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What A Cartoon! - Saturday Morning All Star Hits! With Scott Gairdner! (Patreon)

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2022-04-04 04:00:03
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It's time for our zuzzy and zazzy April Fool's tradition on the podcast of covering a live-action cartoon, and we're joined by a special guest! We're covering Saturday Morning All Star Hits (aka S.M.A.S.H.) with one of the executive producers, Scott Gairdner (aka our pal from Podcast: The Ride)! Scott tells all about how he and the rest of the team made this amazing comedy throwback, we dig into its deep lore, and finally, we dive deep into the first episode, School! So grab some subs and give a listen!

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David Louis

Keep dem What a Cartoons a comin' guys!

Cody C.

Say it’s cool to just say don’t say shut up.

Cody C.

And just here to remind everyone that in this universe the first cartoon animated about this world’s Mickey Mouse is about a dog going to hell. I love this show so much, why isn’t everyone talking about it?

Blake R.

this was such a treat to discover and it was buried so unceremoniously on Netflix when it came out. really talked it up to my cartoon-loving friends due to how flawlessly it parodies the shows of that era. Also hope Bob checks out Brigsby! It quickly became one of my favorite movies after first viewing and an incredible non-Star Wars live action performance from Mark Hamill.

ShyRanger

To respond to Bob wondering if anyone else was fooled into thinking Skip and Treybor were two different people, it did fool me. I also didn't know about Kyle much, so my first thought when watching was "Oh these guys must be actual twin brothers, that's how they play off each other so well cause they've done this before."

Christmas Ape

I was a little iffy on this show at first, but by the second half it gets really inventive and well-observed. The “voice actor” interview in the news segment episode is especially pitch-perfect. Another thing I want to give them credit for is how they intentionally made the new cartoons in the final episode look so much lamer than the ones that came before. Aside from just getting into how trends in cartoons changed over time, it also captures the feeling of getting older and falling out of love with Saturday morning cartoons in general. Also, I only vaguely knew about Chip & Pepper before watching this show, and I was shocked to learn that they're from the same Canadian province as me.

Dylan

One of my favorite details in the show is how the Muppet Babies version of Create-a-Crittles was done by a Japanese studio

Devin Hoffarth

Createacrittles gave me more Popples vibes than Carebears to be honest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyeAefv65Q I dunno why I remember this show I think I might be the only man alive who does. I would've asked Scott that if I could! Great podcast either way though!

Mark Lee Marcheschi

Loved this show and episode. I was excited to hear it talked about because while I enjoyed it, I really never recalled the specific type of things it touched on. I was born in 87 and hearing the talk of shows it was actually referencing were some things I never heard of. I hope they can build off of this for something in the future

Shane H

This was my favorite show of last year, there are few days where I don't think about it at least once. I have watched smash in its entirety four times. I just kept trying to show it to people, and had to finish it. It is just so endlessly rewatchable because of all of the incredibly specific references. References that WAC is basically a Rosetta Stone for understanding. But it isn't just references, it's also the insane amount of lore that they stuff every episode with. All disguised as jokes! Literally every time I watch this show, I find a new tidbit that I hadn't realized before, like how early they start introducing submarine sandwiches, or Newton being told to shut up in the first episode. As soon as this came out, I knew you guys were going to do it for April fools. What an amazing episode on y'all's part. I will now S' Up!

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

While certainly not as weird as Skip, Treybor, or their inspirations, this format does feel very familiar to me as a Canadian since YTV here has had cartoon segment hosts for as long as I've been alive, and they always get up to weird shennanigans. While I haven't sat down and watched those blocks for at least 15 years, people around my age have been throwing back to the heyday of our childhoods on TikTok and some YouTube channels, so it's still fairly fresh in my brain. One of the hosts from when I watched it, Sugar Lyn Beard, more or less successfully branched out into other acting, having been a recurring character on The Flash and co-starring in movies like Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, which always gave me a tickle to see her popping up.

Ric Mahurin

Thank you so much guys. I would have never seen this otherwise but SMASH is really fun and I’m enjoying it slowly like Henry said.

RVG

Thanks for recommending this to me on Twitter, Henry. I loved all the twists and turns it took, as well as the way it played with your expectations and didn't ride the straight millennial/gen-x 80/90s nostalgia wave of Stranger Things and the like.

Michael Branson

This show is so much my growing up. Thanks for this!! I really Hope they do more.

Red Fox Comix

Count me amongst the fooled. The one thing that bugs me is, is that Lottie Wolfe in the concert photo in the last episode? Did she live??

Norman Benford

I watched on a 70” tv in my living room, and I spent the first three episodes impressed that they found someone who so closely resembled Kyle Mooney to play Trabor. A quick trip to IMDb showed me the error of my ways. SMASH is an absolute gem. This reminds me that I need to check out Brigsby Bear. Thanks for another great WAC.

CitizenMeh

Thanks for introducing me to this! They actually did bother to put this on UK Netflix but I've seen zero mention of it anywhere.

Marty

Some of my favorite moments on SMASH involve the voice acting, such as Cree Summer popping up so frequently as different characters in back to back segments, or Frank Welker chewing the scenery as Ronnie Selfish.

Ric Mahurin

“At a peak in their popularity, the (Chip and Pepper) Foster brothers appeared on a Canadian TV station singing "Chip and Pepper: get hip or get out!" The footage came into the hands of NBC's head of entertainment, Brandon Tartikoff, who decided to give them a Saturday morning cartoon show. In fall 1991, Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness debuted. The new edition to NBC's animated line-up included sketches and interviews, but old cartoons such as Casper and Captain Caveman took up most of the airtime. The show lasted one season before NBC dropped its animated block altogether in 1992.”

Ric Mahurin

NBC Saturday morning cartoons died in 1992

Kate Santee

That PSA episode cracked me up because when I was a small child, my parents inexplicably forbade me and my siblings from saying "shut up" because it was... a uniquely rude phrase, I guess? (They were also very weird about the word "fart" and would instead make us use the euphemism "freep" until we were tweens.) There was apparently enough real anti-"shut up" hysteria in the 90s that a writer on Angry Beavers talked about the phrase being censored from an episode because Nickelodeon's then-president didn't want children to say it. Was this just a thing with Boomers who became Very Concerned Parents?

Lockerus

I’ve been totally obsessed with this show since I listening to the cast. It’s so of a time and the style is very idiosyncratic but I couldn’t get enough of it when watching it.