Tag Archives: frankenstein

Teeny Tiny Bat

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Nathan

Halloween has come and gone, and the Great Pumpkin never showed up. Does no one care about sincerity in pumpkin patches anymore? It’s all this commercial farming, I’m sure. Anyway, here are my thoughts on one thing I watched for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dreams, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged art the clown, aunt em, billina, clowns, count dracula, disco, dorothy gale, emerald city, frankenstein, gump, horror, jack pumpkinhead, mombi, mummies, murder, nome king, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, terrifier, the halloween that almost wasn't, the marvelous land of oz, the neverending story, the night dracula saved the world, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, time bandits, transylvania, uncle henry, wheelers, witches, wolfman, yellow brick road, zombies | 8 Comments

I Guess You Can Kill the Boogeyman After All

Posted on October 16, 2022 by Nathan

I have three movie reviews this time, all of fairly new films, although that wasn’t really intentional. Two are relevant to the Halloween season and one not, and it should probably go without saying that there are SPOILERS for all … Continue reading →

Posted in Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Sexuality, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged billy eichner, bros, butch patrick, daniel roebuck, elvira, frankenstein, hallmark channel, halloween ends, halloween kills, homosexuality, it, jamie lee curtis, jeff daniel phillips, laurie strode, michael myers, pat priest, pennywise, rob zombie, romantic comedy, sheri moon zombie, stephen king, the munsters, transylvania, vampires, werewolves, young frankenstein | Leave a comment

We Belong Dead

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Nathan

Today, I’m back from the dead (that might have worked better if I hadn’t just written yesterday) to talk about three Frankenstein movies. There are SPOILERS for all of them, as well as the original novel. Frankenstein – The original … Continue reading →

Posted in Etymology, Magic, Medicine, Monsters, Names, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged boris karloff, bride of frankenstein, elsa lanchester, frankenstein, helena bonham carter, kenneth branagh, lord byron, mary shelley, mary shelley's frankenstein, percy bysshe shelley, prometheus, robert de niro, tom hulce | 2 Comments

Toaderonimo!

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve been posting a lot of these episode reviews recently, but I’ve at least tried to break them up somewhat so this blog isn’t All Super Show All the Time. I was wondering before why the order of the episodes … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Comics, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, 9001 a mario odyssey, albatosses, albert einstein, annette funicello, baby mario love, beauty and the beach, birdo, cows, diana ross, duck hunt, ed metzger, fake bro, fire flowers, frankenstein, fryguy, goldfinger, goombas, hal-9000, hal-9001, hawaii, ian fleming, james blonde, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopenstein, land of romance, luigi mario, mario and joliet, mario mario, mary shelley, mouser, nedra volz, nintendo comics system, on her majesty's sewer service, philip clarke, piranha plants, pizza, princess peach toadstool, robots, romeo and juliet, shy guys, snifits, snow white, spaghetti, sparks, super mario 64, super mario rpg, super mario world, susanna ross, swiss cheese alps, time out luigi, toad, toads, too hot to handle, triclyde, vampa white, waki-waki, wheel of fortune | 5 Comments

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Nathan

Toad Warriors – This episode seems to be a favorite, or at least it is with the guys who host the podcast on Hard Times. I can’t say I disagree, as I tend to like it when Toad takes a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Donkey Kong, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged aliens, bats, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, captain clump, car land, clare carey, count koopula, david horowitz, do you believe in magic?, donkey kong jr., dracula, e.c. the extra creepy, fight back!, fire flower, frankenstein, goombas, grand koopa canyon, great balls of fire, harry blackstone jr, hercufleas, hercules, igor, jerry lee lewis, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, luigi mario, mad max, magic johnson, magician, mouser, mythis, parrots, pasta, patches, pirates, pirates of koopa, princess peach toadstool, ravioli, robots, spaghetti, spiders, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, super mario world, the fire of hercufleas, the marios fight back, the road warrior, thunder birdo, toad, toad warriors, trouters, turtlevania, tweeters, vampires, wereturtles, zombies | Leave a comment

You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Nathan

Continued from this post, here are four more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews: Rolling Down the River – While not exactly the line from “Proud Mary,” they did originally play that song in this episode, earlier in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged bats in the basement, beezos, bob-ombs, brutius maximus grouchimus, clawgrip, dealin' delbert, frankenstein, goombas, horses, hot pepper pistachio ice cream, jack and the beanstalk, joe dolce, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, linguine ampire, lions, love 'em and leave 'em, love potion, luigi mario, mario and the beanstalk, mushroom kingdom, nintendo comics system, ostros, princess peach toadstool, queen of hearts, queen rotunda, rolling down the river, rotunda land, shyguys, spaghetti, subcon, super mario bros. 2, the great gladiator gig, the mario monster mash, toad, triclyde, vampires, you again? | 4 Comments

Reformation Nation

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Nathan

The Cardboard King in Oz, by Gil S. Joel – The sequel to Joel’s Healing Power deals with many of the same characters, this time in vignettes rather than a book-long story. The confidence man Willie Lie returns to Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Chronicles of Narnia, History, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adolf hitler, adolf hitler in oz, ali cat in oz, and justice for oz, andrew heller, emerald city, frankenstein, frankenstein's monster goes to oz, gil joel, glinda, golden cap, good, halloween island, joshua toritto, kalidahs, kinglet of phreex, lark vandergrace, mary shelley, matthew dennion, morality, nomes, ozma, patchwork girl, pterodactyls, sam sackett, scarecrow, take me back to oz, the cardboard king in oz, the healing power of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the puppet-mistress of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tollydiggle, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches | 1 Comment

Green Witch Village

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Nathan

The MGM movie of The Wizard of Oz popularized the idea of the Wicked Witch of the West having green skin, something she didn’t have in the book. And at this time of year, it’s common to see witches with … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Celtic, Characters, Fairy Tales, Halloween, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged bugs bunny, fairies, frankenstein, mr. hyde, Ruby Slippers, ruth berman, scooby-doo, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, wicked witch of the west, witches | 8 Comments

Tag Archives: frankenstein

Teeny Tiny Bat

I Guess You Can Kill the Boogeyman After All

We Belong Dead

Toaderonimo!

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em

You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus

Reformation Nation

Green Witch Village

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Blogroll

Celebrity Blogs

Comics

More Stuff from Me

Meta

Twitterpated