Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

We're out there.

This week is called Monsters, so we're focusing all on monsters this week, and today's episode is Multiple Choice Monday.

We have two rounds of 10 questions each, all of them multiple choice.

Round one.

That's true.

We took monsters.

Monsters liberally.

We went broad.

That shit was mad.

I didn't like R, Real Monster.

I like R, Real Monster.

I love that show.

With Shorty with the eye.

But another big part of it was just cartoons, you know, like Nickelodeon.

including cartoons and Cartoon Network cartoons, all like the early 2000s, Spongebob, Courage, Cowardly Dog, Hey Arnold, Real Monsters, all the weird cartoons um okay i i'm

so glad you're name dropping these because obviously i was also a cartoon queen as a kid but i have a very specific like all those ring true to me except for courage the cowardly dog and i'm gonna tell you why i remember being like up late at a friend's place i think i was homesick like not i like rarely enjoyed sleeping over at boys houses as a but i remember one time courage the cowardly dog was playing super late and it felt like a really like dark weird scene and i was like this doesn't feel like it's like enjoyable to watch i feel like i'm watching something that's like nasty and weird but doesn't speak to my nasty weird what's your reaction

i i totally get it but i loved courage i loved the weirdness and the creepiness and like how unsettling it was and like you don't get it's like you don't get that anymore um way i guess you do but like

but you would know you would know better than i would about what we get now because like the things even you mentioned um ah real monsters that was weird as hell and i loved ren and stimpy dark-sided boots loved um obviously hey arnold had a lot of like the kid stuff but then there was some real dark or uh yeah adult themes of like watch it

now and you're like oh my god like i can't believe they're covering this sort of thing you know yeah

which i I think is great, but I think the listeners might be interested to find out that you worked at Nickelodeon and you were a part of the Baby Shark family.

It's not.

Picture a Klasky-Csupo lawyer pulling the music cue sheet for, ah, Real Monsters, forty-three separate cues.

Each one needs a sync license, master recording rights, clearance from the composer or the composer's estate, sign off from the music publisher.

Those are independent negotiations, right? Every single one.

Even when renegotiation is technically possible and rescoring is on the table, the economic incentive threshold kicks in, and studios find abandonment cheaper than either path.

That economic threshold, that's the part I want to press because the legal impossibility case is dramatic, but it's actually the rarer one.

The far more common version is the rights holders exist, they're reachable, a lawyer could send a letter tomorrow, and the studio still doesn't move because someone ran the numbers on Rugrats or Rocko's Modern Life or, ah, Real Monsters, a Klasky-Csupo title from nineteen ninety-four that has real nostalgic weight.

And the projected streaming revenue did not clear the clearance estimate.

Katrina.

Real monsters.

Who we met on tour.

Well, we met before, but met on tour-

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And now we need to give a huge thank you to these quiz masters who support us over on Patreon.

A huge shout-out to Dry Helga, T-Rex, Dog Cynthia, Rivers Bradford, Pan Tree, Megan Benton, Fizz, Irish Royalty, Little B, Katrina, Real Monsters, Amera, Woo, M. Cassarico, Philo Phi, Dorian, Our Lawn Ninja, Tara Walker, Tina's Hot Dog, Sophie, Jen Kenobi, Nick Dillon, and Tegan-Heiman Denlinger.

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So also for fellow '90s kids, the, uh, kids TV program Aaah! Real Monsters made its debut on, uh, Channel 4.

Um, it was-

Wow