Ectoonal Emissions XVI: Cartoon Noir
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
Witness the candy deliciousness that is Saturday morning cartoons: creamy, comedy goodness in a sweet, crunchy anime shell!
• FLCL continues its meteoric, guitar wielding, robot spooging, sexually awkward descent into madness, in the second episode, “Firestarter”.
• Some of my earliest and fondest memories of Nickelodeon involve Rocko’s Modern Life. Featured today are two episodes, “No Pain, No Gain” and “Unbalanced Load”. The intro is the version from season two, featuring the talents of The B-52s.
• I am no fan of Seinfeld so I maintain that Duckman is the best work Jason Alexander has ever done. “The Noir Gang” does a fantastic job of incorporating the show’s perverted, foul-mouthed detective and porcine sidekick into a black and white film noir motif.
• If you had told me that a re-boot of Max Fleischer’s Felix the Cat would be worth it, I may have condescendingly sniffed at the idea. However Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat was an amazing cornucopia of oddity and downright weirdness. Two episodes for you: “Phony Phelix” and “The Petrified Cheese” which features a cleverly named shamus named Seamus. “Ok, pally, let me fill you in on the facts. The skinny. The scam. The poop.”
• Paranoia Agent “The Golden Shoes”. Who is Lil’ Slugger? For Yuichi “Ichi” Taira, the most popular kid in school, top of his class in academics and sports, who plans to run for Student Council President, his golden roller blades and red baseball cap are cause for growing concern among his peers, turning his life upside down. Now, paranoid and looking for a way out of this new nightmare, he focuses his attention on foreign transfer student Shogo “Usshi” Ushiyama, convince he is trying to ruin him.
Ectoonal Emissions XVI [YouTube]
Categories: Humor, Obscenity, Pig, Anime, Television, Perverts, Crime, Pulp, Insanity, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Animation
Posted at 10:12 am on January 12, 2008
3 Comments -
Great selection as always, but duckman is brilliant. I haven’t seen it since it was on syndication in comedy central, definitely something that tends to slip through to cracks.
Comment by Hlaode — January 12, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Watched thirty minutes of it upon waking this morning, I’d heard a lot about Rocko’s Modern Life but never got to see it. Amusing. Thanks =]
Comment by Jakkar — January 12, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Duckman was amazing! everything you could want in an “adult oriented” cartoon. smarmy, awkward, and neurotic characters, dark and thoroughly twisted themes, entertainingly poor animation quality, etc etc. Not to mention a stellar cast.
I could go on and on, really, about how much I miss that show.
Comment by Giania — January 13, 2008 @ 5:36 pm