RETRO SHOCK- “Bad Birthday Party” (1984): Its a weekday afternoon and Bob and Tim are out of school … by about 24 years. And so they’ve rushed home to grab some rug and turn both heads toward the cathode-tube promise of syndicated animation. What they want are mechanical lions, mighty robots and one blazing sword. What they get are re-dubbed body horrors, implied decapitations and, YES, a blazing sword.
Episode Summary
00:00:00 - UNLICENSED AUDIO CLIP - Voice Of Planet Doom
00:00:23 - A STRUGGLE TO START - Intros / “Mr. Roboto”
00:04:00 - FALL 1984 - Remembering the cartoon Voltron
00:33:41 - UNSPONSORED AD BREAK- Zencastr / “Safety Dance”
00:36:14 - PRESENT DAY - Discussing “Bad Birthday Party”
01:06:10 - POP FIVE - Favorite Pop Culture Vehicles
01:09:51 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / “Voltron theme”
Watch the original 1984 VOLTRON DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE episode “Bad Birthday Party” HERE
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Mr Roboto” performed by Styx off their 1983 album KILROY WAS HERE
“Safety Dance” performed by Men Without Hats from their 1982 album “RHYTHM OF YOUTH”
“Main Title Them from Voltron Defender Of The Universe” as composed and orchestrated by John Peterson from the 1984 Worldwide Events Productions television series “VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE”
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HOSTS/PLUGS/AND PROBABLY MORE PLUGS:
ROBERT CANNING is the writer and artist behind MY EXAGGERATED LIFE an ongoing comic strip based on slightly louder than the actual events. Read and follow it HERE at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com.
TIM BLEVINS is the writer/director of SUBSTITUTE CULTURE, an independently produced, digitally recorded, feature-length film about social identity in the 21st century. For screenings, updates and all sort of info visit SUBSTITUTECULTURE.com.
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