Welcome back! Here’s Part 1 if you missed it. Now get ready for some more squeezed GIFs and hopefully normal MP3s as we count it down from #17 to that coveted top spot!

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Welcome back! Here’s Part 1 if you missed it. Now get ready for some more squeezed GIFs and hopefully normal MP3s as we count it down from #17 to that coveted top spot!
Super Sentai. It’s the series Power Rangers is based on…but also so much more. I did not give a shit about it until about eight years ago when I watched every one of its theme songs in a row for some reason.
It’s corny. It’s campy. It’s cool. It’s high-octane. And as of 2025, it spans fifty years.
So let’s count it down, from my least favorite to most coveted—complete with MP3s and supercompressed GIFs to give YOU a taste of the action.
These shows don’t deserve this. #ROASTED #EXPOSED #grounded
Continue reading “Riffing on PBS Kids for No Reason”Lately I’ve been interested in the “foundational texts” of cartoons, so much so that I’ve compiled a list of just about every one I could find online. In reading a bunch, I’ve learned some fascinating things about them—and about creative work in general. Like…
Continue reading “5 Things I Learned from Cartoon Pitch Bibles”Here’s a collection of every document I could find on the website that I am reasonably sure was actually used to pitch, or write episodes for, a network-produced animated series. If you find another document, comment below!
Oh, and I encourage you to download any documents you really don’t want to lose track of. It’s quick, free, and easy! Things have been taken down from Archive.org before—including pitches.
Continue reading “Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer’s Bible on Archive.org”Quick: name something you can’t put on your TV network for six-year-olds in the United States. “Guns and excessive violence?” That’s old news. “Racism?” Uh, we hope that’s old news. Here are two categories I propose: “things that are nightmarish” and “things that are really gross.”
Let that sink in. Two categories that dominated children’s TV in the 90s and left a long shadow seem to be fading away.
(Also, if you are a kid, please don’t read this, or my PG-13 blog in general.)
Continue reading “Can’t Make Kid’s Programs Like This Anymore (…And Probably Shouldn’t!)”Ah, Fluke. Yet another bizarre, oddly compelling movie that has no right to be oddly compelling. Or bizarre, really. I mean, it’s a dog movie. All it had to be was a dog movie.
Continue reading “Fluke (1995): More Like This Movie Was A Fluke”4Kids TV gets such a bad rep. Let’s fix that.
Continue reading “It’s Time to Admit You Love 4Kids Theme Songs”In my opinion, the ideal way to show this film is in the background.
Continue reading “The Cowboy Way: The Shit You Find on Cable”I can’t believe the fiftieth anniversary of Scooby-Doo just crept up on me, despite me having written about The Fifty Names of Scooby-Doo.
Ruh-roh.
Continue reading “Retrospective: Fifty Years of Scooby-Doo!”