The Top 100 Animated Series: The 15th Anniversary – #50-26

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Hey you guys, this is The Mask, and you guys

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are listening to the GeekCast Radio Network,

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and you know what? You are - It's time. Okay!

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The countdown begins. The Geekcast Radio Network.

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Top 100 in a series. Countdown. Hello? welcome

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to geek cast radio network's top 100 animated

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series 15th anniversary 2026 edition i am tfg

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and mike joining me in this animated adventure

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as we continue our deep dive into the top 100

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is that beast bot himself it's none other than

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steve megatron well well well yes And then we

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have the dweller in the depths of Cybertron.

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It's none other than Optimus Solo. And my only

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goal for our next top 100 is to make it a longer

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title for you to say at the beginning. I know

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it's such a such a mouthful. You guys came up

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with all of that. I had nothing to do with the

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title of the didn't have the title of the thing.

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That's the title. 15th anniversary 2026. formerly

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known as 20 no just kidding formerly known as

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animated series podcast yeah yeah formerly known

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as the 2011 edition exactly oh boy speaking of

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um a mouthful because the three of us are here

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with We are all here to finally welcome back,

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after 15 years, he thought we would never have

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him back after the last time, but he's back,

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ladies and gentlemen. It is Dirt, who is mostly

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the retired former co -host of That New Toy Smell,

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which at this point is That Old Toy Smell, from

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the Pop Culture Network. He is now living...

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As a hermit in a hidden shack deep within a community

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of grumpy little old men, some might call him

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Yogurt. Wow, what an introduction. I have never

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felt so loved in my whole life. There you go.

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And I'll be back in another 15 years. No, we

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have plans for you. Oh, jeez. That sounds like

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we're going to scare away all of our guests by

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saying, we're going to put you to work. Yeah.

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Mike going. Yeah. We have plans for you. Yeah.

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We're going to put you to work. You found your

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audio equipment. You're going to be put to work.

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Dang it. I mean, it's not. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. With the second episode

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down and the ultimate slobber knocker that we

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had in the reveals of 75 to 51, you'll just have

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to go back and listen to find out what in the

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hell happened there and hear DJ Valentine's reactions

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as well. However, we are inching even closer

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to the top half, but we have to get through 50

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to 26. So with all that out of the way, take

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it away, our masters. gonna be a master of the

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universe it's okay too many masters of the universe

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around here master of ceremonies optimist solo

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as you are the only one who knows what in the

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hell these reveals actually are i do like that

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50 through 26 is no longer considered part of

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the top half but uh we will we will get there

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either way so well it's whatever look that was

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a lot of words damn it i wrote that out Mike's

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already maxed out. He's used up his words for

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this episode. I've used my brain power up for

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this episode. All right, so how we're going to

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do this, we're going to do a quick recap of what

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we've seen so far in the bottom 50 that have

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been revealed, and then we will get Dirt's reaction

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to that, and then we'll preview what's coming

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up here with this next set of 25. So for those

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keeping track at home or for those that are...

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jotting down notes as i talk let's first look

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at the time periods and how that has played out

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so far so in the first episode it was dominated

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mostly by the 80s we had eight cartoons from

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the 1980s that were in that 100 through 76 time

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period everything else was three four or five

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we saw then a complete flip -flop as in the next

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episode which revealed 51 through 75 we only

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had one show from the 1980s 90s came uh came

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in hot with nine shows during that record and

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then we had six from the pre -1980s so if you

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do all the math together so far with the 50 that

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have been revealed it's actually pretty even

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right now we have 12 shows that have appeared

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from the 1990s 11 from the pre -1980s then a

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three -way tie with nine shows apiece for the

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80s the 2000s and the last 15 years So, Steve,

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any thoughts on how we stand so far? Nineties

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just one ahead of the pre 1980s and then three

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other time periods with nine apiece. I'm hopeful

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that a lot of the other 90s shows show up somewhere

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in the top 25 because some of them were very

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iconic. And if the previous top 100 is any indicator,

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then they absolutely should. Do you have any

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inclination as far as like right now? It's nine,

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nine, nine, 11, 12. Do you have any time period

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that you think is going to have the least amount

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of entrance into our top 50? I don't know. I

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mean, like some of them, I was quite surprised

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the areas that they came from. So I'm going to

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guess the 2010s and up. Okay. Mike, agree or

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disagree? Will the 2010s last 15 years be the

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least represented in our top 50? I don't know,

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but. Knowing us, I'd probably say yes. I think

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the 80s and the 90s are going to increase. I

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think the pre -80s might... I'm surprised it

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has 11 already. We did widen our demographic

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as far as our voters. Yeah, we have a lot more

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anime already in the bottom half of the countdown

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so far. but it's one of those things where you

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just never know what's, what's going to happen.

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And yeah, I think the eight, I think the nineties

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is going to, I'm surprised. And I, and I think

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because we have versus last time versus this

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time, we would, we have 20 or 21 lists last time.

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We had 20 lists last time we had 44 lists this

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time. So we, just over doubled our our lists

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so yeah and like we said in the introduction

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we also increased our age range so we have a

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lot of folks and we had a five or six folks in

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the people like me in that well we had five or

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six folks in their 70s that contributed okay

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well i'm not i'm not that old um and and some

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cartoon historians amongst them i know we've

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named dropped them quite a bit but jerry beck

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uh is amongst them greg airbar keith scott tom

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ruger flint dilly I always forget one when I

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do that. So I'll have to... Buzz Dixon, that

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was the other one that submitted a list. So we

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had a much wider age range. Any surprise that

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we have a fairly close gap here? The lowest time

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period represented being 9 series and the highest

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being 12? I guess I don't know who all voted,

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right? So I don't know what demographic this

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is all coming from. I know I struggled personally

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putting through my list because I would look

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at the list and think, There are certain shows

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pre-'80s that are iconic. They're foundational.

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They're like the structures of animation. But

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I don't know how many people who were watching

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in the early 2000s and the 2010s would have watched

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cartoons from the 50s and 60s. So it really depends

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on the demographics that are showing up to vote

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and how attached they are to some of those old

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shows. For me, I'm thinking a lot of those 50s,

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60s, even early 70s shows are the shows that

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you kind of have to have towards the top of the

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list because everything else kind of owes their

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existence to them. But then at the same time,

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as time passes and they get further in the past,

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the less people pay attention to them. The Simpsons

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have gotten to the point where they reference

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themselves instead of other TV shows. That's

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true. It's hard to... to really think about it

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ahead of time but as i look through the list

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um well i mean i mean as as i uh astutely listened

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to every moment of the past two episodes um i

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was really yeah anyway but yeah um but because

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i never know who's listening but yes yes i was

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kind of surprised that some of these shows that

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were more night that the 90s but Like Recess,

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I think, is that as a show that was more of a

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little kids 90s show and not necessarily a wide

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demographic. But then if there's a lot of kids,

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a lot of people voting who were kids in the 90s

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watching it, it's going to be foundational to

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them. So it's interesting to see how some of

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that shakes out. And I guess it makes sense if

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you're spreading across a wide age demographic

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that they're going to be represented. But maybe,

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you know, some of these Huckleberry Hound, Pink

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Panther, they kind of fall. further on the list

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because maybe some of the people they know about

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them they've heard about them but they've never

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really watched them you know maybe they just

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saw a couple on sunday morning reruns when they

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were a kid on the usa cartoon network but they

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never really you know sat down and watched them

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whereas i came from the era where you would buy

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the vhs tape for three dollars and 99 cents and

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it had an hour of huckleberry hound and like

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you watched it over and over and over and over

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and over again until it basically wore itself

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out so it's interesting it really is interesting

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to see how all of this plays out and it's i like

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hearing people's justifications for how they

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voted for things and where they put them and

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another yeah another thing we kind of brought

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up in the last episode was that some of that

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main argument as far as historical contribution

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impact foundational stuff that you were just

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talking about and how much people weigh that

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compared to how much they judge it based on current

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ability to you know watch overall quality of

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animation and storytelling and things of that

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nature because cartoons are obviously much different

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these days so it's really what you value in that

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and we that's why the wider net we can cast hopefully

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the more that spreads out all of that and so

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we don't have specific uh things that are rating

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super high like me as a historian and someone

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that went to school for that like i have a lot

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of my own personal list that is comprised of

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a lot of those early shows, right? Like if it

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had an impact on the, the genre or the medium

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or, you know, all the stuff that came after it,

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like I vote, I give that more points, I guess

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then. And some people don't think that way. So

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it's interesting to kind of go through that and

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see what, like you said, everybody's different

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as far as explanations or, or reasoning for,

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for how they rank. And it's not that there's

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a right or wrong. It's just that everybody comes

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from a different standpoint when it comes to

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that. Well, really quickly, I just want to jump

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in here really quick and say that the funny thing

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about this generation versus our generation,

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I'm going to compare this to something that's

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live action to animation, is that usually on

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YouTube, if you watch one video, you then get

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served like a million other of the same video.

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I've gotten, because I love this comedy sketch.

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But I clicked on Gen Zer reacts to who's on first

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for the first time ever. So it's somebody from

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Generation Z that's watching the classic. Evan

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Costello, who's on first. And I watched it and

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they liked it. They marveled at the comedy. They

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marveled at. Oh, my God. How could they go so

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fast? And how could they keep it all together?

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And it wasn't even that they were watching the

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first 1938 version. They were watching one of

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the replays from the 50s or whatever. And I commented,

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oh, go back and watch the original. Same thing

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with some of the current generation going back

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and watching some of the older cartoons is they'll

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do the same reaction videos. And some of them

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may like them and some of them may not. I don't

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know. It just depends on. on what you like and

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what you don't like and whatever, but it's like

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the, the, the older stuff does, does hold up.

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And some of the newer stuff holds up to everything

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holds up is my point, I guess. And the funny

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thing is, is, is just, Oh, I don't know. I think

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everything holds up. I would, I would battle

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you on that. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not

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my point. My point is. That this generation going

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back and watching some of the stuff that is good

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from the olden days, like Dirt was mentioning,

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Huckleberry Hound, how we would watch that VHS

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endlessly and how Huckleberry Hound tunes are

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actually good. That's what I was meaning is some

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of the older stuff holds up even today. I say

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one other thing that when I was going through

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my list, I was trying to... recognize like for

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instance i don't think i've watched any anime

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after 1999 like everything i watched was 80s

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anime early 90s anime but i recognize a show

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like sailor moon having a very strong impact

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so it was on my list even though it wasn't something

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that i personally invested a lot of time you

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know dragon ball is another one my son loves

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dragon ball has watched so much of it and i've

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watched 20 minutes of it and that's about as

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much as i could take No offense to anybody. That's

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your thing. Live your life. You know, follow

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your truth, whatever. Just not my show. But I

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still knew that it was something that I needed

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to put on my list because it is such a big, you

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know, pop culture. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Just

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to move on and get to a couple other categories

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and we kind of continue some of this conversation.

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But another thing that we looked at was channels

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that were represented and production companies

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that were represented. And just to give everybody

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kind of a. quick view of what's reigning supreme

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so far channels wise abc is reigning supreme

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with nine shows that debuted on abc that is followed

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by shows that just went straight into syndication

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with seven of those and six cartoon network and

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then five from nbc five from disney four from

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nickelodeon and four from adult swim those are

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the leaders although we saw zero in last episode

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from nickelodeon so it had four in the first

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episode and zero this time around so That was

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an interesting thing from a channel standpoint.

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I'll go through the production companies and

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then get your guys' reaction. Production companies

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right now, we are seeing Hanna -Barbera lead

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the way with six and then Disney with five. Everything

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else is two or three. We saw nothing from Marvel,

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nothing from Nickelodeon, nothing from the WB

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in last episode. We did see our first two Cartoon

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Network and our first two from William Street,

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first two from Mainframe. last episode. Steve,

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any thoughts on channels or production companies

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as we kind of head into our top 50? I think we'll

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start whittling away some of these on this episode.

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I don't think that we're going to hit some of

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the main ones, but we're definitely going to

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see some that haven't from some of those stations

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at this point, I think. Absolutely. Another thing

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we looked at was genre representation. We just

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picked out a couple to kind of pinpoint and look

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at based on what we saw in our original list

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15 years ago. One thing that was heavily represented

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15 years ago was our superhero cartoons. We saw

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five of those fall in the very first episode,

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the 100 through 76. We saw zero of those in the

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last episode, the 75 through 51. So we're still

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sitting at just five superhero cartoons. As far

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as like the adult primetime or adult comedy shows,

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we saw zero of those in the very first episode.

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But we did have a they came back with a vengeance

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in our last episode was seven. in that one so

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they're sitting at seven and then anime we saw

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four in our first episode and two last episodes

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so they're sitting at six so right now superhero

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five anime six adult primetime comedy seven dirt

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any surprises there you don't consider johnny

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quest and kim possible be superhero shows come

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on i was taking strictly dc marvel just for that

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purpose try to make it easy We also, I forgot,

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sci -fi. We did suggest that sci -fi would probably

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be heavily represented. We've seen 15 of those

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so far, nine in the first episode and six in

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the second. I love that Space Coast, Coast to

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Coast made the list, even though it's, you know,

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not in the top 50, but that's one of my all -time

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favorite shows, like, ever. That's one of those

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shows I remember in college, people sitting around

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drinking, waiting for it to come on so they could

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check out the show. That was something that was...

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refueled a lot of people with their interest

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in animation, specifically cartoons, superhero

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stuff, you know. So it's great to see that type

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of thing on there. Yeah, I was impressed to see,

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like, going from zero in the first episode to

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seven was not something I predicted. What do

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you think about superheroes? We saw five first

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times, zero last time. Are they going to have

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a heavy presence in our top 50? I mean, do you

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consider G .I. Joe a superhero? No, strictly,

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I'm strictly counting Marvel and DC. Technically,

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that's a Marvel, right? I mean, technically.

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You're right. You can make an argument with Transformers

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and with the storylines, you know, I mean. Right.

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Yeah. I think we're going to, we're definitely

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going to see some more. I mean, that's not the

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end of superheroes, but I think we saw, you know,

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Super Friends. That's definitely like a much

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older. demographic type of superhero one i think

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uh although i was surprised to see invincible

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maybe just because it's so new it hasn't really

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gotten around um as much but uh here's the question

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though underdog you can you put that did you

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make an argument for that being superhero as

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as well because i mean let's face it i mean yeah

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in a way i excluded it from this i excluded things

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that were more like i guess we need a recount

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we need a recount on superheroes Another thing

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just to kind of get a feel for kind of where

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we are at and what's to come here. So first,

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just I'll give you one more chance since you

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weren't on the last episode before we get into

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what's to come today. Any final reactions to

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the first 50 that we revealed any like the biggest

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surprise or just happy that something made it

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that you saw? Well, OK, I will say you had your.

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your just missed it list or whatever you called

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it the the post 100 yeah and i i found it really

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amusing that magic school bus yeah was on there

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because to me my mom was a grade school teacher

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and so that was a show that she would actually

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play in the classroom and so for me that was

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always like an educational like i always saw

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that as you know something you watched because

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it was too rainy for you to go outside and play

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in the playground so you'd watch magic school

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bus type of thing and so it was weird the funny

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thing for me was as i thought that would be something

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that you know with our first list 15 years ago

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with only 20 people that we may have just got

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like a few of those folks that were really high

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on magic school bus and it was maybe more just

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based on the the group that we had together for

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that one but i was shocked now we expanded it

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from 20 to 44 lists and it still had a lot of

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love for magic school bus even this time around

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so i thought that was there's apparently more

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love than i anticipate or you know thought there

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was for magic school bus out there But again,

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it could be just one of those things that they

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saw so much. It was, you know, everywhere at

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the time in the late 90s. Well, you know, just

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then they do the reruns through school again.

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You know, kids are sick and can't play outside.

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It's whatever. I will say the one thing that

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did kind of shock me was that Young Justice wasn't.

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Was in the just mystic category, and I would

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have expected that to be much higher. especially

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considering it had a successful toy line, video

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game, comic books, and everything else. I know

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when my son was little, that was something that

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really kind of formed his opinion about superheroes

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when he was little. I was surprised that that

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wasn't. I get it. Makes sense. We'll get more

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thoughts on the ones that have already been revealed.

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You can leave comments at the website, geekcastradio

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.com or interact with us on social media and

00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:08.990
let us know. What your thoughts on all that stuff

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is, Mike and Steve will give more information

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about that at the end of the show as well. But

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I think it's time to turn the page on the stuff

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that we've already revealed and get towards the

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stuff that we have not revealed yet. So let's

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kind of look ahead to today's group of 25. Just

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a few pieces of business that we should get out

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of the way. Mike and Steve, we've done this before,

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but you'll be new to it. But we do have a couple

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ties in today's episode. So we will see two.

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two ties that will come up so we had zero in

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our last episode we had three in the first but

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we're going to go back and have two more today

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and then we will have one in our final episode

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so okay wait wait quick question i need a clarification

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when you have a tie like i didn't see decide

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okay so just on the spot you're going to pick

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one over another four of us will debate it and

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we will decide which one gets higher And so if

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one of us has more money than the others, can

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we... So hopefully it's not a 2 -2 vote, and

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then we'll be able to do that. Because it worked

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in the first episode. It was just Steve, Mike,

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and myself, so we had an odd number of votes.

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We didn't have any ties last week when we had

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the foursome, so now we're testing a new ground

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here. Ties with a foursome, so we can't split

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2 -2. And no money to the Geekcast Radio Network,

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LLC. Also, something that we've been keeping

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track is people's overall number one. Like we

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said in the introductory episode where we revealed

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those just missed ones, we had three people's

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number one that were not going to make the top

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100 overall. We already let that out of the bag.

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We did not see anybody's number one in the first

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episode. So that was good, I guess. And we saw

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two last episode. There was one person that had

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reboot number one overall, and there was one

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person that had Sailor Moon number one overall.

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We are going to see two more of those fall in

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today's episode. So we'll see two additional

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number ones fall. And for those that are doing

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math, that means three didn't appear, two that

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have already been revealed, two that are going

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to be revealed. And that means that there's 37

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number ones left for the final episode. So that

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is an impressive number of number ones that did

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actually make our top 25. So that'll be something

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to keep an eye on. We did mention the points

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a couple times here. I just want to throw this

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factoid out and see what Steve's reaction is

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to it. Or Mike reboot was our 51. That was the

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last episode or the last series that we revealed

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on the end of the last episode. Reboot had 1

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,129 points. As far as going back 15 years ago,

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that would have been good for coming in at number

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11. that's how you know with 44 lists obviously

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we have a lot more points to divvy out this time

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around so yeah reboot score would have been good

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last time around for top 11 but it came in at

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51 here just some more data for the data nerds

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out there our point range today will go from

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1148 up to 1689 so that's the point range we're

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talking about with this set of 25 as far as how

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many of the 44 lists these shows appeared on

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the lowest that we'll see today is a show that

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appeared on 17 of the 44 lists the highest will

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get all the way up to 31 so a show that appeared

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on 31 of the 44 list we did talk about how we

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we looked at all of the shows that we were considering

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for this list and we looked at all the various

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emmys and annies and different awards that you

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could be nominated for and win only seven shows

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out of today's set of 25 are quote -unquote awardless

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so Um, there's only seven that didn't win awards

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and their specific reasons for that, which I

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will let you know, but, uh, all the other ones

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won awards. And then we talked about the different

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lists that we looked at when we were trying to

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come up with our nominees. We looked at, you

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know, the IGN list and the TV guide list and

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IndieWire and, and different things like that.

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Um, and the shows that are listed in today's

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episode, every one of them was at least on three

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of those nine lists. So nothing appeared on less

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than three of those lists. And we do have three

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shows that we're going to talk about today that

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were on all nine lists that were represented

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in every list that we look at. Another thing

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that we have been keeping track of is movement.

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Since we have a reference point from 15 years

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ago, we've been looking at shows that rose, shows

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that fell, shows that entered the top 100 that

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weren't previously and things of that nature.

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So as far as shows that are going to see a higher

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ranking. than they did 15 years ago. We're going

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to have 12 of those today that actually rose

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up the rankings. So almost half of the reveal

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today will be shows that increased their standings

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from 15 years ago. Some of them only increased

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by one spot. We did have one show that's going

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to have increased 61 spots. That is our biggest

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improvement. We had one that was 61, one that

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was 58 spots, one that was 54 spots. So we had

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three kind of major climbers. The rest variations

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from one to 61. We are going to see 10 shows

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that dropped from 15 years ago. That also ranges

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from just dropping one spot to dropping 16 spots.

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And we are going to see 11 shows revealed today

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that are within 10 spots of their previous finish.

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So 11 shows are within 10 spots. Actually, 19

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of the 25 we revealed today are going to be within

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16 spots of where they showed up last time around.

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12 shows today. Are going to appear on the same

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section of the countdown as they did 15 years

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ago. So 12 shows that are in our 50 through 26

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were also in our 50 through 26 last time around.

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So that's just about half of them. Five shows

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that we revealed today were in our top 25 last

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time around. Four shows we revealed today were

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in last episode. So they would have been in the

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50 through 75. And one show that we revealed

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today was in the 76 through 100. I know that's

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no possible way that anybody could have been

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keeping track of all those numbers that fast

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as I just threw them out there. But that means

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that there was three shows that were not in our

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top 115 years ago that we will be revealed today.

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So out of those three brand new shows into our

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top 100, two of them did receive votes last time

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around. One of them did not. So those are our

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kind of new entrance in there. So, Steve, any

00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:22.779
reactions to all the data and any thoughts before

00:28:22.779 --> 00:28:25.710
we start revealing shows today? i'm a little

00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:30.650
scared of what's gonna fall today as you should

00:28:30.650 --> 00:28:34.150
be holy crap like i've been saying the whole

00:28:34.150 --> 00:28:40.150
countdown this is a slobber knocker folks yes

00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:43.849
it should be a slobber knocker as as mike likes

00:28:43.849 --> 00:28:47.890
to say um i also have a few data points uh listed

00:28:47.890 --> 00:28:50.900
for as we kind of go through and start revealing

00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:53.900
things and then at the end i did ask our friend

00:28:53.900 --> 00:28:57.259
chat gpt which uh which shows that we reveal

00:28:57.259 --> 00:29:00.079
today should have been saved until next episode

00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.359
and which ones maybe should have been on the

00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.500
other side of the 50 mark and we'll see if we

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:07.960
agree or or disagree with them as far as that

00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:09.920
goes mike any other thoughts or should we start

00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:15.380
revealing let's go 50 what a day wait are you

00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:18.319
recording okay hi sterling archer it's the world's

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.609
greatest spy God, you've got so much to catch

00:29:21.609 --> 00:29:23.869
up on. So we're going to have to montage the

00:29:23.869 --> 00:29:25.769
shit out of this thing. That's right. First up

00:29:25.769 --> 00:29:28.410
today is number 50 and we're going to start in

00:29:28.410 --> 00:29:30.710
the 2000s. So we'll add another checkmark to

00:29:30.710 --> 00:29:34.950
the decade of the 2000s here. This show helped

00:29:34.950 --> 00:29:37.950
prove that adult animation could sustain a highly

00:29:37.950 --> 00:29:40.930
stylized dialogue driven comedy built around

00:29:40.930 --> 00:29:44.410
rapid fire writing rather than shock humor alone.

00:29:45.609 --> 00:29:48.410
The show's visual style, dense references and

00:29:48.410 --> 00:29:50.069
commitment to character flaws helped elevate

00:29:50.069 --> 00:29:52.690
expectations for writing sophistication and adult

00:29:52.690 --> 00:29:55.789
animated sitcoms. We're also talking about the

00:29:55.789 --> 00:29:59.150
only show in our entire countdown that aired

00:29:59.150 --> 00:30:04.390
on FX originally. This would be Archer. So we

00:30:04.390 --> 00:30:08.130
are starting with Archer. Primetime adult comedy

00:30:08.130 --> 00:30:10.970
continues from our trend from last time around

00:30:10.970 --> 00:30:12.730
here. This was on three of the lists that we

00:30:12.730 --> 00:30:14.750
talked about. It's been nominated for over 23

00:30:14.750 --> 00:30:19.089
awards. This is our only show today that did

00:30:19.089 --> 00:30:23.009
not appear last time around because it was brand

00:30:23.009 --> 00:30:27.150
new and it just wasn't in the knowledge of everybody

00:30:27.150 --> 00:30:29.029
yet. So it did not receive any votes last time

00:30:29.029 --> 00:30:30.430
around, even though I believe it may have been

00:30:30.430 --> 00:30:33.980
eligible because it did start in 2009. But it

00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:35.299
didn't receive any votes. So this is the only

00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:37.700
show that's going to appear today that did not

00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:40.319
receive a single vote last time around. Mike,

00:30:40.339 --> 00:30:44.500
thoughts on Archer? I tried to fit it into my

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:47.039
homework this time around. I just couldn't. I've

00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:51.660
seen clips of it, but it's still on my homework

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:56.480
list. I've seen bits and pieces. I remember seeing,

00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.059
especially the early seasons, I saw probably

00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:03.279
half a dozen. Six to 10 episodes. I really enjoyed

00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:05.420
it, but just because of wherever I was in life

00:31:05.420 --> 00:31:07.119
at that point, it wasn't something that I was

00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:09.900
able to just kind of get through all of it. And

00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:11.559
I've always had it like in the back of my mind

00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:13.740
of something that I wanted to go revisit. I know

00:31:13.740 --> 00:31:15.799
it's not going to be for everybody. Everybody

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:17.500
has different comedy tastes and things like that.

00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:21.279
I kind of appreciate what they did with the genre

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.440
of almost like that James Bond -esque, but in

00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:28.720
the adult comedy animation world. um i'm not

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.039
sure from season to season if the quality held

00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:33.779
up over the course of all of its seasons or if

00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:36.440
it was more driven by you know what it had in

00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:37.940
the beginning but it's definitely on my list

00:31:37.940 --> 00:31:39.960
of things that i want to go back and revisit

00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:43.380
i enjoyed what i saw and but that's all i can

00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:46.019
speak of dirt have you seen any archer i've seen

00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:48.839
bits and pieces of it it was something that my

00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.460
kids were young enough that i didn't really want

00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:55.079
to have it on when they were up and around um

00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.490
and every time i watch it i just it makes me

00:31:59.490 --> 00:32:02.470
just want to watch bob's burgers instead well

00:32:02.470 --> 00:32:04.170
it's got the same voice actor yeah i know that's

00:32:04.170 --> 00:32:06.490
what i'm saying it's it's just uh i'm like oh

00:32:06.490 --> 00:32:07.890
yeah well this is kind of interesting but i'd

00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:09.670
rather i'd rather watch bob's burgers so that's

00:32:09.670 --> 00:32:11.569
i think one thing that i appreciated is like

00:32:11.569 --> 00:32:14.930
it felt like we had gotten so many of the more

00:32:14.930 --> 00:32:18.829
just straight sitcom adult animation like especially

00:32:18.829 --> 00:32:22.430
when you go down the this um the family guy and

00:32:22.430 --> 00:32:24.349
all the family guy clones that came after it

00:32:24.349 --> 00:32:27.849
with you know american dad and Obviously, before

00:32:27.849 --> 00:32:29.430
that, we had King of the Hill and we had Bob's

00:32:29.430 --> 00:32:31.069
Burgers and we have a lot of those things. And

00:32:31.069 --> 00:32:33.109
I'm ignorant when it comes to Bob's Burgers.

00:32:33.109 --> 00:32:35.549
I haven't seen any of that. So I could be speaking

00:32:35.549 --> 00:32:37.910
out of turn there. But we had a lot of more of

00:32:37.910 --> 00:32:41.950
the sitcom style adult animation. So for me,

00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:43.910
this was almost like a breath of fresh air because

00:32:43.910 --> 00:32:46.069
it was a different take. It was a different genre.

00:32:46.349 --> 00:32:47.950
I guess it's more similar to what we've been

00:32:47.950 --> 00:32:50.789
getting recently with things like Invincible

00:32:50.789 --> 00:32:53.029
or with some of those other ones where that kind

00:32:53.029 --> 00:32:55.420
of. adult animation is taking on yeah taking

00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:58.039
on some other genres which is kind of nice steve

00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:01.559
any experience with archer um i checked it out

00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:06.339
for the research purposes uh outside of that

00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:08.460
like i was aware of it it just wasn't one that

00:33:08.460 --> 00:33:11.460
like resonated with me or that i i cared about

00:33:11.460 --> 00:33:13.279
and then it just kind of confirmed it when i

00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.579
was doing the research so like i said it's not

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:20.400
for everybody for sure yeah It did appear on

00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.259
17 of the 44 lists. So that's the lowest number

00:33:23.259 --> 00:33:25.559
we'll see today. But those that ranked it did

00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.160
rank it fairly high. So we start with Archer

00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.940
and let's see where we go next. 49. We've got

00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:36.180
to upgrade the apparatus. We've got to get cool

00:33:36.180 --> 00:33:39.039
new superhero stuff to battle this all encompassing

00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:42.460
evil. And who's going to pay for all this cool

00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:48.210
new stuff? That's not the point. Spoon. I don't

00:33:48.210 --> 00:33:53.690
get it. Spoon! Look, I'm just a sidekick. All

00:33:53.690 --> 00:33:56.690
right, our next show climbed 11 spots in the

00:33:56.690 --> 00:33:59.549
rankings from number 60 last time to number 49

00:33:59.549 --> 00:34:02.630
here. We're going to a Fox Kids show from the

00:34:02.630 --> 00:34:06.670
90s here. Perhaps one of the smartest superhero

00:34:06.670 --> 00:34:09.530
satires ever made, arriving well before comic

00:34:09.530 --> 00:34:12.230
book deconstruction became mainstream. Let's

00:34:12.230 --> 00:34:17.730
talk about The Tick. So The Tick from 1990. four

00:34:17.730 --> 00:34:21.369
like i said went from 60 last time up to 49 so

00:34:21.369 --> 00:34:23.869
it's now in our top 50 we ended with you last

00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:25.469
time steve so let's start with you this time

00:34:25.469 --> 00:34:29.650
what do you think of the tip uh that's one i

00:34:29.650 --> 00:34:37.610
actually have watched uh so i it wasn't one of

00:34:37.610 --> 00:34:40.650
my favorite shows i mean by by far but i did

00:34:40.650 --> 00:34:44.110
i did watch it um it was entertaining for what

00:34:44.110 --> 00:34:49.360
it was uh it was kind of goofy too with um with

00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.800
the tick and arthur and um some of the other

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.059
characters like those are those are really honestly

00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:57.519
the main two i remember right i don't remember

00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:02.139
much of it uh anymore but i i think it was humorous

00:35:02.139 --> 00:35:06.400
for some of what it was but if i had to choose

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:10.599
between watching uh some of these shows or superhero

00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.179
shows i chose the mainstream stuff over this

00:35:14.179 --> 00:35:16.420
it wasn't one that really resonated i would have

00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:18.679
rather watched like the mask or something else

00:35:18.679 --> 00:35:22.880
gotcha uh dirt any experience with the tick and

00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.739
and i know it has kind of like a cult status

00:35:24.739 --> 00:35:27.719
but is it worthy enough to be in our top 50 yeah

00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.840
i love the tick i actually uh i read the comics

00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.940
for years uh before the animated or the live

00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:36.940
action show came along um so i was really excited

00:35:36.940 --> 00:35:39.519
when it came and then on top of that i grew up

00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:44.440
in the monkeys revival in the 80s and so mickey

00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.739
dolan's doing the voice of arthur was something

00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:49.260
that just kind of blew my mind at the time so

00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:51.360
i was a huge fan of the show man -eating cow

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.960
uh paul the samurai uh you know like these were

00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.800
characters that that i had been reading in print

00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.659
for a long time and then to see it come to life

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:03.340
in a show and for other people Just suddenly

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:05.280
go like, oh, hey, have you seen this new show?

00:36:05.380 --> 00:36:06.719
It's like, yeah, I know all about this show.

00:36:06.820 --> 00:36:09.159
Like, shut up about the show. I know what the

00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:12.800
show is. I love The Tick. It was fantastic. And

00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:15.420
that's one that I have actually, I'd say probably

00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:18.800
about six or seven years ago, I sat down and

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:21.780
rewatched it through. And I didn't realize that

00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:23.639
Mickey Dolenz wasn't the voice of Arthur the

00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:27.659
entire time. He stepped out at some point. I

00:36:27.659 --> 00:36:29.019
don't know if they went back on tour or what

00:36:29.019 --> 00:36:31.920
the deal was. uh, that someone else came in and

00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.539
did the voice. I don't remember. Wasn't it like

00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:35.500
Rob Paulson or something at one point? Yeah,

00:36:35.539 --> 00:36:39.199
that sounds right. So, yeah, because Townsend

00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:42.579
is, is the tick. So Townsend Coleman is the tick.

00:36:42.619 --> 00:36:46.719
And I think Rob took over for Mickey. I think

00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:50.320
interesting. I love the show. I highly recommend

00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.219
it. Yeah. If anyone has not seen it, I totally

00:36:53.219 --> 00:36:57.239
recommend that. That's when you can. Yeah. I

00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.440
remember watching it. what year did it come out

00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:05.820
94 94 okay it was in the 90s i remember catching

00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:09.079
bits and pieces of it and really to this day

00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.579
i haven't watched an episode in a long time but

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:18.550
all i remember is spoon Everybody knew that reference.

00:37:19.010 --> 00:37:21.289
For once, we had a reference everybody got, so

00:37:21.289 --> 00:37:23.369
we're turning corners here on the Geekcast Radio

00:37:23.369 --> 00:37:27.309
Network. Funny guy. Interested to find out because

00:37:27.309 --> 00:37:28.969
I didn't think they were still doing too much

00:37:28.969 --> 00:37:31.090
in 1994, but one of the production companies

00:37:31.090 --> 00:37:36.230
listed for the tick is Sunbow. That was an interesting

00:37:36.230 --> 00:37:37.690
thing that I found when I was putting all the

00:37:37.690 --> 00:37:41.469
data together for the countdown. I think they

00:37:41.469 --> 00:37:43.030
went out of business in 98, but I just didn't

00:37:43.030 --> 00:37:45.989
think they were doing much. in those last few

00:37:45.989 --> 00:37:48.610
years so all right so we have archer we have

00:37:48.610 --> 00:37:53.429
the tick let's see where we go next 48 the evil

00:37:53.429 --> 00:37:56.730
wizard aku has destroyed my homeland and hurtled

00:37:56.730 --> 00:38:00.869
me into the future ruled by his hand to return

00:38:00.869 --> 00:38:06.690
to my past i must fight him now this is my quest

00:38:06.690 --> 00:38:09.469
all right for our next one i gotta rely on you

00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:12.110
guys because this one's not my cup of tea here

00:38:12.429 --> 00:38:15.869
We're going back to the 2000s here. I did rank

00:38:15.869 --> 00:38:17.949
it in my top 100. I just know it's not my cup

00:38:17.949 --> 00:38:20.409
of tea, so I can't speak a lot to it. But they

00:38:20.409 --> 00:38:22.050
said that this is one of the clearest examples

00:38:22.050 --> 00:38:25.210
of animation functioning as cinematic art on

00:38:25.210 --> 00:38:29.210
television. This creator's use of silence, visual

00:38:29.210 --> 00:38:31.210
composition, pacing, and action choreography

00:38:31.210 --> 00:38:34.269
elevated the medium stylistically, and the show

00:38:34.269 --> 00:38:36.429
influenced action animation across the industry

00:38:36.429 --> 00:38:38.570
and demonstrated that children's animation could

00:38:38.570 --> 00:38:41.489
be visually ambitious and emotionally restrained.

00:38:42.190 --> 00:38:45.329
We are talking about Cartoon Network's Samurai

00:38:45.329 --> 00:38:50.469
Jack. So Samurai Jack from 2001. This one did

00:38:50.469 --> 00:38:53.869
fall 10 spots. We had it at 38 last time around.

00:38:53.929 --> 00:38:56.909
It comes in at 48 this time around. We'll start

00:38:56.909 --> 00:38:58.630
with you, Mike. This time it was on six of the

00:38:58.630 --> 00:39:00.789
nine lists that we referenced when we were creating

00:39:00.789 --> 00:39:03.550
our nominees. What do you think of Samurai Jack?

00:39:04.230 --> 00:39:10.820
I passed the Samurai Sword to Dirt. I've only

00:39:10.820 --> 00:39:14.119
seen like half an episode. I know Phil Lamar

00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:17.440
is Samurai Jack. That's about the best I know.

00:39:18.739 --> 00:39:22.719
Your introduction of it was fantastic because

00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:27.519
it was a show that I remember. One of those shows

00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:31.800
that I think the graphic design of the show was

00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:35.920
so phenomenal and over the top. And it did do

00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.829
a lot framing. There are times that you could

00:39:38.829 --> 00:39:40.989
just pull a frame off of it and it looked like

00:39:40.989 --> 00:39:44.610
a piece of art, modern art. It was very stylized

00:39:44.610 --> 00:39:49.289
and angular. But I'm not surprised, though, that

00:39:49.289 --> 00:39:52.130
it dropped because it is a show that has sort

00:39:52.130 --> 00:39:54.650
of disappeared. I don't really hear anyone talking

00:39:54.650 --> 00:39:57.530
about it. I don't see it. There's no comic book

00:39:57.530 --> 00:40:01.369
series going on or people talking about it on

00:40:01.369 --> 00:40:03.170
YouTube or anything like that. It's just kind

00:40:03.170 --> 00:40:05.710
of quietly gone away. And I think part of that

00:40:05.710 --> 00:40:08.030
is because. The way it was written, it was very

00:40:08.030 --> 00:40:10.650
dense and you really needed to watch them in

00:40:10.650 --> 00:40:12.869
series instead of, you know, catch an episode

00:40:12.869 --> 00:40:14.849
here, episode there. Like if you missed an episode,

00:40:14.929 --> 00:40:17.929
you might miss something kind of big to the story.

00:40:18.010 --> 00:40:20.250
And I think that may have hurt it a little bit.

00:40:20.429 --> 00:40:25.730
So it's a really great show. I think it's, I

00:40:25.730 --> 00:40:27.710
think it's a really great show and I'm glad it's

00:40:27.710 --> 00:40:29.730
on the list and I'm glad it's represented, but

00:40:29.730 --> 00:40:31.730
it's one of those that I'm not surprised that

00:40:31.730 --> 00:40:33.940
it's dropped. I like that you brought that up

00:40:33.940 --> 00:40:35.019
because that's something that we haven't talked

00:40:35.019 --> 00:40:36.920
about a lot on the last couple episodes, but

00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:38.440
it is something that Steve, Mike, and myself

00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:41.820
discussed on our nomination episodes where we

00:40:41.820 --> 00:40:44.320
revealed which shows were eligible for each time

00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:48.280
period. And we talked about being 15 years later,

00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:52.840
if that would hurt or help shows, certain shows.

00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:55.659
We predicted that certain shows would drop a

00:40:55.659 --> 00:40:57.369
little bit because they've become... that much

00:40:57.369 --> 00:40:59.570
more in the past and they haven't been nothing

00:40:59.570 --> 00:41:01.530
has been keeping them in the zeitgeist or in

00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:04.409
the relevancy factor and we've talked about other

00:41:04.409 --> 00:41:07.130
ones that we thought due to whether it be reboots

00:41:07.130 --> 00:41:08.929
or remakes or other different things may have

00:41:08.929 --> 00:41:11.809
actually increased in popularity over time it's

00:41:11.809 --> 00:41:13.929
kind of like you know the movie that comes out

00:41:13.929 --> 00:41:16.150
and is popular right when it comes out but then

00:41:16.150 --> 00:41:18.559
gains like a cult status you know through used

00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:20.860
to be through like the video store rentals and

00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:22.159
the things like that. Now, I guess you could

00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.099
say streaming and things of that nature. But

00:41:24.099 --> 00:41:25.579
yeah, it's interesting because this one came

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:28.019
out, debuted in 2001. So, you know, for the first

00:41:28.019 --> 00:41:31.099
couple of years of the 2000s, it's probably top

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:33.559
of mind. And then we do the list in 2011. It's

00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:35.300
not that far removed. Right. But now we're in,

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:38.119
you know, 2026. So it's been a lot more time

00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:40.300
and has anything kept Samurai Jack in the forefront?

00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:42.519
I think you make a good point for that. Steve,

00:41:42.579 --> 00:41:45.739
any thoughts on our number 48 entry? That was

00:41:45.739 --> 00:41:48.929
I mean, it was one of the shows that. I was catching

00:41:48.929 --> 00:41:51.789
towards kind of the tail end of me watching cartoons

00:41:51.789 --> 00:41:53.889
for a while because I was just getting a job

00:41:53.889 --> 00:41:57.429
and busy living. But I did enjoy it when I did

00:41:57.429 --> 00:42:01.809
watch it because, again, I watched I watched

00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:04.429
Cartoon Network between that time because of

00:42:04.429 --> 00:42:08.170
Toonami and Dragon Ball Z and stuff like that.

00:42:08.710 --> 00:42:13.650
So I remember watching it. It it was it's one

00:42:13.650 --> 00:42:16.750
of the ones that I really enjoyed the the dark.

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.460
tone to it it again yeah the artwork really played

00:42:20.460 --> 00:42:26.260
into it uh in in kennedy tardikovsky's uh artwork

00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:32.760
it's so hard to say the dude's name uh i it's

00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:35.380
one of the the the few shows that i feel like

00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:42.099
his artwork really shined and it really resonated

00:42:42.099 --> 00:42:43.920
with those that watched it at the time and then

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:50.320
it kind of just fizzled out after 2004 and reappeared

00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:55.639
for a fifth season in 2017 on Toonami during

00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.079
the adult swim block and it had a different slightly

00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:04.059
different tone it it had a kind of a different

00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:05.860
run with it and it was kind of picking it back

00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:10.239
up but I feel like even then it's still nine

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.179
years removed And at that time, it was already

00:43:13.179 --> 00:43:15.539
13 years removed when it came back for the fifth

00:43:15.539 --> 00:43:18.940
season. So had it been more consistent or had

00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:22.619
it hung around a little longer in the 2017 to

00:43:22.619 --> 00:43:25.280
like maybe during the COVID block, it probably

00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:27.699
would have hung around a lot longer. Yeah, I

00:43:27.699 --> 00:43:29.860
could see that. It did maintain its spot in our

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:33.019
top 50, just not quite as high of a spot as last

00:43:33.019 --> 00:43:35.699
time. I'm interested to hear your guys' reaction

00:43:35.699 --> 00:43:37.460
to our next one. It's going to be our biggest

00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:40.630
climber of the day. This one improved 60. One

00:43:40.630 --> 00:43:47.070
spots from last time. 47. I have Daria Morgendorfer.

00:43:47.289 --> 00:43:50.510
I don't have low self -esteem. I have low esteem

00:43:50.510 --> 00:43:53.969
for everyone else. Well, now I am excited. I'd

00:43:53.969 --> 00:43:58.469
never forgive myself if I missed it. All right.

00:43:58.489 --> 00:44:00.610
Next up, I think this is going to be one of our

00:44:00.610 --> 00:44:02.889
wins. One of our many wins, I think, in this

00:44:02.889 --> 00:44:04.670
time around as far as improving our list, because

00:44:04.670 --> 00:44:06.349
I think it definitely warrants being in our top

00:44:06.349 --> 00:44:10.250
100. And it just missed last time. So last time

00:44:10.250 --> 00:44:13.449
we had this one ranked at 107 and now it has

00:44:13.449 --> 00:44:17.829
climbed all the way to 47. A very specific generational

00:44:17.829 --> 00:44:21.010
voice. I would say this show expanded what female

00:44:21.010 --> 00:44:23.570
-led adult animation could look like. Dry social

00:44:23.570 --> 00:44:25.690
commentary, intelligence, and emotional realism

00:44:25.690 --> 00:44:29.489
made it one of MTV's defining animated properties.

00:44:29.969 --> 00:44:34.329
We are talking about 1997's Daria. So just missed

00:44:34.329 --> 00:44:36.730
our countdown by seven spots 15 years ago. It

00:44:36.730 --> 00:44:39.800
has climbed all the way into our top. 50 this

00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:42.360
time around. Steve, what do you think of Daria

00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.019
making that much of an improvement? Well, one,

00:44:46.099 --> 00:44:49.300
I kind of surprised again that it didn't make

00:44:49.300 --> 00:44:51.320
it last time just because I know this was kind

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:55.219
of one of the bigger known shows on MTV at the

00:44:55.219 --> 00:44:58.400
time. I caught glimpses of it. It really wasn't

00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.340
for me, but I did catch glimpses of it. And there

00:45:01.340 --> 00:45:02.960
are some places you can watch it for free still

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.719
today. And it was only on for five years, but.

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.900
I think it was on around the same time as Celebrity

00:45:08.900 --> 00:45:12.940
Deathmatch. So between that and this, they were

00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:16.920
kind of the mainstay staples of MTV at the time.

00:45:17.219 --> 00:45:20.480
So I think it's deserved. Mike, what do you think

00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:25.460
of Daria? Yeah, it's very well deserved. I bought

00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:29.539
a t -shirt of it once. That surprises me. well

00:45:29.539 --> 00:45:32.940
it was for my late wife at the time okay okay

00:45:32.940 --> 00:45:35.920
i can't picture you sporting the daria shirt

00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:39.340
no no no it was not for me it was for somebody

00:45:39.340 --> 00:45:45.519
else um but no i i've seen clips of it i've never

00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:49.059
actively sought it out myself so but yeah no

00:45:49.059 --> 00:45:52.860
i know what what the cultural impact of the show

00:45:52.860 --> 00:45:56.019
is i know what a big deal the show was at the

00:45:56.019 --> 00:46:00.269
time and gonna have to check it out at some point

00:46:00.269 --> 00:46:03.429
yeah and it's another one though that i wasn't

00:46:03.429 --> 00:46:06.070
sure right like it was 107th last time i wasn't

00:46:06.070 --> 00:46:08.849
sure if it would gain ground over the last 15

00:46:08.849 --> 00:46:11.789
years like i i i had it on my list last time

00:46:11.789 --> 00:46:13.190
around i have it on my list this time around

00:46:13.190 --> 00:46:15.409
i actually had it ranked exactly where we have

00:46:15.409 --> 00:46:19.230
it right now at 47 so i've had you know the appreciation

00:46:19.230 --> 00:46:21.849
for it both times around but i was thinking that

00:46:21.849 --> 00:46:24.900
15 years more removed it might have dropped even

00:46:24.900 --> 00:46:27.199
further instead of climb so much dirt are you

00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.199
surprised that it has such a climb and do you

00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.300
think it's uh you know warranted in our top 50

00:46:31.300 --> 00:46:34.559
here i am surprised that it's been such a climb

00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.300
um not that it's undeserved uh it was a really

00:46:38.300 --> 00:46:39.900
good show i remember watching it when it came

00:46:39.900 --> 00:46:43.239
out um i always thought janine garofalo did the

00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:45.219
voice until i looked it up on wikipedia one day

00:46:45.219 --> 00:46:46.940
and i was like holy crap that was somebody else

00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:52.619
yeah but i i i think it it's one of those shows

00:46:52.619 --> 00:46:56.630
that perfectly captured like that slice of time

00:46:56.630 --> 00:46:58.909
like you can go back and watch it and it feels

00:46:58.909 --> 00:47:03.369
very much like a late 90s show it's like the

00:47:03.369 --> 00:47:07.050
animated version of my so -called life yeah very

00:47:07.050 --> 00:47:12.409
much so yeah it was very dry yeah and very I

00:47:12.409 --> 00:47:14.909
don't know what's the right word I want to say

00:47:14.909 --> 00:47:18.090
I don't I don't uncaring is the word that comes

00:47:18.090 --> 00:47:19.550
to mind but that's not really the right word

00:47:19.550 --> 00:47:23.239
it's more of a I don't know. There's like a malaise

00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:26.139
to the whole thing, but it's, it's a very dry

00:47:26.139 --> 00:47:30.480
malaise sense of humor show. It's a, I don't

00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.980
know, but still very relatable. Like even to

00:47:32.980 --> 00:47:36.420
this day, I know I've seen a lot of people doing

00:47:36.420 --> 00:47:38.300
those projects where they build their own, you

00:47:38.300 --> 00:47:41.039
know, cable networks on CRT TVs with the raspberry

00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.400
pie. And it's one of those shows that often gets

00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:45.639
put into the lineup and it, and it makes perfect

00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:47.579
sense. And when you go back and watch it now,

00:47:47.780 --> 00:47:52.980
it does feel. dated but dated only in the time

00:47:52.980 --> 00:47:55.340
cap capsule sense like it's still relatable but

00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:57.659
it's like when you watch uh like good times or

00:47:57.659 --> 00:47:59.360
something where you go yeah that's obviously

00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:01.500
set in a much older time period but it's still

00:48:01.500 --> 00:48:03.719
so relatable that's the way the characters are

00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:07.019
acting and reacting and interacting it's a really

00:48:07.019 --> 00:48:12.119
good show so let me ask you this out of the four

00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.739
of us do you know off the top of your head now

00:48:16.739 --> 00:48:21.050
versus 15 years ago what the difference is in

00:48:21.050 --> 00:48:24.809
the people that submitted lists. Like, do we

00:48:24.809 --> 00:48:28.070
have the exact same 20 people that submitted

00:48:28.070 --> 00:48:31.489
15 years ago? I don't think we do. We talked

00:48:31.489 --> 00:48:33.269
about it in the intro. Yeah, we have nine original

00:48:33.269 --> 00:48:38.469
20. Yeah, so that was my thinking when we were

00:48:38.469 --> 00:48:42.869
talking about this specific show. We only have

00:48:42.869 --> 00:48:46.929
nine of the original 20 people. So we have so

00:48:46.929 --> 00:48:50.219
many other new people. And I think that's what

00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:53.860
got some of the movement on this new countdown,

00:48:54.059 --> 00:48:58.179
as well as a bunch of the other changes that

00:48:58.179 --> 00:49:02.019
have made this new countdown. Absolutely. I think

00:49:02.019 --> 00:49:04.579
it's good that we've increased our ranking of

00:49:04.579 --> 00:49:07.139
Daria, though. I think that's a correction that

00:49:07.139 --> 00:49:09.940
is well deserved. All right. We're going to have

00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:13.300
to go from one of our biggest movers to one of

00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:14.920
the other top three biggest movers coming up

00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:23.420
next. 46. Hi, what's your name? Blossom, Bubbles,

00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:27.500
and Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls Saving the

00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:31.440
World Before Bedtime. This show blended superhero

00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:34.539
action, anime influence, retro aesthetics, and

00:49:34.539 --> 00:49:37.300
absurd comedy into one of Cartoon Network's most

00:49:37.300 --> 00:49:40.920
defining originals. Help normalize female -led

00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:43.260
action cartoons for mainstream audiences while

00:49:43.260 --> 00:49:47.579
also becoming a merchandising powerhouse. Stylistically,

00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:51.079
it influenced an enormous amount of 2000s television

00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:54.340
animation. It barely made the list last time

00:49:54.340 --> 00:49:57.300
coming in at 100. This time, it has risen into

00:49:57.300 --> 00:50:01.179
the top 50 at number 46. A 54 -ranking climb

00:50:01.179 --> 00:50:06.139
for the Powerpuff Girls from 1998, another Cartoon

00:50:06.139 --> 00:50:09.079
Network show. I was shocked last time when it

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:13.000
barely made the countdown at 100. I think I had

00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:15.420
it ranked 52nd this time around. It comes in

00:50:15.420 --> 00:50:17.960
at 46. Makes me happy. I'm actually going to

00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:19.500
be happy most of today because the only show

00:50:19.500 --> 00:50:21.760
that I did not have ranked in today's episode

00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:25.019
was The Tick. So every other show we talk about

00:50:25.019 --> 00:50:27.139
today, I had ranked at least somewhere on my

00:50:27.139 --> 00:50:29.579
top 100. So I'm happy. I think Powerpuff Girls

00:50:29.579 --> 00:50:33.000
deserves the love. I think it's top 50 worthy.

00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:37.099
It is also our first show that we've revealed

00:50:37.099 --> 00:50:39.380
in the entire countdown that appeared on all

00:50:39.380 --> 00:50:43.159
nine lists that we referenced. um when we were

00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.260
trying to make our nominees so a lot of love

00:50:45.260 --> 00:50:47.199
for powerpuff girls mike what do you think of

00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:51.679
it coming in here number 46 i love that mojo

00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:56.559
jojo oh yeah he does it better than i do it i

00:50:56.559 --> 00:51:00.400
used to be able to do a mojo jojo voice uh but

00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.980
no i love powerpuff girls uh it's hilariously

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:10.070
fun and and awesome And yeah, Tara Strong is

00:51:10.070 --> 00:51:14.150
Bubbles. There's a lot of great voice actors.

00:51:14.170 --> 00:51:20.730
Kathleen Barr, I think, is Blossom, maybe. I

00:51:20.730 --> 00:51:23.469
don't remember correctly. No, Kathy Cavadini.

00:51:23.949 --> 00:51:29.210
Cavadini, that's who's Blossom. But yeah, no,

00:51:29.349 --> 00:51:33.380
that's... I think it was... I think that's how

00:51:33.380 --> 00:51:36.139
we got the first Tara Strong interview we did

00:51:36.139 --> 00:51:41.519
was because of Bubbles and Powerpuff and all

00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:44.840
that. Bubbles and Batgirl was the first Tara

00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.079
Strong interview we did. But no, Powerpuff Girls,

00:51:48.500 --> 00:51:50.980
you got to watch out for that Chemical X, folks.

00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:59.239
But the show is just so interesting and fun.

00:52:02.989 --> 00:52:06.429
them versus mojo jojo and all the other villains

00:52:06.429 --> 00:52:12.670
they go up against and it's just and again you're

00:52:12.670 --> 00:52:18.570
talking what'd you say 98 right yeah yeah female

00:52:18.570 --> 00:52:23.650
-led empowerment in the late 90s that can't get

00:52:23.650 --> 00:52:29.309
better than that um steve oh sorry Steve, last

00:52:29.309 --> 00:52:32.090
time 100, this time top 50. Some maybe would

00:52:32.090 --> 00:52:34.389
argue that it's top 25 worthy. Where do you fall

00:52:34.389 --> 00:52:37.489
on it? I mean, I think it fits where it's at.

00:52:38.929 --> 00:52:41.269
It's kind of come and gone a little bit more

00:52:41.269 --> 00:52:43.590
than Samurai Jack, but it's kind of come and

00:52:43.590 --> 00:52:48.289
gone over the years. I know they did some messing

00:52:48.289 --> 00:52:51.389
around with it in like 2013, 2014. And then there

00:52:51.389 --> 00:52:54.929
was talks of doing a live action. And then there

00:52:54.929 --> 00:52:58.619
was a couple of. discussions in 2017 but again

00:52:58.619 --> 00:53:02.840
it hasn't really it hasn't really kept up either

00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:06.780
and so i can't see it being in the top 25 for

00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:12.340
that reason alone um but it definitely has staying

00:53:12.340 --> 00:53:14.380
power and it should be in the top 50 just because

00:53:14.380 --> 00:53:17.920
of the juggernaut it was at that time and uh

00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:20.179
and honestly it was entertaining even if you

00:53:20.179 --> 00:53:24.280
weren't into the that type of superhero program

00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:27.309
right Dirt, final thoughts on Powerpuff Girls?

00:53:29.230 --> 00:53:31.590
I think Powerpuff Girls is a lot like ska music,

00:53:31.809 --> 00:53:35.070
where not everybody loves it, but the people

00:53:35.070 --> 00:53:38.610
who are into it are really into it. And everybody's

00:53:38.610 --> 00:53:42.510
pretty much familiar with it. I remember the

00:53:42.510 --> 00:53:45.869
animation style being very distinct and something

00:53:45.869 --> 00:53:49.789
that I really appreciated at the time. But again,

00:53:49.989 --> 00:53:52.090
just like Samurai Jack, it's one of those things

00:53:52.090 --> 00:53:54.800
that... uh, it's just kind of disappeared. And

00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:56.679
except for again, those rumblings, like you were

00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:58.400
talking about of trying to do a live action.

00:53:58.420 --> 00:54:01.400
And I, I, I hope they never do a live action.

00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:06.440
Please never. But I would love to see like maybe

00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:08.920
an animated special. Um, and they can do a whole

00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:10.739
multiverse thing with the power puff girls. I

00:54:10.739 --> 00:54:12.199
think that would be a lot of fun to see them

00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:16.880
take on that, that type of, uh, you know, zeitgeist

00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:18.780
that, that we've seen with all the other superheroes

00:54:18.780 --> 00:54:22.909
stuff. Um, I think they're, They are good for

00:54:22.909 --> 00:54:25.010
a revival, but as long as it's animated. Just

00:54:25.010 --> 00:54:29.989
make it an animated revival. Makes sense. Animated

00:54:29.989 --> 00:54:34.809
revivals for everything animated. For those keeping

00:54:34.809 --> 00:54:38.050
track so far, we've had three shows from the

00:54:38.050 --> 00:54:41.389
1990s and two shows from the 2000s. And we've

00:54:41.389 --> 00:54:43.710
had three time periods that we have seen nothing

00:54:43.710 --> 00:54:47.449
from yet. Let's change that and let's also make

00:54:47.449 --> 00:54:49.250
another first for a countdown with our next entry.

00:54:49.949 --> 00:54:54.289
45. Activate interlock. Dynatherms connected.

00:54:54.650 --> 00:54:59.630
Infra cells up. Mega thrusters are go. Let's

00:54:59.630 --> 00:55:07.789
go. Coming in at 45. This show played a huge

00:55:07.789 --> 00:55:11.329
role in introducing anime influenced action storytelling

00:55:11.329 --> 00:55:15.920
to Western audiences. The combining robot concept

00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:18.300
became iconic and heavily influential in toy

00:55:18.300 --> 00:55:21.920
base and action animation. Reach Across Generations

00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:26.199
also gave it a legacy beyond its original run.

00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:29.019
This one has climbed up nine spots. It's our

00:55:29.019 --> 00:55:32.300
first show from the 1980s and our first anime.

00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:37.639
We're talking about the 1984 Voltron. Mike, what

00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:39.599
do you think of Voltron coming in here at number

00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.559
45? Last time around, it was number 54. So we've

00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:45.510
just flip -flopped the numbers. Hmm. Interesting.

00:55:45.769 --> 00:55:54.929
It only moved up nine spots. Huh? Well, at least,

00:55:54.929 --> 00:55:58.849
at least it moved up the needle instead of down

00:55:58.849 --> 00:56:02.510
the needle. So there's that. At least we don't

00:56:02.510 --> 00:56:07.909
have to deal with Sven. Thank God. As Mike continues

00:56:07.909 --> 00:56:10.010
to find ways to reference things about the show.

00:56:10.730 --> 00:56:15.289
I love lying for. I was just going to mention

00:56:15.289 --> 00:56:18.309
that it's one of our seven shows that did not

00:56:18.309 --> 00:56:20.269
have any awards, but that's not uncommon for

00:56:20.269 --> 00:56:25.630
the anime genre. Voltron's too awesome to need

00:56:25.630 --> 00:56:30.329
awards. Like, does it deserve awards? Yes. Does

00:56:30.329 --> 00:56:37.010
it need them? No. But no, love Voltron Lion Force.

00:56:37.349 --> 00:56:43.780
Five seasons, five lions. Absolutely great. Just

00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:47.000
between Keith and Pidge and Hunk and Lance and

00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:51.039
Princess Allura and Coran and the Castle of Lions

00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:55.360
going up against Lothor and all that. And it

00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:58.719
was just a fun show. I absolutely loved it. And

00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.360
the music for that show, the music for that show

00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:05.280
is unbeatable. Absolutely love that show. So

00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:08.190
cool. Steve brings up a point here. Obviously,

00:57:08.250 --> 00:57:10.570
15 more years have passed, so one could expect

00:57:10.570 --> 00:57:12.789
maybe that it would have fallen more in the rankings.

00:57:13.130 --> 00:57:16.650
Was it helped by the number of revivals, reboots,

00:57:16.670 --> 00:57:18.730
spinoffs that we've seen over the years to keep

00:57:18.730 --> 00:57:20.610
it somewhat current? Or what do you think led

00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:24.030
it to jumping up nine more spots? Oh, I 100 %

00:57:24.030 --> 00:57:26.090
think that that had to do with it staying on

00:57:26.090 --> 00:57:31.170
the list and jumping up. Between 1984 and 2018,

00:57:31.429 --> 00:57:34.489
there's been an animated series. At any given

00:57:34.489 --> 00:57:36.570
point, I mean, yeah, they gave it a break for

00:57:36.570 --> 00:57:42.030
like 12 years from the 80s to the 90s and then

00:57:42.030 --> 00:57:45.510
gave it another break between 2000 and 2011 and

00:57:45.510 --> 00:57:47.730
then gave it a four year break from that series.

00:57:47.809 --> 00:57:51.409
And now there's going to be a live action film,

00:57:51.530 --> 00:57:55.489
though. I definitely think that this is warranted

00:57:55.489 --> 00:57:59.969
and I think that it's. I definitely think that

00:57:59.969 --> 00:58:03.750
it's going to only continue to grow. in pop culture

00:58:03.750 --> 00:58:08.389
just because it's had a consistency bias going

00:58:08.389 --> 00:58:12.010
for it over the years dirt do you think it's

00:58:12.010 --> 00:58:14.949
its role in introducing anime influence storytelling

00:58:14.949 --> 00:58:17.550
to western audiences makes it deserving of top

00:58:17.550 --> 00:58:21.730
50 or do you think it's uh kind of space as far

00:58:21.730 --> 00:58:25.590
as what it was in 1984 maybe gets it a spot in

00:58:25.590 --> 00:58:27.409
our countdown but maybe not top 50 where do you

00:58:27.409 --> 00:58:29.929
fall on voltron I think it should be number one,

00:58:30.010 --> 00:58:34.210
but you know, whatever. No, I love Voltron. I

00:58:34.210 --> 00:58:38.130
don't know if it's just because it Voltron was

00:58:38.130 --> 00:58:40.789
like a St. Louis thing. It came out of KPLR and

00:58:40.789 --> 00:58:42.469
I live an hour and a half from St. Louis. So

00:58:42.469 --> 00:58:44.829
I remember as a kid, it was like a really big

00:58:44.829 --> 00:58:48.929
deal around here, like just as a real world thing

00:58:48.929 --> 00:58:52.190
beyond it being the, the cartoon show. But I

00:58:52.190 --> 00:58:55.190
also remember it was the first instance. I remember

00:58:55.190 --> 00:58:59.550
of a foreign show. being kind of sucked into

00:58:59.550 --> 00:59:02.909
ustv and then being frankensteined we saw that

00:59:02.909 --> 00:59:05.570
with power rangers obviously later on uh did

00:59:05.570 --> 00:59:08.469
that massively but this was actually you had

00:59:08.469 --> 00:59:11.210
the the lion force voltron and the vehicle force

00:59:11.210 --> 00:59:14.210
voltron and so suddenly after like three seasons

00:59:14.210 --> 00:59:15.909
i think it was or four seasons it suddenly just

00:59:15.909 --> 00:59:19.110
shifts and suddenly it's like oh yeah the deep

00:59:19.110 --> 00:59:21.869
space galactic you know and it's like what what

00:59:21.869 --> 00:59:23.769
the heck just happened to my my cartoon show

00:59:23.769 --> 00:59:28.590
um but i was one of those kids One year for Christmas,

00:59:28.670 --> 00:59:32.610
I got all the Panache Place lions, the figures,

00:59:32.849 --> 00:59:37.769
the Castle of Lions, like everything. And I remember

00:59:37.769 --> 00:59:40.050
sneaking down into the basement. My mom hid the

00:59:40.050 --> 00:59:42.369
Christmas presents in the same space in the basement

00:59:42.369 --> 00:59:44.409
every year. And I snuck down there and looked

00:59:44.409 --> 00:59:47.369
and I saw the Castle of Lions. And so I cut the

00:59:47.369 --> 00:59:49.829
seal on it, took it out of the box and put a

00:59:49.829 --> 00:59:51.969
couple of bricks in and sealed it back up and

00:59:51.969 --> 00:59:53.550
took it up to my room and played with it two

00:59:53.550 --> 00:59:56.110
weeks before Christmas. That's how much I loved

00:59:56.110 --> 00:59:58.559
Voltron. It's something that's always stuck with

00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:03.519
me when they made the revival in, let's see,

01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:07.739
what was it? 2000, the Voltron Force. What was

01:00:07.739 --> 01:00:11.739
that? 2011, I think it was. Yeah, 2011. I remember

01:00:11.739 --> 01:00:15.500
getting contacts with World Event Productions

01:00:15.500 --> 01:00:17.780
because we were doing so many shows and reviews

01:00:17.780 --> 01:00:21.260
and going to conventions and stuff that I was

01:00:21.260 --> 01:00:24.179
able to get my hands on some of the original

01:00:24.179 --> 01:00:28.369
Japanese discs. And so I don't speak Japanese,

01:00:28.429 --> 01:00:29.989
but I can sit there and watch them and compare

01:00:29.989 --> 01:00:32.530
them, you know, to the U .S. one. And it's funny

01:00:32.530 --> 01:00:34.469
because I've seen it so many times I can watch

01:00:34.469 --> 01:00:36.090
the Japanese one and be like, well, that's different.

01:00:36.230 --> 01:00:38.110
That's different. That's different. You know,

01:00:38.110 --> 01:00:40.230
they didn't show that dead body in the U .S.

01:00:40.230 --> 01:00:44.329
version, you know. But it's Voltron is something

01:00:44.329 --> 01:00:46.230
that's like always stuck in my mind and it's

01:00:46.230 --> 01:00:49.610
become vernacular at this point. You know, I

01:00:49.610 --> 01:00:51.889
think maybe with younger kids, they might lean

01:00:51.889 --> 01:00:55.210
more towards Megazord. Uh, but it's that same

01:00:55.210 --> 01:00:57.909
concept. Whereas I think, especially in my generation,

01:00:58.050 --> 01:01:00.150
you have a group of people that come together

01:01:00.150 --> 01:01:02.230
and you're like, we're like Voltron as we all

01:01:02.230 --> 01:01:03.889
come together. And someone's always like, I'll

01:01:03.889 --> 01:01:07.889
form the head. Um, it's just, it's such a fun

01:01:07.889 --> 01:01:12.230
property. Yeah. And I, I, I've watched every

01:01:12.230 --> 01:01:14.690
incarnation of it. I've loved every, well, not

01:01:14.690 --> 01:01:17.269
the last one so much, but, uh, I've, I've loved

01:01:17.269 --> 01:01:20.130
Voltron. Defender wasn't that bad. I've only

01:01:20.130 --> 01:01:23.530
watched it. It started better. Yeah. It, it,

01:01:24.010 --> 01:01:27.929
It is what it is. It's like the slower kid in

01:01:27.929 --> 01:01:30.369
class. He is what he is. He tries hard. God bless

01:01:30.369 --> 01:01:33.969
him. I didn't realize Legendary Defender had

01:01:33.969 --> 01:01:37.570
eight seasons, but I did watch the first two,

01:01:37.610 --> 01:01:42.809
and they were good. Well, I will say, though,

01:01:42.829 --> 01:01:45.630
that it is something I noticed just a couple

01:01:45.630 --> 01:01:48.989
years ago for the, was it the 40th? They re -released

01:01:48.989 --> 01:01:51.570
the Lions. You could buy them. I saw them at

01:01:51.570 --> 01:01:55.320
Target. Um, yeah. And so, uh, and they, they,

01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.280
uh, they were the same molds so they could interact

01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:00.300
with the other ones. So if you were missing one,

01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.559
you could buy the replacement from the, from

01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:04.239
the anniversary line. So I think, you know, it's,

01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.480
it's one of those things that even though there

01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:09.920
hasn't been anything really on TV in a while,

01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:13.000
it's just such a neat concept and it just, it's

01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.219
stuck in people's heads and it never really goes

01:02:15.219 --> 01:02:18.960
away. And every time they bring it back, everyone's

01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:20.619
like, oh yeah, I know Voltron. Like it's just

01:02:20.619 --> 01:02:24.760
so universal. uh and so beloved and i'm like

01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:28.179
you go ahead kip sorry i do have a panache place

01:02:28.179 --> 01:02:30.719
uh king's arc on figure in my heroes and villains

01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:34.179
action figure collection so uh i don't have the

01:02:34.179 --> 01:02:37.320
i don't have the hero portion of that because

01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:38.760
i can't decide which way i want to go it's kind

01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:43.039
of like the turtles um so but i i did have this

01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:45.219
ranked in my top 100 i had it at 76 just because

01:02:45.219 --> 01:02:47.199
it's hard when you only have so many spots but

01:02:47.530 --> 01:02:50.070
I totally get it being represented here in some

01:02:50.070 --> 01:02:52.010
way, shape or form. So I think it's good. Mike,

01:02:52.050 --> 01:02:55.849
final thought. As a kid, I grew up on Lion Force

01:02:55.849 --> 01:02:59.230
and then somebody tried to show me Vehicle Force

01:02:59.230 --> 01:03:02.489
and I was like, what the hell is this thing?

01:03:02.809 --> 01:03:08.590
I have never liked Vehicle Force Voltron. To

01:03:08.590 --> 01:03:11.070
each their own. Well, Vehicle Force Voltron doesn't

01:03:11.070 --> 01:03:14.429
like you either. So how about that? Yeah. All

01:03:14.429 --> 01:03:17.690
right. 1984 forever. Enough with the 80s. Let's

01:03:17.690 --> 01:03:20.829
go back to the 2000s. And, you know, back when

01:03:20.829 --> 01:03:24.369
we were revealing numbers 82 and 79 and 78, we

01:03:24.369 --> 01:03:26.530
got things like the spectacular Spider -Man and

01:03:26.530 --> 01:03:28.170
Batman, the brave and the bold and invincible.

01:03:28.650 --> 01:03:31.170
And then we went on a superhero drought until

01:03:31.170 --> 01:03:35.900
this next pick. 44. How could you lose the remote?

01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.380
What makes you so sure I lost it? You must be

01:03:39.380 --> 01:03:43.739
my friend. This party is pointless. Loser. Jerk.

01:03:43.780 --> 01:03:46.099
What did you say? All right, coming in next,

01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:49.440
a balance of anime -inspired visuals, superhero

01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.900
action, serialized storytelling, and comedy in

01:03:51.900 --> 01:03:53.980
a way that made superhero animation more accessible

01:03:53.980 --> 01:03:56.880
to younger audiences without sacrificing the

01:03:56.880 --> 01:03:59.320
emotional stakes. It helped define superhero

01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:02.059
television for an entire generation. and expanded

01:04:02.059 --> 01:04:04.559
the appeal of DC characters beyond Batman and

01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:09.260
Superman. We are going to 2003's another show

01:04:09.260 --> 01:04:12.559
that made a major climb. 58 spots up. It was

01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:18.880
104th 15 years ago. Now it is 44th. We're talking

01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:22.500
about Teen Titans. So Teen Titans with a huge

01:04:22.500 --> 01:04:26.039
jump in the rankings all the way up to 44th.

01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:28.059
Just missed the countdown last time around. Steve,

01:04:28.179 --> 01:04:35.469
what do you think of Teen Titans? I was not a

01:04:35.469 --> 01:04:39.969
huge fan of this show. I know that there was

01:04:39.969 --> 01:04:42.909
a lot of people that did like it back at the

01:04:42.909 --> 01:04:48.829
time that it came out. And this is the original

01:04:48.829 --> 01:04:51.489
Teen Titans, not Teen Titans Go, correct? Correct.

01:04:51.610 --> 01:04:54.809
Yeah, this is the original. Yeah, Teen Titans

01:04:54.809 --> 01:04:58.889
Go is like number four or something. Quiet, you.

01:04:59.550 --> 01:05:02.250
I did find that one more interesting to watch

01:05:02.250 --> 01:05:12.710
just because they were short. Yeah. So I don't

01:05:12.710 --> 01:05:14.949
I don't love this series. I was more of like

01:05:14.949 --> 01:05:17.949
the primary characters and I was fine as long

01:05:17.949 --> 01:05:20.110
as they showed up in like the Justice League

01:05:20.110 --> 01:05:24.110
or the Batman or whatever. I just I was never

01:05:24.110 --> 01:05:27.510
a fan of this show. Even I've seen it a lot over

01:05:27.510 --> 01:05:30.300
the years and I still. Don't care enough to finish

01:05:30.300 --> 01:05:33.460
it. Our first Warner Brothers production company

01:05:33.460 --> 01:05:36.480
show since that Batman, the Brave and the Bold

01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:39.119
at number 79. Dirt, what do you think of Teen

01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:41.340
Titans and does it warrant being in our top 50?

01:05:42.900 --> 01:05:47.159
Top 50 is tough. I think it deserves to be on

01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:51.800
the list. I don't know if I. The thing is, though,

01:05:51.820 --> 01:05:55.179
I do remember when it shifted from Teen Titans

01:05:55.179 --> 01:05:59.260
to Teen Titans Go and a lot of people. were so

01:05:59.260 --> 01:06:01.920
upset because obviously it was a massive change

01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:05.579
in tone. It was a massive characterization. The

01:06:05.579 --> 01:06:08.360
animation style was completely different. So

01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:11.019
it wasn't, it was the same characters, but you

01:06:11.019 --> 01:06:14.659
know, it totally different universe really. But

01:06:14.659 --> 01:06:16.980
I remember the original show was something that

01:06:16.980 --> 01:06:19.920
my son, again, it was something he got into.

01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:22.500
And of course I was familiar with the characters

01:06:22.500 --> 01:06:24.519
coming from a comic book background. So I was

01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:26.750
excited. And so it was one of those things where

01:06:26.750 --> 01:06:28.190
he wanted to watch it. I was like, yeah, we're

01:06:28.190 --> 01:06:30.469
going to watch it. Like, let's go. Like, come

01:06:30.469 --> 01:06:34.530
on. So it was a good show that we bonded over

01:06:34.530 --> 01:06:39.389
with him being a little kid at the time. And

01:06:39.389 --> 01:06:41.969
I remember it being much darker than I expected.

01:06:43.030 --> 01:06:46.769
It was one that they would have Deathstroke and

01:06:46.769 --> 01:06:50.989
he was actually evil and dangerous and murderous,

01:06:51.030 --> 01:06:54.590
which is not something you saw a lot in. kids

01:06:54.590 --> 01:06:58.630
animation so I was excited for it I was hyped

01:06:58.630 --> 01:07:02.429
for it I enjoyed it quite a bit but again it's

01:07:02.429 --> 01:07:04.309
one I've never really gone back to and I think

01:07:04.309 --> 01:07:06.449
it may be again because of the storytelling was

01:07:06.449 --> 01:07:08.530
serialized and so you really needed to watch

01:07:08.530 --> 01:07:12.110
episodes in order as opposed to just going and

01:07:12.110 --> 01:07:15.429
watching a random episode here and there so it's

01:07:15.429 --> 01:07:17.170
something that I've thought about maybe going

01:07:17.170 --> 01:07:19.130
back to watch but then if I want to go back and

01:07:19.130 --> 01:07:20.989
watch it I think I have to subscribe to HBO Max

01:07:20.989 --> 01:07:24.719
or something and I'm not doing that Mike, where

01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:28.579
do you fall on Teen Titans? Well, there's been

01:07:28.579 --> 01:07:31.920
this long debate whether it's in the DC animated

01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:35.800
universe continuity, and it is not. The only

01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:39.940
thing that ties it to it is that Glenn Murakami

01:07:39.940 --> 01:07:43.460
works on Teen Titans, but there are no direct

01:07:43.460 --> 01:07:47.139
ties story -wise to Batman the Animated Series,

01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:50.449
Superman, Justice League, or whatever. I tried

01:07:50.449 --> 01:07:54.690
watching the show and I just can't get into it.

01:07:54.710 --> 01:07:58.750
Even with Tara strong voicing Raven, just not

01:07:58.750 --> 01:08:02.210
my thing. I would switch this with any other

01:08:02.210 --> 01:08:07.269
lower number on our list. Like you could put

01:08:07.269 --> 01:08:12.510
anything else here at 44. You could put pink

01:08:12.510 --> 01:08:15.690
Panther. You could put a huckleberry hound. You

01:08:15.690 --> 01:08:19.479
could put this anywhere in the lower tier. So

01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:22.140
Teen Titan fans, send your hate mail to geekcastradio

01:08:22.140 --> 01:08:26.520
.com. No, just kidding. Interesting. All right.

01:08:26.539 --> 01:08:28.680
So not a ton of love from the panel, but enough

01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:31.140
love from the contributors to get it into our

01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:34.899
top 50. Well, let's go back for our next one.

01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:41.000
Back to 1984. 43. Okay, guys, we're ready to

01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:45.159
roll. Hey, Kermit, where are the stars? If this

01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:48.560
is Star Wars, we gotta have stars. Coming in

01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:53.319
next, another. We were just in 1984 for Voltron.

01:08:53.340 --> 01:08:56.800
We're going back there for our next entry. This

01:08:56.800 --> 01:09:01.600
series changed a... We just had one that rose

01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:04.399
like 61 spots with Daria. Powerpuff Girls went

01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:08.880
up 54 spots. Teen Titans went up 58 spots. How

01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:13.300
about one that went up one spot? From 44th to

01:09:13.300 --> 01:09:17.020
43rd, we're talking about the classic Muppet

01:09:17.020 --> 01:09:20.520
Babies. The Muppet Babies, a show that basically

01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:24.579
stuck around for almost an entire decade as far

01:09:24.579 --> 01:09:28.079
as new episodes and things of that nature. It

01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:31.680
felt like also a CBS cartoon. We have not seen

01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:35.560
many CBS cartoons. We saw Wacky Races and then

01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:37.420
you could say Underdog, even though it debuted

01:09:37.420 --> 01:09:40.479
kind of on NBC and CBS within the first little

01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:42.960
bit, but not a lot of CBS love so far in the

01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:45.220
countdown, but we do get one here. with muppet

01:09:45.220 --> 01:09:47.279
babies it was on five of the nine lists that

01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:49.960
we looked at it was on 22 of the 44 contributors

01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:52.640
list so that's half of them the only other one

01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:54.859
that's been on half of the list was the tick

01:09:54.859 --> 01:09:59.039
so muppet babies here at number 43 we'll start

01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:01.319
with dirt what do you think of the muppet babies

01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:04.680
and is it warranted in our top 100 and if so

01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:08.720
is this a good spot for it at 43 for sure that

01:10:08.989 --> 01:10:11.329
spun out of a dream sequence and muppets take

01:10:11.329 --> 01:10:13.909
manhattan uh i'm really kind of surprised it's

01:10:13.909 --> 01:10:17.930
this high on the list um not that i didn't watch

01:10:17.930 --> 01:10:20.270
it when it was on but it's also one of those

01:10:20.270 --> 01:10:22.810
shows that once it was no longer on i don't know

01:10:22.810 --> 01:10:24.229
that i ever thought about it really much again

01:10:24.229 --> 01:10:31.550
um maybe it's it's a muppets fan you know great

01:10:31.550 --> 01:10:33.510
memory from from their childhood when they had

01:10:33.510 --> 01:10:35.489
something animated to hold them over because

01:10:35.489 --> 01:10:38.159
live shows were aimed more towards adults and

01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:40.739
this was the thing that's more for kids um yeah

01:10:40.739 --> 01:10:44.699
it's but but again it's just uh it's really interesting

01:10:44.699 --> 01:10:46.439
to see how some of these things play out and

01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:50.100
how obviously it means a lot more to other people

01:10:50.100 --> 01:10:53.000
than it means to me but uh i'm sure put it on

01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.800
the list i don't have a problem i can see it

01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:57.020
i can see it both ways like i can see number

01:10:57.020 --> 01:11:01.680
one people saying well it's it's not as elite

01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:05.130
status as maybe the muppet show and some of the

01:11:05.130 --> 01:11:06.670
Muppet movies and things of that nature, but

01:11:06.670 --> 01:11:08.630
I can see the flip side of that being like, well,

01:11:08.670 --> 01:11:12.250
this introduced the world of the Muppets to an

01:11:12.250 --> 01:11:16.069
entire new generation. And, you know, one of

01:11:16.069 --> 01:11:19.409
the, probably one of the most successful transitions

01:11:19.409 --> 01:11:22.470
from quote unquote live action, even though it's

01:11:22.470 --> 01:11:27.069
Muppet to animation and stuff like that. I may

01:11:27.069 --> 01:11:29.390
have more of a soft spot just from where it hit

01:11:29.390 --> 01:11:31.869
me and in my development and in my growth. Like

01:11:31.869 --> 01:11:33.880
I think the, Kind of the children's programming

01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:37.060
aspect, the creativity and the things of that

01:11:37.060 --> 01:11:39.560
nature hit me at the right time. And I felt like

01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:41.619
it just was a staple of an entire generation.

01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:45.699
So I had this actually ranked number 23 on my

01:11:45.699 --> 01:11:48.060
list. I had it in the top 25, but I guess some

01:11:48.060 --> 01:11:50.840
of that may be a time period bias. Mike, what

01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:54.100
do you think of the Muppet Babies? Love the Muppet

01:11:54.100 --> 01:11:56.000
Babies. You never knew what the hell they were

01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:57.619
going to come up against when they opened one

01:11:57.619 --> 01:12:00.630
of those doors. I mean, I watched 107 episodes

01:12:00.630 --> 01:12:03.350
waiting to see what the nanny looked like. So,

01:12:03.350 --> 01:12:06.949
yeah, I never cared about that. I just, you know,

01:12:06.970 --> 01:12:08.869
she's going to wear the same socks every day.

01:12:08.989 --> 01:12:13.029
She's going to show us. They're never going to

01:12:13.029 --> 01:12:18.449
show us. Dang it. But no, I love Muppet Babies

01:12:18.449 --> 01:12:21.390
because, again, it was like we'd seen all the

01:12:21.390 --> 01:12:25.090
movies to that point. We'd seen everything that

01:12:25.090 --> 01:12:28.689
we were going to be able to see. So why not show

01:12:28.689 --> 01:12:30.949
us in a different way and show us what the, and

01:12:30.949 --> 01:12:35.430
again, what year did that come out? 84. Oh, wow.

01:12:35.569 --> 01:12:37.069
That's right. It was 84. There was some movies

01:12:37.069 --> 01:12:39.229
that came on after this. Well, okay. Well, there

01:12:39.229 --> 01:12:42.529
were, there were, you're right. I guess I caught

01:12:42.529 --> 01:12:46.729
it in syndication. Then I caught this in syndication

01:12:46.729 --> 01:12:54.520
around the time when everything was. And I'm

01:12:54.520 --> 01:12:57.399
going to mimic it because that's what it was

01:12:57.399 --> 01:13:00.520
at that time. You get a kid's show. You get a

01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:02.720
kid's show. You get a kid's show. Everything

01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:06.199
with Tom and Jerry kids, pup named Scooby -Doo,

01:13:06.420 --> 01:13:12.359
Flintstones kids, every adult, not adult, but

01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:20.640
every grown person show, every animated show

01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:24.819
that we already knew was what? let's make them

01:13:24.819 --> 01:13:27.579
into kids and turn back time and do this and

01:13:27.579 --> 01:13:30.039
do that and whatever. I'm not saying this is

01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:33.079
a bad thing. I'm just saying that's the trend

01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:36.180
in the mid to late eighties that the animation

01:13:36.180 --> 01:13:40.939
studios were doing. And this is one way that

01:13:40.939 --> 01:13:44.439
they, one of the only ways I think that they

01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:48.300
ever put the Muppets in actual animation. And

01:13:48.300 --> 01:13:50.220
I loved it. I thought it was great. I absolutely

01:13:50.220 --> 01:13:53.109
love the show. There was the little Muppet monsters,

01:13:53.189 --> 01:13:55.250
but that didn't last a super long time. And then

01:13:55.250 --> 01:13:57.310
obviously we have gotten a reboot of the Muppet

01:13:57.310 --> 01:13:58.989
babies more recently. Steve, what do you think

01:13:58.989 --> 01:14:02.609
of Muppet babies overall? I mean, I think it's

01:14:02.609 --> 01:14:06.609
warranted. It was on for eight seasons consecutively

01:14:06.609 --> 01:14:12.550
there in the 80s. So like was mentioned by the

01:14:12.550 --> 01:14:14.569
panel of, you know, all these different kids

01:14:14.569 --> 01:14:16.430
shows, you know, pup named Scooby -Doo, this

01:14:16.430 --> 01:14:18.840
Tom and Jerry kids. we were kind of in that era

01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:23.039
of the kid defied versions of everything. Yeah.

01:14:23.180 --> 01:14:28.479
And I, I mean, I didn't, I watched it and I grew

01:14:28.479 --> 01:14:30.220
up with it. I don't remember a whole lot of it,

01:14:30.260 --> 01:14:34.640
you know, after I was like five. Um, I know that

01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:37.600
it came out before I was born, but I did watch

01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:41.319
it, uh, on rerun and with what I had after the

01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:45.859
point. Um, I, I don't, I don't see an issue with

01:14:45.859 --> 01:14:48.720
it being on the list. or necessarily being here

01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:51.739
i know that they did have a reboot of the show

01:14:51.739 --> 01:14:56.260
in 2018 so that could be part of it too but i

01:14:56.260 --> 01:14:58.060
think a lot of it has to do with the older show

01:14:58.060 --> 01:15:01.399
i think too one of the things that kind of resonates

01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:03.680
with me not only did it come out i guess in my

01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:05.539
time period so it's something that i have some

01:15:05.539 --> 01:15:08.399
i guess nostalgia for and things of that nature

01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:10.840
but i think also it represents something that

01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:13.840
was completely unique at the time like i don't

01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:16.340
remember too many other shows off the top of

01:15:16.340 --> 01:15:20.180
my head that were, were splicing in scenes from

01:15:20.180 --> 01:15:24.340
star Wars and scenes from Indiana Jones. And

01:15:24.340 --> 01:15:26.640
I mean, they were literally interacting with

01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:29.119
like legit movie scenes that they were pulling

01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:31.479
from different things. And like all the music

01:15:31.479 --> 01:15:33.699
in the movies that they use in this show is why

01:15:33.699 --> 01:15:36.000
I have read that. That's one of the reasons why

01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:37.960
we've never really got the Muppet babies released

01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:40.840
on DVD, Blu -ray things of that nature, unless

01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:42.520
that's changed over the last five to 10 years.

01:15:42.579 --> 01:15:44.199
Maybe it has, but I know there's a lot of different,

01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:47.579
uh, different legalities that you have to go

01:15:47.579 --> 01:15:49.439
through because of how much stuff they included

01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:51.899
in their show and it was like a cool way to expose

01:15:51.899 --> 01:15:55.279
kids to some other classic movie making and things

01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:56.619
of that nature so i thought that was kind of

01:15:56.619 --> 01:15:58.720
unique for that time period too and it was it

01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:01.119
separated itself from a lot of shows that were

01:16:01.119 --> 01:16:03.520
similar to it that we got in the same time period

01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:07.079
yeah because what they did was even though they

01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:09.119
were showing the stuff that you just mentioned

01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:13.300
they essentially Looney Tunes that show. Even

01:16:13.300 --> 01:16:16.100
though the Looney Tunes shorts did similar things

01:16:16.100 --> 01:16:19.239
with live action, most of the things the Looney

01:16:19.239 --> 01:16:24.140
Tunes shorts showed were just generic scenes.

01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:30.260
It wasn't specific scenes from specific movies.

01:16:30.300 --> 01:16:35.399
It was, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly,

01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:39.029
it was just a film that they shot. It was just

01:16:39.029 --> 01:16:41.529
scenes that they had shot at the Warner Brothers

01:16:41.529 --> 01:16:43.829
a lot at the time when they were making the Looney

01:16:43.829 --> 01:16:47.609
Tunes shorts. It wasn't scenes from movies that

01:16:47.609 --> 01:16:49.689
they were going to produce later kind of thing.

01:16:50.010 --> 01:16:53.310
So, you know, here's hoping one of these days

01:16:53.310 --> 01:16:56.829
before we're all old and gray. Well, I'm already

01:16:56.829 --> 01:17:02.949
old and gray. But yeah, we will get Muppet Babies

01:17:02.949 --> 01:17:08.220
on DVD, Blu -ray at some point. I had no idea

01:17:08.220 --> 01:17:11.319
they rebooted the show. Yeah, it's not terrible.

01:17:11.420 --> 01:17:13.640
I do prefer the original one, but my daughter

01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:15.539
did watch some of the new ones and had enough

01:17:15.539 --> 01:17:19.039
fun with them. Was it on? I don't know if it's

01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:21.619
on Disney or if it's on something else. Was it

01:17:21.619 --> 01:17:26.619
like Disney Plus streaming? Yeah. Yeah. All right.

01:17:26.939 --> 01:17:30.560
So that's our number 43. And now, folks, it's

01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:32.840
time to ring the bell. It's time for a battle

01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:35.500
of epic proportions. Our first tie coming up.

01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:41.020
Forty two. Come on, Chucky. Yeah, let's go. I

01:17:41.020 --> 01:17:46.699
just have to go. Forty one. Are they laughing

01:17:46.699 --> 01:17:49.640
at us? No, Patrick, they're laughing next to

01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:56.979
us. All right. Our first tie of this episode.

01:17:57.100 --> 01:18:00.239
And let me tell you, not only did they tie with

01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:03.060
the amount of points, they're also both from

01:18:03.060 --> 01:18:06.609
the 90s. They're also both from Nickelodeon.

01:18:08.010 --> 01:18:12.210
They also both appeared on all nine reference

01:18:12.210 --> 01:18:14.270
lists that we use. So they're the only other

01:18:14.270 --> 01:18:16.489
two that we're going to talk about today besides

01:18:16.489 --> 01:18:18.789
what we already talked about with Powerpuff Girls.

01:18:18.869 --> 01:18:20.350
The only other two that appeared on all nine

01:18:20.350 --> 01:18:23.229
lists. One of them appeared on more lists. One

01:18:23.229 --> 01:18:25.270
of them appeared on 24 compared to the other

01:18:25.270 --> 01:18:26.909
one that appeared on 19. But that just means

01:18:26.909 --> 01:18:29.649
that the ones that was on 19 of the list just

01:18:29.649 --> 01:18:32.779
were higher ranked. So I'm going to read you

01:18:32.779 --> 01:18:34.420
the description. We'll see if you guys can name

01:18:34.420 --> 01:18:37.340
the two shows here. All right, first one here.

01:18:37.720 --> 01:18:40.399
One of the most culturally dominant animated

01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:43.640
series ever created. It transcended television

01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:46.140
to become an internet meme engine, merchandising

01:18:46.140 --> 01:18:50.140
giant, multi -generational phenomenon. All right,

01:18:50.180 --> 01:18:53.239
the other one. Helped define Nickelodeon's original

01:18:53.239 --> 01:18:55.899
identity and proved animation could successfully

01:18:55.899 --> 01:18:58.699
tell stories. from a child's emotional perspective

01:18:58.699 --> 01:19:00.960
rather than an adult viewpoint. Its influence

01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:04.479
on 90s kids' animation and family -centered storytelling

01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:08.140
was enormous. Which two shows are battling it

01:19:08.140 --> 01:19:12.779
out here, guys? SpongeBob vs. Rugrats. It's SpongeBob

01:19:12.779 --> 01:19:17.460
SquarePants vs. the Rugrats. And to make it even

01:19:17.460 --> 01:19:20.460
more interesting, last time around, they were

01:19:20.460 --> 01:19:25.350
ranked 46th and 43rd. so they were not too far

01:19:25.350 --> 01:19:28.510
away now one of them will be 42nd and one of

01:19:28.510 --> 01:19:32.029
them will be 41st so they've gained a few spots

01:19:32.029 --> 01:19:35.609
so mike you make the argument first do they both

01:19:35.609 --> 01:19:38.850
belong in our top 50 and if so which one deserves

01:19:38.850 --> 01:19:49.510
to be one spot higher yeah they do but I would

01:19:49.510 --> 01:19:54.270
definitely not have Rugrats in the top 50. I

01:19:54.270 --> 01:19:57.529
would have it way lower. Really? I think you're

01:19:57.529 --> 01:19:58.729
going to be one of the only people that would

01:19:58.729 --> 01:20:03.550
say that. I wouldn't have it in the top 50. I

01:20:03.550 --> 01:20:09.210
would have it somewhere like 56, 55, like somewhere

01:20:09.210 --> 01:20:14.289
there. I would not have it this high. SpongeBob

01:20:14.289 --> 01:20:18.579
definitely goes at 41. That's my vote. I would

01:20:18.579 --> 01:20:20.640
say Rugrats is interesting, especially coming

01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:22.300
right after we talked about Muppet Babies. You

01:20:22.300 --> 01:20:24.260
could make the argument that what Muppet Babies

01:20:24.260 --> 01:20:27.279
was for the 80s, Rugrats was for the 90s in a

01:20:27.279 --> 01:20:31.359
lot of ways. But I think this may be due to your

01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:33.600
age, Mike. And I know it's about the same age

01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:36.899
as I am. So we might have just missed the Rugrats

01:20:36.899 --> 01:20:38.760
phenomenon. But I feel like anybody that was

01:20:38.760 --> 01:20:41.739
born after us, Rugrats played such a huge part

01:20:41.739 --> 01:20:45.180
in their lifetime and in their development. And

01:20:45.180 --> 01:20:47.800
then it lasted for so long. And there was so

01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:50.039
many like different ways that it kept living

01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:51.939
on. I think there was a few animated movies and

01:20:51.939 --> 01:20:54.720
like another spinoff all all grown up and things

01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:56.579
like that. I know like if my wife was on the

01:20:56.579 --> 01:20:59.560
record right now, she would be making a huge

01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:02.340
case for this to be even higher. She had this

01:21:02.340 --> 01:21:08.119
at number six overall. So she was a huge fan

01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:11.289
of the Rugrats. Steve. Rugrats and Spongebob,

01:21:11.289 --> 01:21:13.130
how do you compare the two? Are they both top

01:21:13.130 --> 01:21:15.630
50 worthy? They were both top 50 last time around.

01:21:15.689 --> 01:21:17.289
They're both going to be top 50 this time around.

01:21:17.409 --> 01:21:19.310
So is that right? And which one do you prefer?

01:21:20.310 --> 01:21:22.829
So I definitely think they're both top 50 worthy.

01:21:22.949 --> 01:21:25.789
I can't contest that. I was never a huge fan

01:21:25.789 --> 01:21:30.189
of either show. However, my wife grew up with

01:21:30.189 --> 01:21:35.970
Rugrats. I mean, we're a year apart, like a year

01:21:35.970 --> 01:21:39.479
and a half apart. She she did like Rugrats. I

01:21:39.479 --> 01:21:42.079
was never a huge Nickelodeon fan. I would watch

01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:46.079
the stuff if it was on. So that's not going for

01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:49.279
me. Well, in either of these cases, that being

01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:55.539
said, I do find that Rugrats was kind of like

01:21:55.539 --> 01:21:58.539
the Muppet Babies for the 90s kids. And it does

01:21:58.539 --> 01:22:01.340
kind of live on. And it has had a lot of awards.

01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:06.590
It has a lot of the. consistency with voice acting

01:22:06.590 --> 01:22:09.489
they have done various sequels they've done all

01:22:09.489 --> 01:22:13.770
grown up they've done you know a lot of other

01:22:13.770 --> 01:22:17.050
films they've even got a reboot series that was

01:22:17.050 --> 01:22:23.210
in 2021 uh so the longevity is there that being

01:22:23.210 --> 01:22:28.930
said uh spongebob also has had a lot of movies

01:22:28.930 --> 01:22:35.069
and it has I think it's going on 17 seasons now.

01:22:35.250 --> 01:22:41.050
Yeah. Or somewhere in that range. It might have

01:22:41.050 --> 01:22:44.569
more than that. I could be wrong. But it's had

01:22:44.569 --> 01:22:48.689
a monumental number of episodes too. Yeah. And

01:22:48.689 --> 01:22:52.590
I just find this show much more enjoyable even

01:22:52.590 --> 01:22:56.550
as an adult. I don't know why. I think it's just

01:22:56.550 --> 01:22:59.109
like the goofiness of it. I mean, we have interviewed.

01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:02.340
you know tom kenney too and you know did depth

01:23:02.340 --> 01:23:05.680
charge fish pants and stuff like that but um

01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:08.140
i don't know i just i i find it more entertaining

01:23:08.140 --> 01:23:11.640
and more fun when i look at the two so i would

01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:14.479
argue that spongebob should be 41 and rugrats

01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:18.039
at 42 um it is interesting too we said a battle

01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:20.239
of the 90s one of them came out in 1991 the other

01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:23.220
one 1999 so we're talking about two polar opposite

01:23:23.220 --> 01:23:25.300
ends of the spectrum when it comes to the 90s

01:23:25.760 --> 01:23:27.439
SpongeBob definitely has had more than double

01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:29.500
the, or getting close to double the amount of

01:23:29.500 --> 01:23:31.239
episodes that Rugrats had. And Rugrats was no

01:23:31.239 --> 01:23:34.279
slouch. Like it had 172 episodes, I think of

01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:36.340
the original series, but SpongeBob was, you know,

01:23:36.340 --> 01:23:38.680
in the 300 somewhere. I think SpongeBob has had

01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:41.220
probably double the amount of awards over the

01:23:41.220 --> 01:23:46.020
time as, as well. I, this is, this is an example

01:23:46.020 --> 01:23:47.659
of one of those that I didn't grow up with either

01:23:47.659 --> 01:23:50.979
one of these shows. And. It's another example

01:23:50.979 --> 01:23:52.800
to like what dirt was talking about when he was

01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:54.920
talking about how he ranked a couple of the films

01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:56.600
just because he knew of their cultural impact

01:23:56.600 --> 01:23:59.659
and things like that. Like I cannot stand memes.

01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:01.920
I'm just going to throw that out there. Like

01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:03.899
I hate memes with a passion. I don't know why.

01:24:04.340 --> 01:24:08.279
Like it's just a personal thing. And like SpongeBob

01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:10.880
has so many of them that that's like a thing

01:24:10.880 --> 01:24:12.939
that like people love to post memes about SpongeBob.

01:24:12.979 --> 01:24:14.680
And I never know what the heck they're talking

01:24:14.680 --> 01:24:16.420
about because I've never seen a single episode.

01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:20.180
So I have to watch some SpongeBob. I have never

01:24:20.180 --> 01:24:22.260
seen an episode of SpongeBob. I've never been

01:24:22.260 --> 01:24:24.460
interested in seeing an episode of SpongeBob.

01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:27.460
However, on my own personal list, I had Rugrats

01:24:27.460 --> 01:24:31.819
at 29 and I had SpongeBob at 19. Just because

01:24:31.819 --> 01:24:34.159
even though I know it's not for me, I know I've

01:24:34.159 --> 01:24:36.100
never seen an episode. I understand it's been

01:24:36.100 --> 01:24:39.479
on forever and it has a cult following and not

01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:40.920
just a cult following. It has a mainstream following

01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:42.579
that's just like everybody knows SpongeBob and

01:24:42.579 --> 01:24:44.039
they think everybody else knows it too, which

01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:46.079
also drives me nuts because I don't, dang it.

01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:49.720
but I still had it higher. So my vote ultimately,

01:24:49.859 --> 01:24:52.380
even though I'm a, if I was going to be forced

01:24:52.380 --> 01:24:54.840
to watch one, I would rather watch Rugrats. I

01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:58.479
would vote for SpongeBob to be the winner of

01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:00.199
this matchup. So that takes a lot of the pressure

01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:02.380
off of you, Dirt, because we've had three people

01:25:02.380 --> 01:25:04.819
vote for SpongeBob so far. So what are your thoughts

01:25:04.819 --> 01:25:09.479
on both shows? Well, 100 % honest, I'm not a

01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:13.699
huge fan of either one. However, I will say when

01:25:13.699 --> 01:25:16.050
I first started dating my wife, She would go

01:25:16.050 --> 01:25:18.210
to her grandparents. Everybody in the family

01:25:18.210 --> 01:25:19.729
would go to the grandparents' house on Friday

01:25:19.729 --> 01:25:22.369
night, and they would all have dinner. And it

01:25:22.369 --> 01:25:25.569
was non -negotiable. It didn't matter what else

01:25:25.569 --> 01:25:26.750
was going on. You were going to grandparents'

01:25:26.970 --> 01:25:28.909
house for dinner every Friday night. Kelly's

01:25:28.909 --> 01:25:35.689
grandpa, who was at the time maybe 68, 69, somewhere

01:25:35.689 --> 01:25:41.869
in there. Nice. He had two shows that you could

01:25:41.869 --> 01:25:44.609
not interrupt him if they were on. I guess three

01:25:44.609 --> 01:25:46.630
Braves baseball was one of those. But the two

01:25:46.630 --> 01:25:48.710
shows that you could not interrupt him if they

01:25:48.710 --> 01:25:52.029
were on were Beavis and Butthead and SpongeBob

01:25:52.029 --> 01:25:56.010
SquarePants. Yeah, those were his two shows as

01:25:56.010 --> 01:26:01.090
a 69 year old dude. And so for me, like Rugrats,

01:26:01.090 --> 01:26:06.750
I think it was a quality show. But SpongeBob

01:26:06.750 --> 01:26:10.529
to me feels like it's it was so big and so huge

01:26:10.529 --> 01:26:13.939
and so everywhere and kind of still is. It's

01:26:13.939 --> 01:26:15.899
one of those things like, like Voltron, like

01:26:15.899 --> 01:26:18.180
it never really goes away. I think Rugrats, a

01:26:18.180 --> 01:26:19.699
lot of people, you say something, they would

01:26:19.699 --> 01:26:22.560
go, Oh, Oh yeah. I think I, I kind of remember

01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:24.840
that. But if you say SpongeBob, Oh yeah. SpongeBob.

01:26:25.079 --> 01:26:26.739
It's like talking about your next door neighbor.

01:26:26.819 --> 01:26:28.619
Like you remember SpongeBob. Oh yeah. SpongeBob.

01:26:28.640 --> 01:26:30.859
Everybody knows SpongeBob, you know, unless you're

01:26:30.859 --> 01:26:34.180
talking to me. I mean, there's always one weirdo

01:26:34.180 --> 01:26:37.659
in town, right? So I would, I would definitely

01:26:37.659 --> 01:26:41.619
say Rugrats should be 42 and SpongeBob would

01:26:41.619 --> 01:26:44.109
be 41. Let's make it a clean sweep. All right.

01:26:44.109 --> 01:26:47.590
So that means Rugrats has risen from 46 to 42

01:26:47.590 --> 01:26:52.270
and SpongeBob has gone from 43 to 41. So both

01:26:52.270 --> 01:26:55.789
slight movements up the list for Rugrats and

01:26:55.789 --> 01:26:58.090
SpongeBob. So that's our first tie of the day.

01:26:58.109 --> 01:27:00.250
We'll have one more coming up later. But before

01:27:00.250 --> 01:27:03.010
we do that, let's get into our first adult swim

01:27:03.010 --> 01:27:08.810
show of the countdown today. 40. I thought you

01:27:08.810 --> 01:27:11.770
liked jazz. Don't be dense. I started wheeling

01:27:11.770 --> 01:27:13.989
the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on

01:27:13.989 --> 01:27:16.970
the day I was born. A baby hipster. Very cool.

01:27:17.369 --> 01:27:21.069
Look at my eyes. I'm just watching a bad dream.

01:27:21.130 --> 01:27:26.569
I never wake up from. All right. That's next

01:27:26.569 --> 01:27:29.390
up here at number 40. It's also our fourth or

01:27:29.390 --> 01:27:32.909
third show in a row from the 90s here. One of

01:27:32.909 --> 01:27:35.630
the most internationally influential anime ever

01:27:35.630 --> 01:27:38.579
made. Helping legitimize anime for adult Western

01:27:38.579 --> 01:27:42.000
audiences, its fusion of noir, jazz, sci -fi,

01:27:42.020 --> 01:27:45.020
and existential storytelling created a stylistic

01:27:45.020 --> 01:27:47.460
benchmark that still resonates today. The show's

01:27:47.460 --> 01:27:49.539
cinematic presentation elevated perception of

01:27:49.539 --> 01:27:52.579
what animated storytelling could achieve emotionally

01:27:52.579 --> 01:27:57.060
and aesthetically. From 1998, we are talking

01:27:57.060 --> 01:28:02.140
about Cowboy Bebop. Cowboy Bebop here at number

01:28:02.140 --> 01:28:05.720
40, the anime that aired on Adult Swim. It was

01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:09.279
62nd last time around. It comes in at number

01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:12.279
40th this time around. This was one that was

01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:14.300
on my homework list to watch some episodes. So

01:28:14.300 --> 01:28:16.680
I would be well informed about it. I failed at

01:28:16.680 --> 01:28:18.479
that homework though. The dog ate my homework

01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:21.340
and I did not get to it. So I am not going to

01:28:21.340 --> 01:28:23.500
help a whole lot here. Mike, any experience with

01:28:23.500 --> 01:28:27.420
Cowboy Bebop? I didn't realize Rocksteady and

01:28:27.420 --> 01:28:31.000
Bebop went cowboy. How did I know you were going

01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:33.340
to say something like that? Well, I mean, they're

01:28:33.340 --> 01:28:38.359
all musical styles. All right. Moving on from

01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:40.539
Mike, Steve, Cowboy Bebop, number 40 this time,

01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:43.619
number 62 last time. I can definitely see that.

01:28:44.279 --> 01:28:47.020
Just being someone who used to watch Adult Swim

01:28:47.020 --> 01:28:56.079
and Toonami. It's an entertaining show. It does

01:28:56.079 --> 01:29:00.479
have some comedic moments. It is very much in

01:29:00.479 --> 01:29:03.210
the sci -fi realm. uh, kind of plays in a little

01:29:03.210 --> 01:29:06.649
bit of a Western, uh, which is, which is kind

01:29:06.649 --> 01:29:08.170
of cool. It's, I don't know. It's kind of unique

01:29:08.170 --> 01:29:14.050
in that sense. Um, I don't know. Like I, I wasn't

01:29:14.050 --> 01:29:18.109
a huge fan of it at the time. However, on subsequent

01:29:18.109 --> 01:29:23.489
watchings of it, I do find, uh, myself more entertained

01:29:23.489 --> 01:29:27.569
and enjoying it. Uh, just there's, there's a

01:29:27.569 --> 01:29:29.710
lot of the, the dynamics between the characters.

01:29:29.770 --> 01:29:32.859
There's a lot of, I, love sci -fi and futuristic

01:29:32.859 --> 01:29:37.859
stuff it's not too dark to where i won't entertain

01:29:37.859 --> 01:29:44.199
the rest of it with with uh watching it and it

01:29:44.199 --> 01:29:46.720
just kind of plays with kind of the human psyche

01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:50.699
and a lot of it too so i mean i i think that

01:29:50.699 --> 01:29:53.659
it's it's valued and it's important to be here

01:29:53.659 --> 01:29:58.720
uh and don't confuse it with the uh the netflix

01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:01.750
live action stuff because that's not the same

01:30:01.750 --> 01:30:06.149
so uh but yeah i i would say that this is definitely

01:30:06.149 --> 01:30:08.689
warranted and i i think that it's cool that it

01:30:08.689 --> 01:30:12.090
it climbed the ranks here yeah and uh my two

01:30:12.090 --> 01:30:14.109
flip sides of the coin here that i was looking

01:30:14.109 --> 01:30:16.529
as far as research research goes one of them

01:30:16.529 --> 01:30:18.670
says the huge percentage of critics and anime

01:30:18.670 --> 01:30:20.729
fans would argue that this belongs in the top

01:30:20.729 --> 01:30:23.710
25 but others would argue that it's short run

01:30:23.710 --> 01:30:26.630
and brief you know lower amount of episodes keeps

01:30:26.630 --> 01:30:29.189
it from kind of being in that upper echelon Jared,

01:30:29.210 --> 01:30:30.750
I know you said this is around the same time

01:30:30.750 --> 01:30:33.029
period that you stopped or were no longer watching

01:30:33.029 --> 01:30:35.270
anime. Did you have any exposure to Cowboy Bebop?

01:30:36.149 --> 01:30:39.210
I knew it existed, but no, it was nothing I ever

01:30:39.210 --> 01:30:42.109
really got into. But it is one of those things

01:30:42.109 --> 01:30:45.470
that when I did my list, I remember thinking,

01:30:45.670 --> 01:30:49.310
like kind of debating where it might fit on there,

01:30:49.390 --> 01:30:52.109
because even though I wasn't a fan, I recognized

01:30:52.109 --> 01:30:55.090
that it had some significance. But honestly,

01:30:55.250 --> 01:30:58.380
I don't even know. Couldn't tell you. my list

01:30:58.380 --> 01:31:02.560
at the moment but it is something i'm when they

01:31:02.560 --> 01:31:04.939
i remember when they were going to do the live

01:31:04.939 --> 01:31:07.239
action there were a lot of people that that were

01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:10.420
against the idea of it being live action kind

01:31:10.420 --> 01:31:12.539
of like with powerpuff girls just the idea of

01:31:12.539 --> 01:31:16.500
don't touch it like don't don't reboot it don't

01:31:16.500 --> 01:31:19.840
relaunch it don't make a sequel series like just

01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:22.659
let it be what it is and leave it alone and and

01:31:22.659 --> 01:31:24.899
that was i think part of the controversy as well

01:31:24.899 --> 01:31:28.680
and then plus it wasn't good but I think for

01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:32.859
a lot of people, they, they really, it wasn't

01:31:32.859 --> 01:31:36.520
as big of a hit as some of the other shows, but

01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:38.539
for the people who were fans of the show, they

01:31:38.539 --> 01:31:40.880
were much bigger fans than some of the other

01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:43.180
shows that we've seen. So I think it makes sense

01:31:43.180 --> 01:31:45.420
to be on the list. And I think this is probably

01:31:45.420 --> 01:31:46.960
a pretty good place for it to come in at. Yeah.

01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:49.680
Yeah. There's one of those similar to you that

01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:51.779
like I had, didn't have a lot of exposure, but

01:31:51.779 --> 01:31:55.130
I did put it on my top 100 just out of. um you

01:31:55.130 --> 01:31:57.170
know the reputation and things like that that

01:31:57.170 --> 01:32:00.430
it that it had so kind of why i i found at least

01:32:00.430 --> 01:32:03.869
one spot for it so that kicks off our top 40

01:32:03.869 --> 01:32:05.770
and for our next entry we're going to go back

01:32:05.770 --> 01:32:10.869
to the world of dc 39 looking for me the product

01:32:10.869 --> 01:32:18.949
of sun returns It's unlike anything I've seen

01:32:18.949 --> 01:32:23.649
before. Your flight's been canceled. All right,

01:32:23.670 --> 01:32:26.850
next up, our fourth show in a row from the 90s.

01:32:27.289 --> 01:32:30.890
And our second show from the WB aired specifically

01:32:30.890 --> 01:32:34.810
on the Kids WB in 1996. We are talking about

01:32:34.810 --> 01:32:38.930
Superman, the animated series. It was number

01:32:38.930 --> 01:32:42.109
47 last time around. It's still in our top 50

01:32:42.109 --> 01:32:45.289
this time, but it's climbed up to 30. Mike, what

01:32:45.289 --> 01:32:46.670
do you think of Superman the Animated Series

01:32:46.670 --> 01:32:49.989
and Where It Falls? Love Superman the Animated

01:32:49.989 --> 01:32:56.289
Series. It is the show that holds one of the

01:32:56.289 --> 01:33:00.729
best Superman, Batman stories in existence because

01:33:00.729 --> 01:33:04.449
it has the three -parter in it, World's Finest,

01:33:04.510 --> 01:33:07.970
which is also, you can also find it separately

01:33:07.970 --> 01:33:11.029
as the Batman Superman movie. This is the...

01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:15.899
The one where Lex and Joker team up and then

01:33:15.899 --> 01:33:18.500
Batman and Superman have to team up to stop them.

01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:24.340
But three seasons, 52 episodes if I remember

01:33:24.340 --> 01:33:28.039
correctly off the top of my head. 54. It's too

01:33:28.039 --> 01:33:33.060
off. But yeah, no. Tim Daly as Superman. Clancy

01:33:33.060 --> 01:33:37.579
Brown as Lex Luthor. Dana Delaney as Lois Lane.

01:33:37.699 --> 01:33:40.939
Absolutely love this series. Did a really great

01:33:40.939 --> 01:33:46.050
job. portraying superman uh in animation uh one

01:33:46.050 --> 01:33:50.630
of the best jobs ever in animation they told

01:33:50.630 --> 01:33:53.250
really great stories really interesting stories

01:33:53.250 --> 01:33:57.289
it's one of the best superman cartoons out there

01:33:57.289 --> 01:34:00.890
folks check it out it appeared on 24 of the 44

01:34:00.890 --> 01:34:03.350
list dirt where do you think about or what do

01:34:03.350 --> 01:34:04.810
you think about superman's placement here at

01:34:04.810 --> 01:34:07.689
number 39 yeah this came out in the time period

01:34:07.689 --> 01:34:10.500
that i I was busy flunking out of college at

01:34:10.500 --> 01:34:12.100
this point, so I didn't really watch it when

01:34:12.100 --> 01:34:14.239
it was on, but it's one that I did go back to.

01:34:15.340 --> 01:34:20.460
I really enjoyed the look and feel, the way they

01:34:20.460 --> 01:34:24.539
took Batman the Animated Series being very dark

01:34:24.539 --> 01:34:28.000
and noir and just overall black and dirty and

01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:32.479
grimy, and they kept the feel and the style of

01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:34.619
it, but then flipped it, and it was very bright

01:34:34.619 --> 01:34:40.250
and action. sci -fi uh brainiac i love the fact

01:34:40.250 --> 01:34:42.710
that brainiac was a big part of superman the

01:34:42.710 --> 01:34:44.149
animated series because that's a character i

01:34:44.149 --> 01:34:48.170
always enjoyed um more than lex luther and so

01:34:48.170 --> 01:34:50.750
it was something i went back to and when i went

01:34:50.750 --> 01:34:52.689
back and watched it later i probably watched

01:34:52.689 --> 01:34:55.670
it in like 2005 2006 somewhere around there um

01:34:55.670 --> 01:34:58.010
and i really enjoyed it and i kind of felt bad

01:34:58.010 --> 01:34:59.869
that i didn't watch it when it was on the air

01:34:59.869 --> 01:35:04.109
and and i think it is a show that because of

01:35:04.109 --> 01:35:06.789
the again like with batman the animated series

01:35:06.789 --> 01:35:10.029
because the way they stylized it it exists kind

01:35:10.029 --> 01:35:12.829
of in its own time so someone now could watch

01:35:12.829 --> 01:35:16.289
it and feel like it's a modern show uh someone

01:35:16.289 --> 01:35:18.310
10 years ago could watch it and feel like it

01:35:18.310 --> 01:35:20.130
was a modern show someone 20 years ago could

01:35:20.130 --> 01:35:21.810
watch it and feel like it's a modern show i think

01:35:21.810 --> 01:35:23.930
in 10 years someone will be able to watch it

01:35:23.930 --> 01:35:25.390
and feel like it's still a modern show those

01:35:25.390 --> 01:35:28.430
shows just have that evergreen kind of feel to

01:35:28.430 --> 01:35:31.869
them because they don't really exist in any specific

01:35:31.869 --> 01:35:34.409
time period it just kind of pulls from you know

01:35:34.409 --> 01:35:37.729
different things and it plays so well that uh

01:35:37.729 --> 01:35:41.550
i i'm i'm really glad it's on this list and i'm

01:35:41.550 --> 01:35:43.970
glad we can see it you know this high on this

01:35:43.970 --> 01:35:46.949
side of the 50 mark um and it's a show that if

01:35:46.949 --> 01:35:49.689
somebody has not seen it and and we always hear

01:35:49.689 --> 01:35:51.310
these people whenever there's like a superman

01:35:51.310 --> 01:35:55.649
movie coming up oh you can't adapt superman it's

01:35:55.649 --> 01:35:58.180
a character that just doesn't work Yes, you can.

01:35:58.300 --> 01:36:01.140
This is proof. Yeah, this show is the show that

01:36:01.140 --> 01:36:03.300
proves that you can do Superman if you understand

01:36:03.300 --> 01:36:06.659
the character. Before Steve goes, I have to say

01:36:06.659 --> 01:36:08.979
this. Your time's already up, Mike. No, no, no.

01:36:09.039 --> 01:36:11.479
I have to say this because I think I'm probably

01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:14.720
the only one who's going to get it right. This

01:36:14.720 --> 01:36:17.579
show did one of the greatest things in Superman

01:36:17.579 --> 01:36:24.779
history. It got Gilbert Gottfried as the voice.

01:36:25.420 --> 01:36:31.319
Of Mr. Miziez Pidlik. No, Miziez Pidlik. That's

01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:35.300
how you say his name. They literally spelt it

01:36:35.300 --> 01:36:40.859
out in the show. Whatever you say. All right,

01:36:40.859 --> 01:36:46.199
Steve. That's what they say. I love this show.

01:36:48.220 --> 01:36:53.470
It's the only time I've actually enjoyed. 100

01:36:53.470 --> 01:36:57.270
% of something Superman. Between the voice acting,

01:36:57.390 --> 01:37:00.750
the writing, the animation, it took what I loved

01:37:00.750 --> 01:37:03.270
about Batman the Animated Series and it just

01:37:03.270 --> 01:37:06.869
propelled it. And then it also built it into

01:37:06.869 --> 01:37:10.029
something that later would go into Justice League

01:37:10.029 --> 01:37:16.010
and Justice League Unlimited. So this also was

01:37:16.010 --> 01:37:19.949
at the time where they kind of restarted Batman

01:37:19.949 --> 01:37:21.770
the Animated Series with the new adventures.

01:37:22.960 --> 01:37:27.979
of batman and i don't know i just everything

01:37:27.979 --> 01:37:30.520
was so on point with this show like it definitely

01:37:30.520 --> 01:37:35.079
deserves where it's at yeah i can see that one

01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:37.260
of the best video game adaptations of all time

01:37:37.260 --> 01:37:41.439
on the nintendo 64 i have not played that one

01:37:41.439 --> 01:37:43.420
that makes me intrigued now no it's superman

01:37:43.420 --> 01:37:48.680
64 it's terrible okay it's all part of it all

01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:51.100
right So that means up to this point so far,

01:37:51.119 --> 01:37:54.560
we have had seven shows from the 1990s. We've

01:37:54.560 --> 01:37:56.640
had three shows from the 2000s and we've had

01:37:56.640 --> 01:38:00.000
two shows from specifically 1984. So we have

01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:02.420
had nothing from the last 15 years and we've

01:38:02.420 --> 01:38:05.420
had nothing from the pre 1980s. Just giving you

01:38:05.420 --> 01:38:08.539
guys an update on where we stand so far. Let's

01:38:08.539 --> 01:38:11.539
go ahead into our next one and see a first from

01:38:11.539 --> 01:38:16.520
a specific channel for today. 38. I know what

01:38:16.520 --> 01:38:18.779
we're doing today. But this isn't a sitcom pairing

01:38:18.779 --> 01:38:21.079
the platypus. This is real life. All right. Coming

01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:24.500
up next at number 38, a show that perfected a

01:38:24.500 --> 01:38:26.859
formula driven structure through sheer creativity,

01:38:27.079 --> 01:38:30.380
musical quality and charm. Its songs became culturally

01:38:30.380 --> 01:38:32.520
recognizable and its positivity and inventiveness

01:38:32.520 --> 01:38:35.079
made it one of Disney Channel's defining animated

01:38:35.079 --> 01:38:39.569
successes. Mike, you are limited to three minutes.

01:38:39.689 --> 01:38:41.590
You cannot talk any more than three minutes.

01:38:41.670 --> 01:38:44.250
I have to talk more than three minutes. I will

01:38:44.250 --> 01:38:48.350
edit you out. You will not edit me out. This

01:38:48.350 --> 01:38:52.510
appeared on six of the nine lists. It actually

01:38:52.510 --> 01:38:55.430
climbed up quite a bit. It was 61 last time around.

01:38:55.510 --> 01:38:58.829
It climbed 23 spots to 38. This is a long podcast,

01:38:58.949 --> 01:39:00.869
Mike. You have to keep it brief. Talk about Phineas

01:39:00.869 --> 01:39:04.840
and Ferb. Ladies and gentlemen, head on over

01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:07.279
to the podcast organization without a cool acronym.

01:39:07.380 --> 01:39:09.699
We currently have something like 90 episodes

01:39:09.699 --> 01:39:12.760
where my buddy Michael Wilson and I review every

01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:16.319
episode of Phineas and Ferb. But seriously, no.

01:39:16.359 --> 01:39:20.560
Phineas and Ferb. Absolutely. Last time when

01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:23.340
we did this 15 years ago, Phineas and Ferb wasn't

01:39:23.340 --> 01:39:26.300
even... Well, it was around. I don't think it

01:39:26.300 --> 01:39:31.260
was eligible. It appeared number 61st. Oh, it

01:39:31.260 --> 01:39:34.640
did. Okay, well. No, this show is great. Absolutely

01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:37.460
love Phineas and Ferb. It is such a wonderful

01:39:37.460 --> 01:39:41.600
show, and I'm glad to see it here in the top

01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:46.380
50. It has had a number of awards, 25 plus awards.

01:39:46.539 --> 01:39:50.840
It's had over 200 episodes. It comes in here

01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:54.180
at number 38. We had it 61st last time. I actually

01:39:54.180 --> 01:39:55.800
had it go in the opposite direction. I'm sorry,

01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:58.909
Mike, but I had it 84th on my. list just because

01:39:58.909 --> 01:40:01.090
i just didn't have enough room for i had a lot

01:40:01.090 --> 01:40:03.289
more that i liked better but i i get the appeal

01:40:03.289 --> 01:40:05.909
and i get that it has a following so i expected

01:40:05.909 --> 01:40:08.050
it to be in our top 100 somewhere i just didn't

01:40:08.050 --> 01:40:09.489
know where it was going to fall steve what do

01:40:09.489 --> 01:40:12.550
you think about phineas and ferb i'm not a huge

01:40:12.550 --> 01:40:15.350
fan of it but again it's it wasn't geared towards

01:40:15.350 --> 01:40:20.989
me that being said um my my kids did enjoy it

01:40:20.989 --> 01:40:25.590
uh they like one of them had it in his top 30

01:40:25.590 --> 01:40:29.630
and then the other one had it at number two so

01:40:29.630 --> 01:40:34.050
hard kid that's nolan yeah he had it at number

01:40:34.050 --> 01:40:37.289
two um but yeah they they've blitzed through

01:40:37.289 --> 01:40:39.869
they enjoy it they find it funny and and entertaining

01:40:39.869 --> 01:40:44.750
uh it does have pretty solid voice acting and

01:40:44.750 --> 01:40:47.229
a lot of shenanigans i have i have watched it

01:40:47.229 --> 01:40:52.760
periodically with them it's not um it again it's

01:40:52.760 --> 01:40:55.720
not one of my favorite shows but it's the people

01:40:55.720 --> 01:40:58.060
behind it you can tell that they're they're just

01:40:58.060 --> 01:41:01.140
they love this stuff and it spawned other series

01:41:01.140 --> 01:41:06.600
because of it so um i i think that it deserves

01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:08.539
being on the list i think it deserves moving

01:41:08.539 --> 01:41:11.479
up the way it has and it hasn't really gone away

01:41:11.479 --> 01:41:16.279
it's it's even come back so uh you know starting

01:41:16.279 --> 01:41:21.479
with 2025 after a 10 -year hiatus so I think

01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:24.720
it's deserved. So that means dirt for Disney

01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:27.880
shows so far. We've had Recess, Gummy Bears,

01:41:28.180 --> 01:41:30.859
then we went quite a bit of time, and then we

01:41:30.859 --> 01:41:33.680
finally got Kim Possible, Gravity Falls, and

01:41:33.680 --> 01:41:35.960
Tailspin last episode. This is our first Disney

01:41:35.960 --> 01:41:38.140
show here with Phineas and Ferb. What are your

01:41:38.140 --> 01:41:40.460
thoughts on it or the Disney shows that we've

01:41:40.460 --> 01:41:43.680
included so far? Well, this was a show that my

01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:45.439
kids really enjoyed when they were growing up,

01:41:45.460 --> 01:41:49.020
so I was familiar with it. I never really sat

01:41:49.020 --> 01:41:52.420
down and watched it. but it was on a lot, so

01:41:52.420 --> 01:41:56.680
I absorbed enough of it. I enjoyed it enough,

01:41:57.000 --> 01:41:59.920
but it was never something I really got into

01:41:59.920 --> 01:42:03.279
myself. But I will say that just, gosh, I think

01:42:03.279 --> 01:42:07.819
two weeks ago, I was with my son at a store called

01:42:07.819 --> 01:42:11.279
Buy Below, a discount store, and they had Phineas

01:42:11.279 --> 01:42:16.810
and Ferb action figures. They weren't Funko Pops,

01:42:16.869 --> 01:42:18.310
but they were something similar. They were like

01:42:18.310 --> 01:42:20.909
icons or something. I forget what the brand name

01:42:20.909 --> 01:42:23.050
was, but it was like a knockoff of Funko Pops.

01:42:23.109 --> 01:42:25.090
But they had Phineas and Ferb. And you know,

01:42:25.149 --> 01:42:27.890
they are stylized characters. So when you put

01:42:27.890 --> 01:42:30.350
them in 3D, they just look wrong. Like the way

01:42:30.350 --> 01:42:32.630
when you see a Simpsons figure drawn face first,

01:42:32.869 --> 01:42:35.850
you know? Yeah. That giant triangle head with

01:42:35.850 --> 01:42:38.609
the two eyes just doesn't... It's creepy. But

01:42:38.609 --> 01:42:42.449
we commented like, oh, Phineas and Ferb. Like,

01:42:42.470 --> 01:42:46.979
it's still... a thing like people are still reminiscing

01:42:46.979 --> 01:42:49.460
about it talking about it it's still you know

01:42:49.460 --> 01:42:52.880
part of the cultural zeitgeist so i'm i i don't

01:42:52.880 --> 01:42:55.399
know that i would personally put it this high

01:42:55.399 --> 01:42:59.140
on the list um overall uh i i would argue that

01:42:59.140 --> 01:43:02.720
maybe it would go above the 50 or below the 50

01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:06.399
however you say it but uh but but i do i do think

01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:09.779
it belongs in the in the 100 for sure absolutely

01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:13.479
That means that 11 of our 13 reveals so far have

01:43:13.479 --> 01:43:15.560
been from the 90s or the 2000s. Let's see if

01:43:15.560 --> 01:43:21.239
that continues next. 37. Ghostbusters. If it

01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:23.420
goes bump in the night, we'll make it right.

01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:26.399
All right. Next up, our first show that was from

01:43:26.399 --> 01:43:29.439
the Deke Production Company. Our first show for

01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:33.899
today that debuted on ABC. And we're going back

01:43:33.899 --> 01:43:36.500
to the 80s for this one. So one of the strongest

01:43:36.500 --> 01:43:40.460
examples of a film to animation adaptation. Succeeding

01:43:40.460 --> 01:43:43.000
on its own merits, it expanded this franchise's

01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.359
universe significantly and balanced comedy, horror,

01:43:45.500 --> 01:43:47.659
and adventure in a way that deeply resonated

01:43:47.659 --> 01:43:55.199
with kids of the era. Any guesses? Nope. Film

01:43:55.199 --> 01:43:58.199
to animation, adaptation, comedy, horror, and

01:43:58.199 --> 01:43:59.479
adventure. I thought you were going to be talking

01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:01.819
about something else, but you said film to animation.

01:44:04.260 --> 01:44:10.220
1986's The Real Ghostbusters. This appeared on

01:44:10.220 --> 01:44:12.779
the most lists so far that we've had in the entire

01:44:12.779 --> 01:44:15.899
countdown, 28 of the 44 lists that this appeared

01:44:15.899 --> 01:44:19.319
on. But that did not help it, actually, because

01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:24.199
it dropped 10 spots from 27 to 37. So in that

01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:26.699
respect, it was on the most lists so far that

01:44:26.699 --> 01:44:29.020
we've seen, but it did not get as much love as

01:44:29.020 --> 01:44:34.000
we got 15 years ago. So from 27 to 37, Dirt,

01:44:34.039 --> 01:44:36.460
what do you think of the real Ghostbusters? I

01:44:36.460 --> 01:44:38.800
think what hurt it was that reboot. What was

01:44:38.800 --> 01:44:41.840
it? 2018. Uh, that's probably what, what made

01:44:41.840 --> 01:44:47.739
it drop. Um, 2016. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it's, it's,

01:44:47.739 --> 01:44:51.380
it's funny. I do remember watching the show and

01:44:51.380 --> 01:44:53.739
like, I remember specific scenes and I remember,

01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.659
um, you know, they were fighting some monster

01:44:56.659 --> 01:44:58.979
and they needed sheets of mylar. And so they

01:44:58.979 --> 01:45:01.060
got like giant rolls of mylar. And I remember

01:45:01.060 --> 01:45:03.319
like, what the heck is mylar? And then I look

01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:04.699
it up and it's like, Oh, it's used in special

01:45:04.699 --> 01:45:06.859
effects all the time. Now they make balloons

01:45:06.859 --> 01:45:10.279
and, you know, like whatever. I remember it just

01:45:10.279 --> 01:45:13.180
being one of those shows that everybody I knew

01:45:13.180 --> 01:45:16.880
watched it. Like everybody, like they knew Ghostbusters,

01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:18.800
the movie, and now you had a Ghostbusters cartoon

01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:21.960
show. And even though it was so different and

01:45:21.960 --> 01:45:25.819
so, you know, disconnected really from the movie,

01:45:25.939 --> 01:45:29.479
but everybody was a fan. Everybody had at least

01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:31.539
one Halloween costume growing up. They had a

01:45:31.539 --> 01:45:34.180
couple of the figures. Everybody wanted a proton

01:45:34.180 --> 01:45:39.560
pack. And so as the cartoon series was rolling

01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:43.500
out, and everybody felt represented by it. I

01:45:43.500 --> 01:45:46.060
know that's become a much bigger deal in these

01:45:46.060 --> 01:45:49.800
later eras, but everybody could see somebody

01:45:49.800 --> 01:45:51.880
on that show that they could identify with, even

01:45:51.880 --> 01:45:56.340
nerdy guys like me. They did have a playset for

01:45:56.340 --> 01:46:01.199
the HQ, right? Yes, they did. Classic playsets

01:46:01.199 --> 01:46:05.020
of the 1980s. Mike, any thoughts on real Ghostbusters?

01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:08.420
Whenever talking about the real Ghostbusters,

01:46:08.420 --> 01:46:13.340
you have to make sure that you say the real Ghostbusters.

01:46:13.380 --> 01:46:15.279
Even though they're not the real Ghostbusters.

01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:20.159
Not you, Optimus Solo. I'm saying in general,

01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:22.920
whenever in conversation with people. Nobody

01:46:22.920 --> 01:46:24.899
remembers Filmation's Ghostbusters. Come on.

01:46:25.739 --> 01:46:28.380
Nobody remembers it. Some people out there do

01:46:28.380 --> 01:46:32.010
apparently because, oh my. God mentioned just

01:46:32.010 --> 01:46:34.789
the Ghostbusters to people. When you're talking

01:46:34.789 --> 01:46:38.050
about cartoons, they pull up a clip about some

01:46:38.050 --> 01:46:43.250
weird. Oh, that was creepy as all hell. Don't

01:46:43.250 --> 01:46:46.930
do that dirt. Someone's got to keep you humble.

01:46:47.010 --> 01:46:53.489
That's all I got to say. That's not on the real

01:46:53.489 --> 01:46:59.720
Ghostbusters. I mean. Not really. I mean, I did

01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:02.279
watch it. This was one that I did watch kind

01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:06.140
of religiously on Saturday mornings. Obviously,

01:47:06.239 --> 01:47:09.739
mostly on rerun or towards the tail end of the

01:47:09.739 --> 01:47:13.979
series. But no, I mean, the voice actors are

01:47:13.979 --> 01:47:18.579
always great. The animation was fun. It made

01:47:18.579 --> 01:47:21.520
Ghostbusters less scary compared to the live

01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:25.810
action as a kid. So it was very appealing. And

01:47:25.810 --> 01:47:28.189
it was very shiny. Plus, Slimer was, you know,

01:47:28.210 --> 01:47:30.529
there for comedy relief, kind of like any other.

01:47:30.670 --> 01:47:33.289
Slimer was the best. Oh, I know. Well, kind of

01:47:33.289 --> 01:47:35.149
like any other show. I mean, Thundercats had

01:47:35.149 --> 01:47:37.529
Snarf, you know, Scooby -Doo had Scooby. I mean,

01:47:37.550 --> 01:47:40.909
you had that that character that was always there

01:47:40.909 --> 01:47:45.010
kind of causing problems. So I don't know. I

01:47:45.010 --> 01:47:47.229
found it entertaining, despite the fact that,

01:47:47.229 --> 01:47:48.989
you know, it was kind of creepy at the time,

01:47:49.010 --> 01:47:53.579
too. But yeah, I think it's warranted. I do think

01:47:53.579 --> 01:47:55.840
from a film to animation aspect, like it was

01:47:55.840 --> 01:47:57.779
one that was able to stand on its own and didn't

01:47:57.779 --> 01:48:00.239
really need the movies to be successful. So I

01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:03.140
think that was a unique characteristic of it

01:48:03.140 --> 01:48:04.520
compared to some of the other stuff that we got

01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:06.699
where like you had like the police Academy and

01:48:06.699 --> 01:48:09.380
Rambo and like a lot of other stuff that came

01:48:09.380 --> 01:48:11.439
out in the eighties that like was just trying

01:48:11.439 --> 01:48:14.039
to use the movie for success and not actually

01:48:14.039 --> 01:48:17.199
create like an actual quality product. So I'll

01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:18.619
give real Ghostbusters credit for that. It was

01:48:18.619 --> 01:48:21.039
on for like 147 episodes, which is a lot in the

01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:25.210
eighties. All right. So go ahead. Well, we all

01:48:25.210 --> 01:48:28.750
know that voice actors do various roles and whatever

01:48:28.750 --> 01:48:31.470
else. But what I always found most interesting

01:48:31.470 --> 01:48:35.170
about the real Ghostbusters is that Peter Venkman

01:48:35.170 --> 01:48:41.109
is also Garfield. Lorenzo Music played Garfield

01:48:41.109 --> 01:48:45.789
and Venkman. Oh, boy. Very different characters.

01:48:46.590 --> 01:48:48.109
Lawrence of Music and Bill Murray are definitely

01:48:48.109 --> 01:48:50.569
very close to the same sound. That's for sure.

01:48:50.689 --> 01:48:54.390
Very true. We're still seeing the classic era

01:48:54.390 --> 01:48:56.869
and the modern era be shut out today. So nothing

01:48:56.869 --> 01:48:58.909
from either section. We'll have to see if that

01:48:58.909 --> 01:49:03.710
continues next. 35. Why didn't you believe me?

01:49:05.850 --> 01:49:09.189
Happy, happy, joy, joy. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

01:49:09.210 --> 01:49:12.449
Happy, happy, joy, joy. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

01:49:12.470 --> 01:49:24.500
Happy, happy, joy, joy. All right. At our number

01:49:24.500 --> 01:49:27.720
36 is our first number one that falls today.

01:49:27.859 --> 01:49:30.100
So somebody had this show at their number one

01:49:30.100 --> 01:49:33.960
overall. And we are talking about a show that

01:49:33.960 --> 01:49:36.640
completely changed the visual and comedic language

01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:40.680
of television animation in the 90s. It's grotesque

01:49:40.680 --> 01:49:43.340
closeups, anarchic humor and creator driven style

01:49:43.340 --> 01:49:46.840
directly influenced an entire generation of animators

01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:51.060
and paved the way for edgier cartoons. So happy

01:49:51.060 --> 01:49:53.279
that it still remains in our top 50, even if

01:49:53.279 --> 01:49:55.119
it has fallen a little bit, it's gone from number

01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:58.319
29 to number 36. And I apologize to the person

01:49:58.319 --> 01:50:01.880
that had this at number one, 1991 from Nickelodeon,

01:50:01.939 --> 01:50:05.600
the great, the Ren and Stimpy show here at number

01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:11.359
36, Steve, I'll let you go first. I remember

01:50:11.359 --> 01:50:15.140
watching this, uh, with my cousins and my uncle

01:50:15.140 --> 01:50:19.640
and, uh, my ice cream bar. Oh, I love to eat.

01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:22.859
It's creamy center. Uh, and I played the video

01:50:22.859 --> 01:50:26.439
games of it too, which was fun. Um, I don't know.

01:50:26.500 --> 01:50:29.739
Don't, there were so many funny clips on, on

01:50:29.739 --> 01:50:33.479
the random snippy show, not the, the weird one

01:50:33.479 --> 01:50:35.720
that came out later. That was really dark and

01:50:35.720 --> 01:50:37.699
adult, but the, the kid one that kind of came

01:50:37.699 --> 01:50:42.560
out, uh, you know, buttered toast man and don't

01:50:42.560 --> 01:50:45.800
pee on the electric fence and you know so many

01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:48.659
other like funny quotable moments from the show

01:50:48.659 --> 01:50:52.819
i i don't know like i it was very much a staple

01:50:52.819 --> 01:50:55.539
and it was kind of a gateway too for other people

01:50:55.539 --> 01:50:59.819
to get into more of the adult humor and programming

01:50:59.819 --> 01:51:04.140
that later came on with adult swim so i i don't

01:51:04.140 --> 01:51:06.500
have an issue with it Do I watch it today or

01:51:06.500 --> 01:51:08.619
seek it out? Not really. Like, it's not one I

01:51:08.619 --> 01:51:10.720
care to go back and rewatch, which is kind of

01:51:10.720 --> 01:51:14.500
the case with most of the shows anymore without

01:51:14.500 --> 01:51:17.979
a select few. But I think it's warranted that

01:51:17.979 --> 01:51:23.119
it moving closer towards, you know, between 50

01:51:23.119 --> 01:51:28.060
and 25, I think instead of being close to 25,

01:51:28.180 --> 01:51:30.319
I think it's kind of hitting the right realm

01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:33.569
at this point. yeah i had it ranked number 27

01:51:33.569 --> 01:51:36.529
on my list so 36 is fine for me i think it did

01:51:36.529 --> 01:51:39.170
a couple reasons for me like we've talked a lot

01:51:39.170 --> 01:51:43.350
about the argument between historical or genre

01:51:43.350 --> 01:51:45.550
impact or cultural impact or something that like

01:51:45.550 --> 01:51:47.550
really it was a foundation show for other stuff

01:51:47.550 --> 01:51:49.510
that came and we've talked about how that often

01:51:49.510 --> 01:51:52.810
is put at odds with like overall quality or like

01:51:52.810 --> 01:51:55.470
effectiveness of the actual show like a show

01:51:55.470 --> 01:51:57.270
that was really important historically but maybe

01:51:57.270 --> 01:52:00.199
you know lacks quality or things of that nature.

01:52:00.220 --> 01:52:01.739
And to me, this one blends both things, right?

01:52:01.819 --> 01:52:04.079
Like it's super influential on what comes after

01:52:04.079 --> 01:52:06.560
it, but then it also was a, was a decently made

01:52:06.560 --> 01:52:09.800
quality show. So that's kind of why I had it

01:52:09.800 --> 01:52:12.079
as high as I did at number 27 dirt. What do you

01:52:12.079 --> 01:52:14.680
think of the Ren and Stimpy show? I remember

01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:17.359
at the time I did not have cable television.

01:52:17.460 --> 01:52:19.680
So I had to go to someone else's house if I ever

01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:22.859
wanted to watch anything. And that was one of

01:52:22.859 --> 01:52:26.550
those shows that you would go. spend the night

01:52:26.550 --> 01:52:29.130
at someone else's house for the weekend and you

01:52:29.130 --> 01:52:31.970
would just watch tapes of Ren and Stimpy. And

01:52:31.970 --> 01:52:35.029
there was nothing ever like it before. It was

01:52:35.029 --> 01:52:38.369
completely groundbreaking in so many ways. And

01:52:38.369 --> 01:52:41.069
one of the things that I really remember is just

01:52:41.069 --> 01:52:46.329
the pacing of it was so methodical. And there

01:52:46.329 --> 01:52:49.250
were times that it would play with silence and

01:52:49.250 --> 01:52:52.529
it would stretch things out to an absurd length.

01:52:52.670 --> 01:52:55.180
And especially... You'd have two characters talking

01:52:55.180 --> 01:52:57.140
and then the transition to a different scene

01:52:57.140 --> 01:53:00.300
for some reason would take like 10, 15 seconds

01:53:00.300 --> 01:53:02.119
instead of like three seconds like you would

01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:05.079
normally expect in a show just because it was

01:53:05.079 --> 01:53:07.640
trying to be so awkward and so different. And

01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:10.779
there are so many things that now, I think if

01:53:10.779 --> 01:53:12.579
you try to go back and watch it, a lot of it,

01:53:12.600 --> 01:53:16.819
it almost feels annoying in a sense because it's

01:53:16.819 --> 01:53:20.899
trying to get on your nerves. And we've seen

01:53:20.899 --> 01:53:24.119
so many things do that now. And it kind of goes

01:53:24.119 --> 01:53:27.739
back to that idea of it broke ground on so many

01:53:27.739 --> 01:53:30.659
things and it did things first. And sometimes

01:53:30.659 --> 01:53:32.899
when you go back and you watch the show that

01:53:32.899 --> 01:53:36.460
did things first, it doesn't necessarily hold

01:53:36.460 --> 01:53:38.840
up as well as some of the things that came after

01:53:38.840 --> 01:53:41.359
it that it inspired. But you have to recognize

01:53:41.359 --> 01:53:46.199
where it came from in our culture and in the

01:53:46.199 --> 01:53:48.560
process of animation. And it's one of those keystones,

01:53:48.619 --> 01:53:51.560
I think, in animation where if it didn't exist.

01:53:52.119 --> 01:53:54.800
the entire animated landscape would be completely

01:53:54.800 --> 01:53:58.439
different on this side. So absolutely. I, I,

01:53:58.439 --> 01:54:02.340
I totally like, I think it deserves every award.

01:54:02.619 --> 01:54:05.180
I think it's a fantastic show. I think it's a

01:54:05.180 --> 01:54:07.439
show that you cannot deny its place in history.

01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:11.300
But if you take someone now who's like maybe

01:54:11.300 --> 01:54:14.479
19, 20 years old and you say, Hey, sit down and

01:54:14.479 --> 01:54:15.819
watch Ren and Stimpy. They're going to be like,

01:54:15.859 --> 01:54:17.979
what the hell is this show? Like, this doesn't

01:54:17.979 --> 01:54:20.899
make any sense. Like, like, you know, and it,

01:54:20.920 --> 01:54:23.699
it, totally plays against all of their sensibilities

01:54:23.699 --> 01:54:27.140
because that's what it's meant to do what you're

01:54:27.140 --> 01:54:28.680
talking about too like with the way that it was

01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:31.359
methodical and drew out stuff that is like the

01:54:31.359 --> 01:54:34.659
opposite of what we've trained a couple generations

01:54:34.659 --> 01:54:36.739
worth of people to just have everything like

01:54:36.739 --> 01:54:39.699
going 3 ,000 miles an hour and like switching

01:54:39.699 --> 01:54:41.220
and switching and switching and then like the

01:54:41.220 --> 01:54:43.539
stimulus overload so it would definitely be something

01:54:43.539 --> 01:54:46.039
that would be hard probably for them to watch

01:54:46.039 --> 01:54:47.500
because we've trained them in a completely different

01:54:47.500 --> 01:54:50.569
way with everything else we've I considered just

01:54:50.569 --> 01:54:52.609
skipping you and moving on to the next one, Mike,

01:54:52.689 --> 01:54:54.329
but I will let you say a few words about Red

01:54:54.329 --> 01:54:59.430
and Stippy if you choose. Number 35. Dirt said

01:54:59.430 --> 01:55:01.869
everything that needed to be said. Excellent.

01:55:02.029 --> 01:55:04.029
All right. I like keeping it positive. I love

01:55:04.029 --> 01:55:07.229
it. So let's move on and see what's next. 36.

01:55:12.660 --> 01:55:15.340
All right. For our next entry, we've seen production

01:55:15.340 --> 01:55:18.060
companies such as Nickelodeon, Deke, Disney,

01:55:18.239 --> 01:55:23.000
the WB, Marvel, Cartoon Network, MTV, Sunbow.

01:55:23.119 --> 01:55:24.960
There's one production company we have not seen

01:55:24.960 --> 01:55:27.659
yet today. Anybody have a guess as to what that

01:55:27.659 --> 01:55:31.159
is? Rankin Bass. We have not seen them either,

01:55:31.260 --> 01:55:35.680
but we also have not seen any shows today. And

01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:39.439
we haven't since number 66. that were coming

01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:43.100
from Hannah Barbera. So our last entry from Hannah

01:55:43.100 --> 01:55:45.760
Barbera was number 66, Johnny Quest. Before that,

01:55:45.819 --> 01:55:49.079
we had had Smurfs, Huckleberry Hound, Wacky Races,

01:55:49.359 --> 01:55:53.020
The Super Friends, and Top Cat. We are going

01:55:53.020 --> 01:55:57.199
back to that world right now for a show that

01:55:57.199 --> 01:55:59.500
became one of Hannah Barbera's defining breakout

01:55:59.500 --> 01:56:02.859
shows and breakout stars, helped establish the

01:56:02.859 --> 01:56:05.039
personality -driven comedic style that dominated

01:56:05.039 --> 01:56:08.279
early television animation. The character's cultural

01:56:08.279 --> 01:56:13.000
recognizability lasted for decades. I had this

01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:17.739
one in our top 25. It didn't make it there, but

01:56:17.739 --> 01:56:19.760
we did improve on where we had it last time.

01:56:19.979 --> 01:56:23.180
So last time we had it at number 48. This time

01:56:23.180 --> 01:56:26.199
we have it at number 35. That's a 13 spot improvement,

01:56:26.399 --> 01:56:29.039
so I'll take what I can get. It's our first entry

01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:31.359
today from the classic era. We're talking about

01:56:31.359 --> 01:56:35.279
1961, and we're talking about the Yogi Bear Show.

01:56:37.210 --> 01:56:39.529
classic show the yogi bear show coming in here

01:56:39.529 --> 01:56:43.489
at number 35 dirt what do you think of the yogi

01:56:43.489 --> 01:56:47.710
bear show growing up this was one of those staples

01:56:47.710 --> 01:56:51.710
of syndicated tv like i remember saturday mornings

01:56:51.710 --> 01:56:54.350
sunday mornings weekday afternoons you could

01:56:54.350 --> 01:56:58.069
find this show all over the place and we had

01:56:58.069 --> 01:57:01.189
a yogi bear campground i'd say probably about

01:57:01.189 --> 01:57:04.470
an hour hour and a half from from our house so

01:57:04.470 --> 01:57:09.220
i mean it was definitely a property that i can

01:57:09.220 --> 01:57:11.619
really remember being embedded in the cultural

01:57:11.619 --> 01:57:14.119
landscape when i was growing up everybody knew

01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:16.800
yogi bear even people that didn't like cartoons

01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:19.220
didn't know cartoons didn't watch cartoons they

01:57:19.220 --> 01:57:21.739
were still familiar with the character because

01:57:21.739 --> 01:57:24.880
he was he was you know the honeymooners as bears

01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:28.239
um and it was one of those shows that you just

01:57:28.239 --> 01:57:30.500
couldn't you couldn't escape you couldn't deny

01:57:30.500 --> 01:57:33.079
and he has i do feel like he has kind of fallen

01:57:33.079 --> 01:57:37.850
away in the last you know 20 years He's not as

01:57:37.850 --> 01:57:40.149
well known, but I mean, Justin Timberlake didn't

01:57:40.149 --> 01:57:43.029
bring him back into the forefront. Well, you

01:57:43.029 --> 01:57:46.670
know, I mean, he brought sexy back, but he could

01:57:46.670 --> 01:57:49.890
bring the bear back. But Yogi Bear, I think it's

01:57:49.890 --> 01:57:52.289
one of those properties that I think is not done.

01:57:52.869 --> 01:57:56.869
I think there is still a revival or reunion.

01:57:57.010 --> 01:57:58.989
Well, you know, whatever you want to call it.

01:57:59.010 --> 01:58:01.109
But I think that it's a character that's going

01:58:01.109 --> 01:58:03.529
to return in one form or another at some point.

01:58:04.939 --> 01:58:07.840
it appeared on 25 of the 44 lists that's the

01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:09.760
second most so far that we've talked about today

01:58:09.760 --> 01:58:11.659
steve what do you think about the yogi bear show

01:58:11.659 --> 01:58:14.319
and its placement here at number 35 i think it's

01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:16.060
definitely warranted and it's definitely one

01:58:16.060 --> 01:58:17.699
of those ones that people just kind of remember

01:58:17.699 --> 01:58:24.399
uh funny enough uh my my oldest actually had

01:58:24.399 --> 01:58:28.979
it in his top 10 so nice smart uh yeah so i mean

01:58:29.800 --> 01:58:31.840
I think it's a combination of things. I think

01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:34.239
it's also because they had the live action movie,

01:58:34.380 --> 01:58:39.079
which exposed the series in general to my kids

01:58:39.079 --> 01:58:42.380
and to kids of the younger generation. And I

01:58:42.380 --> 01:58:46.739
think that in doing so, it caused them to seek

01:58:46.739 --> 01:58:51.460
it out. And what's funny, too, is the old show

01:58:51.460 --> 01:58:57.000
even rags in other Hanna -Barbera characters.

01:58:59.370 --> 01:59:01.930
So, I mean, that's you get kind of this nice.

01:59:03.750 --> 01:59:08.750
Melding of the old. And it I don't know. I mean,

01:59:08.770 --> 01:59:11.090
my parents grew up with the show, and so therefore

01:59:11.090 --> 01:59:13.890
I grew up with the show. Therefore, my kids grew

01:59:13.890 --> 01:59:15.729
up with the show. So it's kind of a domino effect.

01:59:15.970 --> 01:59:21.590
And the fact that it's it's climbed. It is. Are

01:59:21.590 --> 01:59:27.310
you picking the basket? Yeah. So anyways, it.

01:59:27.689 --> 01:59:30.090
I feel like it's warranted. I feel like it's,

01:59:30.090 --> 01:59:31.750
it's great to kind of see some of this classic

01:59:31.750 --> 01:59:36.229
animation, uh, getting closer. Yeah. I think

01:59:36.229 --> 01:59:37.930
it's a good thing that we've gone from 48 with

01:59:37.930 --> 01:59:40.449
Yogi bear show, at least up to 35. Mike, you

01:59:40.449 --> 01:59:45.310
agree? Oh yeah, absolutely. Love Yogi. Any other

01:59:45.310 --> 01:59:48.329
thoughts? No, I mean, I was only saying you couldn't,

01:59:48.329 --> 01:59:50.069
I was only saying you couldn't talk a lot about

01:59:50.069 --> 01:59:53.550
Phineas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Podcast for that.

01:59:54.100 --> 01:59:56.760
Yeah, that was the only one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:59:57.279 --> 02:00:01.600
Uh -huh. Cut me off at Jim. Cut me off at Phineas

02:00:01.600 --> 02:00:03.800
and Ferb. Only the ones that I know you have

02:00:03.800 --> 02:00:08.760
full podcast. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All

02:00:08.760 --> 02:00:12.640
right. Moving on. Edit point. I'll give you an

02:00:12.640 --> 02:00:16.779
edit point. Did Yogi Bear open the door at number

02:00:16.779 --> 02:00:32.449
35 to more classic shows to come? 34. How about

02:00:32.449 --> 02:00:34.670
next we go to one of the most universally recognized

02:00:34.670 --> 02:00:38.289
animated properties in history. This series represents

02:00:38.289 --> 02:00:41.409
the absolute peak of slapstick timing, visual

02:00:41.409 --> 02:00:44.069
storytelling, and theatrical cartoon craftsmanship.

02:00:44.250 --> 02:00:49.090
Its global reach and longevity are nearly unmatched.

02:00:50.189 --> 02:00:54.010
Also... The second show that we've revealed so

02:00:54.010 --> 02:00:59.069
far that has been in my top 10, I had Star Wars

02:00:59.069 --> 02:01:01.430
The Clone Wars at number 10, and then this is

02:01:01.430 --> 02:01:03.510
the next one that I had in my top 10. I had this

02:01:03.510 --> 02:01:05.369
one at number 7. We're going to stick with Hanna

02:01:05.369 --> 02:01:07.449
-Barbera. We're going to change the time period

02:01:07.449 --> 02:01:08.989
in the channel a little bit, though. This one

02:01:08.989 --> 02:01:12.270
debuted on ABC, and it's from 1975. I think this

02:01:12.270 --> 02:01:15.810
is worthy of being higher. It's actually... Almost

02:01:15.810 --> 02:01:17.810
stayed the exact same as it did 15 years ago.

02:01:17.850 --> 02:01:20.649
It was 33 last time. It's 34 this time. I still

02:01:20.649 --> 02:01:23.970
think it should be higher. Let's reveal the Tom

02:01:23.970 --> 02:01:28.569
and Jerry show. I think Tom and Jerry is timeless.

02:01:28.789 --> 02:01:32.229
I think it doesn't matter how old you are, where

02:01:32.229 --> 02:01:35.649
you're at in your life. You can understand and

02:01:35.649 --> 02:01:38.329
get into the Tom and Jerry show and see its comedic

02:01:38.329 --> 02:01:42.130
effectiveness and all of the stuff that it does

02:01:42.130 --> 02:01:44.989
so well. Um, it's kind of like some other shows

02:01:44.989 --> 02:01:46.869
that may come up later, I think in that respect,

02:01:47.010 --> 02:01:50.390
but I love the Tom and Jerry show. I think, uh,

02:01:50.569 --> 02:01:52.569
I think it definitely deserves to be in the top

02:01:52.569 --> 02:01:54.750
25, but I'm happy that at least remained in our

02:01:54.750 --> 02:01:57.430
top 50. Mike, what do you think of the Tom and

02:01:57.430 --> 02:02:00.869
Jerry show? Which, wait a minute. Which year

02:02:00.869 --> 02:02:05.729
did you say this is from? 1975. 75. So that's

02:02:05.729 --> 02:02:09.489
the, that's not the Chuck Jones shorts, is it?

02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:12.880
It's like a compilation show, basically, that

02:02:12.880 --> 02:02:17.180
used the... Okay, so they compiled them all together.

02:02:17.539 --> 02:02:21.359
Okay. See, I'm so used to watching Tom and Jerry,

02:02:21.560 --> 02:02:24.260
whether it's the Hanna -Barbera shorts or the

02:02:24.260 --> 02:02:27.960
Chuck Jones shorts, as the separate things. I'm

02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:34.340
not used to watching them as the... Okay. Yeah,

02:02:34.520 --> 02:02:38.079
I mean... Yeah, Tom and Jerry definitely belongs

02:02:38.079 --> 02:02:43.550
here. Might say it belongs a little higher. But

02:02:43.550 --> 02:02:47.989
absolutely love Tom and Jerry. I like the original

02:02:47.989 --> 02:02:51.890
Hanna -Barbera stuff. There's one or two that

02:02:51.890 --> 02:02:56.250
I absolutely love from that era. Anything with,

02:02:56.430 --> 02:03:06.149
oh, what's his name? The little mouse. Oh, God,

02:03:06.329 --> 02:03:09.210
what's his name? Nibbles or Nibbler or whatever

02:03:09.210 --> 02:03:11.909
the little mouse is that runs around with them

02:03:11.909 --> 02:03:15.270
in a couple of those. But the Chuck Jones shorts,

02:03:15.369 --> 02:03:24.569
there was one haunted mouse where some other

02:03:24.569 --> 02:03:30.029
magician mouse comes along and basically does

02:03:30.029 --> 02:03:34.010
this whole thing to Tom to make him think that

02:03:34.010 --> 02:03:37.710
he's haunted. whatever and it's just so fun yeah

02:03:37.710 --> 02:03:43.710
tom and jerry both of them are amazing and i'm

02:03:43.710 --> 02:03:46.609
gonna have to seek out the the compilation show

02:03:46.609 --> 02:03:51.470
from 75 to see how they put that together but

02:03:51.470 --> 02:03:55.949
absolutely 34 i showed my uh five -year -old

02:03:55.949 --> 02:03:58.789
some of the tom and jerry show and uh and some

02:03:58.789 --> 02:04:00.390
of the shorts and stuff like that and and she

02:04:00.390 --> 02:04:02.409
was into it almost immediately like it didn't

02:04:02.409 --> 02:04:06.199
matter that it was as far removed as possible

02:04:06.199 --> 02:04:09.039
it could be from her uh you know time period

02:04:09.039 --> 02:04:11.100
and things of that nature she found it funny

02:04:11.100 --> 02:04:15.180
immediately uh so i think it works um dirt what

02:04:15.180 --> 02:04:17.579
do you think 33 last time 34 this time did we

02:04:17.579 --> 02:04:19.899
get it right with tom and jerry i'm sorry i'm

02:04:19.899 --> 02:04:23.539
still stuck on mike singing the nibbles the mouse

02:04:23.539 --> 02:04:26.899
i don't remember what his damn name is it was

02:04:26.899 --> 02:04:29.579
nibbles it was nibbles nibbles nibbler niblet

02:04:29.579 --> 02:04:31.880
whatever you got it you had it right we were

02:04:31.880 --> 02:04:34.079
just letting you struggle just for fun I just

02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:39.060
want to hear you sing more French. Yeah, this

02:04:39.060 --> 02:04:41.600
is, again, one of these shows that my son latched

02:04:41.600 --> 02:04:44.859
onto when he was young. I think we had some DVDs.

02:04:44.859 --> 02:04:48.380
I had bought some DVDs of it in the early 2000s,

02:04:48.380 --> 02:04:50.260
and so when he came along, he discovered those.

02:04:51.460 --> 02:04:55.140
And I'll tell you what, he was such a fan that

02:04:55.140 --> 02:04:57.340
he would play all the video games. They made

02:04:57.340 --> 02:04:59.720
games on Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 and

02:04:59.720 --> 02:05:01.140
whatever, and he would play them, and they would

02:05:01.140 --> 02:05:04.260
be terrible. It would be absolutely awful games,

02:05:04.380 --> 02:05:06.899
but he would play them nonstop because he loved

02:05:06.899 --> 02:05:09.140
the property so much. And then when he saw The

02:05:09.140 --> 02:05:10.760
Simpsons, he saw Itchy and Scratchy. It blew

02:05:10.760 --> 02:05:14.800
his mind. But I think Tom and Jerry is, again,

02:05:14.840 --> 02:05:18.659
one of those evergreen properties. You have some

02:05:18.659 --> 02:05:21.819
weird spinoffs like Tom and Jerry Kids or whatever,

02:05:22.020 --> 02:05:24.819
but I think it's one of those where you can play

02:05:24.819 --> 02:05:30.140
the oldest cartoons and kids nowadays, they're

02:05:30.140 --> 02:05:35.149
still into it. It can still speak to a modern

02:05:35.149 --> 02:05:38.529
audience, and it probably will long after we're

02:05:38.529 --> 02:05:39.729
gone. It's probably going to be one of those

02:05:39.729 --> 02:05:42.529
things in 200 years. There's still kids watching

02:05:42.529 --> 02:05:44.949
Tom and Jerry cartoons. I think it's one of those

02:05:44.949 --> 02:05:47.710
shows that just will never go away. Absolutely

02:05:47.710 --> 02:05:50.909
love Tom and Jerry kids. That theme song is amazing.

02:05:52.390 --> 02:05:57.710
Do you want to sing it? No, not right now. All

02:05:57.710 --> 02:05:59.369
right. Any other thoughts on Tom and Jerry, or

02:05:59.369 --> 02:06:03.100
are we ready for the next one? We started off

02:06:03.100 --> 02:06:05.560
the top 35 strong with Yogi Bear and Tom and

02:06:05.560 --> 02:06:07.359
Jerry. We're setting a high bar. Let's see where

02:06:07.359 --> 02:06:10.899
we go next. 33. All that work made me hungry.

02:06:10.979 --> 02:06:13.260
If you have an appetite for fun. Took a brilliant

02:06:13.260 --> 02:06:15.739
mind to figure that gag out. You can get your

02:06:15.739 --> 02:06:19.199
fill of Garfield. Garfield and Friends. All right.

02:06:19.460 --> 02:06:23.659
Let's go back to the 80s now for our number 33

02:06:23.659 --> 02:06:26.920
spot here. This show successfully expanded one

02:06:26.920 --> 02:06:29.159
of the most popular comic strip characters ever

02:06:29.159 --> 02:06:31.659
into television while maintaining sharp comedic

02:06:31.659 --> 02:06:34.359
timing and broad family appeal. The show's longevity

02:06:34.359 --> 02:06:37.520
and syndication helped make the show a permanent

02:06:37.520 --> 02:06:41.260
fixture in pop culture. Anybody have any guests

02:06:41.260 --> 02:06:47.359
as to our number 33 entry? 1988 comic strip character.

02:06:49.039 --> 02:06:53.829
Debuted on CBS. From Film Roman, we're talking

02:06:53.829 --> 02:06:56.670
about Garfield and Friends. Oh, so this is Garfield

02:06:56.670 --> 02:07:01.149
with the army. U .S. Acres. Yes. Garfield and

02:07:01.149 --> 02:07:03.449
Friends. Actually, I know I just talked about

02:07:03.449 --> 02:07:05.189
it with Tom and Jerry, but my daughter and I

02:07:05.189 --> 02:07:07.170
literally just watched Garfield and Friends and

02:07:07.170 --> 02:07:10.090
she loved it and watched like a number of episodes

02:07:10.090 --> 02:07:12.729
in a row just thinking it was hilarious and even

02:07:12.729 --> 02:07:16.029
got to see Garfield try to send Nermal to Abu

02:07:16.029 --> 02:07:19.380
Dhabi. So it was it was fun. Um, so yeah, Garfield

02:07:19.380 --> 02:07:22.100
and friends, we had at number 22 last time in

02:07:22.100 --> 02:07:25.300
our top 25, it has fallen 11 spots to number

02:07:25.300 --> 02:07:28.699
33. I actually fell in my listing as well, just

02:07:28.699 --> 02:07:30.199
because it was harder this time around for me

02:07:30.199 --> 02:07:32.220
to fit everything. And I had this ranked 49th

02:07:32.220 --> 02:07:35.539
on my list. Um, but 33 is where it falls here.

02:07:35.680 --> 02:07:37.159
Dirt. What do you think of Garfield and friends?

02:07:38.600 --> 02:07:42.180
I just never got over the U S acres like that

02:07:42.180 --> 02:07:45.289
whole. It was never part of the comic strip.

02:07:45.369 --> 02:07:47.869
I love you. What's wrong with you? No, no, it's

02:07:47.869 --> 02:07:49.529
not. It's not that I have a problem with it.

02:07:49.590 --> 02:07:51.390
It's just like, how does that fit in with Garfield?

02:07:51.489 --> 02:07:53.689
Like you've got Garfield. You have this character

02:07:53.689 --> 02:07:57.829
that is, you know, so well known and so beloved

02:07:57.829 --> 02:08:00.770
and so universal and still ongoing to this day.

02:08:00.850 --> 02:08:02.710
And even Garfield minus Garfield is probably

02:08:02.710 --> 02:08:04.649
one of the best comic strips that you can find

02:08:04.649 --> 02:08:07.569
nowadays. And then they're just like, yeah, well,

02:08:07.630 --> 02:08:09.250
it's not good enough. We need to give half the

02:08:09.250 --> 02:08:11.199
show to a bunch of other characters. And then

02:08:11.199 --> 02:08:13.119
they never did anything else with those characters.

02:08:13.260 --> 02:08:15.079
They didn't get their own comic strip. They never

02:08:15.079 --> 02:08:18.279
branched those characters out into toys and lunch

02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:21.180
boxes and whatever. It's just like, yeah, Garfield's

02:08:21.180 --> 02:08:22.520
not good enough. We're going to still have to

02:08:22.520 --> 02:08:24.859
show with these random people. I loved Wade the

02:08:24.859 --> 02:08:29.600
Duck. Steve, any thoughts on Garfield and Friends?

02:08:30.699 --> 02:08:36.680
Oh, what's funny is I had Garfield in like my

02:08:36.680 --> 02:08:39.539
50s. Just because I had other shows I was trying

02:08:39.539 --> 02:08:43.720
to represent a little bit more. And my kids,

02:08:43.880 --> 02:08:47.260
my oldest had it in his top 15. My youngest had

02:08:47.260 --> 02:08:51.119
it in his top five. They love the comic strips

02:08:51.119 --> 02:08:54.000
like they go to the library and pick those out

02:08:54.000 --> 02:08:56.739
and then laugh at all the jokes and all the things

02:08:56.739 --> 02:08:58.399
that Garfield's doing that's wrong. They've seen

02:08:58.399 --> 02:08:59.659
all the movies. They've seen all the animated

02:08:59.659 --> 02:09:02.460
series. What's funny is the CG stuff that's out

02:09:02.460 --> 02:09:06.039
now. They do not care for. They like the old

02:09:06.039 --> 02:09:10.279
stuff. because the new one is quality like Frank

02:09:10.279 --> 02:09:13.539
Walker does a good job on the new one and I just

02:09:13.539 --> 02:09:15.119
haven't watched enough of it to compare the two

02:09:15.119 --> 02:09:18.579
it's the animation I think it's honestly the

02:09:18.579 --> 02:09:20.600
animation and then the fact that they had the

02:09:20.600 --> 02:09:24.380
barnyard stuff included and they find that entertaining

02:09:24.380 --> 02:09:26.579
so I think that it's the combination of things

02:09:26.579 --> 02:09:29.739
not that they have anything against the new one

02:09:29.739 --> 02:09:31.500
they're like it's alright but they don't they

02:09:31.500 --> 02:09:35.520
kind of gravitate towards the the older stuff

02:09:35.520 --> 02:09:37.739
which i agree because like i can sit there and

02:09:37.739 --> 02:09:41.220
i enjoy it because it's you know i grew up with

02:09:41.220 --> 02:09:46.060
it so it's it's different for me um i i'm a little

02:09:46.060 --> 02:09:49.779
surprised that it dropped but that just means

02:09:49.779 --> 02:09:53.199
that there's got to be some things that i'm not

02:09:53.199 --> 02:09:56.020
expecting coming up especially because things

02:09:56.020 --> 02:09:58.359
have been unexpected Yeah, because things have

02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:02.060
been shifting really weird in this top 100. Yeah,

02:10:02.159 --> 02:10:05.920
every time Kevin says, oh, somebody's number

02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:09.720
one, I've typed my number one every time, and

02:10:09.720 --> 02:10:11.539
then I've deleted it. I'm like, oh, okay, it's

02:10:11.539 --> 02:10:15.119
not my number one. Okay, good. Maybe your number

02:10:15.119 --> 02:10:16.500
one is one of the three that didn't make it.

02:10:17.100 --> 02:10:19.020
That's what I was going to say. Maybe it didn't

02:10:19.020 --> 02:10:21.600
make it, or maybe it just hasn't been revealed

02:10:21.600 --> 02:10:27.770
yet. Who knows? I don't know. Fun. any other

02:10:27.770 --> 02:10:29.670
Garfield friends that somebody didn't get to

02:10:29.670 --> 02:10:34.890
share it was just it was so interesting and fun

02:10:34.890 --> 02:10:40.949
and I think the interesting part about Garfield

02:10:40.949 --> 02:10:44.250
and friends is that on the Garfield side you

02:10:44.250 --> 02:10:48.789
have this guy with his cat and his dog and sometimes

02:10:48.789 --> 02:10:53.649
the other that is annoying them, or at least

02:10:53.649 --> 02:10:56.810
annoying Garfield in normal. And then you have

02:10:56.810 --> 02:10:59.989
the U .S. Acres where you can explore all these

02:10:59.989 --> 02:11:05.310
emotions, whether they be neurotic or not, in

02:11:05.310 --> 02:11:09.909
Wade and Roy and everybody else and Orson and

02:11:09.909 --> 02:11:12.869
all that. It was just so fun. Wasn't there an

02:11:12.869 --> 02:11:18.390
egg with feet? Yes. Sheldon. Sheldon, yep. Oh,

02:11:18.430 --> 02:11:21.390
God. U .S. Acres is the beginning of the Big

02:11:21.390 --> 02:11:25.489
Bang Theory. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. All right.

02:11:25.489 --> 02:11:32.090
On that note, let's move on. 32. Huh. I thought

02:11:32.090 --> 02:11:33.770
that would be big news. What are you talking

02:11:33.770 --> 02:11:36.069
about? Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding

02:11:36.069 --> 02:11:38.489
that everyone had heard. Heard what? Brian, don't!

02:11:42.760 --> 02:11:45.100
It's peanut butter jelly time. Peanut butter

02:11:45.100 --> 02:11:48.319
jelly time. Peanut butter jelly time. Way, yeah.

02:11:48.380 --> 02:11:53.739
Way, yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, Stewie. That is so

02:11:53.739 --> 02:11:57.220
funny. Oh, I did not see that coming. All right.

02:11:57.300 --> 02:12:01.920
For our next one. This is actually more. This

02:12:01.920 --> 02:12:04.560
show had more episodes than any other show we've

02:12:04.560 --> 02:12:06.779
revealed in our top 100, except for Pokemon,

02:12:06.899 --> 02:12:09.319
because Pokemon had an absurd amount. But this

02:12:09.319 --> 02:12:11.699
is number two so far, as far as number of episodes

02:12:11.699 --> 02:12:16.579
go. This show reshaped adult animated comedy

02:12:16.579 --> 02:12:20.060
in the 2000s. Cutaway humor, rapid fire references,

02:12:20.220 --> 02:12:23.039
and internet era pacing. It became one of the

02:12:23.039 --> 02:12:26.180
most culturally quoted and commercially successful

02:12:26.180 --> 02:12:30.340
animated sitcoms ever. Heavily influencing comedy

02:12:30.340 --> 02:12:34.699
writing online and on television. This appeared

02:12:34.699 --> 02:12:37.819
on eight of the nine lists that we referenced.

02:12:38.039 --> 02:12:41.760
It's had over 400 episodes. It's our first. We

02:12:41.760 --> 02:12:43.680
had Fox kids with the tick, but it's our first

02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:47.479
normal Fox show. This debuted in 1999. It dropped

02:12:47.479 --> 02:12:50.960
11 spots. It was 21st last time. It's 32nd this

02:12:50.960 --> 02:12:56.760
time. We're talking about the family guy. So

02:12:56.760 --> 02:13:00.880
family guy here at number 32. It's interesting

02:13:00.880 --> 02:13:02.760
because Garfield and friends dropped 11 spots,

02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:04.819
and that's exactly how many spots the family

02:13:04.819 --> 02:13:09.949
guy dropped. I had it at 28. It falls here at

02:13:09.949 --> 02:13:12.390
32, so I'm perfectly happy with where it has

02:13:12.390 --> 02:13:15.590
come in. It had over 40 nominations and awards

02:13:15.590 --> 02:13:17.529
and things of that nature. Dirt, what's your

02:13:17.529 --> 02:13:22.210
opinions on Family Guy? I loved it until it got

02:13:22.210 --> 02:13:24.109
canceled, and then when it came back, it was

02:13:24.109 --> 02:13:26.289
never the same, and I've not been a fan since.

02:13:27.010 --> 02:13:29.590
Gotcha. I think the early seasons are definitely

02:13:29.590 --> 02:13:33.210
peak and better than the more recent ones, for

02:13:33.210 --> 02:13:35.069
sure. This was one of those shows, I've said

02:13:35.069 --> 02:13:36.489
it before, I think I said it during our last

02:13:36.489 --> 02:13:38.970
countdown, but this was one of the ones that

02:13:38.970 --> 02:13:42.390
in college like if we all were home and we didn't

02:13:42.390 --> 02:13:44.529
want to go out or maybe we had just got home

02:13:44.529 --> 02:13:47.750
from being out like this was one that it didn't

02:13:47.750 --> 02:13:49.630
matter which collection of friends you had if

02:13:49.630 --> 02:13:51.970
it was three or four or five or six of you you

02:13:51.970 --> 02:13:55.329
could put on the dvds to this and you were entertained

02:13:55.329 --> 02:13:58.810
until you fell asleep and uh and all of the dvd

02:13:58.810 --> 02:14:00.449
sets were available at that time i think like

02:14:00.449 --> 02:14:02.369
the first three or four seasons when i was uh

02:14:02.369 --> 02:14:05.909
i went to college and to the fall of 2000 this

02:14:05.909 --> 02:14:08.369
came out in 99 so it was like peak peak time

02:14:08.369 --> 02:14:10.390
for that so this was like our go to sleep put

02:14:10.390 --> 02:14:13.289
on and and laugh until you fell asleep type show

02:14:13.289 --> 02:14:15.710
um i haven't watched a lot of it in recent years

02:14:15.710 --> 02:14:20.170
but uh i am a big fan of the early stuff um mike

02:14:20.170 --> 02:14:22.090
i know you don't this i know you don't like this

02:14:22.090 --> 02:14:24.750
one but any thoughts on family guy so since the

02:14:24.750 --> 02:14:28.310
last countdown i have watched multiple episodes

02:14:28.310 --> 02:14:32.869
of the show which seasons though The early seasons.

02:14:32.949 --> 02:14:37.510
I started at the beginning. If I'm going to watch

02:14:37.510 --> 02:14:40.390
a show, I'm not starting in the middle anywhere.

02:14:40.609 --> 02:14:43.329
I'm starting at the beginning. You're going to

02:14:43.329 --> 02:14:45.010
have a hard time with General Hospital then.

02:14:46.250 --> 02:14:51.850
Okay. Well, let's see. When did I start watching

02:14:51.850 --> 02:14:55.590
that? That was in the early 2000s. Anyway, that's

02:14:55.590 --> 02:15:01.850
a whole other thing. Any cartoon anyway. So with

02:15:01.850 --> 02:15:04.770
Family Guy, I started with season one. I watched

02:15:04.770 --> 02:15:08.350
like the first four or five episodes. I still

02:15:08.350 --> 02:15:10.590
don't like it because I don't like the humor.

02:15:10.710 --> 02:15:13.930
I don't like the care. I don't like Peter. Peter's

02:15:13.930 --> 02:15:16.770
annoying as hell to me. It's all about Brian

02:15:16.770 --> 02:15:20.989
and Stewie. Yeah, I like Brian more than I like

02:15:20.989 --> 02:15:23.649
Stewie. Stewie, I want to drop kick off the Grand

02:15:23.649 --> 02:15:28.649
Canyon. I just don't like Stewie. Stewie and

02:15:28.649 --> 02:15:31.630
Peter. Get them out of here. I just don't like

02:15:31.630 --> 02:15:37.010
them. I like the parodies in Family Guy more

02:15:37.010 --> 02:15:40.829
than their regular episodes. One of the Star

02:15:40.829 --> 02:15:43.569
Wars parodies they did, I liked that. That was

02:15:43.569 --> 02:15:47.850
funny. You've come around a little bit. I like

02:15:47.850 --> 02:15:50.350
it. You're starting to come around. Yeah, but

02:15:50.350 --> 02:15:53.289
it's not something I'm going to seek out. Okay.

02:15:53.529 --> 02:15:56.930
Eric, what do you think about Family Guy? You

02:15:56.930 --> 02:15:59.710
just asked him that. I meant Steve. Sorry, Steve,

02:15:59.810 --> 02:16:02.170
what did you think about Family Guy? I definitely

02:16:02.170 --> 02:16:04.149
liked the early stuff. I liked where they had

02:16:04.149 --> 02:16:10.109
some of the crossovers and stuff too. Mayor West

02:16:10.109 --> 02:16:16.590
and, you know, I don't know. I'm not a huge fan

02:16:16.590 --> 02:16:18.850
of it, but I'd say I'm more of a fan of Family

02:16:18.850 --> 02:16:21.489
Guy at this point than I am The Simpsons. It's

02:16:21.489 --> 02:16:24.090
kind of like around the time that this came out,

02:16:24.189 --> 02:16:28.069
I kind of flip -flopped and I haven't really

02:16:28.069 --> 02:16:32.530
watched some of those shows in a long time i

02:16:32.530 --> 02:16:34.969
there's a lot of funny moments that are in this

02:16:34.969 --> 02:16:37.010
and this does play into a lot of the you know

02:16:37.010 --> 02:16:39.389
pop culture moments or like early internet and

02:16:39.389 --> 02:16:48.270
uh i i enjoy i i mostly enjoy stewie and and

02:16:48.270 --> 02:16:51.049
brian like that's that's like the whole draw

02:16:51.049 --> 02:16:54.409
for me for the show makes sense i agree with

02:16:54.409 --> 02:16:57.450
you um and i think the the little blurb is definitely

02:16:57.450 --> 02:17:01.719
uh accurate with as far as the most culturally

02:17:01.719 --> 02:17:04.139
quoted and commercially successful like it definitely

02:17:04.139 --> 02:17:05.920
was both of those things and it spawned a whole

02:17:05.920 --> 02:17:08.719
lot of stuff so family guy comes in here at number

02:17:08.719 --> 02:17:11.500
32 i'm gonna have to ring the bell though because

02:17:11.500 --> 02:17:14.700
after that it's time for our other tie of today

02:17:14.700 --> 02:17:41.930
31 30. All right. We got some decisions to make,

02:17:41.950 --> 02:17:44.090
and this is not two shows from the same channel

02:17:44.090 --> 02:17:45.870
on the same decade and all the other things like

02:17:45.870 --> 02:17:47.809
we had with Rugrats and SpongeBob. These are

02:17:47.809 --> 02:17:50.530
two completely different shows. So we're going

02:17:50.530 --> 02:17:52.350
to have to see what you guys think. We're going

02:17:52.350 --> 02:17:55.270
to take one show from Hanna -Barbera and another

02:17:55.270 --> 02:17:58.219
show from Disney. and put them up against each

02:17:58.219 --> 02:18:02.399
other. One of them is from 1991. The other is

02:18:02.399 --> 02:18:06.340
from 1962. So we're talking about some completely

02:18:06.340 --> 02:18:08.719
different stuff. One of them became one of animation's

02:18:08.719 --> 02:18:11.020
defining visions of the future, influencing pop

02:18:11.020 --> 02:18:13.239
cultural depictions of futuristic family life

02:18:13.239 --> 02:18:15.540
for generations. It remains one of Hanna -Barbera's

02:18:15.540 --> 02:18:18.319
most recognizable creations and helps cement

02:18:18.319 --> 02:18:21.280
animated sitcom structures on television. The

02:18:21.280 --> 02:18:24.059
other one... successfully blended superhero parody

02:18:24.059 --> 02:18:26.739
noir aesthetics and disney style adventure into

02:18:26.739 --> 02:18:28.540
one of the most distinctive disney afternoon

02:18:28.540 --> 02:18:31.219
shows of all time it helped bridge comedic and

02:18:31.219 --> 02:18:34.040
action -oriented storytelling in children's television

02:18:34.040 --> 02:18:36.620
i think both of those give those away mike any

02:18:36.620 --> 02:18:38.959
thoughts as to what those two shows are ladies

02:18:38.959 --> 02:18:41.459
and gentlemen now entering the ring it's the

02:18:41.459 --> 02:18:46.180
jetsons versus darkwing duck is the jetsons and

02:18:46.180 --> 02:18:49.799
darkwing duck they appeared on 27 and 28 of the

02:18:49.799 --> 02:18:55.139
44 Last time we had Darkwing Duck at 19 and we

02:18:55.139 --> 02:18:59.239
had the Jetsons at 45. This time they're going

02:18:59.239 --> 02:19:03.420
to be back to back. Who wants to start this battle?

02:19:05.020 --> 02:19:09.799
I guess I will. As a kid, I loved the Jetsons,

02:19:09.799 --> 02:19:13.899
hands down. I liked the Flintstones as well,

02:19:13.959 --> 02:19:18.969
but the Jetsons was always cooler to me. At least

02:19:18.969 --> 02:19:22.850
until they did the crossover movie. But the Jetsons

02:19:22.850 --> 02:19:25.950
on its own, I always gravitated to that more

02:19:25.950 --> 02:19:29.329
because it was futuristic. And, oh, this is what

02:19:29.329 --> 02:19:31.870
the future might look like. And, oh, this is

02:19:31.870 --> 02:19:35.129
George and Jane and Elro. Always wanted to be

02:19:35.129 --> 02:19:38.870
up. And I think, for me, this is why I gravitated

02:19:38.870 --> 02:19:43.329
to the Jetsons more is because I was... Between

02:19:43.329 --> 02:19:46.389
six or seven, eight or nine at the time when

02:19:46.389 --> 02:19:49.170
I was seeing Jetsons and reruns in the mid eighties,

02:19:49.270 --> 02:19:53.489
late eighties, Elroy was around the same age

02:19:53.489 --> 02:19:59.969
as I was. Whereas the Flintstones and the rubbles,

02:19:59.969 --> 02:20:02.709
they each had, well, Bam Bam was a little bit

02:20:02.709 --> 02:20:06.670
older, but Bam Bam didn't do much. He just bam,

02:20:06.850 --> 02:20:10.049
bam, bam. That's all he ever did. And Pebbles

02:20:10.049 --> 02:20:12.750
was just a baby girl. She didn't do much either.

02:20:13.670 --> 02:20:18.940
So... Elroy was around the same age and Elroy

02:20:18.940 --> 02:20:21.920
had this inquisitive mind and everything else.

02:20:21.979 --> 02:20:25.459
And I kind of gravitated towards that. And you

02:20:25.459 --> 02:20:28.120
had George and Jane and Judy and Elroy and the

02:20:28.120 --> 02:20:30.120
whole family. And you eventually had Rosie and

02:20:30.120 --> 02:20:32.440
Mac. And of course you had Astro and everything

02:20:32.440 --> 02:20:35.120
else. And just absolutely love the Jetsons. Then

02:20:35.120 --> 02:20:37.340
you got Darkwing. And Darkwing is essentially

02:20:37.340 --> 02:20:45.709
a duck in St. Canard who is a Batman. impersonator

02:20:45.709 --> 02:20:49.250
sort of, you know, an homage to Batman kind of

02:20:49.250 --> 02:20:52.950
thing. And I loved that because at the time when

02:20:52.950 --> 02:20:58.809
in 91, when Darkwing debuted, I was actually

02:20:58.809 --> 02:21:02.430
in the hospital. I had a brain aneurysm and a

02:21:02.430 --> 02:21:06.809
seizure and I almost died. So when the Darkwing

02:21:06.809 --> 02:21:09.569
quote unquote movie or the Terrace Bulba episodes

02:21:09.569 --> 02:21:12.959
came on. I watched those in the hospital. So

02:21:12.959 --> 02:21:16.719
I absolutely love Darkwing. So, yeah, for me,

02:21:16.719 --> 02:21:20.079
I would put Jetsons at 31 and I would put Darkwing

02:21:20.079 --> 02:21:22.459
at 30 because I love Darkwing just a little bit

02:21:22.459 --> 02:21:24.860
more. All right. So his vote is for Darkwing

02:21:24.860 --> 02:21:28.219
Duck. I will go next. If it's no surprise, I'm

02:21:28.219 --> 02:21:30.200
the one that likes the classics and the historical

02:21:30.200 --> 02:21:33.899
shows and those things of that nature. My vote

02:21:33.899 --> 02:21:35.899
is going to be the Jetsons fairly easy. Darkwing

02:21:35.899 --> 02:21:37.979
Duck is not even in my top five Disney afternoon

02:21:37.979 --> 02:21:42.299
shows. So I still think it's great. I voted it

02:21:42.299 --> 02:21:45.520
39th. I had Jetsons, though, at number 20. So

02:21:45.520 --> 02:21:47.719
there's just some other Disney afternoon shows

02:21:47.719 --> 02:21:51.360
I like better. So five of them that I like better.

02:21:51.739 --> 02:21:54.100
And the Jetsons is kind of its own thing. Jetsons

02:21:54.100 --> 02:21:55.739
and Flintstones, I have a lot of respect for

02:21:55.739 --> 02:21:58.079
both of them. So my vote would be for the Jetsons,

02:21:58.120 --> 02:22:00.760
but I think they're both worthy of our top 50.

02:22:01.219 --> 02:22:03.299
I think you could make more of an argument for

02:22:03.299 --> 02:22:05.379
Jetsons being closer to 25, though, than you

02:22:05.379 --> 02:22:07.280
can for Darkwing Duck. But that's just me personally.

02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:12.459
Dirt. Where do you sit on this? Well, I'm with

02:22:12.459 --> 02:22:14.899
you, actually. I love Darkwing Duck. I remember

02:22:14.899 --> 02:22:17.040
when it came on and I remember thinking, you

02:22:17.040 --> 02:22:19.319
know, Disney can make a show like this. This

02:22:19.319 --> 02:22:22.260
is crazy because, you know, we'd seen the Disney

02:22:22.260 --> 02:22:26.159
afternoon shows, but Darkwing Duck in that heavy

02:22:26.159 --> 02:22:29.799
Batman war influence just seems so out of left

02:22:29.799 --> 02:22:33.930
field and so crazy for Disney to do. But. Like

02:22:33.930 --> 02:22:36.809
you said, looking at the historical significance

02:22:36.809 --> 02:22:40.690
of some of these shows, you can't deny the Jetsons

02:22:40.690 --> 02:22:44.469
and their place in history. And their generational

02:22:44.469 --> 02:22:48.950
appeal, I think, goes far beyond our lifetimes

02:22:48.950 --> 02:22:54.350
and what's going to come after us even. And when

02:22:54.350 --> 02:22:57.329
you think about Jetsons having something like

02:22:57.329 --> 02:22:59.930
moving sidewalks and someone watching the show

02:22:59.930 --> 02:23:02.170
and being like, hey, I think I can make one of

02:23:02.170 --> 02:23:04.350
those. And then now you go to the airport, you

02:23:04.350 --> 02:23:06.590
have moving sidewalks. It's just one of those

02:23:06.590 --> 02:23:09.450
things where something they saw on the cartoon

02:23:09.450 --> 02:23:13.290
made them build something in real life. So I

02:23:13.290 --> 02:23:16.010
would definitely put the Jetsons higher than

02:23:16.010 --> 02:23:18.069
Darkwing Duck, even though I have a lot of respect

02:23:18.069 --> 02:23:21.209
and a lot of love for Darkwing Duck. Steve, what

02:23:21.209 --> 02:23:26.129
is your opinion on both of them? I have to side

02:23:26.129 --> 02:23:29.569
with the Jetsons because... I thought you were

02:23:29.569 --> 02:23:32.430
going to go Darkwing Duck. No. I thought about

02:23:32.430 --> 02:23:35.149
it. Like, honestly, as I was hearing everybody

02:23:35.149 --> 02:23:37.010
talk about it, I was sitting here going, I hope

02:23:37.010 --> 02:23:40.610
I'm not next. It's like I was like trying to

02:23:40.610 --> 02:23:46.290
decide which one. And. I love both of these shows

02:23:46.290 --> 02:23:51.190
in different ways. However, I feel like the Jetsons

02:23:51.190 --> 02:23:56.350
has that longevity and that that kind of long

02:23:56.350 --> 02:24:03.489
lasting. I don't know. I don't think it's faded

02:24:03.489 --> 02:24:06.149
as much as Darkwing Duck. No, I think, well,

02:24:06.190 --> 02:24:07.809
and Darkwing Duck is, I mean, they've talked

02:24:07.809 --> 02:24:11.629
about reviving it too with the new DuckTales

02:24:11.629 --> 02:24:16.049
show. And the thing about the Jetsons is I would

02:24:16.049 --> 02:24:19.530
love for them to bring the show back or, you

02:24:19.530 --> 02:24:24.889
know, have somewhere to watch it. And there's

02:24:24.889 --> 02:24:28.690
also the fact that they're talking about doing

02:24:28.690 --> 02:24:31.770
a live action movie for the first time of this.

02:24:32.309 --> 02:24:35.010
And I love sci -fi. I love futuristic stuff.

02:24:35.110 --> 02:24:38.889
I love tech. So honestly, the Jetsons kind of

02:24:38.889 --> 02:24:42.469
resonates more with me. And if it's a choice

02:24:42.469 --> 02:24:45.409
between the Jetsons and the Flintstones, most

02:24:45.409 --> 02:24:48.030
of the time I would prefer the Jetsons just because

02:24:48.030 --> 02:24:51.010
I like the sci -fi stuff. It's not that I dislike

02:24:51.010 --> 02:24:52.629
the Flintstones. No, I get what you're saying.

02:24:53.100 --> 02:24:56.799
but i i honestly prefer all of the cool little

02:24:56.799 --> 02:24:59.159
gadgets and yeah it's fun to see for sure and

02:24:59.159 --> 02:25:01.579
like it'd be fun to go back through and see how

02:25:01.579 --> 02:25:03.379
many of these things have actually become real

02:25:03.379 --> 02:25:05.000
it's like back to the future right like so many

02:25:05.000 --> 02:25:07.719
of these things have actually become things yeah

02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:13.819
and so like i i feel like for me this show it's

02:25:13.819 --> 02:25:16.000
one that i still enjoy watching today whereas

02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:17.920
like i feel like darkwing duck it's not that

02:25:17.920 --> 02:25:20.879
i don't want to watch it i don't have the inkling

02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:25.569
to watch it as often so i would much rather watch

02:25:25.569 --> 02:25:29.149
the jetsons over darkwing duck and i think that

02:25:29.149 --> 02:25:31.450
you know the the fact that it's been around as

02:25:31.450 --> 02:25:35.850
long as it has you know and people still remember

02:25:35.850 --> 02:25:40.670
what it is is a testament to how good it is yeah

02:25:40.670 --> 02:25:42.969
all right that's interesting then because then

02:25:42.969 --> 02:25:45.190
we have three in a row with garfield and friends

02:25:45.190 --> 02:25:47.170
family guy and darkwing duck that are dropping

02:25:47.170 --> 02:25:49.129
almost the exact same amount of spots 11 or 12

02:25:49.129 --> 02:25:51.440
spots and then we have jetsons which I think

02:25:51.440 --> 02:25:54.739
climbed 14 spots, being our first in our top

02:25:54.739 --> 02:25:59.059
30. That means there is only room for four more

02:25:59.059 --> 02:26:01.700
shows today, and three of them are going to be

02:26:01.700 --> 02:26:06.219
from the same time period. 29. Our mutual friend,

02:26:06.440 --> 02:26:11.079
Inspector Gadget, will be unable to attend the

02:26:11.079 --> 02:26:15.680
police security conference this year. Oh. Let's

02:26:15.680 --> 02:26:19.690
start off with number 29 here next. An instantly

02:26:19.690 --> 02:26:22.770
recognizable global property through its memorable

02:26:22.770 --> 02:26:26.430
premise, gadgets, music, and villain structure.

02:26:26.670 --> 02:26:29.170
It helped popularize gadget -based comedic adventure

02:26:29.170 --> 02:26:33.389
animation internationally. I used the word twice,

02:26:33.489 --> 02:26:36.049
guys. It's from Deke. It's a syndicated show

02:26:36.049 --> 02:26:39.350
from 1983. We're talking about Inspector Gadget

02:26:39.350 --> 02:26:42.850
at number 29. Guess what number it was last time?

02:26:43.229 --> 02:26:48.879
28. 28. Drop one. spots so we're consistent i

02:26:48.879 --> 02:26:50.420
don't know if we're accurate but we're consistent

02:26:50.420 --> 02:26:53.940
here 29th and 28th so uh dirt let's start with

02:26:53.940 --> 02:26:57.260
you inspector gadget what do you think uh so

02:26:57.260 --> 02:27:01.459
i was born at 3 30 in the afternoon which is

02:27:01.459 --> 02:27:03.440
something my mom i don't know why she always

02:27:03.440 --> 02:27:05.479
drilled in my head and 3 30 in the afternoon

02:27:05.479 --> 02:27:08.579
is when inspector gadget came on channel 55 here

02:27:08.579 --> 02:27:13.059
at springfield and i loved the show i absolutely

02:27:13.059 --> 02:27:16.979
adored inspector gadget i had They made toys

02:27:16.979 --> 02:27:19.040
when I was a kid. They had the Inspector Gadget

02:27:19.040 --> 02:27:21.059
action figure that was like, I don't know, 10

02:27:21.059 --> 02:27:22.879
inches tall or something like that. And he had

02:27:22.879 --> 02:27:25.040
all the little accessories you could put on him.

02:27:25.059 --> 02:27:27.799
And I played with that all the time. I loved

02:27:27.799 --> 02:27:30.700
that show. It's a show that I've actually gone

02:27:30.700 --> 02:27:36.260
back and watched several times. And every time

02:27:36.260 --> 02:27:38.860
somebody will do like a parody or a reference

02:27:38.860 --> 02:27:42.379
or something, I get a text or an email from somebody

02:27:42.379 --> 02:27:43.520
saying, hey, you got to check this out. They

02:27:43.520 --> 02:27:45.540
made an Inspector Gadget reference. and I have

02:27:45.540 --> 02:27:48.219
to go check it out. I always wanted the car that

02:27:48.219 --> 02:27:51.200
would switch and turn from the station wagon

02:27:51.200 --> 02:27:55.579
to the police cruiser thing. There was just so

02:27:55.579 --> 02:27:58.340
much about that show that I loved, and so much

02:27:58.340 --> 02:28:02.840
that I could tell it was referencing Get Smart

02:28:02.840 --> 02:28:05.899
and James Bond and all these different things.

02:28:07.819 --> 02:28:10.399
It's a property I loved as a kid. It's a property

02:28:10.399 --> 02:28:13.059
I still love as an adult. It's one of my favorite

02:28:13.059 --> 02:28:15.930
shows of all time. I think if you don't at least

02:28:15.930 --> 02:28:20.290
once a year, if reference the phrase go -go gadget

02:28:20.290 --> 02:28:23.850
something, then you were not born in the 80s.

02:28:24.729 --> 02:28:29.930
When we got our minivan, we got the stow -and

02:28:29.930 --> 02:28:32.389
-go seats so you could drop them into the floor

02:28:32.389 --> 02:28:34.229
and then you had a big cargo room. And so you'd

02:28:34.229 --> 02:28:36.510
be like, go -go gadget seats. And you press the

02:28:36.510 --> 02:28:38.590
button and the seats fold into the floor automatically.

02:28:38.889 --> 02:28:41.649
And you're like, look how awesome this is. So,

02:28:41.690 --> 02:28:43.989
yeah, I mean, it's definitely something that.

02:28:44.200 --> 02:28:46.180
that sticks with me to this day. And who didn't

02:28:46.180 --> 02:28:50.319
love the, you know, the claw as far as, you know,

02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:53.680
mad cat and the claw. I'll get you gadget. Along

02:28:53.680 --> 02:28:58.860
with Penny and brain, um, you know, it was this

02:28:58.860 --> 02:29:00.879
classic, uh, Mike, what do you think of inspector

02:29:00.879 --> 02:29:04.399
gadget here? Love inspector gadget. Good old,

02:29:04.479 --> 02:29:10.379
um, good old agent 86 in animation form. Yeah,

02:29:10.479 --> 02:29:14.540
that's, that's one way to get smart. It was interesting,

02:29:14.600 --> 02:29:15.979
though, because we have two different things

02:29:15.979 --> 02:29:18.299
that happened, right? Last time around, we had

02:29:18.299 --> 02:29:22.260
at 32 and at 28 last time, we had Alvin and the

02:29:22.260 --> 02:29:23.920
Chipmunks and Inspector Gadget. So they were

02:29:23.920 --> 02:29:25.799
within a couple spots of each other, both from

02:29:25.799 --> 02:29:29.200
the 80s, etc. Alvin and the Chipmunks dropped

02:29:29.200 --> 02:29:33.219
all the way down to 77th this time, but Inspector

02:29:33.219 --> 02:29:36.159
Gadget stayed right where it was. Steve, how

02:29:36.159 --> 02:29:40.260
do you make heads or tails of that? I don't know.

02:29:40.350 --> 02:29:43.010
I, I love, I love inspector gadget. That was

02:29:43.010 --> 02:29:47.209
one of my favorite shows as a kid, uh, between

02:29:47.209 --> 02:29:52.829
Dr. Claw and, uh, mad cat and gadget brain penny.

02:29:53.569 --> 02:29:56.510
Uh, the gadget mobile was absolutely awesome

02:29:56.510 --> 02:30:02.469
as a kid. Uh, uh, to the point, I mean, I love

02:30:02.469 --> 02:30:04.149
this show to the point, like I've, I've introduced

02:30:04.149 --> 02:30:06.370
it to the kids. I'm like, the theme song is epic.

02:30:07.030 --> 02:30:12.870
Uh, I love doing the voice of Dr. Claw. Steve,

02:30:12.969 --> 02:30:15.229
do you know when the most recent reboot or spinoff

02:30:15.229 --> 02:30:17.250
was? It had a bunch right away, right? It had

02:30:17.250 --> 02:30:19.250
a bunch within the 80s and 90s, I feel like,

02:30:19.270 --> 02:30:23.030
that it had at least three other series that

02:30:23.030 --> 02:30:25.010
happened. It's been a while, though, I feel like,

02:30:25.010 --> 02:30:27.069
since we've got something in Spectre Gadget from

02:30:27.069 --> 02:30:29.430
the animated world. We've got the live -action

02:30:29.430 --> 02:30:32.049
movies and things of that nature, which I guess

02:30:32.049 --> 02:30:34.549
are probably dated now, too, but I feel like

02:30:34.549 --> 02:30:36.989
it's due for something. The last one was 2015.

02:30:38.090 --> 02:30:40.549
Yeah, so the last Inspector Gadget was 2015.

02:30:40.770 --> 02:30:43.549
They've also had, you know, Gadget Boy. They've

02:30:43.549 --> 02:30:46.049
had, you know, all these other different shows.

02:30:46.129 --> 02:30:51.950
But yeah, 2015 was kind of the last major new

02:30:51.950 --> 02:30:57.530
one. And it was CG. And not that that was bad.

02:30:57.670 --> 02:31:02.149
It's just, again, I feel like it was the gateway

02:31:02.149 --> 02:31:07.360
for kids to kind of be introduced to it. re -explore

02:31:07.360 --> 02:31:11.819
the older stuff yeah mike any last thoughts on

02:31:11.819 --> 02:31:16.500
inspector gadget nope i'm losing my mind on who's

02:31:16.500 --> 02:31:18.120
talking who hasn't at this point i don't know

02:31:18.120 --> 02:31:21.200
we're like 70 picks in and i'm starting to lose

02:31:21.200 --> 02:31:24.100
it since we're still in the 80s really quick

02:31:24.100 --> 02:31:26.100
i wanted to mention about sunbow since i have

02:31:26.100 --> 02:31:29.639
the article pulled up here they somewhere between

02:31:29.639 --> 02:31:36.120
98 and 2009 sunbow closed it was really 89 but

02:31:36.120 --> 02:31:40.799
or 98 but they got acquired by sony wonder and

02:31:40.799 --> 02:31:45.760
then tv loon land and then final closure was

02:31:45.760 --> 02:31:49.959
2009 so they lasted longer than i thought yeah

02:31:49.959 --> 02:31:51.639
but i think it had been quite some time before

02:31:51.639 --> 02:31:54.459
they since they produced an actual show yeah

02:31:54.459 --> 02:31:58.049
yeah yeah so It's interesting, too. I forgot

02:31:58.049 --> 02:32:00.030
to mention it, I guess, but Darkwing Duck was

02:32:00.030 --> 02:32:03.510
our first series that was in our top 20 last

02:32:03.510 --> 02:32:06.670
time that has fallen. For our next one, we're

02:32:06.670 --> 02:32:08.870
going to have our first series that last time

02:32:08.870 --> 02:32:22.989
was in the top 15. 28. It is useless to resist.

02:32:24.709 --> 02:32:29.860
Right. Coming in here at number 28, it was in

02:32:29.860 --> 02:32:33.700
our top 15 last time around. We're sticking with

02:32:33.700 --> 02:32:36.459
the 80s. This show helped define the template

02:32:36.459 --> 02:32:39.440
for serialized toy -based action cartoons in

02:32:39.440 --> 02:32:42.620
the 80s. Large ensemble cast, ongoing conflicts,

02:32:42.680 --> 02:32:44.899
and merchandising synergy fundamentally shaped

02:32:44.899 --> 02:32:47.860
children's television and franchise marketing.

02:32:48.100 --> 02:32:50.260
Funny that you mentioned Sunbow because that's

02:32:50.260 --> 02:32:54.360
where we're going next. It was 12th. last time.

02:32:54.360 --> 02:32:58.100
It is 28th this time. We're talking about G .I.

02:32:58.120 --> 02:33:02.280
Joe, a real American hero. So a drop of 16 spots

02:33:02.280 --> 02:33:07.620
from our top 15 to number 28. Steve, we'll let

02:33:07.620 --> 02:33:09.379
you go first here. What do you think of G .I.

02:33:09.420 --> 02:33:11.379
Joe dropping that much but still being in our

02:33:11.379 --> 02:33:20.020
top 30? Lick my boat, Baroness. I'm a little

02:33:20.020 --> 02:33:24.979
surprised. But at the same time, GeoJoe hasn't

02:33:24.979 --> 02:33:30.760
had a good series since. It's had sporadic series.

02:33:31.260 --> 02:33:32.920
It had one that if it would have been able to

02:33:32.920 --> 02:33:35.420
last longer, it might have been good. Yeah, I

02:33:35.420 --> 02:33:38.360
mean, Real American Hero was great. The Deke

02:33:38.360 --> 02:33:40.719
series was mediocre. I mostly liked the Battle

02:33:40.719 --> 02:33:42.979
Armor Cobra Commander. Beyond that, it was kind

02:33:42.979 --> 02:33:45.979
of crap. We had GeoJoe Extreme, which was unrelated.

02:33:46.729 --> 02:33:49.469
uh and then we had you know sigma six and then

02:33:49.469 --> 02:33:54.190
a couple of other randoms and then uh we had

02:33:54.190 --> 02:33:58.610
the resolute and renegades and then it was decent

02:33:58.610 --> 02:34:02.090
yeah renegades was decent uh resolute wasn't

02:34:02.090 --> 02:34:05.069
too bad either uh they were shorts though and

02:34:05.069 --> 02:34:07.450
then we got some real bad live action movies

02:34:08.059 --> 02:34:10.379
And then we've got three bad live action films.

02:34:10.440 --> 02:34:14.659
And then, yeah. So, I mean, we, we had the IDW

02:34:14.659 --> 02:34:17.000
series and currently in skybound entertainment,

02:34:17.219 --> 02:34:19.719
they're doing lots of really cool, interesting

02:34:19.719 --> 02:34:23.100
stuff. But as far as animation is concerned,

02:34:23.319 --> 02:34:26.159
right, right. We really haven't had anything

02:34:26.159 --> 02:34:30.959
great since GI Joe, the movie. Yeah. Well, resolute

02:34:30.959 --> 02:34:34.319
was good. Yeah. But you know what I mean? Like

02:34:34.319 --> 02:34:38.680
I said, great. Like, That was like the highlight.

02:34:38.940 --> 02:34:40.100
And then it tanked from there. Like a big mass

02:34:40.100 --> 02:34:45.819
appeal show. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm surprised

02:34:45.819 --> 02:34:50.159
that it's here, but not at the same time. Dirt,

02:34:50.200 --> 02:34:51.579
what do you think of G .I. Joe, A Real American

02:34:51.579 --> 02:34:54.020
Hero being in our top 30, but not in our top

02:34:54.020 --> 02:34:58.799
15? Man. I would put it much higher. I really

02:34:58.799 --> 02:35:02.319
would. Especially because it was one of those

02:35:02.319 --> 02:35:05.700
shows where it had such a massive cast, but each

02:35:05.700 --> 02:35:12.149
character felt so unique. felt so well developed

02:35:12.149 --> 02:35:14.549
yeah and the way they would do interpersonal

02:35:14.549 --> 02:35:16.549
friendships between some of the different characters

02:35:16.549 --> 02:35:21.489
and as much as they would keep pushing new toys

02:35:21.489 --> 02:35:23.510
and you have to have new characters you know

02:35:23.510 --> 02:35:27.250
you still felt like you knew who these people

02:35:27.250 --> 02:35:31.110
were and and you know the Springfield saga stuff

02:35:31.110 --> 02:35:33.690
living in a town called Springfield and then

02:35:33.690 --> 02:35:35.790
suddenly in this cartoon it's like there's Springfield

02:35:35.790 --> 02:35:37.430
and you're like yeah and then you're like it's

02:35:37.430 --> 02:35:38.969
the headquarters of Cobra and you're like no

02:35:38.969 --> 02:35:43.149
it was just so much fun you live in a town of

02:35:43.149 --> 02:35:46.190
scum and villainy although you do have a higher

02:35:46.190 --> 02:35:48.549
percentage of living in a town called Springfield

02:35:48.549 --> 02:35:50.350
than any other town in America I think it is

02:35:50.350 --> 02:35:53.610
the most common to be fair as the capital of

02:35:53.610 --> 02:35:55.709
Illinois we are full of scum and villainy but

02:35:56.829 --> 02:35:59.149
I will say like, this is one of those shows that

02:35:59.149 --> 02:36:03.290
I can remember in the, I want to say late nineties

02:36:03.290 --> 02:36:05.690
or early two thousands. They started repackaging

02:36:05.690 --> 02:36:09.190
the episodes on VHS cassettes in with the figures.

02:36:09.489 --> 02:36:13.190
And I can remember that being a big deal, you

02:36:13.190 --> 02:36:15.729
know, cause this was before DVDs were everywhere

02:36:15.729 --> 02:36:17.870
before you could stream anything. And it was

02:36:17.870 --> 02:36:19.950
hard to get some of those episodes. And then

02:36:19.950 --> 02:36:22.329
suddenly it's like, Oh, well, if you buy, you

02:36:22.329 --> 02:36:25.180
know, this character comes packaged with a. you

02:36:25.180 --> 02:36:27.120
know, the, the mass device episode or something

02:36:27.120 --> 02:36:28.760
like that. And you're like, Oh, Holy crap. I

02:36:28.760 --> 02:36:29.940
got to go out and get that because I'm going

02:36:29.940 --> 02:36:32.120
to watch those again, you know, VHS cassette.

02:36:32.680 --> 02:36:35.979
Um, and that was, that was a big deal to get

02:36:35.979 --> 02:36:39.399
a show again, like after it'd been gone. Cause

02:36:39.399 --> 02:36:41.540
for, you know, so long, it's like the show went

02:36:41.540 --> 02:36:43.360
off TV and then you never saw it again, unless

02:36:43.360 --> 02:36:45.700
somebody had taped it, you know, when it was

02:36:45.700 --> 02:36:48.719
on. And so that was a big deal to be able to

02:36:48.719 --> 02:36:52.280
watch those animated episodes again. uh and the

02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:54.440
movie of course the movie blew everyone's mind

02:36:54.440 --> 02:36:57.540
but of course coming after uh transformers they

02:36:57.540 --> 02:36:59.600
had to make sure that duke didn't die in this

02:36:59.600 --> 02:37:02.819
hey duke's okay yay the voice comes from off

02:37:02.819 --> 02:37:06.280
screen um but the show was the show was huge

02:37:06.280 --> 02:37:09.979
i just remember like everybody knew gi joe even

02:37:09.979 --> 02:37:12.319
people that didn't like gi joe knew gi joe and

02:37:12.319 --> 02:37:16.500
even uh years later so big too and it was not

02:37:16.500 --> 02:37:21.340
just They made it work internationally because

02:37:21.340 --> 02:37:24.319
they changed the name to Action Force. I think

02:37:24.319 --> 02:37:26.000
Action Force originally had been a different

02:37:26.000 --> 02:37:27.840
property and then they just kind of co -opted

02:37:27.840 --> 02:37:30.379
it to bring G .I. Joe to an international audience.

02:37:30.879 --> 02:37:32.819
I think it was different though too with the

02:37:32.819 --> 02:37:37.620
toys because there was other toy franchises that

02:37:37.620 --> 02:37:40.899
were popular. I'm not saying that, but the difference

02:37:40.899 --> 02:37:44.600
to me was the average friend of mine in the 80s

02:37:44.600 --> 02:37:49.049
we might have had this many of performers. And

02:37:49.049 --> 02:37:50.350
we might've had this many of this other show

02:37:50.350 --> 02:37:52.729
and this many of this other show, but like the

02:37:52.729 --> 02:37:55.709
amount of figures you would have for GI Joe was

02:37:55.709 --> 02:37:57.909
always way more than that. Like, well, cause

02:37:57.909 --> 02:37:59.530
they were cheap. I think that was part of the,

02:37:59.610 --> 02:38:02.409
the deal is that just as a, as a budget, you

02:38:02.409 --> 02:38:04.209
know, toy, you can say to your parents, I really

02:38:04.209 --> 02:38:05.909
want some GI Joes. And they're like, fine, we'll

02:38:05.909 --> 02:38:07.510
buy, you know, two or three of them for your

02:38:07.510 --> 02:38:09.090
birthday. Whereas you might get one transformer.

02:38:09.600 --> 02:38:11.540
But you could have like if you got a couple of

02:38:11.540 --> 02:38:13.219
friends together, you could have like an all

02:38:13.219 --> 02:38:15.120
out battle of like 100 different G .I. Joes,

02:38:15.120 --> 02:38:17.479
I swear. Yeah. And you always knew somebody who

02:38:17.479 --> 02:38:21.899
had either like the aircraft carrier or the headquarter

02:38:21.899 --> 02:38:24.500
base, you know, or something that was massive.

02:38:24.819 --> 02:38:27.600
The play sets, which just opened your imagination.

02:38:28.020 --> 02:38:31.000
But again, I go back to the show. The show was

02:38:31.000 --> 02:38:34.000
so instrumental in so many things that we see

02:38:34.000 --> 02:38:37.219
nowadays. And the tie. with the show to marvel

02:38:37.219 --> 02:38:40.700
comics and the way marvel would help write the

02:38:40.700 --> 02:38:42.719
stories write the character biographies same

02:38:42.719 --> 02:38:44.500
thing they do with transformers in order to make

02:38:44.500 --> 02:38:46.620
them feel more real to make them feel more like

02:38:46.620 --> 02:38:49.280
a lived in universe help to keep it alive and

02:38:49.280 --> 02:38:52.540
keep it going and i think that helped to make

02:38:52.540 --> 02:38:54.920
it resonate with so many people that the show

02:38:54.920 --> 02:38:57.139
you can go back and watch those episodes and

02:38:57.139 --> 02:38:59.459
yeah it's a little goofy sometimes they're shooting

02:38:59.459 --> 02:39:03.000
10 000 of these quote -unquote laser beams at

02:39:03.000 --> 02:39:04.760
each other and nobody's actually getting hit

02:39:04.760 --> 02:39:06.959
you know nobody's getting hurt but whatever um

02:39:06.959 --> 02:39:09.399
but but it's still so much fun you can go back

02:39:09.399 --> 02:39:12.040
and watch those episodes from the 80s and they

02:39:12.040 --> 02:39:14.600
still they're still fun to watch and yeah maybe

02:39:14.600 --> 02:39:17.799
time capsuling a little bit but still hold up

02:39:17.799 --> 02:39:19.840
to this day to go back and watch those even with

02:39:19.840 --> 02:39:23.379
as janky as the animation was yeah mike one thing

02:39:23.379 --> 02:39:25.459
we identified 15 years ago about our list is

02:39:25.459 --> 02:39:29.930
that it may have been uh a little superhero heavy

02:39:29.930 --> 02:39:33.049
and we might have had a 1980s especially when

02:39:33.049 --> 02:39:37.049
it came to boys action cartoons uh bias it is

02:39:37.049 --> 02:39:40.209
gi joe fallen here at number 28 a sign that that

02:39:40.209 --> 02:39:42.409
may not be the case this time around or what

02:39:42.409 --> 02:39:46.649
do you think well i mean i think this list just

02:39:46.649 --> 02:39:51.610
quickly scrolling through 28 to 101 or 110 even

02:39:51.610 --> 02:39:54.750
the ones we just that just missed the list I

02:39:54.750 --> 02:39:57.549
think this list this time around is very much

02:39:57.549 --> 02:40:02.049
more diverse than what we had 15 years ago. I

02:40:02.049 --> 02:40:05.530
don't think anyone who will be listening to our

02:40:05.530 --> 02:40:08.729
episodes or if we publish the list itself, which

02:40:08.729 --> 02:40:10.590
I don't think we should do until a couple of

02:40:10.590 --> 02:40:14.729
years from now until we get people to actually

02:40:14.729 --> 02:40:18.549
listen to these episodes. You look at this list,

02:40:18.629 --> 02:40:22.170
folks, if you listen to our voices on these episodes.

02:40:23.209 --> 02:40:26.350
These rankings this time around versus 2011,

02:40:26.750 --> 02:40:32.690
way different. And having GI Joe at 28, I think

02:40:32.690 --> 02:40:38.149
the only thing that shows to me is our 80s bias.

02:40:38.350 --> 02:40:40.649
But if you listen to Optimus Solo in the beginning

02:40:40.649 --> 02:40:44.569
of the podcast, when he broke down how many shows

02:40:44.569 --> 02:40:50.889
per decade in the previous episode. that we had

02:40:50.889 --> 02:40:53.469
or how many shows per decade that we have overall

02:40:53.469 --> 02:41:00.870
um 80s is not exactly reigning supreme here yeah

02:41:00.870 --> 02:41:03.569
we only had one of them last episode yeah i mean

02:41:03.569 --> 02:41:09.989
it's not like every section of the countdown

02:41:09.989 --> 02:41:17.479
80s 80s 80s 2000 2000 2000 90s to that like Yes,

02:41:17.479 --> 02:41:21.479
80s and 90s are our general bias. We do have

02:41:21.479 --> 02:41:25.420
a lot of 2000s bias as well. Between myself,

02:41:25.760 --> 02:41:29.940
Steve and Kevin, I'm not going to speak for dirt,

02:41:30.020 --> 02:41:33.459
but he can chime in after I say this. Between

02:41:33.459 --> 02:41:37.459
the three of us, we are 80s kids. We love stuff

02:41:37.459 --> 02:41:40.159
from the 80s. We love stuff from the 90s, too.

02:41:40.219 --> 02:41:42.319
But for the most part, we love stuff from the

02:41:42.319 --> 02:41:46.750
80s. And we love 80s cartoons and G .I. Joe,

02:41:46.930 --> 02:41:50.549
Transformers, Masters of the Universe, cops,

02:41:50.809 --> 02:41:56.190
whatever it may be. You know, it's going to it

02:41:56.190 --> 02:41:59.569
may or may not show up here. You know, I'm surprised

02:41:59.569 --> 02:42:02.229
that some of the other superhero stuff hasn't

02:42:02.229 --> 02:42:04.450
shown up here yet. Maybe it'll show up in the

02:42:04.450 --> 02:42:07.569
next episode. Who knows? But having G .I. Joe

02:42:07.569 --> 02:42:11.670
at 28 here, the real American hero, I don't think

02:42:11.670 --> 02:42:16.079
that really. says anything like oh my god they've

02:42:16.079 --> 02:42:19.280
front loaded it they've loaded the top 30 to

02:42:19.280 --> 02:42:24.600
be all 80s shoot we don't know because optimus

02:42:24.600 --> 02:42:26.760
soul is the only one that knows he's the only

02:42:26.760 --> 02:42:30.379
one that's got the numbers all right and if you're

02:42:30.379 --> 02:42:31.899
paying attention to the numbers i've given out

02:42:31.899 --> 02:42:33.319
i had mentioned that we were going to have two

02:42:33.319 --> 02:42:35.579
number ones fall today and we've seen one of

02:42:35.579 --> 02:42:37.500
them with the ren and stimpy show we have not

02:42:37.500 --> 02:42:39.100
seen the other one and there's only two spots

02:42:39.100 --> 02:42:44.280
left folks 27 I accept nothing short of excellence

02:42:44.280 --> 02:42:47.079
from all who work for me. I think I can handle

02:42:47.079 --> 02:42:50.360
it. Very good then, Mr. McGinnis. Welcome to

02:42:50.360 --> 02:42:53.799
my world. Now, the Dark Knight will rise again

02:42:53.799 --> 02:42:56.540
to drive the shadow of evil from the streets

02:42:56.540 --> 02:43:00.639
of Gotham. Right? Coming in at number 27, this

02:43:00.639 --> 02:43:03.600
is where we will see the other number one fall

02:43:03.600 --> 02:43:07.920
for this episode. So one person had this at number

02:43:07.920 --> 02:43:10.620
one. I will just read the little blurb and see

02:43:10.620 --> 02:43:14.180
if you guys can pinpoint it or not. It successfully

02:43:14.180 --> 02:43:18.000
evolved this character's mythos rather than merely

02:43:18.000 --> 02:43:20.780
repeating it. It's cyberpunk, ascetic, emotional

02:43:20.780 --> 02:43:23.100
mentorship, dynamic and futuristic setting made

02:43:23.100 --> 02:43:25.659
it one of the boldest superhero animation reinventions

02:43:25.659 --> 02:43:30.100
ever attempted. We're talking about 1999s from

02:43:30.100 --> 02:43:34.879
the WB Batman. Yeah, I'm sorry, Mike. Your number

02:43:34.879 --> 02:43:39.340
one falls right here at number 20. seven it was

02:43:39.340 --> 02:43:42.819
16th last time it falls all the way down to number

02:43:42.819 --> 02:43:45.639
27 so it fell 11 spots which was the exact same

02:43:45.639 --> 02:43:49.200
the family guy garfield and darkwing duck before

02:43:49.200 --> 02:43:51.520
the tiebreaker all fell they all fell 11 spots

02:43:51.520 --> 02:43:53.879
exactly we'll start with you mike what do you

02:43:53.879 --> 02:43:55.500
think of batman beyond being right here at number

02:43:55.500 --> 02:44:02.000
27 okay so here's the thing folks batman beyond

02:44:02.000 --> 02:44:08.120
is in my blood it is the second franchise only

02:44:08.120 --> 02:44:10.819
two transformers and i say franchise even though

02:44:10.819 --> 02:44:16.340
it is only one cartoon but i have everything

02:44:16.340 --> 02:44:19.959
i can possibly have when it comes to this series

02:44:19.959 --> 02:44:23.920
other than art prints and things like that or

02:44:23.920 --> 02:44:27.479
clothing or anything like that i have the complete

02:44:27.479 --> 02:44:31.879
series blu -ray set i literally other than the

02:44:31.879 --> 02:44:35.719
ones that are about to release in july via amazon

02:44:36.510 --> 02:44:40.170
I have every single Funko Pop of Batman Beyond.

02:44:40.409 --> 02:44:44.430
I love this show. 52 episodes plus Return of

02:44:44.430 --> 02:44:50.270
the Joker, the animated film. I just love this

02:44:50.270 --> 02:44:53.250
show. What I love about this show is when I found

02:44:53.250 --> 02:44:57.370
Batman Beyond in 1999, I had already stepped

02:44:57.370 --> 02:45:01.329
away from the DC animated universe. Yes, I had

02:45:01.329 --> 02:45:04.809
seen World's Finest and I had seen various episodes

02:45:04.809 --> 02:45:08.409
of Superman the Animated Series at the time.

02:45:08.510 --> 02:45:13.469
But after that, from 97 to 98 to 99, when this

02:45:13.469 --> 02:45:17.110
show began January 10th of that year, I had no

02:45:17.110 --> 02:45:21.409
clue. I thought DCAU was done. I thought they

02:45:21.409 --> 02:45:25.629
were done doing Batman episodes. And I saw the

02:45:25.629 --> 02:45:29.270
Rebirth two -parter and I'm like, Old Man Bruce?

02:45:30.159 --> 02:45:33.459
Holding a gun, pointing at a criminal? What is

02:45:33.459 --> 02:45:37.340
going on here? I didn't know what my 19 -year

02:45:37.340 --> 02:45:39.360
-old self didn't know what in the heck was going

02:45:39.360 --> 02:45:43.780
on. I literally had to watch every single episode

02:45:43.780 --> 02:45:47.620
of this show at the time. Fast forward years

02:45:47.620 --> 02:45:50.280
later, Steve Megatron and I would create Legends

02:45:50.280 --> 02:45:52.200
of the Dark Knight. We would go through every

02:45:52.200 --> 02:45:57.200
episode of BTS and Batman Beyond. And just absolutely

02:45:57.200 --> 02:45:59.920
love this show. It's got great animation. It's

02:45:59.920 --> 02:46:03.260
got a great soundtrack done by Christopher Carter,

02:46:03.399 --> 02:46:06.219
Lolita Romanis, and Michael McQuistion, the Dynamic

02:46:06.219 --> 02:46:08.620
Music Partners. I've interviewed all of them

02:46:08.620 --> 02:46:11.780
multiple times. Absolutely love it. It's one

02:46:11.780 --> 02:46:17.020
of the best Batman shows ever. Dirt, any thoughts

02:46:17.020 --> 02:46:20.799
on Batman Beyond? What the hell could I possibly

02:46:20.799 --> 02:46:25.729
add after that? Sorry. Like I said, Batman Beyond

02:46:25.729 --> 02:46:29.790
is in my blood. I can go thumbs up. Good show.

02:46:30.069 --> 02:46:33.170
And that's all I can really add. Steve, what

02:46:33.170 --> 02:46:34.610
do you think of its placement here at number

02:46:34.610 --> 02:46:38.670
27? Thumbs up. Good show. All right. I'll just

02:46:38.670 --> 02:46:40.409
agree with you guys. I haven't seen it enough.

02:46:40.489 --> 02:46:42.889
I did rank it in my top 100, but it was down

02:46:42.889 --> 02:46:44.889
at 89 just because I just don't know enough about

02:46:44.889 --> 02:46:48.780
it. Okay, so here's the thing for you, Optimus

02:46:48.780 --> 02:46:50.579
Solo. Oh, I already have too much homework? No,

02:46:50.579 --> 02:46:52.719
no, no. I know you already have too much homework.

02:46:52.799 --> 02:46:56.700
All I'm asking you to do is watch the first two

02:46:56.700 --> 02:47:01.799
episodes. That's all. And if after that you don't

02:47:01.799 --> 02:47:08.340
want to watch anymore, that's fine. But it hooks

02:47:08.340 --> 02:47:12.270
you in. It really does. All right, that means

02:47:12.270 --> 02:47:14.930
there's only time for one more on this side of

02:47:14.930 --> 02:47:30.850
the top 25. Number 26 is here. I'm going to read

02:47:30.850 --> 02:47:32.629
the description and it's going to sound vaguely

02:47:32.629 --> 02:47:34.069
familiar to something I just read a little bit

02:47:34.069 --> 02:47:36.870
ago. This show became one of the defining action

02:47:36.870 --> 02:47:39.799
-adventure cartoons of the 1980s. blending fantasy,

02:47:40.020 --> 02:47:42.159
sci -fi, mythology, and toy -driven storytelling

02:47:42.159 --> 02:47:45.559
into a highly recognizable franchise. World -building

02:47:45.559 --> 02:47:47.780
character designs and tone gave it a larger -than

02:47:47.780 --> 02:47:49.659
-life identity that remained culturally relevant

02:47:49.659 --> 02:47:52.639
for decades. It also helped solidify the era's

02:47:52.639 --> 02:47:54.959
appetite for serialized action animation with

02:47:54.959 --> 02:47:57.780
continuing lore and iconic heroes and villains.

02:47:59.120 --> 02:48:01.760
We are staying in the same year that we were

02:48:01.760 --> 02:48:04.020
with G .I. Joe, A Real American Hero. It's still

02:48:04.020 --> 02:48:09.250
1985. The Rankin -Bass syndicated show. Thundercats

02:48:09.250 --> 02:48:13.370
comes in here at number 26. We've had a major

02:48:13.370 --> 02:48:16.190
flip here because G .I. Joe was ranked 12th last

02:48:16.190 --> 02:48:20.309
time, dropped 16 spots to number 28. Thundercats

02:48:20.309 --> 02:48:24.209
was ranked 31 last time and climbed five spots

02:48:24.209 --> 02:48:28.030
to number 26. So they have flipped their order

02:48:28.030 --> 02:48:32.430
completely. Mike, what do you think of Thundercats

02:48:32.430 --> 02:48:39.079
being here at number 26? Wow. Did this benefit

02:48:39.079 --> 02:48:42.620
from the more recent reboot that was fairly well

02:48:42.620 --> 02:48:44.440
-received, even though it also got cut short?

02:48:44.819 --> 02:48:50.799
You mean 2011? What year did I say? You mean

02:48:50.799 --> 02:48:54.700
the 2011? Yeah, I mean, it's true. But I'm...

02:48:54.700 --> 02:48:58.260
Oh, 15 years ago? For me, that's recent. I understand

02:48:58.260 --> 02:49:00.879
that, but I want to clarify, you're talking about

02:49:00.879 --> 02:49:02.819
the 2011 reboot and not the crappy... Whatever

02:49:02.819 --> 02:49:06.219
the hub was, or whatever the... Okay, let's go.

02:49:06.760 --> 02:49:10.379
no not thundercats go good lord not thundercats

02:49:10.379 --> 02:49:14.219
roar that's why i was trying to clarify yes no

02:49:14.219 --> 02:49:18.000
the other one oh yeah no i don't know because

02:49:18.000 --> 02:49:22.860
again thundercats from 2011 like it that's 50

02:49:22.860 --> 02:49:26.379
it's x number of years ago now yeah i don't know

02:49:26.379 --> 02:49:28.219
i don't know i did have the other one though

02:49:28.219 --> 02:49:29.819
so maybe the other one also helped that keeps

02:49:29.819 --> 02:49:34.579
you know yeah maybe you know this just celebrated

02:49:34.579 --> 02:49:37.920
its 40th anniversary last year maybe that's why

02:49:37.920 --> 02:49:43.879
maybe because again in this at least for me over

02:49:43.879 --> 02:49:47.139
the last four or five years i've been in this

02:49:47.139 --> 02:49:51.989
whole world of reels and scrolling on my doom

02:49:51.989 --> 02:49:54.229
scrolling on my phone whether it's facebook or

02:49:54.229 --> 02:49:58.209
instagram and as i doom scroll i will catch a

02:49:58.209 --> 02:50:02.329
reel of looney tunes or thundercats or batman

02:50:02.329 --> 02:50:05.690
beyond or gi joe or whatever it's like oh hey

02:50:06.680 --> 02:50:10.479
yeah what year is this this is 2025 oh yeah thundercats

02:50:10.479 --> 02:50:13.879
40th anniversary yay kind of thing so i don't

02:50:13.879 --> 02:50:16.500
know i don't know how thundercats got to 26 no

02:50:16.500 --> 02:50:19.000
clue i mean i'm a little shocked just me personally

02:50:19.000 --> 02:50:21.459
i had thundercats in the i did rank it i ranked

02:50:21.459 --> 02:50:28.280
at 73rd i had gi joe at 38 um which It was trying

02:50:28.280 --> 02:50:30.180
to separate some more, some of my personal bias

02:50:30.180 --> 02:50:32.120
to some, you know, historical and cultural impacts

02:50:32.120 --> 02:50:33.659
and things of that nature. But I had, you know,

02:50:33.680 --> 02:50:36.000
that's like a 35 spot difference. I had GI Joe

02:50:36.000 --> 02:50:38.459
beating out Thundercats by 35 spots. And I'm

02:50:38.459 --> 02:50:40.040
shocked that even though it's only two spots

02:50:40.040 --> 02:50:41.819
difference, I'm kind of shocked that Thundercats

02:50:41.819 --> 02:50:43.200
has beaten it. Dirt, what do you think of the

02:50:43.200 --> 02:50:45.799
two? Actually, I do kind of have a theory about

02:50:45.799 --> 02:50:49.379
this because I recently bought the DVD box set

02:50:49.379 --> 02:50:53.500
for Thundercats. I think just right around Christmas,

02:50:53.540 --> 02:50:57.100
I ended up buying it. I was talking to somebody

02:50:57.100 --> 02:50:59.719
about Thundercats and they had, this is someone

02:50:59.719 --> 02:51:01.340
that was about, I don't know, maybe 10, 15 years

02:51:01.340 --> 02:51:04.979
younger than me. And they had never really seen

02:51:04.979 --> 02:51:06.920
the show. They didn't really know anything about

02:51:06.920 --> 02:51:08.780
it. They just kind of knew that it was a property

02:51:08.780 --> 02:51:11.399
that had existed, but, you know, never really

02:51:11.399 --> 02:51:13.319
were exposed to it, never watched it or anything.

02:51:13.600 --> 02:51:16.879
And the way they were talking about it, it was

02:51:16.879 --> 02:51:21.219
almost like this hidden gem from the 80s that

02:51:21.219 --> 02:51:23.299
they didn't really know about it. And they were

02:51:23.299 --> 02:51:28.430
now rediscovering. and and so i i wonder if it's

02:51:28.430 --> 02:51:32.530
one of those things where as much as i i i love

02:51:32.530 --> 02:51:34.709
gi joe and i talk about gi joe being ubiquitous

02:51:34.709 --> 02:51:37.350
and everywhere i wonder if it kind of played

02:51:37.350 --> 02:51:40.610
itself out in that sense where everybody like

02:51:40.610 --> 02:51:43.409
they know gi joe they know what it's about they

02:51:43.409 --> 02:51:47.370
know what it you know everything or or even if

02:51:47.370 --> 02:51:50.229
they don't they feel like they do whereas like

02:51:50.229 --> 02:51:53.709
thundercats and silver hawks um and there was

02:51:54.329 --> 02:51:56.030
What was the other one? There's a third one that

02:51:56.030 --> 02:51:59.809
you mentioned. Bravestar? Tigerhawks? Tigerhawks

02:51:59.809 --> 02:52:02.409
was the same. But Bravestar was the other one,

02:52:02.430 --> 02:52:03.889
because Bravestar was the other series. Yeah,

02:52:03.909 --> 02:52:09.690
those are shows that they disappeared. And for

02:52:09.690 --> 02:52:12.290
a long time, they didn't have revivals. They

02:52:12.290 --> 02:52:14.969
didn't have collector's series figures. They

02:52:14.969 --> 02:52:17.129
didn't have. And then in the last five years

02:52:17.129 --> 02:52:18.829
or whatever, they've started to kind of come

02:52:18.829 --> 02:52:20.489
back and people are talking about them again.

02:52:20.770 --> 02:52:23.809
And it's like this. hidden gem from the 80s that

02:52:23.809 --> 02:52:25.709
everybody kind of forgot about. And now they're

02:52:25.709 --> 02:52:27.549
rediscovering it. And it's become one of those

02:52:27.549 --> 02:52:29.870
properties where people can go, oh, I really

02:52:29.870 --> 02:52:31.829
like this old show. And they can turn to their

02:52:31.829 --> 02:52:33.809
friend and say, hey, you need to watch this old

02:52:33.809 --> 02:52:37.790
show that I discovered from back in the 80s.

02:52:37.829 --> 02:52:41.809
And I think with a lot of people, Silverhawks

02:52:41.809 --> 02:52:44.290
and Thundercats and Bravestar fall into that

02:52:44.290 --> 02:52:48.510
realm where they were out of the cultural zeitgeist

02:52:48.510 --> 02:52:51.690
for a long time. And now they've come back in.

02:52:51.979 --> 02:52:54.299
And people are like, wow, this is instead of

02:52:54.299 --> 02:52:56.440
something that my parents pushed on me or something

02:52:56.440 --> 02:52:58.920
that that guy I work with always talked about.

02:52:58.959 --> 02:53:01.719
Here's something that I've discovered from the

02:53:01.719 --> 02:53:04.940
80s. That's this great old show. And I think

02:53:04.940 --> 02:53:08.260
also because those shows all benefited from the

02:53:08.260 --> 02:53:11.280
anime influence of the time that when people

02:53:11.280 --> 02:53:13.159
look at them, they go, oh, look, this is anime.

02:53:13.399 --> 02:53:16.760
It's like, well, no, it's it's not. But it kind

02:53:16.760 --> 02:53:20.229
of is from, you know, all the. design cues that

02:53:20.229 --> 02:53:23.209
they took for it so that's something that actually

02:53:23.209 --> 02:53:25.069
has been going through my mind the last few months

02:53:25.069 --> 02:53:28.469
as i've been re -watching the show um is that

02:53:28.469 --> 02:53:30.909
when i talk to certain people about it people

02:53:30.909 --> 02:53:34.989
who are you know i'd say maybe 10 15 years younger

02:53:34.989 --> 02:53:37.870
than me puts them about 35 40 years old they're

02:53:37.870 --> 02:53:40.090
in the era where they didn't grow up with it

02:53:40.329 --> 02:53:42.729
They kind of knew it existed, but they never

02:53:42.729 --> 02:53:46.209
saw it. It was never in reruns. They never really

02:53:46.209 --> 02:53:48.649
had any exposure to it. But now they can go back

02:53:48.649 --> 02:53:51.329
and look at it, and it feels like they've discovered

02:53:51.329 --> 02:53:53.969
something. That makes sense. That makes sense.

02:53:54.030 --> 02:53:58.270
Which one would you rank personally higher? Of

02:53:58.270 --> 02:54:00.950
those three? Of G .I. Joe and Thundercat. Oh,

02:54:00.969 --> 02:54:03.329
of G .I. Joe. I would put G .I. Joe higher just

02:54:03.329 --> 02:54:06.069
because. I just feel like it was more culturally

02:54:06.069 --> 02:54:09.430
significant. Yeah. I agree with that. Steve,

02:54:09.530 --> 02:54:11.090
what do you think of how we're ending today?

02:54:12.129 --> 02:54:15.149
I don't know. I think Thundercat should have

02:54:15.149 --> 02:54:21.049
been higher up, like on the other side of the

02:54:21.049 --> 02:54:26.149
Jetsons. Like, I don't... I get it, like the

02:54:26.149 --> 02:54:28.409
appeal, and I enjoyed the show for what it was,

02:54:28.530 --> 02:54:32.190
but I feel like Batman Beyond, G .I. Joe, Inspector

02:54:32.190 --> 02:54:35.930
Gadget, and the Jetsons kind of should have been

02:54:35.930 --> 02:54:38.309
above this one. There was a lot of unexpected

02:54:38.309 --> 02:54:41.149
love I saw from the Thundercats in the voting

02:54:41.149 --> 02:54:43.930
ballots, that's for sure. So I'm not saying it's

02:54:43.930 --> 02:54:45.670
necessarily not warranted. It was just surprising

02:54:45.670 --> 02:54:49.290
to me, I guess, as far as that goes. I mean,

02:54:49.309 --> 02:54:50.690
it's not that far off from where it was last

02:54:50.690 --> 02:54:53.870
time. It went from 31 to 26. It's more about

02:54:53.870 --> 02:54:57.170
how much Batman Beyond was 16, G .I. Joe was

02:54:57.170 --> 02:55:02.389
12, Darkwing was 19. yeah family guy was 21 Garfield

02:55:02.389 --> 02:55:04.950
was 22 so we've just seen a lot of the the top

02:55:04.950 --> 02:55:08.530
25 drop out of the top 25 uh this time around

02:55:08.530 --> 02:55:10.149
which is interesting so I'm going to go through

02:55:10.149 --> 02:55:11.829
a little bit of what we've revealed today and

02:55:11.829 --> 02:55:14.389
then get your guys's thoughts overall so from

02:55:14.389 --> 02:55:18.489
the last 15 years we saw zero entries today so

02:55:18.489 --> 02:55:20.969
nothing from the last 15 years made it into this

02:55:20.969 --> 02:55:25.200
section of the countdown From the 2000s, we got

02:55:25.200 --> 02:55:28.100
four shows with Archer, Samurai Jack, Teen Titans,

02:55:28.280 --> 02:55:31.920
and Phineas and Ferb. We got quite a few shows

02:55:31.920 --> 02:55:36.020
from the 90s. I believe 11 is the count that

02:55:36.020 --> 02:55:41.899
I had for the 90s. We had not a lot at the beginning,

02:55:41.979 --> 02:55:45.559
but we did end up with seven shows from the 80s.

02:55:45.760 --> 02:55:48.340
Voltron, Muppet Babies, Ghostbusters, Garfield,

02:55:48.540 --> 02:55:50.739
Inspector Gadget, G .I. Joe, and Thundercats.

02:55:51.200 --> 02:55:54.100
And we only had three from the classic era, Yogi

02:55:54.100 --> 02:55:58.719
Bear, Tom and Jerry, and the Jetsons. So, Dirt,

02:55:58.780 --> 02:56:01.379
what's your overall thought on what was revealed

02:56:01.379 --> 02:56:04.000
today and kind of where we sit with 25 spots

02:56:04.000 --> 02:56:08.819
left? Well, Family Guy could have been 101. I

02:56:08.819 --> 02:56:12.520
would have been totally... You know, I will say...

02:56:12.520 --> 02:56:17.139
I give a lot of credit, though, for, like, Daria.

02:56:18.159 --> 02:56:23.579
That's a show that... I think critically is very

02:56:23.579 --> 02:56:27.340
underrated. And that is a great show for people

02:56:27.340 --> 02:56:33.440
to go back and rediscover. And Phineas and Ferb,

02:56:33.500 --> 02:56:37.479
I think, is one of those shows that will fall

02:56:37.479 --> 02:56:41.260
into the same group with Yogi Bear and Huckleberry

02:56:41.260 --> 02:56:44.379
Hound and all of those other like classic, what

02:56:44.379 --> 02:56:46.479
we think of classic kids, you know, Bullwinkle

02:56:46.479 --> 02:56:49.719
and Rocky and all that kind of stuff where it's

02:56:49.719 --> 02:56:52.270
going to be one of those shows. that everyone

02:56:52.270 --> 02:56:54.969
is going to watch as they're growing up from

02:56:54.969 --> 02:56:57.110
now on. Like, just from now to the end of time.

02:56:57.229 --> 02:56:58.610
Every kid is going to grow up. They're going

02:56:58.610 --> 02:57:00.930
to watch some Bugs Bunny. They're going to watch

02:57:00.930 --> 02:57:04.469
some Phineas and Ferb. They're going to watch

02:57:04.469 --> 02:57:07.690
some Mickey Mouse, some Donald Duck, some Yogi

02:57:07.690 --> 02:57:10.610
Bear. Like, it's just going to enter that pantheon.

02:57:10.649 --> 02:57:14.729
And it may not be as critically acclaimed. You

02:57:14.729 --> 02:57:16.610
know, we may not put it on the same pedestal

02:57:16.610 --> 02:57:20.309
as some of the other shows for having great animation.

02:57:21.229 --> 02:57:23.870
more memorable characters or a great you know

02:57:23.870 --> 02:57:26.290
style like thundercats had that anime influence

02:57:26.290 --> 02:57:29.049
or i think voltron was robbed it should have

02:57:29.049 --> 02:57:32.930
been number one but um i think you know we've

02:57:32.930 --> 02:57:38.209
seen some really good shows that once people

02:57:38.209 --> 02:57:39.790
look at this list they go you know what i need

02:57:39.790 --> 02:57:41.989
to go back and check that out like like maybe

02:57:41.989 --> 02:57:43.510
i never saw that maybe only caught one or two

02:57:43.510 --> 02:57:45.790
episodes but i should go back and re -watch that

02:57:45.790 --> 02:57:48.989
and we live now in the era of everything available

02:57:48.989 --> 02:57:52.520
all the time So there's no excuse. So if there's

02:57:52.520 --> 02:57:55.639
a show on here that you've heard people talk

02:57:55.639 --> 02:57:57.559
about, but you've never seen, well, now you know

02:57:57.559 --> 02:57:59.840
it's high enough on the list. You should go check

02:57:59.840 --> 02:58:03.040
it out. Yeah, that's a good point. So we did

02:58:03.040 --> 02:58:06.340
have the five shows that dropped out of the 25,

02:58:06.659 --> 02:58:10.520
top 25 from last time. And we did have the following

02:58:10.520 --> 02:58:13.100
shows that made it into the top 50 that were

02:58:13.100 --> 02:58:15.100
not last time. So that would include Archer,

02:58:15.239 --> 02:58:19.639
The Tick. Daria, Powerpuff Girls, Voltron, Teen

02:58:19.639 --> 02:58:23.079
Titans, Cowboy Bebop, and Phineas and Ferb. Those

02:58:23.079 --> 02:58:26.040
were the non -top 50 shows last time that are

02:58:26.040 --> 02:58:28.459
now top 50. Steve, what do you think of what

02:58:28.459 --> 02:58:33.639
we've revealed? I think I don't know where we're

02:58:33.639 --> 02:58:35.379
going to go from here, but it's kind of surprising

02:58:35.379 --> 02:58:37.579
the stuff that's moved around the way it has.

02:58:38.239 --> 02:58:42.479
Yeah, that is for sure. Just to give you guys

02:58:42.479 --> 02:58:45.559
an also an update here on some of the other things

02:58:45.559 --> 02:58:47.799
we've been keeping track of. We saw three superhero

02:58:47.799 --> 02:58:50.719
shows today. Only two of the adult primetime

02:58:50.719 --> 02:58:54.399
comedy shows, only two anime. The syndicated

02:58:54.399 --> 02:58:56.479
made a boom here. We had five shows that were

02:58:56.479 --> 02:58:58.680
just originally straight to syndication. We had

02:58:58.680 --> 02:59:00.760
three shows from ABC, three shows from Nickelodeon,

02:59:00.780 --> 02:59:03.680
three shows from Cartoon Network. And then from

02:59:03.680 --> 02:59:05.959
production companies, we had three from Hanna

02:59:05.959 --> 02:59:08.180
-Barbera, three from Nickelodeon and three from

02:59:08.180 --> 02:59:11.219
Warner. brothers mike what do you think of what

02:59:11.219 --> 02:59:13.260
we've revealed and are you scared of what's to

02:59:13.260 --> 02:59:19.239
come no i'm more curious than anything else now

02:59:19.239 --> 02:59:22.899
that my number one has been revealed at 27 i'm

02:59:22.899 --> 02:59:27.520
good you know it's not one of the ones that didn't

02:59:27.520 --> 02:59:30.680
make it so that's yeah exactly it's like okay

02:59:30.680 --> 02:59:36.360
i i don't have to you know be like a stupid bush

02:59:36.360 --> 02:59:41.010
and demand a recount So, you know, I'm, I'm good

02:59:41.010 --> 02:59:44.370
now, but no, it's, it's all been very interesting

02:59:44.370 --> 02:59:47.690
this time around with everything that we've done

02:59:47.690 --> 02:59:50.569
to this point, because like we've already said

02:59:50.569 --> 02:59:54.110
in this episode and the previous episodes, this

02:59:54.110 --> 02:59:57.549
whole process, we didn't do nomination episodes

02:59:57.549 --> 03:00:02.129
last time. We just did willy nilly. Everybody

03:00:02.129 --> 03:00:07.090
go give us your hundred episodes, a hundred titles.

03:00:08.270 --> 03:00:11.090
and send us the list. So we, in this time around,

03:00:11.209 --> 03:00:13.969
we've done this whole, and we blame dirt for

03:00:13.969 --> 03:00:16.950
this. This is all his fault. That's because last,

03:00:16.989 --> 03:00:19.670
last time he told us to do it a different way.

03:00:19.750 --> 03:00:23.629
Well, we're doing it a different way. Um, and

03:00:23.629 --> 03:00:26.409
you know, we've done this whole process and now

03:00:26.409 --> 03:00:29.930
we're, we're coming to the, the end of the process

03:00:29.930 --> 03:00:33.549
and we're finding out exactly what we're, what

03:00:33.549 --> 03:00:38.069
we've gotten ourselves into in the top 25. Well,

03:00:38.129 --> 03:00:42.049
it's like, but yeah, buckle up buttercup because

03:00:42.049 --> 03:00:45.629
it's like forest always says podcasting is like

03:00:45.629 --> 03:00:47.790
a box of chocolates. You never know what you're

03:00:47.790 --> 03:00:52.190
going to get. I did ask chat GBT about the 25

03:00:52.190 --> 03:00:55.649
episodes, 25 shows that we revealed today. And

03:00:55.649 --> 03:00:59.209
I asked a specific question on if they were all

03:00:59.209 --> 03:01:03.590
for sure. Top 100 worthy. And Chad GBT said,

03:01:03.729 --> 03:01:05.950
yes, every single one of these can be reasonably

03:01:05.950 --> 03:01:08.309
defended as top 100 worthy. Some are absolutely

03:01:08.309 --> 03:01:11.270
mandatory. Some are important historically. Some

03:01:11.270 --> 03:01:13.909
are massively influential culturally. Some are

03:01:13.909 --> 03:01:16.629
artistically elite, but none of them feel outright

03:01:16.629 --> 03:01:20.690
illegitimate. So it agrees with our 25 selections

03:01:20.690 --> 03:01:22.709
being a part of this top 100. So I don't know.

03:01:22.750 --> 03:01:24.969
I guess we got the Chad GBT seal of approval,

03:01:25.129 --> 03:01:28.129
Mike. Except family guy that can go at one on

03:01:28.129 --> 03:01:33.340
one. No. All right. That's all I got for you

03:01:33.340 --> 03:01:35.340
guys. I'm going to leave everything else close

03:01:35.340 --> 03:01:39.040
to the vest and hidden until next time. All right,

03:01:39.120 --> 03:01:41.700
folks. I think that's going to do it for us.

03:01:42.860 --> 03:01:44.780
Dirt, you got any final thoughts you want to

03:01:44.780 --> 03:01:47.059
say before I run through the closing or Steve,

03:01:47.120 --> 03:01:49.299
anything you want to say? Dirt, you can go first.

03:01:50.459 --> 03:01:52.420
Well, I'm just scared about what you said at

03:01:52.420 --> 03:01:54.459
the beginning of the episode. You said you still

03:01:54.459 --> 03:01:56.260
have plans for me somewhere else or something

03:01:56.260 --> 03:01:59.840
else. And now I'm just worried. Now I got to

03:01:59.840 --> 03:02:02.110
get back in the bunker. and lock the door, hide

03:02:02.110 --> 03:02:05.649
away for another 15 years. Just don't lose the

03:02:05.649 --> 03:02:08.030
audio equipment. You can have the audio equipment

03:02:08.030 --> 03:02:15.549
in the bunker. Dang it. Steve, any final thoughts?

03:02:16.110 --> 03:02:20.329
Nothing here. All right. All right, Toonsters,

03:02:20.350 --> 03:02:22.370
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Thank you for listening. Until next time, oh

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yeah, and unleash the Top 100 tune in you. Thought

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to win Transformers rolling out with might Beast

03:04:50.260 --> 03:04:54.579
Wars roaring through the fight Batman's shadows

03:04:54.579 --> 03:04:59.639
guard the night Dragon Ball Z Powering into flight

03:04:59.639 --> 03:05:09.479
Looney Tunes laughter that never fades Simpsons

03:05:09.479 --> 03:05:12.819
shaping culture through the decades Family Guy

03:05:12.819 --> 03:05:16.819
twisting the comedy scene never dreams on