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Cartoon Night in Canada
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We're on a nostalgic journey to dig through decades of Canadian animation to find the good, the bad, and the just plain weird cartoons of the Great White North.
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downside to not posting in an eternity: it's usually because our lives are in absolute chaos
upside: the eight or so conservatives who keep bitching about our "politics" are going to be extra annoyed when we start talking about Pride in August
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Happy Canada Day! (It's not a new episode, I just forgot to post it the first time because aaaaaah) Let's celebrate with some incredible Canadian animation!
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July 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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What better way to spend Canada Day than reminiscing about adult cartoon blocks of yesteryear? I genuinely can't think of anything better!

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The DETOUR on TELETOON - Adult Swim for Canucks
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July 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This week, we're taking a look at the objective fact that firefighters are hot, and also safety is good I guess. With another toy-based Nelvana masterpiece. This time we're learning to look for the helpers (also there's a cop here for some reason) Rescue Heroes!
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Four of the main cast of Rescue Heroes (and also the cop) are charging towards the camera. Presumably someone is in danger behind it. They are all built like human tanks with comically disproportioned boots (for the toy line)
June 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This week, join us in reflecting on the 2nd time Quebec tried to leave Canada, and how that's like trying to fix a broken marriage without realizing why it failed in the first place. With Felix Dufour-Laperrière's stunning ink-on-paper film Ville Neuve! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/car...
Title part of the poster for "Ville Neuve" on a blue field. A woman is in the text of "ville" looking to the left. A man is in the text of "neuve" looking to the right, out to the sea. Black and white frame of a man and woman sitting together in the dark. The woman aims a flashlight towards the man, and has a book she wrote in her lap. He is caught in the beam. Black and white image of a man staring at a vase in the foreground. I think I forgot to mention in the episode that this vase gets rotated, glittering in the sunlight and it is the most stunning thing I've ever seen animated. Black and white frame of people walking through Montreal at night. They are all semi-transparent, like ghosts, blurring into one another.
May 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This week we're stacking our soapboxes to remind everyone to #saveNelvana but also #fundpbs with a look at a time when they teamed up to create magic, with the incomparable teaching skills of Miss Frizzle and her Magic School Bus!
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Screenshot from The Magic School Bus of Miss Frizzle, Ralphie, and Keisha. Miss Frizzle's dress this episode features purple eighth notes, a piano keyboard along the hem, a whistle, a dog, and a clock. Absolute icon behaviour as always. Frame from The Magic School Bus featuring Tim and Phoebe on a giant timpani drum. frame from The Magic School Bus of Wanda clapping with visible soundwaves coming from the source of the sound. Frame from The Magic School Bus of Carlos, tearing garbage from his instrument while being celebrated by Miss Frizzle and Cornelia. Liz the lizard is also there, covered by a ten gallon hat.
May 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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this was a while coming, a xray of farmer dell, with little details looking like a lost piece of magazine promo art for moville
April 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Huge thank you to @sophiebergers.bsky.social for indulging my desire to know what Farmer Dell's skull looks like! The answer is, of course, delightfully strange!☺️
Poster of an x-ray cutout of Farmer Dell from Moville Mysteries.
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Today we're diving into the awkward world of teenagerdom with all the sarcasm a Quebecois highschooler can muster. In what might be our first look at a primarily French-language cartoon, it's saucy, it's extra, it's Fred's Head (Blaise le Blasé)
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French cover for the cartoon Blaise le Blasé, with Blaise in the centre and the rest of the cast surrounding him. Tagline text reads "C'est juste une phase", or "It's just a phase". Title image of cartoon Fred's Head from Teletoon's website. Characters Penny, Benji, G.G, and Fabienne all seem happy to be here. The titular Fred decidedly less-so. Image from the cartoon Fred's Head depicting a classroom. Annette and Fabienne are holding writing instruments in the foreground while Fred looks on longingly at Annette in the background. This is the least-creepy Fred has been thus far.
April 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This week we're talking about the glory days of the Mockbuster! Because while yes, Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" is in the public domain, but if you *also* adapt it for kids in 1996, you're getting a side eye! It's The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo!
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The main cast of The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo. Special thanks to Louis Walkden, whose commitment to digitizing his entire VHS collection made this episode possible. Save what media is precious to you, everyone! Even if it's meaningless crap like this show, or a random workout tape from 1990. While technically just a smear frame of Magical Adventures of Quasimodo, I prefer to think of it as a visualization of my soul fleeing my body while watching this show.
March 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I usually ignore all discussions about Kid vs Kat, but I stumbled across this podcast and gave it a listen. Very insightful observations, @cartoonnightpod.bsky.social It’s always nice when people get the creative intention behind the work.
Episode 116 - Kid vs. Kat
Podcast Episode · Cartoon Night in Canada · 2024-09-21 · 1h 5m
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March 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This week, we're looking at a time when you could save the world with one gnarly kickflip. A time when Mainframe was testing the waters to see if they could be the definitive place to go to turn your toyline into an animated empire. A time of Action Man!
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DVD cover for season 2 episode "Ground Zero" of the 2000 animated series "Action Man" It is extremely radical, and filled with explosions The main cast of "Action Man". I have already forgotten their names since recording. I think the main guy is named Alex? Alex Mann? That can't be real. Anyway, I do remember the plan for a comedy series about a superhero team's manager, and I stand by that bit. Action Man himself doing a rad snowboard trick probably. He is wearing a lot of safety gear, because there's nothing tubular about a concussion so be sure to wear your brain bucket when you hit the slopes with the sickest board in your quiver! Dr. X, the villain of Action Man, in his much worse-designed new body. Total bummer, man
March 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Oh hey we're back (and better than ever)! Here to bring you more 100% All-Canadian (dubbed) goodness with a look at the shoujo icon, NANA! We're talking familiar Vancouver voices, diversifying your anime diet, and so, so many sapphic undertones.
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March 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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This #Oscars season, make no mistake - Sylvie is STILL salty about the Flying Sailor snub of 2023.

No new episode this week, but if you miss us, there's always that fateful NFB special covering some of our all-time favourites!

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Screenshot from the 2022 film "The Flying Sailor", depicting a man in sailor uniform. He is smoking a cigarette and looking confused. This sailor deserved the Oscar win.
March 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This week, we're celebrating the phenomenal career of the late, great Robert Verrall! Join us as we check out just two of his dozens of credits with the NFB: workplace safety horror, and the first NFB film nominated for Best Animated Short!
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February 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This week we're heading to the east coast to see Canada's proudest sons, the Trailer Park Boys, now animated for some reason. And we have questions! Like can you really animate a show built entirely on improv? And why do hockey players all talk Like That?
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January 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Continuing with Barbcember, this week we're talking an adaptation of Rapunzel that seems more interested in the threat of a noblewoman causing a war than anything silly like long hair. Oh, and Anjelica Huston is here. Check it out!
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December 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Happy Barbcember! This year we're spending the month remembering the real reason for the season: marketing a new plastic fairy playset! And what better way to start than with Mainframe's foray into fresh worldbuilding MADE for toys! It's Fairytopia!
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December 7, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Closing out our Spooktober/Scarevember Spectacular with a return to Ouija Falls and another of Moville Mysteries' strange cryptid characters! This week we're chatting literary adaptation, scientific study, and good skulls. Check it out, English
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December 1, 2024 at 6:14 PM