Awesome. Pretty cool he likes ReBoot. Sounds like such a fun breakfast morning. I’ve been trying to do something similar but they’re like little media limpets at toddler age; sticking to one thing and one thing only and of course atm it’s become Mr Tumble (an irritating clown whose schtick is that they dress up and do makaton). So while the weather has been nice I’ve been shucking mine off the rock, so to speak and getting them in the garden. Hope you have fun. :)

It seems like you have a massive list already. So here’s a few more!

A few ones I enjoyed (mostly as a kid) which aren’t listed or mentioned:

Conan the Barbarian the Animated Series - very 90’s. I used to record it on VHS

Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light. - Commissioned to help sell a toy line with holograms (all the rage in the 80s) Cartoon was pretty good quality for the time.

Pole Position- Ulysses 31 (currently seeding btw)- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - which are all French Japanese Cartoons scored by Shuky Levy who really encapsulates the sound of an 80’s after school cartoon for me. Even if the plot is a bit meh at times the intro music is absolutely cracking.

Around the World with Willy Fogg - Dogtanian and Three Muskahounds - Spanish Japanese production. Also great theme tunes!

ReBoot - (Ian Gibson who worked on 2000AD developed this. The CG might have aged a bit though! Kids cartoon but had some quite adult reference at the time)

Camp Lazlo - by creator of Rocko’s Modern Life

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? - Short lived Cartoon Network offereing circa 2002.

No 70s Hanna Barbera? Short formats but I enjoyed Roger Ramjet, Batfink (both not Hanna Barbera) and Topcat (which is but was made in the 60’s.)

Mine I think, is younger than yours but absolutely adores Hey Duggee and Squirrel Club and they are very good with great music. Check out the Space or Music Video episodes in particular.

I haven’t heard about the poster in Poltergeist, thanks. There is a real life chill about those three films that I almost find them hard to watch. From the actual skeletons in the pool to the deaths of several of the cast members. Also the late, great Julian Beck dying of stomach cancer while playing the evil Reverend haunted me for years. Brrr.

Poltergeist II - At one point in the film Craig Nelson (aka the Dad) asks Will Sampson’s Medicine Man character if he’s escaped from a mental asylum. The way it’s played make it obviously a funny little nod to Sampson playing Chief Bromden in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Christopher Lloyd’s character is looking for Roger after smashing up the Trolley Depot bar and one of the drunks tells him “Yea I seen a rabbit. He’s right here. say Hello Harvey.” At which point if you’ve seen the 1950’s Jimmy Stewart comedy ‘Harvey’, about a man whose best friend is an invisible rabbit, feel free to bore anyone else who might be in earshot by explaining the joke.

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Charlie Don’t Surf.

Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.

Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea…

There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.

I’m not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as ‘post-apocalyptic but fantasy’ is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow’s ongoing dystopia.

Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.

Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.

Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.

I’m especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I’ll also accept ‘Roller Blade’ and ‘Prayer of the Rollerboys’, where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.

Since no one had actually answered you: In roughly 30 minutes increments.

Do you wear a watch? I find it helps massively. Make a point of looking at it. I don’t know what your work situation is, or living situation, but if you feel the wire trip, time it. Go and take a thirty minute break elsewhere. Toilet, conference room, cupboard, who cares just as long as you can be by yourself, and not be bothered. Write a journal, note why you got pissed off. Simmering anger can sabotage easily because it is basically you against you. Like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It can also be addictive. Note that too.

Thirty minutes I guarantee it the anger will have gone.
Plan your day so when you deal with them, you get it out of the way nice and early. You don’ t need them dropping a load of shit in your lap at 4pm on a friday. Know when to be gone, if you know what I mean.