myOtaku.com: Manic Webb

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1984-06-21
Gender
• Male
Location
• California, where it never rains... except in the fall, winter, and spring
Member Since
• 2003-08-19
Real Name
• K. Webb

Personal

Achievements
• The C. Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
Anime Fan Since
• 1998
Favorite Anime
• Excel Saga, Slayers, Tenchi, DBZ, Sailormoon, Captain Tylor
Goals
• To become a voice actor or TV personality
Hobbies
• Writing parodies, listening to that Neo-Soul music
Talents
• Some say I'm a fairly decent actor.

myOtaku.com: Manic Webb

Thursday, December 2, 2004

Cartoon Chronicles: Educatoon #4

It doesn't matter if you're Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew
Doesn't matter if you're agnostic and you don't know what to do.
It all includes a celebration
No contractual obligations
Happy Chrismahannukwanzaakah to you.

That song's been stuck in my head for weeks. Real catchy, though. Maybe I'm just dense, but it took me 900 viewings of that commercial before I noticed they were selling Virgin Mobile phones.

Whatever happened to good shows on KidsWB? Here comes a new Chronicle...

Histeria!
The exclaimation is part of the title.

Somewhere down the line, the execs at the WB figured it would be a good idea to make a cartoon where a finite cast of characters would humorously reinact famous events in history. Enter Histeria!, a show where Father Time and his cast of "not ready for time" players give the audience a history lesson in the strangest way possible.

The cast itself was wacky. There was World's Oldest Woman, which was both a title and her name; the far too chipper Pepper Mills; Toast, a little boy who was hitting puberty awfully early; and Loud Kiddington, a kid too loud for his own good. There were others, but I honestly don't remember them. They'd each take on the role of a historical figure (such as World's Oldest Woman posing as Cleopatra), and proceed to inaccurately act out historic events, as they dicate the correct events aloud.

While the show was clearly geared for a younger audience, a few of the events they covered could be found in the history classes of junior high and high school students... at least in California's public education system.

Would I recommend it? If someone like Cartoon Network ever gets around to syndicating the show, I don't see why not. It got a little campy at times, but what KidsWB show from the 1990s didn't?

Next Time: Magic School Bus. Complete with a theme song by Little Richard. Oh, shut up!

Much Love

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