Welcome to Ectomo’s 33rd Mostly-Weekly Saturday Morning Cartoons Show. Today we present to you a smorgasbord of delectable animated dishes; a smattering of drama, horror, humor, and vintage erotica served up steaming hot for your enjoyment. So sit back, relax, and prepare to have you senses assaulted with ‘toonage!.

• Don Hertzfeldt. welcomes you to the show!

• Transformers: “”More Than Meets the Eye Parts 1-3″. Over an hour of thinly veiled toy commercials masquerading as a children’s cartoon. Learn how the Autobots and the Decepticons came to Earth and which plastic and die-cast metal action figure to beg for! Seriously though, while the cartoon doesn’t hold up particularly well and while it is just a glorified toy commercial, I still can’t shake my love for Transformers.

• Comedian Louis C.K. uses animation to explore some of his father issues.

• Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure: A piece of animation history; the first pornographic cartoon. Rumor is that it was made for a private party in honor of the great Windsor McKay and that such visionaries as Max Fleischer and the Mutt and Jeff studio were involved.

• The Real Ghostbusters: “The Boogieman Cometh”. One of my favorite episodes of this show, the design for the Boogieman is just brilliant, his oversized head, replete with glass-shard like teeth, and cloven hooves makes for a great image.

• Intermission, by Don Hertzfeldt.

• Welcome To Eltingville: “Bring me the Head of Boba Fett”. The first and only episode of this cartoon based on Evan Dorkin’s Eisner-Award-winning “Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club” published in the pages of Dork. Featuring four gentleman — Bill Dickey, Josh Levy, Pete DiNunzio, and Jerry Stokes — who are friends of a fashion, but geeks to the fullest. In this episode a battle erupts over the ownership of a Boba Fett figurine and hilarity thus ensues. Cameo by MC Chris, which I’m pretty sure was a prerequisite for [adult swim] cartoons for a while.

• Paranoia Agent: “The Holy Warrior”. Detectives Ikari and Maniwa interrogate Lil’ Slugger who confuses his realities and believes that the world around him is a medieval-style RPG while his quest is to defeat the evil Gouma who possesses other people to fight. Ikari and Maniwa follows Lil’ Slugger through his “journey” and see that it does coincide with all of the attacks — all except for Tsukiko Sagi. However, Lil’ Slugger points the detectives to where the old lady is who may posses the truth.

• The end of the show, by Don Hertzfeldt.

Saturday Morning Cartoons XXXIII: Action Figures And Porn Edition [YouTube]

Mike DiPetrillo has been a good buddy of mine since I noticed his AIM name, listed on Threadless (where he was responsible for one of their most popular designs) was a line from an extremely obscure song by an extremely obscure band. We bonded instantly over our superior taste in music, then discovered we lived in the same city. One bubble tea and horror movie later, we were budskis.

But I only did it because I knew, one day, I’d be physically close enough to one of Mike’s exquisite paintings that I’d be able to grab it and run. He’d invite me over for a few rounds of Bomberman and hummus (this is what people do in Seattle for fun), and I’d burgle the shit out of him.

Those Ectomites in Seatown tonight will have their chance to make good on my threats. Mike is having some sort of psychedelic art show at a cafe in the University District. He is claiming that his paintings will actually glow in the haughty dimness of the venue. Observe:

Event Info
Name: STAR SHOW
Tagline: Sit around and look at glow in the dark paintings while being a fucking snob

Host: Mike DiPetrillo
Type: Music/Arts - Exhibit

Time and Place
Date: Friday, December 7, 2007
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Solstice Cafe
Street: 4116 University Way NE
City/Town: Seattle, WA

Contact Info
Phone: 425.941.3455
Email: mikeatron@gmail.com

The strange occurrences of globsters.

Ambiguous Washed-Up Carcasses [The Lord Geekington] : Quiddity

A forum image set combining my two favorite things: sex with dragons and sex with cars. Not safe for work, but I’m unapologetically posting one of the images on the front page with the assumption that your boss’s brain will be staggered by the non-computable juxtaposition of gooey dragon erections and ricer tailpipes if he happens to glance over your shoulder.

Pictures of dragons having sex with cars [B9 Board] : Thanks, Lucas!