We discuss Pixar's crowning achievement, WALL-E! It's about a little robot with big dreams, big robots with little empathy, and future space-baby people. We analyze the secret sauce that makes this movie so good: character designs, musicals, Real Human Being Fred Willard, and much more!

PLUS in this week's animation news, a special ad sponsor (not for us -- not yet!), a bizarre upcoming movie, and an, uhhh, *impassioned* plea for anime from one cartoon fan in Texas.

MOVIES DISCUSSED:
WALL-E (2008), dir. Andrew Stanton

REAL WORLD RECS
Brooke: Widow's Bay on Apple TV+
Ryan: The Backrooms, dir. Kane Parsons

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