Days Past Tooncast

Continuing our month-long dive into all things GHOSTBUSTERS, this week DPTC talks about the time The Real Ghostbusters went on a game show hosted by none other than SATAN HIMSELF… or at least a “minor demon” who looks a HELL of a lot like him! The prize? The Ghostbusters’ very souls!

October is here and the reason for the season is GHOSTBUSTERS… all month! This week DPTC covers Filmation’s take on ghostbusting with a time-hopping adventure that sends Jake Kong Jr, Eddie Spencer Jr., and pals back to the Salem Witch Trials! Intolerance, fate pens, jury tampering, hollowed-out gorillas… all this and more on DPTC!

DPTC hits rock bottom with the debut episode of DINOSAUCERS, easily the worst toon we’ve covered thus far! How could alien dinosaurs in spaceships go so wrong? Oh, we’ll tell you how -- while discussing other important topics such as bootleg toys and child scientists!

1994: armageddon. 3994 years later: the debut episode of THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN! DPTC travels to post-apocalyptic Earth to talk about milking fruit, abuser tactics, and the future’s favorite film JAWS! If you like your world un-ended, Save That Moon today, folks!

Saddle up, pard! Those DPTC boys are moseyin’ back to the 1990s for the debut of WILD WEST C.O.W.-BOYS OF MOO MESA! “Bonanza meets TMNT” sounds mighty good on paper, but in reality… hooooo boy. We’ll be goldurned if we didn’t have fun jawin’ about it, though, so pull up a stool and commence to listenin'!

From the studio that brought us Thundercats comes the debut episode of the sci-fi/cop show mashup SILVERHAWKS! Travel to the distant Limbo Galaxy with the DPTC boys to discuss prison design, the secrets of the Rankin-Bass Formula, and how to properly handle mimes!

Will and Travis once again return(ia) to Eternia with the episode “Quest for HE-MAN”… and take a hard left turn toward the weird, whacky world of Trainis — a land of M.C. “Master of Ceremonies” Escher-style backgrounds, Looney Tunes voices, and the sexiest bird woman this side of the universe!

DPTC keeps it patriotic deep into July (a.k.a., Worldwide America Month) with a look at the cartoon debut of Mr. America himself, HULK HOGAN's Rock 'N' Wrestling, in which a cavalcade of ethnic stereotypes race for Hollywood stardom!

July is America’s month and DPTC is returning to America’s toon — RAMBO: THE FORCE OF FREEDOM! What’s more American than a shirtless soldier and his pals saving a U.S. senator’s dog from mercenary ninjas? Nothing.

Trigger warning to the max! DPTC tackles racism with the Junkyard Gang when they return to FAT ALBERT! Think they won’t be discussing Nazis in the same breath as the magic of Dippin' Dots? Guess again!

Will and Travis finally return to perennial toy and toon juggernaut TRANSFORMERS for the timelessly hip episode “Auto Bop!” Decepticons running night clubs, Transformers dancing, boomboxes facing off in a battle royale… Set your dial between Casey and Kasem, ToonCast fans, because this is True Jive, Vol. 10!

DPTC is hanging ten all the way back to 1996 to scope out the most radical dudes of all time, the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, in their final season episode “Mobster from Dimension X!” Mutants. Lasers. Aliens. Zoot suit gangsters. This one truly has it all!

Will and Travis finally return to round out DINO-RIDERS with its final episode, “Ice Age Adventure!” How could this 22-minute toy commercial with aliens, dinosaurs, time travel, and (alleged) cavewoman sex magic possibly be so bad? Tune in and find out!

Things get spoooooky at the DPTC studio as KAT COUCH (NATURE OF THE BEAST) joins Will and Travis to talk about the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS episode “No One Comes to Lupusville!” Vampire-blindness, crank girls, and what having a rat tail says about a person… What other secrets does this episode hold? We’ll never tell!

Voice actor and director NICOLE ENDICOTT (SEVEN MORTAL SINS) joins Will and Travis to talk about Nintendo toon CAPTAIN N’s first crossover with the LEGEND OF ZELDA! Talking points: Link’s tailor (and “Links” Taylor), baby wants a kiss-kiss, skipped nips… oh, and the DPTC crew gets sucked into Hyrule. We’re warpin’ over here!