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Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
With summer movies being postponed or canceled because of the "plague" of COVID-19, we decided to look at plagues as portrayed in animation! We look at the biblical plagues depicted in Dreamworks' "The Prince of Egypt" and a more metaphorical plague in this year's "We Bare Bears: The Movie."
Links
Watch The Prince of Egypt on Hulu
Watch We Bare Bears: The Movie
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
What's up, Doc? We're celebrating the 80th birthday of everyone's favorite wise-cracking rabbit: Bugs Bunny! When taking a look at Bugs' first appearance in "A Wild Hare," we'll see what carries over to the brand new series "Looney Tunes Cartoons?" What are the core traits of Bugs Bunny? What has changed in Bugs since 1940?
Links
Watch Looney Tunes Cartoons on HBO Max
Previously on Writers Get Animated
080 - The Breakdown: Duck Amuck
015 - The Breakdown: What's Opera, Doc?
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
In this episode, we break down what's been going on with animation specifically made for adults. After a brief overview, we take a look at "The Midnight Gospel" and "Lastman," two shows that look and feel like nothing else out there. How has the field of adult animation changed? What are the trends? What are the projects that set themselves apart from the pack?
Previously on Writers Get Animated
161 - Nice While It Lasted: The End of BoJack Horseman
156 - Harley Quinn
151 - Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: Stories Without Words
140 - Tuca and Bertie
031 - Boop, Bakshi, And Beyond: Adult Animation in the 70’s And 80’s
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Scooby, Shaggy, and the gang are back in action and, this time, they're bringing some friends! The Scooby Doo-niverse is becoming the Hanna-Barbera-verse! What happens when you expand the world of Scooby Doo to include Blue Falcon and Dick Dastardly? Is anything lost? How big can this universe get?
Previously on Writers Get Animated
009 - A Tale of Two Scoobies
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
What makes a family a family? And what makes a family film a family film? We get into The Willoughbys - the newest animated film from Netflix!
Links
‘The Willoughbys’ Director Kris Pearn is Blending 2D and Stop-Motion Animation Styles for a New Take on an Old Story
Terry Crews Explains Why Netflix’s ‘The Willoughbys’ Is Perfect Pandemic Viewing
Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned with a force! We take a look at how the finale of Star Wars: Clone Wars fits into the larger questions explored in the Star Wars universe. What is different about this particular ending and story? What's next for the animated Star Wars canon?
Previously on Writers Get Animated
23 - All About Ahsoka
136 - Star Wars: Resistance Recap
123 - Star Wars: Resistance
113 - Star Wars: Rebels Remembrances
87 - Who Rule Cartoons? (Girls.)
72 - Rebels Retrospective
53 - Saw Gerrera: A Star Wars Episode
03 - Episode III: The Animated Menace
Links
Watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Disney Plus
Clone Wars Declassified: 5 Highlights from “Victory and Death”
Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
In celebration of the episode "Quack Pack" latest season of DuckTales, we revisit Disney's Quack Pack from 1996! In what ways are they similar? How has storytelling changed in Disney TV animation since then?
Previously on Writers Get Animated
141 - The Breakdown: Nothing Can Stop Della Duck
090 - DuckTales! Woo-oo!
Links
Watch Quack Pack on Disney Plus
Watch the latest season of DuckTales on DisneyNOW
Watch past seasons of DuckTales on Disney Plus
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Buckle up your jetpacks because we're taking to the skies with The Rocketeer! What changes when a comic book movie from the early 1990's becomes a Disney Junior series? How do you make an action-packed series for young audiences?
Links
5 Ways Disney Junior’s New The Rocketeer Series Was Inspired by the 1991 Film
Collider: Disney Junior's New Animated Series Takes to the Skies
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Hoot! We’re following the owls to join Luz’s adventures in The Owl House! What makes The Owl House so different from other recent fantasy shows? How do Luz and Eda defy expectations? What adventures are in store for us?
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
We say goodbye to one of our favorite shows: BoJack Horseman. How does the “Great American Novel” end? What story have we been following these past few years? What have we learned about how to end a story? How do you give closure to characters and relationships without answering all the questions?
Previously on Writers Get Animated
121 - The Lost Loves of Scrooge McDuck and BoJack Horseman
103 - From Bazooga Eyes to BoJack: Sexual Harassment in Cartoons
046 - What Are You Doing Here? The Struggles and Failures of BoJack Horseman