The Sword in the Stone

A legend is sung of when England was young And

knights were brave and bold The good king had

died and no one decide who was rightful heir

to the throne. It seemed that the land would

be torn by war or saved by a miracle alone. And

that miracle appeared in the sword in the stone.

And below the hilt, in letters of gold, were

written these words, Whoso pulleth out this sword

of this stone and anvil, is right -wise King,

born of England. Though many tried for the sword

with all their strength, none could move the

sword, nor stir it. So the miracle had not worked,

and England was still without a king. And in

time, the marvelous sword was forgotten. Hello

and welcome to the 33rd episode of Tooncast brought

to you by the Geekcast Radio Network. I'm your

host DFG1 Mike and today I am joined once again

by Kevin from Mr. Boss K -Dog Thompson. Hello.

Hello. How are you? I am doing good. Yes, and

today we will be discussing again in the Disney

Animation Spotlight with The Sword and the Stone,

one of my favorite films. So even though it's

been like I don't know, three days, four days,

five, I don't even know how long it's been since

we've, because we're, you know, as I've said

before, we're kind of ahead of schedule. How

are you doing? I'm doing fine, though. Let's

see, when we were recording this was a few days

after the New Year's, so, you know, I didn't

do anything spectacular for New Year's, but I

just kind of went out for dinner with some friends

and came back home and watched... very old, Dick

Clark just tried to count down from 20. It was

very painful to watch. Oh, you mean he was at

the Rockin' New Year's Eve this year? I didn't

even watch it. I thought Seacrest and Daly took

over for him. Yeah, Seacrest was there, but Dick

Clark was there too, and Dick Clark did the actual

countdown from 20. But he skipped. He went 20,

19, 18, 17, 16, 15. 14, 12, 14, 13, 11, 10, 11,

9. He skipped one, he repeated one, and I don't

know, he was struggling. I feel bad for him.

Well, he is old, you know. Yeah, he is 80 years

old, so you're giving him a little crack. You

know, it's New Year, you know, new decade, it's

2000, well, okay, well, you wouldn't know this,

but somebody on the Earth2 .net forums posted

a link to how to say this year correctly. It's

actually 2010 is how you say it correctly not

2010 not 2010 And then on my Twitter feed at

TFG one Mike and yeah, it's it's pronounced 2010

because you don't say Like if you say aloud 1810,

that's how you say it 1810, you know 1810 Right.

So yeah Yeah, new year, new podcasts, new...

just a whole bunch of new stuff's gonna be coming

up from Geekcast Radio. Actually, you know, I

keep looking at the Tooncast schedule and not

really moving stuff around, but just like making

sure I have everything in a line for the next

week's episode and everything else, and holy

crap, we're already up to episode 33. It's just

flying by. So yeah With this one. We're gonna

have a little bit different format by now The

people would have heard the Disney because I

put in that You know on the on the Disney DVD

is how they have the Disney DVD sound that you

know I'm talking about Yeah, beginning of each

film where it says Disney DVD. I use that as

part of the intro and then I'll use If I can

find them, I will use the trailers. Well, the

Sword in the Zone 45th Anniversary Edition DVD

does not have the trailer on it. So I just took

the intro where the guy is singing the song and

then the line about what's written on the sword.

That'll be the intro. And then the outro is pretty

much the last five minutes of the film. I don't

know maybe it's I'm being too lazy I don't feel

like going on YouTube trying to find it or or

you know IMDB or wherever I just so so yeah um

what I guess we oh wait the history lesson forgot

about that seeing as how I have to do it this

week seeing as how somebody didn't print out

the damn script I sent you A whole bunch of scripts!

I know, I just didn't print them. Yeah, see?

It's your own damn fault, not mine. You can't

believe the schedule. I didn't want to print

ten scripts at the same time. Well, you don't

have to print ten, you just have to print the

next three weeks worth. I did, and then I just

ran out and haven't been back. So, The Sword

in the Stone is a 1963 animated fantasy comedy

film produced by Walt Disney. Originally released

into theaters December 25th, 1963, the 18th animated

feature in the Walt Disney animated classics.

It was the last Disney animated feature released

while Walt Disney was alive. Which, again, because

we're not doing these ones, these four films,

Aladdin, Jungle Book, Sword, and because we're

not doing them in the order that they're supposed

to be done in, there's probably going to be some

inconsistencies. It is part of the English cycle

of Disney animated films, which included The

Old Man, Three Sons, The King's Daughter, The

King, The Golden Goose, Three Daughters, Two

Farmers, Pocahontas, and Tarzan. The film is

based on the novel of the same name. It first

published in 1938, a single novel. It was later

republished in 1958 as the first book of T .H.

White's Tetralogy. Wow, that's a really weird

word. the once -in -future king. From Merlin's

statement, the times won't come out for another

1 ,200 years. They can't wait for the London

Times, first edition won't be out for at least

1 ,200 years. It may be extrapolated that the

film is set circa AD 558. Going into the general,

well, yeah, that's the history lesson, that's

done. Going into the different memories, I love

this film. It's one of the It's one of those

things where I saw it as a kid and I didn't really

know what the heck it was But it was just a fun

fun film for me to watch I mean this is probably

out of all of the older Disney films This is

probably the one that I can watch the most because

there's so much fun for me Here's it's talk I

I do remember seeing it as a kid, but there's

not a lot of parts in this movie that made a

big enough impact that I remember them. The one

with standing there is I do remember the scene

with Madame Mim and Merlin with their magician...

The wizard's duel. Yeah, their magician duel.

I do remember that, and I remember seeing that

as a kid when I watched the movie again yesterday.

I do remember something from this film, but that's

about the only scene that I actually remember

from when I was a kid. I do remember thinking

as a kid though, I did not realize this was a

Disney film. I actually don't think I realized

this was a Disney film until we were setting

up when I was looking through the schedule for

Tunecast. I always thought it was some other

company that did this film for some reason. I'm

not saying that's a good or bad thing, but for

me it just didn't feel like any other Disney

film, like it didn't seem to have that same classic

Disney feel to it, so I always thought some other

company did it. So it's a new revelation to me

that it's actually a Disney film. Yeah, you know,

when I first saw it, you know, and of course

it's pretty much the young version in the magical

version of of the king arthur tale of of of you

know king arthur becoming king in in the sort

excalibur and all that stuff and i i am huge

into arthurian lore i love most of the stuff

uh... i think which i still need to get in my

birthday is coming up so if anybody wants to

get this one for me for my birthday i want to

get i had a copy of it i don't have it anymore

i want a copy of john steinbeck's uh... King

Arthur and His Noble Knights. It's a really good

book and I really enjoyed it. I read it, oh god,

when I was like 15. I don't know, I found it

in some shelter I was at or whatever. Anyway,

you know, this film when I saw it, you know,

everybody knows Merlin. Everybody knows Arthur.

They put a fun twist in this with Mad Madam Mim

and with Oh, the damn owl. Archimedes. Yeah,

Archimedes. Yeah. But yeah, it's just so great.

I've always been a huge fan of Arthur, too, and

all that type of medieval storylines. I've always

loved those, too. I do have to say, don't get

mad at me, but I just couldn't get into this

film very much. I don't know why. We'll kind

of go through it as we go through, but I don't

have the same love for the film as you do, but

I do love our fairy tales. Yeah, that's fine.

I mean, you know, we don't always have to agree,

and the majority of the time we don't. This will

be the first time in a while we're going to have

opposing views on this one. Yeah, last couple

episodes we've pretty much been in sync for the

most part. Actually, you know, I... I don't have

a single thing which it has become known on this

show, and will always be known on this show,

that Disney film that shall not be named. I had

a bunch of huge problems with that. I have no

problems with this film. I could not see anything.

I do. I think that was my problem. I have like

five or six things I'm going to bring up at some

point. All right. That's fine. That's fine. So

I guess we can get into the cast and the voice

actors. Again, with most of the older Disney

films, it's not going to be anybody that we really

recognize. Sebastian Cabot I recognize obviously

because we just did the Jungle Book episode last

week. He plays the voice of Sir Hector. It's

very strange. I never noticed a voice difference

in Arthur. Or watch whatever you want to call

him, but there was three different people that

voiced him That explains so much Scott. I was

gonna bring that up Yeah, I was like the voice

acting of Arthur is driving me nuts I'm like

it's a teenager at one point, then it's like

a 10 year old, then it's like a 20 year old I

was like what is going on with this guy's voice

Ricky Sorensen Richard Retherman and Robert Retherman

were the three males that voiced him My God,

thank you. I was like, this is the worst voice

actor ever, but I guess if it's three, I can

give it a little flack. See, if you'd printed

out the damn script, you would've known that.

Well, I can give it a little flack, and I'm like,

the inconsistency of this voice actor is driving

me nuts. Martha Wentworth as Madame Mim and the

Old Lady Squirrel. Alan Napier as Sir Pelinore.

Thorol Ravenscroft plays Black Bart. Thorol Ravenscroft

also did the singing for the Grinch, I believe.

Yeah, we just talked about the holiday show,

that's right. Barbara Jo Allen as the scullery

maid and Ginny Tyler as the little girl squirrel.

Does it give a voice for the narrator? The narrator

was actually one of my favorite voices in the

whole movie. I thought he did a pretty darn good

job. off of Wikipedia so it doesn't really say.

I would say one of my three favorite voice actors

in this is whoever does the narrator and then

probably Archimedes and Madame Mim. I think they

do some excellent, I mean obviously Merlin is

good and they have a ton of dialogue. I really

like Archimedes, voice acting, and Madame Mim.

Everybody can pretty much I I think everybody

can relate to Arthur or wart or whatever whatever

the hell you want to call him This because every

young boy was picked on by an older, you know

who had older brothers or school yard bullies

was picked on them like With what Kate does to

Arthur in the film and just you know He's not

my favorite character in this But he's not the

worst character in this by far. Yeah, who would

be your favorite and your least favorite? Most

favorite probably would be... It's a tie between

Merlin and Archimedes because their interaction

is just great between the two of them. Yeah,

my favorite would be Archimedes by far. I just

really like what he did, except for the one scene

where he was laughing uncontrollably. That got

kinda old, but other than that, I really like

Archimedes. Yeah, I... I'm trying to think here.

I think the worst one is probably Cirque. Yeah.

I didn't really... First of all, I don't like

the character. It's not really the voice that

I don't like, it's just the character. I just

cannot stand it. He's a doofus. Yeah. You know,

if you put... You take Oswald out of Drew Carey

and put him in this... That's what Sir Kay is.

He's just some scatterbrained goofball who his

father wants the best for him and then of course,

you know, he's like, oh, you can get the crown,

Kay. You can be king. He's like, yes, you so

I can. You know, just having real arrogance about

him. And just, no, he's not. Sir Kay needs to

get what nobody likes in school. He's not popular,

but nobody likes him. Yeah, exactly. So who is

your worst? It's kind of tough for me to say.

Probably, at times it's actually Arthur. Even

though I can relate to him and I understand who

he is and all that. At times I just want to slap

him upside the head. But I'd probably go with

you with one of either Cherokee or his father,

Hector, just because of the way their characters

are. I know it's intentional, but they just have

kind of douchebag characters. I like the voice

of Sir Hector, but I didn't even know until I

looked at the script a little bit earlier. I

didn't even know it was Sebastian Cabot when

I was watching the film until I actually saw

the credit in the beginning of it. I was like,

oh well, that's Bagheera. Going into the behind

the scenes segment here, you know, we all know

that people use recycle animation. It's just

a fact of the time. The deer Kay tries shooting

at with his arrow was copied from Bambi's mother

from Bambi. When Sir Hector and Kay are in the

kitchen fighting against the enchanted dishware,

So actor swings his sword backwards and hits

K on the head. Jasper and Horace in 101 Dalmatians

are animated in the same way during the fight

scene with Pongo and Perdita. Also footage where

Wart is affectionately licked by the two castle

dogs is reused in the Jungle Book four years

later. The scene where Arthur is a squirrel jumping

from one tree to the next was reused in The Fox

and the Hound. In 1981, when Wart goes into the

forest to retrieve Case Arrow, he pushes aside

a branch and weaves in and out a few small trees.

The animation was reused in Black Cauldron. Directed

by Wolfgang Retherman, writing credits is Bill

Peat, and of course the book was done by T .H.

White. I guess we can go into the actual plot,

actual show. Does it ever say? I'm just kind

of looking over the script here. We're just looking

over the plot. It says the film begins in England

with the death of the king, Uther Pendragon.

I don't ever remember. And I just watched this

last night. I don't remember that. Did they say

it was King Uther? I remember they said something

about the king dying, but I don't remember them

saying it. Right. So, how are we going to do

a five -second synopsis of this one? I can do

this one pretty well. Okay. Alright, so you have,

here goes, five seconds of Sword in the Stone.

Yeah, Arthur Fallon Sir, what's his name again?

Sir Kay. Yeah, but anyway, he may, he's hunting

in the forest, or wherever you want to call it.

Arthur messes him up, the arrow goes into the

forest. So Arthur goes after it, ends up finding,

crashing through the ceiling of Merlin's little

hut, Merlin Archimedes' house. Merth messes him

basically to let him go back to the castle. So

they go back to the castle the whole time. Here

we have Cirque and his father preparing for a

trip to London where he's going to become the

king because they're going to have some tournaments.

to which he declared the king because they'd

given up on anyone ever pulling the sword out

of the stone. Meanwhile, while 3rd K is training,

we have Merlin also training Arthur in different

little moral, ethical lessons and stuff like

that, character building, which include him being

turned into a squirrel, being turned into a fish,

being turned into a bird, I think I got him off,

and learning different little valuable lessons

through that. Eventually, we go to give it a

head a little bit. Oh, we have Merlin and Miss

Madame Min have a little showdown in between

before Arthur actually ends up in London. He

gets Sir Kay's sword, so he looks for a sword

to give him, finds the sword in the stone, pulls

it out, takes it to Sir Kay. They don't believe

him, so they go back and he has to pull it out

again. Which he does, he becomes king, and we

all look happy with Rapture. Yeah, I don't know

now that I'm thinking about it. I didn't really

care for the I mean the fish scene is funny But

I don't know I've never really been a fan of

underwater scenes in any kind of medium whether

it be live -action film or animation for the

most part. I think the only one that I can really

say that I kind of like it is in the Justice

League episode, The Enemy Below, which has to

deal with Aquaman and all that stuff. Of course,

that crosses over into the Secret Origins podcast,

which is coming in February. uh... shameless

plug there uh... but i didn't mind the fish one

as much as i'm as much as i minded the squirrel

one the squirrel one drove me nuts i'm wondering

what is the point of this nonsense and then you're

gonna break this poor little girl squirrel's

heart this is a bastard well she wouldn't get

so attached to him right away I'm trying to figure

out what the moral lesson that a kid must take

away from that. Guy, girl, do it. Whenever there's

a guy and a girl together, go at it. And then

guy, do your typical thing and leave the girl

high and dry so you can break her heart. That's

the moral lesson learned from that little lesson.

Anyway. That's not the things I had a problem

with, actually. Since we're talking about the

actual show, I'll start with the first thing

that caught me. There's a scene in the beginning

with Merlin inside his little hut where one of

our guys is there and they made Merlin smoke

a pipe. I understand that he's a magician and

he can do all kinds of crazy stuff but there

was no need to have him smoking a pipe. It would

have been fine without him doing that and I'm

so anti -smoking that whenever I see him smoking

a kid's thing it bugs me. I know that's minor,

but that was one thing. And then on the same

scene they have Arthur sitting down with Merlin

to drink some tea. I don't know many 10 year

olds who drink tea. Well you gotta remember though,

this is mainly based off of an English thing.

Yeah, that's true. American, so. So that, neither

one of those I have that big a problem. I have

more of a problem with the pipe than the whole

tea thing. When Merlin is in the, I think it's

called the South Tower, the North Tower, whatever

it is in the castle, the one that's real wobbly

and looks like it could fall at any time, the

first time he's there it's raining, and the rain

is falling through holes onto Archimedes and

Merlin and whatnot, and it shows him putting

some little umbrellas through the holes to try

to plug the holes. Merlin's a freaking magician,

why can't he just plug the holes? Why can't he

just cast a spell and have it steeled off without

raining on him? Don't bug me. Okay, and I can

see that, but... He can turn himself into a freaking

fish. I know. Come on. But it wouldn't serve

the purpose of him getting... It wouldn't further

the plot if he did that though, because the plot

of that scene is he has to get... Archimedes

down there to see what the big news is. So...

Yeah, it's bugging me. Like, I know you can do

this. You know you can do this. Just make it

bugged up. Let's see. Oh, and then another one

is when he's talking about what he plans to do

with Arthur and to get him, you know, to become

king or to become something, you know, special

or whatever. I don't remember the exact phrase,

but I think he's talking to Archimedes and he

says, I don't know if Archimedes asked him how

he plans to do it, and he says, well, I plan

to cheat if necessary. Oh, no, no, no, no. What

it is is, what it was was he says, you know,

Archimedes asked him how do you plan to do this?

The boy's only 12 years old, and I don't know,

something, and he goes, you know, well. I plan

to cheat, of course, use magic every last trick

in the book. Yeah. I just wish they would have

said, I plan to, you know, I'll use magic or

every trick in the book or whatever. It just

caught me, like, this is the guy that's supposed

to be teaching the moral lessons to the kid and

he's like, I'm gonna cheat. It's like, if you're

watching that, is that telling you that it's

okay to cheat and it's okay to smoke a pipe?

No, I'm just kidding. I know I'm being very nitpicky

and... that really had no bearing on whether

I liked the movie or not is the one little thing

that bugged me while I watched it. Look at all

the nitpicks we did with that movie that shall

not be named on this show. That's fine. I got

one final one which is at the end when they put

the sword back in the stone and before they let

Arthur pull it out again Sir Kay says, oh I'll

pull it out first because now that it's been

done it can be done again. And he grabs the handle

of the sword and he starts pulling on it. And

then his dad tries to help and grabs the blade

part of the sword. Yeah, his hand would have

been sliced up. I'm like, ouch! And then everybody

else starts grabbing it, chewing on it. I'm like,

ow, a lot of cut hands, cut hands. I'm like,

you guys are not very smart. So there were just

little things like that that kind of bugged me.

It didn't have anything to do with the overall

story. I don't really have a problem with the

plot of the story. I don't really have a problem

with the characters of the story. There's just

like little tiny things that I'm like, I'm going

to have to do something about that. So that's

my nitpick. So I guess we can move into the music

segment here. Oh, wait, wait. I got to redeem

myself by saying that I'm actually curious on

your hand too. I don't want to make it seem like

I'm completely negative. I do have a couple parts

that I really like. And the two parts I like

the most, probably, in the whole movie, and I'm

thinking I should have an Archimedes scene in

there, but I don't. But the two parts I like

the best are having to deal with Marilyn's magic.

One, when the kitchen is cleaning itself. But

even more than that, I really like the scene

where he gets everything in his whole hut into

his one suitcase. Oh yeah, the hickety -pickety

-puckety, yeah, yeah. I like the two things with

Merlin's magic. I mean, I'm sure there's little

Archimedes moments that I'll probably like even

better, but I don't really like when Merlin's

magic actually looks like that. Yeah, yeah, that

was pretty cool. For me, I, what do I think now?

Of course, the wizard's duel is really cool.

I really like that. See when it turns into the

little inchworm or whatever. Your caterpillar.

Yeah, the little caterpillar. I think I like

the mouse and the elephant the best, though.

That's so funny. Glad they did that well, too,

though. Yeah. You know, I'm not really sure at

this point. I think I'll be with you on the packing

scene. Yeah. It's a fun scene. Oh yeah, so going

into the music, didn't actually figure, I mean

it's probably in the credits somewhere, but just

talks about the songs, who they were sung by.

The Sword and the Stone is sung by Fred Darien.

Higetus Figetus is sung by Merlin. That's what

makes the world go around, is mainly by Merlin,

but Arthur does do part of it. Not all of it,

but part of it. Most of the fuddling thing which

was the squirrel scene sung by Merlin and then

mad mad a Mim which is sung by Mim Blue oak tree.

I believe is that the outro because I don't remember

it doesn't list to its by Sure, I don't know

Overall great music for the film. I think I like

the part of the sword in the stone theme where

it's using trumpets where it's done I really

like that I really don't have a problem with

any of the music in this. See, I think this is

where the film becomes negative for me, because

I just didn't like any of the songs in the whole

film. I don't know why, but especially when you're

used to some of the other Disney movies that

just have awesome, awesome songs, none of these

songs were awesome to me. I mean, some of them

were fun and they were, you know, simple, but

none of them were, they almost weren't even songs.

Like they were almost like speaking songs. Yeah,

it's plot point. They basically use song in this

as a plot device. Basically, you know, take the

matrix out of the performers and you don't have

a plot device. They're okay That was just like

majorly vocal that was like like impressive from

a vocal standpoint and even I don't know besides

Even some of the wording like the summer lyrics.

I don't know. I'm just not a big fan of music

for this movie No, I mean It's not the best at

all. I will agree to that but it's not the worst

I mean, you know, you know the worst I wouldn't

say it's the worst there's that I think that's

my my Sum up of this movie like it's it's not

the worst Nothing about it is the worst the characters

aren't the worst the worst I think that the worst

the songs aren't the worst, but none of it's

the best for me either. I could just Okay. Yeah,

see I have a more, you know, and it really has

nothing to do with this It has to do with the

film overall. I you know, I'm like you I'm more

attached to it because I saw it so much when

I was a kid I would I would make my mom rent

this all the time There were three films when

I was a kid that I would rent constantly. Transformers

movie, The Secret of the Sword, and this. So

going into the legacy segment, the film was a

financial success. at the box office and was

the sixth highest grossing film of 1963, I almost

said 1936. It was received by British critics

and American critics who thought it had too much

humor and a thin narrative. As of 2009 Rotten

Tomatoes reported that 71 % of critics gave positive

reviews based on 21 reviews with an average score

of 6 out of 10. If I was going for objective,

I would say 7 out of 10. If I was going for just

pure fan base, I would say 9 out of 10, but that's

just me. In his book, Disney, Neil Sinyard states

that despite being not well known, the film has

an excellent animation and complex structure,

and is actually more phil... whatever. Philosophical,

there we go, than other Disney features. Sinyard

suggests that while Disney may have seen something

of himself in Merlin, That Mim who hates the

wholesome sunshine may have represented critics.

Um, I don't know about that but The film received

an Academy Award not a mate nomination for best

score adaptation or treatment in 1963 but lost

against Irma la deuce know what the hell that

is And thank God I wasn't born in the 60s Actrical

and home media releases the film was originally

released on December 25th 1963 it was then followed

with reissues in the United States on December

22nd 1972 and March 25th 1983 with Winnie the

Pooh and a day for Eeyore As far as the home

media the film was first released on VHS format

for the UK in 1983 in the US March 1986 followed

by another VHS release in July 1991 both of these

were in the Walt Disney classics line The VHS

was released again on October 28, 1994 as part

of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. The

VHS was then re -released along with the DVD

release of the film in March 2001 as part of

the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection. The

45th anniversary edition of the DVD was released

June 2008. The deluxe edition of this was also,

which included lithographs, a book, a lenticular

card, and a certificate of authenticity was also

released in June of 2008. unfortunately I only

have just the 45th single disc edition I've seen

pictures of the deluxe special edition and it

comes in like this giant tin silver embossed

tin it looks really cool I would like to get

it but I'm happy just having the film itself

it's not something that's like high on my list

at this point and finally before we go into final

thoughts in the closing we have video games.

Merlin appears as a character in the PlayStation

2 game Kingdom Hearts, where he helped the characters

learn magic, as well as its sequel, Kingdom Hearts

2. Overall, you know, just going into Final Thoughts,

just really, really great film, for me anyway.

I mean, I know that you have some issues with

it, but it's one of those things where It was

it's part of my childhood. I always remember

watching this for some odd reason And I would

watch it always like it's not like something

I can watch every day And it wasn't something

I watched every day, but I remember watching

this movie a lot when I was a kid I think for

me I don't know okay, I don't like the music

and Even though I like some of the characters

and some of the stuff that I would put like,

just looking at the last two films we talked

about, Jungle Book and Aladdin, you could go

down like five or six characters in those movies

and I would like, like the, like the, my sixth

favorite character in Aladdin would be my favorite

character in this movie. Like none of the characters

were that, like they just didn't grab, grab me

like a lot of characters in other Disney movies

and like I said before, it's just It's not that

it's a bad movie. It's not that it has a bad

plot or anything like that. It's not that the

characters are the way that things are that bad.

It just, to me, didn't have, it wasn't a Disney

movie to me. It just didn't have that Disney

feel or that Disney magic. It is what it is and

I watched it and I didn't hate it. I made it

all the way through it and it's not like I wanted

to shut it off or anything like that. It's definitely

not anything like the Disney movie that remained

nameless. But if I was given a ranking out of

ten, it would probably be a four or five. That's

the most for me. And that's fine. To each their

own. And again, you didn't have the childhood

connection to this because there was a lot of

Disney films that I watched as a kid. A lot of

the older ones, as I've said in previous Disney

episodes that we've done, I always thought they

were releasing as I was growing up in the 80s.

We will have a Disney film coming up where I

probably have the same love for it as a kid that

you do with this one. So we'll see when we get

to that one if you like it or not, but there

is one on the schedule where not a lot of people

necessarily love it as like a Disney classic,

but it was one where I watched over and over

and over as a kid. So it'll be interesting to

see when we get to that one. And I am going to

put the call out right now before we go into

the outro. Oliver and Company, which is the next

episode of Tooncast, is the final... a Disney

film that we'll talk about in this portion of

the spotlight. The Disney animation spotlight

will come back at a later date. We have other

things we need to discuss, I think, for Disney

films in the last four weeks. Well, we haven't

talked about Oliver & Company yet, but, you know,

that's enough for now. We need a break, and we

need to get back to some cartoons. We're putting

the Disney animation spotlight back in the vault,

ladies and gentlemen. It's a horrible analogy,

but it's the only thing I can think of. But I'm

going to put the call out right now. I need to

find anybody who can find this that has internet

connection can email me at tfg1podcast .gmail

.com. I need to find the songs from the Oliver

and Company soundtrack. Why should I worry? Just

pretty much all of the famous songs from that

soundtrack. At this point in time, I can't afford

to buy the thing. I would go out, I'd go on Amazon

and find it. So if anyone wants to send me mp3s

of all of the songs or somewhere where I could

download them for free, not saying that's a right

or wrong thing, but you know, just at this current

time I can't, I don't have the monetary means

to. to buy the soundtrack, and I need them by...

I need these by next Tuesday, which is the...

What is it? The 5th. Oh, don't worry. I was just

trying to think, because, yeah, anyway. So, going

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