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Saturday Morning Obscurities is a fun look back on half-remembered kids entertainment of yesteryear. Adult siblings Melissa and Jams rewatch shows and movies of their childhood, showcasing underrated gems, finding the weird moments in popular shows you thought you knew, and discovering oddities even they've never seen before! Join us every other Saturday for a movie or a handful of TV episodes, maybe a guest appearance, and a lot of nostalgia and laughs.
Episodes
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Ep 23 Ōban Star-Racers
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
We watched the French-Japanese animated series Oban Star-Racers, about a girl who tries to reconnect with her absent father after he left her behind for his career managing starship races.
He's been approached by a cosmic entity to represent Earth in a race where the winner will be safe from impending galactic attack. His daughter, too scared to reveal herself as the forgotten child and pretending to just be an unrelated aspiring racer, is swept along to become part of the crew.
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Friday Aug 06, 2021
Ep 22 The Looney Tunes Show
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
We watched Cartoon Network's 2011 series The Looney Tunes Show, which reinvents the classic characters for a sitcom format where Bugs and Daffy are mismatched roommates in a modern human city.
Bugs is trying to live a quiet life and date Lola, while Daffy is getting into schemes like running for city council, taking cosmetology courses under his girlfriend's name, and changing his name to Professor Duck and then teaching a college political science course.
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Melissa: @WilkyWit
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Friday Jul 23, 2021
Ep 21 (Ft. Sera) Mummies Alive!
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
*Due to an unrealized error, there is a slight echo in this episode that couldn't be edited out. Sorry and thanks!*
Special guest Sera (she/her) brings us a true blast from the past with Mummies Alive! Four mummies awake from their sarcophagi in 1997 San Francisco, sworn to protect the pharaoh's lost son Rapses, who they believe is a cool boy with a skateboard named Presley. They live in a secret room in the history museum when not fighting Scarab, an evil sorcerer with inefficient plans.
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Ep 20 Kidd Video
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
We watched Kidd Video, a 1984 show about a teen rock band that is transported into a magic musical realm called The Flipside, where the devious Master Blaster wants to harness their music energy to take over the world. The show starts with live action kids who become animated, voiced by the same actors, and every episode ends with a return to live action for a music video!
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Melissa: @WilkyWit
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Friday Jun 25, 2021
Ep 19 Rupert
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
We watched the charming 1991 cartoon Rupert, about the whimsical adventures of a bear in plaid pants and his other dapper animal friends. We see him go to Gameland, Toyland, and Mirrorland, and he falls in and out of all of these realms completely nonplussed.
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Ep 18 Fighting Foodons
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
We watched a 2001 anime from the Fox Kids block, the pun-heavy Fighting Foodons. Long ago, a king asked which of his dinner options was the "strongest" and his chefs developed magic meal tickets to stick on their dishes to bring them to life FOR COMBAT. Now, the land is embroiled in a rebellion with food as their weapon, and a young boy named Chase hopes to become a great foodon chef like his dad.
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Friday May 28, 2021
Ep 17 Phantom of the Megaplex
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
We're covering our first Disney Channel Original Movie, the overstuffed but underrated Phantom of the Megaplex!
A small town movie theater is preparing to host a blockbuster Hollywood premiere, but a mysterious cloaked figure is sabotaging every aspect of the night. It's up to the theater's overworked teenage staff and two cinephile children to see the pattern in the mayhem and stop it before a giant inflatable dinosaur crushes all the celebrity guests.
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Friday May 14, 2021
Ep 16 The Raccoons
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
We tried watching something we'd never seen and recommended by Tanner, the 1980s Canadian cartoon The Raccoons!
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Melissa: @WilkyWit
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Ep 15 Cartoon Network Groovies
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
We're doing a special episode on the "Groovies," the short music videos that would air during Cartoon Network commercial breaks.
These would feature remixed audio and visuals, or original songs with experimental new animation, covering both contemporary shows from the Cartoon Cartoon block and old Hanna-Barbera classics.
We discuss the existential hellscape of "Circles," the Powerpuff Girls concept album behind "The Signal in the Sky" and "Go Monkey Go," the lack of Ed Edd n Eddy continuity in "My Best Friend Plank" and "The Incredible Shrinking Day," how Will.I.Am wasn't even in the same room as Dexter when he made "Secret Formula," and more!
We don't own or claim to own any of the music sampled in this episode!
Jams: @JamsWilk
Melissa: @WilkyWit
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Ep 14 (Ft. Tanner) Hoze Houndz
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Tanner (They/Them) is our special guest this episode and they've brought us the Canadian fever dream Hoze Houndz, a show about cartoon dalmatians who are supposedly firefighters, but mostly just get into a series of absurd sci-fi misadventures.
Jams: @JamsWilk
Melissa: @WilkyWit
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