#looney Christmas tales

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A Jolly Good Fellow “Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Carol” (1979)

[bunnelbaby]

With the winter season upon us, here is a list of miscellaneous specials to help you get in the spirit of the holidays.

❆ Olive the Other Reindeer

❆ Santa Claus is Coming to Town

❆ Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

❆ Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

❆ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

❆ Wild Kratts A Creature Christmas

❆ Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

❆ Blue’s Clues: Blue’s Holiday Adventures with Josh (Compilation)

❆ Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah

❆ Elena of Avalor: Festival of Lights!

❆ The Magic School Bus: Holiday Special

❆ A Rugrats Kwanzaa

❆ Sesame Street: Kwanzaa

❆ Dinosaur Train: Don’s Winter Wish/Festival of Lights

❆ The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas!

❆ Miffy and Friends Winter episodes

❆ The First Snow of Winter

❆ Postman Pat’s Christmas Special

❆ Maisy the Mouse (Miscellaneous)

❆ Kipper and the Igloo/Kipper and the Snowy Day/The Big Freeze/Tiger’s Sled/Christmas Eve

❆ Jack Frost

❆ Nanalan: First Snow

❆ Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theater: The Year Scroogenip Swiped Christmas

❆ Hello Kitty Santa’s Missing Hat

❆ Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

❆ The Nutcracker: Starring Elmo & Tango (Sesame Street)

❆ Little Bear - Snowball Fight/Winter Solstice/Snowbound

❆ Max & Ruby - Max’s Christmas/Ruby’s Snow Queen/Max’s Rocket Run

❆ Elmo’s World: Happy Holidays!

❆ Frosty the Snowman

❆ Franklin’s Magic Christmas

❆ A Muppet Family Christmas

❆ Sid the Science Kid: Sid’s Holiday Adventure

❆ Scooby Doo Haunted Holidays

❆ Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas

❆ An All Dogs Christmas Carol

❆ Super Why!: Twas the Night Before Christmas

❆ The Snowman

❆ The Snowman and the Snow Dog

❆ Father Christmas

❆ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Snowflake Day

❆ The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree

❆ Barbie in A Christmas Carol

❆ Care Bears The Nutcracker

❆ A Garfield Christmas

[oldshowbiz]

1980.

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales.

[christinafurby]

The following is Spanky's list of his favorite Christmas movies

1-Santa Claus & Katya Rodriguez

2-Batman Returns.

3-Home Alone.

4-Looney Tunes-Bah Humduck.

5-A Charlie Brown Christmas.

6-The Polar Express.

7-Elf.

8-A Christmas Bounty.

9-Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

10-Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale.

A great list. I'll definitely have to make an attempt to watch the list in the next holiday season! Or at least some point during winter ☃️❄️ tonight I'll be watching "the Night Before" in tradition since it's Christmas night 😇

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Top 25 Christmas Films (5-1) (2024 Update)

5. Klaus (2019)

The only film of my top 5 that came out past the 60’s, Klaus came out in 2019 and was instantly a Christmas classic. Essentially a “Santa Claus origin story”, Klaus is a heartwarming and humorous tale about the healing power of doing good. But it’s not just the story; every part of Klaus is perfectly put together. The voice acting is phenomenal across the board. The score swells with the emotional moments and compliments the humour well. And the animation, the animation is on another level. It’s traditional 2D animation, but through volumetric lightning and unique textures it has a 3D effect, despite being entirely 2D. It’s a work of art that shows the effort put in by the whole crew to create something with interesting shots, beautiful images, and spectacular performances. You are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t sit down and enjoy this new Christmas classic.

4. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)

You know the song. Everyone knows the song. And you probably know the movie too, since it’s played year after year. And for good reason. Rather than just being a simple retelling, the animation expands the story to include catchy songs, fun side-characters, and a solid plot about who Rudolph was and how he came to save Christmas. In rewatching, I’ve realized one of the reasons why this film is engrossing is because the story is Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”. Rudolph faces challenges, heads out into The Unknown, and returns after growing; it’s a classic story formula that we come back to because it works. Animation-wise, the stop-motion puppet work has an ageless quality to it, always endearing to watch. It’s a timeless animation that will endure, snowy winter after snowy winter.

3. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Much like Rudolph before, there’s an ageless quality to A Charlie Brown Christmas. Of all the M. Schulz Peanuts animations, this is the one that lives in my head. The iconic opening, the dance scene, Snoopy’s humour side gags, the songs, and the warm, cheery feeling when watching is hard to beat. Apparently its jazz soundtrack, child voice actors, and lack of a laugh track were unconventional choices in the 60’s, but I can’t imagine this any other way. It’s timeless in the simple designs, slow but comfortable story, and exploration of the feeling of Christmas. It may be slow, but it knows to take its time, making something comfortable and warm to return to. There’s not really anything negative I have to say about this animated special.

2. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

It was a bit of a toss up for me between Charlie Brown and this one. Between the two, this one is the one I prefer for Christmas Eve. Boris Karloff’s voice is perfect for both the narration and The Grinch, and the rest of the cast fit the whimsical Whos. Credit must also go to Thurl Ravenscroft as the bass vocalist for the iconic "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". This half-hour animation is lively, hilarious, and all these years later, still a blast to watch. And that’s no surprise, since it was directed by Chuck Jones, aka, the man responsible for some of the best Looney Tunes animations. The story is simple but engaging, and Dr. Seuss’ eye-catching, wild designs help to keep everything fun to watch. The Grinch is as much a staple of Christmas as reindeer, presents, or stockings by the fire.

1. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Perhaps the classic Christmas movie to end all classics, 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street is sentimental, smart, silly, and a delight to watch. All of the cast is fantastic, with special shout-outs to Natalie Wood’s natural, sweet performance and Edmund Gwenn's spectacular turn as Kris Kringle, which won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He’s jolly, kind, a bit mischievous, and a joy to watch. He really makes you believe, or want to believe, that he is Santa Claus. The script is solid, never feeling flabby and always keeping your attention. It’s got comedy and heart in equal measure, and its sentimental message is not overdone, perhaps best showcased in the courtroom scene. That scene has stayed with me since viewing it. It’s not just a classic because of its age, but because it is smartly written, timelessly funny, and fully heartwarming. It’s a special type of Christmas magic.

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Termite Terrace Club - November 27th

1948 - Riff Raffy Daffy - Dir. Arthur Davis

1954 - My Little Duckaroo - Dir. Chuck Jones

TV

1979 - Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales (“Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Carol” / “Freeze Frame” / “The Fright Before Christmas”)

1993 - Taz-Mania: “Feed a Cold” / “Sidekick for a Day”

2012 - The Looney Tunes Show Season 2: “It’s a Handbag”

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Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Rated PG for action/violence, rude humor/language, and some scary moments

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2023/12/review-puss-in-boots-last-wish-2022.html>

Score: 5 out of 5

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a movie I missed last year, which made it kind of annoying to hear so many people praising it to the heavens as one of the best animated films in years, not least of all because I'm the kind of guy who does not like spoilers. Flying down to Florida just in time to share a house with three little kids over Christmas break gave me the perfect opportunity to check it out, and the only thing I'm disappointed about is not seeing it sooner. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or have any pretensions of being a particularly revelatory movie, but it's still an outstandingly well-put-together one in everything from the animation to the characters to the humor to the mayhem. Putting it side-by-side with Shrek, the film that put DreamWorks Animation in the spotlight and which this one is a sequel to a spinoff of, shows just how much the studio has evolved in the twenty-plus years since then, going from mischievous, Looney Tunes-esque pop culture spoofs with barbs aimed directly at Disney to a kind of family-friendly, character-driven adventure comedy that's clearly inspired by the Mouse but still has enough unique style and dramatic edge to stand out. I don't really have much to add to the conversation on this one except to say that it's easily one of the best films that DreamWorks has ever made, especially given what I thought of the movie they released just eight months before this, and one that I expect to stick around as a classic just like Shrek itself.

Set in a fantasy/fairy-tale version of Spain, our eponymous protagonist is an intelligent cat who has exploited his nine lives to become an adventurer who doesn't fear death... at least, not until he loses his eighth life thanks to his carelessness fighting a monster attacking a town. Suddenly, he no longer feels so invincible, especially once he encounters a mysterious wolf bounty hunter who seeks to claim his ninth and final life after watching him squander his previous eight. Going into retirement in an elderly cat lady's home after burying his sword and gear, Puss is dragged back to the world of adventure when Goldilocks, the thuggish leader of the Three Bears Crime Family (guess who her "enforcers" are), seeks to hire him to find the Wishing Star, a magical rock that would grant one wish to whoever discovers it -- and she won't take no for an answer. Puss decides that this star is his key to regaining his nine lives, and with help from an old flame named Kitty Softpaws, he sets out to find it himself, staying one step ahead of Goldilocks, the evil businessman "Big" Jack Horner who wants it for his own ends, and of course, the Wolf.

The look of the film is one of the most immediately striking things about it. While it's not the first film to use cel shading to make computer animation emulate the look of hand-drawn animation while being distinct from both (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines did something similar recently), it's going for a different set of influences than those films, its look instead resembling a mix of the fairy tale artwork that the Shrek movies have always spoofed and anime in the action scenes. The settings feel lifted almost from a highly stylized painting or storybook, while the action looks downright sublime, the film's characters doing battle, chasing one another, and facing various treacherous foes on their quest for the Wishing Star in all manner of awesome ways. Even as cats, Puss and Kitty came across as credible and cool adventure heroes, especially with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Pinault leaning heavily into their live-action screen personas, Banderas playing Puss as a riff on Zorro where the only real "parody" element comes from his species and Hayek playing Kitty as the cool femme fatale who has history with the hero that they'll inevitably have to settle. Florence Pugh was hilarious doing her best gender-flipped Ray Winstone impression as Goldilocks, especially with the real Winstone himself voicing one of the three bears (alongside Olivia Colman and Samson Kayo), while John Mulaney made Horner into an absolute bastard who I couldn't wait to see get his well-deserved comeuppance. At first glance, with three separate groups of characters all racing for the Wishing Star, this film can feel sprawling, and yet it always manages to tie these three stories together in a way that feels organic.

The key to doing this was the Wolf. From the moment we're introduced to him, he's presented as a metaphorical representation of death itself, an impossibly skilled fighter who trounces and nearly kills Puss in their first encounter and who is seemingly unstoppable from that point onward, every meeting he has with Puss feeling like it could be their last. The film's comedy stops dead cold whenever the whistling announcing his arrival starts up, Wagner Moura's performance lending him an almost demonic menace without going over-the-top into cackling supervillainy. He is one of the best villains I've seen in any animated film in a long while, a no-nonsense monster whose evil combines the most terrifying elements of an unstoppable force of nature and somebody who hates you personally, the closest thing that a family film could come to an outright slasher movie villain. There have been many jokes made about this film having one of the most realistic depictions of a panic attack in any animated film, but watching it, it was no joke: I understood immediately how this guy completely disarmed Puss' suave, arrogant demeanor and left him a trembling wreck running for his life. The Wolf wasn't just scary, he was a perfect villain for Puss, a representation of how his wasted life is finally catching up with him, and watching Puss reach a place where he can finally confront the Wolf and turn the tables on him was immeasurably satisfying.

From this, we get a fairly simple moral that largely boils down to a celebration of living life to the fullest rather than either wasting it on hedonism or remaining stuck in an idealized past. It's nothing revolutionary, but not only is it exactly the kind of thing that the fairy tales this movie is sending up have long embraced, it's well-told enough that I fully bought into it. If the original Shrek was a deconstructive parody of fairy tales that sent up their moral messages while offering a few of its own, then this film serves largely as a more faithful, straightforward throwback to them, amped up with a swashbuckling action/adventure plot and some jokes for the parents but otherwise falling squarely within the modern, post-Kung Fu Panda DreamWorks wheelhouse.

The Bottom Line

It's a very straightforward movie once you get past the stylish animation, but hardly to a fault, as it's still a riotous, heartfelt, and just plain awesome ride that delivers exactly where it counts and doesn't overstay its welcome. Easily one of the best family films of the last ten years.

[an-darth-maiden]

Introducing myself and giving an explanation.

Hi everyone! 🙋🏻‍♀️

My name is Ana, but you can call me An or Annie.

I'm Mexican.🇲🇽

I like many things like animals, read history, classic novels, esoteric stuff and magic, manga, watch anime, belly dance, music, tv shows and movies, videogames.

Some of my favorite things are:

Animals like felines and canines (ALL OF THEM!), bats, hummingbirds, crows, rabbits, bears.

History:Ancient Egypt (everything about that time), and other historical periods (Middle ages, Ilustration era, Victorian era).

About the cultures of my country I love the Aztec (Mexica) culture, Mayan culture, Toltec culture and others.

My favorite books are:

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Other books I love that are on Spanish are "Cuentos de la selva" (Jungle tales) by Horacio Quiroga

"El Diosero" by Francisco Rojas González .

About the Esoteric stuff, I'm a Tarot and Oracle reader, I learn and practice Reiki, I love quartz, rocks and minerals for spiritual, magic and therapeutic uses, talismans and charms, candles, dowsing with pendulum, astrology.

Anime I like Yu-Gi-Oh, InuYasha, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Card captor Sakura, Record of Ragnarok, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z (just to mention a few).

I'm not a belly dancer, but I really enjoy belly dance (oriental dance). I practice at home by the moment. I hope I could go to a dance academy someday.

I like the Egyptian style. Particularly, the Golden era period. Some of my favorite dancers are Souhair Zaki, Samia Gamal, Tahiya Carioca.

Music: I like the music of the past century, specially since the 70's till 90's. I like disco and funk, classic rock, hard rock, glam metal, heavy metal, but also the New Wave or Pop music.

My favorite singer is Michael Jackson.

And my favorite band is Guns N ' Roses.

Tv shows and Movies I watch a lot. I like animated shows and movies, action and superhero, some comedies, medical drama, police drama, supernatural shows.

My favorite films are Alice in wonderland (animated and Tim Burton's version), The Prince of Egypt, Beauty and the Beast, The Mummy and The Mummy returns, Hitch, School of Rock, The Nightmare before Christmas, Sam Raimi's Spiderman films, Star Wars franchises.

My favorite shows are Looney tunes, Powerpuff girls, Arrow , Friends, The Big Bang Theory, House M.D , E.R, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, White collar, Supernatural, Charmed.

This last year, I've been watching a lot of K-drama. I'm really enjoying it.

Videogames like Castlevania ( I like both, videogames and the Netflix TV shows), Halo, Mortal Kombat, Devil May Cry for example.

I had a Tumblr account with the same name before. It was fully dedicated as a fan blog of Castlevania. Many of the things that I had were some of my silly memes about Castlevania Netflix (most of them about Alucard).

I deleted the account because I was very inactive here and I felt a little bit limited by just post about Castlevania.

Sometimes I reblogged the nice drawings of friends that are here, sometimes I shared about ancient Egyptian history, but not so often.

After deleting the account, I didn't feel well about leave this place, so, I decided to create an account and start all over again.

I want to use this place to connect with people that enjoy the same things that I do.

So, I hope find again the cool friends who are still here, but at the same time, find new friends.

With the time, I'll be re-posting the material of Castlevania that I posted before, just in case there's someone interested.

For the last, I want to share some pictures of my favorite things.

Thanks for your attention.

🙏🏻✨

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Lately, I've been enjoying a little documentary called ROTTEN: BEHIND THE FOODFIGHT.

Put together by Ziggy Cashmere, who cobbled together the great book DRAWING FOR NOTHING, it's an hour-long and wild look at the making of an infamous animated travesty. A troubled production of epic proportions...

Strangely, this thing is like the anti-THIEF AND THE COBBLER. Their basic production storylines have a very similar turning point, which is all kinds of wild. They also took forever to come out in some form.

The stark difference is, of course, the sheer prowess of THIEF AND THE COBBLER director Richard Williams and the utter incompetence of FOODFIGHT! director Larry Kasanoff.

Richard Williams initially got onboard a doomed animated adaptation of Arabian Nights folklore in the late 1960s, the stories of a particular character named Nasruddin. When that all fell out in the early 1970s, Williams took the characters he came up with for that picture - such as the titular thief - and started his own Arabian Nights-inspired dream tale... And self-funded this passion project throughout the 1970s and into the mid 1980s, directing so many commercials and the occasional bigger project in-between. It was his impressive, comprehensive reel and his direction on WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT's animation that landed him a Warner Bros. gig, who were at the time trying to get more committed to making feature animation in the wake of Disney's newfound success and the rise of Don Bluth.

Williams, unfortunately, missed the deadline for completing THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER. Williams had a history of not completing films on time, such as his Oscar-winning A CHRISTMAS CAROL adaptation and the 1977 film RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE, and with THIEF, he was very deep into it. He also, unusually, didn't do any storyboards for the film. A method that he was said to have found "too controlling". When it came time to show a rough cut of the film, they had to force him to get storyboards done and fill in the 15 minutes of gaps. Another story details how he liked a particular scene, and had the crew extend it, and extend it again, regardless of runtime and pace. Williams himself likened his process to working away at a painting or a pot, like an old master craftsman. Laboriously making fine art, but as a film... which isn't the most conducive way of doing things when your animated film - with promotional deals and marketing in place - is expected to be completed within a deadline. It did, however, make for such incomprehensibly amazing visuals that continue to *floor* me to this day.

By contrast, Kasanoff didn't know anything about making animated features, and couldn't be bothered with storyboards. He thought you could just go about it as if it were a live-action film... If FOODFIGHT! was conceived this decade and was being "made" right now? Larry would absolutely have tried using AI to do it. That's more or less the attitude he had when he shifted the production to being a motion-capture film, after a few slow years of it being a CG film with Looney Tunes-esque slapstick, with squash-and-stretch movements.

Both films were made at studios founded/owned by their directors. Richard Williams Animation Ltd., and Threshold Animation... and both films were seized by insurance companies, companies in the movie industry that are meant to step in when a film misses its deadline.

In THIEF's case, it was... The Completion Bond Company. They took the film from Williams and most of his crew in May 1992 after a disastrous screening of the workprint, and with the looming release of Disney's very similar ALADDIN later that year. Handing it to TV animation veteran Fred Calvert, the company's mandate was to have the film finished quickly and cheaply... Ironically, it took Calvert til September 1993 to "finish" the film. After a year and a half of re-imagining most of it, cutting a lot of stuff, giving mute character Tack a voice, adding musical numbers, and animating a bunch of new stuff...

That version of THIEF was damaged goods, and few wanted to release it. It didn't help that ALADDIN had been out for a while at that point. It got out, as THE PRINCESS AND THE COBBLER, in Australia and South Africa. A Philippines release around this time kept the original title... Miramax, owned by Disney, acquired U.S. distribution rights at the end of 1994 and Harvey Scissorhands butchered it even further, and that was released theatrically as ARABIAN KNIGHT in summer 1995... And then on video as THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER...

It's quite something how PRINCESS AND THE COBBLER and ARABIAN KNIGHT flopped and sunk into obscurity, while the original Williams film - in its incomplete form - became beloved over time. I also heard somewhere that Williams, prior to his passing, made peace with the film being incomplete. The unfinished film had garnered a fitting subtitle: A MOMENT IN TIME...

FOODFIGHT! was wrenched out of Threshold's hands by The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company after several missed release dates sometime in early 2008, and it was handed to a venue that took what was - quite frankly - a very crappy skeleton of a film with the most unpolished mo-cap and visuals... and... I guess, did what they "could" with it, as cheaply as possible. It was finished in late 2008, got an MPAA rating sometime thereafter... And sat... The Fireman's Fund even tried to auction it in late 2011, but... Nothing. Until a very limited UK theatrical (!) release in summer 2012, in addition to releases in Russia and UAE. It was a direct-to-video title here in the U.S. in early 2013... Eventually, some bottom-of-the-barrel distributor picks it up, eh?

Much like FOODFIGHT!, THIEF also has a comprehensive documentary covering its lengthy production and what had happened to it, in the form of Kevin Schreck's PERSISTENCE OF VISION, an absolute must-watch.

Sometimes I think of what would've happened had both films been finished, and in FOODFIGHT!'s case, was at least competent-looking.

THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER - when it was still under Warner Bros. - was apparently aiming for theatrical release in late 1991. This would've put it up against Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and also Amblimation's AN AMERICAN TAIL sequel FIEVEL GOES WEST. Maybe it would've vacated late 1991 and got out in early 1992, much in the same way FERNGULLY and ROCK-A-DOODLE did in the states. Any place away from a big Disney movie, at least...

How would it have done circa 1991/early 1992? That remains to be a million dollar question. THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER in its unfinished state is a work of art, a narratively outre picture, in addition to being a little more "adult" in its presentation. Small little things, like the maiden from Mombasa, some war violence, and a flagpole sticking right through a warrior's chest. Probably wouldn't have gotten a G rating, for sure. Its story quality is sometimes debated amongst animation fans, usually in such a boring binary manner, from my perspective. It's a film that defies the "conventions" of good animated feature storytelling that were somehow cemented in place by the early 1990s by the Disney Renaissance favorites, thus I feel it tends to have that "well, the story meanders and it wasn't very good" nonsense slapped at it... when it's a picture operating on a dream-like, lyrical plane that puts it more in line with early Disney works than BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ALADDIN. It's not an inferior nor superior form of storytelling, it's just not what American audiences have been used to over the last 35 years.

I think it would've gotten praise for its lovely animation, but mixed reviews for its idiosyncratic storytelling... And audiences probably would've been bored out of their minds watching, say, long and hazy stretches of the thief getting smacked about by polo players or trying to get up the minaret. Warner would've probably mishandled the release anyway, as they had flop after flop during that period. NUTCRACKER PRINCE, ROVER DANGERFIELD, THUMBELINA, etc. A film that absolutely, without fail would've garnered a cult following once it hit video.

FOODFIGHT!, had it been given to someone who actually **knew** how to direct an animated feature, but was still based off of the same script by Larry Kasanoff, Josh Wexler, and co.... Let's just say that it's the version from the late 1990s when protagonist Dex was still a human detective, and it was more PG-13 like it supposedly was aiming to be early on... And released in like 2001/2002... That probably would've also had trouble, I think.

Big-time Western PG-13 animated movies had it hard throughout the '90s and into the early 2000s, films such as BEBE'S KIDS and COOL WORLD. They were a rare breed, at that. Still are, even. One of the only exceptions was, well, a movie based on a very popular animated TV series: BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA. For a more original picture, no, it wasn't easy... And I'm not sure CGI would've helped this version of FOODFIGHT! much, either. It could've done okay in that regard, maybe quite a few notches below a JIMMY NEUTRON gross... It would have to depend on how the visuals looked, too. Then again, look at how HOODWINKED! did in early 2006... Reviews probably would've questioned how FOODFIGHT!'s world works and they likely would've found fault with equating a store-band takeover of a supermarket to freakin' Nazi Germany, so I'd imagine it wouldn't have gotten SHREK or MONSTERS, INC. reception. Another movie that would've probably came and went, and then went on to be a cult DVD rotation for many kids growing up in the 2000s.

THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER and FOODFIGHT! both remain fascinating for these particular reasons, even if the results are a country kilometer from one another...

[heyyoushouldexperiencethese]

GIANT REC LIST

LAST UPDATED 12/30/2024

Columbo

Bomberman Jetters

Id: Invaded

Useless Ponko

Yu-Gi-Oh (manga)

"My son is he man or beast" from action comics 400

Kagurabachi

Spy x Family

Chainsaw Man

Yotsuba

Frieren

N52 Superboy #26-34

Digimon (Especially Adventure, 02, Tamers, Savers, Appmon, & Ghost Game; for the movies, all of them aside from Tri)

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth

Marx Brothers

Get Smart (1965)

Superman vs Meshi

Detective Comics #500 "To Kill a Legend"

Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2 "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot"

Captain Atom (1987)

Bronze Age Firestorm

Legion of Superheroes

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld

Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso o Kasaneru/The boy who cried wolf tells another lie today

Hundreds of Beavers

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Maltese Falcon

Cast a deadly spell

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice Musical

Beetlejuice 2

Paper Mario

Paper Mario the thousand year door

famicom detective club (both games)

Ace Attorney 1-4 & Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

Ghost Trick

Marvelous: Another Treasure Island

Pikmin 1-4

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Kirby Planet Robobot

Kirby Triple Deluxe

Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe

Kirby's Adventure

Kirby Superstar

Dark Matter trilogy

Celeste

Batman: The Audio Adventures

Powerless (2016)

The Good Place

Arrested Development

Be Cool Scooby Doo

Sakamoto Days

El Chavo del Ocho

Chapulin Colorado

Arnold Drake's Doom Patrol

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

batman ego

Scooby Doo Team Up

The Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries

Happy Halloween Scooby Doo

Tsukumojuku (2005)

Dragon Quest

Rocket Slime

Mario & Luigi (all titles)

JoJo's bizarre adventure

Witch Hat Atelier

Pluto

Monster

John Wick 1-4

UHF

Weird Al Biopic

Little Shop of Horrors (original film & musical)

Super Friends (1976)

A series of unfortunate events (books)

All the Wrong Questions

Power Bomberman

Custom Battler Bomberman/Bomberman 2

Tatami time machine blues

The Amazing World of Gumball

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Codename Kids Next Door

Assassination Classroom

Villainous

Regular Show

The looney tunes show

Nedroid

Sonic Boom (2014)

Hector con Carne

The Book of Life

films starring cantinflas (preferably in spanish, but if you don't know spanish well)

Hourman

tear along the dotted line

this world can't tear me down

Casa de papel

Airplane

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Wayside School

Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)

Meanwhile (Comic)

Way of the Househusband

Welcome to demon school iruma kun

Infinity Train

Hilda

"The Twilight Zone" Her Pilgrim Soul/I of Newton

The Twilight Zone (Original Series)

All of Alan Brennert's comics

Villainous

Class of 3000

Rankin Bass Christmas specials (shout-out to Santa Claus is coming to town)

Moral Orel

Dungeon Meshi

Dorohedoro

Don't Blush, Sekime-san!

No gyarus in this class

the Philadelphia story

Yuri is Taboo to a Yuri Otaku

True Detective S1

Superman & the Authority

All-star Superman

Morrison's Action Comics

Morrison's Animal Man

Moore's Swamp Thing

Multiversity

Filmore!

Muppets Most Wanted

Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (specifically season 1)

Baba is You

Henry Stickmin

The Giver quartet

Bomberman Generation

Bomberman Journey

A Bomberman Journey 2023 Followup

Bomberman Battle Pack: A way too in-depth analysis

The Weird

Sam & Max series (comics games AND show)

Goodbye Eri

Only Murders in the building

Criminal

Archie's Weird Mysteries

Please Go Home, Akutsu-San!

Mousou Telepathy

Tomo Chan is a girl

Lovely Complex

Lovely Complex TWO

Shinobi Undercover

Barda

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The usual suspects

Ip Man

kiss him not me

Carole & Tuesday

Catch 22 (book)

Space Dandy

Vigilante

Dandandan

Rush Hour

What's up Doc

The cheap detective

The awful truth

charade

his girl friday

bringing up baby

your name

the afterparty

mad monster party?

Pippin

little shop of horrors (original)

sound of music

music man

singing in the rain

The great race

Artemis Fowl (main series)

Don't hug me I'm scared

ultimate exorcist kiyoshi

squid games

Dokapon kingdom

lego city undercover

Summer Wars

Culdcept Revolt

Casablanca

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

batman no man's land novelization

Ultraman Rising

“When I woke up I had become a girl” Disease

My New Wife Is Forcing Herself to Smile

She gets girls everyday

Detentionaire

Hero-san and Former General-san

the dangers in my heart

Heathers (film)

Scarface (1932)

you and i are polar opposites

the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all

Kaguya Sama love is war

We want to talk about kaguya

Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru

A Story About a Man and a Woman and When They Sleep Together, Money Appears Out of Nowhere

Nanaco Robin

The girl I like forgot her glasses

Tokimeki Academy ❤ Class of Princes

Magokoro scramble

undead unluck

the night is short walk on girl

fire punch

akane bashi

kaiju no. 08

The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length

disastrous life of saiki k

jitsu wa watashi wa/my monster secret

Boarding School Juliet

Happy Kanako's Killer Life

Romantic Cider/Romantic Drop

Phineas and Ferb

bigtop burger

pseudo harem

gravity falls

Tatami Galaxy

Kindergarten Wars

My friend Irma

A story about smoking behind the back of a supermarket

Casino

shikimori is not just cute

A Story About Treating a Female Knight, Who Has Never Been Treated as a Woman, as a Woman

Asahina Wakaba to Marumaru na kareshi

Super Secret

mob psycho 100

reigen

sublo & tangy mustard

they might be giants

weird al yankovic

saint motel

cab Calloway

St. Arnaud

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12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: Martian Successor Nadesico’s Epiphanies

t’s the year 2199. The bright future of humanity is frustrated when alien invaders unleash radioactive meteorite bombs, poisoning Earth. But a message arrives from Mars: There’s hope for salvation out there! Rebuilding the crown jewel of the Japanese Imperial Fleet, the WW2 battleship Yamato, as a spaceship, a courageous crew sets out for the stars, the tale of their adventures ultimately inspiring genre-defining series like Gundam, Harlock, and Macross and igniting the love of anime in the heart of a young Hideaki Anno, who regarded Space Battleship Yamato as his all-time favorite anime.

With glory comes emulation, inspiration, and also subversion and parody. And sometimes, the parody manages to shine an unexpected light on the original. Last year, I was considering abandoning Martian Successor Nadesico, a renowned mecha comedy from 1987 set in a Yamato-like spaceship that lovingly pokes fun at this and other beloved series by way of Looney Tunes-style craziness. (Apparently, the very name is a pun, coming from the Japanese phrase “Yamato nadeshiko.”) But then, suddenly, things got serious.

The Christmas episode connected everything: Hidden layers of the story were revealed, and I found fascinating thematic parallels with Evangelion, Gundam, and Haruhi. And also with…the origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas. That is, the feast of the Epiphany.

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Snow Summit Traction “Freeze Frame” (1979)

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This blog is dedicated to cartoons, animated movies, as well as shows and movies aimed towards kids! I made this blog simply because it’s an interest I want to talk about more without worrying about coming off as “childish” - so here’s a list of those types of media I enjoy!:

Shows

•101 Dalmatian Street

•6teen

•Adventure Time

•All Dogs Go To Heaven

•Animaniacs

•Austin And Ally

•Bee And Puppycat

•Big City Greens

•Big Hero 6

•Bluey

•Bob’s Burgers

•Captain Underpants

•Care Bears

•Chowder

•Code Name Kids Next Door

•Courage The Cowardly Dog

•Craig Of The Creek

•Danny Phantom

•Dead End Paranormal Park

•Dexter’s Laboratory

•Dinosaur Train

•Dragon Tales

•Ducktales

•Ed, Edd N Eddy

•Fairly Odd Parents

•Fetch With Ruff Ruffman

•Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends

•Garfield

•Good Luck Charlie

•Gravity Falls

•Inside Job

•Invader Zim

•Jessie

•Johnny Bravo

•Kick Buttowski

•Looney Tunes

•Mao Mao: Heroes Of Pure Heart

•Milo Murphy’s Law

•My Life As A Teenage Robot

•Ninjago

•Octonauts

•OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes

•Phineas And Ferb

•Regular Show

•Rocko’s Modern Life

•Ruby Gloom

•Rugrats

•Samurai Jack

•Scooby Doo

•She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power

•Sid The Science Kid

•Smiling Friends

•Sonic

•Steven Universe

•Tangled The Series

•Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

•Teen Titans

•The Amazing World Of Gumball

•The Fairly Odd Parents

•The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy

•The Jetsons

•The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack

•The Owl House

•The Powerpuff Girls

•The Simpsons

•Tom And Jerry

•Total Drama

•Transformers

•Voltron

•Wander Over Yonder

•We Bare Bears

•Wild Kratts

•Winx Club

•Wizards Of Waverly Place

•Word Girl

•Word World

Movies

•Anastasia

•Arriety

•Bolt

•Coco

•Coraline

•Corpse Bride

•Descendants

•Despicable Me

•Encanto

•Fantastic Mr. Fox

•Ferngully

•Hotel Transylvania

•Howl’s Moving Castle

•How To Train Your Dragon

•Inside Out

•Klaus

•Lady And The Tramp

•Megamind

•Moana

•Monster House

•Mr Peabody & Sherman

•My Neighbor Totoro

•Nimona

•Oliver & Company

•Ponyo

•Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

•Ratatouille

•Rio

•Song Of The Sea

•Spiderverse

•Spirited Away

•Tangled

•The Book Of Life

•The Incredibles

•The Iron Giant

•The Last Unicorn

•The Mitchells Vs The Machine

•The Nightmare Before Christmas

•Up

•Wreck It Ralph

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My Top 10 Favorite Direct-To-Video Movies

#10 Teen Titans GO! Vs. Teen Titans

#9 Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas

#8 Casper A Spirited Beginning

#7 Casper's Haunted Christmas

#6 Casper Meets Wendy

#5 Batman Vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

#4 Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run

#3 We Bare Bears The Movie

#2 Tom And Jerry: Blast Off To Mars

And #1 Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo

Honorable Mentions: The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog, Craig Before the Creek, Rugrats Tales from the Crib: Three Jacks and a Beanstalk, Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, Rugrats Tales from the Crib: Snow White, As Told by Ginger: The Wedding Frame, The Loud House Movie, No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

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Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans Belongs To Bob Haney, Bruno Premiani, Glen Murakami, David Slack, Sam Register, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Marly Halpern-Graser, Jeremy Adams, Snipple Animation Studios Inc. DC Comics, Inc. DC Studios, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas Belongs to Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Dick Lundy, Art Babbitt, Frank Webb, Charlie Cohen, Thomas Hart, Scott Gorden, Tom Nance, Carter Crocker, Richard Cray, Temple Mathews, Eddie Guzelian, Studio Basara, Disney Animation Canada, Inc. Disney Animation (Japan) Inc. Disney Television Animation, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Platform Distribution, Inc. Disney Entertainment, Disney Enterprises Inc. And The Walt Disney Company

Casper: A Spirited Beginning Belongs To Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo, Jymn Magon, Thomas Hart, Thomas McCluskey, Rob Kerchner, Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Inc. Harvey Comics, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Films, Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company, Classic Media, LLC, Entertainment Rights PLC, DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, Universal Studios, Inc. NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, Saban Entertainment, Inc. BVS Entertainment, Inc. ABC Family Worldwide, FOX Family Worldwide Inc. FOX International Channels, FOX Networks Group, FOX Entertainment Group, FOX Entertainment, FOX Corporation, Disney General Entertainment Content, FOX Family Films, FOX Animation Studios, 20th Century Animation, Inc. 20th Century Studios, Inc. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Platform Distribution, Inc. Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company

Casper's Haunted Christmas Belongs to Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo, Ian Boothby, Roger Fredericks, Mainframe Entertainment, Rainmaker Entertainment, Rainmaker Studios, Mainframe Studios, WOW! Unlimited Media Inc. Kartoon Studios, Inc. Harvey Comics, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Films, Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company, Classic Media, LLC, Entertainment Rights PLC, DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Studio Distribution Services, LLC, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, Universal Studios, Inc. NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, And Comcast Corporation

Casper Meets Wendy Belongs To Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo, Steve Mufatti, Jymn Magon, Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Inc. Harvey Comics, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Films, Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company, Classic Media, LLC, Entertainment Rights PLC, DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, Universal Studios, Inc. NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, Saban Entertainment, Inc. BVS Entertainment, Inc. ABC Family Worldwide, FOX Family Worldwide Inc. FOX International Channels, FOX Networks Group, FOX Entertainment Group, FOX Entertainment, FOX Corporation, Disney General Entertainment Content, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, Inc. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Platform Distribution, Inc. Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Belongs To Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, James Tynion IV, Freddie Williams II, Marly Halpern-Graser, DR Movie Co., Ltd. IDW Publishing, Idea and Design Works, LLC, IDW Media Holdings, Inc. Mirage Studios, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Nickelodeon Productions, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Group, Nickelodeon Networks Inc. Paramount Kids and Family Group, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Paramount International Networks, Paramount Domestic Media Networks, Paramount Media Networks, Inc. Viacom International Inc. Paramount Global, DC Comics, Inc. DC Studios, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run Belongs To Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, Rachel Ramras, Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

We Bare Bears The Movie Belongs To Daniel Chong, Christina Chang, Alex Chiu, Manny Hernandez, Yvonne Hsuan Ho, Quinne Larsen, Sang Yup Lee, Sooyeon Lee, Charlie Parisi, Lauren Sassen, Sarah Sobole, Louie Zong, Mikey Heller, Kris Mukai, Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd. Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Bill Kopp, Toon City Animation Inc. Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo Belongs To Bob Haney, Bruno Premiani, Glen Murakami, David Slack, Sam Register, DongWoo Animation Co. Ltd. Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, DC Comics, Inc. DC Studios, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Let's look at the answers.

#1 is Dell Four Color Comics #177. This was an anthology title, with random issues containing anything from Roy Rogers as pictured here to My Favorite Martian to Little Lulu to Looney Tunes. The next issue of Four Color Comics featured Donald Duck, in “Christmas on Bear Mountain”, with the debut of Uncle Scrooge McDuck.

#2 is Journey Into Mystery #82. This was an EC-like fantasy/sci-fi morality tale and monsters anthology from Marvel Comics (recently changed from Atlas). This was early in the Marvel Age of comics, and the next issue featured the debut of Thor, the God of Thunder.

#3 is Detective Comics #26. This title was the eponym of DC Comics, and the next issue of course featured the debut of Batman.

#4 is New Mutants #97 from the pre-Image era of Marvel. The art of Rob Liefeld on his second-most-famous creation Cable is unmistakeable, which led to everyone recognizing this. The next issue featured the debut of Deadpool.

#5 is All-American Comics #15. The science-fiction character prominently features here is Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man, who would be shoved off next issue by the debut of Green Lantern (Alan Scott).

#6 is Amazing Adult Fantasy #14, a failing Marvel anthology title similar to Journey Into Mystery. The next issue underwent a title change to Amazing Fantasy, in an effort to not drive away the kids, and then was immediately canceled – but it featured the debut of Spider-Man.

One note on Hulk – Hulk’s title, like Thor, spun out of a renamed anthology title (as did Iron Man's). But that’s not the first appearance for Hulk. Hulk first appeared in Hulk #1, a title which was swiftly canceled with #6. Spinning out of guest appearances in other titles, Hulk was revived in Tales to Astonish.

I've been watching Um Actually on Dropout (catching up from the beginning), and I've been writing some of my own questions as writing practice. It's harder than it looks. I've been confining myself to comics (and comics-adjacent) questions, because that's my particular area of nerdistry.

Today I wrote my first "Shiny Question", and I am reasonably proud of it, so you guys get to see it.

Um Actually Shiny Question #1

Now we come to our first shiny question. Shiny questions are just like shiny pokemon – a little fancier, a little more rare, but worth exactly the same.

This game is called “Prequel (Question Mark?)”. Below you find pictured six comic book covers from which I’ve attempted to remove titles, issue numbers, and other identifying characteristics. Each issue is the issue before a famous comic book character debuted. Your job is to identify that famous character. The person who identifies the most correct characters will get the point.

When you've made your selections, please talk us through your thought process!

If you examine the pixels, you will see exactly how terrible I am at art, so please don't.

[azazel-dreams]

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

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