Title role notwithstanding, Santa was primarily a supporting character in 1985’s holiday family feature Santa Claus. Dudley Moore got top billing as an elf named Patch, with John Lithgow taking the role of antagonist B.Z. Saint CONTINUE READING…
It’s December Folks! Episode 7 is headed your way. After our icebreaker conversation centered around Christmas songs, we slide right into our main topic- Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas We discuss the 1977 Christmas Holiday TV CONTINUE READING…
Nostalgia. That bittersweet emotion that someone gets when they remember something from their past with fondness and a bit of sadness. For most people, a core part of feeling nostalgic is hearing a song from CONTINUE READING…
Happy Thanksgiving Listeners. Episode 6 is “stuffed” full of goodness – a wide sampling of various bits and pieces of nostalgia – I guess you can say it’s just like a traditional Thanksgiving meal! The CONTINUE READING…
Food Fight! This classic episode of the TRN Time Machine Podcast from the archives features the Retro Rumble: Thanksgiving Edition as Jason and Mickey chose between food battles for a special Thanksgiving-themed episode! Using suggestions from our CONTINUE READING…
Happy November Listeners. Episode 5 of The Retro Resurgence Podcast rolls along. After a brief discussion of how Halloween 2024 went for Ken and Chad, the show gets going. The guys discuss Cartoon Campaign 2000 CONTINUE READING…
I love collecting Ultimates-style figures of my favorite cartoon bad guys. I share pictures of them all over my Instagram and I’ve even posted an article here about which figures I want to be released CONTINUE READING…
Episode 4 of The Retro Resurgence Podcast has dropped! Ken and Chad welcome special guest Wyatt to the show. Ken gets us into the Halloween spirit by bringing up his Favorite Monster Cereals. Then, it’s CONTINUE READING…
The word sidekick is different in cartoons than it is in comics. Sidekicks in comics tend to be characters who act as younger versions of the main character, like Robin to Batman or Speedy to CONTINUE READING…
Back in the ’80s, in order to go Trick or Treating as a pop culture character, you usually had to wear an uncomfortable Ben Cooper costume with the vinyl jumpsuit and plastic mask with tiny CONTINUE READING…
Episode 3 of The Retro Resurgence Podcast is here. Ken and Chad have recently watched the Mr. McMahon Netflix documentary and offer their thoughts on the 6 episode series. Then, it’s onto the main topic. CONTINUE READING…
“I’m feelin’ hairy, and my teeth are mean,I got a weird complexion and I, I wanna scream!” A year after the big-screen version, Teen Wolf made its way to television as a cartoon. As in the film, CONTINUE READING…
Episode 2 of The Retro Resurgence Podcast rolls on. Ken and Chad briefly discuss the the movie “Back to School” starring Rodney Dangerfield before jumping into the show’s main topic… Mt Rushmore of 80s/90s Football CONTINUE READING…
For the DEBUT EPISODE of The Retro Resurgence Podcast, Ken and Chad introduce themselves and briefly discuss the origins of the podcast before jumping into the show’s main topic Top 5 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) CONTINUE READING…
In the last few years, my collecting has shifted from Transformers (specifically Megatron) to collecting up-scaled villain figures from all my favorite cartoons of the 80s and 90s. Along with the Masterpiece Megatrons I previously CONTINUE READING…
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