Recent content by Peter Paltridge

I never understood what that word meant or where it came from. Apparently the title and main character's last name is one big inside joke, and Poppin' Fresh is tangentially connected to a popular political newspaper strip.

You might think so, but no. The story did not start out as a Wizard parody nor was it ever intended to be one. There are just unavoidable parallels in it...which I admit, we do lean into. I feel if I DON'T reference The Wizard at times in a story like this, people will be let down. "Video...

https://www.platypuscomix.com/educational/arabianwithoutfear.html Did you know that during the entire original run of Disney's Aladdin, the title character was not allowed to show fear? It's true. Why did they establish such a rule, and for what purpose? Find out this week!

https://platypuscomix.com/st/?issue=13&page=25&seriesID=14 Didn't think I forgot about the flying, did you? It's going to come up now and then, and it won't always be convenient...in fact, it usually won't! It's going to take quite a while for El to figure out how it works. Here's the weird...

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Well. Now that EVERYONE knows the final twists, let's dive in.

I saw, and did not like. Worth noting though, Harbour also thinks Hopper should have killed himself at the end of Season One. He thinks a lot of things.

I really doubt it, for this reason: Elmyra is shown at a completely different school in "Grandma's Dead," not Acme Looniversity. That feels like a deliberate step to ground "Elmyra's Family" in its own world.

Oldest is a Beta recording of Barnaby Jones from November 1977. Newest is a night of NBC's Revolution and The Voice from September 2012.

I've been chatting with a guy who's working on a documentary about the history of the Organ Grinder restaurant. I sent him clean copies of the ads I had, and he upscaled and cleaned up one of them pretty well:

I've seen those Florida Grapefruit Juice ads on some of my tapes, and thought "that looks like Doug; I wonder if Jim Jinkins did this." It's been confirmed!

BONUS POST! I need to touch on this: THE CARTOON ACTUALLY REVEALED WHERE HAWKINS IS. I know, "it's in Indiana"...but they dared to show exactly WHERE. It's like revealing Springfield. I never expected this. So now the big question is, what is it replacing?? Here's the area in Google Maps...

This chapter has a very cathartic scene: EL FINALLY BEATS UP BILLY! We were robbed of it on the show. Part 2 is up: https://platypuscomix.com/st/?issue=13&page=13&seriesID=14 Whenever I'm borrowing a world, I always find one little piece of it that unexpectedly annoys me. When I wrote True...