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I’m thinking that next week I’ll show Get Ready To Be Boyzvoiced! (Norway, 2000), and after that, in any order, I’ll show Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (Japan, 1974), Who Killed Captain Alex? (Uganda, 2010), Rock’n’Roll Wolf (USSR / Romania / France, 1976), A Slave of Love (USSR, 1976), Courier (USSR, 1986), the first six episodes of The Big Bang Theory (occupied Tovaangar, 2007-2019), and some fanime. After that, I’ll show Squirrel & Hedgehog (DPRK, 1977-2012) for a few weeks. All the while as I’m showing these things I’ll prepare the batch of things to be shown between the end of Squirrel & Hedgehog and the first season of The Boondocks (occupied Tovaangar / ROK, 2005-2014).

What’s the chef cookin’ tonight?

Once Upon a Time… The Discoverers is the fifth of Albert Barillé’s Once Upon a Time… cartoons, centered on the big-bearded Maestro. I have previously shown Once Upon a Time… Man from '78 (world history, albeit Eurocentric), Space from '82 (not actually educational; it’s sci-fi set in the future), Life from '87 (human physiology), and The Americas from '91 (history of Abya Yala, surprisingly good). This time, in The Discoverers, Maestro will be telling us about famous inventors and scientists from antiquity to the present day.

As before, the episodes have a runtime of ~24 minutes each; the number of episodes is 26; and we’ll be starting half an hour early this time as we watch the last six episodes.

We’ll be watching the following episodes tonight:

  • Ep 21: Aviation
  • Ep 22: Marie Curie
  • Ep 23: Albert Einstein
  • Ep 24: Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Geese
  • Ep 25: Neil Armstrong, the Moon and Space
  • Ep 26: Tomorrow?

Content warnings and accessibility

Audio description: Not available.

Sign language: Not available.

Language of audio: English.

Captions: Not available.

Content warnings:

These are content warnings for Albert Barillé’s Once Upon a Time… in general:

  • Death incl. murder
  • Sexual assault
  • Nudity
  • Animal gore
  • Racist caricatures
  • Religion presented as fact
  • Eurocentrism
  • Children getting serious diseases
  • Vanishing Indian myth
  • Problematic depictions of cops, slavery, and settler-colonialism
  • Problematic depictions of race and class issues in general, lionization
  • Inaccuracies that drive some of our viewers up the wall

♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫