Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

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Steamboat_Bill said:
It's a Christmas tradition at my house. Or at least I'm trying to make it one. Never mind it takes place at New Year's...
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Well, it's a holiday thing, I could just lump it in with Christmas since both days fall pretty close to each other anyway.
 
Trilby said:
Well, it's a holiday thing, I could just lump it in with Christmas since both days fall pretty close to each other anyway.
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It's really only nitpicking anyhow, though I haven't actually been able to get anyone to watch it. (I know, right? Who wouldn't want to watch something that ends in death?)
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
It's really only nitpicking anyhow, though I haven't actually been able to get anyone to watch it. (I know, right? Who wouldn't want to watch something that ends in death?)
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It could turn some people off I'm sure.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
So what? They're a bunch of babies. The damn thing is probably the Mintz-era Columbia studio's magnum opus. It's a finely realized, well-made adaptation of its original story that would do its author proud. It's a shame nobody knows about it.
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True. Of course when Sony tried to air this as part of it's "Totally Tooned In" program that was put out back around '99, they had stripped out the original ending I recall. These days they could place this and other classics on a streaming site if they aren't committed to pressing out discs at all (or license them to someone else like Shout! Factory, which did a fine job on Mr. Magoo I've heard).
 
Trilby said:
True. Of course when Sony tried to air this as part of it's "Totally Tooned In" program that was put out back around '99, they had stripped out the original ending I recall. These days they could place this and other classics on a streaming site if they aren't committed to pressing out discs at all (or license them to someone else like Shout! Factory, which did a fine job on Mr. Magoo I've heard).
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I'd actually heard about Totally Tooned In - at least they remastered a lot of the classic Columbia cartoons for that one and gave them a new lease on life... of sorts.

But I'm not happy to find that they cut the whole guts out of the cartoon. A big part of the story is the fact that the protagonist dies, after all. ...Oh well. Whatever gets them out there.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
I'd actually heard about Totally Tooned In - at least they remastered a lot of the classic Columbia cartoons for that one and gave them a new lease on life... of sorts.

But I'm not happy to find that they cut the whole guts out of the cartoon. A big part of the story is the fact that the protagonist dies, after all. ...Oh well. Whatever gets them out there.
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I'm sure it was out of Jerry Beck's hands there.
 
Johnny Bravo did it better.

I wish someone called in and asked about pork rinds (just to see if Dan remembers).
 
Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum...


And somehow, the same guys made another TV movie that looked just like this, and Mark Hamill is in both of them!
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
And the voices of Ariel and Belle are in this one, too... We all make bad decisions, I guess.

(Have the guys at TheAnnotatXperiment gotten to this one?)

EDIT: They did. (@Jewelsmakerguy, you in this one?)
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Yeh, look for the lemon yellow text boxes (Just forewarning you, it's kinda hard to read with the white backgrounds). I added a few other ones too.

Still, I can't believe how this got onto national TV. And that the voice of Bart Simpson actually co-produced it.
 
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
Yeh, look for the lemon yellow text boxes (Just forewarning you, it's kinda hard to read with the white backgrounds). I added a few other ones too.

Still, I can't believe how this got onto national TV. And that the voice of Bart Simpson actually co-produced it.
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That is really puzzling someone from the network didn't take a look at this and simply said "No!" Were they that desperate for a holiday special of any significance?
 
Trilby said:
That is really puzzling someone from the network didn't take a look at this and simply said "No!" Were they that desperate for a holiday special of any significance?
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I guess? Honestly, I'd love to know myself.
 
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