Ectomo Saturday Morning Cartoons: Halloween Edition!
Posted by John Brownlee
Posted on Sunday not through ineffable laziness, but because it’s still Saturday somewhere. Possibly Delaware. Please note that this week we’ve got more than just one embedded playlist, so hit the jump for all the cartoons.
• Our favorite flapper tart with the scrotum-peeling voice, Betty Boop, starts things off by throwing a Halloween Party for the surreal fever dreams popping out of Max Fleischer’s imagination.
• Count Duckula appears to be wildly popular amongst the Ectomo staff, except for me, who’d never heard of him. Needless to say, if you base your cartoon off of the concept of a vampiric anthromorphic duck, he’s eventually going to have to run into Frankenstein…
• I want a scissor puppy of my own. My favorite episode of the wonderful Flash cartoon (and soon to be Nickelodeon series) Making Fiends. If a small, puke-green Bulgarian child has ever been fuckable by sole dint of her voice, that small, puke-green Bulgarian child is Vendetta.
The rest of the videos, after the jump…
• South Park gets Pinkeye. A zombie apocalypse ensues. Eric Cartman dresses as Hitler.
• Speaking of cartoonified zombie apocalypses, a flashback to the days when the Simpsons didn’t suck with Dial Z For Zombie.
• A double-header of The Real Ghostbusters Halloween episodes for your pleasure. In When Halloween Was Forever, the evil spirit of Halloween, Samhain, spreads his tendrils across New York City in an ectoplasmic quest to make Halloween last forever. In Halloween II 1/2, the Ghostbusters must face Samhain again after he escapes the containment unit and rampages through the firehouse.
• Linus worships a gigantic gourd as Charlie Brown and his smug little friends dress as Ku Klux Klan members and scoff. Yet when ancient pagan blood rites cause the Great Pumpkin to come to life, only Linus is spared from the consequent Hell on Earth. It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
• And finally, a film that needs no introduction… Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, in its glorious entirety.
Categories: Animation, Cartoons, Clips, Halloween, Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 9:42 am on October 28, 2007
8 Comments -
You had never heard of Count Duckula? What a horrid childhood you must have had.
Comment by chesh — October 28, 2007 @ 2:20 pm
Does that mean you haven’t heard of Danger Mouse either? The horror. The. Horror.
I, on the other hand, had never seen Making Fiends so thank yous are in order. I’m going to watch the rest of them now.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — October 28, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
I’ve heard of Danger Mouse and even watched it as a boy. Count Duckula’s too obscure for me, though.
Comment by John Brownlee — October 28, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
Brownlee,
Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, and Banana-Man were all played in the afternoon Just after school let out, on Nickelodeon, back when that meant something.
Comment by Damien — October 28, 2007 @ 4:16 pm
Did they ever explain Count Duckula’s shift from villainy on DangerMouse to nicety on his own show?
Comment by V. Blame — October 29, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Thanks for introducing me to “Making Fiends” — it’s great!
Comment by Aaron — October 29, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Blame – The explanation, I believe, was that Duckula had died numerous times and is resurrected through a magical ritual. Each incarnation has no memories of the previous so they can develop their own personalities. The Duckula of the show is a vegetarian because ketchup was used instead of blood during the ritual.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — October 30, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Well-done Ross. Well done.
Comment by Damien — November 1, 2007 @ 3:03 pm