker 1: this incredibly there's this weird this is this great timelessness
Speaker 1: to it. But it's very accessible. I appreciate too. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that they're basically like twenty five minute episodes twenty
Speaker 1: two minutes. That half hour format makes it very easy
Speaker 1: to just they're simple. They don't overdo anything, even down
Speaker 1: to the set pieces, like looking at and realizing that
Speaker 1: for the most part, if it was shot on a
Speaker 1: sound stage, it looks almost like a high school play,
Speaker 1: but a really well done one. I had downloaded an
Speaker 1: audio book that I had started to listen to but
Speaker 1: haven't finished about The Twilight Zone because look, I know
Speaker 1: Rod Sterling couldn't have written every single episode that he
Speaker 1: didn't like, but like there's some where it says he
Speaker 1: did where I'm like, look, I know you didn't write
Speaker 1: I know you didn't write all of these. It literally
Speaker 1: says it in the credits, But how prolific he was
Speaker 1: in making that show. When you look at each season
Speaker 1: is twentysomething episodes, and they did that many, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's a fascinating watch and it really I love
Speaker 1: how it does hold up. There is a timelessness to
Speaker 1: it that just kind of in black. There's quaintness to
Speaker 1: it as well. So I've been watching that like crazy.
Speaker 1: The other thing, I was lucky. I was in New
Speaker 1: York last week and I had a day to go
Speaker 1: over to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens
Speaker 1: and they have this incredible Jim Henson exhibit. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Kermit and Miss Piggy and Big birden Elmo are
Speaker 1: all there, but they showed some of these clips from
Speaker 1: him on the Ed Sullivan Show when they had him
Speaker 1: on all the time, and all these all the different puppetry. Right.
Speaker 1: This bit, this one bit that really intrigued me was
Speaker 1: it was clearly like piping that you would use for
Speaker 1: like air ducts, right, like just this cylinder, but they
Speaker 1: he turned these into these dancing puppets on the Ed
Speaker 1: Sullivan Show to this song jazz time a rag jazz
Speaker 1: or something like that. And it was just this puplicity
Speaker 1: of it, and I don't know. I definitely watched a
Speaker 1: couple of clips of The Muppet Show and other Jim
Speaker 1: Henson stuff. I sat there in awe watching Kermit ride
Speaker 1: a bike, realizing I I genuinely had no idea how
Speaker 1: he wrote a bike, and I was like, that's it's practical.
Speaker 1: It's not, it's not, it's it's an effect that they
Speaker 1: had to create in real life. That that was real
Speaker 1: magic to me. So being that close to all the
Speaker 1: puppets and all the bits and being able to see
Speaker 1: it in a museum and walk in and see it
Speaker 1: like that captivated me. Last week I had I had
Speaker 1: a blast doing that. Well, I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 1: I'm being in New York in a few weeks and
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gop that it's worth it. I think the
Speaker 1: Museum of the Moving Image is also the perfect size museum.
Speaker 1: It's basically two floors of museum, so you don't feel
Speaker 1: like it's like I love the Museum of Natural History
Speaker 1: in New York, but it's way too big. I can
Speaker 1: never see it and so I just get lost for
Speaker 1: for like two hours, and I'm like, you know, what
Speaker 1: I'm leaving this stuff. I'm done this, but that I
Speaker 1: got through the whole thing in like two hours or so.
Speaker 1: It was like a nice afternoon. Took the subway out
Speaker 1: if you if you have time, it's I think that
Speaker 1: that exhibits up for a while too. You'll enjoy that.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny, what did you get out about?
Speaker 1: You know? Um, they just announced that they're going to
Speaker 1: make a new Zoro with a female lead. So I'm
Speaker 1: seeking out you know about sending that to my reps. Um.
Speaker 1: But also I just think that's cool and um, of
Speaker 1: course everybody has tagged me in the new Selina series. Yes,
Speaker 1: I saw all the tags. Um definitely also already aware.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people tagged me in it.
Speaker 1: And some people would be like why didn't you audition
Speaker 1: for this or whatever, and like we don't always fit
Speaker 1: the demo. I don't know, if you know, it's about
Speaker 1: your growing up, not already grown up. Um, so if
Speaker 1: they wanted that, they already have that. J Lo did
Speaker 1: that of her already grown up. Also, like it's so
Speaker 1: funny because it's like like if the idea I understand
Speaker 1: and it should have been I hope or you should
Speaker 1: audition for this, but why didn't. It's such a there's
Speaker 1: so many factors at play. Lots of times by the
Speaker 1: time we hear about it, it's been done. For example,
Speaker 1: friend of the pod good friend of mine, Jessica gaw
Speaker 1: was just announced head writer of the She Hulk Show,
Speaker 1: and I immediately texted her, I like in light speed.
Speaker 1: I was like, please tell me that room asn't full.
Speaker 1: She's like, it is full, And I was like, I
Speaker 1: imagine because by the time they announced anything in TV,
Speaker 1: it is full, just like when they announced the new
Speaker 1: Um hey Man, they had a full room. When they
Speaker 1: announced the Magic of the Gathering show, they it's just
Speaker 1: like by that time, and you just have to have
Speaker 1: either someone in the know, which is usually because like
Speaker 1: they're it's starting within the same agency or something like that.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, um, I can speak from direct experience
Speaker 1: on that that when we when we did Historical Roles
Speaker 1: last year, when they announced it, Yeah, I was literally
Speaker 1: in the writer's room sitting next to Jeff Ross and
Speaker 1: the article came out like we were working, like we
Speaker 1: were in the middle of a workday. This wasn't news
Speaker 1: to us. We were already three weeks into the product
Speaker 1: like we were. We had decisions made, choices picked out,
Speaker 1: and it came out and it was more just one
Speaker 1: of those nice afternoons and the riders and we're like,
Speaker 1: oh good now everyone knows, but there's no people were
Speaker 1: then trying to We're in the middle, like we're almost done,
Speaker 1: we have to finish this soon, Like, yeah, why didn't
Speaker 1: you just just so you know, that's how so why
Speaker 1: didn't you audition for Zoro? I'm going to there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's it? Where's it is it? It's a movie or
Speaker 1: a series, and it's a series. I think, where's it
Speaker 1: going to be? Disney Plus? Well, yeah, because Disney had Zoro.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, um, not entirely. I know where
Speaker 1: it's going to be. It's going to be on the
Speaker 1: new Warner Brothers app and there's gonna be a crossover
Speaker 1: where now a female Batman is going to have her
Speaker 1: parents killed outside the theater. I can even the I
Speaker 1: hear just the rumblings of Nerd even at the joke
Speaker 1: of that idea, just like what anyways, that is what
Speaker 1: I'm geeking out about. And uh, today we're talking about
Speaker 1: Disney nineties Disneys, these Dick's Disney tune block, which when
Speaker 1: I hear I immediately think of Duck Tails Chippendale. That's
Speaker 1: so funny. That was in my head. Duck Tails. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's only two more I would add to that, so
Speaker 1: duck Tails, Chippendale, Tailspin. I was a big dark Wing
Speaker 1: duck fan. But also that's a dangerous goof Troop when
Speaker 1: when goof Troop came out, because that was on the
Speaker 1: heels of the movie and when we were like, we're
Speaker 1: going to get more of this. It wasn't as good
Speaker 1: as the movie, but it was. I mean I watched that,
Speaker 1: I watched it all that they think they did two
Speaker 1: episodes at once with that as well, and it was
Speaker 1: it was awesome. Yeah, let me just tell you, I
Speaker 1: goof Troop to me, just nothing compares to a Goofy movie,
Speaker 1: not even Disney movies because it's so different, like even like,
Speaker 1: of course Lion King is iconic. Speaking of Lion King,
Speaker 1: a part of this block was also to Moon in Pumba,
Speaker 1: but um, the Lion King of course iconic, like you know,
Speaker 1: award winning. But there's an underground not so underground anymore
Speaker 1: cult following of a Goofy movie and how weird it
Speaker 1: was in the soundtrack being so original and like pop
Speaker 1: at the time, and you know, they literally have a
Speaker 1: possum part in it. Um. Yeah, So goof Troop just
Speaker 1: wasn't quite the same, but we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: it because it is on here. Also, did you know
Speaker 1: that Pete is a cat? P is a cat? The cat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I always forget that. So Goofy, you know, and Max
Speaker 1: are dogs, Pete and PJ are cats. Isn't that fascinating? Anyways,
Speaker 1: we're going to uh, we're going to talk about this
Speaker 1: nineties block. It was actually so the Disney Afternoon Block,
Speaker 1: which was later known internally as the Disney Kellogg Alliance
Speaker 1: if you can think of brands for for branded purposes.
Speaker 1: It was created for syndication two hours. It was actually
Speaker 1: only two hours animated television programming block that was produced
Speaker 1: by Walt Disney Television Animation. And something fascinating that you
Speaker 1: were saying, Eddie, was how the shows came out. Can
Speaker 1: you explain to people, m HM about the blocks. There
Speaker 1: were two shows that were initially that we're already being done,
Speaker 1: like Gummy Bears and Duck Tails were already TV shows
Speaker 1: that were happening, so they were lumped into it at
Speaker 1: first as a way to draw people in, but the
Speaker 1: way they lay it out, which really as even as
Speaker 1: a kid, this interested me. They put them all together,
Speaker 1: like the first season was Adventures of Gummy Bears, Ducktails,
Speaker 1: Rescue Rangers, and Tail Spin. The next year they would
Speaker 1: drop the first show, the lead in show, so Gummy
Speaker 1: Bears got cut. They'd slide every show up a half
Speaker 1: an hour, and the new show that they were adding
Speaker 1: to the lineup came at the end of the block,
Speaker 1: and that was obviously they're building towards that last half
Speaker 1: hour because that's the most kids are home from school,
Speaker 1: everybody's watching at that point. They can lead into it
Speaker 1: and then their new shows. So like the second season,
Speaker 1: instead of Gummy Bears being at the top, duck Tails
Speaker 1: opens the two hour block and dark Wing Duck their
Speaker 1: new character is now closing it out and then and
Speaker 1: they just cycle through that. So that was their way
Speaker 1: of transitioning shows was whatever whatever was on at three o'clock.
Speaker 1: It kept the lineup fresh every year, and you were
Speaker 1: guaranteed the three to four years of each show, but
Speaker 1: then it was gonna go away and something new every
Speaker 1: year comes in at the end of the block and
Speaker 1: Bumps Up, which I find really interesting too because this
Speaker 1: was the same year that like Tiny Toon Adventures came out,
Speaker 1: So this is at the beginning of the nineties, and
Speaker 1: then Batman animated series is going to come out. So
Speaker 1: you have all of these afternoon cartoon blocks that are
Speaker 1: yea heavily competing with each other, and Disney's ideas to
Speaker 1: keep it fresh constantly. I love that, right, keep it fresh,
Speaker 1: keep rotating something new in get rid of a show,
Speaker 1: even if it's one of your You're because this isn't
Speaker 1: Gummy Bears trending on Disney Plus right now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: these all are technically, but yeah gummy Bears. And I
Speaker 1: think it was funny because the Mandalorian, well, it came
Speaker 1: out with one episode, so then everybody was like, what
Speaker 1: else am I going to do on here? And then
Speaker 1: everyone's been like binging the old block of shows, so
Speaker 1: so the Mandalorians coming out weekly that, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: so like, I was so surprised because friends for another
Speaker 1: friend of the pod, Adam Lavick, when he was like
Speaker 1: the episode one was good, I was like, why is
Speaker 1: everyone only watching one episode? Now? I know I do
Speaker 1: not have Disney. Plus I'm still like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna pull the trigger on that, honestly, So
Speaker 1: I have a little treat for y'all. Um some crime
Speaker 1: slipping the cracks up the snack. It's no space stee
Speaker 1: no too small, got it? Damn he did not get Honestly,
Speaker 1: my most I mean, aside from duck Tails of course,
Speaker 1: who who, I'm very sick and dark wing duck like,
Speaker 1: let's get dangerous, yeah tailspin um Mine, which actually technically
Speaker 1: is not on this block, is uh the Adventures of
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh that was on their Saturday block, like Recess,
Speaker 1: you know, pepper in and then they're throwing pepper range
Speaker 1: cool for seventh grade. A lot of these shows also
Speaker 1: wound up on Disney Channel. Yeah, Katum and put them
Speaker 1: on their network. Oh yeah. The the the soundtrack to
Speaker 1: all of them had to me classic theme songs, even
Speaker 1: down to the actual I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: remember this one. Disney Afternoon had an opening theme song,
Speaker 1: so you tune in at three o'clock and it's not
Speaker 1: like they just jump into gummy bears or ducktails. They
Speaker 1: played the Disney Afternoon theme song, which was then on
Speaker 1: a CD, Like I got the soundtrack as a kid,
Speaker 1: and it had gummy bears, it had gummy berry juice,
Speaker 1: It had songs, all of the theme songs and then
Speaker 1: some songs that were secondary songs on each show. But
Speaker 1: the Disney Afternoon theme song was great. It's so funny
Speaker 1: when you think about how much of our media is supplemented,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it's easy to forget because you know
Speaker 1: whether or not your parents support it. But like my
Speaker 1: daughter Naomi loves p J Mask. P J Mask is
Speaker 1: a new Disney during your show about these kids who
Speaker 1: turned into heroes, you know, at night using their pajamas,
Speaker 1: and like there's a tour they do of like p
Speaker 1: J Mask Live and so uh and like I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I guess I gotta take you to this.
Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. I definitely went to one of those
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon live tours that they were doing. Yeah, the soundtrack
Speaker 1: was great. It just oh my god. It was one
Speaker 1: of the first CDs. I right, we were just getting CDs.
Speaker 1: A six year old. I had like a little CD
Speaker 1: player in my room, so I'd play that one and
Speaker 1: played Disney Afternoon. And I I also loved that this
Speaker 1: was a time where this is something I don't I
Speaker 1: don't watch enough cable anymore. Maybe they're still doing this,
Speaker 1: but they had bumpers and wrap arounds, a little intros
Speaker 1: and outros to it, like some of the most simple
Speaker 1: bumpers right, like usually a bunch of paintbrushes painting Disney
Speaker 1: Afternoon on but like those bumpers were Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: still get caught watching bumpers for that or for Channel
Speaker 1: eleven or anything. Just watch it over and over. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: this was definitely such a fun time. And before we
Speaker 1: hop into the rest of this Disney nineties Disney Afternoon
Speaker 1: tune block, we have to take a really quick break
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Speaker 1: sounding to get back to our show. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: the block actually started. So The Disney Afternoon originally ran
Speaker 1: from September tenth to August nine, seven, all seven years.
Speaker 1: It feels like it ran so much longer. I dropped
Speaker 1: out at a certain point. You sounds so guilty when
Speaker 1: I feel because I feel bad, Like I turned Yeah,
Speaker 1: I turned my back, and it was I think. I
Speaker 1: think once goof Troop came along, that was kind of
Speaker 1: when I started to fade from it. Like I knew
Speaker 1: of I knew of Bonkers, I knew of Gargoyles, I
Speaker 1: knew I know that for instance, my sister was more
Speaker 1: into to Moan and Poma than I was. But something
Speaker 1: like Aladdin, I kind of skipped over, even though that
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite movies. I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: I know that this is I know what you're doing
Speaker 1: to me right now, and I'm not I'm not here
Speaker 1: for it, and that that is a very interesting thing.
Speaker 1: And I did get like it's not Disney plus because
Speaker 1: I know, I said, I didn't get it. But before
Speaker 1: they had it's Disney now because their app that they
Speaker 1: had before. I'm sure plus is the way to go now,
Speaker 1: but I did it so PJ mask um so that
Speaker 1: now you only could watch PJ mask. But it always
Speaker 1: like after the end of the season, you know, it
Speaker 1: would jump to another show and it keeps jumping to
Speaker 1: the Lion King spinoff show like The Love of the
Speaker 1: Pride or something like it was going for a bid
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh man, this is this This
Speaker 1: was such a rip off. Like they like they really
Speaker 1: did just try and keep the story going when there
Speaker 1: wasn't much of a story. The voice is so clearly
Speaker 1: not simbo, which but you know for a Latin they
Speaker 1: did get Gilbert Godfree to play and that was like
Speaker 1: that was the one voice they could as if Scott
Speaker 1: Winger from Full House was doing so much that he
Speaker 1: couldn't reprise his role as like what how did he
Speaker 1: turn that down? Who was his rep who was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't need this right now? You want to get
Speaker 1: stuck playing Aladdin for Everyone's like yeah, I would love
Speaker 1: a job. Gosh was the TV show where he had
Speaker 1: his hot dad. I just know everybody is like everybody
Speaker 1: talks about Aladdin's Hot Dad. It might have been in
Speaker 1: the sequel, which was like, you know, straight to the video. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so we talked. We touched on Gummy Bears
Speaker 1: a little bit, but just to be official about it.
Speaker 1: It first aired in the US in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: It ran till one, like Eddie said, it got dropped. Um,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they did. They would drop the first
Speaker 1: show and bump up another show. The series was loosely
Speaker 1: inspired by the Gummy Bear candies. Actually, Disney CEO Michael
Speaker 1: Eisner was struck with the inspiration for the show when
Speaker 1: his son requested the candies one day. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that I read a book on Eisener. He seems like
Speaker 1: a very interesting guy. Like he seems like the Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon of kids TVs. What my kid likes Gummy Bears.
Speaker 1: Put some Gummy Bears on the TV areas like Candy
Speaker 1: Bruck assaults Dad. Um. So this The series actually moved
Speaker 1: to ABC for one season. It was from it was
Speaker 1: airing alongside the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh again
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Uh, and it was known as
Speaker 1: The Gummy Bears Winnie the Pooh hour. Yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 1: a great I can guarantee that for most of these
Speaker 1: I can sing some or all of the theme song. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know the Winnie the Poo win Oh was just
Speaker 1: like I gotta get up, I gotta get going. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna meet a friend of mine. He's round and he's fuzzy.
Speaker 1: I love him because he's just Pooh bear Whinnie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in my thirties, I still remember that. I go
Speaker 1: further back with Winnie the Poo. Do you remember the
Speaker 1: Disney Channel like live Action Winnie the Pooh where they
Speaker 1: were all in large, fuzzy costumes. That was my jam.
Speaker 1: That's older. But gummy bears bouncing here and there and everywhere.
Speaker 1: That was what is it? Okay gummy bears? Yes? So
Speaker 1: so The always Well remembered from its theme music, which
Speaker 1: was written by Michael and Patty silver Sheer. And for
Speaker 1: what you mentioned it the gummy berry juice a type
Speaker 1: of magic potion, granny gummy berry juice. That's this episode
Speaker 1: or hate this episode? Yeah, that sounds like the theme
Speaker 1: song was something named after something that a kid was
Speaker 1: just fine, like, kid likes gummy bears, put them on
Speaker 1: a TV. Oh well, the next show that we're talking
Speaker 1: about is one that I think has holds more steam
Speaker 1: in most hearts, which is Duct Tails. The American animated
Speaker 1: television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and distributed
Speaker 1: by Buena Vista Television. It premiered on September eighteenth of seven,
Speaker 1: just a few months before Danny and If You Were
Speaker 1: Born Uh, and ran a total of a hundred episodes
Speaker 1: over four seasons, with its final episode airing on November
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Based upon Uncle Scrooge and the Other Duck
Speaker 1: Universe comic books created by Carl Barks, the show follow
Speaker 1: Scrooge McDuck, his three grand nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie,
Speaker 1: and close friends of the group on various adventures. Either
Speaker 1: involves seeking out treasure or Thornton efforts of villains. You
Speaker 1: can steal Scroogees fortune or his number one doe. My
Speaker 1: favorite thing that I remember, which I'm excited I will
Speaker 1: get Disney Plus and watch is um the Christmas Carol Scrooge. Um.
Speaker 1: I love that. I mean was where he got his name? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like Goofy was Jacob Marley and um, Jimmy Cricket
Speaker 1: I think was the Ghost of Christmas Past, and then
Speaker 1: Pete was a gross of Christmas Future and that was
Speaker 1: terrifying because it was like at a you know, the
Speaker 1: graveyard or whatever, but oh, it's so good. And then
Speaker 1: they have the I used to have a VHS of
Speaker 1: this and it was all of the original Disney Christmas tunes.
Speaker 1: It was like Santa's Workshop, y'all treat yourself this holiday season.
Speaker 1: And watched that that VHS I had and they had
Speaker 1: the ice Skaters. That is my favorite Christmas VHS. They
Speaker 1: don't put it. They haven't put that one fully on
Speaker 1: DVD yet, but you can try to find different DVDs
Speaker 1: and YouTube clips. It's one recently where the Christmas season
Speaker 1: coming up. I was like, I need to find all
Speaker 1: of those. And I think that that that version of
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol is the only other Christmas Carol I regard
Speaker 1: besides my Christmas because that's the Christmas Christmas Carol, the
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. But love it. I loved no and tiny
Speaker 1: Tim was like the little Man Mickey and they like
Speaker 1: had the little all and Mini and oh so great
Speaker 1: and oh and and Daisy like was the I forgot.
Speaker 1: It was like his girlfriend that he never you know
Speaker 1: he pursued money instead of her. Okay, so great. And
Speaker 1: it was a bunch of the characters from The Wind
Speaker 1: and the Will, like a bunch of characters from Mr
Speaker 1: Toad We're in there that you would direct. So good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I love I love that you just quoted
Speaker 1: the the It's called a Walt Disney Christmas and it
Speaker 1: has the Workshop. It has him trying to the kids,
Speaker 1: sneaking out of bed to see Santa. It's got Chippendale
Speaker 1: in the Christmas tree, the ice skaters somehow almost go
Speaker 1: over a waterfall. That seemed a little extreme, but it
Speaker 1: was fun. I love. I still remember the pilot episode
Speaker 1: of duck Tails. Really it's because it's Donald dropping off Huey,
Speaker 1: Dewey and Louie before he goes to the Navy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, he's like Scrooge, will you. Yeah. They finally
Speaker 1: explained why he's dressed like a set. They were like,
Speaker 1: he's been dressed like a serial this whole time. Let's
Speaker 1: just send him to the navy where would Essentially it's
Speaker 1: an almost prequel Donald right there showing this alternate universe
Speaker 1: where he's like, well, I gotta drop the kids off somewhere.
Speaker 1: I've been in the navy of this whole time. This
Speaker 1: is why I'm wearing the sailors suit. So whoa. I
Speaker 1: typed in his name and it says Donald Duck World
Speaker 1: War Two veterans. Oh man, you know you know. He
Speaker 1: also essentially played Hitler in a propaganda film well. Also,
Speaker 1: the show's popular theme song was written by Mark Mueller
Speaker 1: and and everyone's favorite launch pad. Mcquack later returned to
Speaker 1: appear in another Disney animated series, Darkling Duck. Moving on
Speaker 1: from Duck Tails, Um, we have Chippendale Rangers. Now, I
Speaker 1: was a big um. I was a big fan of gadget.
Speaker 1: Her last name is actually hack wrench uh. And if
Speaker 1: you go to Tunetown at Disneyland, they have a Chippendale's
Speaker 1: Rescue Rangers roller coaster and she is there on the wall. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've been in tune Town. Tunetown always
Speaker 1: the number one attraction for me is anyone want to
Speaker 1: guess that the weights where you have to pull the
Speaker 1: weights up off the ground. So I'm branded drag him,
Speaker 1: drag him right? Yes? Would it be the one that
Speaker 1: breaks down every single every other ride, which is um
Speaker 1: Mr Rogers Roger Top Tier Tune Town Ride. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you are also right as someone who worked at Disney,
Speaker 1: that was the number one question we get is is
Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit working And we would just robbit and we
Speaker 1: would just say no because we're the time, right, But
Speaker 1: you could just be like, no, it isn't even if
Speaker 1: it is, because it's so rarely, but it's so good.
Speaker 1: It's just still is it still running? Yeah? Still, I
Speaker 1: haven't been in a while. Um, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're going to change that eventually now that everything's getting
Speaker 1: changed over there, but yeah, Roger Rabbits. What I tell
Speaker 1: people is go to that and go to Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: because Indiana Jones you got to go in first. It's
Speaker 1: so good and immersive. Like if we could just take
Speaker 1: a quick Disneyland break to talk about how good Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones is, Like it really is, like in like, out
Speaker 1: of all the rides you can wait for, it feels
Speaker 1: like the most worth it because like, since your underground
Speaker 1: you get to fee it really does feel like you're
Speaker 1: going through this temple and the car runs so smooth.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's good. Rescue Rangers. I love the thing
Speaker 1: I love about Rescue Rangers and what's gonna come up next,
Speaker 1: which actually ties back to Indiana Jones is this is
Speaker 1: I think one of the most successful repurposing of characters
Speaker 1: who never displayed any characteristics like that whatsoever, like Chippendale
Speaker 1: were not rescue Rangers, but to then put them in
Speaker 1: this this was like an almost complete repackaging of these characters,
Speaker 1: and from me, the same with the next show that's
Speaker 1: going to come up completely worked, and it was That's
Speaker 1: what for me as a kid felt fresh, Like I
Speaker 1: knew Gummy Bears wasn't fresh, and I knew Ducktails. I've
Speaker 1: been watching that forever. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they put out this block and they're like, well, here's Chippendale.
Speaker 1: It was almost like here's Chippendale, like you've never seen
Speaker 1: them before. I was in it was what was the
Speaker 1: what was the other guy's name with the mustache? I
Speaker 1: loved him. It was like a big Monterey Jack Daddy
Speaker 1: is heck um. So just to touch on Chippendale their
Speaker 1: history really quick. Of course, they are two anthropomorphic chip brothers.
Speaker 1: I think some people think they're just friends are actually brothers.
Speaker 1: Their names are actually a pun based on the name
Speaker 1: of the famous eighteenth century cabinet maker and furniture designer
Speaker 1: Thomas Chippendale. Do I believe that? No? Do I think
Speaker 1: it's about the strippers? Yes? Um, this was suggested by
Speaker 1: Bill text Henson, a story artist at the Studio UM.
Speaker 1: But then it would make sense because this was again
Speaker 1: they came out in n So never mind, I guess
Speaker 1: Chippendale's wasn't a thing. So do you think the strippers
Speaker 1: took their name? You know, we have Google right here.
Speaker 1: They are? Aren't they based off of isn't the Rescue Rangers? Though?
Speaker 1: One of them is based off of Burt Reynolds? Right? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Isn't out of Chippendale or out or the Monterey Jack
Speaker 1: because he had the yeah, Magnum p I and and
Speaker 1: oh their dressed the way they were dressed. Yes? Nice? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: um so Danna producer, Yes, just informed us. The thing
Speaker 1: that could not come to my brain is that they
Speaker 1: are based off of Magnum p I in Indiana Jones,
Speaker 1: which I love that if you're like parents, Um, but
Speaker 1: let me just look up Chippendale's the Stripper Joint. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite Chippendale crossovers is when they appeared in
Speaker 1: the episode of Full House when they all went to
Speaker 1: Disney World and Uncle Jesse basically has picnic with them
Speaker 1: on because Aunt Becky's mad at him again. Oh no,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? I will have to tweet out. When
Speaker 1: I was at I think it was l a comic con,
Speaker 1: somebody was this couple dressed up as Chippendale, as Chippendale dancers,
Speaker 1: and they had so it was the two chipmunks in
Speaker 1: thongs with money coming out of their thong, and then
Speaker 1: they were holding a boom box which was actually the
Speaker 1: radio from Brave Little Toaster. It was all very disney fied,
Speaker 1: super funny. Yes, so what you were talking about coming
Speaker 1: up next is tail Spin? Oh, yeal tail Spin. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I was thinking. You're singing Killer Tofy
Speaker 1: from Killer, almost the same song. Wait if you do, um,
Speaker 1: I need more allowance, your lady. Oh, this is such
Speaker 1: a nine. We're such nineties kids, It's perfect well. Tail
Speaker 1: Spin was set in the fictional city of Cape Zuzette
Speaker 1: Cape Cape Suzette, which and it first aired in It
Speaker 1: was actually a preview on Disney Channel and then later
Speaker 1: became a part of the Disney Afternoon block of course,
Speaker 1: it's based off of the nineteen seven animated feature The
Speaker 1: Jungle Book with its characters. The name of the show
Speaker 1: is a play on tailspin, which is actually when you
Speaker 1: have a rapid descent of an aircraft and a deep spiral. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the series, which was largely developed by writers Jim
Speaker 1: Megan and Mark Zaslov, the Tailspin sort of pilot it did.
Speaker 1: They did a movie first, They did like a full
Speaker 1: movie that was I mean epic in scope. It's this
Speaker 1: really big TV movie that then is broken up into
Speaker 1: like two to four parts. Was it's four parts? Did
Speaker 1: they do four episodes out of it? Or three? But
Speaker 1: it's this phenomenal, like very epic, almost like the beginning
Speaker 1: of Batman, the animated series, like just massive set piece
Speaker 1: of a of a thing, I like the lightning strikes
Speaker 1: the plane that they're just this incredible And it's based
Speaker 1: on a TV show. Did you know that Tailspin. It's
Speaker 1: called like Tail of the Golden Monkey, which was like
Speaker 1: a random Indiana Jones rip off, Like, so hail Spin
Speaker 1: rips off Tail of the Golden Monkey, which ripped off
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones. But then they also ripped off Jungle Books.
Speaker 1: So Tailspin just as like this amalgamation of four different things. Well,
Speaker 1: there's actually more than that, because it was inspired by
Speaker 1: Cheers and that's why, um they created the character of Rebecca,
Speaker 1: who's based on the character of Rebecca how Um. And
Speaker 1: and they also made they change Mowgli because they needed
Speaker 1: you know, these are talking. They wanted it to be
Speaker 1: all bears or animals, and so then they replaced Mowgli
Speaker 1: with Kit. He's a little like I'm the I'm the
Speaker 1: I'm the nineties cool kid with the backwards cap. Remember
Speaker 1: the foil thing that he would then fly on, right,
Speaker 1: He had this like it was like a hoverboard, but
Speaker 1: it didn't hover. He would just flip it open. It
Speaker 1: looked like a fan and he would hang out the
Speaker 1: back and he'd be able to cook skysurf on this
Speaker 1: foil board. God, if we only had all the stuff
Speaker 1: that they had in the movies and TV shows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a couple of other things about it. So they
Speaker 1: one of their primary locations that they use was inspired
Speaker 1: by Rick Blaine's bar in Casablanca, where they inserted the
Speaker 1: character of Louis in place of Rick. And then the
Speaker 1: decision to add shere Khan to the cast was actually
Speaker 1: not made until later in the show's development, and they
Speaker 1: took a lot of inspiration from Hio Miyazaki, as did
Speaker 1: everybody in like every animated show or movie ever. But
Speaker 1: about a pig where his what is the name of this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's inspiration for him zak um manga ji. Yeah, about
Speaker 1: a pig headed man who flies a seaplane and fights
Speaker 1: air pirates. That sounds like more than inspiration. Sounds like
Speaker 1: they're just doing it. But then up next, IFFI, what
Speaker 1: do we have Up next? We have dark Wing Duck.
Speaker 1: Let's get dangerous dark Wing Duck. Another thing that was
Speaker 1: happening in a lot of these intros was it was
Speaker 1: very soulful for but yeah, dark Wing Duck, which everyone
Speaker 1: thought was a spinoff from Duck Tails, but they the creator,
Speaker 1: Tad Stones, stated that the two shows exist. He believes
Speaker 1: that the two shows exist in different universes. Not anymore
Speaker 1: because Duck Tails the new one brought back out dark
Speaker 1: Wing that was that was the big thing. And oh
Speaker 1: my god, I forgot Gosling. Yes that she's Latina. I
Speaker 1: love that. They just like make and you know, we'll
Speaker 1: take it. We'll take whatever we can nab. I'm not
Speaker 1: even kidding. I forgot when that came out. I think
Speaker 1: it was with this new this new batch of duck Tails.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this season. And she used she's a Latina now,
Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, we'll take Gosling. I just imagine
Speaker 1: the creator of Dark Wing Duck denying that they exist
Speaker 1: in the same universe because he was fed up, like, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. Okay, it's different. I get it,
Speaker 1: launch Pad, but it's different, like like that, just very
Speaker 1: irritated response or no, no no, no, that's not what I meant. Okay,
Speaker 1: just leave me alone about it's not the same. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: I remember Gosline Mallard uh, which is funny because she
Speaker 1: almost has like that Elvira color scheme. Oh yeah, no
Speaker 1: if you look at like old Gosling and then look
Speaker 1: at her now. Yeah, they fully leaned in and she
Speaker 1: is literally brown, straight up brown. Yeah, she's from Latin America.
Speaker 1: Um so and Francisco. Oh yeah that makes sense. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: So anyways, we have a new Latina duck. Uh what else?
Speaker 1: So duck Tails, you know it had a launch pad mcquack.
Speaker 1: I keep want to call him McQueen um launch pad mcquack.
Speaker 1: As well as Gizmo Duck appearing in you know episodes
Speaker 1: One Wheeled Guy that that futuristic he was cool that
Speaker 1: they're not they're a multiverse. Yeah, they're They're were. They
Speaker 1: definitely were building something with the Duck versus because they
Speaker 1: seemed close enough yet only dabbled. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if we mentioned this, but dark Wing Duck his real
Speaker 1: name is Drake Mallard. You know, he has to keep
Speaker 1: his uh identity secret. Having the kid was tough for him.
Speaker 1: It was it was a challenge to balance the that
Speaker 1: that work life balance was difficult for him. I think
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut did like a kid's thing with dark Wing Duck.
Speaker 1: I remember getting like a whole packet of When I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I was obsessed with being a detective.
Speaker 1: I loved reading The Hardy Boys. I loved anything where
Speaker 1: there was a mystery to solve. So Dark Wing Duck,
Speaker 1: I want to say it was Pizza Hut had some
Speaker 1: sort of detective package where you'd get, you know, something
Speaker 1: to decode and a little notepad, and like all of
Speaker 1: these little detective things, the decoder is really starting to
Speaker 1: speak to something in me. So I think that is
Speaker 1: true because especially like back in the nineties, you had
Speaker 1: like lots of crossover stuff. Because I'll never forget that
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut. We're giving out vhs of the X Men
Speaker 1: animated show, and I had the one which was the
Speaker 1: essentially the pilot episode. Um, and then you had the
Speaker 1: POGs they were they had the X Men pog. So
Speaker 1: I was surprised if they had the Dark Wing duck
Speaker 1: you know detective. Oh, yeah, here it is, this is
Speaker 1: this is what they gave out. It was the Pizza
Speaker 1: Hut box. They had the cups. Oh yeah, like that
Speaker 1: folder in the back. I remember there was a goal.
Speaker 1: There's detective stuff in the folder. So it was like
Speaker 1: a case file almost. Yeah, no, that's solid, very very
Speaker 1: cartoon film noir. So this was the first Disney Afternoon
Speaker 1: show to really emphasize action rather than adventure, with Dark
Speaker 1: Wing and routinely engaging in slapstick battles with supervillains and
Speaker 1: street criminals. It was the first Disney Afternoon property that
Speaker 1: was produced completely as a jo Unrad parody making fun
Speaker 1: of the other ones. Prior shows would contain elements of
Speaker 1: parody in some episodes, but his was like straight up
Speaker 1: um supposed to be comedy um. By contrast, every episode
Speaker 1: of Dark Wing Duck is laden with references to superhero
Speaker 1: pop culture or superspy fiction. Dark Wing Duck himself is
Speaker 1: a satirical character. His costume, gas gun, and flashy introductions
Speaker 1: are all reminiscent of Golden Age superheroes such as The Shadow,
Speaker 1: the Sandman, Duck Savage, Batman, the Green Hornet, and Julia
Speaker 1: Shortz's flash as well as the Lone Ranger. That's the
Speaker 1: big one for me, the Lone Ranger in Zoro. I
Speaker 1: would say those are like dead ringers. So um. Also,
Speaker 1: the fictional city of St. Cernard is a direct parody
Speaker 1: of Gotham City. I love I love this idea that
Speaker 1: that was their parody because at the same time you're
Speaker 1: seeing tiny toon adventures and then you're seeing Animani actually
Speaker 1: pump up their parody, their satire, and I my first
Speaker 1: reaction was to ask if we thought it was a
Speaker 1: response to what they were doing. But then if you
Speaker 1: think about how we are right now, like that was
Speaker 1: probably just what was going on at that time, Like
Speaker 1: the way we're all creating very similar things in different spaces,
Speaker 1: they were probably all just right. It's the same Hollywood
Speaker 1: writers at some point going for one, but they didn't
Speaker 1: get the job on Animaniacs, but they had similar ideas.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, yeah, I got I got the job
Speaker 1: on Dark Wing Ducks. So we're just gonna do a
Speaker 1: whole parody of the superhero on Dark Wing Duck. It's
Speaker 1: many great, he uses oral mask. We are now Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: what's fascinating is I figured that this would be making
Speaker 1: fun of Batman the Animated Series, but it premiered before
Speaker 1: Batman the Animated Series. I mean literally with him standing there,
Speaker 1: he looks like, you know, like with his kepe and whatnot,
Speaker 1: Like he looks like he's doing the Batman thing where
Speaker 1: he's like standing over the city of Gotham. I mean
Speaker 1: that opening. The opening credits definitely have the cape shot
Speaker 1: with it like blowing in the wind on top of them.
Speaker 1: So wait, did Batman the Animated Series take from Dark
Speaker 1: Wing Duck? And I'm just kidding, Please don't tweet at us.
Speaker 1: We have to take another a quick break. We're going
Speaker 1: to hop into the rest of this afternoon block right
Speaker 1: after this Welcome back to Nerdificent, and you know it's
Speaker 1: time to get a little goofy because we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about goof Troop. Goof Troop. You had an interesting take
Speaker 1: on it because you were saying you liked, uh, the
Speaker 1: Goofy movie, but goof Troop kind of felt a little different.
Speaker 1: I mean it totally feels different. It's still fun, but
Speaker 1: when you have something like a Goofy movie, which is iconic,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel quite the same. Um. Also, the
Speaker 1: character designs are a little bit different. So but well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because it's like this show does predate Goofy movie.
Speaker 1: So I think it did the thing that Simpsons movie
Speaker 1: did worst, like we're going to do the animation better,
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring a little more heart into it. But
Speaker 1: I think Goofy movie did is so good. That was like, actually,
Speaker 1: this is you've kind of like carved out these characters
Speaker 1: in a different way, you know, whereas like you have,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like Goofy and Max's relationship in
Speaker 1: a Goofy movie does feel way more mature than it
Speaker 1: does in the show. So the show or the movie
Speaker 1: came first? Is the show came first? Wow? I in
Speaker 1: my head it was the opposite. Yeah. Also, like he's
Speaker 1: he is younger, Like Max looks younger, and um, you're
Speaker 1: not polished. Like he looks like he's in middle school
Speaker 1: as opposed to in or elementary school. To be honest,
Speaker 1: he looks like he's like elementary school, middle school, and
Speaker 1: then in a Goofy movie he's very much a teenager. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so goof Troop was essentially following the relationship between single
Speaker 1: father Goofy and his son Max. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: laugh at this. It just sounds way more serious than
Speaker 1: it was. I have something good for that. This is
Speaker 1: perfect because this is this relates directly to my experience
Speaker 1: of Troop. So this was this comes out right around
Speaker 1: the time my parents legitimately get divorced and my dad
Speaker 1: moves out. And so when I talked about all these blocks,
Speaker 1: like I remember the pilots, I remember that the very
Speaker 1: I was excited for goof Troop at the TV show,
Speaker 1: and that was one thing that my father made short
Speaker 1: of tape at his house. So we watched that pilot
Speaker 1: a few times. And that's why I thought there were
Speaker 1: two episodes that were aired the first time it came out,
Speaker 1: because we watched him a bunch, but it was legitimately,
Speaker 1: and then the Goofy movie comes out and it's this
Speaker 1: this parallel of like, my parents are divorced, my father
Speaker 1: and I don't have this relationship in bond that we want,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to figure it out, and here's this
Speaker 1: TV show in this movie that's trying to help us
Speaker 1: figure it out. Didn't really help. I can't. It doesn't
Speaker 1: end well. It takes takes years for us to take
Speaker 1: until takes until I make a TV show for him
Speaker 1: to finally accept me. But anyway, that's a different story.
Speaker 1: Finally said he was proud of me, and only now
Speaker 1: I know how much is love costs? But but Google,
Speaker 1: but but goof Troop really kind of hit that like
Speaker 1: a single father TV show, and that like single fathers
Speaker 1: and sons I think sometimes get almost under explored in
Speaker 1: that relationship and that kind of bond a father and
Speaker 1: son and one who's kind of a strange. And that's
Speaker 1: why Goofy movie, I think is so emotional because you
Speaker 1: see Goofy trying to relate to his son, but you
Speaker 1: clearly understand that the son is a teenager and trying
Speaker 1: to make his own way, but they can't really come together.
Speaker 1: It's so note perfect that they I feel like they
Speaker 1: may have experimented on the TV show and then somebody
Speaker 1: was like, no, no no, if we really want to get
Speaker 1: heart out of this, this is what it's really like.
Speaker 1: I'm going through a divorce right now. Guys. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you never look, Yeah we would. I would try
Speaker 1: to take him camping. Let me tell you, try to
Speaker 1: take him camping with a lot of possums, and then
Speaker 1: we have Oh. This is one of my favorites is Bonkers.
Speaker 1: I love Bonkers because in my fan fiction, in my
Speaker 1: fan fiction head I always pretend that Jessica Rabbit had
Speaker 1: an affair with Bonkers. That's very much her type. Goofy.
Speaker 1: She's in an open relationship with Roger I guess, not
Speaker 1: cheating on him. She's Wow, there's another show called Bonkers.
Speaker 1: There should be only one. Bonkers was a cop? Yeah
Speaker 1: he is? Uh so, now that he's trying to run
Speaker 1: for president, I think we have to Bonkers was a cop.
Speaker 1: He's a bobcat. He's bonkers d bobcat. He actually was.
Speaker 1: This is even worse if he because he was washed
Speaker 1: out of show business and became a cop. That's the worst.
Speaker 1: That's like an open my comic, like not making it
Speaker 1: and then deciding to be a police officer. So Bonkers
Speaker 1: was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Um, a
Speaker 1: grim and ill tempered human who hates tunes. Wow. What
Speaker 1: a weird pairing. Throughout the series, the hair work together
Speaker 1: to solve crimes in Hollywood. I don't know why it's
Speaker 1: so funny, because it is there. It does kind of
Speaker 1: have like a Roger Rabbit sque kind of feel to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is one of the shows where I started,
Speaker 1: Like I said, goof Troop was where it started to
Speaker 1: crest for me. I was aware of Bonkers and I'd
Speaker 1: watch it occasionally, but it didn't resonate. Yeah. I will
Speaker 1: say that every once in a while when when I'm
Speaker 1: feeling disillusioned about the industry, I do think I think
Speaker 1: about being a cop, like like that's the obvious from
Speaker 1: show based from creativity to law Enforced. Every every time
Speaker 1: I go into me, it was like, if they don't
Speaker 1: buy this pitch, I'm becoming a counter bomb. One more audition. Wow,
Speaker 1: I just saw on here. At the end of the
Speaker 1: Lucky episodes, Bonkers was given a new partner, the attractive
Speaker 1: officer Miranda Right of course, although also listen, although also human,
Speaker 1: because of course she is and still like you know,
Speaker 1: bony or boneable by him. She was far more patient
Speaker 1: and tolerant of his antics. With Miranda Bonkers was more
Speaker 1: the brunt of the slapstick. Well, okay, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: but also like, why are these human women? People get mad?
Speaker 1: But Jessica Rabbit is literally a human. She's a tune
Speaker 1: human that's sleeping with a rabbit. Anyways, I digress. There's
Speaker 1: another show on here, Iffy that I've actually never seen
Speaker 1: me either. It's called schnook Ms and Meet funny cartoon show.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't. It wasn't my favorite. I am
Speaker 1: aware of snookums and me. This was this was at
Speaker 1: the point so if this is what years this is right,
Speaker 1: it's ninety four that that one comes out. I'm ten
Speaker 1: years old, and it's this is one of those things
Speaker 1: where it's like it's more geared towards my younger sister,
Speaker 1: who's probably four at the time, and so it would
Speaker 1: be on she'd be watching it or I'd spent some
Speaker 1: time with her doing that. That was this is when
Speaker 1: the block starts to get more towards my sister's favorite stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm like all right, I'm ten years old. Let
Speaker 1: me watch more Saved by the Bell or let me
Speaker 1: go watch Monday Night Raw, or the New York Knicks
Speaker 1: are playing in the finals this year. This is four
Speaker 1: I'm watching. I'm watching the New York Knicks in the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets. Patrick Ewing at the same Absolutely, absolutely, this
Speaker 1: was definitely an error. This is wild because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the art for this show and there's no way
Speaker 1: that it wasn't inspired by which it was hoping to
Speaker 1: compete with. Ye I was competing with. But I just
Speaker 1: looked it up and it's not the creator of So
Speaker 1: I'm like, why does it look so much that like it? Okay,
Speaker 1: literally the art and the way that they spell their
Speaker 1: the lettering is done, like, um, I do remember this.
Speaker 1: So it was essentially a cat named Schnook ms uh
Speaker 1: and a dog named Meat who did not get along
Speaker 1: very well. What an odd pairing. Their owners are unseen
Speaker 1: stock characters only viewed from the neck down. Very Tom
Speaker 1: and Jerry s um, yeah, so I do. This reminds
Speaker 1: me also of two stupid dogs. If anyone remembers two
Speaker 1: stupid dogs, love it. So yeah, we have the Shnook
Speaker 1: comes and Meat I guess if you're a fan of that,
Speaker 1: let us know, just watched it. This was the venture
Speaker 1: into that like weird, off beat stuff like it, and
Speaker 1: I say, I get it. In the vein of if
Speaker 1: Ren and Stimpy makes waves, someone's going to either be
Speaker 1: inspired by or have a similar take or come along
Speaker 1: with something that's secondarily like it, but probably didn't do
Speaker 1: as well because it was not in the right part,
Speaker 1: like you that is not in the Adventure Action block
Speaker 1: of Disney. I don't know if that was their demo.
Speaker 1: And at this point, what's it following, because you're turning
Speaker 1: from a father and Sun trying to get along to
Speaker 1: two abstract characters in a weird world. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: it was very weird and edgy and and on Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: they had Read and Snimpy, but they also had all
Speaker 1: real monsters, which was gross. You know. It was like
Speaker 1: armpit hair and farts and like you know. And then
Speaker 1: the rugrats were which would do a lot of those
Speaker 1: close ups, you know, and uh so those were all
Speaker 1: kind of like weird. Then we have Gargoyles. Gargoyles which
Speaker 1: originally aired October until February. If you can't tell it
Speaker 1: follows a species of nocturnal creatures known as gargoyles that
Speaker 1: turned to stone during the day. And this is this
Speaker 1: is weird because they are also playing different shows on
Speaker 1: different days, so you're not getting the same block all week.
Speaker 1: They're breaking up like some are on Tuesdays and summer
Speaker 1: on Fridays, and you had to watch them on certain days,
Speaker 1: right because like X Men wasn't coming out every day,
Speaker 1: so that was only a few times a week Gargoyles.
Speaker 1: And I didn't love Gargoyles. It wasn't I didn't love it.
Speaker 1: Who's the hot gargoyle chick that everyone wanted to bang? Oh? Wait, um, Demona?
Speaker 1: Is it Demona or Demonic? I mean also, like you remember,
Speaker 1: all the gargoyles had like kind of shredded clothes, so
Speaker 1: it just like unintentionally made her look way hotter than
Speaker 1: she was supposed to be. It was also relatively dark tone,
Speaker 1: so again it was kind of different. It received a
Speaker 1: lot of comparisons to Batman, the animated series, which had
Speaker 1: now been out for a couple of years. Another thing
Speaker 1: about Gargoyles, I guess their backstories. After spending thousand years
Speaker 1: in an enchanted, petrified state, the Gargoyles who have been
Speaker 1: transported from medieval Scotland. Are we are reawakened in modern day.
Speaker 1: Where do you think New York City where every almost
Speaker 1: cartoons with crime fighting take place. Um, they become the
Speaker 1: city's secret nighttime protectors. Well that's great because there's so
Speaker 1: many other people protecting New York City, like um, spider Man,
Speaker 1: and that's the show I want to see. I want
Speaker 1: to see Superman, Batman, Spiderman. I want to see all
Speaker 1: of the superheroes getting in each other's way. The Gargoyles
Speaker 1: show up like everyone's just like, dude, come on, I
Speaker 1: got this one. Hey, I just butt heads. Well they
Speaker 1: have that. It was the Marvel Netflix block, which was Daredevil,
Speaker 1: Luke Cage. They were all in the same city. They
Speaker 1: were all in Hell's kitchen. For the next one, I
Speaker 1: just want to lump them together because they're of the
Speaker 1: same ilk in my brain, which was the Aladdin animated
Speaker 1: series and the Lion Kings Tamone and Puma, which then
Speaker 1: led to the line Guard, which is the one that
Speaker 1: came on that I was talking about, which are just
Speaker 1: spin offs from the movie. I feel like they you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're good for you know when you were a kid,
Speaker 1: but looking back on him, weren't as impactful. Quackpack good
Speaker 1: should have been sorted. I mean this came later, but
Speaker 1: should have been sorted with duck tails. This time it's uh,
Speaker 1: Donald Duck hanging with his nephews. But you know, tons
Speaker 1: of cameos from Scrooge launch Pat mcquack. The reason I'm
Speaker 1: blasting through those ducks is because I wanted to land
Speaker 1: on these ducks which were actually important to me, which
Speaker 1: were the Mighty Ducks, the animated series, which had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Mighty Duck at all because they
Speaker 1: were literal ducks. Yeah, they were literal ducks. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: it was inspired by the live action Mighty Ducks films.
Speaker 1: Uh and the in n h L team Anaheim Duck
Speaker 1: Boo Go Kings uh um. But yeah they but they
Speaker 1: it was real cool, like these buff ducks who played hockey.
Speaker 1: That was pretty much the show. Uh. But it was
Speaker 1: so funny because this came out so close to the
Speaker 1: Mighty Duck movies that like, at first you thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be about the movie and it was like, no,
Speaker 1: just buff ducks together. They did everything in the world
Speaker 1: to capitalize on those movies. The idea they ended up
Speaker 1: changing the name of the team is insanity when you think,
Speaker 1: like a major sports franchise changed the name of a
Speaker 1: team for a a kid's movie Ye starring Amelio Estevez.
Speaker 1: What was the name of the team before? I think
Speaker 1: did they start a new I think it might have
Speaker 1: been an expansion team. It was either that or they
Speaker 1: took over a team and changed the name that I I
Speaker 1: forget which didn't was which is good? Like good to
Speaker 1: know that it's oh my god, you're so right. The
Speaker 1: team the movie, not the other way of Anaheim, were
Speaker 1: founded in by the Walt Disney Company. They were like,
Speaker 1: the movies did so well, we should start an actual team.
Speaker 1: But this is I think where the team didn't do well.
Speaker 1: If you look at the original jersey designs, it's all
Speaker 1: the stuff that we know of, like from the movie.
Speaker 1: But they should have just gone with those original green jerseys,
Speaker 1: like those green sweaters that they were first. Where if
Speaker 1: they came out and that we would have all been down.
Speaker 1: But they did this like purple list ruin ish purple
Speaker 1: and green. This like earth toned with the weird face masks.
Speaker 1: Oh look at this dirty. This is how dirty sports
Speaker 1: are so the franchise was awarded by the NHL in December,
Speaker 1: along with the rights to a Miami team that would
Speaker 1: become the Florida Panthers. An interest and entrance fee of
Speaker 1: fifty million was required, half of which Disney would pay
Speaker 1: directly to the Los Angeles Kings in order to share
Speaker 1: Southern California. I did not know the Ducks are completely
Speaker 1: based on a freaking movie, like and we we know
Speaker 1: now what it takes to start a franchise, a sports franchise,
Speaker 1: and maintain the sports franchise, getting arena built for a
Speaker 1: sports franchise, all of the the other and and Disney
Speaker 1: was just simply like the movies did, well, why not
Speaker 1: why not make an actual team? People would like that
Speaker 1: how much money Disney had back then for them to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you know what it was like if
Speaker 1: those bought the Detroit Lions for the Lion King Michaelis was, well, girls, like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't we make a hockey team? Man? Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: I mean, still a better idea than the XFL. And
Speaker 1: with that, yeah, I was gonna know someone's kind of
Speaker 1: tweet out to be like, why didn't you go in
Speaker 1: depth in the gargoyles, gargoyles and go over every single character.
Speaker 1: That is because we will do that on another episode,
Speaker 1: but today it was nice to reminisce about the original
Speaker 1: nineties tune block. Yes, and thank you so much for
Speaker 1: talking about it with us. Eddie, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Guys find me on Instagram at
Speaker 1: I m Eddie Firth on Twitter at Eddie Firth. Tomorrow Night.
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Speaker 1: really big ones that we haven't been able to talk
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Speaker 1: you tackled this because it would take five days, which
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. And nobody tweet us that they're tired
Speaker 1: of that topic. Um, if you get five weeks of it,
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Speaker 1: do it depends, but we heard you. Also, we'll be
Speaker 1: expanding on a lot of these huge topics that have
Speaker 1: been really difficult to kind of tackle down into just
Speaker 1: one episode, so like you know, um, and we could
Speaker 1: do an episode on every Twilight Zone episode ever, So
Speaker 1: we'll do that. Um, just kidding, but I already do
Speaker 1: that in my brain. As we always say, stay nerdy.