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031 – Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

Jen welcomes Mike Rosen to discuss a traumatic event from his childhood: Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure! In other words, an ill-fated animated feature directed by Richard Williams.

The Animator’s Survival Kit website is a fine tribute to Williams, an undisputed master of the animation. This guide for the aspiring animator is possibly his greatest legacy.

Here’s the screencap Jen mentions in the episode. Make of it what you will.

Babette the Doll from Raggedy Ann and Andy

For more of Mike, listen to our Nothing But Trouble episode!

016 – ABBA: The Movie

Jen and Mike discuss the clean-cut beat of ABBA: The Movie, starring the enduringly popular Swedes and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Note: this is the second film we’ve discussed that stars a convicted child molester. Hmm.

Sure, you could watch Lasse Hallstrom’s polite middlebrow films, or you could enjoy all the videos he made with ABBA over on their official YouTube channel! We suggest the latter!

For more musical confusion, listen to our episode on Under the Cherry Moon!

009 – Vile Pervert

Jonathan King in Vile Pervert
why drag Spongebob into this

Jen is joined by Mike Rosen to discuss Vile Pervert: The Musical. This slice of pure internet was made by Jonathan King, a music impresario and TV presenter turned convicted sex criminal. If you’ve been looking for the perfect mix of mobile phone video, Oscar Wilde, and sheer unfettered egotism, this will have to do. The entire movie is available for free on YouTube, if you’re a masochist or love demented music as much as Mike does.

Our other episodes about the, uh, work of Jonathan King may be heard here and here.

008 – Nothing But Trouble

Dan Aykroyd in Nothing But Trouble (1991)
why

Jen is once again joined by Mike Rosen to suffer through Dan Aykroyd’s sole directorial credit, Nothing But Trouble! We have nothing else to say except that if you Google the Demi Moore picture we allude to, don’t do it at work.

For more Mike, try our episode on The Day the Clown Cried!

007 – The Day the Clown Cried

Jen invites author, artist, and asshole Mike Rosen on the show to discuss Jerry Lewis’s unfinished Holocaust, um, comedy-drama The Day the Clown Cried. Thanks to Flemish TV and Australo-German filmmaker Eric Friedler, enough footage from the notorious project has surfaced for us to discuss it. Shoutout to Friedler and the Library of Congress curator who were too important to talk to us.

Mike Rosen is the cartoonist responsible for the webcomic Guttersnipe. He also authored the graphic novel Malleus Maleficarum, available from SLG Publishing, and illustrated Misunderstanding Comics.