This episode was originally published on December 18th, 2019. === On this episode, we take a break from racing to follow Stan and Koji (or is it Koji and Stan?) as they bum about trying to collect parts for the Arrow. Thankfully, Flint and Marcel are there to help, because apparently there's honor in helping the people who beat you beat other people even harder? I dunno man, European sports culture is weird. I mean alien. === Click here for a meme that perfectly encapsulates Stan and Koji: https...
May 16, 2020•1 hr 35 min
This episode was originally published on December 10th, 2019. === Join Mary, David, Ben, and our new BFF Gabe, a guest who effortlessly manages to be funnier than the main trio combined (so, exactly like every other guest we've ever had) as we discuss Molly's showdown against Spirit, the spoopy space drow who may or may not have killed her mother. Also starring: hot pizza opinions, Turbo Teen, David's once-a-podcast tradition of listening every human character from the Avatar (blue people) movie...
May 15, 2020•2 hr 12 min
This episode was originally published on November 27th, 2019 === Our journey through the gallery of science-fictiony Tolkien creatures continues with Rush, the space dwarf to the Crogs' space orcs and the Norasians' space elves. Unfortunately, the bit where we rank them all based on sex appeal was cut for time. Instead we reminisce about the Night of the Thwomp and the gamer vs. furry war. Featuring a special guest: the spider that scared the crap out of Mary right in the middle of our recording...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 58 min
This episode was originally published on November 19, 2019. === Hey, did you hear about this Super Racer guy? They say he has an eight pack, and massive balls of solid granite. At least, according to our good buddy Satis - and did you know the two of them have never been photographed together? Passing strange isn't it. And if that's not enough silly B.S. for you, let us tell you about the time David officially renamed a character in Yooka-Laylee by complete accident (yes, really), Mary discovere...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 44 min
This episode was originally posted on November 12th, 2019. === Join Mary, David, and Ben as they dive into the anemic but nonetheless fascinating world of Oban Star-Racers merch, squabble over the exact meaning of the word 'eboy,' and wonder who the hell wants to smell like something called sandalwood. Meanwhile, join Molly as she dives into a hole from which there is no resurfacing: being hot for aliens. === Click here to have a gander at the official Oban Star Racers merch shop, including DVD ...
May 08, 2020•1 hr 33 min
This episode was originally posted on November 3rd, 2019. === Conflict abounds on this week's Ultimate Reprise as Molly races against the Crog representative, Toros, whose star-racer's spinning trident blades are definitely not for just attracting mates. Meanwhile, Ben shows his true colors by professing a preference for Molly/Aikka, completely rebuking both Jordan and David. And all three of your hosts have had heart-racing adventures of their own this week. Mary's moved, Ben got hit by a torna...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 40 min
This episode was originally published on October 22, 2019. Also, to get the show uploaded in time, TUR will be posting four times a week! === Get ready for the most anime-tastic episode of Oban as Molly races a smug robot catgirl who controls her ship by playing DDR. Mary says she sucks, David says she's a lovable rapscallion. Which of us is correct? Tune in and give us YOUR take! (Keep in mind there is only one right answer.) Join us as well for the long-awaited (by like two people) return of t...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 50 min
This episode was originally posted on October 17th, 2019. === In this episode, shit gets dark as one character is forced to deal with a debilitating illness and the very real possibility that he'll never again be able to do the thing he loves most. It's handled with tact and care, and it's one of the things that make this show so grown-up for its demographic. There's also a space Olmec that flies around in a giant trombone, because this is still the Disney Channel. This episode of Oban Star Race...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 46 min
This episode was originally released on October 7th, 2019. === If you've been watching Oban Star-Racers and thinking, 'Gee, this show is pretty great, but it could use more children in bar fights,' episode four is here to scratch your itch. Molly and Jordan throw down with Grooor, by this point firmly established as the Yosemite Sam of space. Aikka also gets involved, but only after getting crunk at eight a.m. so he can tolerate being around those dirty poors. At least that's what David says. Oh...
May 02, 2020•1 hr 48 min
This episode was originally published on September 24th, 2019. === With Rick out of commission, it's time for Molly to fly the Arrow to victory against Grooor! There's just one problem: she is babey. And Disney's standards and practices won't let her say the f*ck word. Luckily, your humble hosts are unbound by the gripping claw of the Mouse. (If the Disney corporation is interested in purchasing the Super Nuclear Group and our wealth of culture-redefining intellectual properties, please have you...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 45 min
This episode was originally posted on September 17th, 2019. === Molly (aka Eva) follows her dad to the planet Alwas, only to realize that, even in the far reaches of space, the patriarchy is alive and well. On the other hand, she also discovers that aliens are surprisingly smoochable! Will Ben be led astray by the siren song of Molly/Aikka shippery, or stay on the righteous path of Molly/Jordan like Mary and David? (It's the first one. Y'all know him.) Download this here episode (and leave us a ...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 56 min
Hi everyone! Welcome back to getting updates in this feed! We've just finished our latest podcast, The Ultimate Reprise, and while we take a bit of a break and do some renewing of our public profile a bit, we will be posting our episodes of The Ultimate Reprise to the RTTP feed! New episodes will go live on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays leading up to the premiere of our yet to be announced new show, which will also be posted to this feed. Thank you all so much for joining us on this journey, a...
Apr 28, 2020•10 min
Welcome, friends old and new, to the first episode of The Ultimate Reprise: Earth's only podcast about Oban Star Racers! Cool, angsty teen Eva Wei ditches school to go hang out with her dad (as cool teens are wont to do). Little does she realize that she, like you, is on the cusp of a Franime space adventure. Join the Super Nuclear group (Mary, David, and Ben, for those of you who didn't spend the last three years hearing us babble about Code Lyoko) as they continue to race through the Dubya yea...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 42 min
The Ultimate Reprise trailer is HERE! The first episode of The Ultimate Reprise will be our last post in this feed (for now). Our new site/RSS feed is http://theultimatereprise.libsyn.com/rss - go ahead and subscribe for more! We have are currently being considered for Apple Podcasts/Google Play listing approval; you can find it there soon. We have also changed our Twitter handle - see below! === If you've never seen Oban Star Racers, you should. We're not mincing words or hiding our peer pressu...
Sep 07, 2019•2 min
Hello everyone! As promised, here is Ben's reading of a story David and Mary wrote together! It was prompted by the "Collaboration" episode of the podcast Start With This by Night Vale Presents, which you can find on your podcast app or at this address: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/startwiththis The story was derived from @dril's Skeleton War tweet, which you can find here: https://twitter.com/dril/status/361282749086175234 Tune in later this week for The Ultimate Reprise's trailer! === Musi...
Sep 03, 2019•6 min
Hi everyone! As promised, here's the full-length version of the clips we used to create the "clip show" at the top of Echoes. As we mention in the intro here, we're still on track to start Oban on September 9th, but this is just one of a few things we have in store to tide you over until then. Watch this space for more things to come! === 2:30 - The very start of Episode 1, wherein we are babeys 3:34 - David remembers everyone in Avatar (the blue one) 4:58 - What if your face was a butt and your...
Aug 27, 2019•18 min
Welp, here we are at the end. When we started Return to the Past two years ago, we were just three unsuccessful dorks; now, thanks to you, we're three unsuccessful dorks with a podcast about Code Lyoko. Join us for one last conversation about ol' CL, and stand by for the credits and a special announcement about the future! === Stay tuned for a few more special features to come in this feed! Including a trailer for our new Oban Star Racers podcast, The Ultimate Reprise , the first episode of whic...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 32 min
The Lyoko Warriors look back on their adventures and ponder what the future holds. And so do we, your humble hosts, as we've finally reached the end of our own adventure. Stay tuned next week for our Season 4 break/postmortem, as well as information on our upcoming Oban Star Racers podcast! === Click here for the emoji house: https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/1158763970011885568 Click here for the Homestuck school play: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBUcAS0XsAA05F2?format=jpg&name=small ==...
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 34 min
Here it is: the final battle. The big enchilada. Ninety-four episodes of cartoon nonsense, all leading up to this. William is back on Earth, Xana is on the ropes, Ulrich and Yumi are... still making room for the Holy Spirit. What do our three very tired hosts make of it? Tune in to find out! Well, we mostly exposit on the crucial difference between catboys and boys who are cats. But we also give in to a serious case of the Feels. Join us for our penultimate episode! === Questions? Comments? Emai...
Aug 05, 2019•1 hr 46 min
You said you wanted plot? Well, here's some plot! Here's all the plot! Here's three seasons' worth of plot, all in twenty-two minutes! Eat it up, little piggies! There's one and a half episodes left and we are limping right the hell to that barn! If you, like many an OG Code Lyoko fan, wonder when and how the show would resolve the plot threads pertaining to Xana, William, and Clone William, the answers are 'right now' and 'poorly.' Join Mary, David, and Ben as they press F for the sweetest fake...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 52 min
Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck, or many duck-sized horses? These and other brain busters will be grappled with on this episode of Return to the Past, as our very tired hosts do whatever it takes to avoid recapping yet another clunker. At least this one has spooky Soviet experiments in it. Just in time for Stranger Things season 3. This episode of Return to the Past carries a content warning for descriptions of gore/viscera at 44:30. === Click here to see the manta cushion! https://e...
Jul 15, 2019•1 hr 36 min
It's been over ninety episodes of this Lyoko crap. How about we pivot to Evangelion instead? That's hot and trendy again, right? And, really, is there anything more fun than listening to young white people share their brave yet controversial opinions about anime? Join us for ten minutes of that, followed by a long groan of an episode of a far inferior thing that isn't even a real anime. Also featured: Ben pokes gentle fun at his goofball of a stepfather and makes lascivious comments about cartoo...
Jul 07, 2019•1 hr 55 min
In this episode, we decided to cover a dying industry, kept barely alive by a small handful of unattractive white men who fear competent women and throw a tantrum whenever they see a brown person. Unfortunately, our episode on the Republican party wasn't finished on time, so instead, let's talk about comic books! Excelsior! That's right: Code Lyoko once had a comic book series, canceled after three issues when it became apparent that nobody gave a sh*t. EXCEPT FOR US! Join us as we discuss bee g...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 37 min
We continue or coverage of Code Lyoko as it squeezes out its last few squeaky, underwhelming farts. This week, twenty-one minutes and thirty seconds of nothing in particular followed by one of the biggest revelations in the show's history. And by 'biggest revelations' we mean 'A thing that definitely happened.' Also: Mary, David, and Ben investigate whatever happened to the Numa Numa Guy (spoiler: nothing much), Ben and David make Futurama references that confuse and delight Mary, and and Ben be...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 33 min
In 'Music to Soothe the Savage Beast,' there is no savage beast unless you count Sissi and William, and music certainly does not soothe them. But, despite its woefully inaccurate title, this used to be David's favorite episode of Code Lyoko! Does it hold up? Let's find out! Join us as we geek out over Aerosmooth, make fun of a man's name like so many common middle school bullies, and surf on these vibes to a brave new world OH GOD WE'RE SORRY we feel awful just typing that. === Questions? Commen...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 35 min
In this episode, we meet Jeremie's cousin Patrick, who is pale and broody and has a caramel pompadour. Uh-oh! Does he also sparkle in the sunlight and watch girls in their sleep??? (You groan, but that joke would've killed in 2007.) Join Mary, David, Ben, and very special guest Dianna as they reheat this and many other Dubya-era knee-slappers. (And, indeed, as a spam email sends Ben face-first into a creepypasta.) Note that this episode is so soapy, we half-expected an eyepatch-wearing evil twin...
May 28, 2019•2 hr 21 min
Ground control to Major Tom, someone set us up the bomb! This episode was scheduled to come out on Monday, but due to an act of sabotage by internet gremlins, it's coming at you today instead. Sorry! But yes, it's true - like other classic TV characters before them, including but not limited to Josie and the Pussycats and Fonzie, the Lyoko Warriors are taking a trip to space. In addition, we finally reveal Ben's cat's full name (which we didn't really know was a mystery but damn if it didn't jus...
May 24, 2019•1 hr 40 min
Some people like Code Lyoko. Others like robot dog buttholes. Once in a generation, something magical happens that brings these two warring tribes together. That thing is this episode. Alas, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, as this episode also marks the last appearance of Ben's favorite character, Johnny (don't worry, we've prepared a fitting send-off). There's also some racism, helpfully inserted by the English translation, perhaps in order to make the episode more relatable to Americans. =...
May 16, 2019•1 hr 38 min
Welcome to another rip-roaring episode of this BS. Today, we're going to talk about Brynja, the character that made the (admittedly pretty meager, but plenty enthusiastic) Code Lyoko fandom sh*t their collective britches back in ye olden times. What exactly is she? A chaos demon? A parody of Mary Sues? Mary, David, Ben, and local cryptid Jess investigate, all whilst getting roped into another argument about whether D&D is for nerds or whether cool kids are also allowed to join in. But wait, ...
May 08, 2019•1 hr 50 min
Today on Return to the Past, David rattles off a long list of weird Scooby-Doo knockoffs that he found on Twitter. And not a moment too soon, because, if Mike the cat's constant distressed mewling is any indication, Ben's Xbox summons a ghost when it's powered on! Anyone know how we can contact Goober and the Ghost Chasers? While we worry about that, you can enjoy this fresh new episode (as of twelve years ago) of Code Lyoko, wherein Jeremie is invited to a real missile launch by a French airman...
May 02, 2019•1 hr 45 min
