Looking for the Ocean: A Pixar Journey
Join two friends Danny and Mark as they re-watch the entire Pixar catalog. That means features, shorts, tech demos, documentaries, and more. They’ll talk about the history of the company and its style and themes as well as their personal connections to the films they watch as cinema lovers who grew up in the early 2000s.
Episodes
Danny and Mark are breaking their hiatus to talk about a lesser-known Pixar project that was discovered, restored, and released on the Episode 1 podcast in September 2023.
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Brad and Danny once had a movie theater all to themselves to watch this film, the first feature from the guy who brought us Presto. They LOVED it. The gang also discusses the Zucker Abrahams Zucker movies and film school. We also have a podcast update!
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Mark’s actor pals Matt and Bridget are here to talk about what was, at the time, the highest grossing animated movie ever made, and what is, at this time, and for all time, perhaps, an underrated sequel with great gags for the kids, pleasant jokes for the parents, and plenty of touching moments so you can cry when you’re on a plane.
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Saschka Unseld is back! This time he’s made a Chipotle ad. The boys also discuss a cute bird movie, and Mark predicts which Academy Award nominee will be the newest member of the Snub Club.
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Dylan Kryut is here to talk about Pixar’s first box-office bomb and his days with Danny on the box office forums. Mark learns about The Revenant For Dogs, and everyone wonders why they're not watching Rango.
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Mark and Danny watch two shorts about fathers and sons. The first played before The Good Dinosaur and is about a child’s relationship with his family’s religion, and the second is an Oscar nominated short about Old West gun safety. And there’s a game!
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Mark and Danny do Inside Out Part 2 with two shorts from the Inside Out Blu-Ray. Danny talks about the origins of his childcare work, and Mark tries not to cough up a lung.
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Don Reinert is here to hear Danny and Mark talk about childhood trauma and to help make sense of Inside Out, Pete Docter’s movie about having a parent who works in tech.
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Happy New Year! We’ll get back to Pixar next episode lol. For now, let’s talk about The Boy and the Heron and growing up with a big part of Mark’s childhood, Ghibli movies!
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At-least-five-time-Tomorrowland-viewer Evan Rowe joins Mark and Danny to talk about that time Brad Bird spent 200 million dollars to complain about negative people. It went great!
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Mark and Danny have a chill holiday time talking about the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Christmas special Holiday Time, the one where Santa asks Buzz and the gang to help him save Christmas. They spend most of the time discussing Poor Things, Wonka, Paddington, Asteroid City, The Matrix Resurrections, The Holdovers, The Muppets’ Christmas Carol, and The Square.
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Caleb Bunn, Alex Bryson, and Steven Jensen from Star Wars Therapy join Mark and Danny to watch Gary Rydstrom’s George Lucas’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They also talk about sexual awakenings and the Pixar lamp, queering the text, and Crimp from Trolls.
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Mark and Danny go back in time to 2014 to watch Steve Purcell’s (Sam & Max, Brave) Toy Story Christmas special, featuring the Battlesaurs, a cat ornament with a trumpet, and beautiful Christmas fight choreography.
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Mark and Danny made it through the Planes sequel and are here to talk about another famous film which does not feature a younger version of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character from the Hunger Games series.
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Mark and Danny celebrate Turkey Day with Chicken Run, the highest grossing stop-motion animated film and what would be one of the major episodes of a podcast about Mark’s childhood movie-watching, Looking for the Aardman.
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...Danny, Mark, and Julius discuss James Ford Murphy's Lava, the most hated Pixar short of all time. Is it a natural disaster or a misunderstood masterpiece? Danny gets drunk and becomes British, Julius threatens to start a podcast guest union, and Mark stops everything to talk about The Northman.
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Mark and Danny almost cancel each other after watching two short films by Erica Milsom, director of the future SparkShort Loop, and Kevin Nolting, the editor of Up and future director of a short featuring one of the characters from Soul. What do these people do when not working for Pixar?
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In 2014, Pixar president Ed Catmull released his book on good management based on his experiences, and Danny and Mark read it for the bit. What are Braintrust sessions like? Which actors from Succession would be in the Pixar biopic? Will Steve Jobs’ legacy be the iPhone or Cars 2?
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Sarah has trapped Danny and Mark in her Saw Trap™, and that means it’s time once again to talk about horror movies directed by women. They play a game! Sarah talks about how, in its sixth year, she’s run up against the limits of online availability and the gender binary, but has been able to complete the month with some surprising films. They ...
Danny and Mark watch the ABC Halloween special about the Toys’ night in a creepy motel and Jessie’s struggle with claustrophobia. Who owns the future of Bluey? Will Mark’s Spirit Halloween costume be wealthy poultry-stealing son-in-law? Why didn’t this children’s TV movie from 2013 reference popular memes featuring Carl Weathers’ hand?
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