Back to School (Part 13)
Pencils down. Those of you who have reached this stage may consider yourself as achieving a passing grade. Class dismissed!
Pencils down. Those of you who have reached this stage may consider yourself as achieving a passing grade. Class dismissed!
We’ve had ourselves a good long workout, and now is the time for winding down.
To quote Honest John from UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot, “Ipso facto. Status quo. I rest my case.”
To celebrate my 300th installment of Suspended Animation, I am briefly returning to my original format.
This time we continue with more opportunities for early 90s TV cartoon characters to impersonate other superheroes – up, up and away!
Bob Hope has been caricatured several times in animation, most notably in cartoons distributed by Paramount where Hope did several live-action comedies. Here’s a checklist.
When Miles Laboratories released Flintstones Chewable Vitamins in 1968, there were Fred, Wilma, Barney, Bamm Bamm, Pebbles, Dino and Fred’s car but no Betty.
“Cats Don’t Dance was supervised by no less than eight executives in its lifetime, several of whom would have rather ironed Chris Farley’s underwear than make an animated movie.”
Somethin’s Cookin’ is the official name of the animation short film that opens the movie 1988 ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’. But very few viewers will notice all the ACME products therein.
Anecdotes today include quotes about the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse segment featuring clay animation of a little blonde girl named Penny, who had pennies for her eyes.