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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we celebrate May the 4th and the silver anniversary The Phantom Menace with writer, podcaster Marc Bernardin. Snap hiss back to a more civilized time. A time before, the internet, podcasts, reaction videos and the scummiest & villainous of them all the  “Fandom Menace”. Star Wars had been out of theaters for 15 years. GI Joes, Transformers, TMNT and even The Power Rangers had taken over toy shelves across the USA. And then came a movie that changed it all… Meet Joe Black. Well, not exactly Meet Joe Black but rather the world debut of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace trailer and we haven’t stopped talking about Star Wars since.    Have you accepted Jar Jar Binks as your holy

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we talk sci-fi and 80’s catch phrases with our guest, director and producer Richard Bakewell. What if the past you remember didn’t really happen? That’s the simple premise of filmmaker Richard Bakewell’s character-driven, science fiction drama, ROSWELL DELIRIUM, which centers around a young woman who survives nuclear disaster and alien encounters, only to slowly discover that the events she remembers are distorted by her traumatic experiences. It’s an award winning sci-fi movie that gets meta with 80’s catch phrases and an 80’s TV and movie star cast including Anthony Michael Hall, Lisa Whelchel, Dee Wallace, Sam Jones, and Reginald VelJohnson, playing characters in an 80’s alternate reality dystopia. Join Dan “Grim” Shea, Marke

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we talk Reacher with creator and author LeeChild and two interviews with “Jack Reacher” himself, AlanRitchson (Smallville, Blue Mountain State) Once “Jack Reacher” gets off a bus in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia in Lee Child’s 1997 novel KillingFloor, we knew we were in for a hero unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Built like a Michelangelo sculpture, Reacher is a drifter roaming the United States taking odd jobs and always finding himself in dangerous situations. He's a kind soul, always ready to help a person in need and do what’s right even if that means flexing his massive muscle and deadly military training to fight for truth and justice. This hero-of-few-words was such a pop culture smash success that new book

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we celebrate 40 years of The Transformers with The Transformers expert, Slick McFavorite and the Open Your Toys Podcast. Sing it with us now.. Transformers More than meets the eye Transformers Robots in disguise   Autobots wage their battle To destroy the evil forces Of the Decepticons Wholly original, creative, and maybe the single greatest toy line of all time The Transformers hit the United States toy shelves in 1984 as an adapted Japanese toy line from Takara Tomy. But once Hasbro got involved, what was once a just a great toy, became a multimedia phenomenon with mythos, legend and heart that still reverberates throughout our pop-culture today. Join Grim Shea, Marke and special guest host Slick McFavorite as they, r

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we theorize that one could time travel within our own lifetime step into the Quantum Leap Magic Interview Machine and vanish… To WonderCon 2023! Show hosts Marke, Johnny Heck and Jimmy “The Gent” all grew up loving and watching the original Quantum Leap but when they attended WonderCon 2023 as press for Saturday Morning Cereal and Retro Cool Nerd, Jimmy was the only one invited to the Quantum Leap Reboot/Sequel "Resequel" Pressroom. Striving to put right what once went wrong, Marke. and Johnny Heck “leap” to WonderCon March 25, 2023 Quantum Leap Pressroom with Jimmy for 3 roundtable interviews with series stars “Dr. Ben Song” Raymond Lee, “Addison Augustine” Caitlin Bassett w/Executive Producer DeanGeorgaris and “Herbert ‘Magic’ Wi

    Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. It’s all Frights and Delights tonight, as we get you into a blueberry marshmallow mood for this special time of year. That’s right, go out and buy your seasonal monster cereals while you can find them, cause it’s time for our “cerealized” version of a Halloween Special, The 8th Annual Franken Berry Season Primetime Special!  This year, in solidarity with our forsaken SAG brothers, we turn off the tube and flip open the garishly beautiful cover on the greatest graphic novel ever, CEREAL and a monster sized interview with it’s creators Writer Mark Russell and Visual Artist Peter Snejbjerg. Plus: We dig up a new Monsterpiece Theater lost episode, “I’m Your Marshmallow Friend Till the End” a radio drama inspired by 80’s slasher movies bu

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, things “get weird” with our BFFs: Augenblick Studios' founder Aaron Augenblick and Animation Director Katie Wendt, who take over the 3Palms studio for a multigenerational countdown of the Top Ten Weirdest Kids Shows that have ever sweetened our Saturday morning TVs. We first met Aaron Augenblick when he was creating animated TV shows for HBO Max, Adult Swim and TBS back in 2021. Now Aaron, with his animation director Katie Wendt, are winning awards and rolling in the cash with a hit new kids show City Island on PBS. So join Grim Shea, Marke, Johnny Heck and Jimmy the Gent in studio as they try to keep up with Aaron and Katie, two scoops that come come packed with vitamins and minerals and part of this delicious breakfast!

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we catch a movie, the San Diego Comic-Con way! Going back to the early aughts and our groups very first encounters with Comic-Con, there has always been one thing that you can count on to be great in every way… the DC Animated Movie Premiere! That’s right, for many of us Comic-Con goers, the very first signs that comic books were about to hit the mainstream were watching those very same books, not just superheroes, leap from page to screen. This all started with the 2007 release of Superman: Doomsday a faithful adaptation of the Death of Superman event that saw the death and resurrection of the worlds greatest and 1st superhero. It was a glorious event that was celebrated with SWAG, exhibits, a world premier and panel. Since that a

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we catch a ride on the Mystery Machine! Launched as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1969, writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears AKA “Ruby-Spears” created the original series “Scooby-Doo, Where are you!” for Hanna-Barbara Productions where it would go on to produce countless cartoon series spinoffs, animated and live action films. Zoinks, that's a tasty Scooby Snack! To help with our Scooby talk we have two Scooby-Doo universe guests, the embodiment of “Shaggy” Matthew Lillard (Scream, Scooby Doo) and a voice of “Velma” Kate Micucci (Scrubs, Garfunkel and Oats) Actor Matthew Lillard first got our attention as the killer accomplice “Stuart” in the hit horror movie Scream. But what Matthew is synonymous for is as Scooby’s two legged BFF “Sh

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we celebrate May the Fourth Be With You and the sweet sounds of Star Wars with two GIANT guests, Supervising Sound Editor at Skywalker Sound and actor MatthewWood (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Book of Boba Fett) and composer JosephShirley (CreedIII, TheMandalorian) Landing the apprenticeship of his dreams with sound effects legend and Oscar winner Ben Burt, MatthewWood took to sound editing like a Mon Calamari to water. And, like the snap hiss of a lightsaber or the twangy ripple of an Imperial blaster Matthew hyper-jumped to Star Wars royalty with sound supervisor credits that include a ton of Star Wars AND some quality character work as the voice of “General Grievous”

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we we look up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a cliche. It’s… Superman! No, actually it’s Lex Luther! Psych! It’s John Henry Irons, DC’s Steel Superman! To prepare for the 3rd and maybe final season of the CW’s Superman and Lois, we invited John Henry Irons himself, Wolé Parks to tell us a little bit about himself and a “Wolé” lot about landing the role and stepping into the very large shoes of Shaquille O'Neal to play the CW version of Steel. Let your spirits be lifted up, up, up and away and join Grim Shea, Marke, and Bleeding Cool’s Jimmy The Gent to celebrate Wolé Parks and a career forged in kindness and coolness that goes hard! Actor, writer, and director Wolé Parks’ illustrious career has featured him working w

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we look up in the stars with some Super Bowl counter programing and a spirited talk about the hit show The Orville New Horizons with guests “Lt. Talla Keyali” Jessica Szohr, “Lt. john Marr” J. Lee and producers Brannon Braga and Tom Costantino. Seth MacFarlane’s epic space adventure series “The Orville” returns exclusively as a Hulu original series. Set 400 years in the future, “The Orville: New Horizons" finds the crew of the U.S.S. Orville continuing their mission of exploration, as they navigate both the mysteries of the universe and the complexities of their own interpersonal relationships. Joining Szohr and Lee are an ensemble cast includes MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Mark Ja

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we find ourselves in the spirit of the season with a hostfull look at some of our favorite Holiday/Christmas/Festivus sitcom specials. From a Friends Christmas armadillo to a Home Improvement Santa Wilson miracle, we dig through our collective memories to celebrate a sneaky Holiday tradition that you probably didn’t know you were part of. Join hosts, Grim Shea, Marke, Jimmy The Gent and Open Your Toys Slick McFavorite for a “spirited” television sitcom holiday sleigh ride and the airing of more than a few grievances! Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the original TV sitcom family is back and fully restored for The Holidays! The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Ultimate Christmas Collection is available NOW. The set includes 14 ful

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we keep our 10th season celebration rolling with a Roiland, Justin Roiland that is and release our first batch of SDCC 22 pressroom audio that includes not one but two Justin Roiland produced animated comedies, Solar Opposites and Koala Man. Join Hosts Grim Shea and Marke as they bring you count ’em four different roundtable interviews with cast and creatives: ThomasMiddleditch, MaryMack, SeanGiambrone, MikeMcMahan, JoshBycel, DanielleUhlarik, DanHernandez, BenjiSamit, MichaelCusack and a coup de grâce with the man himself, JustinRoiland (creator Rick and Morty). It’s bound to be a rollicking good time! Hulu originals: SOLAR OPPOSITES follows a family of aliens "from a better world" who take refuge in middle America. KOALA MAN fol

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. It’s all Frights and Delights tonight, as we get you into a blueberry marshmallow mood for this special time of year. That’s right, go out and buy your seasonal monster cereals while you can find them, cause it’s time for our “cerealized” version of a Halloween Special, The 7th Annual Franken Berry Season Primetime Special!  This year we open up the tomb and unearth two sweet delicious interviews with two sweet delicious people, KateeSackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, The Mandalorian) and JoshDuhamel (Transformers) to celebrate the release of Night of the Animated Dead, an animated remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic that’s surprisingly spooky!  Plus: a new Monsterpiece Theater episode, “Crispy” a radio drama inspired by the movi

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, what started out as a side project for Matty P’s Radio Happy Hour in now kicking off its 10th season with guests Casper Van Dien and Jennifer Wenger. That’s right! With a brief look back at our fist episode ever, hosts Grim Shea, Marke and Jimmy The Gent go for a “where are they now” segment to check in with the indy movie Space Command. Looking to the future, we bring you guest interviews with SDCC favorites Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) and Jennifer Wenger (Confessions of a Superhero) to discuss their new Sci-Fi action series Salvage Marines and the SDCC 2022 trailer debut and panel. Available now on Crackle and Popcornflix Salvage Marines Synopsis: The series takes place in a grim future of corporate tyranny where facto

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we we remember, rehearse and reboot with guests Daphne Maxwell Reid and Michelle Danner. Everyone remembers Reid as an iconic TV mom of the 1990s, from her three seasons as "Aunt Vivian" on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. And Reid couldn’t be more excited when the cast reunited 30 years later for an unscripted reunion special that aired on HBO Max. These days Reid is a Renaissance woman, respected artist, designer and education activist. Daphne is living proof that a passion for creativity and a dedication to hard work can ensure a lifetime’s worth of success. And if that weren’t enough… There aren’t many people who can point to a career full of success as a performer, teacher, storyteller, entrepreneur, and expert.  But Michelle D

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we we look up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a cliche. It’s… Superman! No, actually it’s two Superman’s and in a bizarro twist… two Lex Luthers! In honor of two milestone anniversaries and fully remastered Blu-ray box set releases, the crew at Saturday Morning Cereal return from their Fortress of Solitude with a SUPERsized episode with four SUPERsized guests including Smallville’s “Clark Kent” and “Lex Luther” Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum and Superman The Animated Series’ “Superman” and “Lex Luther” Tim Daly and Clancy Brown. Let your spirits be lifted up, up, up and away and join Grim Shea, Marke, and Bleeding Cool’s Jimmy The Gent to celebrate these two amazing gravity defying shows and the impact they had on t

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we scoop up a very special episode of Saturday Morning Cereal with a sweet look at the Catwoman: Hunted (out now on 4k, Blu-ray & digital combo packs). Everyone’s favorite felonious feline takes action, adventure and theft to new heights – and with an entrancing anime style – in Catwoman: Hunted, an all-new DC Animated Movie. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the jazzy pop film noir feature-length animated film is both visually striking and groundbreaking. Not only is Catwoman: Hunted DCAU’s first Catwoman feature but it may also be the first superhero movie to ever present its lead hero Catwoman and co-lead hero Batwoman as LGBTQ+ characters without orientation being the focal point of

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we delight in the spirit of the season with a special Christmas episode, on Christmas day, including but not limited to A Christmas Story with our very special and gracious guest ZackWard. ZackWard has the unique flex of over 120 IMDB credits but few actors, even those as busy as Zack, ever reach “timeless classic” and Zack did it in his first movie, landing the role of  “Scut Farkus” the ferocious yellow eyed bully and tormentor to Ralphie in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. If you don't know A Christmas Story, stop reading this and get out of here right now. Seriously. Go get caught up on the last 30 years of popular culture and then we'll talk... For the rest of you, please join hosts Grim Shea, Mark E. and Jimmy “The Ge