Ectünae Saturnale – Zombies, Monsters, and Cranial Capers
Posted by Qais Fulton
The Last Duet On Earth – The future is a wasteland or roving, square-headed zombies, and music is the savior of mankind…sort of.
Monsterpiece Theater – A piece which necessitated the labeling of DVD’s of old school Sesame Street as Adults Only. Why? Because Cookie Monster smokes a pipe, seriously. Enjoy Grover’s reflection of sisyphean labors in an adaptation of Hitchcock’s The 39 Stairs and let yourself slip back to simpler times, when parents subjected their children to soul-warping distractions for the betterment of us all.
Space War – Ah, the epic space monster/crab men battles of 3rd period. If all the hours bright loners spent doodling in class were spent under the tutelage of their older, wiser, system-bucking counterparts the world would be a marvelous place. Thankfully the world isn’t a marvelous place and horribly scarred individuals are churned out by the dozen, with no other goal than to make something amazing.
The Head – Part of MTV’s Oddities run in the mid-90′s, The Head chronicles a young man’s struggle with an alien taking up residence in his brain. He, hopefully similarly to many of us, doesn’t seem all that disturbed by his new extra-terrestrial resident and more disturbed by the impact it takes on his daily life. Attack alien at the cost of an over-sized noggin and inconvenient social life? I’ll take two.
The Amazing Screw On Head (under the jump) – Mike Mignola’s gorgeous steampunk one-shot featuring an automata driven secret agent. I’m more than a little disappointed this was never turned into a series, simply because I’ll never see screw on head’s epic giant octopus battle from the opening credits.
Categories: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 3:44 pm on December 1, 2007
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The Amazing Screw-On Head was the most original cartoon I’ve seen in a long time. We had it saved to the TiVo, for a number of months, and it never got old. Not even in the slightest.
Showing new people that show was one of the principle joys of the TiVo entertainment system.
Thank you Qais.
Comment by Damien — December 1, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
Was there ever an episode of Inhumanoids on these? If not, can we get one added to an upcoming weekend spectacular-rrr? That show kicked ass.
Comment by KAYk4Y — December 1, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
I thought I’d heard that Screw On Head had been picked up?
Though I think I just heard that from a friend, and they haven’t made any new episodes yet, so…
Comment by Mike — December 1, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
I heard that too. It might be that after theymade the pilot they decided at the last minute not to pick it up.
Comment by Hlaode — December 1, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Mike and Hlaode, you should keep in mind that Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil had its pilot episode back in October of 2004, and that show just started up, this year.
That being said, I remember reading on Sci-Fi’s site that they weren’t picking it up, for some unknown and completely unacceptable reason.
So… Yeah.
Comment by Damien — December 1, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
It’s a real shame that Screw On Head isn’t being picked up. It was great to see animation in Mignola’s style.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — December 1, 2007 @ 8:37 pm
Ja. Unfortunate.
‘According to Mike Mignola on the November 29th 2006 Fanboy Radio podcast, the series was not picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel [1]. The pilot was released on DVD on February 6, 2007.’
Comment by Damien — December 1, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
I would like to give some “mad props”, as the kids say, to the inclusion of Monsterpiece Theater, despite it not technically being a cartoon. People seem to forget how absolutely insane and oddly antisocial Sesame Street was before Elmo and Disney screwed everything up for everybody.
Comment by Bob LaRice — December 1, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
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Ectünae Saturnale Cartoons
This may be my vote for the new title of Ectomo Saturday Morning Cartoons
Comment by John Brownlee — December 2, 2007 @ 5:48 am
Yeah, that’s pretty good. My new suggestion is “Cinemaplectomo.”
Coincidentally, or probably not, “Amazing Screw On Head” debuted on SciFi right after the premiere of “Who Wants to Be A Superhero,” immediately followed by “Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place.” Both shows were criminally underpromoted. “Dark Place” is now being shown on [adult swim], “Screw On Head” is a cult hit on DVD, the 2nd season of “Who Wants…” was a snooze, and SciFi foists the most joyless rendition of “Flash Gordon” on us imaginable. Is that justice?
Non sequitur: Graham Annable’s comics are some of the most fun imaginabibble. There’s a certain lo-fi segment of indie comics of which he’s the epicenter, as evinced by the anthology “Grickle,” though to give credit where it’s due Sam Henderson’s “The Magic Whistle” and Johnny Ryan’s “Angry Youth Comix” are the godfathers thereof.
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“The Last Duet on Earth” was fantastic. Really well done, and really funny. Good to know there is another way to fight off zombies – just make sure you have a harmonica and banjo ready (with spare strings close at hand). I think Simon Pegg would get a kick out of this.
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Comment by Gary Webber from Bad Credit Remortgage — February 25, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
“The Last Duet on Earth” was fantastic. Really well done, and really funny. Good to know there is another way to fight off zombies – just make sure you have a harmonica and banjo ready (with spare strings close at hand). I think Simon Pegg would get a kick out of this.
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Comment by Gary Webber from Bad Credit Remortgage — February 25, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
[...] influence from Mignola’s animated work such as The Amazing Screw On Head (which can be found in another Saturday Morning lineup), and of course a heaping dose of other inspiration (spoilers from the video). There is some [...]
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