Earthworm Jim Season 1 Part 2 Review

Hi, this is Gary Chalk and you're listening to

the GeekCast Radio Network. Remember, there are

great comedies every Sunday night on the WB.

First, Steven Spielberg presents Pinky and the

Brain. This week, everyone's favorite lap mice

try to take over the world. Did you expect me

to say eat cheese and run from a cat? Well, that

might happen, too. And did you know that every

week there's our Sister Sister Sunday bonus?

The WB Sunday night. Kiss the frog, baby. you

future delinquents out there and drains our society

as we promised it's time once again to attend

our fabulous behind -the -scenes school of cartoon

production today's lesson how do they do those

crazy voices check it out Peter yes everyone

loves to use their vocal chords in creative acrobatic

and hilarious ways And from the moment the script

gets written, everyone wants to get into the

act. From the writers... Criminy! Something smells

like prehistoric cheese! To the creator of the

cartoon himself! Goblin Jim? What are we gonna

do? All the way to the highly paid... professional...

Hollywood -type actors who actually do this for

a living. Ah, good point. And in case you're

wondering, yes, famous actors do some of the

voices for our cartoon. Comedian Andrea Martin

does Queen Slug for a butt. And your little dog,

too. And the infamous Dan Castellaneta, better

known as the voice of Homer Simpson, is also

the voice of Earthworm Jim. Onward, Mrs. Ploveridge,

in search of your cherished egg beater. You're

too. Good at this. Yes, he is pretty good at

that, isn't he? Oh, looks like fun, doesn't it,

huh? Can you believe grown people actually get

paid big bucks to do this stuff? Well, I've got

to get back to doing voices. And there you have

it. Voices, voices, voices. Groovy. And now just

to see if you've been paying attention, here's

a trivia question. Get the answer right and you

could win an all -expenses -paid vacation trip

to the tropical paradise of Barbados with the

actual space crickets themselves! Okay, what

is Mrs. Bloboridge's horrifyingly gruesome cosmetic

secret? The totally absurd yet hypothetically

correct answer coming up right after the egg

beater! And now, as we promised, here's the answer

to our Earthworm Jim trivia question! What is

Mrs. Blumberidge's horrifyingly gruesome cosmetic

secret? She's bald! And wears a fakey wig! Luckily,

your incredibly fakey wig clogged the mechanism,

saving your brains from suckage most foul! If

you knew the answer, you could be sipping cider

by the sea with a space cricket on your fantastic,

all -expenses -paid vacation to Barbados by this

time tomorrow. Okay, maybe not. But thanks for

playing anyway, okay? And remember, you can learn

more about the making of Earthworm Jim with every

episode you buy! Because each cassette contains

vital, earth -shattering facts about the writing

and drawing of this miraculous, life -saving

cartoon! Collect them all and become the most

brilliant, knowledgeable person you know about

the incredible adventures of... Earthworm Jim!

Hey! You missed my dramatic moment! Tough noogies,

we'll get it next time! welcome to episode 67

of pixels in the animation yes that's right folks

we are back we come at you every Thursday on

the GeekCaster radio network and starting with

episode 70 we're gonna be also syndicated over

on this week in geek .net so there's that but

we're back at earthworm Jim season one part two

this is the final six episodes we've got the

egg beater trout the great secret of the universe

bring me the head of earthworm Jim Queen wants

her name and the anti fish alrighty then the

egg beater has got to be the craziest episode

of season one it really does yes so basically

jim loses his neighbors egg beater and takes

her on a journey to recover it um They go all

the way across the universe to try to find an

egg beater he had in his pocket the whole time

What the hell That's that's a very meta commentary

and just how people have a tendency to lose things

that are like Literally in their pocket or like

people are like where are my glasses and it's

up on their forehead or something Or you know

just people losing their keys, and it's in the

most obvious place Story time with TF2 and Mike

here folks so before I left on my vacation to

California I made sure I had I double check triple

checks made sure I had everything for two weeks

before I left I've been looking for a pad of

paper on this pad of paper my dad had because

I've been reconnecting with my dad since my mom

passed away so over the last two years since

mom passed I've been kind of reconnecting with

my dad and I was like you know write your address

down so I can mail you a postcard blah blah blah

So he wrote it down and I had the pad of paper

and he had taken me grocery shopping that day

and came home and put the groceries away and

I put the pad of paper I thought right on my

desk where I could you know be able to put his

address on my phone or whatever else and you

know two days later I can't find the damn thing.

Two months later when I leave for the trip I

still can't find the damn thing. The day of the

trip that I went out to California uh... actually

the day before we were having a little special

a little special holiday show -and -tell thing

here in my apartment building because they try

to do i live in a building with seniors and disabled

people because i'm a disabled person so every

now and then they try to do like you know events

and things in the community room that we have

in the first floor so one of the things they

set up was a holiday show -and -tell and i'm

like okay cool i've got something from two thousand

nine that i can bring down it was basically a

little you know you go into whatever store Rite

Aid, Walgreens, whatever, and you find various

little holiday things during it. I found this

thing where, because I am addicted at Christmas

time, I'm addicted to red and green M &Ms. The

Christmas M &Ms, oh God, I can eat bags upon

bags of those damn things. And I know they're

the same damn M &Ms as the original M &Ms, it's

just red and green ones, but it's just, it's

always been a holiday tradition, so. My mom had

seen this thing. It was a giant tin with a one

pound bag of red and green M &Ms in it. The tin

had a story about how red and yellow had to save

Christmas because red knocked Santa out or something

or other. So long story short here, before I

left, I went to go find this thing so I could

show this at the event. Couldn't find the damn

thing. I tried finding the piece of paper. And

the pad couldn't find that whatsoever. I come

home from vacation after getting my heart broken,

because she dumped me. And come home, I find

the pad of paper, and I find the fucking M &M

thing. And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.

That's ridiculous. You should have prefaced that

story with, OK, funny story. Yeah. funny and

depressing all at the same time anyway uh...

so so you have finding things that you know you

know but it was one of those things are slight

no i know i knew where that was and the sad thing

was the m and m thing was right under something

that i have looked at for two weeks yeah So then

we've got an episode the fur barren trout Which

is nothing but a hoax That episode was a little

strange I think I enjoyed it, but it was a little

strange The one thing I find weird about this

series is sometimes they try it It was on Kids

WB, but they tried to do the Cartoon Network

treatment to it a little bit, I think, because

they had different segments to it. Like, Evil

the Cat had segments that had nothing to do with

Earthworm Jim and the narrator would even say,

okay, now we're having an adventure with Evil

the Cat that has nothing to do with our, you

know, regularly scheduled program. And some of

those, I'm like, what the hell? It almost felt

like, uh, like... Animaniacs or freaky zoid whenever

they would do that. Yeah, just kind of way if

you like here's a story Here's a complete non

sequitur. Yeah, exactly Here's here's the intermission

Let's play find the fish, you know stuff like

that Although that's actually what this episode

was. Let's find the fish. Yeah more Monty Python

references, by the way Yeah, I think Doug Tenable

really did enjoy the Monty Python stuff because

the Monty Python references are all over this

series. Yeah, he's not really credited as a writer

on this show, but he must have been in there

like, like, okay, look, we can't do this Dora

the Explorer shit or like whatever was on at

the time. Like, no, no magic school bus. We're

gonna do straight -out comedy. Or maybe he just

pulled up an episode of Darkstalkers and just

said, no. Well the only so he Since we're taught

since we mentioned him for television his first

gig was he was an animator on attack of the killer

tomatoes Yeah, and you can tell too I Mean that's

that's another show. That's like it kind of had

a lower budget, but you could tell they were

trying I mean there was some really interesting

animation choices in there in that show. I'll

say When I was knocking the game earlier, like

how frustrating it is to play, I think Doug is

an animator first and a gamer second, because

the games don't age very well, but God, this

cartoon does. Yeah, absolutely. And like I said,

he was the creator for the whole thing, not just

the animated series, but the games as well, according

to... what it says here. So then we get into,

like I said, the secret of the universe where

evil the cat steals Jim's snow globe which contains

the nameless beast whose name is Rosebud who

knows the great secret of the universe. Now I

may look like a Thraktor or Galgamor the destroyer.

What's a monster to do? That episode was a running

gag with me and my friends throughout high school.

No, it wouldn't have been high school, because

it was later than that. But yeah, it was a running

gag for a long time with us. We've got, uh, bring

me the head of Earthworm Jim, where Cycro and

Professor Monkey for a head reminisce about the

time they captured Earthworm Jim by replacing

his super suit with a weak duplicate. That was

funny. A weak duplicate, oh my god. I love how

they just forgot that that What's the character

snot? Yeah, yeah that snot was in the suit the

entire time and like that's part of how they

how they got the suit back was like getting snot

to appear And then we've got Queen what's -her

-name because princess what's -her -name finally

overthrows her tyrant sister Queen slug for a

butt That was more bugs than I cared to Really?

I'm not a bug person. I think that's the one

where they did the the I love Lucy jokes or because

she moved in with the with the character Ethel

and that's when they decided that Queen slugged

her butt. Her name was Lucy. Yeah. That was a

little weird Final episode for season 1 the antifish

Jim and Bob Must join forces to save the great

worm spirit from being consumed by its arch nemesis

the antifish I Loved this episode This episode

was hilarious only because I think it is not

listed on the certain website that I'm looking

at but I'm gonna go to another one right now.

I think the anti -fish was Kevin Michael Richardson.

It may have been. I really think it was. But

yeah I was right the anti -fish yep I knew that

was Kevin Michael Richardson. But I just love

that. The fact that Jim and Bob have to team

up. Because that's not awkward at all. Oh my

god. What are some of your favorites from the

last six episodes? Basically what I alluded to

earlier, which was the snow globe character that...

Had the funny name he's rosebuddy. You should

have like a more a more intimidating name, but

he doesn't The egg beater episode is funny because

that neighbor character just kept getting the

crap beaten out of her for the entire episode

Just and she she continues to be like the butt

of jokes whenever she appears like she's always

getting getting me so Yeah, I think that's It's

pretty much like the highlights. I mean, I think

the first seven episodes were a little stronger,

but these... Like I said, there is no bad episode

in this show. Yeah. Yeah, there really isn't.

And they get better as we go along into Season

2, which we'll talk about next week. Anything

animation -wise that you enjoyed or anything

you had a problem with on these six? No, like

I said, like... The first episode, which we talked

about last episode, the first episode had the

only glitches that really bothered me, but here,

nothing. It's all good animation. Yeah, absolutely.

I'm really surprised that this did not go longer

than two seasons. I'm really surprised. Maybe

they wanted to just capture the moments of having

the game there, the whole tie -in thing, but...

I have to think that it's just a budget thing

because Normally cartoons that have have a product

high and they're actually toys and action figures

And this just had a game attached to it. So once

the game was off the shelf, then you know, you're

not really You know, that's not covering the

budget for the show. So His cartoons back then

were basically lost leaders So if you didn't

have a toy or some product attached to it, then

you know, then there's no show Yeah, and I mean

they did have a toy line playmates did do a series

of action figures But I guess they weren't selling

well You know so and I find it funny that almost

ten years ago Next year ten years ago a new earthworm

Jim television series from 2008 was announced

Nothing has resulted from this announcement That's

that's just crazy. Yeah, it is too bad And it

is on it is on on DVD but neither one of them

Include any bonus features, which is weird because

the way that the bonus features that I've had

that I saw They did it almost as commercial breaks

Like you know, we'll be right back after this

and come back to see more about you know And

it got released weird for media got released

the UK first on three VHS tapes And then And

then visual entertainment was supposed to put

it out on DVD July 10th of 2012 it was delayed

until right before the delayed right before the

release to late October and finally like I said

finally did come out but again I don't know why

the four bonus features I saw are not on these

DVDs like maybe the quality wasn't that good

or I don't know what the deal was with that but

strange usually that wouldn't be a problem yeah

normally it wouldn't be at all so hmm Alright

folks, I think that's gonna do it for us in episode

67. I know the last two weeks have been short

next week I promise will be a little bit longer

because we're gonna talk about the final ten

episodes season two all in one go. We're not

gonna split it up Where can the people find you

on social media sir peel in Bailey on Twitter?

God damn it. I can't remember the Facebook page

Facebook is just search TVs. Mr. Neil. You'll

find him. Yeah, it's like something like raving

Hipster or something like that. Yeah, I think

that's it Facebook dot com slash raving dot hipster.

Oh my god Also to see in comic and to see in

comm because it's actually updated. Oh my god.

Is it really? Yeah, I got actually put up two

new comics since the last time we were recording

episodes There's some chapter 11 part one because

it's like god damn huge chapter what the hell

am i doing and then there's like a short story

called uh oh i can't remember the name of the

short story now it's like i don't know you'll

you'll see it it's on the front page but anyway

yeah that's pretty much all for me Alright, you

can find me at TFJoneMike on Twitter, at GeekCastRadio

on Twitter for all of the network updates. As

I said before, Pixels and the Animation is back.

We will be doing a hell of a lot more episodes

this year in 2017. As I said later on, sometime

late spring, early summer, we're going to be

celebrating 25 years of Sonic the Hedgehog as

we go through most of the Sonic cartoons, episode

by episode, three episodes per podcast. And yeah,

that's gonna be interesting. Thank God I stopped

making the schedule right before Sonic Boom started

airing. A gun in my mouth. It's kind of like

Daffy after he got shot. Oh, guess what, laughing

boy? There was one bullet left. I know, I know.

Alright, we'll catch you next time here on Pixels

in the Animation. It's action. It's drama. It's

comedy. It's Decian, the superhero webcomic.

Decian's got superhero antics and sexy girls.

Read it now at Decian .com. D -A -S -I -E -N

.com. Oh.