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What A Cartoon! - Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins With Matt McMuscles! (Patreon)

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2021-09-06 04:00:00
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Chosen by premium Patreon subscriber Royce, we're covering perhaps the worst cartoon we've ever seen, with special guest expert, the fantastic Matt McMuscles! How did this super crappy first Mortal Kombat cartoon arrive alongside the 1995 movie? How was this marketed to kids? How well did early digital animation and motion capture age? The answers won't surprise you, so test your might with this week's podcast! 

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Blargh

Listening to it right now. Happy birthday Henry!!!

Echo Cimarron

Minor note, but you have to give Larry credit. Announcing a Duke Nukem project, then not releasing anything for 20 years makes it the most accurate video game to film adaptation of all time.

Boyd Adkins IV

I remember having this vhs, which was originally just an advertisement for the movie, the soundtrack, and the ten live show. It was always infuriating rewatching as the end would just state "Get ready for Mortal Kombat: The Movie!"

Harry Thornton

Factual nit-pick: The sound of the guy yelling "Mortal Kombat!" in the Live Tour promo is actually from the same Mortal Monday commercial from 1993, that also has THE iconic "MORTAL KOMBAT!" yell that Techno Syndrome used for their song. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8V7TwlYCt0

Tyler The Destroyer

Where the hell can watch, purchase, stream or “find” this?? Lol

Tashmon Dimps

Man, as trashy as this movie is, I kinda love the weird, campy nature of it and most early Mortal Kombat material. I think the franchise takes itself a bit too seriously now, and I’d love for a goofier take on this world that embraces how bizarre MK truly is. The recent animated movies are fun with spectacular art direction and animated fight scenes, but they still feel the need to tell “grand stories” in a universe where an ice ninja beats the shit out of cyborg Aussie. Idk, I still like Mortal Kombat, but I miss the goofy stuff too! Also, you guys DEFINITELY have to cover Foodfight at some point! You said it, and now it’s an obligation XD

dylan g

I was too young to play arcade games in the early 90s, so my first exposure to Mortal Kombat was watching my older brother play the (infamously sanitized) port of the first game on Super Nintendo. I later became obsessed with Mortal Kombat and watched the USA cartoon, had several of the Hasbro action figures, and even dressed up as Raiden and Reptile for Halloween at ages 8 and 9, respectively. Until I was older, I was completely oblivious to the fact that the over-the-top gore was the entire selling point of the franchise. My kid brain just thought the characters were cool, and I happily watched the ‘Journey Begins’ on VHS probably dozens of times. Unfortunately, the video’s intention of advertising ‘Mortal Kombat: The Movie’ to me backfired, as the preview’s inclusion of the shot of Sub-Zero being slowly frozen by his own icicle disturbed me so much that I never saw the movie until I was in my teens, even though I had wanted to see it and already owned the action figure of Christopher Lambert’s Raiden. Also, I’m not sure who they were trying to target by beginning the video with a trailer for ‘National Lampoon’s Senior Trip.’ That was definitely my first exposure to the word “virgin” and I’m pretty sure my parents had to awkwardly hand-wave my questions about what that word meant. Because of that trailer, I will forever associate the song “Boom Shack-a-Lack” by Apache Indian with Mortal Kombat.

thatcamjones

Mr Wizard and the Popsicles is my new pub quiz team name.

Thrillhouse Cycling

What a great episode! Hilarious—I think y'all are really hitting your stride when it comes to suffering through terrible content in a way that's funny and endearing. I love "We Hate Movies" and the like, but you both (and Matt!) have such a specific dynamic with a totally different ear feel that I want to experience more often.

Joe Hodgson

You guys have covered some bad toons, but I think this one is the only one I'd say is devoid of any value. And the next competitor was probably Street Sharks, which Matt had the "pleasure" of also being a part of. This came out when Mortal Kombat was huge and kids were willing to buy essentially anything with the dragon logo on it. What a piece of shit. I am actively still mad at the folks who greenlit this 40 minute commercial where almost nothing happens. It doesn't even have a resolution! It just ends! You guys certainly covered how terrible the production is, but this thing reminds me of the PSX Dragon Ball Z title Ultimate Battle 22 which had these terrible, minimalist, 3D backgrounds with sprites over them that operate at a terrible framerate. Many of us DBZ fans in the late 90s spent far too much money importing that trash, but I'd much rather play that game than watch this thing again.

twistedmentat

Bob constantly describing this as looking like Sealab has in my mind made this literally just Sealab MK, and Harry Goz plays Raiden.

T

Yeah! I love Matt!

Lobster Industrial Complex

I missed hearing Matt on podcasts regularly. Dude is always a fun guest, as have been the other SBFP/CSB guests

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I didn't know anything about this cartoon before the podcast and just assumed that it was a promotional video for the upcoming live-action film, so hearing that it came out AFTER was disgraceful, especially considering how TERRIBLE it is. Like I was consistently astounded every 5 minutes just how much reused animation would show-up and how fucking awful their attempts to do... anything, were. This may be a new low for stuff that WAC has covered as far as I'm concerned.