Animation Station With Robbie And Tracy

Dust off your full body length sweaters and join Robbie and Tracy for The Chipmunk Adventure! This movie boasts some great animation, fun songs and a disconcertingly angular pair of rich siblings. (You could grate cheese on those cheek bones!)  Leg warmers, a reality wherein somehow hot air balloons are the easiest mode of transportation, not being weirded out by depositing small doll versions of yourself filled with money and gems. This movie has it all and yes, of course, Uncomfortable Racism of the Late 80s/Early 90s in Animation™. Thanks for listening and hope you guys like this one! Robbie Twitter: @lobster_writer Tracy Twitter: @tctrauscht

Howdy everybody! Grab a cup of tea, butter those crumpets and join us for our drunken commentary for the 1986 Disney film, The Great Mouse Detective. This underrated cult classic follows the story of Basil of Baker Street, the Holmesian mouse with love of adventure and (apparently) only moderately convincing cosplay. We've got adorable Scottish mice, friendly basset hounds and Vincent Price as the delightfully campy Ratigan. This episode is a bit more free-form as we basically do a running commentary on the movie as you watch along with us. Think of it as an even more niche version of Rifftrax! Hope you guys like this one and thank you so much for listening! Please let us know if you have any comments or requests! Robbie Twitter: @lobster_writer Tracy Twitter: @tctrauscht

*Please note: this episode features descriptions of animal abuse and violence so listener discretion is advised. * Hey everyone! Who's ready to get sad and angry at the same time? That's right, it's angrad time! (Sangry?) We're talking about the 1982 film, The Plague Dogs directed by Martin Rosen and written by Richard Adams (both of Watership Down fame). Our story follows two dogs, Rowlf and Snitter, as they escape from an animal testing facility and try to survive in the outdoors. It's like Homeward Bound without the hope! Or All Dogs go to Heaven but with more brain surgery and English accents! Seriously though, it's quite a sad movie but worth checking out. Thank you for listening and please let us know what you think or if you have recommendations, requests, etc. Robbie Twitter:@lobster_writer Tracy Twitter: @tctrauscht Youtube: Animation Station with Robbie and Tracy ------ Music featured: "Time and Tide", Patrick Gleeson "Who Let The Dogs Out", Matt Mulholland  

Hey guys, it's great to see you again! This week we are talking about the 2012 French feature "Ernest and Celestine." This adorable movie follows the journey of a bear and a mouse who become friends in a world where bears live above and mice live below. It is honestly one of the cutest movies we've ever done and after watching it, we were both excited to talk about it, so we sincerely hope you enjoy! Also, as mentioned in the episode, here is a link to the official site: link!

Hey everyone! This week, we're reviewing American Pop, the 1981 Ralph Bakshi animated film. Known for its use of rotoscoping, a killer soundtrack and weird hippies who love corn, it follows 4 generations of one family and the evolution of pop music in the United States. (This is an aside, but Pete kinda looks like if Chester Cheetah was a human.) Hope you guys like this one! Thank you for listening! Robbie Twitter: @lobster_writer Tracy Twitter: @tctrauscht

The year is 1977. It was a dark time for America: gas prices were high, jeans had bell bottoms, lots of kitchen appliances were colored in avocado green and lemon yellow for no good reason. And rising out of this desolate landscape is an animated movie that bucks logic and reason in favor of creepy singing dolls, sentient piles of taffy and a blue camel with some major depression issues. Join us, if you dare, for the insanity that is Raggedy Ann and Andy - A Musical Adventure. ------ Thank you so much for listening everyone! Whether you've been listening to us since we started in 2015 or just found this randomly, we're glad to have you with us.  :) Ratings in the iTunes store are very much appreciated: if you leave a good review, we'll give you a shout-out on the show! We can also be found on Stitcher. Feel free to contact us on Twitter and let us know what you think of the show or if you'd like us to review something! Thank you! Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy: @tctrauscht  

Hey guys! For those of you who don't remember, we used to upload our episodes on a different site. That site is going to become derelict and we didn't want you all to lose some of our favorite old episodes. So here's our review of The Last Unicorn. In this episode, we talk about 1982's nostalgic animated fantasy, The Last Unicorn, and the importance of using modern music by the band America as the soundtrack. We also highlight some of our favorite and least favorite elements of the film. Here is a link to Danny's cover of the title theme song. Contact us on Twitter at @lobster_writer and @tctrauscht if you have questions, comments or ideas for movies you'd like to see us review. Thanks for listening!   Old-timey music intro: "Gold Rush" by Kevin MacLeod

Hey guys! We are back at it again, reviewing a movie from the 80s! This time, even more of that bizarre animal testing period of animation from the early 80s thru the 90s. This is another Don Bluth film that we're reviewing, 1982's "The Secret of NIMH". It was a lot of fun to talk about and it was really cool remembering some stuff from childhood while we did. Dom Deluise, giant monster cats and tiny mouse glasses: what's not to like? We should note that we owe this episode to one of our listeners, Meekly aka @shynova, who requested that we review this movie, so thanks for the request! Thanks for listening, everyone! Twitter: Robbie - @lobster_writer Tracy - @tctrauscht

What happens when you combine fairies, Christian Slater, Australia and a unnervingly sexualized smoke monster? You get the 1992 environmentalist animated film, Ferngully! Want a lack of Australian accents? Done! Robin Williams as a bat rapping? Of course we have that! It's the 90s!   Seriously though, we had so much fun recording this one. Hope you guys dig it and thank you for listening! Please rate and review us on iTunes! We would really appreciate your feedback. Search for Animation Station with Robbie and Tracy in the iTunes Store. Twitter Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy: @tctrauscht    

Hey hey guys! This week, Robbie and I are reviewing the smash hit 2016 anime film Your Name, directed by Makoto Shinkai. Join us as we get into anime tropes, touching your own boobs and how much this movie messed with our emotions. In a good way, but you know, a way that stays with you for a while. Hope you enjoy it! Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy: @tctrauscht

Hey guys, sorry about posting this one a little bit late. This week we're talking about the movie The Thief and the Cobbler, a sort of unfinished feature directed and produced by Richard Williams of Who Framed Roger Rabbit fame. There are several different cuts of the movie that were more or less thrown together by various companies. We talk about two of them: the Miramax cut and the Recobbled cut, which was an attempt to finish Williams' original vision. Overall, it was a lot of fun to record so we hope you enjoy it.  You can find our guest Kari here and her store here

Hi guys! This episode, we talk about the short-lived, fantastic TV show Clone High. This brief gem aired in 2002-2003 on MTV, at least in the U.S. and Canada. The show follows the misadventures of a group of celebrity clones, including but not limited to JFK, Abe Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and infamously, Ghandi! It was produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the same duo behind The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street and Lego Batman! Happy listening!

Hey everyone!  Happy Valentine's Day! Today, we're reviewing animator Nina Paley's bittersweet but lushly animated film from 2008, Sita Sings the Blues. It's a retelling of the Indian epic poem, The Ramayana but with a creative twist that deals with relationships, faithfulness and monkey armies. Hope you like it and thank you for listening! Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy: @tctrauscht

Hey guys!   This week, we're revisiting We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story, a movie Steven Spielberg probably barely remembers, even though he produced it! A barely comprehensible mix of dinosaurs, Wheaties for nerds and super uncomfortable forced romances between children. We had the lovely and incredibly talented Lord Bung on with us and had a great time taking this movie apart. Hope you enjoy it!   Lord Bung: @LordBung Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy:@tctrauscht

A merry jingly day to you all! :D This week, Robbie and I are joined by our friends John and Liz as we review our favorite episodes of the Netflix series Bojack Horseman and drink heavily. Episodes featured include The Telescope, Downer Ending, Best Thing That Ever Happened and That's Too Much, Man. We had so much fun recording this one, hope you guys enjoy it! NOTE: This episode features major spoilers for seasons 1-3 of Bojack so we highly recommend you check out the series first before listening. The series is absolutely worth your time.   John: @JTAW3 Liz: @lizwerning Robbie: @lobster_writer Tracy: @tctrauscht

Hey guys! Sorry we've been gone so long! We're trying to get back on track, we promise! As you've likely noticed, we're on a new site! We're going to try slowly migrating everything over from the old site to this one, but it'll be slow-going. But enough about that. This episode we are joined by our friend Tyler from Cynical Cartoons podcast. We talk about the movie "Help! I'm a Fish!", a 2001 Danish-German-Irish animated film. This unusual movie features of the voices of Aaron Paul and Alan Rickman and follows the journey of three children who have been turned into sea creatures. It's a strange movie, but we had a lot of fun with this episode! Enjoy! You can find Tyler at his site, Futurehorsepod.com, where he hosts a number of different podcasts which you should check out if you enjoyed his presence in this episode.