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Monstrous Muppets Mayhem: Happy Hallowocka (Muppet Babies Epsiode Review)
October 15, 2021 in Blogs
We continue our Muppety Halloween mayhem as we look at the Halloween episodes of the Disney Junior reboot of Muppet Babies.  Both of these are pretty cute and do capture the spirit of the original quite well. What is the plot of the episode? It’s one I relate to, in that you don’t have to be too scary/spooky to enjoy Halloween. And Fozzie is quite a great character to use in this plot.
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Monstrous Muppets Mayhem: The Haunted Nursery (Muppet Babies Issue # 1)
October 14, 2021 in Blogs
Today, we continue our Monstrous Muppets Mayhem as we look at the first issue of the Muppet Babies tie-in comic, The Haunted Nursery. These books were from Marvel’s kid imprint, Star, and well, I will say this, this first issue certainly captured the feeling of the classic TV series. Now, there is one weird thing that I noticed throughout the issue, Baby Kermit wasn’t in his classic sailor outfit. Kinda weird but I’m willing to overlook that.
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Holidays at The Loud House: Last Loud on Earth
October 13, 2021 in Blogs
Last Year for Halloween, I started a new segment where I decided to review The Loud House holiday specials and yes, that will include the upcoming live-action Christmas movie.
Now, there haven’t been any other specials set at Halloween but there have a couple of episodes that could fit the holiday season perfectly. One such episode is from season 4. Specifically from episode 10, the back half. I give you Last Loud on Earth.  Now, this is going to be a rather quick review as the plot is rather simple and there isn’t a whole lot to break down.
The Plot
The episode starts with Lincoln and Clyde watching a zombie movie marathon and that is where the episode kicks off.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Queen Ingrith
October 12, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
There seems to be a trend amongst these villain movies in that the villain is the parent of a main character. That was the case with Maleficent last week as Aurorua’s father was the villain and will be the case for the next two entries as well as this time, the villain is Prince Phillip’s mother. I’m not sure if that will be the case with the already announced Cruella sequel. Now interestingly, Phillip’s mother is not seen in the original animated movie, and the only time the animated Phillip’s mother was seen was in a storybook.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Tiara Gold
October 11, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
We have reached the second entry in this year’s Villains Profile as we look at the true villain of High School Musical 3. And I’m sorry but I can’t get over her name, Tiara Gold. As an ex-friend of mine pointed out once that name sounds like she should be related to Diamond Tiara.
As ridiculous as Sharpay’s name is, at least it doesn’t sound like something from a children’s cartoon.
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Monstrous Muppets Mayhem: Alice Cooper (Season 3, Episode 7)
October 8, 2021 in Blogs
As I said last time, this episode is even better for the Haloween season as we look at the Alice Cooper episode. Alice Cooper is just so perfect for this time of year as he embodies the spirit of the season and the episode amps up the weirdness because of it. Its starts perfectly with Welcome to My Nightmare
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Monstrous Muppets Mayhem: Vincent Price (Season 1, Episode 19)
October 7, 2021 in Blogs
With the announcement of a Muppet Haunted Mansion special coming in time for Halloween, I’ve decided to do something fun for the spooky season by looking at other Muppet content that this time of year. That’ll include two episodes of the classic Muppet Show, a comic, and an episode of the Muppet Babies reboot, and of course Muppets Haunted Mansion. Â
We come to our first episode of the event as we look at the Vincent Price episode of The Muppet Show.  This episode is just iconic as it gave us this classic image.
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Trotting Towards Nightmare Night: Villains Profile: Cozy Glow
October 6, 2021 in Blogs, Trotting Through Life
It’s interesting to think that that one of the evilest villains in MLP G4 is a child. Evil children are nothing new and even less so in animation.  Consider the likes of L’il Gideon or a better comparison would be Darla Dimple.
Cozy Glow is one villain that comes closest to achieving her goals. Now, while Cozy did appear in seasons 8 & 9, I’m only going to look at her season eight appearance because you kinda need to look at her as part of a group in season nine. (and partially because season nine isn’t on Netflix).
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A Look at Disney Villains Profile: King Stefan
October 5, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
For the first time this year, I’ve decided to do two series of Villains Profile for Halloween. Every Monday, I’ll be posting a Villains Profile for the High School Musical franchise, and for the next three Tuesdays, I’ll be looking at villains that fit a connective theme that is just too fun to pass up, Villain Movie Villains. Pretty simple but the idea is Disney has now released three movies starring beloved villains, two being origin films and one a sequel.
The way, villains are handled in these villains movies are rather interesting as there are a few ways that this can be done, you can have a villain that is worse than the villain that is the lead of the film or you can use one of my favorite tropes, adaptional villainy. This is when a story takes a character that wasn’t originally a villain and makes them a villain. The most famous example of this is perhaps The Wizard in Wicked.
For something like this, the story needs to choose a character that makes sense to be seen as a villain. A perfect example is Peter Pan in the third season of Once Upon A Time. Â
Whereas this film picked such a random character to make the villain, Aurora’s father, King Stefan to be the baddie. It just makes you huh that this character that didn’t seem that memorable.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Sharpay Evans
October 4, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Typically, every Halloween I like to do my favorite segment Villains Profile. It’s a simple concept, look at four villains that fit a certain theme in the past, it has been things such as sea-based villains, hunters, or non-MCU supervillains. This year, however, I’ve decided to get a bit musical as we are looking at four villains from a Disney Channel franchise that I love and have loved since the first film debuted. This October, I’ve decided to look at the villains of the High School Musical franchise. Speaking of that, one category that I typically do in Villains Profile is Villain Songs, and well, that doesn’t exactly work for these particular sets of villains. Instead, that category will be retitled Songs They Sing, and considering that I am looking at all three HSM movies for Sharpay’s entry, that’s going to be a long category.
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A Look at Disney: Maxine Russo and Gender Swap (Wizards of Waverly Place)
August 26, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
I could have included this as part of my LGBTQ Character retrospective but as I explained in the last entry, this is more of a spin-off entry as I wanted to look at this through the lens of gender identity. Genderswapping is such a common trope in media and especially in children’s media.  The first examples that come to mind for me are Timantha Turner from The Fairly Odd Parents and Linka Loud from The Loud House. Â
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One Villainous Scene: Becoming The Villain Isn’t The Answer
August 24, 2021 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
