188 episodes
Super Nuclear Presents Super Nuclear Group
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- TV & Film
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4.9 • 58 Ratings
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Remember the cartoons you loved as a kid? Do you, like us, remember mid-2000s Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network with a mix of fondness and terror – or, if you don’t, do you want to know what the fuss was about?
Join Mary, David, and Ben as we revisit the cartoons that shaped us in an episode-by-episode deep dive, as well as the Internet fan culture as it was then and is now. How do these nostalgic shows hold up? What do we think of them now, as not kids but sad adults? How has the zeitgeist and Internet following evolved along with us? We set out to answer these questions and also to be incredibly hilarious and physically attractive.
We started in 2017 with Return to the Past: A Code Lyoko Retrospective, which ran from 2017-2019 and makes up the first part of this feed. Second was The Ultimate Reprise, which ran from 2019-2020 and covers Oban: Star Racers. Now we’re on The Avatar Recycle, hot on the heels of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Netflix debut!
Join us wheresoever you like. Watching along is not necessary - but highly encouraged – and we try to keep spoiler free up to the current episode! Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com!
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TT #9 - WHAT WERE THE CHIPS FOR??? (Masks)
Masks, the debut of Red X, is considered one of the best episodes of Season 1 - so why did we think it was so mediocre? The plot is bare-bones, questions go unanswered, there are so many opportunities for emotional fulfillment and character development that are just glossed over, and the twist, oh the TWIST! Who ever saw THAT coming??? What is this, a show for ten-year-olds? (It does have some VERY cool robots, however.)
Be warned that this episode is rife with Cat Behavior from a few usually-silent guests. Ness was indulging in a great many misbevaiors typical of his kind - the likes of which David is adjusting to - and we heard some input from Mike, and even the usually quiet Ike!
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OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic. -
TT #8 - Trident - Submissive No, Breedable Yes (Deep Six)
Apologies for the impromptu break, everyone – we’re back and we’re ready to party! Or, uh, in this case, cringe, because despite being written by the original author of The New Teen Titans comics, this episode… isn’t all that great.
Of Teen Titans, I mean. WE, your humble podcasters, are in top form. And together we look on in horror as the Titans make one idiotic decision after another. Beast Boy develops an inferiority complex that actively hinders the mission, Starfire and Raven fawn over a boy and don’t do much else, and our villain is in MULTIPLE PLACES AT ONCE? HOW CAN THAT BE???
One way or another, we hope we can make this one more bearable for you. (Also, correction – the largest fungus in North America does not unfortunately cover the Pacific Northwest. Only about four miles of it. Sorry to disappoint.)
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Send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup
OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic. -
TT #7 - Got My Body Switched at Claire's (Switched)
Alright, time to dive headfirst into that tried and true staple of western animation, the body swap episode!
None of us had remembered this one very fondly, and it turns out Mary had never seen at all. But it turns out it rules - especially because it's an EXCELLENT character study. Behold as Starfire-as-Raven destroys everything in her path, Raven-as-Starfire struggles to even feel a single emotion on purpose, and the boys... well, they're pretty wooden in this episode. Ba dum pish!
This episode carries a content warning at about the 38:30-42:00 mark for discussion of rape, clarifying the misinfo about the character we spoke of in the last episode.
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Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup
OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic. -
TT #6 - I Hate You, Brain Dad (Nevermore)
In everyone's favorite Season 1 episode, Raven is subjected to too many puns and goes grimdark, prompting Beast Boy and Cyborg to venture into the Hot Topic dimension to save her.
While there, they encounter not one Raven, but several! Including Finger Guns Raven, a staple of forum avatars in the mid-noughties, but not including Lust Raven, who DOES exist - they saved her for the tie-in comics. Cyborg and Beast Boy help her fight her dad, who may or may not qualify as an orc (Ben has opinions), they all grow closer for it, and meanwhile Starfire and Robin... watch TV.
This episode carries a content warning for a discussion of rape in the DC comics universe between the 9:00-10:30 time stamps. It's come to our attention that we were wrong about the details, but the broad strokes are correct. More information is available on the character's Wikipedia page.
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Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup
OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic. -
TT #5 - Mumbo? Perhaps. Jumbo? Perhaps Not! (The Sum of His Parts)
Today, Titan Talk goes out and touches grass! Come join us for a brief interlude at the park, followed by a much longer interlude in a hole at the dump.
Points of curiosity: fine dijon mustard, five and a half pounds of baby back ribs, a nostalgic look back at Obama "scandals," and Tom Kenny in a dual role as a magical blue guy and another, less magical blue guy. And yes, we are sure it's actually him this time.
Apologies for all the coughing, by the way - David and Mary were both sick when we recorded! We hope we were able to delete most of them but there were some that were talked over that we couldn't take out. (We're feeling much better!)
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Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup
OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic. -
TT #4 - The Local Orb (Forces of Nature)
We had a bit of confusion about what this episode was called, all the way up until nearly the end of the recording. Mary and Ben could have sworn it was called Thunder and Lightning. David has the clearest head of all of us and knew from day 1 that it was Forces of Nature, and so we stand corrected.
But Thunder and Lightning themselves weren't always forces of nature! Here we learn for the first time about just how different these two knuckleheads are from their comic counterparts, AND get a bit of a different sort of conflict where the antagonists aren't necessarily villainous, or even evil.
Also Slade is in yellowface. He's wearing a mask over his mask that somehow has a working mouth. And is using magic?? What even is this.
We discuss some later series spoilers between 50:00-55:00, so skip through that point if you're watching along with us for the first time.
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Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup
OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM
Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.
Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at https://soundcloud.com/avanamusic.
Customer Reviews
I had no idea what I was missing out on!
I watched Code Lyoko as a kid and still consider it to be one of the shows that influenced me as an artist and writer. I had no idea there was a whole podcast originally dedicated to Code Lyoko and I'm really interested to hear more from these hosts on other media; the title really suits it, not only is it a retrospective on the CL series but also on the other things that people our age watched at that point in time. We're in the middle of a pandemic right now and I've taken it upon myself to rewatch, re-read, re-play, and re-listen to old media that i enjoy just to sort of remind myself of my inspirations and stay motivated as a creative person while in quarantine and this podcast has been my Code Lyoko rewatch companion! Really love it so far and I've only listened to the first few episodes. I know beyond shadow of a doubt that it just gets better and I hope these folks keep up the great work.
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Wish I wasn’t late.
Great show. These 3 are a delight! Just wish I had found it while it was still running instead of months after the finale.