15 posts tagged “cartoon”

okay so i'm obsessed with the cartoon avatar, i've talked about it here before. my friend yami just sent me this fan vid of the latest episode and clips from the next season. it's now book three! i'm like officially shitting my pants...i can't wait for this season!!!!!!

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this week's pick is COUNT DUCKULA!!!!!!!!!! i remember watching this show on nickelodeon when i was staying at my grandma's house for the summer (we didn't have cable at our house). i actually find myself getting into it a lot more now then i did as a child. probably because i was slightly afraid of count duckula as a child!

for those that don't know, count duckula is a parody of count dracula (obviously). according to the show, count duckula actually died several times but he can be returned by performing a mystic ritual, that is only allowed to be performed once a century. blood is needed for the ritual but alas! this count duckula was reincarnated with ketchup - thus making him a vegetarian, instead of a blood sucking duck!

it's a pretty amusing show and apparently it originally aired in the UK, which i was not aware of. oh yes, and apparently count duckula is a spinoff from the show dangermouse (which i have heard of but not actual seen before). i guess count duckula was a recurring villain on dangermouse.

so here's a clip for your viewing pleasure! i've also included the intro to the show in case you're curious.

(oh yes, and for those inquiring minds - "per ardua ad sanguina" means work hard for blood.)

so this week's featured cartoon is the one and only inspector gadget!

i used to watch this show religiously. i loved all the little inventions that came out of inspector gadget's body. and of course, me and the rest of the kiddies would play inspector gadget and constantly shout, "GO GO GADGET [insert object]"! i never watched the movie that came out with matthew broderick though, it seemed kind of cheesy and not as much fun as the cartoon...but i guess it's all good since it spawned another generation who appreciate inspector gadget. i also have a fondness for inspector gadget because we played the theme song in band one year in middle school (i played the trumpet). that was a great year to be in band!

there were a couple things that always annoyed me about the show though. for instance, why is inspector gadget such a fuckwit??? he had so many gadgets and hardly any of them actually helped him. it always seems like those gadgets got him into more trouble. and then inevitably, his niece penny and his dog brain would bail him out of trouble. inspector gadget would be NOTHING without penny. she ALWAYS solved the crime but she never got any credit for it! i think thats what annoyed me the most about the series. it highlighted that penny was just a kid and she was really smart, but she was never rewarded for her help! ahh well, i guess it doesn't matter that much because it was still a good show.

oh yes, and i also enjoyed dr.claw and his deep voice! he was a great villain.

ok, heres an episode for you to enjoy!

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so this week's cartoon that is gonna be featured is one of the funniest cartoons EVER made. i figured now is as good a time as ever to highlight the simpsons since the simpsons movie is about to come out this friday. i am pretty excited about seeing this movie. i'm not a big simpsons nerd - you know who i'm talking about - those people that know every single inside joke in the episodes, watch the show every day on fox, and have memorized every possible line from the show. but that doesn't mean that i won't be seeing it a.s.a.p. this weekend!

the thing that excites me the most about this movie is that the simpsons has created a platform to encourage dialogue about the problems that america and the world is facing. they've always been politically aware but they do it in a way that it is not shoved down your throat. what also amazes me about this show is that virtually everyone i know watches it. it's one of those shows that crosses racial, gender, age and any other boundary that you can think of. my gay friends watch it, my black friends watch it - heck, even my parents watch it! i'm really hoping that the movie tackles some serious issues and creates more discussion about the problems we are facing.

i mean, that may sound a little too serious and optimistic - i mean, it IS a cartoon and i definitely expect to laugh my ass off at the movie. but i'm still hoping that they will do what they always do and somehow make the audience actually think.

the promotion for this movie has been insane. there's the 7-11's being turned into quik-e-marts and then there was that whole issue with the gigantic homer chalk drawing. if you head to the main simpsons movie site, you can even create your own simpsons avatar! check mine out...

i thought i would do something different for the cartoon clip this week since most of us have already seen all the simpsons episodes (and of course, fox is a whore and has taken down a lot of the episodes on youtube). instead, i'm just gonna show some clips of the famous simpsons intro! i hope you enjoy it and please, go see the movie and support this amazing show!

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omg, i just perused all these episodes of captain planet! it gets me so excited. i remember watching this show and really getting into it. however, i also get kind of angry when i watch this show...i don't get angry at the actual show but at how the world has turned out.

so this show came out in 1990 - thats seventeen years ago, right? even back then, there were numerous resources spouting off information about how to help save the environment. captain planet did stories on pollution, nuclear waste and global warming. i was in elementary school at the time and i remember having actual lectures about how to save the environment. we learned the three R's - REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! we learned how to save water by making sure your faucet doesn't drip and installing different shower heads (yeah, even in second grade we were learning this). we learned about compost piles, alternative methods of energy - you name it, we learned it. i even remember watching episodes of 3-2-1 Contact before i even started school and they had an episode about landfills and how to reduce the amount of garbage that you produce (this was in the 80s).

okay so SEVENTEEN fucking years later people are acting like recycling and global warming is news to them. where the fuck did america (the world) go wrong? goddamn, it gets me mad. the government can pay for educational funding to teach their kids (me) this stuff but they didn't even read the memos about global warming?!?! or if they did, they didn't give a fuck because they "weren't going to be around when global warming happened," (that's the shit that my parents say to me). it's just such utter nonsense. no one cared or paid attention to ANYTHING except their paychecks...most of the people that COULD have done something back then in terms of legislation are still in office.

sometimes i wish we could lock up the older generations so they aren't allowed to make any more stupid decisions (sorry if i'm having "agism" but y'all are ignorant old folk).

okay, okay, sorry for getting heavy on this post - let's just ignore the troubles of the world for a little longer while we watch some mindless, numbing cartoons. :::::sigh of relief:::::

(uhhh, i never realized that the spirit of earth's name in the show was "gaia". i find that hilarious because for years, i have been saying, "i swear to gaia..." after watching a saturday night live skit with rachel dratch and ana gasteyer as butch lesbians during a skit when joshua jackson hosted. i also realize that this anecdote will mean absolutely nothing to you unless you know me personally or have seen this particular skit before)

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so this week's cartoon is kind of a copout but i have stuff to do at work so i gotta make it quick. my boyfriend actually suggested this cartoon since the new fantastic four movie will be coming out soon. i guess it played in a timeslot with the iron man cartoon and it was called the marvel action hour. my boyfriend used to be obsessed with the fantastic four cartoon when he was younger and insists that it is amazing. we're just gonna have to take his word for it!

oh shiz, i just looked at the cast and brian austin green was the voice of the human torch for the first season.  awesomeness!!! however, i think this episode is from the second season since i don't recognize his voice.

enjoy my darlings!

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so i've been hearing a lot about the new Super Paper Mario for the Wii. i'm still saving up money to get my own Wii so until then i'm going to have to pacify myself with old Super Mario Bros Super Show episodes!

my parents never let my sisters and i buy a nintendo or even a super nintendo. sometimes they would let us rent one for the weekend and we would literally stay up until all hours of the morning playing mario games or sim city. it's probably a good idea that they never bought us one considering we would probably have stopped doing our homework altogether if we had one.

even though i didn't even own a game system, i absolutely loved the Super Mario Bros Super Show. i obviously knew the basics of mario's story so it was cool to see them actually give details and stories to the characters. i still don't quite understand why they needed to have the live-action part of the series but i guess it made the cartoon stand out more because of it. i also loved seeing the princess in action because she didn't get that much game play in the video games (except for mario 2 where she was the shizzz!) and seeing the back story of the koopas and some of the other enemies. and of course, the music rocked because it was from the game!

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my obsession from second to fourth grade was the teenage mutant ninja turtles. i watched the cartoon every day after school. i tried to get my parents to buy me all the ninja turtle action figures that they could afford - i still have my michaelangelo one that you could wind up and he spun his nunchucks around. i also had posters all over my room of the ninja turtles. as creepy as it may sound, i think my first crush was for michaelangelo...he was the funniest out of all the ninja turtles and i loved him for it! and of course, my favorite food is pizza so i automatically loved the turtles since they were obsessed with pizza like me.

i haven't seen the new movie that came out with them but my sister told me that it's a pretty fun movie to watch. there are so many movies that i have to go see so i will probably just end up seeing it on video. i was really excited for this movie to come out when i heard that mako, the voice of uncle iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender was cast as the voice of splinter. but unfortch, mako passed away the day after it was announced that he would play splinter. apparently imdb.com updated their info since i last looked up mako and it turns out he IS the voice of splinter! damn, it must have only taken a couple days to record his voice. well, thats good news cause i loveeeeeee mako's voice!

ANYWAYS, here's an episode from the t.v. show that i loved so much!

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i discovered the amazing Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends on cartoon network in the summer of 2005 when i first started dating my boyfriend. it was through this show that we discovered that we both adored cartoons.

i love this show because the premise of it allows for so much creativity and imagination from the creators. as you might have gathered from the title, the show is about a foster home for imaginary friends. the possibilities for creating the imaginary friends are endless which is why i enjoy it so much. a lot of cartoons get stifled by their own environments or characters - they really don't have room to grow (i.e. rugrats and ed, ed, eddy). with this show, almost every episode introduces new imaginary friends that are interesting to watch and that really add to the show's excitement.

and of course, i fell in love with the character of bloo because he is sassy and bad - just like me! this is my favorite episode of all time and i'm so glad that i found it for y'all! it's kind of like spongebob squarepants in that it has some tongue-in-cheek adult humor which the kids totally don't pick up and the adults can still laugh at.

p.s. sorry that the sounds is messed up on this episodes