Podcasts by Dic Geeks

Genius (1999) from 2020-10-20T17:55:21

Once rejected into the "Lost media" pile on our watchlist, only to be saved by the neither-here-nor-there land that is Disney+, it's Genius (1999)! The first and only DCOM produced by Dic whilst...

We're Back! A Dic Geeks Story [Bonus] from 2020-09-30T15:49:48

Okay admittedly that was more of a hibernation than a hiatus, but it is with great pleasure that we can announce that Dic Geeks is finally back once and for all! This here is a little bonus epis...

I'm Telling! (1987) from 2019-06-27T12:42:07

 In a very bizarre out of nowhere move in the late 80s, Dic made a kid's gameshow. Why? No one really knows, and for the most part, everyone's kind of forgotten about it. ...Mainly because,...

Wish Kid/Mary-Kate And Ashley in Action! (1991/2001) from 2019-05-08T16:21:41

Child Stars! Y'know, those scrappy actors that start doing stuff from a young age and have prolonged popularity before inevitably fading into obscurity before suddenly coming back and doing inte...

Iz and the Zizzles (2007) from 2019-04-24T00:00

Released in 2005 to widespread disinterest and bemusement, the Zizzle Iz was the new music toy created by the bloke who made Furbies. For the most part, it just kind of existed for a while befor...

Super Mario Bros 3 / Super Mario World (1990/1991) from 2019-03-31T00:00

Yes indeed, we're finally getting the other two Mario cartoons done and out of the way with this episode, as we take a look at two more Dic shows that were instrumental in the creation and perpe...

The Dic Geeks 4-in-1 Fun Pak!! from 2019-03-12T00:00

Okay, so "Fun" might be somewhat of an inaccurate title for this here special episode of Dic Geeks, but we definitely deliver on bringing you 4 mini reviews of trash garbage cartoons this week! ...

Photon/ALF Tales (1984/1988) from 2019-02-28T00:00

Another episode, another duo of dull boring Dic shows. What do we have this week? A laser tag tie-in and yet another Fairy Tale Theater knockoff? Bahh surely these can't be any good. ...Wait, fo...

Pocket Dragons Adventures & Lady Lovely Locks (1996/1984) from 2019-02-12T00:00

Another lightning round of mediocre Dic cartoons for you this week as we look at the excitable yet dull Pocket Dragon Adventures and the utter travesty that is Lady Lovely Locks. Mark's audio go...

Meet Julie (1987) from 2019-01-29T00:00

Content Warning - Mention of a cop shooting early on in the episode; Mentioned as part of the discussion about World of Wonder's downfall starting at around 3:21 and ...

Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers/McTreasure Island (1994/1990) from 2019-01-15T00:00

Dic Geeks returns for the third year running to tackle the still-pretty-bloody-large remainder of the dic catalogue! This week we cruise it easy with two half hour toons; a failed pilot for a su...

A Christmas Carol/"Xmas Marks The Spot" (1997/1986) from 2018-12-16T00:00

Christmas special time yaaay. A Christmas Carol (1997) is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic with awkwardly bodged musical numbers scattered throughout; meanwhile "Xmas Ma...

Inspector Gadget (1999) from 2018-12-06T00:00

Mark and Avery finally tackle Dic's big movie McGuffin, Inspector Gadget (1999) starring Matthew Broderick. How does one describe Inspector Gadget the movie? Well, first take about 3 or 4 vague ...

Groove Squad (2002) from 2018-11-11T00:00

What happens when you cobble together dusty old stereotypes, a second hand vhs of sailor moon and a half-arsed stab in the dark at pandering to kids? You get Groove Squad, DiC's only Sunday Movi...

Monster Mash (2000) from 2018-11-04T00:00

When Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man are indicted by the monster council for not being scary enough, hijinks ensue. Which is basically another way of saying 'Generic Cartoon Ant...

Bump in the Night/Mummies Alive! (1994/1997) from 2018-10-14T00:00

A show that is far too much to watch for more than 5 minutes and a show that has a fantastic theme song and immediately plunges downhill thereafter. Oh joy. 

Well, we've already covered Bu...

Time Kid (2003) from 2018-09-30T00:00

As we were at a gaming con last week (which we probably should have mentioned beforehand, whoops) we decided that the only way to make up for last week's missing episode was with time travel. Sa...

The Mysterious Cities of Gold/Liberty's Kids (1982/2002) from 2018-09-09T00:00

History has always been a ripe subject for fiction, and so it was inevitable that in our dives through the DiC Archives we'd find ourselves a matching pair of shows with very different approache...

New Kids On The Block/Hammerman (1990/1991) from 2018-08-26T00:00

What? *Two* cartoons an episode?! Yeah, that's the new structure, get with the times my pal. We're trying out something new; not only are we reducing the overall workload by doing this but also ...

The Poochie Special (1984) from 2018-08-12T00:00

An interesting collection of jobbers, an entire plotline pulled out of literal thin air and a dog that was known mostly from being a brand of stationary. Against all odds The Poochie Special, a ...

Double Dragon (1993) from 2018-08-05T00:00

For some inexplicable reason, DiC thought it'd be a great idea to launch a cartoon based off a popular game that came out in the arcade and at home...approximately 6 years after it had come out....

Sonic The Hedgehog (1993) from 2018-07-15T00:00

More affectionately known as "SatAM", Sonic the Hedgehog was Dic's second cartoon featuring the blue blur. Rather than take a second spin at the cartoon antics of AoSTH, SatAM is considerably da...

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (1985) from 2018-06-03T00:00

Remember Ulysses 31? Jean Chalopin certainly did. So when Mattel comissioned DiC to produce a cartoon based around their failing toy line 'Wheeled Warriors', the result was yet another french-st...

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987) from 2018-05-20T00:00

With Hello Kitty's birthday being only a mere 164 days away, we decided to do a bit of early celebration by watching the very first Hello Kitty cartoon broadcast on TV! Furry Tale Theater, despi...

Defenders of Dynatron City (1992) from 2018-05-13T00:00

When Maniac Mansion co-creator Gary Winnick tried to code his very own NES action game, the results were underwhelming. The marketing however took on a life of it's own thanks to input from a yo...

Ultraforce (1995) from 2018-05-06T00:00

With the success of Fox's X-Men cartoon, studios spent much of the early 90s looking for the next big superhero team. Unfortunately, it was the early 90s and therefore comics were ugly and barel...

ProStars (1991) from 2018-04-29T00:00

In 1991 DiC made a show in which the three most famous sportsmen in North America teamed up to fight supervillains with sports-themed gadetry. That's the entire premise. Despite everything about...

Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990) from 2018-04-22T00:00

In honor of Earth Day, we used a heat-spewing, energy-wasting mathematics machine to show us an infamous environmentalist superhero cartoon from the early 1990s. But is Captain Planet as wondero...

Knights of the Zodiac (2003) from 2018-04-15T00:00

Saint Seiya was already a relic by the time DiC licenced it for international distribution, but by addding weird transitions and a pop-punk theme song they somehow managed to make it look even m...

Kidd Video (1984) from 2018-04-08T00:00

We've used the names 'Haim Saban' and 'Shuki Levy' on this show a good number of times, and for good reason; they created some of the catchiest theme songs of the 80s and 90s. Well, this week's ...

Battletoads (1992) from 2018-04-01T00:00

See now, we did actually PLAN on doing Jugman for this weeks episode, but after the utter tradegy that was To Riverdale And Back, we had to take a break from all things Archie. I mean it's April...

Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990) from 2018-03-26T00:00

You may have noticed that this one's late. Here's the thing. This movie was...so mentally draining, both to watch and talk about, that our initial recording of it was just completely unusable. O...

Archie's Weird Mysteries (1999) from 2018-03-18T00:00

When someone pitched 'Archie vs. B-Movies', it would have been so easy to just have the gang fight a new Universal Monster each week. And yet this obscure late 90s series pits Archie and his fri...

The New Archies (1987) from 2018-03-11T00:00

Today on "Dic Ruins Yet Another Perfectly Good Franchise", we look at The New Archies. Basically, take the regular Archie cast, age them down back to pre-teen times and throw some bright and sui...

Barbie And The Rockers (1987) from 2018-03-04T00:00

Barbara Millicent Roberts has been a lot of different things in her lifetime; teen model, doctor, game developer... but what she's always been more than any other thing is a tool; a massive hamm...

Hey Vern, It's Ernest! (1988) from 2018-02-25T00:00

Hey Vern! Have you heard about this podcast thing called 'DiC Geeks'? There's these two folks in England that talk about cartoons, you know, like I do to you all day? Anyway, this pair of dorks ...

ALF: The Animated Series (1987) from 2018-02-18T00:00

ALF: The Animated Series, or ALF Animated Adventures, or even ALF on Melmac was somewhat of a cash-in on the sudden hit popularity of the "classic" 80s show ALF; a sitcom about a snarky yet lova...

Stargate Infinity (2002) from 2018-02-11T23:59:59

When FOX BOX first launched, its crown jewel was 'Stargate Infinity', DiC's cartoon based on then-popular live action Sci-Fi series 'Stargate SG-1'. However, far from being FOX BOX's very own St...

The Power Team (1990) from 2018-02-04T20:00

We'll be honest here, we done goofed up again. We originally thought that The Power Team was created by DiC Entertainment, which seemed reasonable considering neither of us thought they'd really...

Captain N: The Game Master (1989) from 2018-01-28T18:00

The inhabitants of Videoland are in grave danger! The King has been trapped within a mirror world, leaving the (obviously) helpless princess in danger! Despite her trio of comic sidekicks, she's...

DIC Animated Christmas Blast (2008) - Part II from 2017-12-31T00:00

In the second and final part of our Christmas DVD spectacular, we take an in-depth look at Disc 2 of that Shout Factory DVD boxset. 'Twas The Night Before Bumpy (1995)' is a fea...

DIC Animated Christmas Blast (2008) - Part I from 2017-12-24T00:00

It's a Christmas Miracle! Not only do we return, but we return to cover an entire Shout Factory published DVD boxset of Christmas specials! In the first episode of this very special two-parter w...

(Slimer! and) The Real Ghostbusters (1986/1988) from 2017-10-30T00:00

Whooooo~ Spooky halloween podcast~! Be very afraid! Bad audio problems, buggered up recording, and all sorts of other errors and problems abound!! And on our final episode too! Golly gee gosh da...

Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999) from 2017-10-15T00:00

The year was 1999, and a supernatural comedy series about a blonde-haired young adult with powers was on everybody's watch-list. But this isn't about the sadly never produced Buffy The Vampire S...

Little Clowns of Happytown (1987) from 2017-10-01T00:00

Somebody truly thought that 'Clowns that are nice to people, but who are also children, and are also sort of an ethnic minority group maybe' was the greatest ever idea for a childrens' show. 

Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling (1985) from 2017-09-17T00:00

Not even the voice of Brad Garrett imitating the Hulkster can save this from mediocry, brotherrrrr!

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999) from 2017-09-03T00:00

With a title like this and a theme tune ripped directly from the Best of eJay Demo Tunes 1996 Edition, this was guaranteed to be a fun romp. Fortunately, in a pleasant turn of events - it wa...