BW’s Christmas Videothon: TV Sins’ Everything Wrong With The Frosty Special

Catch more TV Sins on their YouTube channel. And yes, it is an official Cinema Sins spinoff.

Just because it’s a fun special, which I do enjoy by the way, doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of it.

BW’s Christmas Videothon: Transformers Stop-Motion Christmas Comedy

A collection of new shorts and the same BotBot shenanigans from last year.

Check out more Transformers on their official YouTube channel.

BW’s Christmas Videothon: Linkara Reviews A Transformers Christmas Comic

Catch more Atop The Fourth Wall on Linkara’s YouTube channel.

2020’s Best YouTube Christmas Decoration Videos

This is what I imagine people who demand Die Hard be considered a Christmas movie instead of just prefer to call it that are like.

Every year I try to take time out to look at the videos of home Christmas decorations. I don’t just immediately slap it in there, and by now you have to do better than the singing LED Christmas tree on your garage door blinking along with the same songs every time. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s rendition of “Carol Of The Bells” is great but it’s time to step up your decorating, and no it doesn’t count if you’re playing the Imperial March from Star Wars instead.

I also found videos for the inside of the home being decorated and I thought I’d throw a few of those in there. Sure these are all people with the money to do this but they also have the creativity or help from stuff created by people with the creativity. And of course those large gatherings with an animated story projected on the side of the building is unlikely to pop up given the current state of 2020 but I hope to find one by post time. Here’s what I did find that hopefully is set apart from what I’ve posted in previous years. So grab some hot chocolate, break out the Christmas cookies a day or two early, and enjoy the magic!

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Robotech Masters #2

Nova’s smiling? There’s something you rarely see.

Robotech Masters #2

Comic The Comic Company (August, 1985)

“Southern Cross”

WRITER: Mike Baron

PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes

INKER: Rich Rankin

COLORIST: Tom Vincent

LETTERER: Bob Pinaha

EDITOR: Diana Schutz

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BW’s Daily Video: Google Over-Translates Baby It’s Cold Outside

Catch more Twisted Translations on their YouTube channel.

In a Sing Me A Story article from some years back I looked into “Baby It’s Cold Outside” to learn the true story. The haters don’t know what they’re talking about.

Cartoon Cypher Asks If Someone Would Fix These Dubs

Like them or hate them, dubbing anime has undergone a long journey as sound people try to fit American words into Japanese mouths. Between the different words, different grammar system, and different cultural ways of speaking it’s not an easy task to match the mouth movements (aka “lip flaps”) and make sure a different culture can understand the reference enough to not be drawn out of a story. (Especially in the days when you couldn’t hit pause and drop a term in a search engine.) Like anything this required learning new ways to do things and like anything else in animation it’s a long process.

The Cartoon Cypher looks back on some rather unintentionally humorous terrible dubs and asks if they couldn’t be redubbed by someone who knows what they’re doing. Otherwise you get a new dub as bad or worse than the original. I hear Netflix’s redubs fall into that category. Note that I really haven’t seen a lot of these and am posting this for anime fans out there and because I still find the idea interesting. Also I’m late again and needed to post something, even though they left the swearing and blood in.

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