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    Part One: The Dennis the Menace Creator was a Shockingly Bad Man | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
    Robert sits down with Randy Milholland to discuss Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace. Despite his cartoon's kid-safe nature, Hank mined his own wife and child for content while systematically destroying both of their lives.
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  • @samcyphers2902
    @samcyphers2902 2 місяці тому +99

    Shout out to Gary Larson for drawing some of the most fucked-up comics to appear in newspapers, but not doing anything fucked-up in his real life and generally just being a huge science nerd.

    • @glarnboudin4462
      @glarnboudin4462 2 місяці тому +11

      Did Calvin and Hobbes’ creator do anything bad, or is he also in the clear?

    • @samcyphers2902
      @samcyphers2902 2 місяці тому

      @@glarnboudin4462 As far as we know, Bill Watterson is just an extreme recluse, a la J.D. Salinger. He might be in exile for doing something shady, but it's probably because he's scared of his stalker. ua-cam.com/video/UTaszc1Q6eY/v-deo.html

    • @TheDarthbinky
      @TheDarthbinky 2 місяці тому +25

      @@glarnboudin4462 Bill Watterson is pretty awesome. He resisted efforts to commercialize C&H, ultimately failing (all those truck stickers of Calvin pissing on stuff are completely unofficial and he gets no royalties from them), and eventually pulled a JD Salinger and just... stopped. And went into hermit-mode. He came out with some sort of children's book (completely unrelated to C&H) like six months or so ago and otherwise has basically been in hiding since he stopped doing C&H in 1995. (edit for grammar)

    • @Dr170
      @Dr170 2 місяці тому

      You'll be singing a different tune when his hummingbird fetish goes public

    • @baburnit
      @baburnit 2 місяці тому +4

      @@TheDarthbinkyyeah, how the hell do those Calvin pissing stickers get out there? It is a pretty awful distortion of a rad character.

  • @McBlazington
    @McBlazington 2 місяці тому +212

    Don't panic everyone, they're talking about the american one, not the one in the Beano.

    • @McBlazington
      @McBlazington 2 місяці тому +19

      What makes his autobiography worse is, "I am Dennis the Menace from Venice" was a said by the UK Dennis, with reference to the British Song.

    • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
      @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 2 місяці тому +40

      @@McBlazingtonIf his book was just called “The Merchant of Dennis” it would be hilarious.
      The fact that he called it “The Merchant of Dennis the Menace” makes it tedious and terrible.

    • @McBlazington
      @McBlazington 2 місяці тому +8

      @@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick m
      Merchant of Dennis is so much better! Did this man not have an editor?

    • @csmead209
      @csmead209 2 місяці тому +1

      I was going to ask about that.

    • @jellyfishjones4741
      @jellyfishjones4741 2 місяці тому +11

      American, so I'd never heard of this, but it looks 100 times cooler than blonde freckly Dennis.
      Also, kind of astounding they both started publication at the same time.

  • @jonwesick2844
    @jonwesick2844 2 місяці тому +144

    I strive to live a life that never ends up as a Robert Evans podcast.

    • @SteinarrBattlefist
      @SteinarrBattlefist 2 місяці тому +14

      I'm shooting to be the subject of one of the non-bastard xmas specials .

    • @joeaddison7120
      @joeaddison7120 2 місяці тому +12

      I use these podcasts as a guide for how to be ENOUGH of a bastard to get my own episode.
      Gotta have goals.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 місяці тому +3

      He does positive mentions at holidays, or at least at christmas.

    • @fredericksmith7942
      @fredericksmith7942 2 місяці тому +4

      I feel like with my luck I’ll end up being an authoritarian strongman but completely on accident. Like, a series of misunderstandings and pratfalls coupled with my inability to tell people ‘no’ would result in a series of political purges and massacres that I was simply to incompetent to prevent.
      My episode would be called “The Dear Evan Hansen of Authoritarian Regimes.”

    • @jonwesick2844
      @jonwesick2844 2 місяці тому

      @@fredericksmith7942 Your story would make a great episode.

  • @liger04
    @liger04 2 місяці тому +108

    Couldn't help but notice that, from the perspective of literally anyone other than Hank, that description of him coming up with Dennis the Menace sounds exactly like:
    A child that nobody has looked at in the last hour has begun playing with his room's furniture because he's bored and a child.
    The mom, furious that she's the only one who's paid attention to the child all day and trying to do literally anything other than stare at a child lashes out at...
    ...the father who clearly enjoys drawing more than his family because he drafts a *new comic* (as in, one he has not been contracted to make and thus can do AT ANY TIME) instead of spending twenty minutes being a parent.
    And that's the version he gives! Wow. If he hadn't worded it the way he did, I'd think it was a cry for help from a man that realized he only knows how to draw and beat children.

    • @suzbone
      @suzbone 2 місяці тому +16

      The saddest part is how utterly _NORMAL_ that kind of "fathering" was at the time 😢

    • @alonedownthere47
      @alonedownthere47 2 місяці тому +5

      a generation that grew up during the great depression and then came of age just in time to get sent into a meat grinder in a different continent was never gonna turn out to be good fathers i guess ​@@suzbone

    • @suzbone
      @suzbone 2 місяці тому +5

      @@alonedownthere47 100% true. Almost everybody involved was pretty much doomed 😕

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому +4

      @@suzbone he was from Monterey, California, the home of Frank Beardsley, whom Henry Fonda played in the 1968 movie *Yours, Mine, and Ours.* That movie also covered up some very similar treatment of the children of his second wife (played by Lucille Ball). There is even a book called *True North* about how the second wife’s children tried to restore their birth father’s name years later.

  • @dogearflopper7011
    @dogearflopper7011 2 місяці тому +54

    Part One: Dennis the Premise

  • @gregmark1688
    @gregmark1688 2 місяці тому +35

    Sitting at the dinner table, Dennis looks cheerfully up at his mom and says "I see your little, petrified skull ... labelled and resting on a shelf somewhere."
    God, that's the funniest thing I've seen all week. I'm so glad you mentioned that so I would go look it up, Robert.

    • @Ezekiel_Allium
      @Ezekiel_Allium 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Desmaad yes, as mentioned in the episode lol

  • @stevetheripper
    @stevetheripper 2 місяці тому +31

    In Luxembourgish, a minority language in a tiny country sandwiched between France, Belgium and Germany, the word for cartoon is Mickey Mouse. When I learned that as a child growing up here in Luxembourg, it made me chuckle and was the first time I came across an obvious example of brand genericisation. You know, like hoover or airfryer.

    • @suzbone
      @suzbone 2 місяці тому +5

      I didn't know that; pretty cool!

  • @akumakorgar
    @akumakorgar 2 місяці тому +8

    The Merchant of Dennis - "Hath not a cartoonist eyes? Senses? Dimensions?? If you spill our inkpots, do they not STAIN?!?"

  • @daniexists6
    @daniexists6 2 місяці тому +30

    So..... I know the comparisons to The Beano Dennis is easy, but I think it should be said that Hank could easily be compared to A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh. They both based their most famous works on their child, wasn't a good parent, forced his child he based the strip on into the spotlight, and led their son to rebel against them after years of the shit he had to put up with.
    Or, in other words, he'd be perfect for Behind the Bastards.

  • @lemonscented7703
    @lemonscented7703 2 місяці тому +16

    29:31 imagine if this story made the newsprint and in big bold letters at the top of that following Sunday’s paper you got to read “DISNEY FIRES ART!” what a killer tagline

  • @failiaepic3995
    @failiaepic3995 2 місяці тому +49

    Hearing Robert mention the Calvin and Hobbes comic brought me right back to when I was a child and reading that for the first time. I grew up reading lots of comics, but that one really stuck with me.

    • @justinwatson1510
      @justinwatson1510 2 місяці тому +11

      Best comic ever made. I hope Bill Watterson never shows up on this show. Except as a guest. Assuming he isn't dead.

    • @basedeltazero714
      @basedeltazero714 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@justinwatson1510 He's not dead, but he's also very much not the 'guest appearance' type.

    • @augustgurtisen
      @augustgurtisen 2 місяці тому +1

      If they did an episode on a former publisher he might.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +1

      There's a wonderful documentary about him on here if it's still up.

  • @toddjones1480
    @toddjones1480 2 місяці тому +11

    “He’s not allowed to have red shorts. He’s not allowed to wear gloves.”
    There are posters from the same year as the Steamboat Willie cartoon that show Mickey wearing gloves and red shorts.
    Even if there weren’t, I’ve still never seen a citation of law that would disallow use of a public domain character if they’re wearing certain colors or types of clothing.

    • @corvuscallosum5079
      @corvuscallosum5079 2 місяці тому +7

      This may be the case, but Disney has infinite money for lawsuits so it may not be a fight you want to pick

    • @nineteenfortyeight6762
      @nineteenfortyeight6762 2 місяці тому +6

      The canonical-outfit-Mickey is a few months older than Willie and is it's own thing, a derived work. By the time anyone reads this comment it will be public domain too.

  • @suzbone
    @suzbone 2 місяці тому +16

    5:44 "Hank Ketcham should have been murdered by the government" took me OUT 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      The government was right there. Monterey is where they train military intelligence.

  • @peakdelvalle197
    @peakdelvalle197 2 місяці тому +13

    This is weird to say, but as a millenial from Texas I'm always so starstruck when they have Randy Milholland on. Something Positive was my coming of age comic ❤

  • @durianaleria7919
    @durianaleria7919 2 місяці тому +14

    A Vile Darkness reference has completely made my day

  • @jayspeidell
    @jayspeidell 2 місяці тому +14

    That feeling when you search for part 2 but it's a new episode.

  • @TheNaldiin
    @TheNaldiin 2 місяці тому +12

    Glad to see Randy being a bit more active. SomethingPositive is a comfort comic at this point.

  • @75aces97
    @75aces97 2 місяці тому +6

    42:25 Foreclosure was absolutely a possibility in that situation. Disney’s studios were different from most of the time. Most major animation operations were subsidiaries of major film studios. MGM, Warner, and Universal paid the bills for their animation studios, and provided resources like the cameras, microphones, in-house orchestras. As such the parent studios held the trademarks and copyrights on the IP’s.
    Disney didn’t have its own distribution network yet. They would make their cartoons, but then farmed it out to RKO to get them into theaters. If most animators needed more money or time to complete a cartoon they’d ask the parent studio.
    Disney borrowed money from a bank rather than from RKO. There were a few advantages to this. If he’d borrowed from a studio, the studio could have seized possession of the cartoon as collateral, or just terminate the project altogether. A bank had a vested interest in seeing that Walt and Roy finished the project, otherwise they could never recoup their investment. Long term this also ensured that Disney retained all control over the packaging of their intellectual properties.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      So in other words, Walt had a logical reason for not trusting the studio jews.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Louie_The_DagoYet you defend his worst movie even though Jews wrote those lousy songs in it and saved the actually good songs they wrote for other movies.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      @@Attmay You clearly have no taste if you think mary poppins is his worst movie

  • @TheWonkster
    @TheWonkster 2 місяці тому +14

    Randy, you're telling me you never once broke out the Nipple Clamps of Exquisite Pain?

  • @SephieRothe
    @SephieRothe 2 місяці тому +32

    Randy Milholland is awesome.

    • @WarriorKalia
      @WarriorKalia 2 місяці тому +9

      I love him and his comic, fr

    • @LexYeen
      @LexYeen 2 місяці тому +7

      His comic is, in fact, something positive.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +16

    R. Crumb certainly had his art get him laid. Bill Mauldin did far, far better with the ladies than he'd have otherwise, if he weren't a good artist. Back in the pre-computer-graphics days, artist was a solid profession and chicks dig solid professions.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому +1

      Corporate artists in the 1980's were basically Don Draper from MadMen as far as partying and getting laid and being hep

  • @Laulie98
    @Laulie98 2 місяці тому +4

    I love Art Babbit. Super happy to hear him mentioned. He was such an amazing animator and advocate for workers rights.

  • @DissertatingMedieval
    @DissertatingMedieval 2 місяці тому +18

    Oh, Uncle Randy on Behind the Bastards! It's beautiful, beautiful.

  • @dvpierce248
    @dvpierce248 2 місяці тому +5

    Margaret Hamilton, of Wizard of Oz fame, played a recurring character on the live action Dennis the Menace show.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +10

    He could have called it *Carnival Of Dennis* a play on Carnival Of Venice, which any band kid will remember.

  • @perfidy1103
    @perfidy1103 2 місяці тому +39

    The Hitler of X is definitely Elon Musk. I mean, he's literally its dictator for a start.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 місяці тому +6

      What is x :P
      But the latform still known as twitter , didnt hitler basically ran germany in the ground too.

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому

      Why are you calling it X when that's what the Hitler of Twitter wants?

    • @Don-md6wn
      @Don-md6wn 2 місяці тому

      Twitter, a post is a tweet, forwarding one is a retweet. What are those on "X"? Elon is a branding genius. Has anybody asked him if he named it for Malcolm X?

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +9

    The British Dennis, known as "Dennis The Meanace", is to be found in The Beano, a sort of kids' magazine with lots of cartoons like the Bash St. Kids, Biffo The Bear, etc. It's actually pretty neat.

    • @Syurtpiutha
      @Syurtpiutha 2 місяці тому +1

      And that dog looks just cool.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      @@Syurtpiutha That thing is supposed to be a dog?

    • @Syurtpiutha
      @Syurtpiutha 2 місяці тому

      @@Louie_The_DagoI think so, yes.

  • @briangarvey6895
    @briangarvey6895 2 місяці тому +9

    The presence of the great author of Something Positive really made this even better.

  • @direktive4
    @direktive4 2 місяці тому +24

    spinning wheel animation = zoetrope

    • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
      @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 2 місяці тому +7

      I always forget that word. Thanks!

    • @LexYeen
      @LexYeen 2 місяці тому +4

      not to be confused with the warhammer 40k tyranid unit, the zoanthrope.

  • @Arrowdodger
    @Arrowdodger 2 місяці тому +13

    I always love when Randy is on.

  • @erinbarnard7433
    @erinbarnard7433 2 місяці тому +2

    It makes me happy that the two people I know of from Denton TX know each other.

  • @bk83082
    @bk83082 2 місяці тому +12

    Carl Sagan explains the origin of the work googol in Cosmos. And it's pronounced like the tech company, not the Russian novelist.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +11

    The big number is called a *googol* not to be confused with the author *Gogol* and I believe the founders of Google didn't want to use a word that's already been in the vocabulary since the 1940s or so. Plus maybe they grew up enjoying *Koogle* peanut butter and jelly (together!) in a jar.

    • @nineteenfortyeight6762
      @nineteenfortyeight6762 2 місяці тому +2

      They just misspelled googol, they've admitted it

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому +2

      Theres also the 19th century east coast term for exposing yourself to a dock worker, "Gorgle"

  • @hellspawn32x66
    @hellspawn32x66 2 місяці тому +2

    Why did he mention the far side swap bit it makes me laugh so hard
    "Hamsters again" I'm dying

  • @jamiefrontiera1671
    @jamiefrontiera1671 2 місяці тому +6

    Wow the early dennis cartoons are not what I grew up to. I had the animated cartoon and the movie with Christopher Lloyd and Walter Matthew. That dennis was an accidental menace who can't sit still and has to push buttons.

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr 2 місяці тому +4

      Dennis the Menace from the 90s films was just a hyperactive child. It sounds like Dennis from the early cartoons was basically Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      @@sandpiperr The cartoon was shit as well.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      @@Louie_The_Dagothis from someone who hates Walt Disney but makes excuses for his worst film?

  • @psitaccus
    @psitaccus 2 місяці тому +13

    I wonder when the John K episode will happen

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      Meh, its been done to death literally everywhere else, and now hes a complete loser burn out whose art projects have fallen short in every capacity, causing all his credibility and value to animation to be lost with even his most dedicated fans willing to look past his grooming

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 місяці тому +4

    People in 1959 were saying *bummer?* I remember as a tail-end boomer we had our ways of saying things like we'd say "bumper" instead of bummer and we'd say "farm out" instead of "far out"

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      And the word "groovy" was late 1920's-early 30's jive talk.

  • @skug9bob
    @skug9bob 2 місяці тому +8

    Definitely more dangerous to hitchhike back then if you were black, I'd think.

  • @amymarie1298
    @amymarie1298 2 місяці тому +1

    This is so heartbreaking. This is so terrible!
    I grew up knowing every single comic strip and artist that has been mentioned in this and part 2. Dennis the Menace was a comic I grew up reading every Sunday. I was born in 79 so it was well past its peak, but it (DtM) was still at the top of all the comics in the funny page section of the news papers throughout my childhood and adolescent years. I had no idea, yet at the same time I'm not surprised at all that this is how this story goes.

  • @godzillamoraga
    @godzillamoraga 2 місяці тому +2

    I lived next door to him in the 80s when I was a kid

  • @jessaminehaak8253
    @jessaminehaak8253 2 місяці тому +2

    Robert and Randy together is always a good time XD

  • @jonc5467
    @jonc5467 2 місяці тому +1

    "That's a 3.5 book isn't it?" I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE.

  • @LexYeen
    @LexYeen 2 місяці тому +5

    Holy shit, Uncle Randy?? Guess I'm listening to this one.

  • @hpalpha7323
    @hpalpha7323 2 місяці тому +1

    oh hey I remember reading Something Positive back in university, well done keeping it up for so long

  • @ethos5
    @ethos5 2 місяці тому +6

    Book of vile Darkness was awesome. But if you really want to punish your players get the book of exalted deeds. "It's the good book, how bad could it be?"
    Bad. Very, very bad

    • @Tyrentenir
      @Tyrentenir 2 місяці тому +1

      I don't remember it being that bad, beyond the weird sacred vow feats like vow of obedience or vow of chastity. Do you have some other examples?

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 місяці тому +2

      XD and i read the "unfortunately you have to play like mother theresa for it to be useful" that sounds damning in actual usefulness. And kinda fitting to punish?!

    • @ethos5
      @ethos5 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Tyrentenir the one basic example would be vow of non-violence. While it meant you couldn't do real damage to humanoids or monstrous humanoids, it did let you do non-lethal damage. It also gave you a +4 untyped bonus to save DCs against spells *or special abilities* that don't do damage. So, a caster using Dominate or a monk using stunning fist (and doing non-lethal damage) suddenly have a very strong tool that basically ends fights even easier than normal.
      And that's just a basic example. I'd have to go back through (read:find) my old notes for more examples

    • @ethos5
      @ethos5 2 місяці тому +1

      @@marocat4749 nah, it was very shenanigans friendly. It had a lot of abilities that appeared like what your saying at first glance (for example Vow of Non-violence. Why would I ever want to be non-violent in a d&d game?), but once you actually broke down what they did, were absolutely insane.

  • @adamplentl5588
    @adamplentl5588 2 місяці тому +14

    First. Also don't forget to drink water comrades. Do as I say not as I do.

  • @thygrrr
    @thygrrr 2 місяці тому +2

    "The Merchant of Dennis" would actually have been clever.

  • @kcapkcans
    @kcapkcans 2 місяці тому +1

    the worst part of Ruby Ridge is that both sides didn't lose

  • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
    @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 2 місяці тому +13

    What about the creator of the OTHER Dennis the Menace?

    • @McBlazington
      @McBlazington 2 місяці тому +15

      He was born in Dundee Scotland. He was okay.

    • @fredericksmith7942
      @fredericksmith7942 2 місяці тому +3

      Probably stinky because he was from the United Kingdom.

    • @saulwright4116
      @saulwright4116 2 місяці тому +5

      His daughter has some fun stories about how he based Beryl the Perils wild expressions on her tantrums and a kid called Robert Fair inspired the way Dennis the Menace struts around but by these accounts he found their antics and their energy funny and inspirational and he never brought it up to save embarrassment

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 2 місяці тому +1

      I mean its bound to be inspired by a fun guy with humor who comments on the parents bloody watch them more, if its funny too.
      Or a bad parent :(

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому +2

      The UK version was pretty openly homophobic from what I recall. The US version never even approaches the subject.

  • @RecRoomPlays
    @RecRoomPlays 2 місяці тому

    "the merchant of dennis the menace" has the same energy as ernest cline naming a chapbook "the importance of being ernest"

  • @yensid4294
    @yensid4294 2 місяці тому +1

    Back in the ole timey days when people read printed newspapers I remember Dennis the Menace well into the 70s & 80s. There was a B&W TV show that was shown in syndication in the 70s, a cartoon & I believe a comic book too. Family Circus, Peanuts, Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Andy Capp, There Oughta Be a Law, Dick Tracey, Terry & the Pirates, Felix the Cat...so many ran a long ass time

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому +1

      Dick Tracy is in my opinion the gold standard for American comics. All this marvel and DC bullshit, with ludicrous overcomplicated galaxy and dimension hopping while every character continues talking like sarcastic hipsters...
      ...And then theres Dick Tracy, with his jewish partner Sam Ketchum and female street smart detective Liz Grove at a time when Marvel had Captain America literally worshipping McCarthyism. Even in the 1930's, Chester Gould had female villains that were outsmarting both criminal underworld figures as well as cops, and even being more cruel and sociopathic than alot of Tracy's other enemies.
      In like the early 1950's, one Tracy villain was Crewy Lou, who over the course of the story beats other women, nearly fractures Dick Tracys wifes skull, kidnaps his baby, slaps the shit out of his baby, then dumps his baby in the woods, tries to steam a crime boss to death in a hospital sterilizer oven...
      I mean, no its not a positive depiction...but creating a female character that is that unhinged, dangerous, formidable, and captivating is progressive. And so many of the villains had layers and layers, that would flesh out their motivations and morality, often times making the concept of right and wrong grey areas, or even making the villains sympathetic.
      And at a time when movies and TV was essentially justifying all police brutality and deadly force, Dick Tracy was using his intelligence and rational thinking, always restrained his emotions and personal feelings, never mistreated a suspect in custody, and would go to great lengths to avoid deadly force so they could stand trial

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      @@Louie_The_DagoJewish is capitalized. Only bigots do not.

  • @haleymarie1021
    @haleymarie1021 17 днів тому

    “Too small for jail” is an excellent description of a 4 year old, tbh

  • @chompytv8591
    @chompytv8591 2 місяці тому +1

    I had an unfortunate mix of being very into drawing cartoons and being into Counter Strike.
    Trust me, my teachers LOVED IT when they found my stupid "BOOM HEADSHOT" comics, let me tell ya.

  • @worldofcardboard3203
    @worldofcardboard3203 2 місяці тому +5

    The Merchant of Denis the Menace is dumb because it's pretentious and it doesn't flow. Too many syllables.

  • @thomaswillard6267
    @thomaswillard6267 2 місяці тому +2

    Is it bad that when I heard "The Merchant of Dennis the Menace" I thought of "Merchant of Death" before "Merchant of Venice"?

  • @ThugShakers4Christ
    @ThugShakers4Christ Місяць тому

    Thanks to the post-Columbine hysteria, I spent 3 months locked up thanks to a rumor.
    Eventually, I was exonerated, but the stuff that happened while I was locked up resulted in me spending half of high school living in group homes.

  • @antimuppet
    @antimuppet 2 місяці тому +1

    "Book of Vile Darkness" - y'all are NERDS! I love you guys.

  • @manixter
    @manixter 2 місяці тому +1

    So hank seeing the "soup kitchen" during the strike and that being the straw that broke the camels back might make sense if: he saw it and assumed the worst. That the strike would fail and they'd need the communal cooking. Obviously not well articulated but...

  • @donovian2538
    @donovian2538 2 місяці тому +1

    Holy shit, I totally forgot Avatar was a thing

  • @dbensdrawinvids8390
    @dbensdrawinvids8390 2 місяці тому

    Huh, Randy Milholland has a podcast? Learn something new everyday. Good on him. Big fan of SP back in the day.

  • @Krillinjustchillin
    @Krillinjustchillin 2 місяці тому +7

    I can’t wait for the Walt Disney episode.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      Mary Poppins exonerates all of Walts misdeeds.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      @@Louie_The_Dago no, it doesn’t. In fact, it was his single biggest misdeed. The blood of movie musicals is on his hands and Julie Andrews’, and I want reparations.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Do an episode of vilifying him and I will downvote it and flag it for misinformation and encourage everyone else I know to do rhe same.

  • @alysshart7522
    @alysshart7522 Місяць тому

    Robert says that Snow White was the first feature-length animated film, and this is not true. It was the first animated feature film made in America, but there were animated feature films made in other countries, such as Germany, before Snow White.

  • @daniellundberg2875
    @daniellundberg2875 2 місяці тому

    Speaking of the novel, when's the next one comming out?

  • @cthulhupthagn5771
    @cthulhupthagn5771 Місяць тому

    I am about to start part 2, but so far he is pretty low stakes for a Bastard.
    As far as crossing the picket line, I am surprised Robert was so dismissive. Ketchum grew up during the depression, in severe poverty and uncertainty. What he described in that soup kitchen reference was clearly PTSD and while it sucks to cross a picket his reaction doesnt seem surprising in light.

  • @duckjordan
    @duckjordan Місяць тому

    Wow that is NOT what I expected Randy to sound like! ... I don't know what to do with this knowledge.

  • @VooshSpokesman
    @VooshSpokesman 2 місяці тому

    Love from a Xanderhal and Vaush fan!

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      So whats up with Vaush being caught with loliporn

  • @resident-evil-jerma5389
    @resident-evil-jerma5389 2 місяці тому +4

    virginia is one of my least favourite first names because it implies the person who has it is both a permanent virgin and devoted to England.

  • @TroyConvers5000
    @TroyConvers5000 2 місяці тому

    When will we get a BTB ep on probably the biggest bastard in the comic industry, namely Stan Lee. He's worth it if only for the shit he put Jack Kirby through.

  • @alonedownthere47
    @alonedownthere47 2 місяці тому +2

    hank's reaction to the strike really is the heart of a lot of conservatives huh? "i see people helping people and it makes me uncomfortable! people only help people when times are catastrophically bad!"

  • @skug9bob
    @skug9bob 2 місяці тому +1

    As I understand, the British Dennis not only started as a jerk, but remained so. Differences in British and US tastes, I suppose. (IIRC, the British inspiration for Archie Bunker was quite entirely without redeeming qualities).

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      *All in the Family* never should have premiered. The only reason we tolerated it at all was to get the spin-offs. At this point, I would gladly sacrifice the entire legacy of Norman Lear, just to restore the sexual function of Gay MEN and Lesbian, whose bodies were sacrificed at the altar of the tr-ns cult he enabled with his buckbreaker propaganda.

  • @thomaskalinowski8851
    @thomaskalinowski8851 2 місяці тому +1

    Even when I was a kid myself I found the TV version of Dennis the Menace to be an annoying little shit.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Boomers were brats when they were children, and they became malignant narcissists as adults. Therefore, it is an accurate representation of a degenerate generation.

  • @marocat4749
    @marocat4749 2 місяці тому

    So dennis the mennis wasnt inspired by max and moritz from wilhelm busch or similar books meant to scare kids to behave, through max and moritz hopefully is the most famous.
    They are turned into grain even. Good work of art honestly, does dennis get turned into grain funny yet dark?
    ok that are the og fairytales fairly often too. But still could the trying to scare children book wave be a thing?

  • @anarkisttallboy
    @anarkisttallboy 2 місяці тому

    Please do an episode centered in cold-war Poland or on a bastard from there

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому

      How many cold-war polacks does it take to...

  • @Vera_Nova
    @Vera_Nova Місяць тому

    So... When's the 10 parter on Walt hdbfbfbfb

  • @sottosopravoce
    @sottosopravoce 2 місяці тому

    Hm...it's not Bing Crosby yet, but I still feel dread

  • @matttriano
    @matttriano 2 місяці тому

    Ketchum sounds like he learned from his domineering father how to be a bastard.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Boomers were brats whose parents were right to raise them as they raised them. I say this as a child of boomers. They were disappointment to their parents, and they are a disappointment to their children. They are responsible for the largest act of upward generational wealth hoarding in history. Blaming their parents is victim-blaming when they all ended up in raisin ranches getting degenerative diseases eating nothing but glorified restaurant food.
      Boomers are to blame for pretty much everything that has gone wrong since the end of WWII, so Dennis Ketcham’s treatment at the hands of his father is nobody’s fault but his own.
      Boomers really are a menace to society.

  • @michaelwright8978
    @michaelwright8978 2 місяці тому

    R.K. Milholland as Poop-deck Pappy - father of Popeye.

  • @nolagale
    @nolagale 2 місяці тому

    Shout out to the Book of Vile Darkness!

  • @whalefsh
    @whalefsh 2 місяці тому +2

    DC Thomson, publisher of the UK Dennis the Menace, are just as anti-union.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Good. Walt Disney was right about them then and now. Police, entertainment, and education unions have been holding this country over a barrel. They only care about their own self aggrandizement.

  • @FTZPLTC
    @FTZPLTC 2 місяці тому +7

    The Hitler of X is Elon Musk, surely?

  • @cindys9491
    @cindys9491 2 місяці тому

    Couldn't he just call it "Menacing?"

  • @professorhazard
    @professorhazard 2 місяці тому +2

    we really still pushing the antisemitic Disney thing, Seth MacFarlane?

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Confession through projection. The most racist member of the Disney family is Abigail Disney. Yes, Israel hate is racism and saying otherwise doubles the racism. And Israel hate is not just racist, but homophobic as well because Israel protects Gay rights and Israel let Gay in the military before the US.

  • @marcoliver625
    @marcoliver625 2 місяці тому

    Is it me or does Randy sound a lot like Jocat?

  • @chaossmith3864
    @chaossmith3864 2 місяці тому

    Not excusing it but the soup kitchen thing could have been unrealized/unaddressed trauma y'all.
    Seriously. As someone who had trauma responses way before I realized what was going on y'all lost me at how hard y'all went in on that.
    It doesn't excuse it, roast tf out if him. But that's a weird thing to focus on like that. Bit of a bastard move there. /lh

  • @miguelvelez7221
    @miguelvelez7221 2 місяці тому

    Dennis the Menace?
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Which one?

  • @gianttv8804
    @gianttv8804 2 місяці тому

    Dukes this shit don’t do it!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!

  • @kingofsting19
    @kingofsting19 2 місяці тому

    Not really digging this guest, between his voice and his glazing of Ward Kimbell, a guy who most certainly never met, presumably just because he's an animator the guest heard something nice about third hand. At least he's on the right side of the labor fight.
    Edit: Also, I get Hank's reasoning, even if I disagree with it. He came from the Depression, got into the biggest animation studio in history, the "tech startup of its day" as Robert called it, and thought it was his meal ticket. Remember, Hank is not a good person, and he wants money. He doesn't see the soup kitchen and get upset because "free food", but because it's a soup kitchen. Like what jobless and homeless people need. He's seeing people around him being fired by a management that has ultimate say and he's more afraid for his immediate career in animation than for any of his coworkers or even his own future prospects beyond just "getting work." It's the pure cowardice of a man who hides behind the strike-breakers when his old friends are calling him a fink.

    • @woobiefuntime
      @woobiefuntime 2 місяці тому

      I look at it as we don't know what we would have done

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому +1

      Ward Kimball’s participation in the greatest movie ever, *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* does not let him off the hook for using a homophobic slur in a letter to Lorenzo Music in 1978 when he wrote to him about whether a snail would make a good cartoon character.

  • @gettosake
    @gettosake 2 місяці тому

    Geez, can you guys do clips where you just get to the point.

  • @user-te5po4bu8o
    @user-te5po4bu8o 2 місяці тому +1

    Well, I hate that comic so I’m not surprised

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Can we talk about how Sparky outed a family member without her permission?

  • @captainoftheneverdie21
    @captainoftheneverdie21 2 місяці тому +5

    Another reason to not like Dumbo

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      you mean the Tim Burton travesty of that classic Walt Disney movie?

    • @captainoftheneverdie21
      @captainoftheneverdie21 2 місяці тому

      @@Attmay Live Action one

  • @winkythemagicpixie5637
    @winkythemagicpixie5637 2 місяці тому +2

    They "spotted him" as he drove through a picket line....what an idiot

  • @Chaosqueenngami
    @Chaosqueenngami 2 місяці тому +2

    I always like these little reminders that Disney is and always was a shit company.

    • @Louie_The_Dago
      @Louie_The_Dago 2 місяці тому +1

      Yea, but the difference is back then Disney made good stuff.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      @@Louie_The_DagoNone of it had that common guttersnipe Julie Andrews in it.

  • @triplecastsleep1924
    @triplecastsleep1924 2 місяці тому

    Man who writes a story about a demon in the flesh of a child with literally no redeeming qualities - fantastic.
    Man who writes a story about basically a tamer version of bart simpson - monster.

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      False dichotomy is false. At what time do boomers get the blame for being spoiled brats and actually justifying the way their parents treated them because they went on to 😊treat their children even worse?

    • @Attmay
      @Attmay 2 місяці тому

      Man who created Bart Simpson: flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

  • @ZBott
    @ZBott 2 місяці тому

    Is there a Walt Disney episode? That one is an interesting bastard.

  • @woobiefuntime
    @woobiefuntime 2 місяці тому +1

    I like this channel even though I'm very conservative

  • @Coralem
    @Coralem 2 місяці тому +1

    1:52 What does Elon Musk have to do with this?

  • @AudioJeep
    @AudioJeep 2 місяці тому +1

    This guy has no idea what he's talking about

  • @DestroyYouAlot
    @DestroyYouAlot 2 місяці тому +3

    Stoked for Behind the Menace

  • @DestroyYouAlot
    @DestroyYouAlot 2 місяці тому

    It's gonna hurt when Robert has to sit down with Tim Buckley to finally cancel Bill Watterson

  • @Virjunior01
    @Virjunior01 2 місяці тому

    13:05
    A zoatrope? Who's the big director that heads Zoatrope Studio?