1. Adventure Time - "Hot to the Touch" Recap
posted by chdr on
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012.
After being turned down by Princess Bubblegum as a boyfriend, Finn sinks into a lovelorn depression. Jake goes out searching for a new girlfriend for Finn and gets the...
Jake brings Finn to the library to study up on Rainicorn history and culture, but Finn decides to wander around the library halls instead. While there, he discovers a secret society...
3. Regular Show - "Under the Hood" Recap
posted by chdr on
Friday, December 16th, 2011.
A hooded graffiti artist nicknamed Park Avenue has taken the park by storm, cluttering the whole place with his tags and eluding the groundskeepers. As more tags mean more work...
Finn and Jake come over to Marceline's cave for their usual musical jam session, only to find a vacant house with a threatening note warning them not to go inside without her...
In a special two-part holiday episode, Jake digs up a box of secret VHS tapes belonging to the Ice King. Finn, Jake, and Beemo spend the day indoors digging through the...
Inspired by a cheesy movie, Mordecai and Rigby decide that the best way to pick up phone numbers from women is to go cruisin' around town in a sweet ride. Margaret and Eileen...
7. Adventure Time - "The New Frontier" Recap
posted by chdr on
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011.
Jake awakens from a prophetic croak dream involving a space shuttle, a banana man, and death via asphyxiation. While Jake calmly accepts his mortality, Finn begins to worry for...
In a special Thanksgiving episode of Adventure Time, the focus on Finn and Jake is eschewed in favor of a snow golem living nearby. The golem's uneventful day is interrupted by a...
A seemingly benign lunch with Wildberry Princess turns deadly when Jake finds an unwanted guest in one of her famous meat pies. The miniature assassin-in-training Me-Mow decides...
In the process of rescuing the Candy Kingdom from a sugar-hungry deer,
Finn breaks both of his legs and Jake sustains a serious head injury.
Finn wakes up in the...
11. Adventure Time - "Beautopia" Recap
posted by chdr on
Thursday, November 10th, 2011.
Susan Strong returns to the treehouse to convince Finn and Jake to take back her mutant tribe's original subterranean home of Beautopia from the mysterious and deadly "glub-glubs". Finn...
12. Adventure Time - "From Bad to Worse" Recap
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011.
An oversight by Princess Bubblegum when dealing with chemical experiments leads to another zombie outbreak in the Candy Kingdom. While Finn and his friends have the...
13. Adventure Time - "The Creeps" Recap
posted by chdr on
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011.
Finn and Jake get an anonymous invitation to a dinner party in a creepy manor. Cordial fun with Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess, Beemo, and Cinnamon Bun come to a...
14. Adventure Time - "Apple Thief" Recap
posted by chdr on
Monday, October 3rd, 2011.
Finn and Jake spend the day at Tree Trunk's house hoping for some of her delicious apple pie. Unfortunately for them, their pie-eating dreams are dashed when Tree Trunks' special...
15. Adventure Time - "What Was Missing" Recap
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011.
A mischievous space-bending Door Lord zips into the lives of the main characters as he steals items important to them. Finn, Jake, Beemo, Princess Bubblegum, and Marceline...
16. Rebooting DC: Worth It?
posted by chdr on
Thursday, July 21st, 2011.
DC Comics loves changing the status quo, in a big way. Ever since 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths, they've been constantly trying to outdo themselves with huge universe-wide crossover events like ...
17. In Defense of Problem Solverz
posted by chdr on
Friday, April 22nd, 2011.
I've made no effort to hide it; I unabashedly love Ben Jones' new series The Problem Solverz. A simple cursory glance around the internet can reveal a slightly-less-than-warm reaction to the...
18. Cartoon Network's 2011 Upfront in New York: My Take
posted by chdr on
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011.
It's finally that magical time of year again: upfront season. While upfronts are like unwrapping Christmas presents for most of the press, the childrens' side of the...
19. The Megaphone Effect
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011.
One of the biggest rules for gaining an audience is not to underestimate it.
Nobody wants to be talked down to on television, so why should the opposite be true about advertising? It seems that...
20. The Long and Shorts Of It
posted by chdr on
Friday, February 25th, 2011.
When you need a lot of content in a short amount of time, quantity tends to trump quality most of the time. But what if you didn't have to compromise one for the other? This was Fred Seibert's...
21. Looking Back: Robotomy
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011.
Cartoon Network and robots don't mix. Aside from a few Gundam series (and hopefully Genndy Tartakovsky's newest outing Sym-Bionic Titan), most of the network's attempts to launch robot-themed shows...
22. Three Families
posted by chdr on
Friday, January 28th, 2011.
To say that Seth MacFarlane is a polarizing figure in animation is an understatement.
Fans of Seth's material tends to spread far into the mainstream, appealing to those that would otherwise not be...
23. Leap of Faith
posted by chdr on
Thursday, January 20th, 2011.
This is a real television show that is being produced for Cartoon Network.
As one may guess, reactions to the Problem Solverz are polarizing at best. I personally love it, if just for how absurd it is...
24. What a Waste: Adult Swim's Move to Primetime
posted by chdr on
Saturday, December 11th, 2010.
Adult Swim is coming to primetime. As explained in typical Adult Swim fashion, the pseudo-network for adults is taking up seven more hours of what used to be Cartoon Network's...
25. It's Not All That Bad
posted by chdr on
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010.
Despite what others think, the sky is not falling, the world is not turning upside down, cats are not chasing dogs, and the fabric of reality is not in tatters. Someone somewhere got paid by some...
26. Looking Back: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
posted by chdr on
Sunday, September 5th, 2010.
Yesterday, I looked at the Cartoon Network series Chowder and its rocky history, both on and off-screen. Today, I'm tackling a fellow Cartoon Network show slated to...
27. Looking Back: Chowder
posted by chdr on
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010.
This month, two cartoons will have ended their runs permanently on the Cartoon Network. Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack represent the beginning of an era to some and the end of...
28. Among the Living
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010.
 The dead walk among us. While the practice has been occurring since the late 80's with the Jetsons, the idea of reanimating a canceled show has become more common since the last decade.
Some examples...
29. What is Animation?
posted by chdr on
Friday, July 16th, 2010.
Recently, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the group responsible for the eponymous Academy Awards) decided that the technique of motion capture will no longer be considered to be ...
30. The Incredible Disappearing Animation Channel
posted by chdr on
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010.
In
1992, millionaire media mogul Ted Turner decided to put his massive
animation library to use and he created a revolutionary new cartoon
network. He imaginatively...
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