In the first Old School Lane video of 2018, Patricia discusses about her least favorite episodes of As Told by Ginger, the most underrated Nicktoon of all time. For every amazing episode, there was one that was underwhelming or frustrating to watch. Which episodes made it to the list? See and find out.
In the first Old School Lane video of 2018, Patricia discusses about her least favorite episodes of As Told by Ginger, the most underrated Nicktoon of all time. For every amazing episode, there was one that was underwhelming or frustrating to watch. Which episodes made it to the list? See and find out.
On April 19, 1997, the Nicktoon The Angry Beavers debuted on TV. Since then, it has gained a massive cult following for its clever jokes, slapstick humor, and the dynamic between the main protagonists Norbert and Daggett. In honor of the show's 20th anniversary, Patricia discusses about her top 10 favorite episodes of the series.
We will now conclude our celebration of Old School Lane's 5th anniversary with my favorite videos. I started with my top 20 Nickelodeon shows that needed to be remade video back in 2012 with terrible audio, low quality pictures, and with a two second delay. It's absolutely awful and I haven't really done a lot of videos with the exception of the news update videos with bad audio and pictures only. My friend and PlaysStation Let's Play YouTube channel colleague Nick recommended that I should do videos instead of article blogs because he felt that I could do well with posting videos. I've only been doing full time video content since 2015, but during that time, I've been incredibly proud of most of the videos I've posted. I've made roughly 30 videos, so it was pretty tough to round out my all time favorite videos, but I was able to choose 10 that I felt satisfied with the most.
10. Top 10 Nicktoons That Need Comic Book Adaptations w/Comic Uno
This was the very first video I've ever done that was not only over 10 minutes long, but had video clips, decent audio, and even had a collaboration with my friend and colleague Comic Uno talking about what Nicktoons we wanted to see comic book adaptations on in honor of Invader Zim's comic book series being announced. It was also the first video that had my friend and colleague Taylor "Whyboy" Wyatt from ToonGrin making my title card and would do so for my later videos. It's pretty low on this list because I've done other videos since then that I felt that I've improved on my editing skills and writing. But, nonetheless, it's still a very important piece of content for Old School Lane.
9. The Weinerville Chanukah Special Discussion/Review
Whenever online reviewers discuss about Hanukkah specials, they either gush about the Rugrats special or rip a new one on Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights. However, no one had ever talked about Weinerville's Hanukkah special and since it was approaching its 20th anniversary since its debut, I felt like I needed to talk about it in video form. I had already did a blog article on the special back in 2012, but since I had gotten slightly comfortable with posting videos, I decided to revisit it and give a discussion/review on it. Despite me not being very funny, I feel that this video was my funniest because of me pointing out the ridiculous scenes that occurs on this special. It was pretty fun to do.
8. From Pilot to Final Product: The Adventures of Pete & Pete
I have done a total of 6 episodes of From Pilot to Final Product where I would compare TV pilots to their series to see what similarities and changes occurred. While the Rugrats episode is currently has the most views, the Pete & Pete episode is still my favorite. Yes, I'm biased because it is my favorite live action Nickelodeon show. The show's pilot was a Valentine's Day episode and it was nice to do a Valentine's Day video that doesn't really involve with love. Or at least love in a normal way. I had marathoned throughout the whole series and then watched the pilot and saw the noticeable changes that only hardcore Pete & Pete fans would know if they would see it. I really liked pointing out the characters, music, and strange tone that the show would later be known for. Bottom line, anytime I cover anything Pete & Pete, I always have fun with it. I would even like to do a Pete & Pete analysis video in the future.
7. 5 Reasons on How Hey Arnold! was an Improvement over Doug
During Hey Arnold! Month, I posted a video on listing the reasons on why Hey Arnold! was an improvement over Doug. Doug was a groundbreaking Nicktoon when it first came out in 1991 introducing the slice-of-life genre for a new generation of kids. But 5 years later, Hey Arnold! came along and did everything Doug did, but better. I was a bit hesitant because I thought that Doug fans would thrash me saying that I was wrong. But I've gotten a lot of comments saying that they agree with me, which was a major relief.
6. How Did Doug Became Influential with its Simplicity?
Speaking of Doug, I did a video on the show during 3 Original Nicktoons Month discussing about that despite Doug is a very simple and basic show by today's standards, back in 1991 it was incredibly influential and relatable by everyone who watched it. The characters, settings, music, and life lessons were done in a way that made people feel like they were real and with that, it became a classic. However, over the years, it was gotten backlash from many reviewers saying that it's a bland show that's nothing more than a time capsule to shows prior to Hey Arnold and The Loud House, but it still has a place in animation that I wanted to bring up in the this video.
5. Why Nickelodeon's Thanksgiving Fest was Historically Significant to the Channel?
When The Splat, TeenNick's newest 90's Nickelodeon timeslot, was announcing that they were going to be airing Nick's Thanksgiving Fest for the first time in over 20 years, I wanted to do a video on it for those who may not know what this Thanksgiving special is. Back in 1989 when Nickelodeon were slowly becoming more mainstream with You Can't Do That on Television and Double Dare, they wanted to expand with doing original animation and the first foray into it was this special. I had already discussed about it back in 2012, but when I first saw it, I thought it was incredibly underwhelming. But since then, it grew on me and I now find it kind of charming. I had revisited the special and talked about the special and its history. A lot of people had never heard of the Thanksgiving special and said that my video was how they first learned about it, which was pretty cool.
4. Top 15 As Told by Ginger Episodes
During As Told by Ginger Month, I had surprisingly gotten a lot of positive feedback from fans who had loved the series and the best example of that was shown in my top 15 list of my favorite episodes. I had done a top 10 list back in 2012 and it's so horrendously outdated that it's not even funny. So I felt redeemed when revisiting As Told by Ginger and writing a newer list of episodes that I still love to watch. I was surprised that no one has done a video on counting down the best As Told by Ginger episodes. I have seen a handful of reviews of the show, but no countdown. So, I worked very hard on doing the best video I could while releasing in time for the show's 15th anniversary. I still get comments from people who liked the video and told me that they loved the show. That makes me happy to see.
3. Should We Say Goodbye to Halcyon Days?
This is the only video I've done so far that's a personal story of myself, more specifically my fears and uncertainty of turning 30 years old. I wrote a story about how I had two sides of myself fighting to whether I should still continue to do Old School Lane or if I should quit and focus on being an adult. Everything that was shown about me being scared about my current life situation and my struggles of where my life should be is 100% true. When filming and editing my pessimistic self, I had gotten a little upset because I still felt inferior compared to my old friends from college who had since gotten married, moved away from their parents' house, and even have kids. But then, I felt slightly comforted when I filmed my optimistic self because I have truly grown and progressed as a content creator. The one thing I'm also appreciative of where the cameos from my Manic Expression colleagues, my fans, and even the people who I've interviewed over the past 4 years. I had never expected to get so many people sharing their birthday wishes with me. I was incredibly overwhelmed. There are so many behind the scenes stories about the process of this video that I will save it for a future commentary video on it.
2. The History of Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie
After a long hiatus due to my dad's illness and multiple trips to the hospital, I had buckled down and talked about the long and convoluted history of The Jungle Movie, a canceled Hey Arnold! movie that was suppose to come out around 2002 where it was suppose to answer the question on whether Arnold would ever find his parents. I did a ton of research on the subject as well as what Craig Bartlett did afterwards and the dedicated fans who spread the word on convincing Nickelodeon to release The Jungle Movie. This was the first video I did under the partnership of Channel Frederator and I used the royalty free music to my full advantage. It's also been one of my most viewed videos in a short period of time and has gotten me a slight boost in subscribers, which is just crazy to believe. While I still have 3 more videos to produce for Hey Arnold! Month, this will be one of my favorite videos I've ever produced.
1. What Makes As Told by Ginger a Groundbreaking, yet Overlooked Nicktoon?
This was the last video I did for As Told by Ginger Month and it was the video that I built up to telling everyone on why I loved the show so much and why it needed a lot more attention. I had written a script around early November, but I hated it. So, I deleted the script and rewritten it from scratch. It may have taken 3 months longer than I wanted, but I felt it was very worth it. I divided the sections into two: why the show was groundbreaking and why the show was overlooked. I had gotten a lot of great feedback from both fans and people who had never seen the show. Although I've done more videos since then, I am still proud of this video the most.
It's been great looking back on how far Old School Lane has gone. We started off with a small blog with little to no views to having a blog and YouTube channel with a small, niche audience who look forward to the next video and podcast. Kevin and I are forever grateful on our progression and we will continue to grow and expand our content. We're hoping that you're around to see it.
That's it for now. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.
Day 4 of Old School Lane's 5th year anniversary celebration continues with now discussing about what have been my favorite podcast interviews. Again, this has been very, very difficult because I am grateful for all the people who have taken the time to guest star on the podcast. Back in 2013, we started interviewing people on podcasts starting with the founder of Manic Expression James Walsh and since then, we've interviewed close to 30 people. So, once again with a sad heart, I omitted a lot of great interviews to reduce it to 10. With that said, here we go.
10. Will McRobb
It was not only our 50th Casual Chats episode, but it was the 3rd anniversary of the podcast. Kevin and I had interviewed the co-creator of The Adventures of Pete & Pete Will McRobb and talked about the show as well as KaBlam!, Snow Day, and some unknown information about the canceled Pete & Pete movie. He even told us about being the executive producer of the newest Christmas special Albert months before it was officially announced. It was such an amazing experience since we were talking to someone involved with our favorite live action Nickelodeon show.
9. Jim Jinkins
It was our 30th episode of Casual Chats and Kevin and I were beyond excited when we had Doug creator Jim Jinkins as a guest. We had met a few months prior over at the Slimed! book event in NYC and had briefly talked while we were there. We talked about his early years working on Pinwheel, both incarnations of Doug, and an idea that he had for Doug involving a school reunion with the rest of the cast and what they were doing in today's time, and the impact that the show left for many people. Kevin was incredibly happy to have Jim on the show because he's a huge fan of Doug. A few years later, we would have him as a guest on our podcast The Legacy of Doug when the classic Nicktoon turned 25 years old.
8. Candi Milo/Gabi Hankins
We originally had interviewed voice actress Candi Milo back in 2012, but 3 years later, we invited her as a guest on Casual Chats to discuss about various things from her career, the diverse, yet controversial casting from Annie and the new Ghostbusters movie, and more. The tone of the podcast was over the place, but it was so much fun having her as a guest. A month later, we had her daughter Gabi as a guest who's an up-and-coming actress who has been in a few TV shows such as State of Affairs. We talked about starting out with acting and the process of finding your footing to get to a stable career.
7. Janet Varney
After the Nicktoon The Legend of Korra ended its run, I had gotten a hold of Janet Varney to talk about her career, her podcast The JV Club, and thanking her for her amazing performance as Korra. To end things off, I played a game of M.A.S.H. with her, a game that she usually plays with every guest on her podcast. It was such a surreal experience, but it was one I would never forget. Afterwards, I bought an autograph which is still hanging up on my wall and JV Club t-shirt which I still wear to this day.
6. Marc Weiner
Back in 2012, Kevin and I interviewed him in our blog discussing about the underrated 90's Nickelodeon show Weinerville. A year later when the show was celebrating its 20th anniversary, we got in contact with Marc again to have him as a guest on our podcast. Little did we know that not only were we going to have Marc as a guest, but also Dottie, Zip, Boney, Pops, and Louie from Weinerville as well as the map and Swiper the fox from Dora the Explorer. It was incredible and Kevin and I had spent more time laughing than asking questions.
5. Brandon Jones
As mentioned many times before over the years, one of my major influences of doing content creation online were the people behind the video game website GameTrailers. When I heard that it was being shut down almost a year ago, I was beyond devastated and even did a video on what it meant to me.
I was ecstatic when I heard less than a month after their shutdown that they were coming back as Easy Allies. I had gotten a hold of the founder Brandon Jones and talked about his love of video games, the beginning and end of GameTrailers, the ideas of their shows Pop Fiction, Timeline, and their top 10 lists, and the debut of Easy Allies. This interview meant so much to me since I had followed their work for 10 years and telling Brandon that was so uplifting.
4. Renae Jacobs
This will be the only entry on our list from our podcast Turtle Talk where we had a total of 4 guests out of the 13 episodes we did. Out of our special guests, Renae was our favorite. Renae was the voice of April O'Neal from the 80's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and Kevin and I interviewed her about the show. I even did a funny intro at the beginning of the podcast introducing Renae as Lotus Blossom, which was a minor character in the show. It became a fan favorite on our channel.
3. Lindsey Briggs/Derek Alexander
Now we're back on the subject of my major influences of my online content creation. Starting off with Lindsey "Little Miss Gamer" Briggs from PBC Productions, she took time off of her extremely busy schedule talking to me about her years as a puppeteer, doing video game reviews, and what she was doing now being a wife and mother. It's such a shame that this is one of my least viewed podcast interviews because I'm incredibly proud of how it turned out.
The same wouldn't be said about Derek Alexander a.k.a. The Happy Video Game Nerd. We talked about his love of music and overlooked video games. I was the last person who interviewed him under that persona when he announced less than a month later that he was changing his name to Stop Skeletons from Fighting.
2. Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere
It was Casual Chats' 35th episode and we had gotten the creative duo behind Recess as guests. Kevin, Christina, and I had asked Paul and Joe various questions about Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, and Recess. A little known fact about this episode was that due to Joe's son Hugo crying when he and Paul were together, he had to leave early and we mostly talked to Paul. But then, I interviewed Joe a week later and I edited the two podcasts together. It's pretty noticeable when you listen to it again because of the different audio pitch on my end. But regardless, it's become one of my favorites because of the amazing facts behind the shows and the fact that they rarely got interviewed back then made it even more special.
1. Craig Bartlett
The same way that Kevin was excited of interviewing Jim, I was excited to interview Craig for Casual Chats. It took a year and a half to get a hold of Craig since he was busy with Dinosaur Train, but he was able to give Kevin and I an hour of his time. We talked about Hey Arnold and his upcoming project Sky Rat. This was two years before The Jungle Movie was greenlit, so I told Craig that when I was 17 years old, I sent him a letter on how much I wanted to see the movie. He was really happy about that. Now three years later, I'm doing Hey Arnold Month and giving more detail on why I loved the show so much.
Those are my top 10 favorite podcast interviews. Tune in next time as we conclude the 5 year anniversary celebration with my top 10 videos. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon.
Day 3 of our 5 year anniversary celebration now takes us from blog to podcasts. Back in November 12, 2012, Kevin and I wanted to have some more content on the Old School Lane blog that was simple and fun to produce since we were still limited on producing videos due to outdated computers and no knowledge on editing them. Since then, we've done close to 100 podcasts from Casual Chats, Turtle Talk, and Nick Jukebox. But which ones have been my favorites? Again, this was very tough to do since a lot of them have been fun. But then again, a lot of the earlier podcasts are so painful to listen to because Kevin and I had crappy microphones and the background noise and echoing is a lot more noticeable. So with that said, here are the podcasts I've had the most fun doing.
10. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 61: Good and Bad Reboots, Remakes, and Revivals
Around that time, recent reboots such as Ghostbusters 2016, the Powerpuff Girls reboot, the Ben 10 reboot, and Teen Titans Go! was reviled on the Internet, Manic Expression members Jim and Kyle, Re-Open Nickelodeon Studios founder Zac, and myself talked about the good ones to show the listeners that they do exist and are sometimes needed. Of course we did talk about the bad ones, but that wasn't our main focus. The point was that sometimes reboots, remakes, and revivals are needed because the originals can be retooled and be just as important and beloved.
9. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 64: The Carmen Sandiego Franchise
The beginning of the Carmen Sandiego Retrospective kicked off with RowdyC, That Long Haired Creepy Guy, Jockerlee77, Ingoyama70, and myself talking about the video games, game shows, and animated series. We had a lot of fun memories to share and lots of laughs when talking about Carmen's henchmen and the crazy over-the-top items they stole. Carmen Sandiego was a massive franchise from my childhood and I had a blast sharing it with them. For those who are asking, yes I will continue the retrospective next year.
8. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 58: Pee-wee's Big Holiday
This podcast felt like going back to my original roots of how Old School Lane got started. In this episode Jaimetud, Jim, Alex, and Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse author Caseen Gaines talked about the newest Pee-wee Herman movie in almost 30 years titled Pee-wee's Big Holiday. We briefly talked about Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee-wee, The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse. Afterwards, we talked about the movie and some of us are very mixed on the overall film. Who knows at this point if Pee-wee will be relevant for the new generation, but for those who grew up with it still hopes that he can still be around after the movie.
7. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 46: Tiny Toon Adventures
It was the 25th anniversary of Tiny Toon Adventures and Kevin and I talked about the shows from our favorite episodes, characters, and the movie How I Spent My Summer Vacation. We had so much fun talking about the show since it was one of our favorite cartoons of the 90's and a few people also posted their comments on Tiny Toons. We will definitely cover the other Spielberg cartoons in the future.
6. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 37: All That
It was the 20th anniversary of All That so Manic Expression member The Cartoon Hero, For Entertainment's Sake co-founder John, and myself talked about our fond memories of the show as well as our favorite skits, cast members, and the controversial revival era. We had a lot of laughs about the skits and jokes that were featured in the show as well as talking about the so bad, it's good Good Burger movie. This podcast has become a favorite for a lot of people, including myself.
5. Old School Lane Casual Chats: Ghostbusters/Back to the Future
In the Ghostbusters podcast, Manic Expression founder James quoted saying "I can't think about Ghostbusters without Back to the Future". I can see why since they're both classic 80's comedies with memorable characters, sci-fi elements, and quotable lines. With the Ghostbusters podcast, it featured James, Alex, Klancy, Kevin, Gurning Chimp, and myself talking about the two movies, the two animated series, and the recent Ghostbusters video game. There was also the talk that Ghostbusters 3 was never going to happen since Harold Ramis had recently passed away and I even brought up the idea that the only way that Ghostbusters can come back to theaters is if they did a remake of it. Well, guess what? They did do a remake of it. I'm sure we'll do a podcast on it in the future.
As for the Back to the Future podcast, James, RowdyC, That Long Haired Creepy Guy, Alex, Martin, Kevin, Kevin's friend James, and myself talked about the movies and animated series. We went in depth with 3 of the movies, the animated series, the change of the rating system, the PG-13 and R-rated movies that were made into cartoons for kids, and why some people didn't want to see Ghostbusters or Back to the Future remade. It has been the longest podcast for over a year lasting for over 2 hours, but it will be replaced real soon with the upcoming Christmas podcast.
4. How the 3 Original Nicktoons Influence Pop Culture w/Mathew Klickstein and Caseen Gaines
During 3 Original Nicktoons Month, I was doing podcasts about Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show and how much they became an influence. I did one on Casey and Ashli from The Friday Night Nicktoons Podcast about how much it influenced entertainment, but the one with Mathew and Caseen where we talked about how the Nicktoons influence pop culture was my favorite. Since Mathew and Caseen were pop culture enthusiasts who loved the Nicktoons, I thought it was perfect to have them as guests talking about this topic. I have had Mathew and Caseen in podcasts, but this was the first time that they've been together and hearing them talk was so fascinating. Even giving my 2 cents on the subject was fun as well.
3. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 23: The Adventures of Pete & Pete
This podcast means a lot to me in multiple ways. It was the 20th anniversary of my favorite Nickelodeon live action show and it was the first podcast where I was recording podcasts on my sister's hand-me-down laptop as oppose to the old, bulky computer I was using for 2 years and would use it until a year later when I bought a brand new and updated laptop with my tax money. In this episode, Kevin, Alex, his brother Nick, and Jim talked about The Adventures of Pete & Pete, our favorite episodes, characters, and the soundtrack. This will be the oldest podcast that'll be on this list, but regardless, it's one that I have fondness for.
2. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 40: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Now, let's talk about a podcast based on my favorite Nicktoon. It was the 10th anniversary of the critically acclaimed animated show and is tied with the most amount of guests next to the first Christmas podcast. In it, Jim, That Long Haired Creepy Guy, TheOtherDude92, John and Douglas from For Entertainment's Sake, Timdiana and his brother Patrick, The Cartoon Hero, Comic Book Cast member Joel, and myself talked about the show, the characters, the soundtrack, the settings, and the crappy movie. Because there were so many people with different personalities, it was such a blast with all of us talking about the show. There was so much to talk about that we went about it for about 2 hours. I'm sure in the future, there will be a podcast on The Legend of Korra.
1. Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 62: Metroid
It's no secret that I love the Metroid franchise. So when the 30th anniversary of Metroid was approaching, especially when Nintendo wasn't doing anything to celebrate it, I felt like I needed to show my love for these amazing games. In it, Jim, Lily from Dom and the Chapel of Church, and myself talked about the Metroid franchise from praising Super Metroid to bashing Metroid: Other M. It was also the same day that Another Metroid 2 Remake was released, so it was a fantastic day for Metroid fans. I had so much fun and felt so much happiness doing a podcast on my favorite video game franchise.
That's it for now. Tune in next time as I go over my top 10 podcast interviews. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.
Day 2 of Old School Lane's 5th anniversary celebration has arrived and this time, I will countdown my top 10 favorite interviews Kevin and I have done via blog. When Kevin and I were first starting Old School Lane, we were thinking of what content to put in. Kevin suggested that we should interview actors, actress, and show creators on our blog. I thought that it would never happen in a million years since neither of us were famous content creators or journalists. We were just two pop culture enthusiastic nerds with no connections or recognition online. But 5 years later, we were able to pull it out with over 60 special guests. From 2012 to 2013, we interviewed close to 30 people on our blog so choosing 10 of them was very difficult. But, with a sad heart, I was able to whittle it down to 10. With that said, let's begin.
Originally posted on September 14, 2012, this was during the time where we did a week dedicating to Hey Arnold! with reviewing the show, doing our top 10 list, and interviewing 3 of the voice actors involved with the show. Out of the three, Ben Diskin had a nice mixture of talking about his early years of voice acting, his well known characters, and advice for anyone who wants to pursue in an acting career. While he didn't remember his experience working in Hey Arnold, he still had a love for the show and had respect with all the people who worked on it, including Craig Bartlett.
Originally posted on November 30, 2012, Kevin had just finished reviewing Invader Zim and we wanted to have an interview with someone who worked on the show. We wrote to various voice actors, but the one who responded back to us was Wally Wingert, the voice of Almighty Tallest Red. He talked about his influences, his love of Batman, and his other voice acting roles such as The Riddler from the Batman: Arkham games, Jon Arbuckle from The Garfield Show, and more. He gave some good tips on voiceover work and was a very nice guy, overall. Nowadays, he has been casted as voicing Oskar Kokoshka in Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie. It would be nice to have him as a guest for Casual Chats for a followup interview, but for now, our interview with him was a good one.
Originally posted on November 2, 2012, I had just finished reviewing Taina and had gotten a hold of the actress who played as the main character of the overlooked 2001 live action Nickelodeon show. She talked about her years acting in movies and TV shows, being a singer, an acting coach, and her experiences working on Taina. Taina was one of my favorite shows around the early 2000's, so it was an honor to get a hold of her talking to her about the program. Since our interview, Christina has been in other TV shows such as Code Black, The Night Shift, and Blue Bloods. It's nice that she's continuing to appear in more programs, but I'll always know her as Taina.
Originally posted on July 6, 2012, Noel MacNeal is a puppeteer who has worked on Sesame Street before working on the Nick Jr. program Eureeka's Castle as the lovable dragon Magellan. He talked about his experience working on Sesame Street, the movie Follow That Bird, Eureeka's Castle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, and Bear in the Big Blue House. He said some really cool stories on each of those shows and movies and some puppet techniques. Nowadays, he's working on an upcoming online puppet program called The Show Me Show to help and teach lessons for autistic children. It's nice to see Noel continuing as a puppeteer for a brand new generation of kids and hopefully will inspire them as much as he inspired Kevin and myself over 25 years ago.
Originally posted on August 16, 2012, after I reviewed All That, I interviewed 3 of the show's cast members. Out of the 3, Alisa's was my favorite. She talked about her years in acting in both All That and The Proud Family as well as her experience in being a DJ for Playboy Radio on SiriusXM. She has been very supportive for Old School Lane throughout the years and even had a cameo in Should We Say Goodbye to Halcyon Days? Regardless, she continues to pursue in many forms of media from TV, singing, writing, and online content.
Originally posted on January 23, 2013, it was part of a week dedicating to ChalkZone. I had first reviewed the show, interview Candi Milo, the voice of one of the main characters Snap, and then interviewed Bill Burnett, the co-creator of ChalkZone. He also wrote a few episodes and even wrote every single song on the series. He talked about his musical influences, working on various shows like Cow and Chicken, dispelling the rumors that Simon and the Land of Chalk Drawings was NOT an influence of ChalkZone, and what were his favorite songs that he wrote in the series. It was nice to hear from the man behind another overlooked Nickelodeon show that most people probably didn't know about. Afterwards, I did my top 10 ChalkZone songs list because I had loved the songs that Bill wrote in the show. It's one of my favorite Nickelodeon soundtracks. About two years later, I purchased an unreleased ChalkZone CD from Bill's website and even did an unboxing video on it if you're interested in checking it out.
Originally posted on July 12, 2012, this was after the Are You Afraid of the Dark? review and the interview with Ross Hull who played as the leader of the Midnight Society Gary. After that, we interviewed the creator of the classic SNICK show himself. We talked about his influences, his favorite episodes of the series, his favorite characters, and his book series Pendragon. One of the statements that made the interview stand out was when he said that the live action shows of Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel were so similar that if you put the two of them side by side, you wouldn't know the difference. Even years after we interviewed him, that statement is still true. I have since wrote to D.J. a few months ago to get some information about the canceled Are You Afraid of the Dark? movie to discuss about for Nicksmissal III so we occasionally still keep in touch.
Originally posted on July 6, 2012, it was posted on the same day as the interview with Noel MacNeal. It made sense since Cheryl is also a puppeteer who previously worked on Sesame Street before being playing as the main character Eureeka from Eureeka's Castle. She talked to us about some behind the scene stories on the show and the experiences with working on Sesame Street and Muppets Take Manhattan. Since then, we kept in touch with her a year later when he met her in person at Columbus Circle in NYC talking for almost an hour about more information on Eureeka's Castle and The Muppets. It was an amazing experience, especially since Eureeka's Castle was a show that we grew up with. She also made a cameo appearance in Should We Say Goodbye to Halcyon Days? which was just incredible.
Originally posted on September 25, 2012, we posted it on the same day as the Oh Yeah! Cartoons review. Kevin and I asked him so many questions from working on advertisement for Nickelodeon and MTV, where the splat logo came from, being the last president of Hanna Barbera, and so much more. He was very nice and took time from his very busy schedule for us to interview him. It's still shocking that almost 5 years later, we would be partnering with his YouTube channel. It's so surreal thinking about that now.
Originally posted on June 28, 2012, it was our very first blog interview and it's still my favorite. It's the only one on this list that didn't involve with Kevin and I sending our questions via email. It was instead a phone interview and I had actually recorded the conversation on Windows Sound Recorder. I wrote down my questions and Marc's answers on the blog and saved it the audio until I could find a way to post it. But then the computer tower died and I had lost the phone call forever. While I was saddened that I had lost it, it kind of was made up with Kevin and I met Marc at the Slimed! book event at 92Y a year later. We were beyond excited when he remembered us. Then two years later, I did a video about Marc Summers for the On Your Marc YouTube channel, which was an honor to do.
That's all for now. Tune in next time as I countdown my top 10 favorite podcast episodes. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.
It's December, which means that the holidays are approaching whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice. But here at Old School Lane is another celebration, our 5th year anniversary. On December 21, 2011, Old School Lane first started on Tumblr before moving into Blogger and started off posting their content. Before posting our podcasts Casual Chats and way before doing our videos, Old School Lane's main content were blog articles. Looking back at all of them recently, most of them don't hold up. Especially since in our early years, it was very experimental on what kind of content we wanted to post. Also, doing simple reviews when doing the Nickelodeon Tribute wasn't what I wanted to do on the first place, but instead a full blown video retrospective on Nickelodeon's history. However, back then I had an old computer that was limited on pretty much on everything and I had little to no knowledge on video or audio editing like I do today. So, at a time in which I was unemployed, my spare time was posting multiple articles every month since I was planning on covering all the Nickelodeon shows that one summer in 2012 after marathoning through the shows and movies for 6 months. That was a mistake and I should have wrote my opinions on the shows and movies while they were fresh on my mind. I have since learned my lesson.
So with that said, I will dedicate this month to talk about my favorite blog articles, blog interviews, podcast episodes, podcast interviews, and videos. Let's start with the blog articles and talk about the ones I'm still proud of.
Originally posted on June 20, 2015, this was a response to all the negative critiques of the Metroid fans when they found out that Blast Ball, which was a game featured in the Nintendo World Championship 2015 tournament event, was actually a minigame featured in the newest game in the franchise. It wasn't a followup to Metroid Fusion or Metroid Prime 3 like everyone wanted. It was a spinoff title that focused on the Galatic Federation. Not only that, it was a multiplayer game. This was a game that had gotten immediate hate when the trailer was posted on YouTube which had the most dislikes to a game I've seen yet. I posted my thoughts saying that the Metroid franchise has experimented with spinoff titles in the past such as Metroid Prime Pinball and Metroid Prime Hunters. Whether you cared for those games or not, at least Nintendo was trying to branch out the Metroid franchise with other genres. It worked for Mario and Kirby. But many wanted a great Metroid game to wash out the bad experience that Metroid: Other M left behind and Metroid Prime: Federation Force wasn't it. From what I heard from the reviews, it's an okay game. But this game was pretty overshadowed when Milton "DoctorM64" Gausti posted Another Metroid 2 Remake online a few weeks prior.
I'm very proud of the article I posted based on a pretty controversial topic, especially one on my favorite video game franchise. I don't really like to talk about controversial topics, but seeing the piles of hate that Metroid Prime Federation Force was getting, I felt like I needed to say something.
I know that this is cheating, but I couldn't decide between these 3. Lindsey "Z" Briggs, Derek Alexander, and Keith "Gexup" Weber were some of my major influences in posting contents online. So, let's take a look at each of them one at a time.
Originally posted on January 29, 2014, I wrote this list a day after I posted my interview with Lindsey on Casual Chats. It was also International Women's Day so it was perfect to post it. Back in 2007, there were a group of people who posted various skits and videos about video games on a website called PBC Productions. One of the videos that was showcased was Little Miss Gamer were Lindsey would talk about video games in a more positive note. In a time where people wanted to be the next James Rolfe and talk about bad NES games, Lindsey or "Z" was the complete opposite. However, she had released her last video in 2010 where she was depressed that her favorite Xbox 360 game 1 vs. 100 was removed on the Xbox Live Arcade room. Since then, no one knew what happened to her. That's what I wanted to find out. So, it took me a few months to get a hold of her, but I eventually did and we talked for 30 minutes about her years at PBC Productions and what she was doing now. As of the writing of this article, I was the last person who interview Lindsey about Little Miss Gamer. Since then, she and her husband PBC Productions member Chad Williams have started a puppet company called Wonderspark Puppets and they have two kids. So it makes a lot of sense that she no longer posts videos online anymore. Regardless, I still miss her work. Even still to this day, her style of video game reviews are still unique and charming. Now, to the top 10 list. I'm still proud of my choices and wouldn't change it. Moving on.
Originally posted on January 12, 2015, I wrote this list shortly after Derek announced that he was dropping the Happy Video Game Nerd and rebranded himself as Stop Skeletons From Fighting, but a few months after interviewing him on Casual Chats. Going back 10 years ago when everyone was trying so hard to be the next James Rolfe and failing, we have another video game reviewer who talked about games in a positive way. In Derek's case, he talks about underrated or overlooked games that he felt needed more attention. When learning that he was going to no longer be reviewing games under the Happy Video Game Nerd name, I decided to look back at 7 years of his content and choose which ones were my favorites. There were a lot of videos that I wanted to put on the list, but the ones I had chosen were the ones I had watched the most. I'm sure down the line when Derek celebrates his 10 year anniversary of posting video game reviews, I'll probably do a list on his best Stop Skeletons From Fighting videos, but for now, I'm content with my choices.
Originally posted on April 27, 2015, I wrote this list shortly after Gexup announced that he was going to make a huge comeback with new videos and podcasts. For a while, he did with doing a wrestling/video podcast, but as time went on, he quit posting content again. He even deleted his YouTube channel and making his final video about why. Since then, he pretty much disappeared from the online world.
So, similar to Lindsey, I was the last person who ever interviewed him as a guest for a podcast right before he stopped doing video game reviews. It's a shame that he doesn't do it anymore since the world of video games, especially platforming games, has expanded so much since then with the advent of indie titles. I would have loved for him to talk about Rayman Legends, the Ratchet & Clank movie, Super Mario 3D World, Sly 4, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Shovel Knight, and Yooka-Laylee. But at this point in time, it'll never happen. I have yet to find someone who had a love of platforming games and various video game genres like Gexup did. The list I did are great examples on some of his best videos. Sure, some of them are not about video games. But they're still great and one of the many reasons why he was one of my major inspirations. Luckily, there's one person who's archived most of his videos on YouTube for you to check out.
Originally posted on July 11, 2013, I have done blog articles celebrating anniversaries on movies, TV shows, and video games from Contra, Double Dare, Castlevania, and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. But the Weinerville article is my favorite. This is one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows of the 90's and pretty much no one was going to do a 20th anniversary celebration of it because it has nowhere near the impact that other programs like Double Dare and the 3 original Nicktoons did. So, after Kevin and I interviewed Marc, I did a quick recap on the show, wanting to see the show remade, and why it was overlooked when it first aired in 1993. So because I knew that no one was going to do a tribute to Weinerville, I decided to take this opportunity to my full advantage. While it's a shame that Weinerville is pretty much obscure by practically everyone, the few people who love it really love it including myself and Kevin. Speaking of obscure.
Originally posted on January 5, 2013, I posted a list on my all time favorite Nickelodeon shows that don't get the recognition they deserve. Whether they were considered too odd for a general audience, overshadowed by more popular shows, overhated by the fans for the wrong reasons, or were too ahead of their time, I discussed about these programs that need to be more acknowledged and even still to this day, they're still overlooked. I think with the exception of As Told by Ginger and The Angry Beavers in which that's gotten a slightly bigger following due to reruns airing on The Splat as well as KaBlam!, Catscratch, and ChalkZone having a cult following online, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold having a continuation series in France, no one really talks in depth about these Nickelodeon shows. While I respect Nick News, I shouldn't have had it as my #1 choice. I do agree that it's underrated and very overhated, it should have been lower on the list. I would have had Caitlin's Way as #1 because it's almost 17 years old and no one knows that it exists. Trust me, that'll change in the beginning of next year.
First of all, holy crap! I'm so sorry for the long title. I didn't know what to call it at the time, but man that title is a tongue twister. Anyway, continuing on.
Originally posted on May 12, 2015, during the time when Nickelodeon's ratings were at an all time low, I wrote a hypothetical article about what would happen if the people who worked at Nickelodeon during the 80's and 90's decided to group up together and create their own original programs on a new network or online. I stated that the people who created those shows had so much freedom that they made timeless programs that both kids and adults love even still to this day and ever since they left, the corporate minds at Nickelodeon took away the low budget, unpolished, yet realistic charm and replaced it with a refined, safe, and uninspired cash-ins as their major programming. This was during the time where indie games blew up the video game industry and since Mitchell Kriegman was doing Things I Can't Explain and John K. did a Kickstarter on Cans Without Labels, I wanted to see the other creators do that. But nowadays, Chris Viscardi is the vice president of content development and he's been leading the charge of doing TV movies based on classic shows with Legends of the Hidden Temple, Hey Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, and possibly Rugrats and Invader Zim. Not to mention that Marc Summers, Harvey, and Robin did the Double Dare reunion special. So it looks like Nickelodeon are starting to care about their past as oppose to completely ignore it. I would still like to see the former Nickelodeon creators to do new projects, but for now, this is a happy medium. Overall, while this article is a huge stretch that it'll ever happen, but I still had fun writing it.
Originally posted on April 2, 2013, I decided to come clean with my struggles and accomplishments with having Asperger's Syndrome and with it being Autism Awareness Month, I thought it was appropriate. I basically spilled my guts on screen and told my story on how I was teased as a kid, how I wanted to be like a normal person, and how I felt that I was a big loser who hasn't really done anything. I said that even further in my milestone birthday video, Should We Say Goodbye to Halcyon Days? Since then, I have had a few people telling me that they have either autism or Asperger's Syndrome and that it was cool to know that I had it. That's awesome to hear.
Again, long title, past me. Anyway, originally posted on October 4, 2014, I talked about the 5 adult programs that features puppets that I liked, but doesn't get a lot of praise. Sure, a lot of people would bring up Avenue Q or Crank Yankers, but these are just as good. Actually, they're way better than Crank Yankers because that show sucks. I really want to do a remake on this topic in the form of a video because when I wrote this article, I hadn't seen Silf and Olly or Greg the Bunny in years. I really need to rewatch them to see how well they hold up. As for the online content with puppets, the only one that's still continuing is Glove and Boots. Neil's Puppet Dreams and Sockpuppet Theatre pretty much stopped due to the creators being incredibly busy. This was something they did on their spare time and it's too bad they didn't continue with it. Oh well, regardless, they're still amazing.
Originally posted on December 31, 2011 on Tumblr (yes, Old School Lane first had a Tumblr page to post content), it was the very first article I ever posted online back when Old School Lane was only less than a week old. I had just finished watching The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway on HBO and had loved it. I remembered that there was an article online that talked about his best moments of 2010, but I felt that he did amazing things in 2011 so I wrote it. Little did I know that the next day on New Years Day 2012, I had received an email from tumblr saying that Pee-wee tweeted my Tumblr article. I couldn't believe it and was so excited that he really like my article so much that he shared it on his Twitter and Facebook page where his fans would see. It gave me a spark of confidence that I can post articles and people would like it. During a time in which I was unemployed, doing Old School Lane was a blessing for me and I have Paul Reubens to partially thank.
Originally posted on July 31, 2016, this is the most recent article I posted that will be on this list. Around this time, I had gone through some up and downs with my content. I had my life threatened by a troll and became scared and took a hiatus for two weeks, but I had gotten more subscribers and viewers on the Old School Lane YouTube channel. After things calmed down, I then wrote an article about my experiences on the pros and cons on posting content online about movies, TV shows, and video games. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback, but I've also had some disagreements and even arguments on my opinions. While it has been a hassle dealing with the trolls, it makes it all the worth while where a person takes the time to say a heartwarming and uplifting message when you put all your time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears into your content. I'm still very proud of this article even though it's a recent article. But #1 is one of my oldest articles.
Originally posted on October 5, 2012, this was my first analysis article I ever posted which would lead up to other articles and later on my analysis videos. This was considered to be a controversial article since it's, oh my God, it's an article talking about whether Nickelodeon shows from the 90's were still good or not. I had mentioned that while there are a lot of great Nickelodeon shows from the 90's, there are a lot of them that aren't really that good because they haven't aged very well or they were terrible to begin with. This was also when people were deep in 90's nostalgia and people were dismissing the Nickelodeon shows from the 2000's saying that they all sucked. I defended that there are some Nickelodeon shows from the 2000's that are good and not all Nickelodeon shows from the 90's were masterpieces. Instead of getting hate, I had gotten a lot of positive feedback. This article has won Outstanding Blog of the Week and Outstanding Blog of the Year on Manic Expression. It was also where I learned that doing deep analysis on topics was more my style than doing a standard review. Not that I don't have respect for people who do reviews, but I have neither the humor or charisma to pull it off. This article was the stepping stone to other similar content I would post over the next few years.
That's all for now. Tune in tomorrow as we continue my lookback of 5 years of Old School Lane with a countdown on my favorite blog interviews. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.
Rounding out this themed month dedicated to the 3 original Nicktoons, Patricia counts down her top 10 favorite episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show. Which episodes of the series are your favorites and why? Leave a comment down below.
Over a whole year ago, Patricia and Kat "Comic Uno" Calamia posted a video discussing about the top 10 Nicktoons that they wanted to see adapted into the comic books. Now, they're doing a commentary about the video discussing about behind the scenes about the origins of the idea and more.
On November 11, 2011 at 11:11 am, Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi released the first episode of his new animated webseries TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise, a remake of his 2004 sprite series TV Tome Adventures, on Newgrounds as a fresh start of his animation career wanting to create original shows after being known for creating parody cartoons such as Parody Rangers (a spoof on Mighty Morphing Power Rangers), the Nin10doh! trilogy (a collaboration with other animators featuring cartoon shorts parodying Nintendo games), Brawl Taunts (cartoon shorts parodying Super Smash Bros. Brawl), and more.
The show takes place in the year 2020 where gamers from all over the world play a virtual reality game called TOME (Terrain of Magical Expertise) to battle and interact with other gamers. The main plot focus on 5 players named Alpha, Kirbopher, Flamegirl, Nylocke, and Gamecrazed battling a group of hackers who are trying to find "The Forbidden Power". Alpha stumbles upon The Forbidden Power causing him to gain an incredible amount of power, but at the cause of not being able to control himself and causing people to suffer pain in real time. The episodes focus on finding out more about The Forbidden Power and defeating the hackers trying to get their hands on it.
Over three and a half years later with 15 episodes and 7 shorts, TOME has wrapped up its second season just last week on July 7. In honor of this, I'm going to list my personal top 10 favorite episodes. Interesting fact, I even listened to the newly released TOME Season 2 soundtrack when making this list. For the sake of encouraging all our followers to check out this amazing animated webseries, I will keep this article as spoiler free as I can and won't go into too much detail. With that out of the way, let's get started!
10. Gemini Tournament Yin (Season 1, Episode 8)
TOME announces that they're going to be throwing a tournament called the Gemini Tournament where two players team up and fight other teams to win the competition. The main teams consists of Alpha and Flamegirl and Nylocke and Gamecrazed with Kirbopher forcefully teaming up with a timid archer named Archy. The show's main antagonist Zetto also joins the tournament to have a shot of fighting Alpha after their bout in episode 5 with his partner Kizuna. Throughout the episode, our heroes take down the combatants with no issues until two of the hackers Neomutant and Dustbunny kidnap Alpha to retrieve The Forbidden Power from him. This episode has a great blend of action and comedy as well as leaving it on a pretty good cliffhanger. There are a lot of fun moments in this episode that makes it a memorable one.
9. Gemini Tournament Yang (Season 1, Episode 9)
The Gemini Tournament continues with Alpha and Flamegirl confronting Neomutant and Dustbunny of trying to retrieve The Forbidden Power. Meanwhile, Nylocke and Gamecrazed are continuing in the tournament trying to defeat the other teams as the competition gets more and more difficult, especially when they have to fight against Zetto and Kizuna. I prefer this episode a bit more than the first part because not only does it conclude the story of the tournament nicely, but it also gives a good life lesson in the end involving with not taking things too seriously and learning about having fun. Now, not a lot of people agree with this, in fact a lot of people hated the ending, but I think it was presented well.
8. Year One (Season 2, Episode 11)
The first episode of the second season takes place around the 1 year anniversary of TOME. A new competition is announced involving a player having the chance of battling the 5 Netkings, the creators of TOME, in order to win a special prize. The winner turns out to be Gamecrazed and he invites Alpha, Flamegirl, Nylocke, and Kirbopher along in the battle of the Netkings. The first Netking is Execk (voiced by Jon St. Jon), the programmer who built the Battle Grid. It also concludes with a very shocking plot twist as to who the next Netking is. Meanwhile, Zetto and Kizuna are becoming more stressed due to the incident that occured in the Season 1 finale. This is a great start of Season 2 with a new story and new threats being introduced in the show. One of the most noticeable things in this episode is the new designs of the characters having mostly monochromatic colors. Many people have had negative responses to the animation choice, but in time people became more and more accepting of it. I never had any issues with the new designs. I think it makes the colors pop and become more vibrant in the world they're in.
7. /FILE: ZERO (Season 2, Episode 00)
While it did air on Season 2, it's considered to be a prequel episode taking place before the events of the first episode of TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise. It begins with the Netkings discovering a way to translate human thoughts into transmittable data that could be used for full interaction in the new video game they're creating. While making the game, they inadvertently created a sentient computer program that had strong emotions that the Netkings bonded over. They named her SOFDTI and treated her as their own daughter. However, things turn a bit more complicated as SOFDTI learns about pain, violence, anger, and greed as the game progresses into more dangerous routes. It's around this time where we also learn about the origins of The Forbidden Power. If you've never seen an episode of TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise, this is a pretty good one to start with. There are some plot points that give into some major spoilers that are important to the story, but nonetheless, a good origin story.
6. Monstrosities (Season 2, Episode 14)
Zetto and Kizuna's plan to deal with The Forbidden Power is almost complete, but they only need a few components to gather. Meanwhile, Alpha, Flamegirl, Nylocke, and Neomutant infiltrate the D-Buggers.org lair, the main headquarters of where the hackers gather lead by Tigerlily, to take down their secret weapon. However, a hacker named Odboll (voiced by Ben Diskin) disrupts their plans and separated the group. Things turn for the worst as each of the players are defeated one by one and The Forbidden Power is released freely. It ends on a very depressing and somber note, but its delivery in drama is some of the best in the entire series. It caused me to even cry a bit.
5. Dragon Drama (Season 1,Episode 6)
In this episode, Nylocke and Gamecrazed help out a young player by the name of Hyperlynx (voiced by Jessi "Nowack" Nowacking) meet up with her friend Elescope (voiced by Mike "1Kids" Hecht) in a location she's not familiar with. Meanwhile, Tigerlily disrupts the group and attacks them. Nylocke and Gamecrazed then worked together to take her down before defeating their new friends. This episode is one of the most popular episodes of the series since it featured the #1 most popular voted character of the main 5: Nylocke (voiced by Martin "LittleKuriboh" Billamy from Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged). He showcased a side of himself to Gamecrazed (as well as the viewers) a side of him never seen before: he plays TOME to escape reality and to have fun. Nylocke is the overactive role playing character with the quirky personality and numerous catchphrases, so seen a realistic side of him was truly spectacular. Not to mention, he has a memorable and catchy theme song that you have to check out. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.
4. Awaken the Beast (Season 1,Episode 5)
This was the episode that made me fully invested in TOME. While I was enjoying TOME in its earlier episodes, they just seemed to be missing a bit more conflict and progression. I wanted something a bit more other than the one-off hackers and The Forbidden Power. But then this episode came out and I was hooked. An interesting story: Chris was having difficulty with making the additional episodes after 4 due to Newgrounds letting him know that they would no longer fund him. It looked very bleak, but I'm so glad that he was able to pull it off. The first half of the episode has Alpha learning about The Gemini Tournament and a group of players wanting to fight him to gain a reputation as strong combatants. Then Tigerlily comes along and attacks the group which ends up with Alpha being fully controlled by The Forbidden Power turning him into Demon Alpha. The second half becomes extremely exciting and tense with the introduction of Zetto, a strong and over confident player who gets involved in a fight against Demon Alpha and wins. Zetto challenges Alpha with meeting him again at the Gemini Tournament for a rematch. This episode has a great amount of action and the background music compliments it immensely. It's also the first appearance of Zetto, who is one of my all time favorite characters. If you felt that TOME is starting off as just a decent webseries, this is the episode that transcends it into making it a great one.
3. The Warring Demons (Season 1, Episode 10)
This is the last episode of Season 1 and my favorite of that bunch. With The Gemini Tournament over, Alpha is feeling less control of himself and The Forbidden Power is becoming more threatening to everyone around him. He wants to find a way to get rid of it once and for all. He receives a message from Zetto that he knows information about The Forbidden Power and can help him remove it. Unfortunately things don't go as planned and Alpha and Zetto have a tense battle with one another. I can't go too much into detail with this episode since there's a major plot twist that affects the rest of the series. But trust me when I say this that this is a fantastic episode with tense moments, action, and great background music.
2. Secret of the Netkings (Season 2, Episode 12)
Alpha, Flamegirl, Nylocke, Kirbopher, and Gamecrazed continues their challenge with the Netkings progressing further and further. But each Netking becomes more difficult than the last. But with perseverance and skill, they confront the 5th and final Netking Webmaster (voiced by Kyle Hebert). Meanwhile, the threat of The Forbidden Power returns and TOME is slowly becoming threatened. This episode has some of the best action, comedic, and tense moments in the entire series. My favorite scenes in the episode involved with Kirbopher, but I dare not spoil it because I want you to see it for yourself. Once you do, you'll see why and agree that they're memorable and hilarious.
1. Truth. Tears. Ambition (Season 2, Episode 15)
The last episode of Season 2 is truly not only the best episode of Season 2, but the best episode in the whole series. TOME has officially been corrupted with The Forbidden Power's true form Kajet, Alpha is still overwhelmed with distraught after seeing his friends being defeated, and the true villain behind everything is revealed. Again, I can't go into the major details,but everything about this episode is amazing. The story is well written. The acting is top notch. The background music matches the sad moments, the tense moments, action moments, and happy moments perfectly. The plot twists are shocking. The animation is smooth and fluid. But the one thing that nailed it for me was the ending. When I first saw it, it made me burst into tears. Everything about this episode was perfect and a fantastic end of an incredible journey through the Terrain of Magical Expertise.
Now whether there will be a Season 3 or not, it's hasn't been confirmed yet. I'm probably going to say an unpopular opinion about this, but I don't want one. If I do want to see more from TOME, maybe a movie, more shorts, or a game would be nice, but another season is not needed. I would like to see Chris work on a entirely new project and take everything he learned from doing TOME and make it incredible.
That's it for this top 10 list. Let me know in the comments below on what your favorite episodes of TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise are. If you haven't seen it yet, then check out the episodes right here.
Also, if you haven't yet, check out episode 42 of Casual Chats where I interviewed Chris.
Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading and battle on!
