A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

Free for All is an oddity of a strip. Created by Brett Merhar in the waning days of the newspaper comic strip monoculture ie the late 90s, it was syndicated for but a single year... but Merhar still …

This week, Mike and Ethan look at this weird Charlie Brown special that is NOT associated with any holiday, it's all about that overly-civilized, underly-dogified dog Snoopy eating 100 pizzas and hav…

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special   Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for  every  one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn'…

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special  Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every  one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't …

Those of you watching us on Twitter may remember that we did a special Advent calendar this year, reviewing a classic holiday special for every one of the 25 odd days of Christmas... But we didn't wa…

We're rounding out our Christmas season with a look at The Smurf's Christmas, one of like 8 smurf Christmases. This IS thematic because, as you Belgians may already know, the Smurfs was originally a …

Garfield, Odie and Jon go to visit Jon's family on the farm for Christmas in a most unusual Christmas special. Mike didn't like it when it premiered in 1987, but we're reassessing it today! 

Did you know that there was a Rugrats comic strip? It sucked, of course. Just lots of boring puns about babies, but it did two important things: It was a better baby comic than Marvin and it gave us …

This week, we thought we would look at Fabulous Funnies, a 70s Filmation series that brought all the best comic strips of the 20s to life! So we thought, why not get the scoop from someone who was ac…

This week, we were GOING to look at some more comic-themed commercials, but then we watched... a music video?... about Zippy the Pinhead. And it turns out that we have A LOT to say about Zippy the Pi…

Welcome back to the podcast where Mike and Ethan talk about adaptations  of newspaper comics into other mediums. Did you know that before he was a  children's author Dr. Seuss was a newspaper cartoon…

Welcome back to the podcast where Mike and Ethan talk about adaptations of newspaper comics into other mediums. Did you know that before he was a children's author Dr. Seuss was a newspaper cartoonis…

We're taking a break from our usual format for an EXTRA special  Halloween episode, on THIS most holy of nights HALLOWEEN, a day earlier than our usual posting time, to invite all our BEST pals to wa…

We're taking a break from our usual format for an EXTRA special Halloween episode, wherein we invited all our BEST pals to watch some beloved classic Halloween specials with us! We're joined by frien…

Mike and Ethan continue a month of Halloween coverage with the classic Peanuts special that has defined Halloween for generations, with all the great bits that you know and love -- the Great Pumpkin,…

This week, our Halloween coverage continues with More Tales from the Far Side, the never-seen-in-America sequel to Tales from the Far Side. It's Tales from the FARTHER Side, you might say!  It's got …

This week, Mike (@bitterkarella) and Ethan (@Gtron) kick off the Halloween season with a look at the surprisingly obscure Tales from the Far Side, the Far Side adaptation that is ostensibly a Hallowe…