Saturday Midnight Cartoons
It's Saturday, it's midnight, and you are just slightly too old to find clubbing enjoyable anymore. Might as well listen to a podcast about cartoons! Saturday Midnight Cartoons is a podcast for adults that discusses children's media both nostalgic and contemporary.
Episode 23: Corpse Bride
Tristan and Margaret talk about ye olde photoshop, naked skeletons, and Victorian mourning customs as they talk about Tim Burton's 2005 movie Corpse Bride and rank fictional afterlives.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Blooperton
A winter storm delayed our last recording session, so here's some bloopers and tangents! We plan to have a real episode for you next week.
Episode 22: Howl's Moving Castle
Tristan's cats crash the recording session! Tristan and Margaret talk about whimsical dicks, upsetting tongue wings, and the 2004 Studio Ghibli film Howl's Moving Castle with a soothing background soundtrack of kitty purrs.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
SMC Checks In #6: Dad Beat Dad
Tristan and Margaret discuss Mimzy being the fun friend, how the Hazbin Hotel would be impossible to insure, and how this episode might just contain the most important conversation in the whole show.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 21: Muppet Treasure Island
Margaret let Tristan talk about pirates for two and a half hours as a birthday present. Your hosts discuss the 1996 masterpiece Muppet Treasure Island and ask hard-hitting questions like, "Can you trademark blood?"
Bloop Lang Syne
Tristan and Margaret are recovering from Christmas. Here's a blooper episode!
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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A Visit From St. Nicholas
Merry and/or Happy Christmas! Listen as your hosts Google Christmas stuff in real time and learn a lot! Margaret reads that classic poem that goes "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," but that's not long enough for an episode, so Margaret and Tristan discuss snow titties, vampire saints, reindeer facts, and Santa the Pipe Thief.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
SMC Checks In #5: Masquerade
Tristan and Margaret discuss Masquerade, episode 4 of season 1 of Hazbin Hotel, and the rest of this episode description is content warnings.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mentions of domestic abuse, sexual assault, sex work, human trafficking, substance abuse, trauma, and mental illness.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 20: Mickey's Christmas Carol
It's officially Christmas time! Tristan and Margaret talk about Victorian fetishes, graveyards, and whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich. They even learn new lore about each other as they discuss Mickey's Christmas Carol.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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SMC Checks In #4: Scrambled Eggs
Tristan and Margaret discuss trust exercises, Zestial might be lying about his age, and the Overlords attend a meeting that could have been an email.
This episode was recorded before all of season 2 was out, and contains no season 2 spoilers.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 19: An Extremely Goofy Movie
Margaret and Tristan make up dramatic backstories as they discuss hot dog women, accidental corpse shenanigans, the anthropomorphic bird man Tony Hawk, and Bradley Uppercrust's successful drag career. This episode is about An Extremely Goofy Movie, Disney's really good direct-to-video sequel to A Goofy Movie, released in 2000.
Theme song: Refractory Period
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Bloopsgiving
It's giving bloopers! This November, Tristan is thankful that he keeps some of the tangents and bloopers that he cuts out of the regular episodes to assemble into silly things like this when life interferes with the recording/editing schedule, lol.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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SMC Checks In #3: Radio Killed the Video Star
Saturday Midnight Cartoons returns to the Hellaverse to discuss Vox's personality disorder, how It Starts With Sorry is criminally underrated, and what lawyers must be like in Hell! (Also we go on tangents about sharks and snakes.)
Please note: This was recorded before season 2 released. Our episodes on season 1 of Hazbin Hotel will contain no season 2 spoilers.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 18: Coco
Get ready to ugly cry as Margaret and Tristan discuss wet pink bones, teleporting spirit guides, and Disney's 2017 masterpiece Coco!
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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SMC Checks In: Season 2 Predictions
In this very special episode of Saturday Midnight Cartoons Checks In, Tristan and Margaret discuss their Hazbin Hotel season 2 predictions! Also headcanons. So many headcanons.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 17: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
This week, Margaret and Tristan got a rock. We discuss fighter pilot beagles, what we're going to be for Halloween, and what makes a pumpkin patch sincere as we talk about It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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SMC Checks In #2: Overture
Saturday Midnight Cartoons continues its exploration of the Hazbin Hotel! Tristan and Margaret ponder the softness of Angel Dust's chest fluff, speculate on what happens to sinner demons when they double die, and debate the merits of stepping on Adam.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
SMC Director's Cut #1: Cat And Mouse
How would YOU blockade a planet? Tristan and Dad dissect the military tactics of the Star Wars Clone Wars Animated Series episode Cat And Mouse.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 16: Goofy Shorts
Margaret and Tristan discuss sentient pianos, gas masks for anthropomorphic animals, and Disney's favorite cat design as they take a tour through short cartoons featuring Goofy throughout the ages, starting from the very first appearance of proto-Goofy in Mickey's Revue.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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SMC Checks In #1: Hazbin Hotel Pilot
Our intrepid hosts go to Hell in this new series where they discuss the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel, starting with the Pilot episode. Margaret and Tristan speculate about demon anatomy and discuss Tumblr sexy men, demonic Jazz bands, and canonically smelly farts.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
Episode 15: The Point
What's The Point? Margaret and Tristan still aren't sure. This week, we discuss an angry logic brain, controversial takes on The Beatles, and a very literally trippy movie from 1971. Content warning for discussion of drugs and drug use.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
Episode 14: Goof Troop
You wouldn't expect a Saturday morning cartoon that Disney put out in the early 90s to need a bunch of content warnings, but Margaret and Tristan discovered that Goof Troop is unexpectedly dark. Content warning for child abuse, domestic violence, harm to animals, guns, and even a brief mention of suicide!
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
Episode 13: K-pop Demon Hunters, Part 2
In this, the second part of a nearly 3 hour long conversation about how cool this movie is, Margaret and Tristan speculate about demon politics, Rumi's dad, and Zoey's notes app.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 12: K-Pop Demon Hunters, Part 1
Caution: Spoilers ahead!!! Margaret educates Tristan about K-pop and both hosts struggle to get Soda Pop out of their heads as they discuss the brand-new smash hit K-pop Demon Hunters. This is the first of two episodes, because the awesomeness could not be contained to just one.
Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 11: A Goofy Movie
Tristan and Margaret talk about scrappy underdogs, realistically written teenagers, and how Goofy is a DILF as they discuss Disney's cult classic A Goofy Movie.
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Theme Song: Refractory Period
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Episode 10: Frozen
Let it gooo! Can't hold Tristan and Margaret back anymore. They're talking about Frozen! CW for brief discussion of suicidal ideation. Again, this is not a podcast for children - if your five year old listens to this and asks you some uncomfortable questions, that's on you.
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Theme song: Refractory Period
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Episode 9: OG Wile E. Coyote vs. Roadrunner Shorts
Margaret and Tristan discuss the Lovecraftian hell dimension ruled by the Roadrunner, Wile E.'s pendulous coyote balls, and surprigers.
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I remembered to add the links to the videos we watched!
The Cartoons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuc486qwfMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuVMoGj6fE
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Episode 8: Nimona
Happy Pride Month! Margaret and Tristan discuss itchy bones and the wonderful thing about tiggers and they chat about Netflix's 2023 masterpiece Nimona.
Theme song by Refractory Period
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Tangents From The Bloop Lagoon
Tristan cuts out a lot of really good tangents and bloopers. So we will collect those periodically and release them as an episode!
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Theme song by Refractory Period
Episode 7: Wolfwalkers
Recent Movie Spoiler Alert! Margaret and Tristan reveal that they are descended from werewolves and gush about how freaking gorgeous Ireland is as they talk about the one thing Puritans DIDN'T ruin - the movie Wolfwalkers!
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Theme song by the band Refractory Period.
Episode 6: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Margaret and Tristan plunge beneath the waves in a rad submarine to search for a lost civilization as they discuss Atlantis: The Lost Empire - the only Disney movie that acknowledges that people poop.
Theme song: Refactory Period
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Episode 5: Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest
Margaret and Tristan lust after a pollution monster, sing the praises of Robin Williams, and come up with a better sequel plot than the one that actually exists for Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest, the 1992 classic from Kroyer Films.
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Episode 4: Clone Wars: Sy Snootles
Margaret and Tristan astronavigate toward a weird collision of hyperfixations as they talk about Margaret's favorite Star Wars character - the long lipped green chanteuse that is Sy Snootles - and her brief appearance in the animated Clone Wars series. Margaret invents a new species, Tristan wants to see Sy Snootles pinup art, and neither one knows what the heck a fluid sack is for.
Episode 3: Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time
Margaret and Tristan dig deep into their childhood memories and also geologic time as they talk about an extremely obscure, extremely weird VHS tape. Put yourself in a Mesozoic Mindset, tuck yourself in to your dinosaur-themed bedsheets, and get ready for claymation dinosaurs in Will Vinton's Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time.
Hosts: Margaret Ash and Tristan Ash
Editing: Tristan Ash
Theme Song: Refractory Period
Logo: Ash Vindhlér-Lókasson
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Episode 2: The Great Mouse Detective
In this episode, Margaret and Tristan discuss mouse armies, a tap-dancing octopus, and the most dramatic exes. And everything else in The Great Mouse Detective, the 1986 underrated Disney classic.
Hosts: Margaret Ash and Tristan Ash
Editing: Tristan Ash
Theme Song: Refractory Period
Logo: Ash Vindhlér-Lókasson
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Episode 1: Anastasia
In the inaugural episode of Saturday Midnight Cartoons we discuss the 1997 20th Century Fox film Anastasia. The tragedy! The legend! The... talking bat and dancing bugs?
You can tell we recorded this a while back because I am no longer 33 and my cohost has a different name now! What can I say? Good things take time!
-Margaret
Hosts: Margaret Ash and Tristan Ash
Editing: Tristan Ash
Theme Song: Refractory Period
Logo: Ash Vindhlér-Lókasson