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My Piece on The Jaleel White Special Gave Me an Excuse to Re-Run This Piece on the Insane Animated Special Our Friend, Martin, Where White Voices MLK

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Rover Dangerfield Began as an R-Rated Movie for Adults and Flopped as a G Rated Movie for No One

Rodney is a dog in a G rated kid's film with an R-rated soul.

Best of 2023: Charles Schulz Scored His Biggest Flop With It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a Disastrous Live-Action/Animation Hybrid Starring Snoopy's Loner Brother and His Own Daughter

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinDecember 29, 2023Snoopy, Charles Schulz, Spike, animation, live-action/animation, flops, television special, TV, Television

In This Exclusive Excerpt From the Extended Version of The Joy of Trash I Look Back With Sadness and Disappointment at Kelsey Grammer's Ill-Fated Gary the Rat

In this exclusive excerpt from the extended. version of Gary the Rat, the third head in the three-headed monster that was Spike TV’s Adult Animation block.

Literary excerpt, The Joy of TrashNathan RabinNovember 21, 2023Spiike TV, Kelsey Grammer, animation, adult animation

Netflix's New The Soccer Football Movie is a Soccer Space Jam on Acid With Bootleg Ghost-Busters and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Also, Brain Slugs and a Talking Ponytail. It's VERY Weird, In a Good Way

“Weird Al” Yankovic stars in another movie debuting on streaming this month and it is VERY weird but in a decidedly different way than Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Despite a Spirited Voice Performance from Nicolas Cage, 2009's G-Force is a 92 Minute Headache

You might think a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced cartoon about super intelligent guinea pigs would suck.

You would be correct!

The Travolta/Cage Project #85 Bolt (2008)

John Travolta voices an adorable if delusional dog who thinks he’s a superhero in the charming and funny 2008 Disney cartoon Bolt.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinJanuary 20, 2022John Travolta, Disney, animation, Miley Cyrus

Exploiting the Archives: This Looks Terrible! Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa

Looking for the next crazy cult abomination? Then check out the infinite horrors of Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa.

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinDecember 6, 2021A talking cat, Cult, camp, CGI, animation, Mark Hamill, Clint Howard

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #240: Batman Beyond: "Zeta" and "Plague"

Moral ambiguity is the name of the game as Bruce and Terry deal with morally conflicted android Zeta and Stalker, a foe turned ally from their past in my latest look at the cult cartoon Batman Beyond.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 21, 2021Batman, Batman Beyond, Stalker, cult, animation

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #216 Batman Beyond: "The Last Resort" and "Armory"

Bruce and Terry tangle with an evil cult and Armory, a guy with a lot of weapons in two sub-par episodes of the otherwise brilliant animated cult show Batman Beyond.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 2, 2021Batman Beyond, animation, dystopia, Armory, John Ritter, Keith Raniere