Archive for the 'Animation' Category
Tex Avery predicts the Television of Tomorrow (in 1953) - VIDEO
I’m a sucker for cartoons of the 40s and 50s, whether it’s Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, or those two squirrels that just wanted to have a nice life where everyone left them alone (their names escape me at the moment). I plus like the great pseudo-documentary cartoons that you often saw, …
Aqua Teen starvation Force: Couples Skate
(S05E03) “…and how was your fix? Did you ride the white horse?” - Markula
Wait just a moment. final week was mind-boggling abundant, but did we just witness the completion of a trilogy? An actual episode of Aqua Teen starvation Force that due you, the viewer, to have seen the preceding tw…
Adult Swim airs every Futurama episode starting tonight
Believe it or not, Futurama has been airing on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block for about five years. During that period, fans of the show have probably watched every singled-out episode at least once, or twice, or fifteen times. Now, those same fans will get the chance to watch every loner episod…
Nickelodeon hops on the iceberg
Nickelodeon has ordered 26 episodes of the new cartoon The Penguins of Madagascar.
Based on the characters from the film Madagascar, the show will depict the further adventures of the militaristic, adventurous penguins who escaped from the Central Park zoo in the film.
Continue reading Nickelo…
Mental Floss lists nine legendary cartoon voices
Not adequate credit is given to the voice actors and actresses who gave audio life to our favorite cartoon characters. Fortunately, blogs like mental floss are trying to pick up the slack.
A lot of the work of Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, is mentioned, but I bet none of her other …
Grandma got run by by a lawsuit - VIDEO
I heard that song a couple of nights ago and I wondered what happened to the guy who sang it. Now I know.
Elmo Shropshire, who sang the 1979 Christmas classic “Grandma Got Run by By A Reindeer,” is being sued by The Fred Rappoport Company, who says that Shropshire is interfering in a deal the com…
Giveaway Monday: Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist - The total Series
The giveaways continue nowadays! Not only are we giving absent five copies of Christmas day in South Park, we’ve plus got five copies of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist - The total Series for five lucky, random commenters. The set is available in stores now.
To enter, simply leave a comment belo…
Giveaway Monday: Futurama: Bender’s Big Score!
It’s day for us to give absent some stuff … again! One of today’s giveaways is for five copies of Futurama: Bender’s Big Score on DVD, which is available in stores on November 27. All you’ve got to do is submit a comment below before 5PM Eastern, November 23, and mention your favorite Bender momen…
The Pitts revived as a cartoon
Do you remember the Fox sitcom The Pitts? Of course not and why should you? The show premiered in 2003 and aired for only a couple of weeks before joining Drexell’s course, Costello and Freakylinks in that great big network in the sky.
The series, which starred Dylan Baker (Curt Conners from the…
The seven hottest lively housewives
There’s towering been a debate among positive kinds of creepy cartoon enthusiasts about which lively girls we would most like to, uh, “get-to-know better”, should we ever habitable in a Cool World-type universe where that sort of thing was possible. Judy Jetson, teenage Pebbles, Belle from Beauty an…
Charles Schulz’s family not thrilled with PBS doc - VIDEO
I’ll say right up front that I am a huge Charles Schulz fan. I think Peanuts is one of the most vital things in the history of pop culture (not just comics, but in all of pop culture - film, literature, TV, music and art). It’s the type of comedian that’s entertaining and fun for all of the obviou…
The CW to end Kids WB! in 2008
For many of us the rite of passage that was Saturday AM cartoons died years ago. The following news just puts a final nail in its coffin.
Last week The CW announced that it was dropping the 13-year-old Kids WB! franchise at the end of that season. Replacing it will be subject matter from 4Kids E…
Wallace and Gromit return to BBC
I’m a fan of British TV, so I can say with a huge degree of satisfaction that Wallace and Gromit are returning to TV after a break of by ten years. The new episode will be called “Trouble at Mill” at involves the disappearance of twelve of the local bakers.
I enjoy Nick Park’s animation. Like…
Nickelodeon wants you to go external tomorrow
You know how a lot of kids will actually play with an empty box instead of the toy that came inside the box? I’m thinking something like that is going to happen tomorrow when Nickelodeon goes dark for three hours: a bunch of kids just staring at the black screen waiting for it to come back on, p…
