Saturday Morning Cartoon Request Line!
Posted by Eliza Gauger
You know how it works, gentlemen. Toss up your wants, needs, and druthers for tomorrow’s episode of Saturday Morning Cartoons! The more obscure and beautiful, the better. But I am willing to entertain your sick nostalgias, to a certain extent…
Categories: Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 3:46 pm on May 16, 2008
22 Comments -
The Inhumanoids…I dont remember too much from the show itself, but the toys were amazing
Comment by MachineGunEtiquette — May 16, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
I’d like to see more Freakazoid please, while it isn’t that obscure it makes me giggle like a little girl.
If it is obscurity you’re after I would be apeased with Go-Bots or Rock Lords in lieu of my beloved Freakazoid.
Comment by Etan — May 16, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
C.O.P.S was on last time, from the same creators, Bravestar, or silverhawks (thundercats spinoff)
more modern was angry angry beavers which had adult undertones. M.A.S.K, was pretty good also.
just my 2 cents
Comment by Shayne — May 16, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Face like a Frog, baby. You want obscure and beautiful, you got it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dOptGLEOsJ8
Along the same lines, Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions. Directed by Henry Selick (of Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline), music by The Residents. Up to you whether having humans in it disqualifies it as a “cartoon”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Izb6rKX28bM
Aw hell. Here’s 8 minutes of The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, a stop-motion feature film that used a mixture of puppets and humans.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_RedmbTQD4
And as long as I’m ringing the stop-motion gong, here’s the Brothers Quay’s video for His Name Is Alive’s “Are We Still Married?”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vV-JWIZgz9M
Comment by V. Blame — May 16, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
oh yeah The Mighty Heroes that was a weird one.
strong man, tornado man, rope man, cukoo man and diaper man.
Comment by Shayne — May 16, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
an obscure one was for HBO Spicy City (NSFW)
Comment by Shayne — May 16, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Ulysses 31, please.
(check out the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8)
Comment by Daniel — May 16, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Any chance of finding Marv Newlan’s “Pink Komkommer”? I have been searching for this oddity since I saw a brief mention of it in a book on animation years ago.
Comment by Dominic — May 16, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
Maybe this is too new, but BoingBoing posted a link to a brilliant cartoon yesterday, The Control Master - http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/the-control-master-n.html. They also include a link to the filmmaker Run Wrake’s previous film, Rabbit. Rabbit is a wonderfully twisted little film which can be seen in full on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Dxn3VWOws.
Comment by Rob C. — May 16, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
I don’t have any exact cartoon in mind, but it seems to me that the western is a genre that often goes ignored in animation (with some exceptions in anime). i’d like to see some kind of serious, non-anime animated western or future western.
or Doug.
Comment by DocSprinkl — May 16, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
when I was a kid I saw ‘quasi at the quackadero’ on pbs and it haunted me. kinda hippy but it was the 70’s.
Comment by malpertuis — May 16, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
I saw this when I was very young on Liquid Television. John R. Dilworth’s Smart Talk With Raisin.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a491ZDII-vQ
As a reminder, John R. Dilworth is best known for creating Courage The Cowardly Dog. In fact, the dog in this one is the first appearence of Courage (although he’s named differently)
Comment by Robin L. — May 16, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
we already did some choice bits of The Maxx (did we do all of that?) and The Tick; the only thing I can think of that was in that vein for me was the Nelvana run on Sam and Max. they never did a Milk and Cheese cartoon, did they? o_O;
did we run any Colorful? japanese moderately NSFW (in a softcore perv sort of way) otakugasm; replete with lace-tame upskirts, nosebleeds, lingering soft-zooms, and the other various perfunctory predilections (primarily) of prepubesence. for my money, it’s episode three or episode 15. .jp with .en subs would be ideal, but i can’t find it online in any embeddable format.
Comment by zanbowser — May 16, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
I don’t think there was a milk and cheese, but evan dorkin did do this pilot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyus5kz8wB0
Comment by malpertuis — May 16, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
I’ve been on a Jim Henson jag as of late. This is a bit derivative but…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1QSFLaAXQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sf25yvTDIe4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k1MTnwYR8Q8
Also, this is an episode apparently full of old-school videogame product placement.
Comment by Six — May 16, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Nw6TTIGAI
Comment by Katie — May 16, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
“vincent” by tim burton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQcBKUPm8o
Comment by Willis — May 17, 2008 @ 1:01 am
I mentioned Mighty Max earlier, and Qais thought it was “horrifyingly nostalgic.” But come on, I can’t be the only one who’s up for some Doomzone danger, right?
Episode 1, Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8amMbxPweU
Episode 1, Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFg3T4_Ms8
Same YouTube user seems to have a huge number of episodes, and they’re creepier than I remember.
Comment by Jay Hathaway — May 17, 2008 @ 1:07 am
I can’t remember the name of it, but it’s almost a pilot for Family Guy done by Seth McFarland several years earlier.
It had a talking dog, an idiot owner, and everything was named “Quality _____” (quality mart, etc.) and the Q’s kept falling off and killing people.
Sorry I can’t remember the name, but it was Hannah-Barbara sometime in the ’90s.
Comment by Upgrayedd — May 17, 2008 @ 1:11 am
Zanbowser requested the Tick, a brilliant show. Thus, I submit “That Moustache Feeling”, it might not be Monday, but the spirit endures.
Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Sv-BDMyOgo
Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S_RmfShVfPk&feature=related
Part 3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qB-JI98Wyjw&feature=related
Comment by Professor Robot — May 17, 2008 @ 2:24 am
animated, futuristic western? how about cowboys vs astronauts?
MK12’s History of America (part 1/4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxnixTnEGY
weird hand rotoscoped lounge singing
The Billy Nayer Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxnixTnEGY
animation by typewriter of nonsense talk
Primiti Too Taa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcrTzPAUqic
speaking of The Tick, two favorite episodes: The Tick vs The Uncommon Cold (with none other than James “Desert Fox” Mason as Thrackerzog):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNPBtkfytB0
and The Tick vs The Tick, featuring the misunderstood Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight - this guy has the best mutterings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9QXVFZGZI
and, i’m certain my tastes are not everyone’s, but could we eschew anything from the lame studios of the 70s and 80s? no Hanna-Barbera, no Filmation. Scooby-Doo and He-man were teh suhk. there may have been some quality work from these studios, but i couldn’t tell.
~H.
Comment by Haux — May 17, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
oop!
pasted the wrong link for Billy Nayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2G9AsEWTbU
Comment by Haux — May 17, 2008 @ 3:08 pm