IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 19 in total of IMMP with the tag “animation”.
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178: Live at NDK 2025 - BATTLE OF THE PLANETS meets GATCHAMAN
September 4th, 2025 | 42 mins 7 secs
70s, action, adventure, animation, kids, scifi
Anime special from Nan Desk Kan in Colorado -- You may know them as SCIENCE NINJA TEAM GATCHAMAN. But middle-schoolers in the 1970s knew them as G-Force from BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!
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176: CODE LYOKO (The Millennial Strikes Back)
August 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
2000s, animation, kids, scifi, tv
RETURN TO THE PAST NOW! Specifically, return with us to 2003 for a Millennial Strikes Back episode about the French animated kids' sci fi cartoon CODE LYOKO.
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165: Rankin/Bass' THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980)
March 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 31 secs
80s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv
Ian and Matthew talk about one of the most bewildering productions from Rankin/Bass, when the skipped past two thirds of THE LORD OF THE RINGS to give us their RETURN OF THE KIBNG
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152: SPEED RACER - Live at NDK
September 2nd, 2024 | 42 mins 53 secs
60s, action, animation, sports
Ian and Matthew discuss the classic anime SPEED RACER in this live show presented at NDK 2024
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134: THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS by Rankin/Bass
December 24th, 2023 | 48 mins 25 secs
animation, holiday, kids, musical, tv
Christmas 2023 at the IMMP wraps up with one of the weirdest of all Rankin/Bass Christmas specials: THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS.
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133: Rankin/Bass’ SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN
December 11th, 2023 | 54 mins 33 secs
70s, animation, holiday, kids, musical
The IMMP Rankin Bass Christmas continues with the sprawling Santa Claus fanfic SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN.
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132: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER from Rankin/Bass
November 27th, 2023 | 54 mins 46 secs
60s, animation, holiday, kids, musical, tv
We kick off the holiday season at the IMMP with a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER.
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126: STAR BLAZERS - Live from NDK 2023
September 4th, 2023 | 52 mins 25 secs
70s, animation, kids, live, scifi, tv
Recorded live at Nan Desu Kan 2023 in Colorado, this special episode takes on STAR BLAZERS -- the Americanized version of Leiji Matsumoto's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, and the object of Matthew's first anime fan geek-outs with his middle school friends, way back in the 1970s.
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111: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE
February 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
2000s, action, adventure, animation, disney, kids, millennial strikes back
Ian takes over the podcast to lead a discussion of an action-adventure tale that had a deep impact on his young movie-loving mind: Disney's ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE.
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106: Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)
November 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
70s, animation, fantasy, movie, tolkien
More than two decades before Peter Jackson made the world believe that New Zealand is Middle Earth, animator Ralph Bakshi gave us an ambitious and deeply weird adaptation of Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS.