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Cardcaptor Sakura - Volume Four Blind Review
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The Barking Ghost - The Goosebumps Monthly
Cooper hears a dog out in the woods. That's scary, right? Dogs? In the woods? Look, they're ghost dogs, just roll with it...
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Turkey Television - Nick Knacks Episode #046
Nickelodeon's biggest original show of 1985, Turkey Television saw original shorts from the cast and crew of You Can't Do That On Television, comedy from around the world, stand-up routines and weird music videos! That sounds neat, right? So why isn't it so well remembered?
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Dennis the Menace - Nick Knacks Episode #045
In 1959, CBS looked to comic stripes to come up with a competitor to Leave it to Beaver. There, they found Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace, a super popular gag comic about a well-meaning but destructive little boy named Dennis. Casting Jay North in the title role, the Dennis the Menace sitcom was a huge success. But was it good? And was it worth through what Jay North would have to go through?
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019) - Nick Knacks SPECIAL
On October 2019, Are You Afraid of the Dark came back with a three-part mini-series. Was it good? Did it do the original series justice? And just what it say about Nickelodeon's near future? It's a Nick Knacks about a new thing! Holy crap!
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Night of the Living Dummy II - The Goosebumps Monthly
Slappy is back! And he's on the attack! He's as wack as a yak!... I regret to inform you that Slappy has had the shit beaten out of him by a little girl.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - An Illustrated Poltergeist
Is there a book series that owes so much to its illustrations as Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Stephen Gammell's ghoulish style is the highlight for Alvin Schwartz's trilogy of horror story anthologies, but do they also distract from the books' actual purpose? Let's talk about it.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series - Nick Knacks Episode #044
In 1973, Gene Roddenberry and Filmation teamed up to make an animated sequel to Star Trek. What followed was a story of writers strikes, cheap animation, hurt feelings and colorblind directors. And despite all of that, it somehow came together and laid the groundwork for serious all-ages animated programming.
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Freddy Krueger & Ancestral Sin - A Nightmare on Elm Street
A quick look at horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, and the deep, frankly Biblical fears it taps into.
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The Adventures of the Little Prince - Nick Knacks Episode #043
After the success of Belle & Sebastian, Nickelodeon went looking for another Japanese anime adaptation of French literature about boy cross the European countryside. We explore The Adventures of the Little Prince, from it's origins as a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, to its rough journey to animation, and finally its hack-and-slash English localization.
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Brimstone (a dot on the map) - Series Discussion
We kick off October with a look at Brimstone, a nearly-forgotten one-season urban fantasy horror show from 1998. Detective Ezekiel Stone has spent the last fifteen years in hell, but can earn a second chance if he tracks down one hundred and thirteen escaped damned souls. We look at the genre trends that resulted in this show and another, very similar show.
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Iserlohn Taken - A Look at Legend of the Galactic Heroes (episode seven)
Yang and the 13th Fleet take control of the space fortress Iserlohn and its epic weapon, Thor's Hammer. We discuss weapons of mass destruction, and how science fiction can relate to them.
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It Came From Beneath the Sink! - The Goosebumps Monthly
"Okay," R.L. Stine said to himself. "I've got to make a kitchen sponge scary. What does it do? Maybe it erases their parents... no, maybe it sucks the water out of you and makes you too thirsty... oh, what if it just beat the shit out you? Yeah, that's it!"
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National Geographic Explorer - Nick Knacks Episode #042
Just when you thought Nickelodeon might have been leaving the educational, green vegetable image behind, here comes a three-hour block of nature and geography documentaries! We take a brief tour through the history of National Geographic, you know, the guys who make those yellow magazines you see in every thrift store? They made TV, too.
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Animorphs in the Age of Trump - Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide Ten Year Anniversary
On September 15th, 2009, I uploaded the first video in the Opinionated Animorphs Book Guide. Today, we'll talk about the show's legacy, the historical context of Animorphs, and how the series might read in a modern context.
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Sapphire & Steel - Reinventing The Ghost Story
Ghost stories, haunted houses, these tales have existed for thousands of years. In 1979, in the wake of surreal television science fiction, Sapphire & Steel looked to put their own spin on them.
