Me, Mom & The Mouse: Recent Episodes
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The history of Disney is a history of war, capitalism, art, politics, and death. But to a "Disney family", it's also a history of joy and love. Can a podcast be about two things?? Join Isaac Coleman (Second Opinion) and his mother, Ruhe, as they watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why they love it - or don't.
In our final episode, Mom and Isaac talk about a great movie, reflect on the three years they’ve spent working on this podcast in one form or another, and give a (not so) definitive ranking of the entire Animated Canon.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Recommended reading:
https://tinyurl.com/dont-swallow-moana
https://risingupwithsonali.com/despite-claims-of-authenticity-disneys-moana-still-offensive/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/286030014.pdf
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In anticipation of next week’s series finale, Mom and Isaac sit down to catch up on a year’s worth of mailbag questions, discuss their post-podcast ambitions, and reflect on two years of obsessive Disney viewing. And to complain about LIGHTYEAR a lot.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week, Mom and Isaac have a spirited discussion about a movie that tries to tackle racism in a distinctly Disneyfied way.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac are enjoyed by mechanical engineer and younger brother Isaiah Coleman to talk about Big Hero 6, the Bob-Iger-mandated crossover between Disney Animation and Marvel Studios.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac tackle the most successful movie in Disney animation history, and the first to be directed by a woman: the mass culture phenomenon known as FROZEN. But how does it hold up as a film?
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week, Mom and Isaac discuss the supremely enjoyable Wreck-It Ralph and its not-so-enjoyable sequel.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week, Mom and Isaac discuss the worst film of the Revival Era, the “brand exploitation effort” (to use John Lasseter’s words) that saw Winnie the Pooh in his dullest adventure yet. It’s a shame that this was Disney’s last 2D animated film.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac are joined by artist, video producer, and girlfriend Bailey Wendel for this discussion of the hilarious, slightly askew princess movie Tangled, one of our favorites of the Revival Era.
Buy Bailey’s art here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/LavenderFrost/shop
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this week’s episode, we enter the revival era with a nuanced look at one of Disney’s most beloved princess features.
Recommended reading:
‘The Princess and the Frog’ gave black girls their first taste of Disney royalty
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/3/16/golding-princess-is-the-frog/
https://sites.duke.edu/blackatlantic/sample-page/contemporary-film-and-black-atlantic/history/disneyfied-histories-disneys-intentional-inaccuracy-historical-films-and-the-black-atlantic/the-princess-and-the-frog-and-rewriting-jazz-age-history-and-culture/
https://blackgirlhood.womens.lsa.umich.edu/exhibits/show/global-black-girlhood/play-and-material-culture/princess-culture-and-black-gir
If the hosts believe it, the AUDIENCE WILL BELIEVE IT! We’re talking about Bolt, a movie where an eccentric director with a huge hit was quietly replaced by a studio exec who doesn’t understand their process, which is also about that.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac “keep moving forward” with this charming entry into the Disney animated canon.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week Mom and Isaac go a little crazy discussing Chicken Little, widely considered one of the worst of the Disney Animated Canon.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we discuss Home on the Range, the painfully unfunny cow-based comedy that inexplicably stars Judi Dench and sadly exists as one of the company’s final 2D animated movies.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week Mom and Isaac are covering Brother Bear, a movie about a serial killer who stalks and brainwashes the child of one of his victims.
Recommended reading: http://www.bluecorncomics.com/brobear.htm
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac talk about the underrated (though still flawed) sci-fi epic Treasure Planet, arguably the peak of Disney’s 2D animation efforts.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week Mom and Isaac are gushing over the excellent Lilo and Stitch, while also less effusively covering its dozens of insane sequels and spin-offs.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we’re discussing the pretty good cult classic Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
One of the most troubled productions in Disney history. A movie that shouldn’t even exist, let alone be good. One of the most quotable and beloved comedies of the early 2000s. Mom and Isaac settle in to discuss The Emperor’s New Groove.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac have a blast discussing the most bizarre, most forgotten film Disney Animation ever produced.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac are joined by Becky Samdahl for an episode of “Me, Mom, Mom’s Mom, and the Mouse” to discuss the second entry in Disney’s Experimental Era, the unexpectedly brilliant Roy E. Disney passion project Fantasia 2000!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Experimental Era begins with Tarzan, a boring eyesore of a Bambi ripoff adapted from a story Disney probably had no business touching.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac’s discussion of the Disney Renaissance comes to a close with this full-on masterpiece that balances incisive social commentary with being actually funny and fun for once, THANK GOODNESS.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week Mom and Isaac are talking Hercules – HONEY YOU MEAN HUNK-ULES – the Disney movie with the great art style, beloved characters, and great songs…which is also somehow sort of boring and unpleasant to watch?
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac return to discuss one of the most interesting and polarizing films of the Renaissance era. Sure the animation and music are occasionally jaw-dropping, and the plot has more to say than most Disney movies, but what’s with the dang gargoyles?
Recommended reading: https://www.newsweek.com/notre-dame-roma-stereotypes-esmeralda-hunchback-1403812
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
It’s the beginning of the end as the Renaissance takes a sharp left turn with this racially insensitive and incredibly boring fable about nothing.
Further reading:
http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/bib.php
https://www.amonsoquathbandofcherokee.org/myth.html
https://www.ageofempires.com/news/interview-anthony-brave/
Why One Can’t Ignore Pocahontas
Reservations About Films: Disney’s Pocahontas
https://web.archive.org/web/20150524095505/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-11/entertainment/ca-11761_1_native-american
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In our second and final bonus episode covering a film outside the Disney Animated Canon, Mom takes us through a deep-dive of one of the most important films in her life’s story: the surprisingly excellent A Goofy Movie. What makes this silly film about the Goofster bonding with his teenage son so important to Ruhe? Not what you’d think!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we’re talking about the best movie of the Disney Renaissance, and frankly one of the best works of American animation in history: The Lion King. We also talk about its various sequels, spinoffs, and absolutely horrendous remake.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Recommended reading:
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/problem-aladdin
https://www.kajalmag.com/new-aladdin-same-racism/
This week we’re talking about one of the most popular Disney movies of all time, starring one of the most popular comedians of all time – by which we of course mean Gilbert Gottfried. It’s 1992’s Aladdin! We talk about the many ways in which this film holds up nearly 30 years later…and the few notable ways in which it doesn’t.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac discuss the tale as old as time, the song as old as rhyme – the movie that broke Disney exec brains forever with its Best Picture nomination. It’s Beauty and the Beast!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week, Mom and Isaac discuss Disney’s first animated sequel – probably one of the better movies about mouse UN agents traveling to Australia to rescue a magical golden eagle from George C. Scott.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac return with The Little Mermaid, the movie that saved a studio, built an empire, and perfected a formula Disney still uses almost beat-for-beat to this day. But how does it hold up?
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac say farewell to the Bronze Era and hello to the era of Eisner and Katzenberg while talking around the totally forgettable Oliver & Company.
Additional reading:
Bad Movies Done Right — Oliver and Company
https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/white-mans-best-friend-race-and-privilege-oliver-and-company
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In our first of two bonus episodes covering films outside the Animated Canon, Isaac takes us through a deep-dive into one of his favorite films of all time: The Brave Little Toaster. We discuss everything from the book to the direct-to-video sequels – all in an attempt to reckon with the unique emotional feel, profound thematic depth, dark visuals, and bizarre history of this unique animated masterpiece. (Also Mom thinks it’s boring, so that’s fun.)
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Greenlit during the middle of a regime change as a low-budget excuse to keep the animators busy, The Great Mouse Detective turned out to be one of the best films of the Bronze Era. Mom and Isaac discuss how Musker and Clements managed to sneak this thrilling, charming little adventure movie past Eisner and Katzenberg and what it means to them.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Quite possibly the most infamous Disney animated film of all time. The one that was buried for over 13 years. The one everyone involved was ashamed of. The very last straw for animators like Brad Bird and Tim Burton. And the one that saw two regime changes – from Card Walker to Ron Miller to the powerhouse of Eisner, Katzenberg, and Wells. It’s time to talk about The Black Cauldron.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac discuss 1981’s The Fox and The Hound, a strong contender for the title of “worst Disney movie ever made.”
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac sit down to discuss The Rescuers – a movie caught between younger animators who wanted it to be as dark as possible and older studio executives who were afraid of letting any Disney movie be interesting.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
An oasis of pure joy in the middle of Disney’s Bronze Era – The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh may be a package film, but there’s a reason it spawned the largest franchise in the Mouse’s history. Mom and Isaac relish the opportunity to gush about a legit classic – and share the longest Sequels, Spinoffs, Remakes, Rides and Reboots segment ever.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac are joined by Christopher Coleman – husband and father to our hosts, respectively – for a staggering two and a half hour conversation about one of the very best films of Disney’s Bronze Era: the thrilling, hilarious, and yes, cheaply-animated Robin Hood!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac are BACK and tackling the first film of the Bronze Era: 1970’s The Aristocats. Did Disney prove they could keep making movies without Walt? Is this the best animated movie starring cats by default? Are the Aristocats class traitors? All this and more on the start of our wildest, best miniseries yet!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We’re hard at work making the Bronze Era episodes as good as they can be, but here’s something to tide you over while we’re on hiatus – our first ever mailbag episode! You emailed MeMomMouse@gmail.com with questions and we’ve got answers that turn into rambling discussions about such wide-ranging Disney ephemera as Blackbeard’s Ghost, Two More Eggs, Wander Over Yonder, Tomorrowland, Kim Possible, the aborted Chronicles of Narnia franchise, and more!
Thanks to Jo Sabus, Isaiah Coleman, Sidney Schering, and everyone else who sent in a question that got horribly mangled in this episode. And a double thank you to all who listen – we couldn’t keep doing this show without you! Regular programming will return in July 2021.
Mom and Isaac say farewell to the Silver Era, to Walt, and to the podcast (briefly) with 1967’s musical classic The Jungle Book! Does this film qualify as a hangout movie? How does it compare to the THREE Disney live-action reboots of itself? Is Kaa funny or scary? All this and more on our miniseries finale.
Recommended reading: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/28/475885228/jungle-book-love-why-i-identify-with-the-flower-in-underpants
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this episode, we can’t help but laugh out loud while chatting about 1963’s masterful magic comedy The Sword In The Stone. Why is this movie still underrated even today? How great is it that the Sherman Brothers are finally writing songs for these things? Who’s more prone to self-aggrandizement – the character of Merlin or the writer Bill Peet? All this and more!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this episode, we discuss 1961’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, and 1956’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Confused? Don’t be. Mostly we’re here to celebrate the original film’s unique animation, terrific villain, and fascinating obsession with television.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this episode, we discuss Disney’s first perfect movie – 1959’s gorgeous, goosebump-inducing Sleeping Beauty. Listen as we discuss the film’s status as a “motion painting”, the incredible performance of Eleanor Audley as Maleficent, the number of times Merryweather says “oooh”, and more!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this week’s episode, we discuss 1955’s charming – if not exactly awe-inspiring – Lady and the Tramp. Listen as we discuss how this movie overcomes its thin characterizations, the ineffable magic of the spaghetti scene, why the live-action version is apocalyptically horrible, and more!
Recommended Reading: https://www.flavorwire.com/397512/the-code-behind-the-kitty-unpacking-the-racist-myth-of-the-siamese-cat
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we’re talking about a story that means a lot to us both…and a movie adaptation we have very mixed feelings about.
Further reading:
1. https://lakotachildren.org/2013/08/reservations-about-books-disneys-peter-pan-2/
2. https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/ct-redeye-xpm-2013-01-08-36221701-story.html
3. https://www.academia.edu/3816570/Disneys_Peter_Pan_1953_directed_by_Clyde_Geronimi_et_al
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this week’s episode, Mom and Isaac re-discover 1951’s gorgeous, thrilling, and wall-to-wall hilarious Alice in Wonderland. Listen as we discuss the bizarre original pitch for this movie, the brilliance of the unbirthday scene, Sterling Holloway’s best performance, and the horrific blu-ray “restoration” that nearly renders this movie unwatchable.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We’re back! And starting the Silver Era off right with 1950’s Cinderella. Listen as we discuss the second part of Walt’s unofficial “Princess Trilogy” and ask ourselves: are the mice funny? Is this movie better than Snow White? Would the original pitch for the fairy godmother have been better? Is Prince Charming’s dad completely insane? (Yes.)
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Isaac and Mom put Shorts Madness (aka the Wartime Era) to bed with the surprisingly lovely Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Listen as we discuss how Basil Rathbone must have felt about collaborating with Bing Crosby, the strange lasting legacy of this particular wartime film, and that Mr. Toad ride at the parks where you literally descend into hell.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Do you like bad movie podcasts? Because this week, we’re a bad movie podcast. It’s Melody Time!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Isaac and Mom are officially losing their minds with 1947’s Fun and Fancy Free, the latest entry in the series unofficially known as “Shorts Hell.” How much longer can we hold out against an endless onslaught of flat colors, muddy backgrounds, and forgettable songs? (Mickey and the Beanstalk is pretty good tho.)
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Podcastible! Podcasterous! We certainly certify it!” Mom and Isaac are back with 1946’s Make Mine Music, the only film in the Disney Animated Canon that’s never gotten a release on Disney+. It’s our longest, silliest episode over, covering why this movie is so forgotten, whether or not it deserves to have been forgotten, the lasting imprint it left on li’l Isaac, and more!
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac discuss The Three Caballeros! …Aaaand now you you have the song stuck in your head. Did anyone else remember that this movie is completely insane? Join us for a discussion of why, plus a breakdown of the ongoing legacy of Disney’s most famous Hispanic characters and jokes about why Donald’s such a creep in this thing.
Further reading:
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/disney-donald-duck-carioca-latin-america-imperialism
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https://www.dailychela.com/the-three-caballeros-legend/
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hello, friends! Mom and Isaac start their new series on Disney’s Wartime era with a discussion of the shortest film in the canon – 1942’s Saludos Amigos. Listen as we discuss the Good Neighbor program, what makes Goofy and Donald funny, and the bizarre living airplanes of the “Pedro” short.
Further reading:
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/disney-donald-duck-carioca-latin-america-imperialism
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https://www.dailychela.com/the-three-caballeros-legend/
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac conclude their discussion of Disney’s Golden Era with some controversial takes on the gorgeous, esoteric Bambi. Listen as we discuss the differences between film and book, gush over the incredible hand-painted backgrounds of Tyrus Wong, express disdain for Thumper, and attempt a series of ill-advised Donald Duck impersonations in honor of Clarence Nash.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we’re talking about 1941’s Dumbo! A movie that’s a great exploration of the pain of marginalization…and which also thoughtlessly marginalizes some real-life groups of people. Listen as we discuss the incredible “Pink Elephants” number, this movie’s origins as a “Roll-A-Book”, and why we still adore this movie despite its problematic qualities.
Further reading:
1. https://colorwebmag.com/2018/05/02/color-coded-those-crows-from-dumbo/
2. https://cherish365.com/dumbo-racist-crows-is-dumbo-racist/
3. https://floydnormancom.squarespace.com/blog/2019/4/27/black-crows-and-other-pc-nonsense
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This week we’re talking about one of the best, most esoteric Disney movies ever made: 1940’s animated concert anthology Fantasia! Listen as we cover the differences between the many releases of this film, discuss which segments are the best, and sing praises of this movie’s perfect structure and gorgeous animation. It’s what we call…Absolute Music.
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Mom and Isaac continue their discussion of Disney’s Golden Era with the somewhat disappointing Pinocchio. Listen as we question whether or not Jiminy Cricket is history’s greatest monster, discuss how the movie “Disney-fies” the book in ways that aren’t always good, and explore the bizarre world of Pinocchio adaptations outside this movie (including the unwatchable, unlicensed, fully insane Filmation sequel.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Let the podcast commence! Mom and Isaac kick off their discussion of Disney’s Golden Era with the first film in the Disney Animated Canon: the groundbreaking, shockingly dark Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Listen as we discuss the film’s German Expressionist influences, some of the dwarfs that didn’t make the cut, whether or not J.R.R. Tolkien would have approved of this tomfoolery, and of course, what the movie means to us.
Me, Mom & The Mouse is a podcast about the joy of watching cartoons with your family. If you like this first episode, please subscribe and join us each Friday as we watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why we love it (or don’t.)
Music: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The limited podcast series “Me, Mom & The Mouse” begins January 1, 2021! Join Isaac Coleman (Second Opinion, I Coleman Is Doomed) and his mother, Ruhe as they watch every film in the Disney Animated Canon and talk about how it was made, what it means, and why they love it – or don’t.
Theme music: “The Show Must Be Go” by Kevin MacLeod
-Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4509-the-show-must-be-go
-License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/