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
Episodes



Friday Jan 13, 2023
32. Commie-tary: The Incredibles Bonus Features
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
American animation at its best! We watch some shorts from the Incredibles DVD: Jack-Jack Attack, Mr. Incredible and Pals (with commentary), and The Incredible Socks. We also talk about our own short films, Billy Wilder (the real one and the fictional one), and deep cuts from the 90s. We've got Jack-Jack Attack commentary. We've got social commentary. By the end, you’ll be sick of all the commentary!



Friday Jan 06, 2023
31. DETOUR! Blue Dog Challenge: Strasse der Spezialisten
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Join us for Dream Therapy! We watch videos from an art installation that were uploaded to YouTube! It’s melancholy and awesome! Danny goes INSANE trying to remember a childhood online flash game, please help. The dog is walking in the room. Are corporations good? The Godfather tomato sauce gets the SEAL OF APPROVAL. Love is the Message, the Message is All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (we are not officially sponsored by these but they are cool).



Friday Dec 30, 2022
30. The Day of Water: Avatar 2
Friday Dec 30, 2022
Friday Dec 30, 2022
It’s our last holiday special of 2022! Time to talk about whales (not THE Whale, nerds), the high frame rate, and how we remember *half of the characters’ names. This is now a Stephen Lang appreciation show. Mark says no one will be as great as Andy Serkis, but Danny defends Sam Worthington. What’s the Gone Girl Defense? Find out on the shores of the Metkayina, where we open Pandora’s box, and discuss the year’s biggest CGI adventure (excluding Spider).



Friday Dec 23, 2022
29. A Very Looking for the Ocean Christmas: How the Toy Saved Christmas
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
LIVE FROM THE HOLY LAND. We haven't reached any of Pixar's Christmas specials yet, so how can animation nerds celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ? By watching Veggietales! Curl up with cookies for Silly Songs, more Sight and Sound, and Danny’s confession of an unrequited love.



Friday Dec 16, 2022
28. More Death than Blade III: The Incredibles w/ Tyler Bourland
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
An incredible guest has joined the lads to discuss an incredible movie! Tyler Bourland of CC Farms and Danny’s previous podcast Why Is with Ty and Dan! is here to weigh in on Wakanda Forever’s Disney Gay Couple™, the Family Video that sold CBD, and misleading superhero trailers. This episode is fun for the whole family which means that your whole family can enjoy it and not that they all have to listen to it at the same time.



Friday Dec 09, 2022
27. OY! A Knives Out Mystery: Boundin’
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Danny and Mark talk about Bud Luckey’s Boundin’, the short which played before The Incredibles. It is GOOD. The lads also discuss the Fabelman’s DIS-stribution, Winnie the Pooh’s fatal mistake in 2011, and Mrs. Pennybottom’s Club Where they Make Sourdough Bread and Read Books or Whatever. Also in this episode you’ll hear the voices of Benoit Blanc AND Ringo Starr! OY!



Friday Dec 02, 2022
26. DETOUR! Parasite But With Dogs: *batteries not included/Family Dog
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Danny and Mark watch two of Brad Birds’ early screenwriting endeavors, *batteries not included and Family Dog. They are BAD. However, the lads are not discouraged - they discuss Free Birds, the Pope’s favorite movies, and Maya and Miguel, Brothers and Sisters and Best Friends as well. Enjoy your Thanksgiving hangover with da boys, but whatever you do, don’t walk out after ten minutes.



Friday Nov 18, 2022
25. DETOUR! A Serious Men: Boys Night Out
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
In this episode, Danny and Mark watch Teddy Newton’s Boys Night Out WHICH IS APPARENTLY ABOUT STRIPPERS. They talk about banned cartoons, Val Kilmer in Tombstone, deep personal stuff, one of the most well-known movie lists, and Val Kilmer in Tombstone. This is a very good and serious episode despite (because of?) the SURPRISE STRIPPER SHORT. Legitimately, this is important for the canon, do not miss!

Our Mission Statement
Mark Young (left) and Danny Vincent (right) are aiming to watch every single Pixar "thing" ever made. That includes features, shorts, tech demos, TV shows, documentaries and more. Moreover, our goal in watching these pieces of media is to discover just why Pixar has captured our mind, and track our own personal growth with Pixar as our timestamps in life.