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Monday, February 06, 2023

Oh Yeah! Cartoons : #31: The Forgotten Toybox in: The Curse of the Werebaby

Nickelodeon 


 Previously: Last episode was Catastrophic! [here


#31:The Forgotten Toybox in : The Curse of Werebaby

Season 2, Episode 6b

             The Forgotten Toybox was created by Mike Bell, as his only non Super Santa based short on Oh Yeah!  Cartoons.   It has Daran Norris as a voice, you might know him as the voice  of Mr. Turner and Cosmo in The Fairly Odd Parents and he played Gordy in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.  Here he's playing a talking pull string doll who is a host for story telling and introduces a story like this is the Twilight Zone.  There's a man who acts like  a jerk, then he gets bitten by a baby. (Don't ask) Then an angry doll curses him and starts to turn into a baby.  The transformation is horrifying. Now, the man is giant baby terrorizing the city. 

          This is also a very visual gag heavy short as random stuff happens like the baby causing a plane to crash after some cars crash. He gets bigger from the power of milk. ( Milk propaganda) He does more destruction to the city.  This one doesn't want you to take it too seriously and that's the fun of it.  Eventually an ice cream truck gives a police officer  an idea to use a loud lullaby to lull the giant baby to sleep. It works and shrinks him and he ends landing on a bed to fall asleep. The man is back to normal in the morning and thinks it's a dream except for the diaper. (Uhhhh) 

            The host returns to say that guy will still turn into a baby until he learns to not act like one. (odd) That's it. 
       
             There's a hook here in where it could have worked as a series as well, different strange stories presented in a more comedic way. It would have been fun to see different strange parodies.   This was a fun short though, it's very quick humor and has some nice gags.  Really do give this on a watch. 

        That's it for now, tune in next time when we talk to a man who grew 20 feet tall because of milk.  

                       

Friday, February 03, 2023

Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #30 Twenty-Five Cent Trouble or Teddy and Art

Nickelodeon 


            Previously, Is it Funny? Is it? IS IT? [HERE



#30: Twenty-Five Cent Trouble

Season 1, Episode 2b
      This one seems to have two different names, the title card for the one we use is 25¢ Trouble, I'll use that name. (More 25 cent and less usage of the ¢ thing)  25 Cent Trouble is created by  Alex Kirwan. I've talked about his other two shorts already. For some disclosure, I should have done this one when I did the marathon batch, but thought it was something else and missed it, so here we are.  

             It takes place in a grocery store because grocery stores are fun. Our main character is Teddy and also his dog Art is allowed in the grocery store. (Oh I see)  Teddy is voiced by Katie Leigh who has a long list of voice acting credits, but you'll know her as Usapyon from Yo-Kai Watch. (You really should have watch Yo-Kai Watch)  The mom thinks Teddy is in the way and tells them to go pick out some cereal, which means give me five-minutes alone in mom speak.  Mom is voiced by Debi Derryberry, who also has a long list of voice credits but I'm going to say you'll know her as Wednesday Addams from tthe 1992 Addams Family animated series.  

                Teddy and Art go on and the dog seems to want attention from Teddy, but Teddy finds a quarter.  That's how this short is 25¢ Trouble. ( A High IQ post)  He wants to go to egg toy machines and gets a robot toy.  The robot toy scares the dog when it moves, it also apparently can melt cans. Art seems to get jealous and wants Teddy's attention. Then the robot wants attention and gets jealous. This short is a robot and dog getting jealous for a boy's attention. 

                 Teddy mostly says the a variation of the word Catastrophic and is impressed easily by things.  There's also some grocery store destruction going on. Then there's town destruction going on too when the robot has grown bigger and takes Teddy out of the store and starts smashing cars as it walks. Art gets a 25¢  helicopter  and shoots down the robot.   The mom shows up and she didn't see anything.  The mom also tells Teddy she had to pick out the cereal because he was not picking it out.  There's an alien inside the box to apparently sequel bait us. 

             I can maybe parse why there's no series from this. I mean, I could see a hook of episode 2 :boy gets alien toy, it's real alien. episode 3: Teddy accidently burns his house down thanks to a dragon. (what?)  That would be Catastrophic!  There's not much describable plot but it's more like those episodes of Rugrats where Tommy went off and did stuff without his parents noticing. Like the episode he and Grandpa Lou go the grocery store and Tommy goes to find Reptar cereal and destroys the entire store, nobody notices and he gets the cereal.  I honeslty, would have watched this madness if it was a series.   

         Anyway, that's it for now tune  in next time when we make catastrophically great post! 

Thursday, February 02, 2023

Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #29: Slap T. Pooch in What is Funny?

Nickelodeon 


Previously, Triplets have fun [Here]


#29 Slap T. Pooch in: What is Funny?

Season 1, Episode 1b

    The name of this one makes it feel like there is going to be more but there is not, it's just this one.   Back to season 1 and the very first episode. This segment of the three is the only one that's not part of a series of shorts that would show up in the series later. I've already written about Jelly's Day

             Slap T. Pooch in What is Funny?  was created by Bill Burnett and Vincent Waller. Burnett also wrote this one. Bill Burnett had been a singer songwriter for the purpose of this post he met with Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman (Seibert being a reason why Oh Yeah! exists) and he was a writer for their agency. Seibert and Goodman are the creative minds behind MTV's look in the 1980's, Nickelodeon's splat logo, Nick at Nite, and Comedy Central. Burnett is the one who thought up the name Comedy Central.  When Seibert went to Hanna-Barbera Burnett followed and became VP Creative Director of the company. He also worked on the show "Cow and Chicken".   He went with Seibert again to Nickelodeon and worked on this. That's my speed run. I will mention a little more about him at the end.  I've mentioned Waller before, but for this one they have connection where they both worked on "Cow and Chicken" he storyboarded an episode. (One that's uh well known)  Anyway to this short. 


                This one is very focused on being meta and 4th wall breaking. Our main character is named Slap T. Pooch, a dog who knows that this is a cartoon and decides to ask if something is funny. That's the whole 7 minutes.  This a very visual and quick paced short.  It accelerates into randomness as the dog tries to focus group the viewers into wondering if that event is funny.  It has a lot of slapstick. 

            There's really not much story here and that's fine. It's a showcase of madness more than anything else.  I can see it even being grating to some because of the constant of the asking if something is funny.  It's not like there's nothing funny happening in the short, but yeah it can be seen as little much. A highlight has to be the prison  of gingerbread men.  The short has a running gag song of a choir singing "What is Funny? What is Funny?" 

                 I guess I could ask would this have made a good series? Probably not, this feels more one off  unless it's making a meta cartoon where Slap does different things, but the constant question repeating and stuff hampers it a bit.  You should check it out, at least once, to see what it is, but that should be it. 

             Back to Burnett, before we close. This episode of Oh Yeah! Cartoons has his fingers all over it, he was involved in all three shorts. The first one , "Chalk Zone" which was the first of many shorts and one of the shorts featured that became it's own show. He co-created that with Larry Huber. With Slap T. Pooch and Chalkzone you'll notice music is part of them and he again did make music too. He also worked on Jelly's Day as a co-creator.   

             That's really it here... uh was this post fun?  Was it?  help. 

Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Arthur: Season 3: Episode 15: Arthur and D.W Clean Up/ The Long, Dull Winter

Arthur PBS 



Episode 15a: Arthur and D.W Clean Up

   The Cold Open:  Arthur talks about how he changed his room into the  Mall of America, but also it can clean itself, unlike the Mall of America.  He was supposed to be cleaning his room.


  The Episode:  Arthur  wants to go with his friends to a fun air, the next day, and that's important because  before that day Arthur's mom wonders if he has cleaned his room. He has not.  I always find it funny how messy rooms look on cartoons, they always go excessive, but it funny. His mother lets him play soccer but he has to clean is room later. It is showing that she is being fair and he made did make a promise. So you can feel too bad for him.  Arthur again decides he finds  a way to watch his show instead of cleaning his room.  

          Arthur failed to clean is room and now he can't go to the happy fun thingy and  has to clean his room. His mom also stops D.W from laughing by saying that she has to clean her room too.  The father, who had nothing to say now suggests an idea where the two siblings work together to clean up their rooms.  D.W wants to throw stuff way, but Arthur doesn't want her to.  

            D.W becomes a Francine and Arthur shipper because she knows the audience.  The father tries to talk to them and thinks up the idea they just don't talk and this seems to go well. The episode has has some fun Easter eggs from past seasons of episodes.   They do end up finishing but now it's D.W's room's turn.  D.W has a set way of doing things and gets annoyed.  when Arthur doesn't follow along, her way. 

            The parents interject into the story because of their arguing.  D. W tells the parents she'd rather just do it her self.  Arthur gets to go to the park for the event.  That was moment for D.W.  The end of the episode Arthur and his friends get to help clean up the park.   

            A simple episode, pretty fun. It works well Arthur should have done his room before and wouldn't have missed some of that fun. D.W had no investment in the event herself but it was nice of her to let Arthur go while she did her room herself. Mostly because she was going to go mad if Arthur kept doing things the 'wrong' way.  It's a good basic episode. 

    More after the jump

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Fall TV Look 2023: What's New, What's Renewed, What's Ended?

Fall TV Look  2023 ABC CBS CW FOX NBC

Last Updated  November 9  2023 at 8:50 PM MT 


It's our annual list of network TV moves either shows being renewed or canceled /ending. Also what's new? For disclosure, we are going to count reboot or one of those shows that are returning after ending as new , just to keep this list consistent.

Also to be determined is our list for shows that haven't been officially given a status so, it's
       

ABC 

Renewed 

Abbott Elementary 
America's Funniest Home Videos 
American Idol 
The Bachelor 
Bachelor in Paradise
Celebrity Jeopardy
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune 
The Conners 
The Good Doctor 
Grey's Anatomy 
Not Dead Yet
The Rookie 
Shark Tank 
Station 19 
Will Trent 

Canceled 

Alaska Daily 
A Million Little Things 
Avalon 
Big Sky
Home Economics 
The Company You Keep 
The Goldbergs 
The Rookie: Feds


To Be Determined 






Reality/Summer shows (determined at their own times)

The Wonder Years 

New Series 

9-1-1 (moving from FOX) 




 CBS 


Renewed 

Blue Bloods
Bob Hearts Abishola 
CSI: Vegas
The Equalizer 
FBI 
FBI: International 
Fire Country 
Ghosts
NCIS 
NCIS: Hawai'i 
So Help Me Todd 
S.W.A.T  (for a final season) 
Young Sheldon 
The Neighborhood 

Canceled 

East New York 
NCIS:LA 
True Lies 





Reality/News/Summer shows (determined at their own times)

60 Minutes 
48 Hours 
The Amazing Race 

Survivor 
Tough as Nails


New Series 

Elsbeth
Matlock
Poppa's House 


CW


Also will note that the CW has new ownership who could decide their own ways and other factors could come in to play. 

Renewed 

All American 
All American: Homecoming 
Walker 

Canceled 

The Flash
Gotham Knights 
Kung Fu 
Nancy Drew
Riverdale
Stargirl 
Superman & Lois 
Walker: Independence 
The Winchesters 



To Be Determined 



Reality/Summer shows (determined at their own times)

New Series 



FOX 

Renewed 

9-1-1: Lone Star 
Accused 
Alert 
Animal Control 
Bob's Burgers (2 Seasons) 
The Cleaning Lady
The Great North 
Family Guy  (2 Seasons) 
Krapopolis (Renewed before first season premiered) 
The Simpsons  (2 seasons) 


Canceled 

9-1-1 (moving to ABC) 
Call me Kat
Fantasy Island 
Monarch
The Resident 
Welcome to Flatch 

To Be Determined 

Housebroken 





Reality/Summer shows (determined at their own times)

New Series 

Grimsburg 

NBC


Renewed 

Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Chicago PD
La Brea
Lopez vs. Lopez
Law and Order
Law and Order: Organized Crime
Law and Order: SVU
Magnum PI  (second part of season 5 in mid season 2024) (ending after that) 
Night Court
Quantum Leap


Canceled 

American Auto 
The Blacklist
Grand Crew
New Amsterdam 
Young Rock 

To Be Determined 








Reality/Summer shows (determined at their own times)

American Ninja Warrior (2 seasons) 

New Series 

Found (moving to Fall 2023) 
St. Denis Medical 

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

2023: Oscars Nominations announced

Oscars 


            It's that season again. The 95th Academy Awards nominations have been announced.  "Everything Everywhere All at Once" led the nominations with 11, Angela Bassett,  Jamie Lee Curtis , Judd Hirsch, and Brendan Fraser are some of the many actors nominated.   The awards are set for March 12 on ABC it will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. No, I'm not mentioning last year. 

Here's the full list 

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)
Hong Chau (“The Whale”)
Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)  


Best Original Screenplay
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Martin McDonagh)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
“The Fabelmans” (Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner)
“Tár” (Todd Field)
“Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Östlund)


Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”)
Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”)
Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)


Best Adapted Screenplay
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell)
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Rian Johnson)
“Living” (Kazuo Ishiguro)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, and Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks)
“Women Talking” (Sarah Polley)

Best International Feature Film
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
“Close” (Belgium)
“EO” (Poland)
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)

Best Animated Short Film
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse” (Apple TV+)

“The Flying Sailor”

“Ice Merchants”

“My Year of Dicks”

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

Best Costume Design
“Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)

“Elvis” (Warner Bros)

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (Focus Features)

Best Production Design
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)

“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)

“Babylon” (Paramount Pictures)

“Elvis” (Warner Bros)

“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

Best Visual Effects
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)

“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)

“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Marvel Studios)

“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Live Action Short
“An Irish Goodbye” (Floodlight Pictures)

“Ivalu” (M&M Productions)

“Le Pupille” (Disney+)

“Night Ride”

“The Red Suitcase” (Cynefilms)

Best Animated Feature Film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix)

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (A24)

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (DreamWorks Animation)

“The Sea Beast” (Netflix)

“Turning Red” (Pixar)

More after the jump 

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

CNN Announces New Daytime Changes , and a CNN Tonight Update

CNN   Cable TV News  Cable TV 


           More changes are coming to CNN, this time, with a new daytime line up. The programming between 9am ET and 4pm ET weekdays will be broken up into 3 separate programs. 

           The 9am-Noon ET block will be anchored from New York, former New Day co-anchor , John Berman,  with current 11am ET anchor of "At This Hour", Kate Bolduan, and adding in Sara Sidner will be the three anchors of this block.  

            Inside Politics with John King will continue at Noon ET.  Then, the 1-4pm ET block will from Washington D.C.  former New Day co-anchor, Brianna Keilar, current CNN This Morning Weekend co-anchor , Boris Sanchez, and current 9-11am anchor, Jim Sciutto, will be the anchors for this block.    

      Most of the changes here finds spots for people who were shuffled out like Berman and Keilar, their New Day program was canceled last year and replaced with CNN This Morning.  Sciutto's former co-anchor, Polly Harlow moved to CNN This Morning .  Meanwhile, the Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell block will be gone.  Blackwell will be moving back to weekends as co-anchor of CNN This Morning Weekend and the 10AM ET, Saturday hour of  Newsroom. 

           During the fall, Camerota was put on the 10pm-Midnight ET block of CNN Tonight when Don Lemon was moved to mornings.  Camerota will still be anchoring the 10pm ET , while co-host Laura Coates will be on at 11pm ET.   

             Besides, Blackwell moving back to weekends, another weekend change has been made. Jim Acosta will now anchor Saturdays 4pm- 8pm ET and Sundays 4-7pm ET.  Pamela Brown has been named Chief Investigative Correspondent and Anchor for CNN replacing Drew Griffin who passed away in December ,and she be leaving her CNN Newsroom hours on weekends.  

       The programming names, dates, and etc for daytime haven't been effective yet and will be announced later.  Also of note, CNN hasn't announced at 9PMET replacement yet.  


Press release after the jump

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

NewsNation to add Elizabeth Vargas

NewsNation    Cable TV News 


            



       Nexstar owned cable news network, NewsNation, continues to expand and change programming. Tuesday they announced that former ABC News anchor, Elizabeth Vargas, will be joining the network to host at 6pm ET show called "Elizabeth Vargas Reports"  The show is set to start on April 3. 

             Vargas will be anchoring from New York City, and not from their Chicago headquarters. Newsnation says the program will "...feature one-on-one interviews with headline makers across the country and on-the-ground reporting by Newsnation's team of seasoned journalists." 

             Currently, the network runs "NewsNation Rush Hour" from 5-7pm ET,  and it's assumed that Rush Hour will go back to being one hour. Reruns of off network drama, Blue Bloods runs from 12pmet-5pmet, at present. 

             

Press release after the jump