It’s the Dogg Zzone 9000 Episode Nine! It’s the day Brockway decided we were getting to the bottom of something that’s been bothering us for months: Heathcliff comics. For instance, what’s going on with them, and what the fuck is going on with them? They’re absurdist in a world with no rules, or are they? They’re bad jokes posing as anti-jokes, or are they? There’s a good chance we didn’t solve it.
Still, to make the journey into insanity more pleasant(?) we invited superstar voice actress Fryda Wolff (Apex Legends, Cyberpunk 2077, Mass Effect 3, Trolls, The Mighty Ones) to join us. Listen to her get disappointed in Heathcliff, and us, as she describes and narrates each of the magical(?) cat’s adventures! You can stop reading and go listen now or scroll past the HOT gentleman square dancers to Brockway’s carefully(?) curated Heathcliff cartoons and follow along.
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Oh, and in Extra Weiner, the bonus episode available on our Discord server, the three of us watch a sizzle reel for Cocktails, an independent-made drama(?) about a war between Good and Evil set against the backdrop of the Castro gay bar scene. It fucking rules, and it’s the subject of our next Teamworking Day. Okay, here are the HOT gentleman square dancers from the unmade TV sensation Cocktails you need to scroll past to get to the meat tank children love(?) so much. Am I making sense? I feel like I’m not making sense. Does my helmet say ASS or HAM? Wait, don’t tell me.
4 replies on “Podcasting Day: Explaining Heathcliff with Fryda Wolff”
I kept waiting for Popsicle Pete to show up after every single one of these madness cartoons.
None of us are safe. We’re doomed like that Pants Ch… pant chap? Shirts chumley? Who was I talking about?
Brockway is officially and easily my favorite tour guide for the mouth of madness.
The “wish it into the cornfield” one is a reference to the 1953 short horror story “It’s a Good Life” by author Jerome Bixby, wherein a town is held hostage by a small child with godlike reality-warping powers. The kid sometimes gets rid of things or people that displease him by wishing them away into a particular cornfield.
I think the joke is supposed to be that the jack-in-the-box is horrifying enough that the adults (who are constantly trying to appease the child to avoid a fate worse than death) are asking him to use his godlike powers to get rid of it? It doesn’t make sense even if you know the reference.
Honestly as a lover of the surreal I kind of respect heathcliff. It’s almost dadaesque in its complete refusal to make sense.