It’s probably the most important exercise we’ve ever attempted on the podcast, finding the most cursed animation character! We debate and grade the cursed-ness of these cursed heavyweights: Hooty (The Owl House), Scratch (The Ghost and Molly McGee), Swift Wind (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), KVN (Final Space), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Lemongrab (Adventure Time), Dave (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Woodman (Hilda), Pig Baby (Infinity Train), Glossaryck (Star vs. the Forces of Evil), Kyubey (Madoka Magica), Scrappy Doo, Onion & Ronaldo (Steven Universe), Jerry (Rick and Morty).

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Aly Martin.

See the final grades here (SPOILERS!) https://www.overlyanimated.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CursedFinalGrades.png

We dove into the big reveals and more from the huge Rick and Morty Season 5 finale “Forgetting Sarick Mortshall” & “Rickmurai Jack” and talked about Season 5 overall.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & April Collins.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 1:10 – What Watching: Kid Cosmic S2, Wizard City, Q-Force, What If…?
• 5:00 – Rick and Morty Discussion Starts – Finale Thoughts
• 18:00 – Evil Morty & Central Finite Curve
• 22:45 – Rick’s Backstory
• 28:00 – Producing Mortys
• 34:00 – Will the show change moving forward?
• 48:00 – S5 Overall/Favorite Episodes
• 1:00:00 – Conclusion

There was so much to discuss about the back-half of The Owl House S2A as we dove into many topics about episodes “Hunting Palismen”, “Eda’s Requiem”, “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door”, “Eclipse Lake”, & “Yesterday’s Lie”.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Aly Martin, & April Collins.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 1:15 – What Been Watching: Centaurworld, Rick and Morty, Tuca & Bertie, Central Park, What If…?, Vivo
• 5:30 – Owl House S2E6-10 Discussion Starts
• 7:55 – Yesterday’s Lie Reactions
• 12:15 – Creepy Luz
• 16:25 – The Promise
• 22:30 – Emotional Core of the show
• 29:30 – Favorite parts of S2 so far
• 39:45 – Belos reveals
• 45:00 – Grimwalkers
• 53:45 – Hunter/The Golden Guard
• 1:03:00 – Raine Whispers
• 1:10:00 – Harpy Eda
• 1:16:45 – Lumity
• 1:25:30 – Other things from the episodes
• 1:37:45 – Final Thoughts/Conclusion

Time for more Owl House Season 2 discussion as we dive into everything about episodes 3-5 “Echoes of the Past”, “Keeping Up A-fear-ances”, & “Through the Looking Glass Ruins”, including more Lumity and other topics!

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, Aly Martin, & Sarah Dolman.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 1:15 – What Been Watching: Craig of the Creek, Rick and Morty, Tuca & Bertie, Luca, Summer Camp Island, Central Park
• 8:00 – Owl House S2E3-5 Discussion Starts
• 13:00 – Lumity Discussion
• 24:50 – Amity’s New Hair
• 35:50 – Eclipse Lake/Lumity Speculation
• 46:00 – Gus & Mattholomule
• 57:30 – Gwendolyn
• 1:02:20 – Eda’s Curse & Chronic Illness
• 1:14:00 – Plot Stuff
• 1:25:15 – King’s Past
• 1:35:40 – Final Thoughts/Conclusion

We go through all our favorites of the year from 2020 Western TV animation after giving all of our thoughts on the recent Adventure Time Obsidian special, the premiere episodes of Onyx Equinox, Season 1 of the Animaniacs reboot, and Season 3 of Craig of the Creek.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & April Collins.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 5:10 – Adventure Time: Distant Lands Obsidian
• 12:30 – Onyx Equinox Episodes 1 & 2
• 22:25 – Animaniacs Reboot
• 33:15 – Craig of the Creek Season 3
• 57:45 – Main topic – Best of 2020 Animation

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer talk about that crazy Rick and Morty Season 4 finale and look back on the back half of Season 4 of the show.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Alex Bonilla share their thoughts on all of Season 1 of the new Hulu adult animated series “Solar Opposites”!

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer talk all about Season 4 Episode 6 of Rick and Morty “Never Ricking Morty” and what it means for the show as a whole.

Happy New Year everyone! After years of moving forward with a similar format, we’re switching things up for the podcast.

The headline is: We’re going to stop doing episode recap podcasts, and we’re going to focus on more high-level discussions.

The immediate change you’ll see is no episode recap podcasts which will result in less podcasts. However, we’ll still be covering the same shows, the podcast will still generally be similar, we’ll just be structuring our discussions in different ways. We think this new structure will result in more interesting discussions, and we’ll be better equipped to cover shows with a wide variety of release formats.

Here are the types of podcasts you’ll see instead of episode recaps:

• Season recaps! We’ll still be discussing seasons as a whole when a show we cover wraps up its season. So you’ll see an Infinity Train Season 2 recap podcast but not nightly podcasts this week. When the next season of She-Ra drops we’ll have a podcast on the whole season soon after it comes out like normal (but no proceeding episode recaps).
• Podcasts at regular intervals for certain shows: This is the replacement model for episode recaps for weekly shows (or others) we still want to talk about regularly while they’re airing. We won’t discuss all the shows we cover on a regular basis, but in the short term look out for Miraculous Ladybug every-other-week podcasts starting sometime in the next two months, and Owl House podcasts monthly (after we do a special podcast for the premiere this weekend). These will be high-level discussions on anything about the show. If there are episodes to talk about we’ll talk about them generally, but we can also talk about general topics surrounding the show or any news about the show.
• Show-specific topics: If something is on our mind about a show, even if we’re not podcasting on it regularly, we might do a podcast to discuss a specific topic whenever! Likely something we’re passionate about like Bumbleby with RWBY.
• Cross-show or movie topics: This is the one we’re most excited about and hope to do a lot more: A trend in the industry, a trend in a social issue (we definitely want to do queer rep topics more than once a year), or some theme we notice across a few shows. This could really be anything involving animation.

Some exceptions to no more episode recaps: First, we still could do one if there’s an episode we’re super excited to talk about! Also, Steven Universe Future may or may not continue with episode recaps until its completion (if not we’d have every-other-week podcasts when it comes back). We’ll finish out Volume 7 recaps for RWBY since it’s almost over. We may finish out the She-Ra S4 recaps we almost finished. And we can still do pods on a single movie, whether it’s recently released or not!

We’re excited to continue to talk about a lot of awesome animated shows and movies in a format we think will work better. As always reach out with any feedback you have on the podcast!

Delaney Stovall, April Collins and Michelle Anderer recap Episode 5 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Rattlestar Ricklactica”.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer recap Episode 4 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty”.