Talkin' 'Toon 'Tics: Recent Episodes
Ed & Tom
Film lovin' cousins Ed and Tom discuss the politics and philosophies of cartoons and family friendly cinema.
Music by Ed.
Artwork by Tom.
This episode features our first ever guest - friend, filmmaker and first fan of the show, Adrian.
Our 3 musketeers of film fandom tackle Brad Bird's beloved cult classic The Iron Giant.
We discuss…
- Ted Hughes the enormous bar-steward
- Pete Townsend’s (s)hit musical
- Why Adrian hates the term ‘elevated horror’
- The hierarchy of interesting action scenes (that Marvel keeps getting wrong)
- Vin Diesel’s Multifacial (we’ll just leave that there)
and...
- Brad Bird’s randy objectification… no wait sorry – Brad Bird’s Randian Objectivism
We also ask…
- Is the Iron Giant a terrorist or is he the Malian Spiderman?
and...
- They fly now? They fly now? THEY FLY NOW!
Sensitive ears beware - we be droppin ‘F’ and ‘S’ Bombs and like nobody’s business.
Links...
A Giants Dream (The Making of The Iron Giant) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQU5vU5ENwo
Deleted scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL0GbswF3I
Pete Townsend’s Iron Man Musical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiYXRt5MyM
The Passion of Brad Bird by David Sims - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/the-passion-of-brad-bird/394487/
Lion King deepfake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HGgICqZ3c
Ed and Tom rigorously assess 2009's Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - the feature debut of Phil Lord and Chris Miller (of Lego Movie and Spiderverse fame).
Our fearless hosts begin to notice reoccurring themes from previous episodes of the show - such as the tired nerd/jock dichotomy and the fact that 99% of the lead characters in kids movies are petulant, entitled incels.
They also cover such topics as...
· Why isn’t it Cloudy With A Chance of Medical Supplies?
· Are reverse make-overs just as sexist as conventional make-overs?
· Was the grown up Nirvana album baby exploited by... himself?
· Why the world does not need your originality, thank you very much
· Can you be an expert meteorologist and also be enthralled by cat videos?
· Does anyone actually read these anyway?
· Besos, Zuckerberg and Musk got us in this mess... so they’re the most qualified out get us out of it right?
Ed coins the term 'mutual back-rubbing ego slime' while Tom lays down the gauntlet for a nasty high profile feud with rival podcaster Anna Farris. Bring it on.
This episode contains dutty words
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Ed and Tom valiantly deconstruct the 2006, Amblin-esque, horror throwback, Monster House and discuss...
· The ethics of peeping
· That weird kid you had to hang out with when you were young
· When horse diving stopped being a thing
· Absolutely, positively, unambiguously respecting women
· Why music these days is terrible and the kids should be ashamed
and
· Why Dan Harmon thinks this movie is dumb and mean
Do we really need to warn you about potty mouth content any more?
Links...
Popular Culture Detective - Stalking For Love
Popular Culture Detective - The Ethics of Looking
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Inspired by the first Annual Boss Baby Symposium, Ed and Tom tackle the Alec Baldwin starring Dreamworks romp of the same name.
The fearless snowflake duo ask such pertinent questions as…
- What are the profit margins of Baby Corp?
- Why should you be watching Ralph Bakshi over Walt Disney?
- What’s the best representation of gender as a spectrum in video games?
and...
- Is it finally time to stop including in children's movies, jokes about the hetero cis male fear of anal penetration?
No quiz this week. Ed couldn’t be arsed.
This episode comes with a snotty botty potty mouth warning.
Before The Matrix, Being John Malkovich and Inception, there was Rarg!
In this special episode of Talkin Toon Tics, Ed and Tom tackle the obscure 1988 student film that totally blew 8-year-old Tom’s swede!
This episode features potty mouths AND terrible sound quality. Please accept out sincere apologies for the later.
In this week’s episode Ed and Tom tackle the bonkers 2006 tap dancing penguin jukebox musical, Happy Feet.
In preparation for this unbridled jibber-jab, Ed brushed up on the mating rituals of penguins while Tom re-watched all 4 of the Mad Max films.
They ask…
· What does Happy Feet have in common with Fury Road?
· Are flash mobs a bit sinister?
· What’s the point of realistic looking animation?
· Why are mystical hero’s journey’s only for boys?
· Is it still OK for Robin Williams to do a broad Latin X accent?
· Is Happy Feet actually an allegory for the refugee crisis?
· Why are fish so often denied souls?
· What would ‘March of the Morgan Freemans’ look like?
Listen till the end for Ed’s surprise (but not a surprise) quiz ‘Peng-win or Peng-lose’.
This episode features the occasional naughty word bomb.
Ed and Tom tackle Aardman Studios’ slave plantation escape romp, Chicken Run.
Their meandering chin-waggery covers such crucial questions as…
· When someone from the south of England mimicks a Northern accent, is it the same as when someone from the North of America mimicks a Southern accent?
· At what point do eggs switch from being uncontroversial food/currency to being a precious and endangered life?
· Can we enjoy Mel Gibson now?
· What’s Ed’s dad’s favourite part of Apocalypto?
· Are the mice, Nick and Fletcher, the dastardliest comic relief characters ever?
· Is it OK to ogle a chicken?
· Where the heck did Rocky get his tricycle?!
Elsewhere, Tom shares his gruesome experiences working on a real chicken farm while Ed treats us to another surprise quiz!
This episode needs it's potty mouth washing out with soap
Ed and Tom have a loosey-goosey ramble about Disney's computer animated racial prejudice allegory/copaganda film, Zootropolis (also known in China as Crazy Animal City)
Our fearless hosts dare to pose such pressing questions as…
- Just who are the predators supposed to represent anyway, and where are all the birds and reptiles?
- Do the multiple social/political allegories cohere or would Zootropolis work best in a double bill with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!?
- Why aren’t we more embarrassed by animal nudity?
- Is Zootropolis secretly a Men’s Rights Activist kickback against #MeToo, or is it in fact an expose of the CIA's involvement in 1980's New York crack epidemic?
- Is Judy based on Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs, or is Zootropolis a remake of buddy-cop film 48 Hours?
Elsewhere, Ed dives deep into Zootropolis’ erotic fan art while Tom finally understands the ending of 90’s action thriller Speed.
And if that’s not exciting enough, somewhere in the middle, Ed stumps Tom with the soon to be universally beloved parlour game 'Trade Pup or Made Up?'
This episode comes with a potty mouth warning.