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Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we take you back to a certain time in television, a time before binging entire seasons overnight, a time before cable TV bundles and DVRs, a time even before Must See TV...Behold, the era of EVENT TELEVISION! From Roots to Battle of the Network Stars to Geraldo opening Capone's vault, you'd be hardpressed to find a better example than V: The Original Miniseries, the two-part sci-fi primetime event written and directed by Kenneth Johnson (Bionic Woman) and starring Marc Singer (Beastmaster) -- both of whom we happened to talk with at SDCC 2019! Debuting in 1983, V is an allegorical (and unnervingly relevant) story of America facing the spectre of populism and facism on its own shores. From lizard aliens though, so it's more entertai

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, Marke, Bleeding Cool’s Jimmy The Gent, and Slick McFavorite from the Open Your Toys podcast all join forces to celebrate the 50th San Diego Comic-Con! With highlights of panels, programs and activations, this special prime time LIVE team-up episode is packed with guest interviews including Chris Jaymes (writer, Sons of Chaos), Brian Flynn (founder of Super7) and very special guest: actress and Her Universe founder Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka Tano, Star Wars) to preview the 6th annual Her Universe Fashion Show, a SDCC chic geek extravaganza that we can’t stop talking about! It’s crazy to think that SDCC has been around for 50 years, yet San Diego Comic-Con is more popular and inclusive then ever, and if you’ve been there then

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the 'toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we deliver a neo-nostalgic edition of “That One Guy!", which honors those actors from your favorite movies & TV shows growing up, whose name you can’t quite think of but you know who we mean… ooh, you know, from that one thing…THAT ONE GUY! And this One Guy is a titan of film and TV: John Ratzenberger, belovedly known to listeners of a certain age as Cliff Clavin, the wing nut mailman on the Emmy winning sitcom Cheers. But Cheers was already 20 credits into a very unique brand of acting success, as once upon a time he was That One Guy from such genre defining movies like Superman The Movie and Oscar winners like Gandhi. Heck, he was even That One Guy from The Empire Strikes Back, as Major Derlin. You know, that one guy who clo

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the 'toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week with heavy hearts we bid a fond farewell to yet another The Tick TV series. This time, it’s Amazon Prime's The Tick, with exclusive WonderCon RT audio with it’s star talent including Peter Serafinowicz (GOTG, Shaun of the Dead, John Wick 2), Griffin Newman (Blank Check Pod) and supporting heroes Brendan Hines (Terminator:SCC, MacGyver), Valorie Curry (Veronica Mars, The Following) and Scott Speiser (Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0) as they promote the last and final second season. The campaign to #SaveTheTick was as doomed as it was fierce and our episode looks to the characters history to try to figure out how. How did an indie comic book go on to inspire three TV series? How did one of the last truly great Saturday morning cartoons o

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the 'toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. There was just something in the water in Hollywood back in 1984, and it's high time we stopped ignoring it. Some of our generation's most beloved movies came out that year and by god we will eventually talk about all of them! This week we kick off -- or rather, we crane kick off our 1984 movie series with the celebration of arguably the most perfect 80’s movie of all time, The Karate Kid, plus we share Johnny Heck's interviews with WonderCon roundtable guests “Johnny Lawrence” William Zabka (Karate Kid, Back To School) and the master himself “Sensei Kreese” Martin Kove (Karate Kid, Rambo: First Blood Part II) of the wickedly popular Youtube Premium Series Cobra Kai. If ever there were proof that the themes of Saturday morning TV that we grew

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the 'toons, tuning out the rest of the world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This episode we talk female superhero movies, and why are there, like, THREE of them? After THIRTY FIVE YEARS?! Dan 'Grim' Shea, Marke, and Jimmy The Gent discuss how, for three decades, the only true attempt at a bonafide blockbuster female-lead superhero flick was 1984's Supergirl, starring our guest today Helen Slater. And also how that one, like more than a few big screen superhero attempts back in the 80s, did not exactly find the winning formula. If you haven't seen it since you were a child, don't ruin it by going back to watch it again -- let us ruin it for you instead with a painful walk down celluloid memory lane! With such promise on the Hollywood horizon after the success of actually good superheroine movies like Wonder Woma

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we tell the story of the worlds first action figure with NFL Hall of Fame legend and cultural icon, “Broadway” Joe Namath and the “Father of the Modern Action Figure” Marty Abrams of MEGO Toys. Joe Namath may be the greatest pop-culture crossover of all time. He was a Super Bowl MVP, a movie and television star, a talk show host, a fashionista, a product spokesmen and friends with the pop-culture elites. Marty Abrams may be the most important influence in action figures as the creator of the “Worlds Greatest Super Heroes”, celebrity licensing and Micronauts a toylike with connections to the Transformers. Marke and Johnny Heck captured this exclusive two-on-two interview in the halls of SDCC 2018 as the dynamic duo of “Joe and Ma

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, look, up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the worlds first superhero, Superman! Yes, there was a simpler time when just a comic book in your back pocket and towel tied around your neck, could transform you into “physical marvel extraordinary who has sworn to devote his existence on earth to those in need”. But something happened in 1978. Christopher Reeve’s Superman projected from the pages and our imagination a movie so sweet that we have been chasing its success ever since. Soon, the comic book and towel wasn’t enough & the movies got turned up to 11. Hosts Grim Shea, Marke and Jimmy the Gent fly around the world backwards and take you back to our exclusive audio captured at the world SDCC 2018 premiere of The De

Batman The Animated Series: Still Crazy Good After All These Years An SDCC Roundtable Discussion. Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week it all BEGINS with exclusive audio captured at the San Diego Comic-Con 2018 BATMAN: The Complete Animated Series Limited Edition Blu-Ray Release Pressroom Roundtable. Where we sat down with the creatives and voices of the greatest superhero cartoon of all time, Batman: The Animated Series. Guests include the voices of BATMAN & ROBIN Kevin Conroy and Loren Lester, developed by creator Eric Radomski, writers Paul Dini, Alan Burnett & iconic voice director Andrea Romano. The year was 1992. From the campy ashes of 1960’s Batusi a DARK KNIGHT RISES. A film noir aesthetic mixed with conveniences and technologies which allowed Batman

The World of Sid & Marty Krofft, A Saturday Morning TV Celebration! Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we take you back to the roots of Saturday morning TV, with an exclusive one on one interview with San Diego Comic-Con Legend and 2018 Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy® winner, Marty Krofft, one half of the iconic duo of The World of Sid & Marty Krofft If you were a child sometime during the last 50 years, the mere mention of their names leaves you singing at least a half a dozen theme songs from HRPufnstuf, SigmundThe Sea Monster, The Bugaboos, Lidsville and our favorite…Land of the Lost. So join Grim Shea and Marke for a trippy walk down memory lane with The World of Sid & Marty Krofft, a bizarre yet warmly familiar lane, lined with all the iconic cl

Saturday Morning Cereal's Dressing the Marvel Universe with Ruth E Carter and Elisabeth Vastola! Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world & working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week Grim, Marke, Johnny Heck & Holy Hobbits slip into the wonderful world of costume design from your favorite entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For cinephiles, Ruth E. Carter is a known tour de force in costume designing making Academy Award nominated works for Spike Lee Joints. For the rest of the world, Ruth E Carter's Wakanda Afrofuturistic costume designs on the box office beast that is Black Panther, have created a career-defining overnight success! After a recent WSJ Expose and recent BOLD headlines on Stan Lee's passing, praising Stan Lee's Civil Rights work "He Was a ‘Trailblazer’", we bring you a primetime replay o

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. If you still remember the theme song to Fraggle Rockword-for-word, then you probably still remember a spotlight on a fake brick wall, or a one hour HBO special, or at least one of the Comic Relief  telethons, or maybe a young Jay Leno in a blazer with shoulder pads, or perhaps how Marc Maron looked before he could grow a real mustache and turn morose. On today’s show we talk to stand-up comedian Jason Salmonabout his new album Force of Nurture(download or stream it now from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, or wherever Google tells you to; this guy really knows his ha-ha's from his LOL's!) and then Grim, Marke, and Johnny get serious about comedy. Seriously serious. Stand-up comedy always seemed to have a special license in popular culture to be extr

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. It's all Frights and Delights over here today, as we get you into a blueberry marshmallow mood for this special time of year. That's right, go out and buy your seasonal monster cereals while you can find them, cause it's time for our “cerealized" version of a Halloween Special, The 4th Annual Franken and Boo Berry Season Primetime Special! This year we give the Halloween horror a rest and with Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits and Monsters a genre-hopping truTV anthology series. With exclusive audio we captured at the SDCC18 round table, lets crawl inside the twisted mind of writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait as the acclaimed comedian breaks down the inspirations behind his series’ imaginative, satirical tales and the familiar film tropes which ins

Saturday Morning Cereal’s That One Guy! Robert Davi Doing It Davi’s Way! Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world & working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week.. back from a long hiatus we break out of the gate fast with a crisp new nostalgic edition of “That One Guy!", which honors those actors from your favorite movies & TV shows growing up, whose name you can’t quite think of but you know who we mean… ooh, you know, from that one thing…THAT ONE GUY! Today we re-introduce you to an honest-to-God Bond villain, Robert Davi! You know, from License to Kill? Yeah, that guy! To promote the release of his feature documentary Davi’s Way; a journey to recreate Frank Sinatra’s famous 1974 “Main Event” at Madison Square Garden, we bring you this exclusive interview with Mr. Davi to talk about this project and celebrate

Saturday Morning Cereal’s Alternative SDCC 2018 Spectacular Preview Show LIVE …Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, Grim, Marke and special guest Slick McFavorite (with the Open Your Toys podcast) join forces to give you a few insider tips on navigating the Pop-Mecca, 2018 San Diego Comic-Con We present the only SDCC preview show that dives into the subcultures of SDCC (AKA “the REAL Comic-Con”) and the hell out of Hall H! This special team-up episode is packed with three interviews, including Saturday morning TV royalty Marty Krofft (Land of the Lost, HR Puff N Stuff) writer director Spencer F. Lee to talk about his fandom film SDCC premier From the Bridge-A Documentary and cosplayers Chris Villian and Dre Ronayne talk about a life in other people’s shoes. Don’t Sp

Marke and Holy Hobbits unpack the San Diego Comic-Con programming schedule. Let's talk DC highlights, the premier of DC Animated's The Death of Superman, Batman: The Animated Series NOW on Blu-ray and the Anniversary of Supergirl. Let's talk South Pack activations and celebrate 22 seasons on TV! SDCC goes Legendary with a Lost in Space Installation that is sure to include at least some danger. Let's set up camp with Adult Swim. Let's fast-forward to the future with Amazon Fire TV and a memorable Gas Lamp activation. Let's look backwards with the History Channel's Vikings and Project Blue Book. Let's walk the greens with FXibitions 3rd annual harbor activation and experience a slate of new and old shows like American Horror Story, Archer, Legion and a show I can't wait for, the follow up Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C. Let's pay our respects to the father of the modern action figure, Marty Adams and his Mego action figures and his guest Joe Namath, yes THAT Joe Namath. Let's hang with YouTube Originals Origin and

Saturday Morning Cereal's Dressing the Marvel Universe with Ruth Carter and Elisabeth Vastola! Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world & working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week Grim, Marke, Johnny Heck & Holy Hobbits slip into the wonderful world of costume design from your favorite entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In celebration of MCU excellance & the release of Luke Cage season 2 on Netflix & with a special thanks to our friends at Impact24, we continue our exclusive, one-of-a-kind, SMC stamp-of-approval WonderCon 2018 coverage with Academy Award nominated Costume Designer Ruth Carter who made the world of Wakanda come to life in the box office beast that is Black Panther. If that's not enough to keep your tights on, we also sat down with the force behind the costume design of Darvede

Saturday Morning Cereal's GLOW! Generation "Ladies of WonderCon" with Nichelle Nichols, Ariela Barer & Emily Coutts: Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon.  This week Grim, Marke & Johnny Heck get cross generational with two runaway actresses on a path of discovery in fandom and an iconic actress who has already trekked her way through the stars to become sci-fi royalty.  Via a one-on-one interview recorded live on the exhibit hall of WonderCon 2018… The one and only Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame joins the show to discus her new project Noah's Room. This family drama features Nichols as the family matriarch as they take in a trouble teen after they come to grips with a sudden loss.  WonderCon wouldn’t be complete without our friends at Impact24 PR setting us up wi

Meanwhile… take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week Grim, a traveling Marke, Johnny Heck, and a returning Holy Hobbits give you more of that good WonderCon 2018 coverage with Bad Samartin! The crew sat down for an exclusive interview with director/producer Dean Devlin (Leverage, The Librarians) as he shared a behind-the-scenes look at this psychological thriller. Find out how his love of Dr. Who brought in David Tennant to star in this fresh take of classic suspense films. Don't bother using your entire seat- you'll just need the edge. Your pals also bid a fond farewell to a staggering list of beloved television shows as FOX gives the axe to Brooklyn Nine-Nine (resurrected by NBC!), The Mick, and Last Man on Earth. Not to worry, true believers, we'll hold your hand throu

Meanwhile… take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week Grim, Marke & Johnny Heck find out heroes don't fly in the kitchen and the League of Freedom can't pay the bills. That's right, Cerealites, pack your bags because we're moving on up to the SuperMansion! Our super-powered WonderCon 2018 coverage continues with exclusive interviews with the creators and stars of the Crackle original series SuperMansion! Repelling down to the roundtable first were co-creators Matthew Senreich and Zeb Wells along with director Nick Simotas who broke down season three and what's in store for your favorite dysfunctional team. This tremendous team-up of talent keeps rolling with none other than show stars Yvette Nicole Brown, Breckin Meyer, and Heidi Gardner! Great geeky goodness! Tune in