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CARTOON BOOM PODCAST: This Saturday morning, Joseph and Chris take a look back at everything they watched throughout 2021, and gave out awards to some of their favorite (and least favorite) shows. Welcome to the 3rd annual Spoony Awards (aka The Spoonies)!
- The First Bite Award (Best Intro)
- The Still Crunchy Award (Most Nostalgic)
- The Shiny Spoon Award (Best Design/Animation)
- The Exotic Flavor Award (Best Anime)
- The Tears for Milk Award (Biggest Tearjerker)
- The Stale Marshmallow Award (Biggest Disappointment)
- The Surprise Inside Award (Biggest Surprise)
- The Dirty Spoon Award (Worst)
- The Silver Spoon Award (Best Movie)
- The Golden Spoon Award (Best Overall)
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Looking back, this was a really good year for cartoons you reviewed, Samurai Jack, X-Men, Infinity Train, Glitch Techs, Recess.
I agree with a lot of your picks, but I can’t get behind putting DBZ over The Devil is a Part Timer for best anime. I got it, DBZ is very important and influential to a lot of anime, but a lot of the tropes it started are tropes I hate (overly long fights, constant transformations, the main protagonist being far more powerful than the secondary characters) and I hate it when they show up in other animes.
Also you mentioned that you watched three animes this year (DBZ, The Devil is a Part Timer, and Soul Eater), but you actually forgot another one, Robotech/Macross.
I was expecting Thundercats Roar to win the worst award, but I had completely forgotten about The Christmas Tree, which I agree is far worse. There are still some Christmas special that I think are equally bad, if not worse, and I’ll have to recommend them at some point.
I’m glad you guys chose Glitch Techs and Infinity Train as the best cartoon you reviewed this year. I was struggling to think of which one I would personally chose for the award, but I think I’d ultimately have to go with Glitch Techs, mainly because I thought the second season of Infinity Train was a little weak (or at least weaker than the first and third season).
Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s much hope for Glitch Techs returning, seeing as how the show was cancelled before it even premiered, but here’s hoping it can pull off some kind of revival.
I don’t really have much expectations for your Gumball review, other than I think you’ll really like the animation style.