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Little Mermaid Splash Hits Album Review

Theme song by Brian Setzer and owned by Walt Disney Records

Theme Song by Bruce Healey and owned by Walt Disney Records

We're going to do things a little differently this time around. Instead of a ...

Young people today! Their music is just...well...it’s just terrible.

Hang on there. Before you pat Grandpa James on the head and tell me all about Mumford & Sons or Cloud Cult, let me just acknowledge that yes, not every band that has produced an album in the last fifteen years is godawful. Hell, I have Florence and the Machine on my iPod.

So if that isn’t my point than wh...

Kids TV in Britain can be strange. From the 60's and 70's where we had The Magic Roundabout, a French stop motion cartoon completely re-written and performed by English voice actor Eric Thompson that had less than subtle drug undertones (or are all us cynical adults just reading into it too much?) all the way up to today, where kids game show Trapped encourages one child in a team to subtly sabotage the games they are playing, then asking the team who they think did it, the unlucky soul who's...

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Hello and welcome to anyone who may be reading this. My name is Kristen Dowd, but everyone calls me Kris. I’m a cigarette smoking New Yorker in her mid 20′s, who dreams of becoming a screenwriter. I also happen to be a smart ass who watches/listens to “weird” things constantly and who seems to think she has a knack for making people laugh with her writing. Here you will find my various thoughts on movies I’ve seen. Hopefully you’ll leave my spac...

The year is 2004. I, Robot, The Passion of the Christ, The Incredibles, and Shrek 2 debuted in theaters. Megas XLR, Stargate Atlantis, Desperate Housewives, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends debuted on TV. This was the time in which many 90's kids who grew up with Nickelodeon felt that things weren't the same anymore. While some of their shows that came out when they were younger were still airing, most of them were already gone and were replaced by others. S...

I normally don't do these kind of things, but I felt this is something I needed to address. Yesterday, I watch Nostalgia Critic's latest review: A.I. Now when first spotting the review, I thought Critic covering the Spielberg film made sense as a whole. ...

Hey... It's been a while.

My PC just died, pretty hard to edit my videos then. But why not writing an article ? I've been also thinking about a series of blog about less known animated movies (such as... Russian or French ^^)

For now here's my TOP 10: Favorite Theatrical Animated Feature Films!!! (for now)

(sorry for th...

To conclude 2003, we take a look into another Nickelodeon sitcom starring a mostly black cast. Unlike My Brother and Me or Kenan & Kel, this one was based on a then popular celebrity known as Lil' Romeo. Lil' Romeo was a kid rap singer who is the son of rap singer Master P. He had featured in singing a few hit songs that he would perform in Slime Time Live! and had even sung "Parents Just Don't Understand" in the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius soundtrack. There was ...

The first new original Nicktoon that debuted in 2003 was the last cartoon short that debuted in Oh Yeah! Cartoons! A cartoon that was mixed with action, science fiction, superhero, and drama. That cartoon was none other than My Life as a Teenage Robot that debuted on August 1, 2003.

DISNEYLAND HOTEL’S FANTASY WATERS: A LOOK BACK

theme song by Bruce Healey and owned by Walt Disney Records

One of the small ingredients that Disney didn’t have to do, but did anyway to make the on property hotel and Disney park experience more magical was to actually have shows and entertainment at the hotel. Whenever I went to Disneyland from toddler days...

Now we come to the 2000's. While we have been discussing that some of the 90's Nickelodeon shows were hugely innovated and groundbreaking when they first came out, nothing could be more given that recognition than The Ren & Stimpy Show. Back in the 80's when cartoons were either based on a toy, movie, or reboot of a cartoon from the 60's, The Ren & Stimpy Show was an homage to the classic cartoons while giving it a zany twist. The animation was eye-popping and in-your-fa...

Now that Mother's Day is over, it's time to conclude it with a very well known episode pertaining to that subject: the Rugrats Mother Day special.

To conclude former Nickelodeon shows from other networks in the 90's, we'll finish it with an animated series based on a cartoon short. The 1996 Nicktoon KaBlam! had a lot of classic shorts such as Sniz and Fondue, Life with Loopy, Prometheus and Bob, Action League Now!, and The Offbeats. While Action League Now! would eventually have its own spinoff series, there was another short that have its own series. That short was known as Angela Anaconda. ...

We now go from the first Nickelodeon teen sitcom starring a female protagonist to one of the 3 original Nicktoons. Doug, alongside with Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show debuted on August 11, 1991 in Nickelodeon. It starred a young 11-year-old named Doug Funnie living his everyday normal life in a small town named Bluffington with his family and his friends. The show became one of the most popular Nicktoons in the 90's. The show lasted in Nickelodeon until January 2, ...

Around the early 90's, Nickelodeon were in the beginning of their prime of releasing unique shows such as Salute Your Shorts, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and the three original Nicktoons. But the one show that changed the demographic of shows was none other than Clarissa Explains it All.

As we've been discussing over the past couple of months, Nickelodeon has had made a huge impact on television. The creative programs, the fact that it was a TV network for kids, and the copious amounts of slime made it a huge standout for the past 34 years. As time went on, a few Nickelodeon shows tried to make its way to other networks. Some have been done by the creators. Others haven't. Some have succeeded, most have failed. This week, we're going to take a look at former Nickelodeon shows...

THE COUNTRY BEAR VACATION HOEDOWN REVIEW

NEW THEME SONG by Bruce Healey and owned by Walt Disney Records

If you remember I talked about the original Country Bear Jamboree and the Christmas version of the show during my Christmas reviews a few months ago. I mentioned a second seasonal version of the show that was used for the summer season and since the weather is get...