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Even as a four-year-old I was like, "He can build a working rocket ship that takes them into uncharted space but he can't build a BOAT?!?"

Has to be something smaller than (and with a less antagonistic relationship towards) a badger though.  Maybe an Upland Sandpiper?  Skinny Peep!

^^ I suddenly regret not submitting Rhonda to Zoo New England's "Name Our Baby Tapir" contest earlier this month.

There was an episode where they each imagined what can only be described as a Magic Kingdom Land/attraction with the serial numbers filed off, but I recall it from way earlier in the run and I don't think a "Poo-Poo Land" was involved.

"We love cartoons / all the fun and the action! / We love cartoons / how they dance and sing! / We love cartoons they're the main attraction! / Cartoon hero-oes can do anything!"

^^ Well, if we can pad the list out with fanart..

Yes, we all love that one episode of "Harvey Birdman" too.

Yeah, isn't that crazy?  I remember watching "Muppet Babies" every weekend but I don't remember ever *liking* it!  Meanwhile, my mind was blown when I learned that a show from the same era I do remember watching and loving, "The Wuzzles", lasted a grand total of thirteen episodes.

I remember some of the series listed above from the early 80's.  Even as a four-year-old I could tell "Gilligan's Planet" was made by somebody who just didn't give a shit cause "those brats will watch anything!"

"I may or may not have been high when I wrote this…"

If true, then that's fascinating.  I'd only ever heard of "Osmosis" as "Warner Bros. let the Farrelly Brothers make an animated film".

Honestly the saddest thing about Warner Bros short-lived foray into feature animation in the late '90s is the idea that fucking "Space Jam"* probably made more money than their three other features combined.

I will now forever be haunted by whether more people would have agreed with me if I'd used the movie I was *trying* to think of as an example.  (But then I'd have been pounced upon by angry "Sky Captain" fans…)

I actually did watch this again recently and came away with the impression that it'd be FAAAR far more tolerable without the live-action sequences, since the animation is frequently awesome.  It's somewhere near "Mystery Men" on my long list of Movies I Would Have Loved If, Like, Almost Everything About Them Were

Then how the hell did "Dino-Squad" got an e/i certification?

I had a psychology teacher who had us watch "Sybil", "The Breakfast Club"… … … and "Wired".  Yes, the sordid tale of John Belushi's tragic drug overdose, told in a format that mimics "It's A Wonderful Life".  THAT "Wired".

I revisited this last summer and I've yet to see a sequence of events in a fiction film that is more off-putting than the one here that begins with Murray's *pre-teen* daughter getting a "sexy" makeover.  Those fake eyelashes… Ugh…

I'll vote for the recent "Venture Brothers" episode if only for this line, which made the hopelessly nerdy eight-year-old* in me weep a single tear of joy, "That wasn't a Pterodactylus, it was a *Pteronodon*!"

Tree sap is like nature's peanut brittle, but what made me nerd-facepalm is that in the year of our lord 2013, the larger world *still* doesn't understand that pteronodons aren't dinosaurs.  They're something totally different and a lot stranger and the real tragedy of Ol' Man eating the baby pterosaur is how many

I was kind of sad they didn't cut-away to the sap-encrusted Tyrannosaurus wearing the Arm Pants.