We Hate Movies - S6: Animation Damnation #26 - The Raccoons

Episode Date: March 31, 2016

On this episode of Animation Damnation the gang tackles the pilot episode of the oddly crass, Canadian cartoon, The Raccoons! The episode in question, "Surprise Attack!", originally aired sometime in ...the great year 1985. Why do we have to see more female animals drawn with human breasts? What's with all the World War II imagery? And where was that sweet raccoon condo we were promised?! PLUS: Steve is attacked by a live raccoon! Well, he was--11 years ago.Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So I don't know how it is they decided on the fact that there's all sorts of animals in this movie. You got ard varks? Why didn't you call it the ardvarks? You got a big sheep dog, a big John Goodman sheep dog hanging out. It's such a John Goodman's sheep dog. I thought that was just John Goodman. Town!
Starting point is 00:00:44 I got to rewatch Fallon. You got to watch Ted Cloverfield late, buddy. I know, and someone was asking. You know what? Not someone. A lot of people have been asking me, both online and IRL. People have grabbed the other show. You should troll, you troll, and I'm like, no, the other two.
Starting point is 00:01:00 you did, leave me alone. No, I want to see it, man. It's good. Yeah, I liked it. Welcome to animation damnation. I'm Andrew Jupin alongside Steven Zadak and Eric Siska. Hello.
Starting point is 00:01:10 We are not... Ted Cloverfield Lane now in theaters. This episode's brought to you by. Yeah, this is not an on-screen on 10 Cloverfield Lane. This is a... It could have been. I guess it could.
Starting point is 00:01:19 I really dropped the ball. No, it's sorry. No, this is an animation damnation where this is the listener-requested animation damnation. Now, Steve Zadak, you collect all those emails. and watch these things from these maniacs
Starting point is 00:01:32 that are suggesting stuff? I do. I collect the information. I follow people. IP addresses. Yeah, I know where people are. I know what they do. So who requested this and why?
Starting point is 00:01:42 And what's her shoe size? Shoes size. Shoes size. Shoes size. I'm going to get your shoe size. This is a bit of a loose animation. This is from Dave in the UK who says, Hey guys, I'll jump straight into it.
Starting point is 00:01:59 This piece of shit was on every Saturday morning in the U.K. To this day, I have no fucking clue what type of animal Cyril sneer was supposed to be. I think he's an ard bark, yeah. He looks like the pink panther if the pink panther had cancer and a gambling addiction. Pretty good joke. See, this is how you get the write-in requests on the air. Well, actually, no, this was out of a hat. We did.
Starting point is 00:02:24 We did be pulled in. Oh, that's right. Well, normally, normally I'd be entertained by this shit. So we lucked out, actually. we did. Anyway, love the show. Perfect spelling and grammar, too. Wait, is that the British spelling? Of what? Raccoon. Is there a you in there?
Starting point is 00:02:39 I bet there's four. Anyway, thanks, loving the show. Cube the good work. Dave, with a you, actually. No. No, no, no, no. I'm guessing he's probably size nine. Yeah, yeah, no, he's, and his credit is terrible. Oh, boy. If I know anything about English people, it's from the. the British, and that song Rocky Raccoon, Paul McCartney, pronounces it Raccoon. Raccoon.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Oh, so this is the Raccoons. Oh, Rocky Raccoons. This is a Canadian show. It's ultra-Canadian. By the way, sorry, the episode in question, just to get this out of the way. Episode one. Episode one, season one, surprise attack. Originally aired in the year 1985.
Starting point is 00:03:20 It continued. Has anyone seen this show before? I didn't know. Yes. Look about it. Have you seen it, really? Yes, I have because I know everyone's saying, oh, this is a Canadian. Idiotian show. No one could have ever seen it. And I was saying that myself, too, until I actually sat down to watch it. Oh, and you were like, oh, shit, I remember this? Yeah. It started coming flooding back. It was insane. Wow. Isn't that cool when that happens? Kind of not.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Well, it was like, that's nice. But this is like, this is like, this is painful. I solved a 20-year mystery. This is like I watched this as a small child and then I remembered what life was like back then. And I got deeply deep. deeply sad. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because it wasn't good. No. No, no, that's why I'm on this show now, because it was terrible. But I believe this aired in the U.S., on the Disney Channel, sometimes.
Starting point is 00:04:13 I don't know where, but I've definitely seen. I definitely came across, what's this fellow's name, Cyril Sneer? I think they aired this every Hitler's birthday, is what I was reading. Oh, my family did celebrate that. Oh, man, going to celebrate 420 watching the raccoons. Because Hitler's birthday is also 420, bro. Yep, we would watch three episodes of the raccoons. Actually, we'd watch eight episodes of the raccoons.
Starting point is 00:04:40 And then we'd watch Triumph of the Will. Yikes. So this is about a family of raccoons. There's two of them. There's three. Is there three? There's three raccoons. And I learned this because it's not really evident in the episode.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I learned this on, again, as always, the copious Wikipedia page. Every cartoon is a cobiose wikipedia page. Yes, yeah. Apparently, it's a couple, a boy raccoon and a girl a raccoon, and this third guy, Bert Raccoon, the one with the big B on his shirt. Oh, yeah, the third wheel, huh? They all kind of live in a condominium together,
Starting point is 00:05:12 and I'm like, oh, man, why don't they get one of those cool episodes? Because we're watching the pilot, man, and they didn't bring the condo in until later, probably. What is it? Like a Del Bocavista situation? I think it's more of whatever was going on at Three's Company, you know what I mean? Also, you know, the housing prices in the rest. The Raccoon Village.
Starting point is 00:05:30 The Evergreen Forest? Yeah, it was a little high, so they had to settle for a... Get a roommate. Oh, actually, wait a second, though. Was this... What'd you call him, Bert? This third one? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:40 This thing was in this episode? Yeah, the guy with the shirt. He's a cool one. I guess there's a bee on it. He's saying that. Oh, I thought that was the main guy. Wait, so then there's another one on top of that guy? Yeah, he's...
Starting point is 00:05:51 The other guy's married to the lady, and Bert is kind of like... They're married? They're married. I found this out of the copious. Well, they better be if they're living under the same. roof goddamut I guess so they were buried by a Christian raccoon
Starting point is 00:06:05 Hey also I love that it's the raccoons Hold on a second are they circumcised Let me check the Wikipedia I love that the name of this cartoon Is the Raccoons like it's a sitcom Of some kind you know what I mean But the raccoons are barely in this episode
Starting point is 00:06:21 At least it's them How are you starting? This is the start of the Raccoons' reign of television I think they went to college together or some fucking horse shit. There's like a with honors movie that took place before this. Yeah, he was the Joe Pesci, the whole with the feet on his shirt. Just taking in that homeless one?
Starting point is 00:06:39 Wait, so in this episode, what is this non-shirt-wearing one do? Because I don't even remember it. He's just a dude. He's just like her husband. He's the stay-at-home dad. Yeah, exactly. Wait, so, but then the one... He's got like a fucking sports column somewhere. Wait, but the one who's got...
Starting point is 00:06:59 the one who's got the heart on for the little Ardvark girl Yeah, yeah That's like the friend Yeah, he's not their kid Yeah, no, no, no, he's like a dude He's a grown man They all live in this condo of this man
Starting point is 00:07:11 And they're all, okay, so they're He's a grown man raccoon There's a lady Ardvark Uh huh Is she related to the Snear family? I think she's not She's actually But the other dude
Starting point is 00:07:22 There's another art Ardvark that is Cyril's son Yeah, and that one they're doing like a Jerry Lewis voice for. Yeah, they have like a big castle and they're like monsters or something. Well, because they have all the money. Yeah, yes. A very Scrooge McDuckian pile of money.
Starting point is 00:07:39 And he's got three henchmen that are little pigs with little hats that are definitely just Huey doing Louis clones. Yes, yeah, most definitely. It's fucking criminal what this show is, honestly. So this episode is about it's the stakes are abnormally high for a kid's cartoon show. You're telling me. fucking final solution shit because like these pigs stumble upon a plan
Starting point is 00:08:03 like the raccoons made a balloon and a big like a weather balloon kind of thing or what do you call them? They keep calling them war balloons. Yeah. It's just a hot air balloon. That's what we used to call it Zeppelin. No, it's not a Zeppelin.
Starting point is 00:08:18 That's what the Hindenburg is. Oh, the woodland humanity. Oh, so many burning trees. And raccoons. No, so the... Rock a raccoon. And you don't see many squirrels in this society.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Not one durned squirrel. Let's think about that for a second. Not a lot of amphibian creatures. Yeah, what's going on in this forest, you know? The pigs over here that the raccoons have something in store for serial T sneer, okay? And it's not just, by the way,
Starting point is 00:08:50 you say that it's A plan? It's not A plan. It's the plan. We're going to finish it once and for all, they say. It is some heavy shit, this pilot episode of The Raccoons on the Disney Channel. So they tell Cyril and he's like, oh, they're not going to kill me. I'm going to kill them. I'm going to kill all their fucking kids. I'm going to spay all those raccoons.
Starting point is 00:09:14 They'll never have a fucking breed. Yeah, he gets, he gets into it. I mean, but no, this is how fucking twisted this shit is, though. So the guy, the Cyril sneer, the Ardvark, I mean, this guy's no prize piece himself. And to Dave's credit, he does look like a pig diarrhea. He doesn't look anything like an Ardvark. Ardvarks are what like browned and like, you know. I mean, yeah, they're not pink.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Yeah, he's pink and he's got, he looks kind of like, what is this? The snorks? Yeah, it's kind of a snorke. He looks like a wabby, actually, kind of. Oh, what? Yeah, from, uh, yeah, I'm not following. No one else is 61 years old? Was this like a thing at Coney Island back in the 30s?
Starting point is 00:10:02 Yeah, did you play this with a young Woody Allen at Coney Island? No, it's a game show. Good to play Whammy. Hey, Steve, let's go down to the boardwalk and play Whammy. I'm not going anywhere with Woody Allen and playing Whammy. I'll tell you what. I didn't say under the boardwalk. I said at the boardwalk.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Thank God for our flat feet, hey, Steve? Wait, what is this that you're talking about? Now I'm going to forget the name of the game show. I need to fill it up, bro. All right, that's fine. Because the question I have, so Cyril T. Sneer, right? He's explaining to these pigs why the raccoons are bad. And it's so, so twisted because he's like, he's showing him a picture of this raccoon.
Starting point is 00:10:42 He's like, as you can see here, look at his raccoon eyes and the circles around that raccoon eye. You know what that means? That means he's a liar. He's got something to hide his eyes. There's some, like, phrenology going on. It's... I know. It's...
Starting point is 00:10:56 Fur knowledge. Oh, nice. Bravo. It's so twisted. All right. What was this game show? You and Alan Konigsberg watched? It's called Press Your Luck.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Okay. It's from, like, the 1970s. And you said whammy? No, he said, that's where no wambi comes from. What are you going to do? People are like, oh, no wambi, no wambi. Man, I thought that was just sad gambling addicts. And the whammy is like a guy with a dick nose.
Starting point is 00:11:21 It was a little... weird carto. Look, you would get a whammy, right? Because this looks like a dick nose. It does. It looks like a penis nose. You'd get a whammy. Back in the old days. Give me five sawbucks for a whammy, you'd say. Right. And the whammy was a big, a big foam hammer. You hit things here. Wait, are you sure we're not talking about pog slammers?
Starting point is 00:11:42 No, we're not. Okay. It would be a big wheel that would go around. Right. It would stop and you'd get either an amount of money or a prize or you'd get a whammy. Or you got a whammy. So you said, No whamies because you didn't want to whammy. And when you got a whammy, a really crappy cartoon would come out and take... No, whammy's. It would take your money away.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Oh, that sucks. That's kind of better than... Ask your kids. Ask your grandparents about whamies. What was this on? Let's make a deal? Press your luck. Oh, press your luck.
Starting point is 00:12:09 That sounds better than that just that bankruptcy wedge on Wheel of Fortune. Well, that's what this sounds like Wheel of Fortune without any of the spelling challenges. But imagine if you hit bankrupt on Wheel of Fortune and then like Fred Flintston and took your money away. Yeah, but dabba don't. With a little sack of money. Barn, get the car. Gonna run him down to the pocket lot, barn.
Starting point is 00:12:34 You're broke in America. Now you're going to die. It's true. It's true. Caveman time is better than America. So he looks ugly, I guess. So we're getting that. Sure.
Starting point is 00:12:48 And like the whole plot of the episode, such as it is, is like, He's like, I want to fucking kill those things. And he's got these bear henchmen. These bear henchmen that I thought were dogs for a second because they definitely look like McGruff the crime dog. Because they're all wearing trench coats with hats on them. Because they're spies. I mean, this is a fucking fucked up for us.
Starting point is 00:13:06 These are like CIA goods. It's, dude, it's an outright hit squad. Yeah. It's ridiculous. And what he says to him, by the way, he sends these agents out into the forest and he's like, you got to get information on these people. How am I going to kill him?
Starting point is 00:13:21 if I don't know what they're doing or whatever. And he's like, you get out there. And by the way, if you don't get any information on all these raccoons that I hate, it's baskin rug time. And I'm like, Jesus Christ. Again, abnormally high stakes for a child's cartoon. The pilot of a child's cartoon. We're just supposed to be meaning all these people.
Starting point is 00:13:42 And when did we get to these three raccoons smoking hash at an apartment, which is what I want? Come a knock on my tree. Can I ask a question? question of always steve about character design sure why must everything have tits why why do we have to you talking about this hot little ardvark in that and and the raccoon lady also have like breasts yeah so wait what do you have against breasts i just don't like raccoons nor ardvarks have breasts have memories how the hell do you know what do you look at i i've checked Sounds like someone had a trip to the forest
Starting point is 00:14:24 Steve was a guy who subscribed to National Geographic for all the wrong reasons But I also don't walk on feet Well no they wait wait they walk on feet Not on hind legs That's the terminology But they're all wearing like halter tops and shit It's like who
Starting point is 00:14:38 Like I feel like Meanwhile I got a cute cartoon show about a raccoon Draw me a bob Lady raccoon I said this on the last episode Of animation damnation Because again we're talking about
Starting point is 00:14:47 You know men becoming dogs Dogs becoming babes Uh, it's that whole thing of like, you can have a lady animal thing, but it can't be a quoting me from a few weeks ago, a capital knockers madam situation. You put a fucking bow on a raccoon's head. I'm like, that's a lady raccoon. But they're not a batman, see? Because she's got a bow in her hair.
Starting point is 00:15:10 In their defense, these knockers aren't capital. I'd say they're lowercase. They're in a respectful manner. Dude, are you body shaming this 30-year-old cartoon? No. I'm just saying it's not sexy enough for you. No, I'm not saying, what I'm saying is they're not, I understand what you're saying, but they're not sexing it up as much as they could, question mark.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Well, it's not an anime, point taken. It's just, you know. No, they are, yeah, exactly. They are like adorable. They're not like incredibly weird. It's not like Anna Nicole Smith's out here. But it's weird just to put that, like, I'm like, RIPD, by the way. If I ask somebody for that draw, if I draw me a lady raccoon, you give me a,
Starting point is 00:15:50 a lady raccooter to halter top with breasts. I'm like, is everything okay at home? But, you know, this is a good point because I think, correct me from wrong, Cyril Snear is friggin' naked in this or something. He's completely naked. So he's completely nude and he's not hanging brain. So therefore, I agree with you. Yeah, I agree.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Erase the tits. Yeah. Or, you know, if you want to make it accurate, they got to have like, you know, three on each side going down the whole front. Oh, wow. like total recall shit. As quadruped mammal's fucking hell. You know what?
Starting point is 00:16:25 I say do it up. That's how it should be. Let's teach these kids a thing or two about nature. Also, they should be eating garbage because they're raccoons. Yeah. If you guys are at their cool condominium, smoking a joint, like, hey, you want some garbage? Can you, because I don't think you ever had on the air, can you tell that raccoon story? Because what an appropriate time.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Well, it's actually a skunk. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. It's totally a raccoon. Oh, okay. I, uh, I, um, back at our old place in college, I was throwing out a bunch of beer boxes. As was the fashion at the time. You know, and it's, uh, we live, we were kind of college in the woods there, you know, woodsy area, um, and I'm from the Bronx, so I've never seen anything. I've never seen a fucking tree since two, I saw my first tree in 2002 and that's what they look like. And, um, that's how Steve sounded back then. So like, you know, I have to walk out
Starting point is 00:17:18 to the woods to get these things. a little freaked out. I'm kind of probably drunk myself. I'm throwing out all these beer boxes. They keep falling down and I have to keep grabbing them, right? Like, it's like, oh, it's such a hassle to grab all these beer boxes and I have to, like, conjoin my arms to make it go. And I just kind of shove it into this recycling center and a recycling, what do you call it there? Trash game. It's a big old bin.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Recycling bin, thank you. That's a word of looking for. I throw them in and something pops out. And I'm like, oh, it's a beer box. I better catch it. And it's a raccoon. He jumps at me all arms at Kimbo With a big smile on his face
Starting point is 00:17:56 And I almost grabbed and scooped him up Like a baby And I realized one second soon enough And I jumped back And my heart like literally Was beating out of my chest For at least two days Like literally I was not okay for a long time
Starting point is 00:18:12 And then that tree you saw came to life And took the raccoon And they left to go hang out with Chris Brad Now, by the way, serious question about this story. What a hair-raising tale, first of all. So you're so lucky that you didn't get, you know, rabies and whatnot. But seriously. Or more rabies.
Starting point is 00:18:30 What's the rack situation on that raccoon that jump out? Because I could see why you'd want to grab it. Yeah, it was little more than a handful's all I need, brother. On my raccoon breasts. Like, what the fuck, man? It's so gross. kids here. Sure. I am a kid here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:51 And it's 1985. Yeah. And you know what? I think that maybe sparked something in my brain. Quite possibly. It's why you're a furry. I'm not, but I respect them. Sure. So yeah, this like Ardvark's like, all right, well,
Starting point is 00:19:09 they're trying to kill me. I'm going to kill them first. I got a dossier on all these fucking little raccoons. And these bears go out and I'm gonna shoot that raccoon in Dallas. By the way, he loves to smoke a cigar. He does. He's constantly smoking and he's got a gold tooth.
Starting point is 00:19:24 The character design of this thing is quite interesting. But what's, it's so dumb. So like these bears all dress up like all the characters, like all the good guys, and then mistake each other for them and beat the shit out of each other. To the coolest song I've ever heard. The only thing that's truly excellent about this cartoon is it's just got a new wave soundtrack. Yeah. And this song that just plays is beautiful.
Starting point is 00:19:49 It's apropos of nothing. It's nothing to do what's going on. It's about like, run with us. Something, something, something. The song is called Run With It. I mean, it's amazing. I think it's been covered. Like, it's like a real song.
Starting point is 00:19:59 It got covered like as recently as like 2004 or something like that. You shit? No, like people love this song. And then this is the only time this comparison will be made. This show is kind of like the wire in that. Raccoon coming. Because every season of the show, supposedly, again, this is the very thorough Wikipedia entry for this show, a different artist covered the same song for every season. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:20:31 So every season, there was a different version of Run with us. When darkness falls, leading chattels in the night, don't be afraid, wipe that fear, It's a desperate love Keeps on driving you wrong Don't be afraid You're not alone You can run for us We've got everything you need
Starting point is 00:21:40 It fucking rules I want the raccoon's soundtrack on vinyl man I did some noodling on the Wikipedia Oh, shit. Would you find out? Well, apparently Cyril Sneer kind of warms up as the show goes along. Oh, cowards. And it's more like, I got to help my son figure out how to take over my vast fortune. Like, run the show. Come on, boy.
Starting point is 00:22:02 And he, like, kind of, you know, you kind of, like, grew to live with, like, not live with, but like, accept, tolerate the raccoon. Did he ever go to the condominium to hang out? I don't know, but I bet he did. He probably, I bet there's an episode where it ends. with him bringing over some pizzas or something? Well, this episode ends quite bizarrely, so we'll get there. So anyway, so, like, the serial
Starting point is 00:22:24 sneer finds out his son, like, he goes into his, he barges into his room, like, he's going to catch his son looking at porn. And what's going out of here? Oh, you're just sitting at your desk, okay. But this guy's been, like, he's, this little kid, who sounds like Jerry Lewis as the nutty professor, has been, like, writing this dossier. And now, he's also naked, right?
Starting point is 00:22:40 He's a college age, apparently. He's a college graduate. What? Wait, no, he's a graduate. student. Here's the thing is the early 80s we didn't like little kids. We wanted like 20 to 30 year old people to look up to.
Starting point is 00:22:54 You know what I mean? Everyone lives in apartments and graduated college and have starter jobs. None of those little furry protagonists in this movie are kids? No, they're all like 30. They're all just kind of limited in this. They're probably like 25. It's very bizarre. I mean, the original title of this show is 30-somethings
Starting point is 00:23:10 raccoons. Would be raccoon 30-somethings? Yeah, the trials and travails of. but so he's like oh my son's trying to take me down he's working with these raccoons wow i'm proud of you for trying to overthrow me as i imagine donald trump said to donald trump junior one day just like uh saddam and uday yeah but then he's like uh by the way i'm gonna throw you in the dungeon so this kid's in like a sex dungeon for a little bit and like the raccoons catch word of it and they're like oh our friends in a dungeon or whatever like we're gonna
Starting point is 00:23:46 storm this dude's castle. This is all the pilot episode of the raccoons. The condo not featured. Storming a castle and a balloon? Yeah, sure. That's in here. And they, like, fucking raid this dude's house. It's like where eagles dare.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Much shorter run time. Yeah. And way worse. And they, like, they break this dude out and whatnot. There's some sort of explosive thing that happens. Or they blow the door. all this gunpowder for some reason oh I guess it gets explained at the end
Starting point is 00:24:20 sort of well it's all for the plan yeah they keep the plan and it's weird because they keep like referring to it as the plan it's like fucking Battlestar Galactica you know what I mean it's very cultish like the bear there's a bear that they hang out with or no is it the sheep dog the sheep dog
Starting point is 00:24:35 gets like he gets word from the castle from one of their men on the inside and he's like oh no looks like the plans had a setback little buddies and you're just like what in the world is this plan? And so then it's like we're going to escape the castle with this little bugger in tow,
Starting point is 00:24:53 this college graduate son. Thank you. He's got a degree. And in what? Like probably hotel management. Yeah, I mean, what else are you going to do? And so then like this dude is like giving chase with the pigs on the motorcycle. Like they all escaped by hot air balloon
Starting point is 00:25:11 and he's like, after that balloon in this. motorcycle. There is, I will admit, kind of a funny gag here with this motorcycle where like the pig gets on and he's like, all right, get him. And he's like, oh, geez, do you have the keys boss? And then it like cuts back to the dudes in the balloon. And then it cuts back. And the pigs like putting gas in the motorcycle back to the balloon, back to these guys. The pigs filling up a tire. And then they finally get on the road. Kind of a funny gag. It's a fine cartoon gag. I agree. Sure. It's a fine cartoon. Well, let's not get nuts. And so, like, they chase after him. And this is, like, this is the day new mall. Like, here we are. There's this, like, the motorcycle, like, runs into this box and this whole thing explodes.
Starting point is 00:25:57 And the box blows off. And there's just this birthday cake. And I'm like, oh, now, how is this part of the plan? This doesn't have anything to do with... That's where the bomb is, kid. Get out of here. I was going to say, this doesn't have anything to do with the total execution of this Ardvarc family. It's a dirty box.
Starting point is 00:26:13 There's nails in there, shrapnel. But then it just turns out that the plan was making a birthday cake for this ardvark that they all hate. Aw, it's sweet. Yeah, it was a surprise party. What a bunch of horse shit. Ardvark raccoon shit. Doesn't that just warm your heart, though? No, it confuses me.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Well, also, don't talk about it like it's a terrorist plot. Yeah. If it's just a surprise party. Well, he didn't know that. Those pigs gave him the wrong intel. You're blaming this on Huey-Dooy and Hoggy? Oh, my God. Do those pigs get hug at the end of this episode, do you think?
Starting point is 00:26:50 Oh, guarantee. We're having bacon tonight, boys. You're baking on that birthday cake? It's also awesome because... It's getting their throats cut, blood everywhere, and they're frying their bodies up. Oh, I'd love that. All set to that song.
Starting point is 00:27:10 The rest of the score kind of sounds like fair. Family Ties-esque music. Yeah. Also totally fine with it. Oh, yeah. Completely fine with all of this. So awesome. The music.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Nothing else. Were you embarrassed watching this? I was a little bit. I kind of wish it was just those three raccoons, like smoking weed and watching like the rabbit equivalent of Michael Fossbender movies or whatever they would do. Like, you know what I mean? Just kind of hanging out.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Talking about anatomy. Having a bohemian. Having a bohemian. lifestyle. I'd be into that show. Not so much this one. Oh my God. Yeah. Kind of because it reminded me of my childhood, so I wanted to start cutting again.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Yeah. I don't know. I don't know that I was embarrassed. I was just more confused by why this was made. It was one of those like, who's this for? What's the timing of this? Sure. It's just like cribbing so many other cartoons. It was kind of like the cartoon boom of the 80s.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Yeah. Yeah. The thing that's annoying that we didn't mention, and hopefully they dropped it in later episodes, because again, we're talking about the pilot. There's like this narrator. Oh, yeah. That's just like not even trying to do... Burl lives. No, but that's the thing.
Starting point is 00:28:27 He's not even trying to do a Burl Lives. It's just like, well, hey, I'm Greg, and I'm going to tell you the story about the raccoons. Here's the Evergreen Forest, and this is where the raccoons live. And then the last episode it reveals who Greg marries and who your father is, or mother
Starting point is 00:28:43 artist. Oh, yeah. I met your mother, yeah. Yeah. Turned out. How I met your raccoon. I married the raccoon with the huge rack you've been watching for five seasons. Pretty cool, huh?
Starting point is 00:28:58 Greg, you drew this raccoon with an normally large breast, and by that I mean breasts at all. What is cool? You're all right, pal? Hey, this is my show. I'm going to draw it my way. I'm going to narrate it my way. See, in the 80s, it didn't seem weird.
Starting point is 00:29:14 But I agree with you now. There should be at least like crotch cleavage of men. Yeah. Like a little pouch in their jeans or whatever. Give them a little jeans with a little pouch. Your little raccoon jeans you're wearing. Sure. There's something spiraled in those jeans.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Speaking of Michael Foss better movies. That's animation damnation. The cartoon was the raccoons. The episode, season one, episode one, surprise attack. from 1985. Thank you to, who was it from the UK? Steve, who's drinking a beer? Dave.
Starting point is 00:29:48 Dave from the UK for writing in. Yes, with a U. Yes, UK with a U. Oh, Dave with a U. Yeah, you got that Dave with a U. Everything's got a you there. It's magical. It's a magical land.
Starting point is 00:30:00 For more episodes of Animation Damnation, visit WHMpodcast.com. Until next time. I've got the next episode of Animation Damination. Oh, shit. What is the next series we'll be covering? Okay. The Centurial.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Oh, the centurion. That's three dudes who act like Ironman for no reason. Air land in the sea. We talked about the show. Oh, so is this the Avengers then? Until April with the Centurions, I'm Andrew Jupin. Steven Seda. Eric Siska.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Take it easy. Thank you. Thank you.

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