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A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight

A podcast where two obsessive lovers of 1980s newspaper comics discuss said comics and the 1980s animated specials based on them.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
76 minutes
Episodes
311
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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A Special Presentation 249: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [2 of 2]

A Special Presentation 249: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [2 of 2]

Dr.Seuss was a newspaper political cartoonist and that TOTALLY makes any Seuss vehicle fair game for our show, so says us! This week we look at the 1953 flopstravaganza The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, wit…

01:09:06  |   Mon 15 Jul 2024
A Special Presentation 248: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [1 of 2]

A Special Presentation 248: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [1 of 2]

Dr.Seuss was a newspaper political cartoonist and that TOTALLY makes any Seuss vehicle fair game for our show, so says us! This week we look at the 1953 flopstravaganza The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, wit…

01:57:56  |   Mon 08 Jul 2024
A Special Presentation 247: The Garfield Movie [2 of 2]

A Special Presentation 247: The Garfield Movie [2 of 2]

Join us as we go where we've never gone before: The movie theater! We took a look at the Garfield Movie, currently in theaters, the fat cat's first foray into cinema since the live action Garfield se…

01:24:29  |   Mon 01 Jul 2024
A Special Presentation 246: The Garfield Movie [1 of 2]

A Special Presentation 246: The Garfield Movie [1 of 2]

Join us as we go where we've never gone before: The movie theater! We took a look at the Garfield Movie, currently in theaters, the fat cat's first foray into cinema since the live action Garfield se…

01:02:06  |   Mon 24 Jun 2024
A Special Presentation 245: Garfield Goes Hollywood

A Special Presentation 245: Garfield Goes Hollywood

In honor of the new Garfield movie in which Garfield goes Hollywood, we looked at the classic Garfield TV special... Garfield Goes Hollywood! In theory, we instead mostly talked about the lasagna tha…

01:34:07  |   Mon 17 Jun 2024
A Special Presentation 244: Lucky Luke

A Special Presentation 244: Lucky Luke

It's Lucky Luke, the Franco-Belgian comic about the American west, adapted into a cartoon series by Hanna Barbera. We were so excited to talk about it that instead we ended up talking about Willy Won…

01:27:19  |   Mon 10 Jun 2024
A Special Presentation 243: One of a Kind Marcie

A Special Presentation 243: One of a Kind Marcie

We take a look at an episode of the most recent Peanuts adaptation, the one from Apple TV: One of a Kind Marcie. This is probably the first ever Peanuts property to center Marcie. How does it hold up…

00:56:14  |   Mon 03 Jun 2024
A Special Presentation 242: Kid Power [2 of 2]

A Special Presentation 242: Kid Power [2 of 2]

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a…

01:04:20  |   Mon 27 May 2024
A Special Presentation 241: Kid Power [1 of 2]

A Special Presentation 241: Kid Power [1 of 2]

Morrie Turner's Wee Pals imagines "what if Peanuts was integrated?" Featuring a rainbow coalition of kids from all races, religions, and abilities, Wee Pals is a piece of aspirational art imagining a…

01:01:14  |   Mon 20 May 2024
A Special Presentation 240: Dick Tracy specials w/ Ryan Estrada

A Special Presentation 240: Dick Tracy specials w/ Ryan Estrada

After the failure of the Dick Tracy movie, Warren Beatty was so mad at the studio that he decided to make sure the studio never regained the rights to make another Dick Tracy movie. To that end, ever…

01:06:03  |   Mon 13 May 2024
A Special Presentation 239: Bernard and Huey

A Special Presentation 239: Bernard and Huey

Jules Feiffer's comics in the Village Voice were THE THING back in the swingin' 60s or maybe the 50s, but we still remember them best as the thing that the last liberal wanted to read before he got g…

01:31:17  |   Mon 06 May 2024
A Special Presentation 238: Prince Valiant (2 of 2)

A Special Presentation 238: Prince Valiant (2 of 2)

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's…

01:12:10  |   Mon 29 Apr 2024
A Special Presentation 237: Prince Valiant (1 of 2)

A Special Presentation 237: Prince Valiant (1 of 2)

Everyone knows Prince Valiant, the comic strip that's NO FUN. You look at that wall of text and those serious illustrations and you just know this is a scam -- it's no whimsical fun comic strip, it's…

01:07:12  |   Mon 22 Apr 2024
A Special Presentation 236: The Weird Adventures of Mutt and Jeff and Bugoff

A Special Presentation 236: The Weird Adventures of Mutt and Jeff and Bugoff

This week, we're going back... back... back in time to look at the very FIRST ever comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. America couldn't get enough of the adventures of a short guy and a tall guy who hung out…

01:49:06  |   Mon 15 Apr 2024
A Special Presentation 235: Marmaduke (2022)

A Special Presentation 235: Marmaduke (2022)

Marmaduuuuuke! He's a big dog.

01:30:18  |   Mon 08 Apr 2024
A Special Presentation 234: A Storm in April

A Special Presentation 234: A Storm in April

Once again, we're spending some time with Canada's favorite sons: The Foobs! Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse has an animated special all about the birth of April! What's the deal with April? …

01:21:00  |   Mon 01 Apr 2024
A Special Presentation 233: Jane and the Lost City

A Special Presentation 233: Jane and the Lost City

Jane was a saucy 1940s British comic strip about a sweet young thing names Jane, famous for fighting nazis and losing her clothes through various contrived and saucy means. Jane was credited with hel…

01:15:12  |   Mon 25 Mar 2024
A Special Presentation 232: The Folks Behind the Funnies [3 of 3]

A Special Presentation 232: The Folks Behind the Funnies [3 of 3]

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what …

00:45:16  |   Mon 18 Mar 2024
A Special Presentation 231: The Folks Behind the Funnies [2 of 3]

A Special Presentation 231: The Folks Behind the Funnies [2 of 3]

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what …

01:11:08  |   Mon 11 Mar 2024
A Special Presentation 230: The Folks Behind the Funnies [1 of 3]

A Special Presentation 230: The Folks Behind the Funnies [1 of 3]

Did you know that there are folks behind the Funnies? It's true! This 2018 documentary talks to all the big names: Lynn Johnston, Mell Lazarus, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Etc, to learn all about what …

01:00:55  |   Mon 04 Mar 2024
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