Return To The Past: A Code Lyoko Retrospective

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Synopsis

Remember Code Lyoko? That show with the foreheads? The one you used to half-watch while you waited for Teen Titans to come on? The RTTP crew remembers. Join Mary, Ben, and David as we discuss this dorky, cheesy, weirdly touching, occasionally brilliant, underrated relic of early noughties kid culture. Bring your skateboard, yhear?Follow us on Twitter at @rttppodcast, or send us your feedback at rttppodcast@gmail.com!Cover art by Ingram. Find more of their work at http://www.ingramcomix.com or @ingramcomix. Opening: "Un Monde Sans Danger" by Noam KanielOutro: "S'Envoler" (Generique Fin) by The Subdigitals, Franck Keller, and Ygal Amar

Episodes

  • TT #8 - Trident - Submissive No, Breedable Yes (Deep Six)

    23/02/2024 Duration: 58min

    Apologies for the impromptu break, everyone – we’re back and we’re ready to party! Or, uh, in this case, cringe, because despite being written by the original author of The New Teen Titans comics, this episode… isn’t all that great. Of Teen Titans, I mean. WE, your humble podcasters, are in top form. And together we look on in horror as the Titans make one idiotic decision after another. Beast Boy develops an inferiority complex that actively hinders the mission, Starfire and Raven fawn over a boy and don’t do much else, and our villain is in MULTIPLE PLACES AT ONCE? HOW CAN THAT BE??? One way or another, we hope we can make this one more bearable for you. (Also, correction – the largest fungus in North America does not unfortunately cover the Pacific Northwest. Only about four miles of it. Sorry to disappoint.) === Send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup   OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://disco

  • TT #7 - Got My Body Switched at Claire's (Switched)

    18/12/2023 Duration: 01h03min

    Alright, time to dive headfirst into that tried and true staple of western animation, the body swap episode!  None of us had remembered this one very fondly, and it turns out Mary had never seen at all. But it turns out it rules - especially because it's an EXCELLENT character study. Behold as Starfire-as-Raven destroys everything in her path, Raven-as-Starfire struggles to even feel a single emotion on purpose, and the boys... well, they're pretty wooden in this episode. Ba dum pish! This episode carries a content warning at about the 38:30-42:00 mark for discussion of rape, clarifying the misinfo about the character we spoke of in the last episode. === Click here for proof positive that Magilla Ice, the hip for the 90s version of Magilla Gorilla, actually exists: https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Magilla_Ice === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup   OR! You can j

  • TT #6 - I Hate You, Brain Dad (Nevermore)

    26/11/2023 Duration: 01h11min

    In everyone's favorite Season 1 episode, Raven is subjected to too many puns and goes grimdark, prompting Beast Boy and Cyborg to venture into the Hot Topic dimension to save her. While there, they encounter not one Raven, but several! Including Finger Guns Raven, a staple of forum avatars in the mid-noughties, but not including Lust Raven, who DOES exist - they saved her for the tie-in comics. Cyborg and Beast Boy help her fight her dad, who may or may not qualify as an orc (Ben has opinions), they all grow closer for it, and meanwhile Starfire and Robin... watch TV. This episode carries a content warning for a discussion of rape in the DC comics universe between the 9:00-10:30 time stamps. It's come to our attention that we were wrong about the details, but the broad strokes are correct. More information is available on the character's Wikipedia page.  === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreo

  • TT #5 - Mumbo? Perhaps. Jumbo? Perhaps Not! (The Sum of His Parts)

    04/11/2023 Duration: 55min

    Today, Titan Talk goes out and touches grass! Come join us for a brief interlude at the park, followed by a much longer interlude in a hole at the dump. Points of curiosity: fine dijon mustard, five and a half pounds of baby back ribs, a nostalgic look back at Obama "scandals," and Tom Kenny in a dual role as a magical blue guy and another, less magical blue guy. And yes, we are sure it's actually him this time. Apologies for all the coughing, by the way - David and Mary were both sick when we recorded! We hope we were able to delete most of them but there were some that were talked over that we couldn't take out. (We're feeling much better!) === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup   OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM   Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.   Theme song is "Jump

  • TT #4 - The Local Orb (Forces of Nature)

    14/10/2023 Duration: 01h14min

    We had a bit of confusion about what this episode was called, all the way up until nearly the end of the recording. Mary and Ben could have sworn it was called Thunder and Lightning. David has the clearest head of all of us and knew from day 1 that it was Forces of Nature, and so we stand corrected. But Thunder and Lightning themselves weren't always forces of nature! Here we learn for the first time about just how different these two knuckleheads are from their comic counterparts, AND get a bit of a different sort of conflict where the antagonists aren't necessarily villainous, or even evil.  Also Slade is in yellowface. He's wearing a mask over his mask that somehow has a working mouth. And is using magic?? What even is this.  We discuss some later series spoilers between 50:00-55:00, so skip through that point if you're watching along with us for the first time.  === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https:

  • TT #3 - Stuck in His Goo (Divide and Conquer)

    23/09/2023 Duration: 51min

    Here we are at the actual Teen Titans pilot episode - one that makes it readily apparent why they decided to air Final Exam first. Between underdeveloped characters, an inorganic conflict and a weak resolution, it definitely isn't the series putting its best foot forward. Which is funny because foot-related mishaps are what drive the plot. Also, we get to witness what could have been - Slade with a butler! Poor Wintergreen, this version of Slade was just too brooding and antisocial for your services.  This is also one of our shortest episodes in a long time. Maybe even the closest we've come to the vaunted "tight 45"! Think we can do it? Or will we lose ourselves in tangents about the cartoon institution of the toxic sludge factory? === Also, we DID in fact get two emails after we recorded this episode! Thank you so much, Ari and Alysa - we'll read them out next time!  === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at htt

  • TT #2 - Smoking on that Sh*t That Made Star Fire (Sisters)

    12/09/2023 Duration: 01h14min

    Uh oh, watch out everyone! Starfire's cool older sister is in town and she's here to tempt our heroes into the depths of depravity. Lock the spice cabinet because she WILL empty your oregano  into a baggie and sell it back to you. We do talk about drugs a lot in this one, as a heads up. But anyway! Not only is Sisters a fun episode, it's one of our first character study episodes in a show full of great ones. Not to mention a couple study, since this has the show's first big Robin and Starfire moments. Oh, if only Ulrich and Yumi had had this kind of open and honest communication... === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supernucleargroup@gmail.com ! Or you can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supernucleargroup   OR! You can join us on Discord at this link: https://discord.gg/tf9m6CM   Our logo is by LovelessKia! Find more of their work at https://twitter.com/lovelesskia.   Theme song is "Jump City Rock" by Matt of Avana Music! Find more of Matt's work at

  • TT #1 - Let's Try This Again (Final Exam)

    05/09/2023 Duration: 01h29min

    After two long years and five even longer months, the dream lives again. Like three cockroaches crawling out of an irradiated crater, the Super Nuclear Group returns to deliver sweet, marketable cartoon nostalgia to your ear holes. This time, we're bidding a temporary adieu to Avatar and starting fresh with a show all three of us remember with misty-eyed longing - just in time for its 20th anniversary. That's right, it's Teen Titans time!  We're covering the episodes in release order, not production order, so we're starting with Final Exam. It's frankly a better introduction to the series, wherein we meet Raven and those other guys. Anyway, welcome to Titan Talk! This was recorded back in July while David and Mary (who live together now!) were visiting his folks in Texas. So view it with that context in mind - but we'll get closer to the present soon.  Pardon our dust as we ramp back up - we have a lot of exciting things in store! === Follow us on Twitter at @super_nuclear, or send us your feedback at supern

  • TAR #30 - He Died As He Lived: Like a Nerd (feat. Jess!)

    03/04/2021 Duration: 01h47min

    We've reached the midpoint of season two, and with that, the midpoint of the whole show! This is a good time for us to take a little break from internet radio silliness (more on that in the episode), but first, here's Mary, David, and Jess talking owls and Kongsonas (also in the episode, obviously).   ===   As mentioned above, Super Nuclear Group will be going on hiatus for some time. We will let you know when we return, and in the meantime we will remain active on Twitter and in the Discord. Thank you all so, so much for your support in this, and we hope you continue to enjoy what we've done!   Also note that there is a bit after the ending theme of the episode that was spoilery but too funny not to keep.   ===   Find Jess's work at http://beachghost.carrd.co !   Click here for the Tibetan Sand Fox: https://featuredcreature.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fox2.jpg   There is a tweet we talk about in this episode that I'm not going to link here because it is quite NSFW. Seek it out if you would

  • TAR #29 - I Was A Twelve Year Old Cop (Bitter Work feat. Quinn and Jess!)

    03/04/2021 Duration: 01h34min

    I'm super sorry for the lateness of putting this on the main feed - I hadn't realized I hadn't scheduled it while I was waiting for the summary to come in. Thank you for your patience and look forward to The Library soon!   ===   Welcome to Bitter Work (fun fact: that's what "kung fu" actually means!), an episode that's mostly about Sokka being stuck in a hole and talking to a Digimon, and also some other stuff happens, we guess. With Ben and David both out of commission, Jess and Quinn join Mary to talk about it! === Find Jess's work at http://beachghost.carrd.co !  You can find Quinn's podcasts here: Lost in Translationmon: https://lostintranslationmon.com/ The Moncast: https://themoncast.podbean.com/ === Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Black safety: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Homeless Black Trans Women Fund -    https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund?utm_so

  • TAR #28 - Toph Demands to See the Manager (The Chase feat. Bfahome!)

    19/03/2021 Duration: 01h51min

    Ah, the chase: a cartoon tradition. Tom chases Jerry, Sylvester chases Tweety, and in tonight's presentation, the Gaang is chased by a bunch of girls. Which I guess makes this more like the Avatar version of A Hard Day's Night (ask your grandma, zoomer).   Our friend Gabe is here to bring the funny while Ben is away. Join us as we discuss such questions as: do sky bison reproduce by budding? If you poop in the spirit world, do you also poop in real life? And how fast does Iroh need to be going to keep up with Zuko, who is in turn keeping up with a train?   ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Black safety:   https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/   Homeless Black Trans Women Fund -    https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet   Here are organizations you can donate to to protect Asian lives and Asian safety:

  • TAR #27 - Ostrich-Horse With No Name (Zuko Alone feat. Quinn!)

    13/03/2021 Duration: 01h50min

    Time for Zuko Alone, Avatar's cowboy episode! In lieu of Ben, we're joined once again by Quinn! (And no, we didn't eat Ben when we were all stranded on that raft in the middle of the ocean, no matter what the federales say.) Prepare for advanced Jaden Smith discussion, stinky piles o' poo, and the startling revelation that in the Avatar universe, bacon and eggs come from the same animal.   This episode of The Avatar Recycle contains a content warning for discussion of slavery in video games at 1:15:00.   ===   As noted above, Ben is going to be on hiatus from the podcast for a little while. A huge thanks to Quinn and the rest of our upcoming guests for helping us while he's out!   You can find Quinn's podcasts at:   Lost in Translationmon: https://lostintranslationmon.com/ The Moncast: https://themoncast.podbean.com/   ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Black safety: https://blacklivesma

  • TAR #26 - TAR #26 - It's Not Just The Rock, It's The Boulder! (The Blind Bandit ft. Dianna!)

    19/02/2021 Duration: 02h16min

    It's finally time for the episode everyone and their dog wanted to be on. Wait a minute... is CatDog an Avatar animal? Holy shit, I just thought of that literally right now. Nickelodeon Cinematic Universe confirmed! Anyway, Toph is in this one.   Our friend (and very first fan!) Dianna joins us to talk about Toph and why she's an excellent example of positive representation of a blind person. Wrasslin', masculinity, parenting and James Randi are also discussed. Not necessarily in that order.   ===   Check out Dianna's awesome video work at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKoFTh1v1wjbXxuD9pBN-Cw   Click here to yip some yips! https://64.media.tumblr.com/e46ec892cd9cbad3428d9bef2f254344/2000ed0351bcddcc-13/s1280x1920/b34871acaca851903d7b970f5e5366dee53924f6.jpg   Click here for crab crab crab crab (frighten): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIfvcWCZZ7w   ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Blac

  • TAR #25 - That Dank Ass Avatar Weed (feat. Jess once more!)

    12/02/2021 Duration: 02h07min

    Hey... u up, winky face emoji? It's the horniest-ever episode of The Avatar Recycle, featuring Avatar Kyoshi and her enormous feet! The fandom has long called Avatar Day one of the worst episodes of the show, second only to The Great Divide. But is it really as bad as all that?   Join the usual gang of idiots (plus Jess!) as we investigate! Enjoy such discoveries as the Sensitive Ruffian, elephant shrews, and well-oiled men with torches.   There is a small period of spoilers from 1:02:30-1:05:00, left in because we were being very funny.   ===   Check out Jess's work at https://beachghost.carrd.co/ !   Because I can't believe I never put it in a description before, here it is, Eugene Lee Yang's incredible Kiyoshi video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-l_3JhxDe/?hl=en   Here is the real elephant shrew, also! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Rhynchocyon_petersi_from_side.jpg/1200px-Rhynchocyon_petersi_from_side.jpg   Click here for info on The Wuzzles, which exists, acco

  • TAR #24 - Memory, All Alone in the Swamp Gas (feat. Jess!)

    04/02/2021 Duration: 01h48min

    Welcome back to The Avatar Recycle! Jess joins us yet again as we venture into fantasy Florida to meet some more smelly hippies and Toph, who is presumably also smelly.   Topics include cholera, a five-pound bag of Swedish Fish, man's ever-evolving quest to communicate with spinach, and the time Jess's dad found a dead body and poked it with a stick. That last part isn't true. The part about the stick, we mean.   ===   Check out Jess's work at http://beachghost.carrd.co !   Click here for a very cute snek: https://64.media.tumblr.com/b3d18efbd90dcc33c7b910303f464e1f/4accd8d0c8484d50-5c/s500x750/d419265a26880b556ee5bb083eebca4e986c1f1d.png   Click here for Kirby! https://twitter.com/_cutgut/status/1356336080581087232 ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Black safety: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/   Homeless Black Trans Women Fund -    https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-w

  • TAR #23 - The Fire Nation Has Taken Twintuddlyington-upon-Newbury-upon-Twyne-upon-Kent (Return to Omashu)

    27/01/2021 Duration: 01h26min

    In this episode, the still-incomplete Gaang literally rolls around in raw sewage. (You can do that figuratively by listening to our podcast.) And on that note, who's ready for a lot of jokes about plagues and contagion? Like, jeez, read the room, 2006. Am I right? This episode also introduces us to Mai and Ty Lee, and just the many many ways Azula manipulates them horribly. Also - Mary is finally board-certified, David laughs about poop (yet again) and Ben reveals his tragic backstory. It involves emos. As stated above, this episode carries a content warning for plague and contagion, albeit a fake one. === Click here for the saga of "Poop Shy Paul" : https://64.media.tumblr.com/7cca23062319db5d9602277cab401c2f/59a1ac91c578d587-e9/s500x750/4babde81cfd45ef362938203a068e78fcc9691c4.jpg Click here for best slutantions: https://randomlybookish.tumblr.com/post/641161303230119936/isobel-with-an-o-whisky-gerblin-asortoflight === Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself

  • TAR #22 - I Think That Kid Might Be The Avatar (Redux) (The Cave of Two Lovers - Feat. Sigma!)

    20/01/2021 Duration: 01h41min

    In this episode, we have two special treats for you: a new guest (welcome, Sigma!) and a link to a cool picture of a dragon we found on DeviantArt. Also? A SPECTACULAR episode. Let's call that treat number three. So many things that give us joy are here. Unwashed hippies. Unsupervised uncles. Unrestrained summer (spring) fun. Unwieldy teenage kissing. It's a regular U-fest up ins. === Click here for, indeed, a cool dragon we found on DeviantArt! https://www.deviantart.com/bayardwu/art/Drake-863078717   Click here for Sigma's recommended video! A totally normal clip... OR SO IT WOULD SEEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbpNZnkvE28   Click here for some happy cows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTwnO-cOeg   Click here for a happy crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrEr9Z0LUtA   Click here for a happy lizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-zGIS-WWZQ   ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives a

  • TAR #21 - Large Boulders The Size of Small Boulders (The Avatar State)

    14/01/2021 Duration: 01h36min

    It's another episode of The Avatar Recycle! Our hosts have managed to tear themselves away from the ongoing collapse of civilization to babble about magic cartoon teenagers for another couple of hours. This time, it's The Avatar State! Where is it, and why doesn't it have representation in Congress?   We're introduced to Azula, who is still an incredible villain - despite the fact that, to our aging hosts, she now looks babey. We are also left to linger on the concept of feet. Earthbender feet, that is, and something called "turf toe." You have been warned. This episode of Avatar Recycle carries a content warning for description of animal mutilation of 30:45. As well as, uh, discussion of current events throughout. === Click here for a cat getting its temperature taken: https://twitter.com/tyomateee/status/1348613308069212162?s=20   Click here for the ongoing Saga of Clark: https://preview.redd.it/uotl7kz4dvw41.png?auto=webp&s=b4b5e3995c5aa0facac2beca48380a2dfe8918a5 === Here are some of the best

  • Secret Tunnel #2 - Hooked on the Ceiling (feat. Jess!)

    24/12/2020 Duration: 01h32min

    It's the first season break, and you know what that means: statistics (oh boy)! Join us as we once again consider the SNA, read some Avatar comics, and talk about Shrek. Jess is here, so you know this one's a keeper.   ===   Click here to see the pacu, the herbivorous piranha! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacu   Click here for Avatar The Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales, Library Edition: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667330/avatar-the-last-airbender--the-lost-adventures-and-team-avatar-tales-library-edition-by-featuring-the-work-of-joaquim-dos-santos-carla-speed-mcneil-gene-luen-yang-faith-erin-hicks-sara-goetter-gurihiru-and-others/   Check out Jess's work at https://beachghost.carrd.co/   ===   Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself, donate/generate ad revenue, and protect Black lives and Black safety: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/   Homeless Black Trans Women Fund -    https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-tra

  • TAR #20 - Zhao Does Some Bull Shit (Siege of the North, Part 2)

    17/12/2020 Duration: 01h35min

    It's the season one finale, and Avatar has officially come into its own, like a caterpillar tadpole coming out of its cocoon as a beautiful butterfrog. That's good news, provided that you like hearing three ostensible adults freak out about cartoons.   We cover all the bases: Zuko's gradual de-villainization, Ben realizing that the Undertale meme skeletons are fonts, Spirit World shenanigans, Diddy's Kong Quest, when exactly a dying Jedi becomes intangible, Azula, cats, Handsome Squidward and more!   Also: we have officially debuted our brand spankin' new Super Nuclear Group logo! Visit us on Twitter and/or Discord to see for yourself.   === Click here to see A KEA: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/342232/kea-wins-bird-of-the-year Click here for Instrumentality: https://twitter.com/ZeroSuitCamus/status/1338183860362866691?s=20 Click here for, uh, Handsome Squidward https://twitter.com/WoodmanFLG/status/1337897262534569985 === Here are some of the best resources at hand right now to educate yourself,

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