Saturday Morning Cartoons XXX: Not-Pornographic-Enough Edition

If my Roman numerology is correct, today’s SMC is indeed XXX, dictating a theme even before I start typing in “bugs bunny crossdressing” into YouTube (surprisingly few results). These cartoons are probably too hot for office viewing, so beware.

1. Spicy City Episode 1: “Love is a Download”, recommended by Shayne
Ralph Bakshi has always offended me with his goopy, off-model, lackadaisiacal approach to cartooning. All style to which he lays claim is copied hamhandedly from the artists unfortunate enough to work with him (see Wizards [Vaughn Bode’s art] and Fire and Ice [Frank Frazetta]). I offer this here more as a historical monument to mediocrity, than anything. Also, tits.

2. Colorful Episode 2, recommended by zanbowser
Colorful appears to be an anime series devoted entirely to tableaux lampooning the Japanese national pastime: sexual perversion. A parade of microstories, more like three-panel strips than anything, depict hideously hard-up men transfixed by panties, bras, buttons, unbuttons, bicycle seats, and other items which seem strange in our publicly pornographic Western context.

3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - “The Ink and Paint Club”
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - “I’m Just Drawn That Way”
Jessica Rabbit is probably the first lady that comes to mind when someone says “sexy cartoon”, and these scenes are the ones that made her an icon. To this day, I keep “Why Don’t You Do Right” on hand (and in mind) as a last-minute audition piece, karaoke song, or party trick. Though my favorite performance in the first scene is actually by Betty Boop, voiced at the time by an aging Mae Questal, still as boop-a-doop as ever. It always hurt me a little to see Betty serving drinks to the riffraff, while Jess chewed the scenery in a slinky slip.

5. Tex Avery’s “Red Hot Riding Hood”, suggested by Mordred
Tex had a winning formula, and he stuck to it: put a redhead with gamine gams in a skimpy outfit, a little song, a little dance, a little cross-species sexual harassment.

6. Tex Avery’s “Little Rural Riding Hood”
See above.

7. Pepe le Pew in “Wild Over”
The smell of LOVE.

8. Cartoon Sushi - “Science Fact: Fish Have No Memory”
In closing, something I thought was hilarious when I was eleven years old and actually watched MTV (and MTV was worth watching).