Sam Valentino's November 2024 Update

Well, soon it'll be Thanksgiving and Christmas, and so Sam Valentino has some things to share, such as the animators' guild strike picketing outside Warner Bros. Discovery, his time at Furpocalypse 2024, MeTV Toons's holiday plans (including showing Caillou's holiday movie from 2003) and how their more edgy and violent cartoons (including a certain Scooby-Doo series from the early 2010s that will be airing there soon) are often rated and/or censored, along with Rankin/Bass's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" moving to NBC. Wile E. Coyote also makes a quick cameo.
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[@DennisTamayo]

Here's this week's news: Max will no longer stream new episodes of Sesame Street after the upcoming 55th season next year, because Warner Bros. Discovery ended its partnership with Sesame Workshop recently. However, the long running preschool series will remain on the streaming service until 2027.

[@ZakWolf]

Yeah. SesameWorkshop will now be shopping for a new streaming service. Or maybe PBS will start airing the episodes first-run again.

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

Happy Thanksgiving, Zak!, MeTV Toons looks quite nice and has a weirdly nice lineup I don't think Wait Till Your Father along with the good old Flintstones was a kids show, but it was mostly a "family show" like King of the Hill.

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

The fact Caillou got his own movie is more than depressing.

[@JoseCarlos-fm3wj]

Great video & happy early Thanksgiving for you

[@maromars1042]

7:20 He was also heavily inspired by ''All In The Family'' as well. to the point where the theme song with Lois and Peter on the piano partially mirrors the intro of that show with the Bunkers on the piano, AND he also revealed that the Brian and Stewie episode from 2010 was inspired by an episode of AITF called ''Archie in the cellar'' as both episodes are ''bottle episodes'' that completely breaks from both of the shows usual storylines.

[@arenjtumastens]

Happy early Thanksgiving.

[@IorekByrnison086]

Awesome update. Thanks.

[@Launchpad05]

While I've never seen 'Wait Till Your Father Gets Home' growing up, You can tell it was made at A time when animation was declared as kids stuff after 'The Flintstones' ended it's run on ABC, and Hanna-Barbera started making kid focused 'Flintstones' spin-offs on Saturday mornings.

[@ZakWolf]

Well, of course, "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" wasn't made for kids. I didn't start watching it until this year when MeTV Toons started up and I've been getting into it... it was neat to see Hanna-Barbera do something strictly adult at the time, and as I said, it led to some controversy that there was a cartoon for adults airing on TV.

[@dinkyrobb9993]

Today is Woody woodpecker's birthday Me-TV Toons is going to get rid of Caillou on December 25th.

[@arenjtumastens]

@@dinkyrobb9993 it's also the 86th anniversary of Walt Disney's "Ferdinand the Bull", 32nd anniversary of "Aladdin" (1992), and 26th anniversary of Pixar's "A Bug's Life" (the latter of which I'm currently watching).

[@Launchpad05]

They are grounded, grounded, grounded, grounded!

[@JoshWeber-fj9ub]

Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving, Zak Wolf! I agree with you about some of the inappropriate violence and behavior of some cartoons that were, and are geared toward young children. Even as a 20-year-old, I find myself not as entertained by them as I used to be as I see things through more mature eyes. I never like gun violence in anything. Slapstick isn’t even that funny to me anymore. Especially in the world we’re living in today. As a pacifist, I just don’t like the thought of bad ideas getting into Little minds. We need to find safe content for kids to watch, and as adults set positive examples for them to follow. Leave the cartoons with questionable content for the grown-ups when the kids aren’t around. Thanks, Zak Wolf, for bringing this to light. I hope you have a great holiday season! Peace out!

[@mistorbear]

legendary fyp pull

[@Sandlot1992]

Happy Early Thanksgiving! btw it's sad to say that MuppetVision 3D is closing soon!

[@NerdyChocolateLabradoodle]

I wonder if the reason MeTV Toons is airing Caillou’s Holiday Movie is because it was part of a package deal on Wildbrain’s behalf, similar to the when 4Kids dubbed One Piece.

[@elchanchopato9601]

Me says it might be because of the E/I requirement. And yes, I know I'm late, but better late than never like they say.

[@beanzbobhoskins2001]

I❤Caillou since 2008!😍

[@vestonbruno2795]

They're not covering Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?!

[@ZakWolf]

Afraid so...

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@ZakWolf Man! That tradition has been thrown out the window!

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@ZakWolf Sheesh, hope nothing goes wrong the rest of the holiday season.

[@Launchpad05]

@@ZakWolf The Turtles in Macy's Thanksgiving parade gives me PTSD flashbacks of their musical tour.

[@Sunshinesomerset]

Hope you have a good Thanksgiving, Sam Valentino. When you have Turkey, hopefully you won’t eat it live before it’s fully prepared, stuffed and roasted. It’s a good thing Zaslav didn’t run for President. Imagine if he banned animation in the United States. I’d definitely go for media preservation over media elimination. Also, since Christmas is coming up, if Elmo Saves Christmas was made in the 2020s instead of 1996, I wonder if they’ll still do the endless airings of It’s a Wonderful Life or would all the TV channels only show Romantic Christmas telemovies when Christmas is every day. (Hope that doesn’t happen in real life)

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

must have been filmed pretty early because I heard a deal was made to end that strike

[@ChrisWesterberg-yh3pm]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

[@coolfunkyvillain-eatingmachie]

Happy two more days for Thanksgiving!

[@sm20902]

This is my own true thought: INSPECTOR GADGET>>>>>>Caillou(no matter what Caillou version it is)

[@ZakWolf]

Agreed!

[@TheRandomEntertainer-o5r]

We needed another strike more than ever since companies are still removing content from streaming, locking projects up in some Disney Vault-esque situation (usually for a tax write-off) and using generative AI. Also, you know how the people who made those shorts tried to pitch those shorts to other companies like Nickelodeon but WBD stopped them? Ironically enough, in 2001, Micah Wright was going to pitch his anime-influenced pilot Constant Payne to other networks but Nickelodeon stopped him. (Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t shelved because of 9/11, it was shelved because Nickelodeon failed to reach a compromise with Wright about animators being paid higher wages.) Kinda crazy to see Caillou’s holiday special air on METV TOONS OF ALL PLACES. Speaking of which, the end credits song “Everyday” by Marilou is way too good to be in Caillou, sounds more like a slow dance song than anything else. I’m glad NBC will treat Rudolph with respect for his 60th anniversary, especially since the later CBS airings were poorly edited. I think CBS removing Frosty Returns was for the best considering that special’s reputation. To close this off, hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

[@dacid5153]

Sherlock Hound!

[@higbeeproductions2340]

When is MeTV toons gonna air the banana splits show!?

[@CamdynMcBryde]

Well, The Banana Splits is live-action

[@ZakWolf]

@CamdynMcBryde The framing material is, yes, but they show cartoon shorts as part of it, such as "The Arabian Knights" and "The Three Musketeers". In a way, it's similar to how "Toon In With Me" does the same thing (but more like a throwback to those old kiddie cartoon shows), and that airs on MeTV Toons. They also aired a couple of Svengoolie Halloween-related specials (one with Looney Tunes cartoons and one with a couple Scooby-Doo episodes); again with live-action framing material.

[@DennisTamayo]

@@ZakWolf What about The All New Popeye Show (aka The All New Popeye Hour)?

[@TerriCrowell-g2t]

Fuck no!!