Halloween means a lot of different things to people. Maybe it’s a chance to get out the pumpkin carving equipment. Maybe it’s a chance to watch horror films until you’re jumping at the fridge making noises. To the costume industry it’s a chance to make a slutty version of every conceivable costume. For television shows it’s a chance to make a Halloween special, and cartoons are no exception. Whether aimed towards children or adults, animated Halloween specials are the best, because you don’t need to use hokey special effects when it’s all animated anyway. So, sit back, turn off the lights and curl up with a good cartoon.
by Helen Langdon
Halloween means a lot of different things to people. Maybe it’s a chance to get out the pumpkin carving equipment. Maybe it’s a chance to watch horror films until you’re jumping at the fridge making noises. To the costume industry it’s a chance to make a slutty version of every conceivable costume. For television shows it’s a chance to make a Halloween special, and cartoons are no exception. Whether aimed towards children or adults, animated Halloween specials are the best, because you don’t need to use hokey special effects when it’s all animated anyway. So, sit back, turn off the lights and curl up with a good cartoon. by Helen Langdon Are you ready for an algebraic announcement? Season two of Cartoon Network's hit cartoon series, Adventure Time, has finally been released on DVD in the UK. So, it's time to grab your friends and go to very distant lands - because Jake the Dog and Finn the Human are waiting for you! By Helen Langdon Robots often get the short end of the stick when it comes to sci-fi universes. After all, they don’t have to sleep, or eat, or breathe, and so they get all of the crappy jobs. There’s no kind of union to whom they can complain about their lot in life. There don’t tend to be robot psychiatrists to hear their woes. Most of the time, the humans around them seem to view them purely as a convenience, rather than a functioning human being in their own right. It’s not just Marvin the Paranoid Android who has it bad. Here’s the most desperately unhappy robots (and AIs) on TV. by Graham Osborne It’s National Towel Day today! In order to celebrate this most glorious of days, we here at I’m With Geek decided that we would honour the humble towel in all of its glory. We debated long and hard over how to achieve such a feat, before deciding on how useful a towel would be, were you to travel to a TV series. In order to maintain posterity, we chose to award the Towel Oriented Workload Efficiency Level to a variety of TV universes, breaching the realms of science fiction, fantasy, and even the mundane. The scoring system was out of ten, depending how useful using your towel would be in a situation, with One being “no use whatsoever” and Ten being “handy camouflage should the Bugblatter Beast of Traal turn up.” With that out the way, let’s get started! |
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