Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For Pop Culture Ephemera
We found 10 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “cartoon”.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
June 10th, 2024 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, cinema, colorado, comedy, film, matt stone, movies, musical, musical theater, musicals, satan, satire, south park, trey parker
South Park, CO may be a quiet mountain town but decades on it remains the locus for satire, profanity, and the occasional doomsday prophesy. Friendly faces Dave Jackson (the Tales From the Backlog podcast) and comedians Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Rolland Lopez (@rollandlopezvoiceactor) join us to go down to South Park and have ourselves a time with their 1999 musical feature outing that fully let Trey Parker and Matt Stone off the leash of basic cable.
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TV Theme Songs
April 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
animation, big bang theory, cartoon, cartoons, cheers, disney, ducktales, friends, full house, music, saved by the bell, sitcom, sitcoms, song, songs, television, the big bang theory, the brady bunch, tmnt, tv
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of a podcaster and guests, who sit around debating which old theme songs were the best. We're joined by Ami Lief (creepy and kooky) and Ryan Merlo (mysterious and spooky) to round table our top ten TV theme songs.
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Disney Songs, Part 2
February 5th, 2024 | 2 hrs 7 mins
animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, coco, disney, disney channel, disneyland, disneyworld, duck tales, ducktales, high school musical, mary poppins, muppets, music, musical, musicals, nightmare before christmas, pixar, theater, touchstone
We're back to revisit our favorite Disney songs to infinity and beyond! Last time we covered songs from Walt Disney Studios' animated features. This time we're covering everything else from Pixar to Touchstone to the Disney Channel to the amusement parks and more. Returning guests Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo join us for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious massive mouse house roundtable.
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Care Bears
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
1980s, 80s, animation, care bears, caring, cartoon, cartoons, child psychology, dic, empathy, entertainment, movies, television, toys, tv
You stare into the Care Bear and the Care Bear stares back at you. This week guest podcaster Jala Prendes (Jala-Chan's Place, Monster, Dear Monster, The Level) drops in from the clouds to help us revisit the Care Bears franchise and how its tender-hearted worldview taught a generation of children to be empathetic and also buy lots of toys.
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16-Bit Disney Games
November 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
aladdin, animation, cartoon, cartoons, castle of illusion, disney, games, genesis, megadrive, mickey mouse, retrogames, retrogaming, sega, snes, super nintento, the lion king, video game, video games
In the early 1990s Disney animation recaptured its magic and along with it came a wave of memorable video games for the consoles of the era. This episode we're joined by Phil Head of the Spectrum Days podcast (@SpectrumDaysPod) and Eileen Mayse (@i_lean) to revisit Aladdin, The Lion King, and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Grab a controller, some cheetos, and join us for at least 16 bits.
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It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
October 2nd, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
animation, cartoon, cartoons, charles schulz, charlie brown, comedy, halloween, horror, peanuts, snoopy
Good Grief! It's finally Halloween and that means it's time for comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) to join our yearly vigil in the seasonal Peanuts special that is the most sincere.
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Calvin and Hobbes
September 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
cartoon, cartoons, comedy, comic, comic strip, comics, drawing, nostalgia, watercolor
Arguably the greatest comic strip of all time, Bill Watterson's masterpiece Calvin and Hobbes melded artistic mastery, comedic timing, and most of all the profound sense of wonder at the heart of our collective childhoods. Guest Case Aiken of the Certain Point of View podcast networks joins us to go exploring in its timeless wilderness. Yukon Ho!
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
August 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 57 mins
1980s, 80s, alan silvestri, animation, bob hoskins, cartoon, cartoons, christopher lloyd, disney, film, film noir, kathleen turner, mel blanc, movies, noir, robert zemeckis, warner bros, warner brothers
P-p-p-lease join our 35th anniversary retrospective on Robert Zemeckis' 1988 masterpiece with special guest Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis) of the Amber Ruffin Show. This film still dazzles as it combines unparalleled live action and animation wizardry and a classic noir tale of persecuted toons that are anything but two-dimensional.
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Homestar Runner
May 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
00s, 2000s, animation, cartoon, chaps, comedy, fhqwhgads, flash, homestar runner, internet, strong bad
Everybody! Everybody! This week Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to click our way through Homestar Runner, a veritable witch's brew of inside jokes, songs, and games which exemplifies the dadaism of early 2000s internet flash cartoons.
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Gargoyles
May 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
1990s, 90s, action, animation, cartoon, comedy, disney, keith david, nostalgia, star trek, television
The night time is the right time for Disney's Gargoyles. Special guest Amy Baum joins us to discuss battles between winged medieval warriors and your AP English class.