We Hate Movies - S6: Animation Damnation #29 - Street Fighter

Episode Date: June 23, 2016

On this episode of Animation Damnation the gang chats about a horrible cartoon failure--the Street Fighter series! The episode in question, "Getting to Guile," originally aired November 4th, 1995. What was with that USA Network cartoon block? Why is E. Honda a hacker here? And why is the animation on the fight scenes so terrible? PLUS: Brainwashed into being best friends with M. Bison?Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know, right, You know, right before we went on the air, I said, let's talk about this stupid cartoon. and I think that's a great way to describe this. Yeah, it's a dumb cartoon. It's about as stupid as it gets. You're a dumb cartoon. Well, that's obviously true. I've been called as much on the internet several times over the last six years.

But the question I wanted to raise, is this the worst cartooned video game adaptation? Ooh, that's tough. It's real tough because there's a couple of them. I got to see the rest of the evidence. Well, so I'm talking like, well, we did that Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. That was pretty good. With Urkel? Yeah, that's a well.

made cartoon that and that in the dark one there was a light one in the dark one the dark one was better what are you talking about there's two sonic cartoons one was very lighthearted and then there's a kind of a more of a mature darker Sonic yeah I think Jal White did go like yeah yeah yeah it was like

yeah it was like both of them yeah and it was like Sonic SVU like he was solving all sorts of Sonic related sex crimes hedgehog sex crimes they found seaman in her Sonic Welcome to Animation Damnation. I'm Andrew Juppin alongside Stephen Sadek, Eric Siska, and our special guest, Mr. Vinnie Bresco.

How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, guys. Of course. This episode is about the Street Fighter animated series. The episode we'll try to talk about is entitled Getting to Gile, original air date November the 4th, 1995. He's already laughing at the title of the episode. Just getting to Gile.

They got to him, right. And what's also is Getting to Gile, it's the third episode of this show. Just getting right into kidnapping the fucking main character. When did this come out? I guess the movie came out. I just said November 4th, 1995.

Oh, yeah, I zone out front of the start of the show. I apologize. I'll make my intros a little more upbeat for you to pay attention. Thank you. The movie was, what, 95 as well, right? The movie was 94. 94. Okay, so the movie was a raging failure.

And they were like, oh. I can't see why. I think that's why this was on the USA. Network? Like, if the movie did better, it would be on, like, ABC in the morning block. Oh, 100%. This was deemed, like, not good enough for network television. But I forgot ABC, or rather USA Network, had that block of, like, cartoons. Shitty cartoons.

Yes, bad cartoons. There was, like, a name for that block, though. I don't remember what it was. Shitty Cartoon. Oh, USA Network's shitty cartoon block. Welcome back to our shit block. You just tuned out of our Pacific Blue Marathon. Now it's time to tune into shitty cartoon block.

That's like the second time I've brought up Pacific Blue in the last like three weeks. Because we keep talking about the USA Network. I was so confused by the show because I've never seen it. I never heard of it, honestly. Pacific Blue, me neither. No, for some reason that's in my brain. God, I've seen so much Pacific Blue or Street Fight. I don't even know anymore.

Is that bicycle cops? It was Mario Lopez and bicycle cops. Oh, yeah. It sucked. The only reason I knew about that was because it was always like Monday Night Raw would happen. They were like Pacific Blue is coming on. I swear to God. It would be murder she wrote.

Monday at Raw. And when you say murder she wrote You mean five hours of murder I watched the shit out of murder she wrote They had nothing during the day So they had something No but this I don't remember it because But when I saw it was a USA cartoon

It was like oh that's why it's terrible Like uh huh oh well kind of also piggybacked off Of like Captain Planet kind of animation Because I think Captain Planet ended the year before But it's like more of it's starting to get a little anime It's no but there is I never watched this right I never watch the Street Fighter anime cartoons.

Those are supposed to be really good. Is that a thing? Why? That's a thing as well. They're supposed to be really good. They're supposed to be fantastic. Like we're making them like right now. Wait, wait.

I don't know if they're still good. They're supposed to be very good. I don't know about fantastic. I mean, that's the method you want to watch Street Fighter. Why? Because then it's like Dragon Ballsie and they're just fighting each other

and like doing Super Hedokin. And then like Hadookens and stuff make a lot more sense in that world. That's actually true. If you were to watch like, you know, the little heart guy from Captain Planet to a Hadoon. and it's kind of awkward.

Right, it doesn't make sense. So this one, yeah, like Vince said, it's very Captain Planety. I guess the beginning, you got a really smart theme song that tells you what it's about, which is Gile, they're on a street fighting tour,

but on the tour, they get into missions. And what is their code name on this mission is street fighters? They're known as streetfighter. I was like, not the street fighters. But they're also doing street fighters. Well, that's the cover. They go on like these underground fighting circuits,

but they're also doing these like covert military operations. I'm so confused. Are they street fighting or are they street fighters? They're street fighting on like the weekend, but their real job, the secret job, is like covert missions. But that's nine to five. But that's really confusing. That would be like, oh, Steve, your covert mission name is Steve.

Podcaster. Eating by yourself at a pizza. You know what I mean? Because you're like, oh, Steve, are you going to eat by yourself in a pizzeria today? I'd be like, wait, do you mean kill people or actually eat people leave on themselves in a pizzeria?

Because I'll do both. I'm planning on doing both. So this movie, I guess, is also like sort of inspired by the war, or this TV show set up by the world they make Street Fighter out of in the movie a little bit. Yeah.

But they're also pulling for like Street Fighter Alpha and Street Fighter 2 the game. And the teams in the cartoon are different than the teams in the movie. Yes. Like, because it starts switching up. They're all right, because DJ's a good guy in this cartoon. Which DJ in the game was a good guy. Like the good guy.

So this is a course correction. Yeah, in the movie, yeah, they make him a villain as portrayed by the dude who was Joanna man. Yeah, Blanca's there. He's just kind of hanging out. He's like a good guy. Like everybody, I guess Blanca's got a house somewhere. I always though Blanca was bad. Just look at him like that. He's drawn like a villain. 100%.

Also because he's a monster. And he's a monster. He's in. Okay, now, here's how you can tell who's good and who's bad, and I'm sorry the rest of the world. Okay, please. It's the Americas. Right, right?

South America and North America and everyone else can eat shit. Yeah, you're totally right. That's the way they break it up. To be fair, though, both Ryu and E. Honda are shown in this episode as good guys and they're both Japanese. That's true. That's true. We've got an alliance with Japan. We've got a couple things to make up for it in Japan.

They can be part of the street fighters. So this episode is like, Gile is kidnapped by M. Bison and these like being brainwashed a la clockwork orange, I guess, is the idea. I just thought it was a very well-made remake of the Manchurian candidate before bridging the gap between the Frank Sinatra classic and the Denzel Washington movie. Right. Right, yeah. I didn't see the Denzel one. I like it, man. That's a Jonathan Demi movie.

I think it was pretty good. Okay. Meryl Streep's know Angela Lansberry But you know So speaking of murder she wrote I like it bringing it back There you go Full circle

Yeah there it is But the thing is It starts off in like a dream state Like you don't know what's going Like again I never saw this cartoon It's like Ken Russell street fire Well people are melting Yeah

His boss turns into a werewolf That was awesome Yeah I like English werewolf That was pretty great Yeah it was awesome I don't know I've got one more mission And now I'm a werewolf I was like yeah

Yes, werewolves. I hope everyone turns into a werewolf. Your next objective is, oh, excuse me. Well, there's this great part where M. Bison asks Gail what time it is, and he has a watch on. He's like, oh, sure. And then it melts off. Yeah, that was awesome. I was having some bad flashbacks.

I was just like, no. You know, I bet Salvador Dali could have been a cool street fighter character. Oh, sure, with that mustache, dude. Oh, yeah, that could be like a special power, like it whips you. Exactly. Exactly. That top hat? He's throwing wet clocks at you. Yeah, exactly. It's just like, mustache ride. I do enjoy, I mean, we probably talked about this in the episode we haven't recorded yet.

I do enjoy announcing what you're, and this happens a lot in the, in the show, he's yelling Sonic Boom every time. Yes. He has to do a Sonic Boom. I have no problems with this. I have a problem with it because it's so much better in the video game. He says it in the video game. It's like Sonic Boom. Well, Sonic.

Saying Sonic Boom and Hadookin, those are, you know, two things. And unless I heard it wrong, at one point, Chun Lee does her, like, upside down flip kick. And she's just like, and flip kick! I was like, yeah, I got it. I see what you're doing there in a cartoon. I don't need everything telegraphed for me. The choreography, or the animation, we'll call it, whatever, is the fight scenes are horrible in this. Oh, it's awful.

They don't even show them hitting people. I'm like, why can't they just show them hitting? There's no, it's just like block animation, like people punching each other. But like bad fight choreography and live action. I get it, man. People are lazy, not everyone's a martial artist. Right. These are drawings.

Right. Make one drawing so that like contact happens with another drawing. And while we're talking about drawings, now why is everyone like this giant monster Hulk with little peanut heads? It's like a little peanut for a head. It's everybody's looking like the end of Beetlejuice. Yeah. I don't understand it. Especially, well, Giles' hair is sane as it should be in the thing.

Right, that's true to the source material. But that's not military. I mean, I guess the weird thing is he made Colonel when he, I guess he was like 22 years old. I don't, dude, I don't know about this guy, oh, guy. I'm thinking it's, this might be a case of stolen valor. Yeah, really? Ball is like he's hanging around the Far East, you know, dressed up like a militant. to a military guy wearing his hair

not to regulation. Absolutely. Dude, it's just, he's like some fucking foreign dictator that puts on a flashy jacket and he's like, now I am a general. Exactly. I know, Gail. Yeah, I think he's totally full of shit. I think it's a real Don Draper situation. Oh, yes, that's what I was thinking. Like, the thing

is like, if they go back far enough, you're like, wait, okay, now, all right, Guyle, you know, he's the leader of the street fighters and there are obviously, yeah, and they're a shadow organization of like the CIA or whatever. And then, like, you go go go go go go down that rabbit hole uh-huh it stops at guile dude it's all fucking fake no birth certificate you're saying well i'm saying it's just like a vigilante squad well because

this you're right i mean because this isn't like the u.s. military this is like some unter military like doD doesn't know anything about guy no way dude these people do not exist that would be a great twist because blanca would be in a medical bay getting his nuts cut off for like medical examination that's how that ends you're looking at a big green monster like Blanca and the first thing you're examining her his testicles? It's the first thing you do. You might as well start there, right? The second thing. The best

part about Blanca is in this episode he likes to go covert by wearing a trench coat and a top hat and he's a big green monster who talks like Dr. Claude the entire time. Well, you'd be like oh, are you Raphael? No? Yeah, exactly. That was my favorite Ninja Turtle toy, by the way, Donatello and the trench coat

and the half the glasses. That was the best. Wasn't there an entire trench coat series for the turtles? I don't know if it's a whole series, but I know Donatello definitely had that. I definitely had the Donatello one, but I had, I guess I might just be mixing up with the movie, but I thought I had a Raphael one. I think there might be a couple trench coat figures. Oh, the Times Square edition?

Yeah, yeah. The 42nd Street Porno Theater Turtles bag. Well, we made a joke about, on a previous thing, on the Teenage Mutuals Out of the Shadows, previously on We Hate Movies. Star Trek Meet the Ninja Turtles, but it turned out apparently that happened in action figures. We got tweets about it.

Yeah, yeah, that definitely happened. That was a mind wipe. Oh, right. Those. I always wanted them. I never had them. I had those. Yeah, it was so weird. All that came rushing back to me when someone tweeted the photo. I was like, oh, don't you love when that happens? Oh, yeah. The fact that that exists means there's trench coats for everyone.

So we solved that. All right. So, so Gile, the best part, so there's this, I guess, English boss who, like, calls Chun Lee when she's, like, getting information on God knows what. And he's like, oh, Giles been kidnapped. Here's DJ. You guys got to go find him. By the way, and it's kind of very subtle. It's like, it's more important that Gile is taken care of that then a guyle gets rescued.

Like, really, it's like, he knows too much about the street fighters, killed his fucking guy. Right, what you got to do? He's on mushrooms right now. You might want to tape his mouth shut. They're like picking through his brain, like a little fucking file of facts, dude. Like, who knows what juicy tidbits will get out of there? Oh, man, it's like Treadstone, man. And all they got out was that he was bullied as a kid.

And he wore the same tank top. Let's get it. Yeah, we got to go back into Giles' past. And, like, one of which is he's a little kid and he's wearing that green tank top, I think goes to Eric's point. He's always been a poser. You know what I mean?

Like, you always thought that he was part of the military. Now I'm 31 years old. I'm a colonel. Yeah, sure. Call me colonel, yeah. That sounds good. Oh, right. Now that I said it out loud, I can't go back.

Well, what was funny was watching this. I had no idea. I'd never seen a second of this cartoon. and I wasn't understanding because what they do is it's like the fake nightmare the dream sequences and then it like cuts

and it's like Gile wearing this like headset and like Bison's laughing at him when they cut to these kids I was like oh so this cartoon like brought in shitty kids that I'm supposed to root for

great like I didn't register right away that that was also a flashback how did you he's wearing the same outfit dude I was barely paying attention Sonic boom all of them if he'd Sonic boom that fat bully you know, I would have got it. But the great stuff about going back and probing

Giles' past is like these bullies that are bullying him, one of them looks like a 67 year old man. He looks disgusting. It's like, why did you draw... It's like they started drawing an old man and they were like, that's the wrong scene.

And just like, went with it. Just make them shorter. Put him on a skateboard. Short old man. Give him a slingshot. Yeah, it's like Hans Molman pretending to be Bart Simpson. So he's looking for, instead of, again, just shoot Gile in the head. You got Gile right where you want him. Bingo, bango, he's done.

Get Stryker in there for Mortal Kombat blow his brains out. But they just, it's this thing where he's trying to find his Achilles heel, which I guess is this lady named Cindy. Yeah, well, that's his lost love, dude. I love this. Well, he found her and then he lost her because they show a horrific divorce. Right? Did you get, you picked up on that, right? Did he get divorced? Or she leaves him.

Yeah, she leaves him for him. Because it's the same exact guy who stole him. He looks exactly the same. The shadowy figure. That's what you're talking about, right? The, like, the shadowy figure that, like, beats the shit out of him? Right, yeah. And then, like, steals his lady?

I thought that was going to be revealed that it was M. Bison. Oh, what a twist. Yeah. I just think that's like some, you know, honestly, how long could you date a street fighter? You know what I mean? Like, it's just as long as you could date an expendable. Yeah. They're never home.

They're always on these missions. You don't know where they are. You don't know when they're coming home. And then on Christmas, it's like, you want to have a romantic thing, but it's like, Blanca has to come. He's got nowhere else to go. Yeah. They're always bringing the rag tag street fighters. Not only that.

Like, one day she found his like Don Draper box to find out all the truth about his shadowy past. It's not actually a colonel. You cooked a lot of dinners and you're waiting up way late for him to come to that door. I just, it's sad. I mean, or I was thinking maybe you're going with, like, maybe she found, like, orange hair in their bed. Oh, maybe. Little Blanca?

What's Blanca doing here, yeah. Blanca's in your shower when you come home? Oh, man, that's leaving a clog. Blanca in the shower is gross. You're just worried hanging around him too often. You're going to contract cancer. Look, like this radiated fuck. I don't want him at Thanksgiving.

I'm not going to lie, I kind of want to Google Blanca in the shower and see something comes. someone's definitely drawn you're you're going to turn up a really weird slash low budget porno parody you know that's all right street fuckers yeah it would be street fucker I love it street fuckers is out there I have no question I don't know it's out I don't have no death some people know that the weird thing is like why are Ken and Ryu so fucking stupid in this show

yeah they're like the comic relief right they're dumb I always thought they were cool in the video games and like every single representation of them. I'm like, oh, they're the worst character. I think in the animas they're getting down to fighting, like, they're the cool. I thought you were to say some other F word. No, like, they're like actually training and like the best fighters in the world

and they're like the protagonist. Right. In the animas, as I understand it. In this, they're just two knuckleheads. Yeah, they're just like, they're trying to raid some Pharaoh's tomb. Well, that's the thing that they carry over from the movie is that they're also, they're street fighters and they're also

plunderers. Uh-huh. Because that's the whole thing in the movie too is like they're trying to like get some big score or rip off whatever and this is they just carry that over they make them dumber and it's like they're treasure hunting all over the world and they're also loosely like all the other street fighters kind of consider them not as much part of the team because it's like oh yeah you're a street fighter when it fucking suits you you piece of shit like chunley's chewing them out you know and everyone's just like embarrassed by them like for some reason wouldn't you be yeah you're like a hardworking DJ or hard

work in Chunley and you see these two clowns come in and they get all the credit yeah a lot of ass grabbing tons of ass grabbs of DJ even though I'm in incredible shape I'm putting a shirt on for most of the day it's cold out right it is cold out definitely not can I tell you my favorite part of this episode please is when when the big like hit happens on

Gile at like DJ and Gile were coming from some fighting tournament and they're coming they were like going to visit DJs friends, aka, like, you know, get wasted someone. Oh, sure. Yeah, like you would do if you're a street fighter or any kind of mercenary or whatever. You live hard, you play hard. And a bunch of the traditional street fighter crates fall on them. Oh, yeah. And DJ definitely goes, oh, no, man, duck crates. Like the crates. Here they are again to give us trouble. Yeah, I thought it was going to be a bonus level. Why didn't

no one, no one like, like, shred them with their arms? No one tried to beat up that car? Yeah. Oh, I loved beating up that car. I preferred that to anything else. I think that's poetic justice, though. Gile goes out by crate. You know what I mean? Finally, you fuck up enough crates. And then, like, E. Honda got hit by that car.

Do you fight a plane at some point? Did I make that out? What? Yeah, I think you do. Don't you beat up a plane? Well, you beat up a plane. Like, you beat up at the car. I never got that for. I never got that for. Apparently I never got that. I thought you did too. Oh, shit. You fight at the airport for Giles level. I know there's a plane there.

It's not an airport It's a military hangar. It's a hangar base. Because there was Street Fighter 2. And then there was Street Fighter 2 What was it? Turbo. Yeah, that might have been a turbo shit.

That might have been turbo. That's not Canon, dude. Or Super Street. Oh, it's all canon. It's all fair game. What's Super Street Fight? That's where DJ was introduced. Yeah.

I was already gone. Man, Cammy sucks. Cammy sucks in the movie, which we'll talk about on the episode. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so what else is going on in this episode. We talked about the crates and the bullies. Oh, I Honda's a hacker

in this cartoon? Oh, and a terrible one. His computer shoots a little smoke ring out of it because he blew it up while hacking. It's not so much that he's a hacker, it's that he got hacked. Well, he's got some line where he's like, oh yeah,

Chunli, it took me all day, but I finally have access to like the whatever and you look at this cheaply animated movie and they show his computer screen and it's just like waves of colors. I'm like, just put some fucking text there, data, numbers, anything?

Just write some binary code and it's fine. Yeah, it looks like a fucking lava lamp. Here's a question. Is he Honda catfish in anybody, you think? Oh, yeah. Guaranteed. Of course. He's using pictures. The question is he using pictures of DJ or Chunlee.

I was going to say he's using a picture of Dwayne Johnson. I was going to say he's using pictures of all of them. Yeah, that's true. He's got like a whole catfish family. And he's like, oh, I didn't lie to you. I was a street fighter. I just didn't tell you which street fighter I was. Oh, he's just, he's putting, he's uploading all the cast photos. Yeah. Man, that guy's a creep, I bet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Han does some, some weird. I mean, you wear a diaper that much. I mean, clearly something's wrong. Isn't a diaper? I don't know. Well, he's, sumos were

diapers, right? I don't know if they're, they're not like pissing and shitting in there. No, they're not. No. Although I guess technically you could. You could. You could. Oh, maybe Ion does a pisser and shitter. That's why I got kicked out of the sumo league. That's why he's relegated to computer. You know what? Why do you cool out on the computer for a while? Should you do it work on our website.

You're going to make our web development officer. Go sit where the rest of the obese people shit their pants in front of a computer. Can we get into the street fighter code? Oh, yeah. Well, that's what this episode's all about. Where it's all that code? That's a blood code, moral combat. I thought, I was like the street fighter code.

What is it? No bottles? Like, what are we talking? You got to keep everything above the belt. That's what it is. But no, I think it's true. No hair pulls. But it's a truth, honor, and something, and commitment. I'm sorry. The American Way? What is that? Oh, come on. I got it. Joe. Truth, justice, and the American way?

It's discipline, justice, and commitment. Right. This is the thing that comes first, by the way. Commitments. Yeah, it does. Oh, he will Gile. Gile's haircut? Discipline, a.k.a. no jerking off. And commitment, what Gile broke with that lady. She left.

Oh, yeah. I got swept up by that shadowy figure. Just to go back to that real quick. I love when they show her and he goes, not her. How did you know about Cindy? That's why EHonda's on the computer because the discipline factors. Like, come on, EHonda. Really?

Two dinners. Dude, do you think EHonda's like catfish in Cindy? Oh, shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Hey. Like my American flag. Tattoo. They break Giles' brainwashing at the end of this episode by just repeating that code approximately three to four times and it's like yep, all right, that's it.

All the hours of brainwashing that M. Bison has put on him is over. Well, the weird thing is, it's not even super brainwashing. It's like, you know, he's in a fake place or whatever, but... Oh, he's in a fake place. But like, the idea is everybody else is having sex with Cindy and that really makes him mad.

Oh, yeah. And then like M. Bison's like, why are they making fun of you, buddy? And he's like, oh, M. Bison, my best friend. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, even if all the street fighters turned on him, which is what the mind control, like, makes him think. Yeah. You would still remember that M. Bison is also your enemy.

And now it's like, now I have more enemies. Not my friends became my enemies, so now my enemy is my friend. That doesn't make any sense. And when they're trying to spring them in this shit, they fight a bunch of rando mutants. Yeah, what was that? There's monsters in this. Come on. There's a Black Lagoon creature, right?

Yeah. I didn't see Ballerog in this episode. Let's get him in there. I think there's a teradactal character. Yeah, yeah. There's a Thunderbird. There's Bigfoot. What the fuck was Vega on vacation?

Oh, that's the next episode. Vega on vacation. Vegas is a vacation starring Chevy Chase. He has the claw. Vega Cation. I mean, just like you have this huge arsenal from all these games to pull from. And you're putting. fucking swamp thing in there.

Like, come on. Not even Swamp thing. You didn't even pay for Swamp Thing. If Swamp Thing made an appearance, I'd be like, all right, swamp thing. Right. So it's a not swamp thing. And to show you how shitty Ken and Raiu are. Okay, after they defeat these mutants,

Ken says, You know, Raiu, one of those mutants look just like an old girlfriend of yours from Osaka. That gets DJ going, by the way. DJ finds that hilarious. Yeah. it's like whatever

they love just kind of like ribbon each other there's the one thing where I think it's Ken who's like like when Chunley's like oh hey Giles been captured you know I'm taking command and leading this mission to get him back and Ken's like oh well at least our new leaders more attractive than Gile and she like

sweep kicks him and everybody just starts laughing their tits off yeah that was a good like group laugh yeah it's not really that funny She's just assaulted a co-worker I think Ken's a sex offender That's it There's no HR department

That's why I Honda could do what he does He's a sex offender that's great at karate And he just left the United States For some reason Oh I gotta go to Japan to train Yeah And now I'm spending a lot of time in Chandeloo City

That has no laws Yeah that's a lawless society there I bet It's in Thailand That's all you need to know Yeah, where it's, M. Bison's supposed to be from Thailand. Thailand. That's in the...

USA. Japan. Did they make a fake country? Brazil. In the movie anyway, right? This carries that over. It's Shattaloo. Shattaloo. Yeah.

And now that's fake, right? Yes, that's not fake. You can't vacation in Shattel. All right, right, right, right. All right. But in stealth, I thought that country was fake, and it turned out to be real and people got mad at me. What, North Korea?

No, it was like, Ablustan. It was one of the Beka stands. Oh, yeah, well, you know. Who's keeping count? Well, yeah. I mean, of course I know you's Beka Stan. I love it there.

Yeah, but I'm just saying. I don't know all the stands. I'm sure you're safe that Shadalu is not a real place. Not going to lie, when I was like, is that real? I didn't bother looking it up. I didn't either. I feel like if you Google Shadaloo, there should be a Google. protocol that allows you not

to use Google for a week. It's like, sorry, your Google privileges have been proposed. I disagree. I think it should instantly show you Blank in the shower. Well, you can Google Shattaloo, but you can't Google the question, is Shadaloo a real good? No, I would have done that. I just wrote Shadaloo, and so it came up in Wikipedia. Just click on, I'm feeling

lucky. Oh, dude, those are the fucking trendsetters, man. Was anybody embarrassed watching this? Yeah, yeah, it was. I was watching it with my daughter and my wife and I was like, please don't judge me. Oh, you had your whole family. And we all gathered.

What was their review? Well, she started watching Sophia the first. And my wife just kept on eating dinner. So I was like, all right. Wait, your young child wouldn't even watch this cartoon with you? Zero entertainment factors. Yeah. Yeah.

Sounds like you're raising a smart kid. Yeah, she's pretty smart. Smart than her father because I'm sitting there watching. So I'm like, no. We could see like her respect for you leaving the room. She shakes her head, walks away. Well, you're just like, I'm doing this for work. Yeah, whatever.

Research and development. Yeah, I thought this was crappy, and I didn't like watching it. I didn't like the idea that someone else could know I've watched it. Yeah, it was terrible. And especially, like I said, it's on the back end of Captain Planet, which is a huge success. A huge success for that team. Yeah, it was the same, it had to be the same animators. Come on, let's just be honest.

Some people were put out of work in that. And they're like, we'll do Street Fighter for USA Network. I think it's in that transitional phase. I think maybe it was them, but they were like, we've got to get away from that a little bit. Yeah. Let's do like shitty-ish animation, so it's guaranteed to get canceled. I do appreciate that this show has no educational value whatsoever.

It's not like, oh, we should recycle or anything. Like, G.I. Joe at least gave you a little lesson at the end. This was just like, don't get kidnapped and brainwashed. Which I was like, all right, good. That is an important lesson to learn. I guess also, though, the very final minutes of it, there's a whole ton of like we're family kind of like

friends stick together shit it's not overt but it's kind of there fake don't buy you into that message no exactly because Blanca's like oh well who's going to the bar later I'll see you later Blanca yeah totally yeah I don't know I was embarrassed

watching this there's a reason that this is in streaming on Netflix and is relegated to the bowels of YouTube which you could find all the episodes are on YouTube well that's all we're doing later on yeah I don't think I ever go back to it. It just reminded me, though, at some point, we got to hit that Super Mario Bros. show on this thing.

Because there's a bunch of crazy shit on there. Oh, the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Well, that's the gold standard in video game cartoons, right? Or I don't know. Or is the game master better, Captain Amney Game Master. No, actually, we watch that. That show sucks. I would say...

I'm trying to think of what other video game cartoons there were. Was there a Mega Man? There was a Mega Man. Yeah. There was a Mortal Kombat one, which I didn't watch. No, never saw. Oh, was there really a Mortal Kombat cartoon? I think it's around the same time.

It was just kind of the same thing. They were like, hey. It was on TBS. Hey, voice actor who did Blanca, just stick around. Now you're sub-zero. A Zelda that was awful. I was just going to say that. I thought there was a Zelda, but I don't remember being very good.

Is there a Tetris cartoon? Well, excuse me, Princess. Apparently, Link says that line nonstop. It's like, it's a crack. I was going to say catchphrase, but it was coming out as crap, crap phrase. Crap phrase, I mean, that's also legit for that. I do actually remember that, the Excuse Me Princess. They thought that would be on T-shirts and said that show was canceled instantly.

So just a movie that I'm going to make, which is it's the Mario Brothers movie. And, you know, this princess gets captured, blah, blah, blah. He goes through all the things. He kills the dragon. We will call him Bowser. At the end, he's been catfished by Toad the whole time. Like, there was no princess. shit, that's embarrassing.

You go through that whole epic quest just to rescue Toad. Oh, man. And he's just, I don't know, I was bored. Sorry. Hey, I, uh, and then Neb Shulman shows up. Oh, yeah, dude.

You know, maybe Toad is kind of like a little vindictive about it. Just to get your back. Fuck you. The revenge catfishers are always my favorite. Those are something else. You stiffed me last time,

Mario. Now you're saving Toad. Now, terrible film director, Max Joseph, is like, Toad, that's messed up. I don't know why he's talking like this. You know, you guys are just trying to do a backdoor pilot for your catfish podcast. Yes, we are. Yeah.

Where every single episode, we review an episode of catfish. And we also catfish someone else. It turns out every episode you're just catfishing Chris Cabin. Our logo is a catfish eating its own tail. I love that idea. That's animation damnation on Street Fighter. the animated series. For more, we hate movies, check out WHMpodcast.com. Until next time, I'm Andrew Juffin. Steven Say that. Eric Siska.

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