Jason the Cartoon Fan

Family Guy if every member of the show’s core cast gets a spin-off except Chris, Joe, and Tricia Takanawa:

Coop, the radical father voiced by Tony Hawk seen here with his son Slider and the core trio of heroes of Cyberchase in Slider's room as Slider is showing him a device that can undo his sudden rapid aging into an old man during the episode "Measure for Measure" - the classic episode of the aforementioned series that I caught a rare airing of on present-day PBS Kids most recently (no more recently than earlier tonight, as a matter of fact).

COOL GUY TONY HAWK.

All that glitters continues to be gold, but now I'm about to see if I still think only shooting stars break the mold.

The back cover of my new Shrek film Blu-ray set brings back the gold banner from the front cover, but with the emboldened white text now reading "4-Movie Collection". Below the banner is a group shot of (from left to right) Puss in Boots, Shrek, Donkey, and - oddly enough, considering Puss only got to see her in this form during a very small portion of Shrek 2 - Fiona as a human. The set’s bar code is a sticker slapped to the right of them, covering up a tiny part each of Fioana’s hair and left shoulder (right shoulder from our point of view) and the banner. Placed below the characters are columns providing the logos, a set of descriptions, all the special features, and the full MPAA ratings for each of the four included movies (with each column being in the same color representing each movie on the set's front cover). The right side of those columns also feature one character each to further represent each film: Lord Farquaad for Shrek 1, Gingy for Shrek 2, Puss in Boots with his "sad kitty" face for Shrek the Third (thus making Puss the only character to appear more than twice on the set's packaging - funny considering this set came out before his acclaimed second solo movie), and Pinocchio for Shrek Forever After. The bottom of the back cover features logos, copyright information for the set's reprint, a website link, the Copy Protection warning, and a repeat appearance of the title's stock number - but not any technical specifications or the years each movie was originally released theatrically in, as those elements are instead included inside the set's keepcase.

Thus, I got all four films (so far) together on Blu-ray - and since Universal is a lot more fair about pricing their older flicks on physical media compared to other studios, I ended up paying only $15 (in other words, $3.75 per movie) for the full set.

With this year being that film's 25th anniversary, and with a fifth movie in the Shrek series coming next year, I figured now is the right time to jump back into the kingdom of Far Far Away in high definition.

…though I didn't grow the same kind of attachment to them I had to their predecessors and thus didn't watch them even nearly as often. However, I only ever managed to buy the original Shrek in the past, and just on DVD. As a result, it's the only one I've rewatched more recently.

Shrek 1 and 2 were cornerstones of my childhood, as I'm sure they were for any kid born in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and I remember Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After at least being decent timewasters,…

My new Shrek movie Blu-ray set comes inside a cardboard slipcase. The spine of the slip features the official Blu-ray Disc logo up top, the set's title (presented the same way as it was on the front cover) in the center, and the legendary "boy fishing on the moon" illustration serving as a trademark to represent DreamWorks as a brand alongside the set's stock number (46502524) at the very bottom.

The spine of the plastic case holding the discs of my new Shrek film Blu-ray set - as seen inside its hole within the title's slipcase - sports the same elements as the slipcase's spine, but obviously shrunken to accommodate for the slightly smaller height. Instead of my bed like usual for my physical media pick-up posts, I decided to capture the photos showcasing my copy of the Shrek franchise’s 4-Movie Collection Blu-ray set still factory-sealed across my family's kitchen counter.

I ended up buying one Blu-ray set each from WB and Universal there, and today I discovered while getting my family's mail from our mailbox that the Universal Blu-ray set I ordered from that site arrived first.

I got a little spare cash to blow this past Friday (March 6, 2026), so I decided to try GRUV - the official online store for physical media releases from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment - for the very first time.

Shrek: 4-Movie Collection - originally released on Blu-ray by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for the original Shrek's 15th anniversary on June 7, 2016; with copy I bought being a reprint from Universal Studios Home Entertainment sent to stores in 2018 (following Universal's acquisition of DreamWorks Animation two months after the set's release date). The front cover of this Blu-ray set features a collage, split into two stacks of two, of the faces of the core four characters of the Shrek franchise: Shrek himself (in front of a bold green background) to represent the original movie, Donkey (in front of a gradient blue background) to represent Shrek 2, Puss in Boots (in front of a dark purple background) to represent Shrek the Third, and Fiona as an ogre (in front of a sequined periwinkle background) to represent Shrek Forever After. In the center of the character collage is the set's title - with the DreamWorks logo and text reading "4-Movie Collection" in black and the Shrek logo emboldened in shiny gold. An equally shiny gold banner is up top, but the banner isn't emboldened because white text in the center reading "Anniversary Edition" (applicable only to the Fox release of this set, because no Shrek film had a milestone anniversary in 2018) is given that "popping out" effect instead.

You know the old saying: "Shrek is love, Shrek is life."

Fingers crossed this means the other DreamWorks TV series made for Netflix but no longer on Netflix (outside of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, since that show was already completed on DVD) will eventually receive the same treatment. (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power next, please?)

Oh well: at least it's happening at all for those who care about the show. (I'm aware of its poorly-received final season, so I haven't bothered even trying to watch it yet.)

Interestingly, the title appears to be an online-exclusive instead of a wide retail Universal Studios Home Entertainment (via Studio Distribution Services) release.

A look at the front cover and spine of this DVD set. The front cover features a close-up of Voltron's face in front of a dark blue-tinted night sky. Above the artwork is a red banner with white text reading "The Complete Series", followed by the DreamWorks and Voltron: Legendary Defender logos. The equally dark blue spine places the cover artwork into a tiny rectangle box below the DreamWorks logo up top. Following it is the "Voltron" portion of the show's logo, followed by the "Legendary Defender" portion of that logo and the "Complete Series" text from the front cover put together, then what appears to be the official DVD Video logo...but with the "Video" portion of the logo replaced with "R" - meaning unless this element gets changed for the final product, the set will be a manufactured-on-demand title, not a wide retail release.

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Voltron: Legendary Defender, one of the DreamWorks Animation television shows produced for Netflix that eventually expired off the aforementioned platform, is getting a Complete Series DVD set on March 31, 2026.

Can’t wait for this joke to happen again, but with Cleveland and Stewie switching places.

Strawpage question submission #30! “Be honest with me: do you think that Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. has any possibility of being stopped - by having Skydance fall apart so the Ellison family can’t afford the latter?”

We likely still have at least two years left before any sale of Warner Bros. to Paramount Skydance can be finalized. The best you can do to keep the merger from happening is continuing to make a big stink about the idea.

I really do need to view a lot more someday, but right now I’m currently doing a chronological viewing of The Fairly OddParents now that I have its entire run on DVD, so I don’t have room in my life schedule for another show with hundreds of episodes right now.

Strawpage question submission #29! “What do you think of Bob’s Burgers?”

I’ve enjoyed what I saw of Bob’s Burgers, but I never fully embraced it - or American Dad!, for that matter - the way I have with The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Futurama in the realm of the major adult animated series from Fox.

Berry’s black-and-white commission sketch - requested by yours truly - of Kitty Ko from Sidekick, in which she is playfully standing with her right foot (left foot from our point of view) up while placing her right hand (left hand from our point of view) on her chin. She casts a shadow on the floor, and Berry’s signature can be seen to the left of her at the bottom.

In fact, I even commissioned my online friend NoParking Berry back in March 2022 to draw a piece of fan art of Kitty Ko (she’s my favorite character from that series because I think her rambunctious personality is very precious; it also helps that she shares her voice with Mina Beff from Grojband).

As for Sidekick, it definitely has a lot of tropes that I normally despise in its contemporaries, but unlike,…let’s say,…Scaredy Squirrel or Almost Naked Animals, I think those elements are handled just delicately enough to be funny.

I have a DVD set of the show’s first 30 episodes I owned when I was a kid (but sadly don’t own anymore) to thank for being introduced to Richard Scarry’s Busy World. It truly is a wonderfully magical series. Even just hearing the show’s theme song puts a huge smile on my face.

Cartoon Network: The Amazing World of Gumball - The Complete Series [D You cannot get more amazing than The Amazing World of Gumball : The Complete Series! Why? Because this is every single hilarious mis-adventure, every awesome song, every “what the what?!”, every trip ...

A preorder listing was put up for the set on GRUV (the official online store for Studio Distribution Services, so both Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment). 🙂

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Cartoon Network has been hesitant to acknowledge Johnny Bravo outside of the occasional cameo in recent years due to the behavior of the show’s title character - despite the show making fun and beating the shit out of him for how bad he is around women.

…given Johnny's shadowbanned status and Infinity Train's complicated current legal situation (it hasn't been fully written off for taxes but has nonetheless been made hard to officially obtain lately).

This leaves only three such series without one: Johnny Bravo, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Infinity Train. I think Billy & Mandy is the only one of them that has a real chance of actually getting a complete DVD release,…

…and Cartoon Network tends to put Complete Series sets for shows that had at least one complete season released on DVD in the past (so the old discs can be recycled, though they did make new discs for Season 1 of Dexter's Laboratory for its own full series release).

…since it continues to be a massive cash cow for CN and actually had its entire first season released on the format (albeit spread across three single-disc volumes instead of put on a complete season set),…

Funnily enough, I actually theorized to my friends on Discord that Gumball would be the next Cartoon Network show to be completed on DVD,…

*Ben 10 (original series, Alien Force, Ultimate Alien, and Omniverse)
*Adventure Time
*Regular Show
*The Amazing World of Gumball
*Steven Universe

*Dexter's Laboratory
*The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
*Ed, Edd n Eddy (not counting the holiday specials or Big Picture Show)
*Courage the Cowardly Dog
*Samurai Jack (also released in its entirety on Blu-ray)
*Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends