We Hate Movies - S6: Animation Damnation #28 - X-Men

Episode Date: June 2, 2016

On this episode of Animation Damnation the guys break down what is, without question, the absolute worst episode of the X-Men animated series, "Jubilee's Fairy Tale Theater." Originally airing Novembe...r 16th, 1996, the episode showcases Jubilee's secret mutant power: telling garbage stories. After getting a group of school children trapped in a cave-in, Jubilee distracts them from their impending deaths by spinning a fantasy yarn where she's a magical elf, Wolverine is a troll, Gambit is a Robin Hood-esque creep, and Magneto leads an army of walking, talking suits of armor. All this because stupid Xavier had to go meet with the President!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, like, So, like, Batman, the animated series aside, is this the best superhero cartoon theme song of all time? Oh, yeah. I mean, it might, I think you even try. drums the Batman. Is that right? Because the Batman theme song is just the Danny Elfman thing. Right. It's already been established, whereas this one is
Starting point is 00:00:37 unique to this show. It's Bada-B-da-B-B-da-B-B-B-A-X-Men. X-Men. They're doing stuff. It gets you pumped as fuck to watch a stupid 20-minute cartoon. I'll tell you that. I guess so. Welcome to Animation Damnation. I'm Andrew Jupin
Starting point is 00:00:55 alongside Stephen Sadek, Eric Ciske, and Sean Weiner. We are continuing our little X-Men athon. And we're talking about, of course, X-Men, the animated series. The episode in question, Jubilee's fairy tale theater, original air date, November 15th, 1996. So this is a little divergence from the animation damnation theme, which is like trying to choose stuff that's emblematic of the series, like, oh, this is an episode that kind of gets you an idea of what the show is. This is like the nadir of what I think is a pretty okay cartoon or a pretty good cartoon. And it's like totally off-brand.
Starting point is 00:01:32 It's nonsense. It's like one of the worst things I've ever seen. It's so stupid. And this is, it's the fifth and final season of this show. It's like the fifth or sixth episode. There's not much left to go. And you're, you're running on fumes, man.
Starting point is 00:01:44 It's all it reminds me of, it's one of my most hated episodes of the Simpsons, which is that Simpsons Tall Tales episode. Oh, yeah. Where it's like, I don't even know what the situation is, but it's like the Simpsons in Tall Tales. Yeah. And it's just so that, I feel.
Starting point is 00:01:59 feel that episode exists solely so that they can make a Paul Bunyan's big dick fucking marge joke at the end of it like that's what that thing is because it's... I'd like to see that because it's like... I'll wait 23 minutes for that. Yeah, I'm sure there's some
Starting point is 00:02:16 fan art that you could find about that. You know what I mean? People who want to fuck the Simpsons or watch the Simpsons fucking... That's insane. It's the lowest and every time I'm on a slightly dubious. website, that's always in the right hand corners. Like, hey,
Starting point is 00:02:33 you want to watch fucking the family guy, people fuck each other? No. I'm like, A, no, they're a family, and B, no. Brian's getting in on it. Oh, come on. Exactly. It's like, I went to, I tried to go to my friend's Deviant Art page because he's doing cool stuff with
Starting point is 00:02:49 graffiti filters. What's that Peter and Lois fucking in front of the kids? Okay, the internet. Thanks a bunch, technological, I'm sorry for whatever happened of that person It's like oh I want to see Last Night's Game of Thrones
Starting point is 00:03:07 Slightly illegally oh cool Here comes fucking Homer like Getting it on with Lisa or whatever The fuck internet Yeah This is this series And I'm by the way I don't do that I've never stolen a file or anything
Starting point is 00:03:22 Like that No we yeah that no Legal means HBO now exists for a reason I have the same experience with The Simpsons as I do with X-Men, which is like, I'm a lever. Like when the show's starting to go down, I just like, the end of, I'm like,
Starting point is 00:03:44 well, that wasn't as good of a season. I'm out. I don't want to see it fall apart. I don't want to have all the things I love about this thing ruined. I'm just going to pretend it was three seasons and we're done. Yeah, yeah. And like, I don't really have a memory of this cartoon, like, going downhill, but like here we are.
Starting point is 00:04:00 This is Jubilee with a bunch of kids stuck in a cave and she's telling them a fucking fairy tale where like Wolverine's a troll and all she's like a magic elf. It's not like you're telling like a classic story. This is just like make it up as you go along kind of Lord of the Rings-esque, right? Yeah, because she's like in peril.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Apparently there's some field trip coming to the Xavier compound of normal kids which get out of my school. Yeah, I didn't know Charles Xavier. you're catered to Normos. And, you know, the X-Men are, it's your classic, like, bad episode of a television show where everyone's doing something more exciting, but they say goodbye. You're not going to see that. And, like, Jubilee is a cool character.
Starting point is 00:04:44 Like, I'm not, I'm a fan of Jubilee, but, like, this is just a bad episode for her. What is her superpowers? Like, sparks, like, fireworky sparks. Yeah. Shoot out of her hands. Let's say theoretically. Her real name, by the way, in case you were wondering, Eric, is Jubilation. Her parents were flower children.
Starting point is 00:05:02 So if she got stuck somewhere, maybe she could use these powers in some way to help her. Yeah, it just sort of buzz them sometimes, but not in a way that's effective to solve the conflict of the story. Right. So basically, yeah, so she takes these kids down to some, I guess, a cave underneath the school. There's caverns underneath this mansion, which I was like, news to me. Backheads down there. Terrible foundation. They get caved in
Starting point is 00:05:30 And like This is where Professor Xavier's family Helped with the Underground Railroad Or something I actually believe that that's maybe somewhere Oh that would make sense Yeah Oh yeah
Starting point is 00:05:42 Somebody's written that Yeah And it's very like It's Captain Planet Times right This is like the 90s Everything is like Environmentalism should be there Yep
Starting point is 00:05:52 We should always be teaching children Yep The children should look like A United Colors of Benaton ad It's all very Like it really felt like a time capsule for me It's like I remember this Well it's funny you say Captain Planet
Starting point is 00:06:04 Because the animation style changed this season versus the other seasons for whatever reason Like yeah I know this is a way I'm getting deep now But like the earlier episodes Like look like the theme song Where it's that kind of stiff animation But it looked really similar to the comics
Starting point is 00:06:18 And how they were drawn Which I love because it would be like Let's go X-Men And they just like robotically Stifely walk away But this is more fluid, but also just looks more Captain Planet to me, like even the animation stuff. I mean, just saying, it looks shittier. It looks much, much shittier.
Starting point is 00:06:35 It looks like they fired. They're like, you know what, do we really need Roger to be leading this animation department? He makes the most money. Just cut him. I'm sure Cliff can handle it. This is what you get. Cliff fucking blew it hard, man. So she stuck and to pass the time and to like, these kids start getting nervous and she's like, oh, man, I'm going to kill all these kids.
Starting point is 00:06:53 We're all going to hell tonight. She's like, I'll tell them. a story to take their mind off which is kind of the framing device. But like these kids are like 14. They'd be like, hey, ladies, shut up. We're stuck at a mind. Yeah, we know what a cave-in is. We saw it happen. Don't tell me it didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:07:08 How about you some of your crazy powers? Yep. To do something. But mostly it's just a situation of her being like, we're going to die. I'm not going to tell anybody. Okay, kids, here we go. Well, that's what's awesome. To think about the rabbits, Lenny. Blam. She keeps like
Starting point is 00:07:26 walking away from them to check on the grave situation she's like uh hang out for a second oh let's see how this caven's doing yep still stuck okay nothing to see here kids back to this tail i've been spinning and then like water starts coming and it's like oh this is getting worse
Starting point is 00:07:43 anyway but so the story is and like the idea is like Jubilee is kind of a marginal character in these episodes and she's always the spunky teen sidekick so now it's her turn to tell a story where she's kind of like Robin Hood, I guess, and Magneto is running some fake medieval land with robots.
Starting point is 00:08:03 Yeah, there's robots. So Magneto and this becomes Magnus, who's like this evil lord or whatever. And yeah, he's just got these sentinel-esque robots that it kind of doesn't make sense. Because there's one point where the robots like holding Jubilee and he's like, you know, don't worry about it. Our leader Magnus will come or something like that. And she's like, well, if you're so sure about this, why are you so? nervous and I'm like how's a robot
Starting point is 00:08:28 nervous? It's clearly a robot and gambits in it and this is like the worst of all Gambit like Jesus it's terrible Is his accent that bad throughout I think they might have changed voice actors Because it's really bad It's so bad I don't know I think this might be
Starting point is 00:08:47 A case of we were dumb kids Yeah I think you're right It's just like a it's like a stuffy Paul Perdome the whole thing Oh Garibamba Garib guarantee. Also, he's talking about himself in the third person all the time. Yeah. He and and I
Starting point is 00:09:02 mean I understand like Louisiana French is different but my mother's French and when I heard this today when I was watching the episode all I could think about is my mother watching her child watching this like shitty French stereotype and having to like
Starting point is 00:09:18 bite her tongue on how fucking offensive that is. I was like this poor woman gave me everything even her pride. But it's not even it's just bad French at that thing. Yeah, it is. Well, it's also just weird too. Like, so the beginning of the episode is Xavier Wolverine
Starting point is 00:09:34 and Gambit have a meeting with the president they have to get to. And it's so awesome because like fucking, I almost called him Patrick Stewart but Professor Xavier is just like, well, I'm sorry Jubilee. I'd be giving this tour of the caverns if it weren't for the
Starting point is 00:09:50 fact that the president was calling. And she's like, well, why can't one of these other dickheads do it? And like, Gambits get on the plane and he turns around and he's like oh sorry Petty I have to go I'm not good with kids and I was like you're just your nickname for her is small
Starting point is 00:10:05 that's fucking gross dude it gets grosser this so this is a fantasy that exists in Jubilee's mind it's her fantasy it's her fantasy where in the king and like and like here's the thing like
Starting point is 00:10:18 it's cool that she in her fantasy and a medieval fantasy she's not like a wayfish princess waiting to be saved she's an adventurer sure And she's an elf for some reason. Sure. Well, because Fereng Gully was big recently. And you put elf ears at Jubilee.
Starting point is 00:10:32 You got the protagonist in Ferengali. For some reason, Scott and Gene are the king and queen of this land. And Wolverine's a troll, which amounts to the guy doing the Wolverine voice, putting, like, I guess, gum in his mouth. I guarantee you it's Dracula Tees. He's got some 99 cents store Dracula teeth in his mouth. he's recording this dialogue. Oh, by the way, Steve Bloom did that voice in case anyone was wondering. I wasn't.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Is that someone of note? No, not at all. He did the Wolverine voice, Eric. He's of note to me. Noted. But, yeah, and, like, he's a troll, and Gambit is, like, this sexy adventurer, and, like... He's, like, the Kevin Costner of the situation. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:11:18 And, like, everyone's like, oh, Jubilee, you're so cool. Oh, man, Jubilee. And, like, Gambit's, like, attracted to her, right? Like that's, I'm not making that off. I think that both her and Wolverine are attracted to her in this, like, he's a troll, so that would be not okay. But this child story ends with a potential three-way happen. Oh, yes, it does. They walk off into the sunset.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Many of them do. Yeah, like, basically that they start a poly family together. Like they're all holding hands. Yeah. Because she's offered that Princess Wayfish life at the end, and they're like, okay, so now. you'll learn all the rules. And she's like, but I don't want rules. I want two men in my life and I want to live in the woods.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Which is very progressive for this. Yeah. But also like she also kind of strangely wants Scott and Gene to be her mom and dad too. It's a bit psychologically dark, I feel. Yeah, well, you know, Jubilee's a damaged person. The kids
Starting point is 00:12:18 wanted a story. What they got was like the shattered glimpse of this mind of Jubilee. everything she's dealing with on the daily. I love like they keep cutting back and the kids are just crying. And she's like, what? This is how it is.
Starting point is 00:12:35 This is reality. Grow up. And then her family dies. And then all of her friends stop calling her. And it's like, wait, what? And then she starts thinking, were my friends just my friends? Because they liked my parents.
Starting point is 00:12:49 And the kids are pretty creepy as well, though, because you got these like two, these twins who's talking unison and for a show that we've just now been saying it's like progressive in certain elements when they go through and they're like I'm going to tell you a story the kids like the boys are like
Starting point is 00:13:05 about nights and fighting and then the girl's like about a princess and love and you're like okay got it and then like the water is creeping and it's like yeah yeah both all that shit and then we go into this really awful turnpagy
Starting point is 00:13:19 montage that's so terrible looking Gumbie walks out Holy shit This story is terrible That girl's messed up Skate away I'm gonna go and do a western book
Starting point is 00:13:37 And then Xavier pops out Basically as Peewee Herman's mirror I guess It's Jombie was I thought it was a little jambi-esque also Yeah he comes out He's like the all-knowing whatever Is that because he's a white man
Starting point is 00:13:52 wearing a turban? Is that why you guys are labeling it that way? Yeah, pretty much. Great. That's what the cartoons telling me to do. Whatever. Sabretooth shows up for a second. That's a fun of this. The fun of this world is that we get to see every character in what they would be in this
Starting point is 00:14:08 shitty world. Yeah. And so like, they all kind of make perfect sense. But the saber tooth one is uniquely terrible because he's got like this side braid rat tail rocket. Yeah. He, they somehow managed to make white trash exist in this world.
Starting point is 00:14:24 My question, now we're on Sabretooth and speaking on like the vocal acting and stuff, the voice acting rather, did Sabretooth always sound like David Johansson on this cartoon? Yeah, he kind of does. It's so weird. He's, oh, hey, everybody. Oh, dig that Wolverine. Get over
Starting point is 00:14:40 here, you little piece of shit. And you're just like, all right. It's a really specific voice. It's like locates him not just to like the borough of Brooklyn, but it's exact. that intersection. Yeah, you can pinpoint this fucking saber team points. You can Google Maps.
Starting point is 00:14:58 You can Shazam that voice and Google Maps that location. Wolverine also, not for nothing, looks like Blanca as this troll. Because it's like a jacked troll. And he's green. It looks, I mean, to be honest, this cartoon might be better than that Warcraft movie that's about. Oh, R-I-P-D Duncan Jokes. Why did he make this? There's nothing I was looking forward to more
Starting point is 00:15:22 than the next Duncan Jones thing And I was like this He's made two awesome science fiction movies And the whole time I'm looking at this movie coming out I'm thinking there has to be something I'm not seeing There's something And if there is fucking good for you Duncan Jones Because you fooled us all the way there
Starting point is 00:15:38 Now what is with that movie The character design is insanely awful And I was wondering is he just being too beholden to the source material? Probably I guess And that's what like a computer computer game? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:51 I don't know anything about Wow, right? It's Word of Warcraft. An M-M-O-P-O-R-G or whatever that's called? Yeah, an L-M-N-O-P-L-L-R-G or whatever that's called. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Yeah, that's right. Eric and I connected. So it's one of them like... Stockin and Malone of weird shit. I've never played Warcraft, though. It's just, that's one of them things where, like, you can log in and you're your own little character and there's other people. Correct.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Oh, actually, speaking of the worst Simpsons episodes I've ever seen, it was one of those, like, I'll check back on the Simpsons. Always a bad move. Always a bad move. When you should have stopped watching the Simpsons, I'll see what they're up to. And it was an episode where Marge is playing Warcraft.
Starting point is 00:16:29 And very similar to this, everyone's in a medieval setting. God damn, that sucks. It just fucking sucks. It just speaks to, again, the X-Men writers were out of ideas. They were out, like, I don't know. Maybe someone, like, has a dream and everything's different. Isn't that kind of fun? Everyone's put on fun out fits.
Starting point is 00:16:46 Remember that, like, that Easter one where they were, the Simpsons were, Bible stories Oh Simpson's Bible stories Yeah it's the same shit Yeah I don't like that You guys don't remember how in the 90s Like in the early aught Every show had an intern writing day
Starting point is 00:17:03 Every season is like Today the interns get to occupy the writer's room That's what these are Fucking take your kid to work day man Jesus Christ I drew this cartoon of Jubilee telling these kids By the way Jubilee dies at the end We'll change the ending
Starting point is 00:17:19 but I love the idea. So they like in the story world, they like go and storm, you know, Magnus's castle and whatnot. And we're just fighting more tiny sentinels. But it's also weird. It's psychologically sad because everyone's just like stopping and being like, Jubilee, you're so great.
Starting point is 00:17:37 And it's like, oh man, this girl's poor life. Like it's all like, oh man, we love Jubilee. Let's all hang out with Jubilee. Yeah. Actually, I think they're not robots, right? They're kind of enchanted suits of art. Yeah, I think you're... Oh, is that the deal?
Starting point is 00:17:51 Because you can see through them. They float. Yeah, I think we're taking the magneto power to be just magic, man. Oh, I see. Like a different kind of magic. But it still makes some sense because they're still metal. Yeah, exactly. There's a small little thread there.
Starting point is 00:18:05 It's still canon. Right, Steve? Yeah, no, it's all canon. Who's the Weasley guy with the mustache? Is that morph? Who are we dealing with a... It's like a... There's a rat sitting in a tree, spying on them.
Starting point is 00:18:18 Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. And then it explodes into a cloud. And he's like, sneak up on the Magnus. Man, I don't think so. Only time we see him. Is he towed maybe? But he turned into something.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Oh, did he? It has to be morph, I think. It's weird. It's just a guy with like a John Waters mustache. It's John Waters. He turns into a rat to see all the dirty stuff. Get some ideas for his movies. This is gross.
Starting point is 00:18:45 I remember, I mean, again, this show larger. they did the first episode and Morf gets killed at the end of it and then there was like a year long hiatus and then the rest of the show came on that was a crazy time in my life wasn't the first episode of this show where Wolverine is
Starting point is 00:19:03 clearly Australian is that this one no that's a different one there was an 80s X-Men cartoon called the Pride of the X-Men which was like basically the same thing with Jubilee What a weird name is Jubilee The Kitty Pride of the X-Men
Starting point is 00:19:15 Yeah kitty pride in Jubilee's role and Wolverine's just, like, incredibly Australian for no reason. Yeah, that's a fucking stay tuned in a half. I think he calls Cybertooth a dingo at one point. I'm not even kidding you. You call somebody a dingo. Isn't Wolverine in some areas, like, supposed to actually be Japanese in somewhere,
Starting point is 00:19:35 or is that not in there? Not, not, not, not, not. I remember, like, a lot. Not my X-Men, God, dammit. Not my Wolverine. Hashtag, not my Wolverine. A lot of those wizard projections, I remember.
Starting point is 00:19:47 one time they like projected an X-Men cast and they had like this Japanese guy passes and I was like oh okay and I thought for some reason I mean he hangs out in Japan enough well it was way back when it was like and Toshiro Mofune as Wolverine exactly well and he
Starting point is 00:20:02 maybe he went off to train in Japan and much like Sean Connery as James Bond decided to get plastic surgery and turned into a Japanese you gotta Japanify me for a little bit so I can confuse fucking blowfeld he thinks I'm dead so you turn me into a Japanese.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Make a bar is can you put a little mascara on Mr. Conner and we'll move forward. That was enough for them. Get me the spark stuff without the ears. Oh, wait, do they have the ears? I haven't seen a Japanese in quite
Starting point is 00:20:31 a while. Whatever. I mean, this thing, she's kind of like waiting for everyone to save her and then they do. And like these kids are... In the real world.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Yes, and the kids are eating this shit up. I mean, like, in the fake world, like she foils Magneto and everyone's like oh well you know and she you know basically goes off to start this little relationship I guess yeah I mean there's a weird part in they have they break into this chamber
Starting point is 00:20:58 and it's I mean it's some stupid thing where they're trying to like unite this Jewel that's been split apart the McTaggart Jewel oh is that right? Oh yeah fuck that's dumb there's a part where like so Magnus like comes in and he's like
Starting point is 00:21:12 oh here's a spell and like Wolverine gets like stuck in clay And it's this Wolverine with like white sticky shit all over him And I'm like whatever kid's show Just keep doing it And then like Jubilee like throws like a bunch of fireworks at this magnus And then like the fucking goop goes off a wolverine And slams into him and all the suits of armor slam into him
Starting point is 00:21:35 And she keeps like shooting him And the transition is weird because she's like blowing this thing up And then it's like the real world of blowing a hole in the cavern Or whatever like that's their transition And again, like, to what Eric said at the beginning, like, just do that from the start. Blast a fucking hole in the wall and save ourselves telling this dumb story. There's a real like film school student like transition thing going on because earlier they do another one of those like, did you see that transition? Where like rocks fall down and then the world transitions and you see the rocks fall down at present day.
Starting point is 00:22:10 And you're like, it's an animation. Like it's not as impressive when you just draw. than when you shoot that thing, you know? I mean, it's amazing. And there's a great Professor Xavier line at the end. So, like, they're all saved and whatever. These kids are getting back on the bus to go back to their school or whatever. And they're like, oh, Jubilee, tell us your stories later.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Like, they're so into this fucking bullshit tale. And it's awesome. Like, right after they say that, they have Xavier, like, tilt his head. And he goes, story? And I'm like, you're the most powerful psychic in the world. Slash, why didn't you put the president's conversation? conversation on pause and go help these kids. You fucking dickhead.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Is there a Mary Sue in this story? Sounds like fan fiction to me, Trubilee. I mean, she actually, to your point, Eric, she's kind of a Mary Sue in this story. As I've learned. And she,
Starting point is 00:23:06 like, for that last shot, she, because it's like mirroring her walking away with her two bows. Right. Her fantasy, when she walks away with Gambit and troll varee. How did we not get troll-verid in this fucking clip? Why did they say that? But they try to mirror it, but it's so awkward and weird, and it's such a first idea that you're like, no, don't do that.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Because it's her alone kind of like, not skipping, but like just being like, yes, yes, yes, me all the way into the distance. Yeah, and she's like doing backflips and they're like, oh, she'll be the best of us all, I guess. Well, that's what she will be the death of us. It's kind of shitty because at, like, the very end of this, like, the real world part of it is Xavier and Scott and Wolverine or whoever's standing there. And they're like, wow, I guess she's been ready to be an ex-man the whole time. And Xavier's like, well, good, that's probably a promotion or whatever it is. And in the back of my head, I'm like, this show's got like six episodes left. It's not going to be a promotion for long, man.
Starting point is 00:24:11 Six episodes from now, there's a final episode. called Graduation Day. She also just nearly killed seven kids. That's not grads for promotion. Well, they've got Gene Gray, again, just like speaking to kids' things, like she's so, she's so blown away by the possibility that Jubilee
Starting point is 00:24:30 could have kept this situation under control. She's like, Professor, I don't get it. I'm not sensing any of the, you know, terror waves that these kids should have felt by being stuck in a cavern. Like, how are they not fearing for their lives. Well, I guess she's just that good of a storyteller.
Starting point is 00:24:48 I guess Gene Gray was waiting for those terror waves. Oh, yeah, I feed off of scared kids. If she's that good of a storyteller, she should write a book. I would like to hear more. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. So you were just like those kids, huh? You were hanging on to every word?
Starting point is 00:25:06 Now that I've heard the word troll vareen. No, now I see there's value in this. It's also like a pretty, that's a pretty good famous author name. Jubilation Lee. Oh, yeah. I feel like that's generally what you hear. Totally. Like Juno Diaz, Jubilation Lee.
Starting point is 00:25:22 These all fell right together. Do you see Jubilation Lee's going to be at the Union Square Barnes & Noble? Reading from her latest yarn spin? It's called yarn spin. It's setting in a fairy tale barnyard. Oh, there would be like a, a, a, I, a gruff, angry pig called Hogverine.
Starting point is 00:25:47 But they compare it to Georgia Orwell's animal father. Oh, yeah. Every single book she puts out, there's something varine. Benvarine. That was weird. Benverine was uncharacteristically just angry
Starting point is 00:26:02 and mean to people. Smoking cigars. I liked her book about the New England Patriots with Shane Verine. That was a lot of fun. Was anybody embarrassed watching this? This one, yes. Very much so. But I, these are all on Hulu and actually those first couple of seasons are a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:26:23 I mean, like, those early X-Men cartoons are kind of just like motion comics, you know what I mean? Like you get the Dark Phoenix saga there, truncated, you get like truncated versions of this and that. And it's like, oh, that's kind of fun. But this one, this is the worst episode of the series. Yeah, sure. I don't know that I'm convinced. Well, I guess, yeah. I mean, I was never really into the show.
Starting point is 00:26:48 I only saw a handful of them. So, well, I'm, you know, I don't know how embarrassed I am, but, yeah, whatever. I think for me, like I said, I'm a lever, and so I wish I never knew this exists. Because I left the show. I shouldn't know these things exist. What's weird is, I mean, I didn't know. I wasn't embarrassed, like, because it reminded me of how much I liked the show. This was like my fucking Fox afternoon, man.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Because even as a little kid, you guys, like, I didn't read comics. So this was my way into the X-Men. This is all, until that first Brian Singer movie, this is how I knew the X-Men. But this is the same. For me, I started watching this cartoon and then realized executioner's song was coming out. That's how I started watching comic books was from this thing. So this, I think, is like the seed to a lot of our superhero. The thing about this is, like, I saw this sometimes growing up, and I was never that into it, never really watched it.
Starting point is 00:27:41 And I always kind of regretted that. I always felt like I lost something there. And then I saw this episode. I was like, no, I was right. See, that's why this is a bad entry point. Because, I mean, I'm psyched. I didn't know until this morning that this was all on Hulu. Oh, yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:27:55 It's just been waiting for me. So I'm going to, like, go back and check this out. But what sucks is when I went into this, like, fifth season on Hulu, and they always start with, like, the last episode first. And I saw the title was graduation day. And I was like, I remember watching that episode. Oh, really? But so then I was like, have I seen this fucking fairy tale thing?
Starting point is 00:28:14 And I just totally blocked it out because I was like, Steve, this is about what? Okay. And I mean, yeah, it's a series low point. But like this was like childhood coming back and I was like, get the tall glasses of water ready. Oh, yeah. Here we go. And then they had, what was that? There was the show after this that they did.
Starting point is 00:28:34 A Wolverine and the X-Men or there was a, oh, no, X-Men evolution. Evolution, yeah. There's been a couple X-Men cartoons after this. and evolution was closer to the movies. It was like, oh, the movies. But now it's like on TV, but not really good. Yeah, that's how they get you.
Starting point is 00:28:50 I mean, I'm sure people that are younger than me grew up with that show and that's their thing. You know what I mean? But I was just, I was like 17 when that came out. And you see them. Like, I remember when that Spider-Man cartoon came out, I remember not being on that, but knowing that people were going to love that.
Starting point is 00:29:05 And then, like, you see like that the future Batman one. Oh, Batman Beyond. Batman Beyond. which is like a legitimately good show I just never got into it yeah so it's like hashtag not my Batman
Starting point is 00:29:16 yeah not my Batman that's animation damnation for the month of May if you want more AD or WHM Prime check out WHM podcast dot com until next month I'm Andrew Jupin Steven Zeta
Starting point is 00:29:30 Eric Siska Sean Winer take it easy Thank you.

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