Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted by Qais Fulton
• Don Hertzfeldt’s Billy’s Balloon…in which children are savagely beaten and manhandled in ways you can only dream of when faced with their screaming antics.
• Giant steampunk mechs and gorgeous CGI animations abound in A Gentleman’s Duel
• A musical interlude, They Might Be Giants perform Istanbul (Not Constantinople) over a brief section of a strange show from the mid 90′s called Tiny Toons. Take note that everyone, including the camel, is wearing a fez.
• L’inventaire Fantôme, a delightfully creepy French stop motion animation, which while in French is a largely visual story.
• The best Sealab 2021 episode ever.
• A commercial for one of the most poorly thought out toys in existence.
• And finally, bringing it back to the old school, Thundarr the Barbarian part 1 and 2. I am now going to spend the rest of the day in my pajamas watching old episodes of Thundarr.
Categories: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 1:32 pm on September 22, 2007
5 Comments -
Oooh, a gentleman’s duel! I have been trying to find a full version of that. I think the company took it down for a while.
Comment by Chris Furniss — September 22, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
I remember there was some brief message on Daily Motion about the video being removed due to some unspecified violation of DM’s terms. At least, I thought that’s what the message meant.
Good to know that Youtube has it in all its cheese-pirate glory.
Comment by Racerabbit — September 22, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
Good picks, but I especially love anything by Don Hertzfeldt. I like to think of that particular animation as a beautiful metaphor for love… but maybe that’s just me.
Comment by Noct — September 23, 2007 @ 2:27 am
I never thought about it that way but now that I think about it you’re absolutely right. Why must these balloons brutalize me? WHY?!
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Comment by Gerry Ojard — August 5, 2010 @ 11:55 pm