Overly Animated Rick and Morty Podcasts

It’s probably the most important exercise we’ve ever attempted on the podcast, finding the most cursed animation character! We debate and grade the cursed-ness of these cursed heavyweights: Hooty (The Owl House), Scratch (The Ghost and Molly McGee), Swift Wind (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), KVN (Final Space), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Lemongrab (Adventure Time), Dave (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Woodman (Hilda), Pig Baby (Infinity Train), Glossaryck (Star vs. the Forces of Evil), Kyubey (Madoka Magica), Scrappy Doo, Onion & Ronaldo (Steven Universe), Jerry (Rick and Morty). Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Aly Martin. See the final grades here (SPOILERS!) http://www.overlyanimated.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CursedFinalGrades.png

We dove into the big reveals and more from the huge Rick and Morty Season 5 finale “Forgetting Sarick Mortshall” & “Rickmurai Jack” and talked about Season 5 overall. Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & April Collins. Timestamps for the podcast: 0:00 – Introduction 1:10 – What Watching: Kid Cosmic S2, Wizard City, Q-Force, What If…? 5:00 – Rick and Morty Discussion Starts – Finale Thoughts 18:00 – Evil Morty & Central Finite Curve 22:45 – Rick’s Backstory 28:00 – Producing Mortys 34:00 – Will the show change moving forward? 48:00 – S5 Overall/Favorite Episodes 1:00:00 – Conclusion

There was so much to discuss about the back-half of The Owl House S2A as we dove into many topics about episodes “Hunting Palismen”, “Eda’s Requiem”, “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door”, “Eclipse Lake”, & “Yesterday’s Lie”. Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Aly Martin, & April Collins. Timestamps for the podcast: 0:00 – Introduction 1:15 – What Been Watching: Centaurworld, Rick and Morty, Tuca & Bertie, Central Park, What If…?, Vivo 5:30 – Owl House S2E6-10 Discussion Starts 7:55 – Yesterday’s Lie Reactions 12:15 – Creepy Luz 16:25 – The Promise 22:30 – Emotional Core of the show 29:30 – Favorite parts of S2 so far 39:45 – Belos reveals 45:00 – Grimwalkers 53:45 – Hunter/The Golden Guard 1:03:00 – Raine Whispers 1:10:00 – Harpy Eda 1:16:45 – Lumity 1:25:30 – Other things from the episodes 1:37:45 – Final Thoughts/Conclusion

Time for more Owl House Season 2 discussion as we dive into everything about episodes 3-5 “Echoes of the Past”, “Keeping Up A-fear-ances”, & “Through the Looking Glass Ruins”, including more Lumity and other topics! Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, Aly Martin, & Sarah Dolman. Timestamps for the podcast: 0:00 – Introduction 1:15 – What Been Watching: Craig of the Creek, Rick and Morty, Tuca & Bertie, Luca, Summer Camp Island, Central Park 8:00 – Owl House S2E3-5 Discussion Starts 13:00 – Lumity Discussion 24:50 – Amity’s New Hair 35:50 – Eclipse Lake/Lumity Speculation 46:00 – Gus & Mattholomule 57:30 – Gwendolyn 1:02:20 – Eda’s Curse & Chronic Illness 1:14:00 – Plot Stuff 1:25:15 – King’s Past 1:35:40 – Final Thoughts/Conclusion

We go through all our favorites of the year from 2020 Western TV animation after giving all of our thoughts on the recent Adventure Time Obsidian special, the premiere episodes of Onyx Equinox, Season 1 of the Animaniacs reboot, and Season 3 of Craig of the Creek. Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & April Collins. Timestamps for the podcast: 5:10 – Adventure Time: Distant Lands Obsidian 12:30 – Onyx Equinox Episodes 1 & 2 22:25 – Animaniacs Reboot 33:15 – Craig of the Creek Season 3 57:45 – Main topic – Best of 2020 Animation

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer talk about that crazy Rick and Morty Season 4 finale and look back on the back half of Season 4 of the show.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Alex Bonilla share their thoughts on all of Season 1 of the new Hulu adult animated series “Solar Opposites”!

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer talk all about Season 4 Episode 6 of Rick and Morty “Never Ricking Morty” and what it means for the show as a whole.

Happy New Year everyone! After years of moving forward with a similar format, we’re switching things up for the podcast. The headline is: We’re going to stop doing episode recap podcasts, and we’re going to focus on more high-level discussions. The immediate change you’ll see is no episode recap podcasts which will result in less podcasts. However, we’ll still be covering the same shows, the podcast will still generally be similar, we’ll just be structuring our discussions in different ways. We think this new structure will result in more interesting discussions, and we’ll be better equipped to cover shows with a wide variety of release formats. Here are the types of podcasts you’ll see instead of episode recaps: Season recaps! We’ll still be discussing seasons as a whole when a show we cover wraps up its season. So you’ll see an Infinity Train Season 2 recap podcast but not nightly podcasts this week. When the next season of She-Ra drops we’ll have a podcast on the whole season soon after it comes out like normal (but no proceeding episode recaps). Podcasts at regular intervals for certain shows: This is the replacement model for episode recaps for weekly shows (or others) we still want to talk about regularly while they’re airing. We won’t discuss all the shows we cover on a regular basis, but in the short term look out for Miraculous Ladybug every-other-week podcasts starting sometime in the next two months, and Owl House podcasts monthly (after we do a special podcast for the premiere this weekend). These will be high-level discussions on anything about the show. If there are episodes to talk about we’ll talk about them generally, but we can also talk about general topics surrounding the show or any news about the show. Show-specific topics: If something is on our mind about a show, even if we’re not podcasting on it regularly, we might do a podcast to discuss a specific topic whenever! Likely something we’re passionate about like Bumbleby with RWBY. Cross-show or movie topics: This is the one we’re most excited about and hope to do a lot more: A trend in the industry, a trend in a social issue (we definitely want to do queer rep topics more than once a year), or some theme we notice across a few shows. This could really be anything involving animation. Some exceptions to no more episode recaps: First, we still could do one if there’s an episode we’re super excited to talk about! Also, Steven Universe Future may or may not continue with episode recaps until its completion (if not we’d have every-other-week podcasts when it comes back). We’ll finish out Volume 7 recaps for RWBY since it’s almost over. We may finish out the She-Ra S4 recaps we almost finished. And we can still do pods on a single movie, whether it’s recently released or not! We’re excited to continue to talk about a lot of awesome animated shows and movies in a format we think will work better. As always reach out with any feedback you have on the podcast!

Happy New Year everyone! After years of moving forward with a similar format, we’re switching things up for the podcast. The headline is: We’re going to stop doing episode recap podcasts, and we’re going to focus on more high-level discussions. The immediate change you’ll see is no episode recap podcasts which will result in less podcasts. However, we’ll still be covering the same shows, the podcast will still generally be similar, we’ll just be structuring our discussions in different ways. We think this new structure will result in more interesting discussions, and we’ll be better equipped to cover shows with a wide variety of release formats. Here are the types of podcasts you’ll see instead of episode recaps: Season recaps! We’ll still be discussing seasons as a whole when a show we cover wraps up its season. So you’ll see an Infinity Train Season 2 recap podcast but not nightly podcasts this week. When the next season of She-Ra drops we’ll have a podcast on the whole season soon after it comes out like normal (but no proceeding episode recaps). Podcasts at regular intervals for certain shows: This is the replacement model for episode recaps for weekly shows (or others) we still want to talk about regularly while they’re airing. We won’t discuss all the shows we cover on a regular basis, but in the short term look out for Miraculous Ladybug every-other-week podcasts starting sometime in the next two months, and Owl House podcasts monthly (after we do a special podcast for the premiere this weekend). These will be high-level discussions on anything about the show. If there are episodes to talk about we’ll talk about them generally, but we can also talk about general topics surrounding the show or any news about the show. Show-specific topics: If something is on our mind about a show, even if we’re not podcasting on it regularly, we might do a podcast to discuss a specific topic whenever! Likely something we’re passionate about like Bumbleby with RWBY. Cross-show or movie topics: This is the one we’re most excited about and hope to do a lot more: A trend in the industry, a trend in a social issue (we definitely want to do queer rep topics more than once a year), or some theme we notice across a few shows. This could really be anything involving animation. Some exceptions to no more episode recaps: First, we still could do one if there’s an episode we’re super excited to talk about! Also, Steven Universe Future may or may not continue with episode recaps until its completion (if not we’d have every-other-week podcasts when it comes back). We’ll finish out Volume 7 recaps for RWBY since it’s almost over. We may finish out the She-Ra S4 recaps we almost finished. And we can still do pods on a single movie, whether it’s recently released or not! We’re excited to continue to talk about a lot of awesome animated shows and movies in a format we think will work better. As always reach out with any feedback you have on the podcast!

Delaney Stovall, April Collins and Michelle Anderer recap Episode 5 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Rattlestar Ricklactica”.

Delaney Stovall, April Collins and Michelle Anderer recap Episode 5 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Rattlestar Ricklactica”.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer recap Episode 4 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty”.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer recap Episode 4 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Sarah Potter recap Episode 4 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty”!

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer recap Episode 2 of Season 4 of Rick and Morty, “The Old Man and the Seat”.

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, & Michelle Anderer recap the Season 4 premiere of Rick and Morty, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat”!

Dylan Hysen & Alex Bonilla bring you all the animation news from this week’s 2019 San Diego Comic-Con!

Dylan Hysen, Alex Bonilla, John McKenna, and Andy Potter count down our consensus Top 5 Stingers (post-credits scenes) from all of Rick and Morty.

The results are in for our 2017 OVA-ies TV Animation Awards! After 1,420 votes cast and deliberations from our expert panels, the winners in five categories have been determined. Listen to the attached podcast to hear Dylan and others announce the winners and analyze the results. Rick and Morty won big, sweeping the two biggest categories: Best Show and Best Episode. Little Witch Academia also fared well, winning Best Supporting Character for Diana and finishing tied for Best Visuals. Star vs. the Forces of Evil picked up a win for Best Main Character for Star Butterfly, and Samurai Jack tied for Best Visuals. How the results were calculated: an average ranking was determined by averaging the placement in the Open Vote and what the Expert Panel ranked the order of the nominees. The specific percentage in the Open Vote did not factor in, only what place it finished (1st, 2nd, etc.) in the category’s vote. The Expert Panels were made up of people in our internal community who watch each show nominated in the specific category, and was factored into the final result to mitigate the popularity contest element. Best Animated Show of 2017 Winner: Rick and Morty Show Average Rank Open Vote Expert Panel 1st: Rick and Morty 1 1 (30%) 1 2nd: BoJack Horseman 2 2 (18.4%) 2 3rd: Star vs. the Forces of Evil 3 3 (18.1%) 3 T-4th: Mysticons 5 6 (2.6%) 4 T-4th: Voltron: Legendary Defender 5 5 (13.6%) 5 T-4th: Steven Universe 5 4 (17.3%) 6   Best Animated Episode of 2017 Winner: “The Ricklantis Mixup”/”Tales from the Citadel”, Rick and Morty Episode Average Rank Open Vote Expert Panel 1st: “The Ricklantis Mixup”/”Tales from the Citadel”, Rick and Morty 1 1 (32.5%) 1 2nd: “XCIII”, Samurai Jack 2.5 2 (26.4%) 3 3rd: “Time’s Arrow”, BoJack Horseman 3 4 (13.3%) 2 T-4th: “The Legend Begins”, Voltron: Legendary Defender 4.5 5 (8.8%) 4 T-4th: “The Trial”, Steven Universe 4.5 3 (16.8%) 6 6th: “All Hail Necrafa”, Mysticons 5.5 6 (2.3%) 5   Best Animated Main Character of 2017 Winner: Star Butterfly, Star vs. the Forces of Evil Character Average Rank Open Vote Expert Panel 1st: Star Butterfly, Star vs. the Forces of Evil 2 3 (8.5%) 1 T-2nd: BoJack Horseman, BoJack Horseman 2.5 2 (9.5%) 3 T-2nd: Weiss Schnee, RWBY 2.5 1 (72.9%) 4 4th: Emerald Goldenbraid, Mysticons 4 6 (1.4%) 2 5th: Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous Ladybug 4.5 4 (5.4%) 5 6th: Morty Smith, Rick and Morty 5.5 5 (2.5%) 6   Best Animated Supporting Character of 2017 Winner: Diana Cavendish, Little Witch Academia Character Average Rank Open Vote Expert Panel 1st: Diana Cavendish, Little Witch Academia 2.5 1 (30.5%) 4 T-2nd: Moon Butterfly, Star vs. the Forces of Evil 3.5 4 (11.6%) 3 T-2nd: Hollyhock, BoJack Horseman 3.5 5 (11.4%) 2 T-2nd: Prince Lotor, Voltron: Legendary Defender 3.5 6 (8.2%) 1 T-5th: Summer Smith, Rick and Morty 4 2 (23.3%) 6 T-5th: Lars Barriga, Steven Universe 4 3(14.9%) 5   Best Visuals for an Animated Show of 2017 Winner: TIE – Little Witch Academia & Samurai Jack Show Average Rank Open Vote Expert Panel T-1st: Little Witch Academia 1.5 1 (30%) 2 T-1st: Samurai Jack 1.5 2 (29.1%) 1 3rd: Star vs. the Forces of Evil 4 4 (10.2%) 4 T-4th: Steven Universe 4.5 3 (13.9%) 6 T-4th: Voltron: Legendary Defender 4.5 6 (8.1%) 3 6th: Miraculous Ladybug 5 5 (8.6) 5