The Ink and Think Hour

Lin Darrow and Jeremy G.
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A podcast where two best friends talk about cartoons like they're high art -- because they are! Season One: Walt Disney Animated Studios Feature Films. New episodes every other Tuesday. Artwork by Alex Assan.

Episodes

  1. 07/14/2020

    EP 14 - Peter Pan (1953): Growing Up, Gender Roles, Queer Pirates, and Little Mothers

    In this episode, we discuss: - racism, sexism, and the white male fantasy in the Edwardian boy's adventure story, - the depiction of childhood as the time in your life that you can act however you like without regard to the consequences your actions have for other people, - the accidental, backwards subversiveness of the game played by the Indigenous characters and the Lost Boys, - the subversive potential of Smee as the pirates' mother, - how much we love Captain Hook as campy, theatrical dandy, and - the sudden and arbitrary importance of appearing honourable in the last 20 minutes of the movie.

    1h 14m

  2. 06/16/2020

    EP 11 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949): Fabulous Manias, Horsemen (both BoJack and Headless), and Prospective Spectral Husbands

    In this episode, we discuss: -The Adventure of Mr. Toad being a Beatrix Potter story (if Beatrix Potter wrote stories about devastatingly disastrous characters), -Angus MacBadger's 'Scottish' accent that is so bad we theorize that he is not Scottish in-universe, -some wild theories about why Toad Hall is weirdly both human-sized and animal-sized at various points, -the moral obligation of the idle rich to respect and care for the people affected by their excessive lifestyles, -the ethics of being fabulous (**spoilers for the BoJack Horseman finale 27:13-29:35**), -Ichabod Crane's scholarly, metropolitan threat to an agricultural town, -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as a proto-Beauty and the Beast, and -whether we'd most like to marry Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, or the Headless Horseman.

    55 min

  3. 06/09/2020

    EP 10 - Melody Time (1948) - Could you stay friends with the horse who yeeted your life partner into space?

    ***In light of the current political climate, we decided to re-record portions of this episode to make our critiques of American power structures more clear. As a result, you may notice slight variances in the audio quality. These variances should be resolved for future episodes.*** In this episode, we discuss: -the limits of our love for anthropomorphic musical instruments and shorts about the seasons changing, -our projection of a good, old-fashioned lesbian love story onto a cute little Christmas card romance, -the movie's investment in exploring a pioneer version of Americana and its celebration of the Christian-American expansion into the Western frontier, -the misadventures of a little tugboat who is a menace and a miscreant but who ultimately wants to be good, -the return of our boy José Carioca, and -our various opinions about whether or not we would stay friends with a horse if he sent the other to space.

    1h 4m

  4. 05/26/2020

    EP 9 - Fun and Fancy Free (1947): Would You Willingly Join Jiminy Cricket for a Night Out on the Town?

    In this episode, we discuss: -the retconning of Jiminy Cricket as a 'conscience' without a care (despite the fact that he sees how awful the world is), -our choices for a better host for the movie, -the use of face-slapping as a courtship ritual in an inherently kinky bear culture, -Jiminy Cricket crashing the worst party ever (where a little girl is seemingly held hostage by a middle-aged ventriloquist and his drunk and deeply depressed puppets), -our differing opinions on whether or not it would be fun to hang out with Jiminy Cricket in a neutral location, and -Disney's really clever and inventive take on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

    43 min

  5. 05/19/2020

    EP 8 - Make Mine Music (1946): Jazz, Americana, and the Unnecessary Death of a Hyper-Talented Whale

    In this episode, we discuss: -how this film fulfills our dream of a jazz Fantasia, -the roots of America's gun violence problem in a short with a high body count, -censoring boobs, slimming butts, and the rules that govern the relentless pursuit of pleasure in the 1940s, -the fragile masculinity of a showboating, All-American proto-Gaston baseball player, -being emotionally invested in a clandestine love story between two resilient hats, and -the tragedy of a The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met singing his only sold out show in Heaven.

    1h 7m

  6. 05/12/2020

    EP 7 - The Three Caballeros (1944): Unpacking Donald Duck's Upsetting Desires

    In this episode, we discuss: -Jeremy's distaste for this film as a discerning gay child, -the goofy display of misremembering in 'The Flying Gauchito,' -our appreciation of Aurora Miranda's appreciation of chaos, -the Aracuan bird's not-malicious attempts to kill Donald Duck and José Carioca, and -our sincere wish that he was successful so that we didn't have to watch 20 minutes of women generously suffering Donald Duck operating as a sex mosquito in a horny fugue state.

    53 min

  7. 05/05/2020

    EP 6 - Saludos Amigos (1942): Tourism, Translating Cultures, and Jeremy's Deep, Sincere Apology

    In this episode, we discuss: -the mixed-bag nature of the short collection, -Disney’s explicit cultural exchange project, -our deconstruction of the film’s advertisement of a romanticized, “strange and exotic” Latin America, -our speculation about how Pedro the plane keeps himself from being “another martyr to the mail system,” and -the introduction of Lin’s newest favourite Disney character.

    32 min

  8. 04/28/2020

    EP 5 – Bambi (1942): oh Bambi we love you get up

    In this episode, we discuss: -the movie’s failure to escalate in places where it might have been interesting for it to escalate, -how a tenth of the movie is Bambi struggling to stand up, -Bambi’s weird, withholding deadbeat (ghost?) dad, -the horniest Disney song ever written (which seems to have been scrubbed from the internet), and -the human perception of the cyclical nature of the natural world.

    58 min

  9. 04/21/2020

    EP 4 - Dumbo (1941): Otherness, Prejudice, and Excessive Bullying of Literal Babies

    In this episode, we discuss: -the question of sexual propriety in a world where babies are literally delivered by storks, -the long history of the denigration of clowns, -a consideration of the feelings of animals being exploited by humans, -an extended deconstruction of what it is to be an elephant and the essence of "elephantness," -an ambivalent engagement with the crows as a depictions of black entertainers in the 1940s, and -the nature of human cruelty and its connection with circus culture.

    1h 15m

  10. 04/14/2020

    EP 3 - Fantasia (1940): Abstract vs. Concrete Art and a Damning Number of Sexy Fish

    In this episode, we discuss: -using the orchestra to legitimize cartoons and using cartoons to make the orchestra accessible -our speculation that 'extremely gay' Tchaikovsky would have loved Disney's sexy fish -the terrifying design of Yen Sid, the (maybe) evil wizard, -being vocally excited about the evolution of life on Earth, -cupid butt hearts, -the greatest romance of all time, and -fun suckers ending the devil's cool party at 6 AM.

    1h 11m

  11. TRAILER

    EP 0 - What in the Hell Are We Even Doing?: An Introduction to the Podcast and Its Hosts, Lin and Jeremy

    Welcome to The Ink and Think Hour, where two best friends discuss cartoons like they're high art -- cuz they are! In this episode we discuss: -our vision and goals for The Ink and Think Hour, -why we chose to talk about cartoons, -how we plan to get deep about cartoons, -Lin-spiracy theories, -our moms, -gabbing like old hags, and -what's coming up on our first season: The Walt Disney Animation Studios canon!

    7 min

  12. 03/31/2020

    EP 1 - Snow White (1937): Labour, Power, and Crapple Dumplins

    In this episode we discuss: -misconceptions about a creepy corpse-kissing prince, -Snow White's deep determination to hustle, -a Wicked-style backstory about the dwarves mining jewels for the Queen, -using music to make meaning in a laborious life, and -the joy of watching the joy the Evil Queen takes in murder. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.

    1h 1m

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A podcast where two best friends talk about cartoons like they're high art -- because they are! Season One: Walt Disney Animated Studios Feature Films. New episodes every other Tuesday. Artwork by Alex Assan.

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    Lin Darrow and Jeremy G.
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  • Episodes
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