Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: In Memoriam

I think I’ve written about every Samantha Eggar movie and perhaps a director, and I had conspired to kidnap her and Susan George to make our dream double sequel to Demonoid and Tintorera. I hope she won’t mind that I remember her by watching this cartoon, devoted to magicians Siegfried and Roy.

I’m sorry, Samatha.

There are four episodes of Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible, and I wish there were four thousand.

“This animated series is a wonderful chance to bring children our important message about discovering the world of magic all around them,” Roy once told the Las Vegas Sun. “We also want them to discover the magic deep inside all of us.”

Man, I have been in hysterics since watching this, and all the PR from the 90s is starting my giggles all over again. Like this…

Director-producer Ron Myrick says they turned to sources as varied as Norse mythology, sword-and-sorcery games and, of course, Siegfried & Roy’s nightly spectacle at The Mirage.

“We’ve opened the door, allowing us to borrow from other periods and places,” he says. “There are no bounds to this world of Sarmoti. Each character and place has a unique, creative look that’s found nowhere else in its kind. There are no limits on what we can create and do.”

Sadly, that article has one lie.

And after the four-episode miniseries airs, will there be more?

“This is only the beginning,” Siegfried says.

It wasn’t.

Airing on Fox Kids from February 19 to 22, 1996, this finds Siegfried as an illusionist and Roy as an animal tamer traveling with a white tiger named Mantacore. Sarmoti has four demons released, three of which are the personifications of sins, while the fourth is part of Mantacore. Roy wishes to make Mantacore whole and works with Siegfried, and the duo must learn to get along and save the kingdom.

Another lie. Siegfried and Roy didn’t do their own voices.

Siegfried is Andrew Hawkes, and Roy is Jeff Bennett.

Plus, Charlie Adler, the voice of Starscream, is Loki; Jim Cummings and Brad Garrett show up (Garrett knows how to do the cartoon voice of a real person, as he was Hulk Hogan on his cartoon); Rumpelstiltskin plays their sidekick, and oh yes, there’s Samantha Eggar.

The dup keeps yelling, “The magic is back!” and Rumpelstiltskin keeps asking when they’ll find some women. This may have been the reason I was laughing more than a few times.

Maybe that demon part of Mantacore was real. At the Mirage on October 3, 2003, the cat knocked down Roy and dragged him off stage as he had a stroke either before or after the attack. The animal trainer claimed that the cat was trying to help him. It helped him to a severed spine, blood loss and paralysis on the left side of his body. After performing one more time on 20/20, they retired on April 23, 2010. Mantacore died four years later.

I learned a few things researching this:

While Siegfried and Roy were a couple, they were also devout Catholics and had a chapel in their home.  Also, the name of the planet, Sarmoti, means “Siegfried And Roy, Masters Of The Impossible.”

Despite Roy being injured, they had a computer-animated TV show, Father of the Pride, about one of the lions.

In a magical world, there would have been action figures of this show. It’s kind of like He-Man, but way less gay. OK, I’m sorry, I tried really hard not to make any jokes in this entire article, so please give me some grace for that one.

You can watch this on YouTube.