PBS is NOT going away yet! - A Zak Wolf Rant Zak Wolf 2026-09-21 | PBS is NOT going away yet! - A Zak Wolf Rant
KidWorks 2: Mine Your Own Business! Zak Wolf 2024-10-16 | Here's what it would've been like if I used that weird Kid Works 2 program as a kid to write an adaptation of the classic "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" episode "Mine Your Own Business", using the funny text-to-speech synthesizer.
Scrappys Rap but its the HD remaster Zak Wolf 2024-10-15 | Here it is: Scrappy-Doo's infamous rap number from "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School"... the high-definition remaster seen on Blu-ray! The instrumental backing by John Debney is great, but, geez, Scrappy-Doo's attempts at rapping are only a little better than Hamton J Pig on "Tiny Toon Adventures"... (Yes, I know it's the same voice actor.)"Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" footage © 1988 Warner Bros. Discovery; FAIR USE!
Sam Valentinos October 2024 Update Zak Wolf 2024-10-13 | It's Foxtober, so of course Sam Valentino has a few updates to share about what's going on in the animation world (i.e. "Velma" ending, Maxwell Atoms's financial issues) and with this channel, especially since Halloween and Furpocalypse are coming!Here's a link to my eBay store, as Sam mentions...ebay.com/sch/wilee2005/m.html?item=186728451838&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197And here's a link to the GoFundMe for helping me out. Every little bit helps!gofund.me/c29ce1e1
Castle Thunder compilation in modern (post-1993) cartoons! (Revised Oct. 2024) Zak Wolf 2024-10-12 | Updated once again for the Halloween season; a montage of the second most well-known sound effect in the entertainment industry (next to the Wilhelm Scream), the Castle Thunder, as seen on this site...http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/sound/castlethunder.htmlIn the animation world, this sound was typically associated with Disney and Hanna-Barbera. By 1988, Castle Thunder began to be phased out by most movie, TV and animation studios, however some cartoons in the 1990s onward continue to use it (especially anything that Pomann Sound and Hacienda Post/Sabre Media Studios does sound editing on, or certain reboots of older properties). This montage is a continuing work-in-progress and will be replaced with an updated version sometime in the future.For those curious, I've compiled a list of the cartoon clips used here:docs.google.com/document/d/1hvUK08xTm7El8yzSWie2v7c1cHZbR4AGQ4GZeeI0MG0/edit?usp=sharingA BIG thank you to the Sound Effects Wiki for helping me find some of these clips!NOTE: I chose to not include SpongeBob SquarePants, even though the pre-2005 episodes used Castle Thunder, using all the clips of it would take up too much room; same reason why "Hey Arnold" isn't here. I was also surprised to hear "The Simpsons" start using it occasionally as of Season 34! Usually, the show uses a thunderclap that sounds like the old Warner Bros. gunshot sound effect.All clips ™ and © by their respective owners; FAIR USE!
And the eensy-beensy octopus... Zak Wolf 2024-10-09 | An excerpt from my remastered Halloween YTP "Arthur's Dick or Treat", specifically the hilarious octopus scare where Arthur succeeds in scaring D.W. with his ball pipe cleaner "octopus!"See the full Poop here:drive.google.com/file/d/1BEv073rwkxYfLXsBsLha23UZNDO9nYuV/view?usp=sharing"Arthur" footage © 1996, 2007 PBS Distribution and WildBrain; FAIR USE!
Too many fire alarms this year! Zak Wolf 2024-10-04 | Why is it that I end up in more fire alarm activations on years that end on a Tuesday?! This same kind of thing happened to me 22 years ago on this exact date, but that one was much worse. At least THESE alarms are on Code-3!
An Itchy and Scratchy Song by PlainTalk Zak Wolf 2024-10-02 | Today's the 30th anniversary of the premiere of one of my all-time favorite Simpsons episodes: "Itchy and Scratchy Land!" So to celebrate, here is something me and a friend came up with back when we were in high school; a song about Itchy and Scratchy that also summarizes the "Pinitchio" segment from that episode, sung by the Apple PlainTalk (a.k.a. MacinTalk) voice "Good News", i.e. a robotic voice singing to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance". 20 years later, I still think it sounds pretty funny!
The Simpsons crashing sound effect Zak Wolf 2024-09-27 | This is the default sound effect "The Simpsons" generally uses for impacts and crashes. No matter what's being destroyed, such as a car accident or a large glass pane being broken or a building collapse, they all sound like this (like a light bulb breaking), in a manner not unlike the Warner Bros.- Seven Arts "Looney Tunes" cartoons using that Hanna-Barbera "smash against wall" sound effect for nearly all the crashes and impacts."The Simpsons" screengrab © 2005 FOX and Disney Enterprises; FAIR USE!
Zak Wolfs Paw and Vore ASMR Video (Fan Request) Zak Wolf 2024-09-26 | Something I made for one of my furry friends.
Wow! Its a fire drill on MeTV Toons! Zak Wolf 2024-09-24 | This morning, MeTV Toons showed one of my beloved YTP running gags, with that annoying Corporal Capeman, seen in the "Inspector Gadget" episode "M.A.D. in the Moon!""Inspector Gadget" footage © 1985 WildBrain; FAIR USE!
Zak Wolfs Cartoon Commentary: Larry and Steve Zak Wolf 2024-09-24 | Here's another commentary/reaction video from Zak Wolf on one of Cartoon Network's "What a Cartoon" shorts; this time it's Seth MacFarlane's entry that is partly a precursor to "Family Guy", complete with prototype Peter and Brian Griffin (and even Glenn Quagmire!)"Larry and Steve" © 1996 Warner Bros. Discovery and the Cartoon Network; FAIR USE!
A Coyote at the Door Zak Wolf 2024-09-17 | Here he is; my revised cosplay of my favorite Looney Tune: Wile E. Coyote! I know, the colors of the mask don't match the suit, but so what? I figured a skit like this was appropriate for introducing him on my channel here, to also tie into the 75th anniversary of the release of the Looney Tunes short "Fast and Furry-ous", the cartoon that introduced Wile E. and the Road Runner.I want to thank my brother @billdeco08 for assisting me with this video shoot.Oh, and also,#releasecoyotevsacme
Warner Bros Animation thunder effects from the 2000s (REVISED) Zak Wolf 2024-09-13 | One interesting about Warner Bros. Animation is that they have connections with Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services. (It sort of harkens back to the 1940s, when Treg Brown was on staff.)These are the main thunder sounds that Termite Terrace has used during much of the 2000s, around after Sander Schwartz took over as president (he was the cruelest of them all!) You still can't find a good chunk of these on existing commercial effects libraries or anything like that, which is why a few of them still have background music attached. These thunder sounds are largely sourced from the libraries and creatives at Warner Bros., Skywalker Sound, Glenwood Editorial, and Weddington Productions, and were used on many of Warner Bros. Animation's productions since then, such as "Static Shock," "Ozzy and Drix," "Justice League (Unlimited)," "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and related direct-to-video movies, "Teen Titans," "The Batman," "Legion of Superheroes," and many of their direct-to-video movies and the aborted theatrical Looney Tunes shorts of 2003-2004. A few of their subsequent productions like "Looney Tunes Cartoons" still use some of them.A BIG thank you to the Sound Effects Wiki for helping locate and identify some of these!
MAY I have a soda? Zak Wolf 2024-09-11 | Another one of my quick random and bizarre mashups, this time involving D.W.'s "Bleep" episode from "Arthur"! Those "Word From Us Kids" interstitials had some pretty amusing moments."Arthur" footage © 1997, 2003 PBS Distribution and WildBrain; FAIR USE!
Zak Wolfs Cartoon Commentary: The Sheepish Wolf Zak Wolf 2024-09-08 | Testing to see if this latest Zak Wolf cartoon reaction video of mine uploads, as it's a fun wolf-related Warner Bros. short by Friz Freleng.Also, #releasecoyotevsacme !"The Sheepish Wolf" © 1942 Warner Bros. Discovery; FAIR USE!
Fudge Meets Ratface (a Wrapper video) Zak Wolf 2024-09-07 | Yes, it's been a long time since I did anything new with Wrapper/GoAnimate, so here is another adaptation of a scene from one of Judy Blume's "Fudge" books. This time, it's from "Superfudge", i.e. the "Farley Drexel Meets Ratface" chapter, where Fudge Hatcher has a rocky start with kindergarten, and it's up to Peter to help smooth things over!
The Simpsons Education First PSA (1992) Zak Wolf 2024-09-06 | Here's a really rare bit of Golden-era "The Simpsons" material that hasn't gotten its own upload here yet. It's a really short PSA for Education First cira 1992, with a short re-dubbed clip of Bart Simpson's epilogue from "Bart the General". Bart was still a pretty popular character then, even though Homer Simpson was now pretty much the star of the show by this time.This particular airing came from after the premiere of "Lisa's First Word" on December 3, 1992, the very first Simpsons episode I remember watching when I was little (only four years old!) We had the premiere recorded onto tape at the time, and I clearly remember this short PSA after the closing credits and logos.Footage courtesy of @fatmandu2851 .PSA © 1992 Education First, 20th Television and Disney Enterprises; FAIR USE!
What if Animaniacs had the Turner Globe Logo? Zak Wolf 2024-09-03 | Another thing I recently whipped up to "celebrate" the 30th anniversary of "Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights". What if Turner had a hand in distributing the actual original "Animaniacs" to cable in the mid-to-late 1990s and tacked their warp-speed 1987 "Globe" logo onto the end, the way they did with most of the Hanna-Barbera stuff aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang at the time (including "Arabian Nights")? It'd probably go something like this, and would definitely be less redundant than the actual cable prints of "Arabian Nights" with its' two Turner logos, or when Cartoon Network reran "Animaniacs" in 1998-2000 with at least two Warner Bros. logos in a row replacing the original?"Animaniacs" footage and logo © 1994 Warner Bros. Discovery and Turner; FAIR USE!
YouTube Poop - The Worst Arabian Nights Adaptation Ever! (Part 2) Zak Wolf 2024-09-03 | I am proud to present to you a classic YouTube Poop of what may be one of the worst Hanna-Barbera cartoons ever produced: "Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights." Released on this day 30 years ago in 1994, and was essentially a rip-off of "Animaniacs" (down to the music!) as well as a rip-off of Disney’s "Aladdin" (throwing in a bit of "Sleeping Beauty" as well) The animation was very flat and wonky, even for 1994! It doesn’t even use the distinctive Hanna-Barbera sound effects library very often, instead relying on the Looney Tunes/WB sound effects, as well as the same sound FX that VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER CARTOON PRODUCED IN 1994 USED! And to make it worse, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy barely appear in the movie! (Which is probably why they just originally titled it "Arabian Nights".)So in this poop, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are hired as Royal Food Tasters, but naturally they pig out and avoid being killed by Mandark, er, I mean the Caliph, by having Shaggy crossdress and tell him a VERY long and boring story, involving bagels, bears that whine for food, an upper-class cyclops and more!"Arabian Nights" © 1994 Warner Bros. Discovery; FAIR USE!
YouTube Poop - The Worst Arabian Nights Adaptation Ever! (Part 1) Zak Wolf 2024-09-03 | I am proud to present to you a classic YouTube Poop of what may be one of the worst Hanna-Barbera cartoons ever produced: "Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights." Released on this day 30 years ago in 1994, and was essentially a rip-off of "Animaniacs" (down to the music!) as well as a rip-off of Disney’s "Aladdin" (throwing in a bit of "Sleeping Beauty" as well) The animation was very flat and wonky, even for 1994! It doesn’t even use the distinctive Hanna-Barbera sound effects library very often, instead relying on the Looney Tunes/WB sound effects, as well as the same sound FX that VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER CARTOON PRODUCED IN 1994 USED! And to make it worse, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy barely appear in the movie! (Which is probably why they just originally titled it "Arabian Nights".)So in this poop, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are hired as Royal Food Tasters, but naturally they pig out and avoid being killed by Mandark, er, I mean the Caliph, by having Shaggy crossdress and tell him a VERY long and boring story, involving bagels, bears that whine for food, an upper-class cyclops and more!"Arabian Nights" © 1994 Warner Bros. Discovery; FAIR USE!
YouTube Poop - Caillou and the Canadian Fire Alarm! Zak Wolf 2024-08-26 | Here's kind of a special Caillou YTP from me in time for the Back To School season, of an episode of that cheesy "Caillou's New Adventures" reboot that really hit home for me, since I was a lot like Andy in this when it came to school fire alarms. As such, it was a little difficult to translate to YouTube Poop form, but I was also able to represent how such the sensory overload would feel on me!In this reboot, Caillou and his friends now attend a preschool class in a typical public school building and even have elementary school-level lessons taught to them by Ms. Martin! One of the students in their class is Andy, an autistic boy who was introduced near the end of the original show's run, and he reacts the way you'd expect during a routine fire drill. I also left the original fire bell intact, given that this still presumably takes place in Canada like the original show did (hence the title), though this is actually a co-production between Canada, the United States AND the United Kingdom (where fire alarm bells were also once really common)."Caillou's New Adventures" footage © 2020 WildBrain; FAIR USE!
Zak Wolfs Cartoon Commentary: The Three Bears (1935) Zak Wolf 2024-08-21 | Time for yet another Zak Wolf fursuit reaction/commentary on an old cartoon; my favorite animated adaptation of the Goldilocks fairy tale: 1935's "The Three Bears" (a.k.a. "The Big Bad Wolf"), the Ub Iwerks ComiColor short! Zak observes how the bears have three of EVERYTHING, and Carl Stalling's music score, and the legacy the cartoon has left.
Sam Valentinos August 2024 Update Zak Wolf 2024-08-17 | Been a while since that vulpine private toon detective Sam Valentino appeared on this YouTube Channel, but here he is, with some hot scoops relating to recent animation doings, such as "The Day the Earth Blew Up" finding an American theatrical distributor, sequels to "The Bad Guys" and "Zootopia", the uncertain fate of "Coyote vs. ACME", the death of Cartoon Network's website and the Boomerang streaming service, and the Animators Guild rally last weekend! Daffy Duck also makes a quick cameo.#releasecoyotevsacme
Lets Play Flying Ace Black! Zak Wolf 2024-08-06 | No joke; this is what me and my brother liked doing when we were kids in the 1990s!And yes, this does hint at a future "Let's Play" video...
Zak Wolfs Cartoon Commentary: Wind Up Wolf Zak Wolf 2024-07-31 | Would you believe I got a great idea for another cartoon commentary reaction video featuring Zak Wolf? Thanks to Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's "Checkered Past" block now rerunning the "What a Cartoon Show", which I LOVED as a kid in the 1990s, I figured why not? "Wind Up Wolf", directed by Bill Hanna and based off an unproduced pitch devised by Tex Avery in the late 1970s!"Wind Up Wolf" © 1995 Warner Bros. Discovery and the Cartoon Network; FAIR USE!
YouTube Poop - The Mask Goes Wild! (30th Anniversary Remaster) Zak Wolf 2024-07-29 | In honor of the 30th anniversary of one of my all-time favorite movies, I've remastered my YTP of the 1994 Jim Carrey classic! The title says it all!"The Mask" clips © 1994 Warner Bros. Discovery; FAIR USE!
Getting stung in the ear be like Zak Wolf 2024-07-21 | Tonight's Brockton Rox game got called because the fire alarm wouldn't stop going off! My ears are still ringing from those Wheelock AS horn/strobes (you thought SpectrAlert Advances were the only really loud ones?) And this alarm system is only six years old! (Notifier NFS-320 system.)
YouTube Poop - Sesame Goes GANGSTA! Zak Wolf 2024-07-20 | Yo, Murray has a little LAAAAAAAMB, dawgs!Originally produced in 2012, now remastered in HD."Murray Has a Little Lamb" © 2008 SesameWorkshop; FAIR USE!
The Yellow Sponge Washes Up the Yellow People Again! (3DMM) Zak Wolf 2024-07-14 | Well, SpongeBob SquarePants is hosting the Kids Choice Awards this year and of course beat the Simpsons for the Favorite Cartoon award, and naturally Homer Simpson is furious! And things get worse when they both appear at a convention...
Zak Wolf Reviews The Muppets Take Manhattan Book and Audio Read Along! Zak Wolf 2024-07-13 | Today's the 40th anniversary of the release of one of my favorite theatrical Muppet movies: "The Muppets Take Manhattan". So to celebrate, Zak Wolf plays the read-along book-and-audio adaptation from Muppet Music for you all, one that I had as a kid. Featuring the actual Muppet performers, it's a pretty faithful adaptation to the movie where they're college graduates trying to sell a Broadway show in New York City, Kermit the Frog briefly gets amnesia, and among being cured he marries Miss Piggy! All in Frank Oz's directional debut!"The Muppets Take Manhattan" © 1984 Sony Pictures Entertainment; FAIR USE!
Zak Wolfs Cartoon Commentary: Little Boy Blue Zak Wolf 2024-07-06 | Here's another fursuit reaction/commentary on an old cartoon, this time of a pretty bizarre public domain cartoon: 1936's "Little Boy Blue" (a.k.a. "The Big Bad Wolf"), the Ub Iwerks ComiColor short! Zak Wolf observes how they mash up a few different children's stories into one, and the wolf in it being suspiciously similar to Disney's Big Bad Wolf, and the scarecrow character...
Sam Valentino on MeTV Toonss Launch Zak Wolf 2024-06-29 | Well, MeTV Toons launched this week. At first I learned it was only freely available to those with antenna TV; no cable or satellite providers have it. But I can still see it via a Frndly TV subscription. And so I decided to make another vlog featuring that vulpine private toon detective Sam Valentino about this cool new animation channel. The foxy gumshoe brings up how it's accessed, along with some neat surprises the channel has given us so far, even a couple newly-restored TV cartoons!All cartoon clips © Warner Bros. Discovery and WildBrain; FAIR USE!
Fire drills according to Krusty the Clown! Zak Wolf 2024-06-27 | A funny moment from the Golden Age of "The Simpsons" (specifically Season 4's "Marge Gets a Job") but with a more realistic twist. Anyone on the spectrum like me can relate to that wolf in this scenario. Plus, I wanted to try out the flashing strobe effect I created in Apple Motion to use in Final Cut Pro."The Simpsons" footage © 1992 20th Television and Disney Enterprises; FAIR USE!
Daffy and Grumpy Review the Just Me And My Babysitter Book and Tape! Zak Wolf 2024-06-18 | Today Daffy Duck presents another Golden Story Book 'n Tape read-along review, but this time his "Golden Book Video Killers" co-star Grumpy Dwarf guest star! They point out how Little Critter sounds like he did in the "Just For You" Golden Book Video adaptation, the stock music, and Little Critter's antics hilariously not matching the narration as he and Little Sister run their elderly babysitter ragged!"Just Me and My Babysitter" audio © 1986 Mercer Mayer and BGM; FAIR USE!
Calvin and Hobbes Dub with Grey DeLisle as Rosalyn! Zak Wolf 2024-06-16 | Today at Fan Expo Boston, I was able to meet up with the very talented Grey DeLisle-Griffin and have her record some dialogue as Calvin's babysitter Rosalyn for this comic dub of when the character debuted in 1986! She pretty much nailed how I imagine Rosalyn sounding! I also provide Hobbes's one line, my brother @billdeco08 voices Calvin, and my mother voices the Mom (as I've often pictured Calvin's parents having the same voices as my parents)."Calvin and Hobbes" comic © 1986 Universal UClick; FAIR USE!
Sam Valentino Talks About MeTV Toons! Zak Wolf 2024-06-09 | Yep, here is the inevitable vlog featuring Sam Valentino, the Private Toon Detective, discussing the upcoming TV network MeTV Toons. And it's going to be running in my area! This is a pretty exciting development, though Sam also remembers when Cartoon Network and Boomerang initially started up, and when TV Land attempted their "Super Retrovision Saturdaze" animation block. Hopefully this goes very well!
Zak Wolf Reviews the Gremlins Book-and-Audio Read Along! Zak Wolf 2024-06-08 | Today's the 40th anniversary of the release of the classic Joe Dante/Chris Columbus/Steven Spielberg horror-comedy "Gremlins!" And so, Zak Wolf is commemorating this with one of his signature read-along book-and-audio reviews, playing Disney/Buena Vista Records's "Gremlins" read-along tie-in on his record player featuring cartoon voice actors, 1980s stock sound effects, and the usual Disney read-along stock music. Gizmo himself makes an appearance near the end!You can hear the original HERE:youtube.com/watch?v=HmSJWNL2-es"Gremlins" read-along © 1984 Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney Records; FAIR USE!
Some familiar riffs... #bugsbunny #looneytunes Zak Wolf 2024-05-25 | Doing some familiar MST3K riffing on the opening of what may be the worst Bugs Bunny cartoon...
YouTube Poop - The Amazingly Lame Swanz-O! Zak Wolf 2024-05-18 | Reupload of a YouTube Poop I made nearly ten years ago. The idea originally came to me back then when I was in bed reading the Goosebumps novel "Bad Hare Day", and I remembered how different the TV adaptation was made from the book, but it did make for some neat YTP material! This was one of the last YouTube Poops I made using Adobe Premiere Pro before exclusively using Final Cut Pro for them.And yes, that's Harvey Atkin (King Koopa) as Mr. Malik, the magic shop owner!"Goosebumps" footage © 1996 Scholastic and 9 Story Entertainment; FAIR USE!
Major Records/Valentino Sound Effects Volume 12 (Side 2) Zak Wolf 2024-05-11 | Here's another neat Major Records/Thomas J. Valentino sound effects LP record I recently bought, Volume 12. (I've bought a few recently, looking for sound effects I've heard used in "Sesame Street," the Golden Book Videos and anything Producers' Sound Services did the sound editing for, largely DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Bill Melendez Productions.) This is the second side...1. Cattle Stampede 0:012. Tire Blow Out 2:293. Jail Door Opening 2:484. Jail Door Closing 3:025. Rapids 3:136. Whistling Shell and Explosion 4:297. Whistling Shell and Explosion 4:438. Whistling Shell and Explosion 4:599. Shooting Gallery 5:1310. Shooting Gallery - Single Shots 6:1711. Single Engine Plane - Circling 6:4212. Twin Engine Plane - Idling, Take Off 7:4713. Coyote Howling (These are the familiar coyote yelps and howls that are also on Sound Ideas's Hanna-Barbera sound effects library.) 9:2014. Fishing Reel - Casting, Winding 9:5415. Supermarker Background - 10:3416. Ghost Sound (High) - 13:0217. Ghost Sound (Low, Moaning) - 13:52© Major Records; FAIR USE!
Major Records/Valentino Sound Effects Volume 12 (Side 1) Zak Wolf 2024-05-11 | Here's another neat Major Records/Thomas J. Valentino sound effects LP record I recently bought, Volume 12. (I've bought a few recently, looking for sound effects I've heard used in "Sesame Street," the Golden Book Videos and anything Producers' Sound Services did the sound editing for, largely DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Bill Melendez Productions.) This is the first side...1. Chinese Bell Tree (This is the magic chimes sound DePatie-Freleng frequently used throughout the 1970s!) 0:012. Chinese Bell Tree 0:113. Chinese Bell Tree w/ Single Strokes 0:224. Small Chinese Bells 0:455. Egyptian Cymbal 1:096. Egyptian Cymbal 1:197. M-1 Rifle Shots (3) 1:298. Five M-1 Shots 1:429. Eight M-1 Shots (50 feet) 1:5510. Irregular Shots 2:1111. Automatic Rifle 2:2612. Distant Shots 3:0613. Firing at Will - Battle 3:5014. Timpani Boings (3) 5:2615. Wheel of Fortune 5:4716. Punching Bag 6:0417. Basketball Dribbling 6:3618. Escaping Gas or Steam 8:1619. Steam Radiator 9:10© Major Records; FAIR USE!
Sam Valentino Gets a Call Zak Wolf 2024-04-19 | You would not believe some of the phone calls that private toon detective gets in his office...And yes, I did base it off that funny bit in "The Smelly Mystery: Starring Little Monster Private Eye".
Someday, Boy Named Charlie Brown... Zak Wolf 2024-04-16 | A semi-remake of a video made by my friend @WillCWilson, taking the ending to the 1969 Peanuts feature film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" and replacing the reprise of the title theme with Desirée Goyette's beautiful "Someday, Charlie Brown" song from the 1984 "Flashbeagle" album, this time using my remaster attempt with virtually no vinyl noise and at the correct speed and pitch. Will's right; the song fits with the visuals VERY well!"A Boy Named Charlie Brown" © 1969 Paramount Global; "Someday, Charlie Brown" © 1984 Wonderland Music / Universal Music; FAIR USE!
Flashbeagle! - 1984 Album Restoration Attempt Zak Wolf 2024-04-16 | Today is the 40th anniversary of the CBS premiere of the 1984 Peanuts TV special "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown", so to tie into that, I am uploading my attempt at remastering the tie-in album. Unlike other YouTube uploads, this one has the record playing at the correct speed and pitch, and I also removed as much noise and pops as I could using Audacity, so it sounds even cleaner.Coming off the heels of Disney Records's successful "Splashdance" album, Snoopy and the Peanuts gang get their own shot at a "Flashdance"-inspired album, back when Disney Records had their "Charlie Brown Records" label, with the songs produced by Ed Bogas and Desirée Goyette, the latter of whom gets to sing several of the songs on this album with her beautiful vocals. Until it finally gets digitally re-released, you can download the album HERE:drive.google.com/file/d/1IPOFhmhY2mQJ0ZrGElMYCarmhdUrOFbv/view?usp=sharingTRACK LISTING:1. Flashbeagle - 0:002. Pigpen Howdown - 4:113. Don't Give Up, Charlie Brown - 5:464. Peppermint Patty's P.E. Program (I'm In Shape) - 7:555. Snoopy - 9:426. Someday, Charlie Brown - 12:21 (The best song on the whole record!)7. Let's Have a Party - 15:04 (The extended theme song to "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show!")8. Lucy Says - 17:229. Woodstock - 19:3910. Snoopy's Big Debut - 21:23 (Yes, that's Snoopy singing it, at least in his inner thoughts, with his voice provided by Robert Towers, who played Snoopy in the late 60s off-Broadway run of the "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" musical and reprised the role for the 1985 animated TV adaptation.)© 1984 Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates and Wonderland Music / Universal Music; FAIR USE!
Sam Valentino Plays The Smelly Mystery Starring Little Monster Private Eye Zak Wolf 2024-04-14 | Here's a different kind of Let's Play video I thought I'd try; one with me in fursuit! Naturally, I chose to do one in character as Sam Valentino, Private Toon Detective, playing the old favorite "The Smelly Mystery: Starring Little Monster Private Eye". That foxy gumshoe joins the deeper-voiced Chief Inspector Little Monster and the Sean Connery-esque Detective Kerploppus in trying to identify the mug responsible for mixing up all the smells through Monsterville and Island Joe! And for once, the Evil Smell Switcher's true identity is different from my last two Let's Play videos of this game!"The Smelly Mystery" © 1997 Mercer Mayer and Infogrames; FAIR USE!
If April 9th had one of those Arthur Adventures audiobooks... Zak Wolf 2024-04-10 | Here's a fun little project I thought I'd try and do. I'm sure several of you remember those "Marc Brown Reads Arthur" audiobooks on cassette and CD from the 1990s, especially since I played a couple of them for you on this YouTube channel as part of my signature fursuit read-along review vlogs. Well, what if the famous "Arthur" TV episode "April 9th" had such a version of their "Say Hello to Arthur" theme song to open it? It'd probably go like this...LYRICS:Say "hello" to Arthur!He just can't wait to meet you.He's off on an adventure, And really wants to see you.Come along with all his friends!Arthur is the friendliest aardvark,You'll ever get a chance to meet.He has a lot of fun, and sometimes problems, Just like you and me. When he finds he's in a pickle, You'll be amazed at what he can do.A rainy kind of day doesn't get in his way! He's got friends to help him through! Welcome to Arthur's adventures, At home, at play, and school! He's just around the corner, Saving a place for you, So come along with all your friends! A normal spring day goes all wrong, When a fire breaks out in the school! It's really noisy, and really scary, And anything but cool! Arthur now worries for his dad, And his friends have their problems too. But try as they might, they know things will be right, Because that's what friends should do!So, say "hello" to Arthur! He just can't wait to meet you. He's off on an adventure, And really wants to see you. Come along and be his friend. Come along and be his friend!The instrumental track came from HERE:youtube.com/watch?v=c9kLHoquMLgExisting audio tracks © 1993 Hachette Audio; FAIR USE!
Family Guy G.I. Joe PSA with the actual music! Zak Wolf 2024-04-05 | Here's yet another one of my signature mashups where I combine a certain parody with something from the actual source material. In this case, it's the "Family Guy" moment where Flint of "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" appears to give Chris and his friends a public service announcement about alcohol abuse (complete with Bill Ratner reprising the role of Flint!). For this, I was able to use Final Cut Pro's "Isolate Vocals" feature and edit in the instrumental "G.I. Joe" theme music from their actual PSAs. Not surprisingly, now we know it fits pretty well, definitely more so than the soundalike Walter Murphy came up with! And knowing is half the battle!"Family Guy" footage © 2005 FOX and Disney Enterprises; "G.I. Joe" music © 1983 Hasbro; FAIR USE!
Zazoo Condoms French commercial with Electronic Sounds! Zak Wolf 2024-04-02 | Giving this a shot at re-uploading the vocoded original French-language "Je veux les bonbons!" version, now with the COPPA thing in place enabling me to make sure it's targeted at the right audience.© 2003 Zazoo; FAIR USE!
Drew Pickles Rants About Paramount+ Purging the Rugrats Reboot! Zak Wolf 2024-04-01 | Yes, I heard about Paramount+ and the Nickelodeon site suddenly purging a bunch of their newer Nickelodeon shows, including "Big Nate", "Blue's Clues and You", and even the CGI "Rugrats" reboot! So of course, Drew Pickles is pretty unhappy about that...And remember, you can see the BigBoyRats "Rugrats" dubs, including a couple dubbed episodes of the reboot, HERE:drive.google.com/drive/folders/15dTpZ2SbSRtygyDGTLRLq_Fhv8mv45m8?usp=drive_link
Inspector Gadget soundtrack: Brains Theme (TV version) Zak Wolf 2024-03-27 | Here's a track from the Australian "Inspector Gadget" soundtrack release by Shuki Levy and Häim Saban (and its' 2013 French reissue) that hasn't had a standalone release yet: the TV version of "Brain's Theme" (a.k.a. "Le Thème de Finot"). It was often used when accompanying some of Brain the dog's (my favorite character) antics and achievements (since he and Penny were the ones that truly saved the day while Gadget bumbled around), and was also used in some of the PSA segments that played at the end of episodes (such an example is pictured).Eventually I want to make a fursuit of Brain! He could be fun to cosplay as at conventions and the like.© 1983 Saban Entertainment; FAIR USE!
