104 episodes
Cartoon Night in Canada Chris Luciantonio
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3.0 • 6 Ratings
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We're on a nostalgic journey to dig through decades of Canadian animation to find the good, the bad, and the just plain weird cartoons of the Great White North.
Every week, Sylvie and Chris take a look at an animated something or other from their shared experience of growing up in Canada to see what holds up, what left an impact on us, and what is best left in the past.
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Episode 102 - Camp Lakebottom
Howdy Campers! Ever want to spend your summer vacation with some cryptid counsellors and a boundless hyperactive energy?? Then do we have a surprise Canadian entry in the Disney XD lineup for you! It's Camp Lakebottom - a sugar-rush of a throw-everything-at-the-wall camp comedy that gave one of the hosts an ear-splitting headache. Otherwise, it's a fun time! #SasquatchFraser
Episode covered for the podcast was Episode 44 "Fright Club/Bottomdome." Written by Evan Thaler Hickey and Robert Pincombe/Shelley Hoffman respectively, and directed by Rob Walton and Cilbur Rocha respectively. Original airdate August 28, 2015. (Full episode is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4neFNMN2HE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiG-r1Y_1TE).
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
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Episode 101 - Daft Planet
Like...whatever, it's Daft Planet.
On this week's podcast, we are looking back at a time when the vibe of the young generation was blasé, sarcastic, and all-around disaffected, which made it very hard to make cartoons that spoke to them. In the early 2000s, Teletoon tried to court this demographic with a flash-animated, pop culture-obsessed portrait of dispassionate teens who are too cool to care...even about a Requiem for a Dream spiral of addiction for video games and boy band music. It's cool, I guess, I don't know.
Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 5 "Requiem for a Game." Directed by Jon Minnis and written by Brent Donnelly and Derry Smith. Original airdate October 10, 2002. (Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOvdlN33_ys)
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
Logo designed by https://www.rachelsumlin.com/ -
Episode 100 - Being Ian
For the 100th episode of Cartoon Night in Canada, Chris and Sylvie tackle a big hitter in the Canadian cartoon canon. A formative series for both hosts whose latent film buff personas could be traced partially back to it, it seemed like the only choice for a milestone episode to finally cover personal favourite Being Ian. A hilariously relatable portrait of an amateur filmmaker finding his way against his disapproving family, essentially Being Ian is Ian James Corlett's The Fabelmans.
Thank you to anyone who has checked out our podcast, shared our interests in Canadian animation, and helped spread our episodes around over the past 2 years. We appreciate you all so much!
Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 7 "Little Camp of Horrors." Directed by Andy Bartlett and Josh Mepham, and written by Dennis Heaton. Original airdate June 7, 2005.
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
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Episode 99 - Grossology
On this week's episode, we get downright filthy (yet educational) as we chat about the "thin gross line" that is the Bureau of Grossology and how they are the last line of defense against acts of gross themed terrorism committed by a rogues gallery of barely disguised fetishes. We are back grappling with the mid-2000s obsession with gross-out humour and edutainment with the aesthetically pleasing production of Nelvana's Grossology. It mostly holds up!
Episode covered for the podcast was episode 32 "Stinko." Directed by Kevin Micallef and written by Richard Clark. Original airdate October 11, 2008.
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
Logo designed by https://www.rachelsumlin.com/ -
Episode 98 - RoboCop: The Animated Series
On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie finally put to bed the hot-button media debate of our age - Is RoboCop PoLiTiCaL?? While the Paul Verhoeven 1987 masterpiece is unassailable on this front, what about the oft forgotten attempt to soften the hard edges of the NSFW sci-fi satire for Saturday morning television that premiered a year later? What gets lost in translation when you take one of the hardest R-rated movies ever released that poignantly and painfully tackles reagonomics, capitalism, dehumanization, and the militarization of the police force and make it for kids? And the most pressing question, does this make RoboCop technically Canadian?
Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 4 "The Brotherhood." Written by John Shirley and directed by Bill Hutton & Tony Love. Original airdate October 22, 1988.
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
Logo designed by https://www.rachelsumlin.com/ -
Episode 97 - George Shrinks
On this week's episode, Chris and Sylvie do what they do best and ponder the grotesque biological and terrifying existential implications of a show for literal preschoolers with William Joyce's George Shrinks. How does a three-inch child with the ingenious mind of an inventor make his way through a world not built for his size? Can his tiny worldview help save his dismal local hockey team? And what in god's name did the parents go through when they went through the body horror nightmare of giving birth to a child the size of a cockroach?! All this and more on our needlessly deep discussion on a delightful and inoffensive show for toddlers.
Episode covered for the podcast is Episode 33 "Coach Shrinks." Directed by Brian Lee and written by Jennifer Pertsch. Original airdate January 14, 2003.
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Chris' Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cinemacreep
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Theme song by https://soundcloud.com/hvsyn
Logo designed by https://www.rachelsumlin.com/
Customer Reviews
Not really Canadian loving folk
Seem to review a lot of other nations animation light heartedly. But when it comes to Canadian animation… both hosts seem to hurt about the subject matter and jokes.
Not representing Canadian cartoons
Other reviewer said it best.
Leans heavy with political views
Supposed to be a nostalgic view of of Canadian animation. But hosts lean heavy with liberal politics the whole way through.
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