Could you please upload episodes of Wimzie’s House? I just want to see how you doing, with Restored audio!

Oh, so sorry, I don't have any, personally! On TubiTV, there's currently 20 free episodes, and all other platforms like Vudu, Google Play and YouTube Movies & TV have the full series for purchase. (Correction: YouTube Movies & TV has only about 56 episodes.) Honestly, even if I purchased the stuff and ripped it, I don't think I could get away with putting those specific rips on YouTube, since it's ON SALE on YouTube-- I'm sure the content ID would be pretty oppressive. But yes, the good news is that it's available at all! Many other edutainment shows are not nearly as lucky. All the bestest!

This question is about Making Fiends, who are you more willing to hang around with? Charlotte or Vendetta, one is annoying, the other is mean. Pick your poison.

Wow, what an interesting question from an interesting Anonymous! Once again, if any of you Anonymouses wanna be friends, alls you gotta do is attribute yourself.

Hanging around a real-life Vendetta would be very dangerous. I might could die~

Obviously, a more reasonable analogy for what a Vendetta-type person might be in real life would just be a class bully, rather than some sort of golem-controlling super-genius who’s probably working their way around to world domination. (Baby steps!) And I'll admit, I've been bullied a good deal in my life, but I also have somehow worked my own way around to being friends with the very same people who have bullied me. So hanging out with Vendetta isn't out of the question.

On the other hand, right off the bat, there's a lot less to be worried about when it comes to Charlotte? Unlike other characters of her nature, I can't think of an example of Charlotte's comically timed ineptitude hurting anyone OTHER than a fiend. And I am not a fiend. With butter. Or jam. Or ducks. So I would not be in physical danger around Charlotte, which is more than I can say for Vendetta, with or without the improbable ability to breathe life into malicious creatures of her own design.

And as for Charlotte's cheer, I've got that in spades, myself. Spontaneously bursting into musical numbers? Always down for it. And I've often felt a little inept or slow-on-the-uptake (or the downgive)-- so I have no right to say, "Charlotte's dumb," of myself. (Maggie, on the other hand, seems VERY smart and can make that call.) The only issue is the sustained amount of energy. Even as I write this, I'm pretty exhausted, and I don't know if Charlotte can so much as sit still for very long.

Well, perhaps I'm misjudging her, though-- Charlotte CAN hold her breath for nine hours. (Way to put Tom Cruise to shame. Or Guybrush Threepwood.) You know what? I'm probably way off-base there; Charlotte's a super-considerate and thoughtful person who, in-spite of momentary lapses in memory, would be accommodating to, say, someone with a headache. (Which is apparently me.) I wouldn't be able to say that about some of my own cousins, but I could easily say that about Charlotte.

So there goes my only reservation about spending an extended period of time with Charlotte. Charlotte wins!

The real question is, would I be able to hang out with either of them WITHOUT the other showing up, anyway? They're kind of a package-deal, are they not? I even had a dream I wrote about once where Charlotte and Vendetta were still dukin' it out hundreds of years into the future. So maybe it's safer to hang out with them from a safe, guarded distance. Considering I have so many online friends, I think this arrangement would work out just fine.

Can you imagine a group video chat with Charlotte and Vendetta? Hoo. The Times.

Thank you for giving me This time to think about something so multifaceted, Anonny!

... and you know she doesn’t say this stuff unless she means it!

(Episode 108, The Mysterious Benedict Society)

As a person who grew during the 2000’s I’m saddened by the news Adobe Flash is shutting down. I’m happy however that you and several others are trying your best to find various lost Web Premiere Toons that were on the Cartoon Network website in the early 2000’s. Hopefully you can find the ones that feature Dexter and the Looney Tunes.

Woah--that means so much to me! If you can believe it, I just got a contact from an amazing person who found basically all the Looney Tunes shorts, and I’ll be uploading those shortly! I’ve never heard of any Dexter animated shorts, and I’m a HUGE Dexter’s Laboratory fan. Could you elaborate? (I wish y’all didn’t always contact me on Anonymous, I’d love to be friends with you!)

I am a Sleepy Boi fanboi.

As there seems to be some puzzle place-related questions on here... I might as well ask one... Now that KCET is a PBS member station again and the lancits are still in business... What do you think a revival of the puzzle place would be like? what would the characters be like? and what issues would they tackle?

Oh, golly gee! All of these wonderful Puzzle Place anonymouses-- I’m not going to make a whole separate post for whoever sent the “thank you for uploading”, but I’m SO grateful people care about the show!

I had NO clue that The Puzzle Place’s copyright owners had come back from the dead! I think that The Puzzle Place never shied away from any important issues for children, and a revival certainly wouldn’t, either! In the same way that Sesame Street (and its foreign adaptations) have tackled things in recent years like autism with Julia, homelessness with Lily, drug addiction with Karli, I’m sure The Puzzle Place would do the very same thing. I mean, gosh, in the last generation of PBS, Postcards from Buster had an episode where they visited a family with two moms, and in recent years, Mr. Ratburn just got married to his partner, for Pete’s sake!

An issue I think would be interesting to cover tastefully is domestic abuse. I can’t think of any really good examples of a show educating children on how to cope with that kind of abuse, or how to get out of such a situation. I also think the atmosphere is right for children to be taught, in simple terms, how to deal with friends of different religions. I think the show already was doing an awful lot to help foster an understanding & love for our varying beliefs. (Skye, for example, sings this amazing song called Sacred Ways in the Finders Keepers episode.) I think to outrightly say that everyone believes different things, and that’s okay would be an important message.

Bully for Jody already covered a lot of stuff about real-life bullying very well, but I do think that a cyberbullying episode would be brilliant. No one’s made a good piece on the subject thus far, I think. They could even do some rad stuff with Weebus, if they took on that subject-- show physically the kind of emotional damage that cyberbullying can do on a person through Weebus getting broken by these messages.

The question “what would the characters be like” is an interesting one. I personally would hate if the characters changed... I’m already of the opinion that the third season redesigns of the characters, while serviceable, aren’t anywhere near as good to perform with as the original puppets! For an example of some really excellent puppet designs from a revival, I’d definitely turn to The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Complete perfection there-- I’m picky as all get-out, and I don’t have a single bad thing to say about that revival. Anyway, every season on Sesame Street, things change, and they’re catered to the needs of the children of that generation. These are needs that I’m probably not fully aware of, given I’m not a child psychologist. I assume a revival would do an awful lot of study, as they should, on what’s needed to make the biggest positive difference in the lives of the next generation of children.

... I will make one caveat: As positive an experience as I’m certain Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood has been for children who watch it, I don’t consider it to be a good substitute for Mr. Rogers from an artistic standpoint. Whatever someone were to do to Puzzle Place, just... ... try to be sensitive to not only those baseline educational needs (which should be easy enough to fill)-- but on the need to make something real special. I believe very strongly that having the opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life through art is a really sacred one, and we shouldn’t aim to simply make bargain-bin stuff that teaches “good values” and leaves you empty in your soul, you know? We should aim to make art-- beautifully simple-- something that goes straight to the heart and stays there, waiting to be shared with another little human being who’s new to the world. Things that tell stories that are complicated emotionally, but simple enough that anyone can understand it. Someone who I really look up to in the current state of children’s entertainment is Mo Willems, for example.

... Yeah, uh, actually, get Mo Willems on PBS, pronto! That’s my final thought.

EDIT: I was just given a response from this anonymous, which I’d like to share, but don’t have anything to add to (since as I mentioned in my answer, I didn’t want the personalities & design of the Puzzle Place characters to change, hahaha): “Following Up your reply to my “Puzzle place Revival” question... I could see it also tackling problems found in Teenage years (i.e. depression, anxiety, peer pressure), to appeal and relate to a wide audience of children, and also, what do you think each of the puzzle place characters would physically look and be like in this hypothetical revival?”

What is the cutest/funniest episode of the puzzle place in your personal opinion?

Oh boy! The cutest? Well, depending on who you ask, I think plenty of people are particularly fond of Season 1, Episode 3, Rip Van Winkle-- you know the scene I’m gonna mention, hahaha. Anyone who thinks Julie & Skye have a crush on each other has come to that episode’s Comments section in droves. As far as funniest is concerned, I think Season 1, Episode 10, Spud Buds has some of the most absolutely hilarious & scathing parodies of television entertainment outside of... I dunno, The Weird Al Show-- Peter Linz showing up as a human is particularly brilliant and fourth-wall-breaky.

What “Puzzle Place” merchandise (toys, books, plush, etc.) did you have as a kid?

Remarkable question, Anonymous! Perhaps I’m getting to trust y’all more with each passing day!

So, it’s less what I DID have and more what I STILL have. I have all the main characters in tiny figurine form, and we keep them safe inside a tiny container of precious childhood memories. However, here’s a fun picture of tiny me with all those toys in their own nonsensical arrangement. And that’s all I’ve had, and all I have! :  )

wow, you have a very long list of things you like there! How long have you been continually updating it??

Haha, I always feel a little paranoid answering anonymous messages, but if it’s that interesting to you: It’s been over 10 years now! Since right around 2007, although I don’t have proof of it going back that far. I DO have proof it going back to 2009, on a Wayback Machine snapshot of my YouTube channel.

Whoever you are, I hope you have a wonderful day and beyond, & I’d really be interested to know who you are. :  )

EDIT: Update, this anonymous person is wonderful! Sometimes, it’s a much-more-than-good idea to answer such questions.

Be my honeypie.

The Weepies, they get it. They totally get it. Also, uh, their bandname has become increasingly apt. Between playing Citywide Rodeo, The World Spins Madly On, Sirens, etc., I start to choke on all my hopes and dreams. Thanks, Deb & Steve, for creating a Romantic period of your own.

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♪ He’s self-aware. ♫

For the Vulfpeck Funky Duck Dance Contest!

Watch the full dance over here!

And a loopéd version here.

MUSIC VIDEO HERE!

BANDCAMP RELEASE W/ BONUS MATERIAL HERE!

And if you missed it, TALLY HALL COVER ALBUM IT DEBUTED ON HERE!

Thank you so much again to my perfect fam’bly, to Allegra and Marcy, and to Zoë, Cam, Lottie, Angelica, Jack, Adam, Eileen, Leena, Rachael, & NOW inclusions of Athrylis, Gemma, Josh, & Marie. *deep breath* ... & Tally Hall. Thank you so much for helping to make something that’s been in my head for years. The sweetest part of it all is having friends.

DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP FOR FREE (OR DONATION TO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL HERE! Bring ‘er in.)

I’m honoured to have been a part of this, and I’m extremely grateful to Zoë, Cam, Lottie, Angelica, Jack, Adam, Eileen, Leena, Rachael, and my entire family for making my cover possible. Completely impossible without them-- I’m so excited to put out the music video for this, hopefully by Thanksgiving if at all possiblé. :  )

I just sampled every track on the album (look out for Marcy’s, by the way-- it should be arriving tomorrow!), and I just want to say that Zoë’s cover of Hymn for a Scarecrow is my personal favorite. Please check it out, the rhythm shift completely changes the song forever in a way that I personally connect to very much and am currently dancing to like a Scooby-Doo character in a malt shop. Also, it makes me feel like I needed to amp my game up, LAWL. Belt a little bit, Skye, sheesh. Can’t bottle the jam.

In the words of Joe Hawley-- I mean, Willy Wonka, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.“ Now, we’d all better get back to shoveling Oompa Loompa Poop-pa...

We Think We’re Playing In A Band: A Tribute To Tally Hall is out now on Bandcamp! 

In November 2005, Tally Hall’s first album Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum was released on indie label Quack. A genre-defying debut, MMMM instantly electrified critics and gained Tally Hall a devoted fanbase. Fast forward to 2015. Ten years after the album hit the shelves and four years after Tally Hall left the stage, that fanbase has come together to celebrate the legacy and longevity of Ann Arbor’s finest. 

All proceeds from the album will go towards the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital, a charity selected by the band. The download also includes a 14-page digital booklet featuring art and writing from fans across the world.

With musical contributions from: Tommy Siegel (@tommy-siegel) / Casey Shea / Ben Kling (@benkling) / Courtney Flynn (@superflynntendo) / Skye (HomeStarRunnerTron) (@jameswcoleman) / Molly Lewis / Bowman (@iambowman) Marcy Nabors (@steamlord313) / hrmnzr / Zoë (@playfulpunch) / Allegra Rosenberg (@maybeinthenight) / Matt Martin / Gary Patterson / Titty Hall (@tittyhall) / Greyson Mannella (@betrayalgrumps) / Maral Ohan (@toorshi) / Merced Stratton (@merstr) / Dictionary Attack (@dictionaryattack) / Espinoza

And featuring art and writing from: @qotice / @sharkweek-official / @hoe-hawley / @yellowtie / @masterofasgard / @sapphirewolf100 / @starrygalaxytwinklebitch / @welcome-to-tally-hell / @konnydear / @its-waffle-man / @silentexplosiveand / @purplepanadian / @inukshuk201 / @spooky-moone

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this project, and also to all of the followers of this blog! Even if you didn’t submit anything, this project wouldn’t have happened without your support. 

Happy 10th anniversary to Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, and happy listening! 

Dreams come true, when you learn to dance in the Rayne. My eternal gratitude to the Doogtoons crew, for believing in my inner mustache.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptnF–hvas)

HOLY delicious hot schmo-- well... I guess it’s a good thing I went through all my grandparents’ old videotapes, my re-upload got noticed by the Living Lawrence, himself! After all, L.B. Rayne is the only musical act I’ve ever Kickstarted-- putting it simply, he’s far too good for music, and my personal savior. *hyperventilates*

Recent video upload from perhaps my RADDEST fan, Scoot Stangleborden

(from Groundhog Day, 1993)

Made for a secret bit on a web-ish thing I'm working on.