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Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Nathan

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas – I kept seeing this recommended on Disney Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. From 1999, it’s a collection of three different Christmas-themed cartoons, each featuring one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Disney Afternoon, Families, Holidays, Humor, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Relationships, Television, Toys | Tagged a christmas carol, a very goofy christmas, a. robins, babes in toyland, banana man, beagle boys, cats, charles dickens, chip and dale, clowns, cricket on the hearth, crickets, crows, daisy duck, disney, dogs, donald duck, donald duck: stuck on christmas, ebenezer scrooge, figaro, gift of the magi, goof troop, goofy, groundhog day, huey dewey and louie, jack e. leonard, kelsey grammer, max goof, mickey and minnie's gift of the magi, mickey mouse, mickey's once upon a christmas, minnie mouse, monkeys, mortimer mouse, o. henry, peg-leg pete, pluto, rankin/bass, sam levine, santa claus, scrooge mcduck, silas barnaby, uriah caw, wally cox | Leave a comment

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Nathan

My Oz reading recently has been a bit slow, both because I’ve had other things to read and because I was a little embarrassed to reread my own “Prince Pompadore in Oz.” I did like it, but I didn’t want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Board Games, Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys | Tagged charlene gretski, corinne morris, dagmar in oz, danica libutti, david rose, deadly desert, dolls, dorothy and the magic belt, doug morris, dr. angelina bean in oz, dr. nikidik, elves, emerald city, fleas, frogs, jeremy steadman, joy marie morris, lunarr and maureen in oz, mombi, noyzy boyz, oziana, ozma, peter morris, prince pompadore in oz, ruth morris, scoodlers, scrabble, snakes, susan saunders, the flying bus in oz, the lost king of oz, the road to oz | 2 Comments

Uh…Subs?

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Nathan

Saturday Morning All-Star Hits! – This was something Beth had heard of, an eight-episode Netflix series spoofing cartoons from the late 80s and early 90s. In addition to the cartoons themselves, there are some subplots that develop throughout the show. … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Arrested Development, Cartoons, Humor, Politics, Television, Toys | Tagged bobby's world, chip and pepper, donald trump, jeff garlin, jeffrey tambor, jessica walter, kyle mooney, liza minelli, madballs, netflix, power glove, saturday morning all-star hits, scott baio, wonder woman | Leave a comment

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Nathan

Picture by Helena Nelson-Reed Happy Easter! Some years ago, I wrote a little about the origins of the Easter Bunny and the name of the holiday. I don’t have a whole lot to add, but there’s some, so I might … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, British, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Easter, Food, German, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Judaism, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Passover, Religion, Roman, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, XTC | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, aphrodite, bill cosby, charity, coney island, coneys, easter bunny, easter eggs, easter parade, easter seals, eggs, eostre, fat albert, fat albert easter special, fred astaire, hares, irving berlin, jack benny, jesus, judy garland, lent, liberace, march hare, ostara, pikas, rabbits, shirley maclaine, the easter seal teleparade of stars, titian, van johnson, venus, virgin mary, white rabbit | Leave a comment

Fuzzy Pickles

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Nathan

I started playing EarthBound last week when I found it on the Super NES for Switch application. It probably wasn’t the best timing as the Switch version of Chrono Cross also came out that week, but I’ve been switching back … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cults, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Names, Religion, Technology, Toys, Video Games | Tagged aliens, buzz buzz, charles schulz, eagleland, earthbound, ghosts, hippies, jeff andonuts, maniac mansion, monkeys, mr. belch, ness, nintendo power, onett, robots, threed, zombies | 2 Comments

Making a Killing

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Nathan

The Killing – Stanley Kubrick’s 1958 film noir heist picture, filmed in black and white. It’s about a conspiracy to rob a racetrack during a big race, presented in documentary style with a narrator and some scenes appearing from different … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Comics, Families, Gender, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged avengers, avengers age of ultron, avengers endgame, black widow, bride of chucky, britney spears, captain america civil war, david harbour, dolls, florence pugh, general dreykov, jennifer tilly, john waters, Marvel Cinematic Universe, midsommar, racism, red guardian, red room, redman, scarlett johansson, seed of chucky, stanley kubrick, the incredible hulk | 1 Comment

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

Time for Terror

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Nathan

Here’s a rundown of all the movies we watched this October (well, except for Halloween Kills), all horror-adjacent, but not necessarily all horror films per se. A lot of them turned out to be horror comedies, which wasn’t really intentional. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Muppets, Names, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, amusement parks, bears, bill maher, bride of chucky, buttons and rusty, cemetery man, constance hatchaway, dolls, dolores claiborne, elvira, foxes, george wendt, house ii, jennifer jason leigh, jennifer tilly, jon ratzenberger, kathy bates, kermit the frog, medusa, muppets haunted mansion, pepe the king prawn, puns, rupert everett, starry eyes, stephen king, taraji p. henson, terrorvision, the great gonzo, which witch is which?, zombies | 3 Comments

Songs to Sell By

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Nathan

The other day, Beth was listening to the Lovin’ Spoonful, and I made a reference to how “Do You Believe in Magic?” used to be in McDonald’s commercials, which bothered her. Then I asked why it doesn’t when I bring … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Food, Mario, Music, Television, Toys, Video, Video Games | Tagged cereal, dave seville, denny's, doodle bear, dr. mario, four tops, golden grahams, jimmie rodgers, lovin' spoonful, luigi mario, mario bros., mascots, mcdonald's, rice krispies, robert mitchum, ronald mcdonald, snake light | 2 Comments

Goodness Makes the Badness Go Away

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Nathan

Babes in Toyland (1961) – My friend Jared Davis actually wrote about a whole bunch of different adaptations of this story, and how they differ, so you might want to check that out for some additional details and opinions. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Revisiting Disney, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged annette funicello, babes in toyland, carroll o'connor, ed wynn, father christmas, gargamel, glo friends, glo worm, home for christmas, homelessness, little bo peep, lorenzo music, mary mary quite contrary, moose, papa smurf, ray bolger, reindeer, sally struthers, santa claus, saved by the bell, smurfs, st. nicholas, the glo friends save christmas, the smurfs' christmas special, tom tom the piper's son, trees, witches, wizards | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Toys

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise

Uh…Subs?

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Fuzzy Pickles

Making a Killing

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Time for Terror

Songs to Sell By

Goodness Makes the Badness Go Away

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