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When the Plumbing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Plumbing

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Nathan

Here are sore Super Mario Bros. Super Show reviews, and I have to say this set of episodes was largely lackluster even for this show, although there’s one pretty significant episode in the mix. Quest for Pizza – Mario and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Cold War, History, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged alley oop, andy heyward, bob-ombs, calamity clem, california gold rush, caveboy, caveman land, cobrats, dinosaurs, elvin lives, elvin parsley, elvis presley, fire flowers, game show host, gary owens, glasnuts, goombas, half life malt shop, home radio, howard stevens, james brown, jim lange, king bowser koopa, leonardo da vinci, leonardo da vinci mahoney, leonardo da vinci rooney, lonesome mushroom, luigi mario, mario mario, martin garner, mikhail gorbachev, mouser, mousersaurus rex, mugga, piranha plants, pizza, plummers academy, president george h.w. bush, princess peach toadstool, pterodactyls, quest for fire, quest for pizza, robin leach, roy orbisoni mahoney, salvador drainado, sergeant kooperman, sockhop land, super mario 3d world, super mario world, the great gold coin rush, the painting, toad, toads, waluigi, wario, willy white | 2 Comments

Too Pooped to Koop

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Nathan

Mamma mia! It’s a Super Mario Bros. cartoon! Several of them, in fact. The Mark of Zero – Our first parody for the week is of Zorro. I can’t say I know that much about the character, but I did … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Christianity, Donkey Kong, Egyptian, Food, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Religion, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged american revolution, arsenio trinidad, beezos, bible, clog, cobrats, cookoo bird, delawide river, edison, el desert land, exodus, flurries, fred van winkle, gary schwartz, george washingtoad, goombas, hammer brothers, homer, horses, inspector klean, king bowser koopa, koopa pack, koopa troopas, koopos, luigi mario, mario mario, mario party 7, mouser, norman fell, obi-wan cannoli, obi-wan kenobi, ostros, paul revere, perry martin, phanto, piranha plants, president george washington, princess peach toadstool, pyramid land, pyramids, ratigator, red sauce sea, sand kingdom, shy guys, sphinx, super mario odyssey, ted bull, texas tea, the artist, the koopas are coming! the koopas are coming!, the mark of zero, the spirit of 76, the ten commandments, the ten koopmandments, the three mushrooms, the three stooges, the trojan koopa, tippy turtle, toad, toads, toupee, triclyde, trojan horse, trojan war, tutankhamun, vincent van gogh, zenned out mario, zero, zero plus one, zorro | Leave a comment

Monster Masters

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Nathan

I might as well review the books related to the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series that I received for my birthday, since I’ve finished reading them. Dragon Quest Illustrations, by Akira Toriyama – This collects some of Toriyama’s drawings … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, chocobos, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest illustrations, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy lost stranger, final fantasy ultimania archive, grandmaster nimzo, greattree, hazuki minase, imps, itsuki kameya, king satan, kleo, manga, milly, mine yoshizaki, minotaur, moogles, murdaw, shogo sasaki, slib, slimes, square enix, terry, watabou, xenlon, yoshitaka amano, yuko sasaki, zoma | 1 Comment

In the Garden of Sweden

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Nathan

Midsommar – SPOILERS! Ari Aster’s second film is a folk horror piece that ties in with a fictionalized version of Swedish paganism, and also comments on breaking up and mental illness. The outdoors parts take place entirely in the light, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cults, Holidays, Humor, Mythology, Norse, Relationships, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anthropology, ari aster, john bauer, may queen, midsommar, morality, relativism, ritual, summer solstice, sweden | Leave a comment

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Nathan

One thing I noticed in the book Yama Yama Land, by Grace Duffie Boylan, was a reference to a giant frog playing a tennis racquet like a banjo. Picture by Edgar Keller So what’s the connection between frogs and banjos? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Comics, England, History, Humor, Muppets, Music, Neil Gaiman, Nursery Rhymes, Poetry, Relationships, Television, Terry Pratchett, They Might Be Giants | Tagged a frog he would a-wooing go, a moste strange weddinge of the frogge and the mowse, a very sad story about a frog and a banjo, anthony crowley, banjo frogs, banjos, chris ware, edgar keller, fiddles, frog and banjo, froggy went a-courtin', frogs, good omens, grace duffie boylan, kermit the frog, mcsweeney's, mike doughty, miss mousey, miss piggy, pobblebonks, soul coughing, the muppet show, the muppets valentines show, tom and jerry, yama yama land | 2 Comments

Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, The Escape Team – This is a weird sort of project based on a series of characters that the band developed with artist David Cowles. I remember seeing a few of the videos back on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, Comics, Humor, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged david cowles, ed big daddy roth, john flansburgh, john linnell, rat fink, robin goldwasser, the escape team | Leave a comment

Every Modern Convenience and Comfort

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking a little more about the level of technology in Oz. I’ve written about this subject before a few times, but there are a few things I wanted to add. We know that Oz has electricity to some … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged appliances, box brownie, cameras, captain battery batt, civilization, communication, demon of electricity, dorothy and the wizard in oz, eastman kodak, electra, electracity, electricity, emerald city, fairies, fruitcake island, great detective, gussun, henry blossom, jay delkin, king transformer, light, mermaids, michael patrick hearn, mixmaster, mo, mossolb, oziana, ozmapolitan, photography, prince zingle, raoul dufy, santa claus, santa claus in oz, speaking tube, sunbeam products, telephones, the adventure of the cat that did not meow in the night, the annotated wizard of oz, the blue emperor of oz, the electricity fairy, the lost king of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master key, the ozmapolitan of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the sea fairies, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, tim hollis, wizard of mo, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

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When the Plumbing Gets Tough, the Tough Get Plumbing

Too Pooped to Koop

Monster Masters

In the Garden of Sweden

Let Us Contemplate the Sadness of a Banjo-Playing Frog

Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

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