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The Jetsons television cartoon animation

2009-10-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

label : The Jetsons television cartoon animation, The Jetsons cartoon character, The Jetsons cartoon funy pictures.

After leaving MGM, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, creators of Tom & Jerry, found success in TV animation with their Hanna-Barbera Studio. And the greatest of their early successes was The Flintstones. If a modern stone-age family could make it big, why not a retro future one? And that's why we met George Jetson, as the song goes, as well as the rest of his family.

Another way The Flintstones paved the way for The Jetsons was by premiering on prime-time TV, thus sparking the first prime-time animation fad. George et al. premiered on ABC's prime-time schedule in 1962. Once the fad had run its course, however, they were relegated to Saturday morning, where the same 24 episodes were re-run over and over.

A third similarity between the two is that both took their basic set-up from pre-existing series, changing only the setting. The Flintstones was The Honeymooners in the Stone Age, whereas The Jetsons was Blondie in the future — even to the point of Penny Singleton, who played Blondie in films and on TV, providing the voice of Jane Jetson. Other voices were George O'Hanlon (better known as a face actor than a voice actor) as George, Janet Waldo (Penelope Pitstop, Morticia Addams) as daughter Judy, Daws Butler (Huckleberry Hound, Peter Potamus) as son Elroy, and Don Messick (Scooby-Doo, Atom Ant) as the dog, Astro.

The Jetsons fared better in comic books than on TV, being published on a regular basis from 1963-73, and sporadically ever since. Their publishers include Gold Key, Charlton, Harvey and Archie.

In the 1980s, the series enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, and new episodes were made to supplement those that had been in syndication for the past couple of decades. The family even met their spiritual ancestors, Fred and Wilma, in a two-hour 1987 made-for-TV movie, The Jetsons Meet the Flintsones. This revival reached its climax in 1990 with the theatrical release of their feature film. In these latter-day Jetsons episodes, O'Hanlon came out of retirement to play George Jetson again. He died shortly after the completion of the 1990 feature.

Is their saga now complete? Will new animated material continue to appear? Perhaps, but one thing is certain — the Jetsons material that we have seen, we will see again.

from : toonopedia.com

Andy Capp cartoon character

2009-10-04T02:17:00.000-07:00

label : Andy Capp, Andy Capp cartoon character, Andy Capp cartoon funy pictures.

Andy and Flo Capp live at 37 Durham Street, Hartlepool. Andy is a layabout, a drunkard, a bully, a liar and a gambler. The only reason he's not a skiver into the bargain is because he hasn't got a job to skive off in the first place. His put-upon wife Flo is kept working overtime to pay the bills.

Andy's an everyday northern bloke who can, and does, philosophise on just about anything. Andy and Flo have stuck it out together all these years, and he is still drinking (but not smoking since 1983), still playing football, rugby and snooker and still unemployed.

Andy's long-suffering wife Flo, also known as "Pet" or "t'other woman", is always by his side to pick him up (sometimes literally!) and quick to show him the error of his ways. With the exception of an equally wicked temper, she's everything that Andy is not... loyal, hardworking and self-sufficient.

Even Andy Capp was not immune to the onslaught of political correctness. For three decades of comic-strip dailies, he sported a 'tab' (cigarette) in his mouth, but this was quietly deleted in 1983.

Andy is a working class figure, living in Hartlepool, North-East England. His hobbies include pigeon racing, darts, snooker (his cue's name is "Delilah"), football (which always involves fights with the other players, and frequently ends with Andy being sent off), occasionally cricket and rugby, betting on horses, getting drunk (often falling in the canal and, always, seven nights a week, arriving home late as a result), fishing (and not catching anything bigger than a goldfish), womanising, lying on the sofa and fighting with his long-suffering wife, Florrie ("Flo").

He was always seen with a cigarette dangling from his lip until the 1980s, perhaps because this was when Reg gave up smoking himself. Similarly, he no longer indulges in fisticuffs with Florrie, because of concerns about the depiction of domestic violence. Instead, they now attend marriage counselling. Andy's trademark cloth cap is always pulled down over his face.

Andy and Florrie are always on the verge of poverty. Andy is unemployed and lacks motivation, rent on the house and contents are constantly in arrears, and Percy the rent collector despairs of ever being paid. Their furniture has been repossessed on several occasions. Somehow, they always manage to recover it, and Andy is always able to afford beer and betting (usually by borrowing from Florrie). The strip is almost exclusively shown in one of three locations: the pub, the street, or in the Capp's house at No. 37 Durham Street (generally with Andy on the couch and Florrie yelling from the next room). Lesser visited places include the race track (although Andy frequently bets by listening to the radio, thus saving him the trip), marriage counseling (in one memorable cartoon, a panoramic shot is given of the counselling office, with several entire file cabinets dedicated entirely to the Capps), and the football pitch (where Andy is either being sent off, or carried off).

Andy and Flo's best friends are their neighbours Chalkie and Rube White. Chalkie is like Andy, a hard-drinking, hard-scrabble type who can often be seen sharing a pint with Andy at the corner pub; however, Chalkie seems to be more mellow than Andy and more tolerant of his wife. Also unlike Andy, Chalkie was known to be employed, if intermittently, during much of the strip's run. Rube is Flo's confidante, and the two often trade gossip about their husbands' latest escapades. The Vicar is also seen often; Andy despairs of his holier-than-thou attitude, and he is constantly criticising Andy for his drinking and gambling, and often lets his opinion be known to Flo, who frequently agrees with his assessments of Andy's character. Percy Ritson the rent collector and Jackie the barman are often seen, as well. Flo's mother, an unseen character, is often engaged in conversation at the door, but never actually comes inside or is physically seen in the comic strip.

Flo's mum is often the subject of Andy's pointed barbs about her weight and less-than-sunny disposition, but she has been known to give as good as she gets. Flo has an older sister, Polly, who is never seen.

from : comedy-zone.net, wikipedia.org

Dastardly and Muttley cartoon character

2009-09-02T06:01:00.000-07:00

label : Dastardly and Muttley, Dastardly and Muttley cartoon character, Dastardly and Muttley cartoon funy pictures.

Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS from 1969 to 1971. The show features Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the comic villains from Wacky Races, as World War I flying aces and members of the "Vulture Squadron," a crew of aviators who're on a mission to stop a homing pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the enemy.

The show was unusual in having only two voice actors, Paul Winchell as Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as everybody else. Each half-hour episode typically features two stories, plus "Wing Dings" (short, corny gags) and "Magnificent Muttley" (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams).

The show's theme song is notable for repeating the phrase "Stop the Pigeon" many times, with the result that many have come to believe that this was what the show was called.

The Vulture Squadron

Dick Dastardly is the leader of the Vulture Squadron, an ex-Wacky Racer turned aviator. He is still the accident-prone villain he had been in the Wacky Races. He is referred to as "DD" or "Chief" by Zilly and Klunk, and as "Rick Rasterly" by Muttley (especially when he is muttering). Although he's sometimes mean to Muttley, Zilly and Klunk, he is a nice guy (he says that to himself, numerous times to calm his nerves). When he gets angry, he usually uses his catchphrase "drat, drat and double drat", just before crashing hard into the ground. Although he does not show that very often, Dastardly likes Muttley very much... sometimes during the show, he treats Muttley with a lot more respect than the rest of the squadron (Zilly and Klunk).

Muttley is Dastardly's bungling canine sidekick. He rarely speaks, and when he does it usually takes the form of either (1) just cursing to himself indistinctly, usually following some misfortune that has befallen him, or (2) an excited "yeah-yeah-yeah..." at the offer of something appealing, or in response to a command/request from Dastardly. There are times when distinct single words can be discerned amid his mutterings (e.g., "Sassafrassarassa Chicken Zilly"). He does, however, have a distinctive rasping laugh which he employs whenever something bad happens to Dick, or whenever Dick is describing his latest "foolproof" plot. Since leaving the Wacky Races, Muttley has learned to fly by spinning his tail like a helicopter rotor. This enables him to save Dastardly from falling (which frequently happens, usually accompanied by a cry from Dastardly of: "MUTTLEY!! DO SOMETHING!!"), although Muttley usually demands a medal for doing so. (He also alludes to a medal collection on his shelf.) During Wacky Races, Muttley's popularity had grown, so when Dastardly and Muttley began production, he got his own segment, Magnificent Muttley, in which he daydreams that he is a different hero each week, usually with Dastardly as the villain.

Zilly is a pilot in the Vulture squadron. He is a cringing coward, forever running away and having to be fetched by Muttley. Each new plan fills him with dread, and he usually utters his catchphrase, "Ohhh dear! Ohh my!", before retracting his head into his collar like a tortoise retracting into its shell. Dastardly puts up with his cowardice because (1) he is a reasonably competent pilot who is needed to fly planes; and (especially) (2) is the only squadron member able to interpret Klunk's gibberish (though on one occasion, he actually repeated Klunk's gibberish when he was asked, "Would you repeat that, Zilly?"). In one episode, he is temporarily turned into a reckless hero via hypnotherapy, but his new heroism turns out to be even more damaging to the squadron than his usual cowardice, leaving no choice to Dick Dastardly but to change him back to normal (causing both Dastardly and Zilly to become a duo of cowards in the process).

Klunk is the Vulture Squadron's stout and steady chief designer and pilot. Each episode sees him developing aircraft or weapons (often missiles which home on some bizarre trait, such as a person sneezing) with odd features and attachments designed to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon. His attempts to explain his inventions are complicated by the fact that he apparently suffers from a speech impediment. His speech is punctuated by howls, clicks, whistles, and growls, accompanied by bizarre facial contortions. It is also possible that Klunk does not suffer from the above affliction at all, and that there is a bit of the "machine" within his mostly human form — hence, the howls, clicks, whistles, etc. Only Zilly can understand him. His eyes are never seen because of his bangs and goggles pulled over them. Klunk often assumes command in Dastardly's absence, like when he went on holiday (only to have his fun ruined by the squadron's further attempts to capture the pigeon) or suffered from memory loss. Klunk is probably the most consistent character; he is steadfastly committed, beyond all other aspects of his life, to stopping the pigeon.

Other characters

Yankee Doodle Pigeon is a patriotic American homing pigeon carrying a mail bag, and a bugle which he always plays to (1) announce his presence in defiance of the Vulture Squadron; and (2) to mock the Vulture Squadron's ineptitude. In the episode "Stop Which Pigeon", he was caught but was accidentally released.

The General is Dastardly's superior, who always speaks (or rather, bellows unintelligibly) to Dastardly on the telephone. He is always able to reach Dastardly by phone even when Dastardly is flying (or, more often than not, falling) with randomly appearing telephones, although it is never explained how. The telephones are almost always of the old-fashioned "candlestick" design, and often delivered to Dastardly by paradrop. They also occasionally explosively self-destruct when the general hangs up. The General is an unseen character except for his uniformed arm, which occasionally emerges from the telephone earpiece to grab Dastardly's neck or strike him directly. In one episode he pays a personal visit but only his foot is seen. In one of the "Wing Dings" short cartoons, we can see a photo of an officer hanging on the wall, which is possibly the General (although this was never confirmed).

Muttley's girlfriend is only seen in some of the Magnificent Muttley shorts. She is usually the damsel in distress whom Muttley has to rescue from Dastardly's clutches. She looks like a female of Muttley's breed (whatever that may be) but unlike him she is able to speak distinctly. She may be a figment of his imagination, although in one of the episodes we can see a picture of her on a wall next to Muttley's bed.

from : comedy-zone.net, wikipedia.org

Snoopy cartoon character

2009-08-30T11:33:00.000-07:00

label : Snoopy, Snoopy cartoon character, Snoopy cartoon funy pictures.

Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character — and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world. The original drawings of Snoopy were based on Schulz's childhood dogs, Snooky and Spike.

Snoopy, whose fictional birthday has been established as October 2, made his first appearance on the strip October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered. He was first identified by name on November 10. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. He changed it to "Snoopy" after remembering that his late mother Dena Schulz had commented that if their family were ever to acquire a third dog, it should be called Snoopy. In earlier strips it is not clear who Snoopy belongs to; for instance in the February 2, 1951 strip, Charlie Brown accuses Snoopy of following him, only to be told by Patty that Snoopy isn't following Charlie Brown but merely lives in the same direction. Indeed many early strips show Snoopy interacting with Shermy (who is shown in one early strip running with Snoopy on his leash) and Patty without Charlie Brown, making Snoopy appear to belong to all of the neighborhood kids, similar to the dog Pete in the Our Gang comedies, who is everyone's dog.

Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time in a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. In the animated Peanuts films and television specials, Snoopy's thoughts are not verbalized; his moods are instead conveyed through growls, sobs, laughter, etc., as well as through pantomime and foreign languages. The only exceptions are in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!! The Musical, in which Snoopy's thoughts are verbalized through voice overs (by Robert Towers and Cam Clarke, respectively). Animation producer Bill Meléndez voiced both Snoopy and (eventually) Woodstock in numerous television specials from 1965 to 2006. He does however shout "HEY!" in It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown before dancing with some rabbits.

from : wikipedia.org

Featured cartoons : The Arabian Knights

2009-08-23T17:15:00.000-07:00

label : The Arabian Knights, The Arabian Knights cartoons animated movie series, The Arabian Knights cartoon characters.

Arabia. In Baghdad the rightful ruler is the young Prince Turhan, until the evil Sultan Bakaar and his minions usurped the throne. Turhan becomes a wanted man, narrowly escaping his pursuers when he encounters a magician Fariek, who transformed both of them into blue wisps of smoke, and then, once the guards had gone and they had become human again, enchanted a table (no carpets available) so that it could fly. Departing the city, they hide in a cavern, where they meet Raseem the Great, an incredibly strong man, who befriends them once he realises they are enemies of Bakaar. The three new allies then set off to enlist the aid of Turhan's uncle the Caliph, travelling on a small donkey called Zazoom. They reach the Caliph's city to find he too has been deposed by Bakaar, and is now imprisoned. Furthermore, his daughter, Turhan's cousin Nida, is about to be sold into slavery. The allies manage to free her, but are cornered by Bakaar's men until assistance arrives in the form of Bez, a man who is able to transform into any animal he can imagine. Turning into an elephant, he bulldozes through the guards and carries everyone to safety. The newly gathered group decide to work together to restore the kingdom to its proper rulers.

Cartoon Charaters

Prince Turhan
His scimitar might have mystical powers, since in at least one cartoon, he threw the sword at a tent filled with bad guys. It circled completely around, cutting every tent rope, and then returned to his hand like a boomerang. He is also a skilled climber and agile acrobat. Turhan was the rightful ruler of Baghdad until Bakaar deposed him. Now he leads a small band of specially skilled followers to free his country from the tyrant.

Princess Nida
Nida is a mistress of disguise. Nida was the daughter of the Caliph, and cousin of the Prince of Baghdad. Then the Sultan Bakaar usurped the throne, and imprisoned her and her father. Nida was taken to the slave auctions to be sold, only to be rescued by her cousin Turhan, who had gathered a small force of resistance fighters. She pledged her special skills to the group's struggles to free their land from the tyrant.

Fariek
A magician, Fariek could transform people into smoke, or enchant household objects to allow them to fly and act as transportation. Fariek was a magician living in Baghdad until the city was taken over by the evil Bakaar. Fariek ran into the rightful ruler, Prince Turhan, who was escaping from Bakaar's men, and he threw his lot in with the deposed ruler, using his magic to help him evade his pursuers. He became the first member of Turhan's resistance group, the Arabian Knights.

Bez
Bez can assume the form of any animal he can think of - he usually cries out a phrase indicating what he plans to transform into: "Shape of an eagle!" - "Size of an ant !". How Bez came to possess his special abilities is uncertain. What is known is that he came to the aid of the deposed Prince Turhan and his party when they were surrounded by the forces of the evil Bakaar, and thus earned a place in the resistance group known as the Arabian Knights.

Raseem
Raseem is superhumanly strong. Raseem was hiding out in a cave when he first encountered Prince Turhan and his ally Fariek, both of whom were on the run from the forces of the evil Sultan Bakaar. Having his own reasons for hating Bakaar, Raseem became their ally and the next member of the Arabian Knights.

Zazoom
Whenever anyone angers Zazoom, usually by pulling his tail, he becomes a whirlwind of destruction - literally. He is also able to fly along by spinning his tail for propulsion, and is capable of carrying passengers while doing so. Zazoom is a donkey. Somehow (probably through magical means) he gained the power to become a literal dervish of destruction whenever his tail is pulled. He is employed by Prince Turhan and the Arabian Knights as their beast of burden.

from : internationalhero.co.uk

Atom Ant super heroes cartoon character

2009-07-05T12:13:00.000-07:00

label : Atom Ant, Atom Ant cartoon animated movie series, Atom Ant super heroes cartoon character.

Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. His name may have been derived from adamant, which gives indication towards his great strength (exceeding the "250 times his own weight" lifting capacity ants are often said to have). The name and character could also be a gentle parody of the Charlton Comics character, Captain Atom. Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (sharing top billing with Secret Squirrel). In syndication, Atom Ant aired alongside Precious Pupp and The Hillbilly Bears.

Atom Ant made up a half-hour of the popular Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. These cartoons spoofed the then-popular superhero and spy genres, respectively, and enjoyed immense success themselves.

The star of the show was a very able arthropod who could not only fly, but also lift more than ten times his own body weight. Atom Ant communicated with his superiors via the antennae on his helmet, awaiting their orders to go capture an array of enemies, whose names were conveniently listed in Atom's "Crook Book." Even though Atom was not so easy to see, he could always be heard, shouting his battle cry of “Up and at ’em, Atom Ant!”

Though he packed a mean punch alone, Atom Ant shared his half-hour with other HB cartoon characters. Precious Pupp, a conniving dog with a very raspy laugh, lived with Granny Sweet, who was always speeding off on her motorcycle, leaving Precious to play man of the house.

Also on the bill were The Hillbilly Bears, a clan who lived in the mountains and lazed around to the sound of the banjo. Paw Rugg, the muttering head of the family, spent most of his time asleep, awaking only to blast someone off his property with a shotgun. Maw Rugg smoked a pipe and ran the house, while daughter Floral and son Shagg were constantly wreaking havoc and avoiding responsibility.

Atom Ant split off from its parent show to become The Atom Ant Show for several months, but at the start of the 1967 fall season, ant and squirrel were reunited for another year of The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show.

from : wikipedia.org, cartoonscrapbook.com

The Simpsons cartoon animated movie series

2009-07-02T11:00:00.000-07:00

label : The Simpsons, The Simpsons cartoon animated movie series, The Simpsons cartoon funy pictures.

Homer Simpson announced the much-anticipated feature film based on the hit television series The Simpsons will premiere in theaters worldwide July 27, 2007. The announcement was made in a specially-prepared teaser trailer that appears on prints of Ice Age: The Meltdown.

The teaser also aired on the April 2nd, 2006 episode of The Simpsons, which has just been picked up for its 18th and 19th seasons.

Starring in the animated film are series regulars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden and Tress MacNeille. Guest starring in the movie are Erin Brockovich, Minnie Driver and Albert Brooks.

Producing the feature are The Simpsons series executive producer James L. Brooks, creator Matt Groening, current showrunner Al Jean, Mike Scully and Richard Sakai.

The script is written by Groening, Brooks, Jean, Scully, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti - all series veterans. David Silverman, the series' supervising animation director, is helming the feature.

The producers said many enticing things about the movie in a press release from Fox.

"This was enormously challenging, because it involved filling 120 blank pages with an actual story and words people say," said producer James L. Brooks.

"We're very excited about the performances in this movie. Come next Oscars, we think it's going to be Milhouse's night," said producer Matt Groening.

"I can absolutely guarantee that this film will far exceed the wildest expectations of every Simpsons fan," said producer Al Jean. "Start lining up at the theater now, preferably in costume."

It's been a long road to the release of The Simpsons movie, and it's not over yet. Continue to page two for a history of the rumors, confirmed and unconfirmed, that brought us this far.

Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and other "Simpsons" big wigs have been chatting about the upcoming movie, it's possible release date and what plots might be involved.

from : about.com

Space Ghost cartoon super heroes

2009-06-28T10:39:00.000-07:00

label : Space Ghost, Space Ghost cartoon super heroes, Space Ghost cartoon animated movie tv series.

Space Ghost was one of Saturday morning's first superheroes, premiering on CBS Sept. 10, 1966. Dino Boy, a "lost world" style feature that shared the half-hour with him, was soon forgotten, but Space Ghost endured and is still popular today.

In large part, this is due to the artistic input of comic book veteran Alex Toth, whose credits range from The Atom to Zorro, and who, on staff with Hanna-Barbera as a designer and idea man, is generally credited with having created Space Ghost. Voice actor Gary Owens (who also narrated The Perils of Penelope Pitstop) contributed much of the character's heroic bearing, but it was Toth (who got his start in animation with a minor studio's Space Angel) that set the tone for the series.

Space Ghost is an interstellar cop, with a home base on the Ghost Planet. He is equipped with an inviso-button on his belt, which renders him invisible while also protecting him from harm with an invisible energy field. The power bands on his wrists are capable of emitting a variety of rays, which can freeze, fry, shock, or just plain blast the bad guys. He can both fly and (by dint of stupendous effort) teleport, but his usual method of getting around is in his space ship, The Phantom Cruiser. His companions in adventure include Jan and Jayce (teenage siblings), and Blip the Monkey.

Like his comic book compadres, Space Ghost sometimes shares adventures with his fellow superheroes. Among those he's encountered are The Herculoids, Shazzan, and The Mighty Mightor. Another way he resembles the superheroes of comics is in having a cast of recurring villains, including Zorak (an insectoid alien), Brak (a cat-oid alien), Metallus (a robot), and Spider-Woman (no relation).

In his original incarnation, Space Ghost appeared in 21 shows (with two Space Ghost episodes per show), spread out over two TV seasons. Over the ensuing years, the Space Ghost episodes were re-packaged with other characters (not including Dino Boy, who had dropped out after the first season) and broadcast again, several times. In 1981, a series combining those episodes with 22 new ones was broadcast under the title Space Stars.

Space Ghost's comic book career has been spotty. After a oneshot appearance in his own title, in 1967, from Gold Key, with art by Dan Spiegle (Blackhawk, Space Family Robinson), he appeared in a few issues of Gold Key's Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes (1968-69). And that was it until 1987, when writer Mark Evanier, who has credits all over the comics and animation industries, and artist Steve Rude, best known for his work on Nexus, teamed up for another oneshot, published by Comico. Since then, Space Ghost has been in a promotional comic here and there, a single 1997 issue of Archie's Cartoon Network Presents, and that's it.

Today, Space Ghost has suffered perhaps the ultimate humiliation any superhero can endure. He has become a talk show host. He and a few of his old villains can be seen on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, broadcast regularly on Cartoon Network, chatting with newsmakers, celebrities, and other fascinating beings.

from : toonopedia.com

Danger Mouse cartoon character

2009-06-27T14:25:00.000-07:00

label : Danger Mouse cartoon character, Danger Mouse cartoon animated movie tv series, Danger Mouse funy pictures.

The hero wears a rakish eyepatch and his chest is prominently emblazoned with the initials 'DM'. This causes problems for those translating the series into other languages, where a literal translation of the words 'Danger' and 'Mouse' do not share those initials; the Scots Gaelic version, for example, calls the series (and the lead) 'Donnie Murdo' (two given names unconnected either with mice or danger). The Slovenian translation omitted the DM initials entirely, however, dubbing Danger Mouse Hrabri mišek ('brave mouse'). In French, trying to keep with the initials, the mouse was named "Dare Dare Motus", "Dare Dare" being French slang for "as fast as possible".

Danger Mouse was the first British cartoon to break into the American TV market, being shown in syndication on 4 June 1984, where it garnered a tremendous fan following that still exists. Since it went off air it has been periodically repeated and been released on DVD. In the United States it was broadcast on Nickelodeon in the 1980s in the late afternoons and in the early evenings as a segue into prime-time hours (as the A&E Network and later Nick-At-Nite) as the series appealed to both pre-teens and adults with its quick-witted British humour.

Although all the characters in the series are animals, the adventures of Danger Mouse appear to be taking place alongside the human world; there are various examples of a mouse-sized Danger Mouse walking through human-scale sets, standing on table-football tables and, not least, living inside a normal size pillar box. This becomes less consistent as the series goes on, as many later episodes show the characters as being human size. There are also times when the cast attempts to deliberately interact with humans (such as Duckula mind-controlling human Members of Parliament to be as showbiz-mad as he is, as well as the episode "Trip To America" where Danger Mouse and Penfold are seen to interact with a Texan).

In Australia, it was first broadcast on ABC TV, then in 1996 it was on Network Ten. It is still best remembered as a Classic ABC program. It was also the first British cartoon to break into Cheez TV, being shown on the weekdays. In Britain's Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows Danger Mouse came third, beaten only by The Muppet Show and The Simpsons. [1]

As a cost-cutting measure, the cartoons made frequent use of repeated footage and "in the dark" sequences (black with eyeballs visible only, or, in Danger Mouse's case, simply one eyeball).

Although rumours of a CGI revival of the show have persisted in recent years, no official announcements have been made. [2] The original Danger Mouse has returned to terrestrial television after the BBC purchased episodes of the series to broadcast in its daytime schedules with its first broadcast on 12 February 2007.

from : wapedia.mobi

Top Cat cartoon character

2009-06-27T01:37:00.000-07:00

label : Top Cat cartoon character, Top Cat cartoon animated, Top Cat funy pictures.

The central character, Top Cat — called T.C. by close friends, "providing it's with dignity" as the lyrics of the theme song say — is the leader of a gang of New York alley cats: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, The Brain, and Choo Choo. Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular situation comedy The Phil Silvers Show. It has also been said that the Bowery Boys influenced the show. Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat (Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too). Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly resembled Phil Silvers' voice as well.

A frequent plotline revolved around the local policeman, Officer Charlie Dibble, and his ineffective attempts to evict the gang from the alley. The only reason that he wanted to be rid of them was that Top Cat and his gang were constantly attempting to earn a quick dollar—usually through an illegal scam. Dibble's appearance was modelled on Allen Jenkins who did his voice. The name Dibble has passed into the vernacular as slang for police officers.

Top Cat, a yellow cat with violet hat and vest, is the eponymous protagonist of the series and leader of the gang of cats around which the series revolves. Top Cat is laid-back and persuasive, a leader who can also be a friend. Top Cat's leadership is sometimes challenged by the rest of the gang, particularly when he has done something particularly shameful. Resolution of the revolt usually comes as capitulation by Top Cat to the will of the gang. One such incident features in "Dibble's Birthday" where Top Cat plans to give away all of Dibble's birthday gifts.

Benny is one of Top Cat's right-hand men. He is short, chubby, naive, and cute, an indigo-coloured cat with a white sweater that fastens with a single button at his neck. Benny may appear to be simple-minded, but he manages to ask the most logical questions during the gang's erratic endeavors. He is slow, not stupid. The gang relationship between Benny and Top Cat is based on a devoted friendship between them. An example of the lengths to which Top Cat will go to help Benny is illustrated by the episode "A visit from Mother" in which Top Cat arranges for Benny to appear to be the mayor of New York City. A number of episodes have focused on Benny, including "The Violin Player", "The Unscratchables" and "The Missing Heir". Benny the Ball is modeled after his voice actor Maurice Gosfield.

Choo-Choo aka Chooch is another of Top Cat's right-hand men, usually his second in command, and is enthusiastic and devoted to Top Cat even when he’s clueless on what he’s doing. He is a pink cat with a white long-sleeve turtle-neck shirt, is the tallest of the alley gang cats, and often is depicted with the eyes of a Siamese cat. He lives at the fire house as the fire house cat as seen in one episode. He had a couple of love crushes [“Choo-choo's romance”, “Choo-choo goes gaga-gaga”], however unlike Fancy-Fancy or Top Cat, Choo-Choo has no courage talking to girls. When he talks, his voice sounds like Woody Allen.

Brain appears to be a common henchman to Top Cat. Brain is the dim-witted member of the alley gang, an orange cat with a purple sweater. Brain is notorious for being unable to keep a secret, and for his stuttering. He also seems to be in charge of the group's money (which they rarely have).

Fancy-Fancy appears to be a common henchman to Top Cat. He is laid-back, sweet-talking and is regularly seen chatting up the ladies before leaving them when hearing the 'dustbin lid call', a dark orange cat with a white scarf. He resembles Spook in appearance, and his voice and character were based on Cary Grant.

Spook rarely speaks in the episodes, but when he does, a torrent of "like"'s are used. He is similar to Fancy-Fancy in demeanor and appearance, a sweet talking cat whose vernacular is based on that of a beatnik. He is a pool shark with green fur and a black tie.

Officer Dibble is the policeman whose beat includes the alley. Though he usually resents the gang's presence in the alley, there are times when he respects and loves them, but wants Top Cat aka TC to clean up the alley, and to stay off his telephone.

from : wikipedia.org

Felix The Cat cartoon character

2009-06-26T11:40:00.000-07:00

label : Felix The Cat cartoon character, Felix The Cat cartoon animated, Felix The Cat funy pictures.

Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world next to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny or Woody Woodpecker. Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences based solely on his star power.

Felix's origins remain disputed. Australian cartoonist/film entrepreneur Pat Sullivan, owner of the Felix character, claimed during his lifetime to be its creator as well. American animator Otto Messmer, Sullivan's lead animator, has more commonly been assigned credit in recent decades. Some historians argue that Messmer ghosted for Sullivan. What is certain is that Felix emerged from Sullivan's studio, and cartoons featuring the character enjoyed unprecedented success and popularity in the 1920s.

From 1922, Felix enjoyed sudden, enormous popularity in international popular culture. He got his own comic strip (drawn by Messmer) and his image soon adorned all sorts of merchandise from ceramics to toys to postcards. There were several manufacturers who made stuffed Felix toys. Jazz bands such as Paul Whiteman's played songs about him. The most popular song of 1923 was "Felix Kept On Walking", and further songs followed.

Nevertheless, Felix's success was fading by the late 1920s with the arrival of sound cartoons. These new shorts, particularly those of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, had made the silent offerings of Sullivan and Messmer, who were then unwilling to move to sound production, seem outdated. In 1929, Sullivan decided to finally make the transition and began distributing Felix sound cartoons through Copley Pictures. The sound Felix shorts proved to be a failure and the operation ended in 1930 with Sullivan himself passing away in 1933. Felix saw a brief three cartoon resurrection in 1936 by the Van Beuren Studios.

Felix cartoons began airing on American TV in 1953. Meanwhile, Joe Oriolo, who was now directing the Felix comic strips, introduced a redesigned, "long-legged" Felix in a new animated series for TV. Oriolo also added new characters, and gave Felix a "Magic Bag of Tricks", which could assume an infinite variety of shapes at Felix's behest. The cat has since starred in other television programs and in a feature film. Felix is still featured on a wide variety of merchandise from clothing to toys. Oriolo's son, Don Oriolo, now controls creative work on Felix movies.

from : wikipedia.org

Sealab 2020 cartoon animated

2009-06-25T19:27:00.000-07:00

label : Sealab 2020 cartoon, Sealab 2020 animated series, Sealab 2020 cartoon movie series.

By the early 1970s, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon factory had made a firm commitment to action/adventure shows, as opposed to the pure comedy, like Yogi Bear. Quick Draw McGraw and the others they'd devoted the studio to in its early years. Sealab 2020, which debuted September 8, 1972 on NBC, was just another step in that direction.

The setting was an undersea research and residential facility, where 250 people lived, worked and raised their families, a half-century in the viewers' future. The man in charge was Dr. Paul Williams, and his immediate subordinates included Hal, Gail and Ed, with a guy called Sparks, who handled communication with the outside world.

The action started when Sealab personnel rescued a family whose boat had sunk above them. Mike Murphy and his children, Bobby and Sally, supplied the cast with what every contemporary Hanna-Barbera show needed — kids and pets (they had two sea turtles and a dolphin).

Paul's voice was provided by Ross Martin (later heard in The Robonic Stooges and The Godzilla Power Hour). Hal, Gail, Ed and Sparks were Jerry Dexter (Aqualad in Aquaman), Ann Jillian (who mostly did face acting, including a supporting character in the Hazel TV series), Ron Pinkard (also a face actor, but lacking toon connections), and William Callaway (Ming in Defenders of the Earth), respectively. Mike was John Stephenson (narrator in Ruff & Reddy). Bobby and Sally were Josh Albee (mostly a face actor, with a supporting role in Isis) and Pamelyin Ferdin (Lucy in A Boy Named Charlie Brown).

The characters and sets were designed by sometimes-comic book cartoonist Alex Toth (Johnny Thunder, Rex the Wonder Dog). Toth had done animation design work before, for example on Captain Fathom and Birdman. But this time, his work turned out to be considerably less durable then when he'd done Space Ghost or Thundarr. In fact, Sealab lasted less than one season. 16 episodes were planned, but only 13 got on the air.

NBC was through with Sealab 2020 as of the 1973 TV season, and the show was never rerun elsewhere. No VHS or DVD editions have been marketed. But it does have a minor presence on modern television.

Decades later, Sealab 2021 was aired on Cartoon Network (Duck Dodgers, Johnny Bravo), as part of its late-night programming block, Adult Swim. There, old episodes are cut up, rearranged, and re-dubbed to make entirely different stories, about entirely different characters, this time as a broad comedy. Voice talent on Sealab 2021 includes Erik Estrada (who's played Hispanic bit parts in Family Guy, King of the Hill and Higglytown Heroes), Kate Miller (Grace Ryan in Frisky Dingo) and Harry Goz (Perry White in a 1999 Superman video game).

Hanna-Barbera has had no qualms about using the same footage multiple times, in multiple contexts. Thus, there are more than three times as many episodes of Sealab 2021 as there were of Sealab 2020.

from : toonopedia.com

Asterix and Obelix cartoon character

2009-06-24T07:52:00.000-07:00

label : Asterix and Obelix, Asterix and Obelix cartoon character, Asterix and Obelix cartoon funy pictures and images.

Asterix lives around 50 BC in a fictional village in northwest Armorica (a region of ancient Gaul mostly identical to modern Brittany). This village is celebrated amongst the Gauls as the only part of that country not yet conquered by Julius Caesar and his Roman legions.

The inhabitants of the village gain superhuman strength by drinking a magic potion prepared by the druid Getafix (French: Panoramix—names of all characters, except usually Asterix and Obelix, vary from one translation to another). The village is surrounded by the ocean on one side, and four Roman garrisons on the other, intended to keep a watchful eye and ensure that the Gauls do not get up to mischief.

A recurring plot in many of the Asterix books concerns the attempts by the Romans to prevent the druid from making the potion, or trying to get the secret recipe for their own use. Such attempts are invariably foiled by the heroes of the Asterix books, the agile, clever and pint-sized Asterix and his clumsy, oversized, but good-hearted best friend, Obelix.

The humour encountered in the Asterix comics is typically French, often centring on puns, caricatures, and tongue-in-cheek stereotypes of contemporary European nations and French regions.

Much of the humour in the initial Asterix books was French-specific, which delayed the translation of the book into other languages for fear of losing the joke and the spirit of the story. The newer albums share a more universal humour, both written and visual.

In spite of (or perhaps because of) this stereotyping and notwithstanding some alleged streaks of French chauvinism, it has been very well received by European and Francophone cultures around the world.

from : comedy-zone.net

Daffy Duck cartoon character

2009-06-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

label : Daffy Duck, Daffy Duck cartoon character, Daffy Duck cartoon funy pictures.

One of the most popular cartoon characters ever is Daffy Duck. Daffy was the second hit star from the Warner Bros. cartoon shop, appearing two years after Porky Pig. Before Daffy and Porky, Warner Brothers had only hoped to beat the Disney studio in popularity, with the black-and-white Hugh Harman/Rudolph Ising Bosko cartoons of the early 30's, and later the horrible Buddy cartoons.

Bosko had potential, but his creators got a better opportunity to work at the MGM cartoon studio. They took Bosko, a little inkspot character with the characteristics of a little black boy, with them after 3 years at Warners, working for independent producer Leon Schlesinger.

In 1934, the cartoonists remaining, including Friz Freleng, decided to continue the Bosko formula with a white song-and-dance kid named Buddy, one of the most boring characters ever created. These recieve trashing from modern critics, and are among, now, the rarest of all Looney Tunes.

This would not last long. Friz Freleng absolutely despised Buddy, and decided to experiment with a group of funny animals, lightly based on the Little Rascals/"Our Gang" scenario. His first film with this idea, "I Haven't Got a Hat", introduced Porky Pig, a shy, stuttering school kid with a passion for patriotic poems and a lack of pants. His classmates, most of which would reappear only on title cards, included a cat named Beans, an owl named Oliver, and "Little Kitty", a sort of female counterpart to Beans. Jack King, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, and Tex Avery would continue to work with the Porky and Beans series through 1936, and they had a popular character for the first time in 4 years. These cartoons still, however, showed a Disney influence. Tex Avery, who was not exactly a master at creating Disney-esque cartoons, decided to change things for the better and actually make his cartoons FUNNY. He began, around this time, to cross unusual boundaries with gags in the Porky series, creating a concepts still used in comedy films today, the "everywhere-I-turn -he's there" and "talking-to-the-audience". He wanted a character so incongruous, so nuts, so out-of place that it would put Walt Disney's cute "Silly Symphonies" to shame. He got one, in the 1937 cartoon "Porky's Duck Hunt."

The elements were finally in place, the hunt (which would become a classic cartoon situation for decades to come), the gags, and the crazy, off-the-wall character, Daffy Duck. If Mickey Mouse was the character that brought animation to the public, it was the team of Porky and Daffy that made it truly funny.

Daffy, although at this point nameless, a little black duck with a white ring around his neck and a twisted twinkle in his eye, turned a black and white cartoon world upside down, woo-hooing and laughing wildly, bouncing on top of his lake like a jumping bean, and fearlessly standing up to the hunter Porky Pig. A person could say that Daffy Duck single-handedly let the looniness into the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Many fans say that the best Daffy Duck cartoons were those of Tex Avery and Bob Clampett in the 1930's, most of which were in black and white. Such cartoons as "Porky's Duck Hunt", "Daffy Duck and Egghead", "Porky and Daffy", "The Daffy Doc", developed Daffy into a sort of wiseguy lunatic who, as he put it in "Daffy Duck and Egghead", "Just don't give a darn!" Bob Clampett's Early Daffy was particularly screwy, and he favored a gigantic mallet (perfect if you want to clobber an innocent pig.)

The voice of Daffy was developed to be a high pitched impersonation of producer Leon Schlesinger, who, apparently, found it to be an extremely funny voice and asked where the animators got it from...he never did get the joke.

Beginning in 1940, Daffy Duck began to develop into the Daffy that theatergoers would know for ten years. In Friz Freleng's "You Oughtta Be In Pictures", Daffy visits the office of a live-action Leon Schlesinger and tries to take Porky Pig's job. Rather symbolic, because after the early 40's, Porky would become little more than a straight man.

On through the 1940's, the crazy black duck starred in over 40 films in setting ranging from the unhappy household ("The Henpecked Duck") to the frozen North ("Daffy's Southern Exposure", "Along Came Daffy") with such costars as Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and even Chuck Jones' short-lived character Conrad Cat. His personality changed slightly, from uncontrollable maniac to maniac with brains, who was insane but in control of the situations he found himself in.

In 1948, Daffy Duck would change dramatically, and the start of that change came from Chuck Jones. While Daffy would remain his usual 1940's self in comics through the 1950's, the cartoons would venture into entirely different ideas. Jones began experimenting with Daffy's lust for money in his 1948 cartoons "You Were Never Duckier" and "Daffy Dilly", although he kept the duck more cheerful than he would later become. In "The Scarlet Pumpernickel", Chuck Jones decided to do a picture in which Daffy would try, and fail, to be a swashbuckling hero, ala Errol Flynn movies. His hunger to succeed and failure to do so began to change the character from a hyperactive, carefree, if not patriotic, duck into a more power-hungry and greed-driven loser. Perhaps the principal differences were in design, (Jones made him taller, skinnier, beakier and scruffier-looking) and personality (While he had been a winner before, and happier, Jones made him him a loser who was never satisfied). This is the Daffy Duck we all know today, and the character that would star in some of Chuck Jones' greatest cartoons.Among the best were movie genre spoofs featuring Daffy and Porky, like one in which Daffy tries to be Buck Rogers ("Duck Dodgers in the 241/2 Century") and an attempt at Westerns ("Dripalong Daffy", My Little Duckeroo").

The change didn't take hold with everyone at first. Even into 1952, although he changed over to Jones' design, Robert McKimson used the annoying, crazy-but-sneaky version of Daffy he'd been using before. Friz Freleng was just the opposite, he changed the personality to what Jones was using, his "His Bitter Half" still uses the 1940's design. By the mid 50's, though, Chuck Jones' remodeled Daffy Duck was here to stay.

At first, Daffy remained unsuccessful, but at least happy about it. Jones gave Daffy such foes as Nasty Canasta, Marvin Martian, Elmer Fudd, himself (In the masterpiece of animation, "Duck Amuck") and....Bugs Bunny. In three cartoons, "Rabbit Fire", (1951), "Rabbit Seasoning" (1952) and "Duck Rabit Duck"(1953), Chuck Jones got Daffy mixed up in the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd series, and made "Rabbit Season! Duck Season"! one of the best known arguments in history. The concept of Bugs meeting Daffy was not new, it had been done a as early as the 1940's, in Frank Tashlin's "Porky Pig's Feat", but the characters had no true interaction.

After this period, Jones would change Daffy yet again. Roughly 1954, Daffy's exclusive motivation in life became greed, and in several pairings with Bugs Bunny, he was UNCONTROLLABLY avaricious. He goes wild when he sees a huge treasure in "Ali Baba Bunny", pushing Bugs Bunny and a genie aside to get at it. This has consequences...the duck ends up shrunken by the magical genie, and the film ends with him clutching a tiny pearl before being sealed into an oyster. The period between 1954 and 1957 has been called Daffy's "greedy bastard years", and there is something about these films that makes them only slightly less enjoyable than the earlier ones, although most all are masterpieces.

The Rabbit/Duck teamups would give the other directors at Warner Brothers, at the time Robert McKimson and Friz Freleng, a chance to try out the concept, and Daffy would be paired with Bugs throughout the 50's and early 60's, in competition for everything from movie stardom (Friz Freleng's "A Star is Bored") to game shows (Robert McKimson's "People are Bunny."). In fact, the cartoon that is considered the definitive teamup of Bugs and Daffy, 1957's "Show Biz Bugs",in which each character tries to prove himself better than the other in a vaudeville act, was directed by Freleng. Daffy is still most commonly paired with Bugs today, in marketing, new productions, commercials, nearly every bit of merchandise including Daffy.

Once Chuck Jones left the studio in the early 60's, it wasn't long before the studio closed down and re-opened again in 1964 as DePatie/Freleng enterprises. Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie produced a whole series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies through 1967, in which the principal characters were the Road Runner (a new take on the series directed by Rudy Larriva), Speedy Gonzales, and Daffy Duck. It has been speculated that the reason so many of these low-budget, troubled productions paired Speedy with Daffy was that most of the movie-going crowd was now reduced to the southwest, (thanks to television) and the most popular theatrical cartoon characters in that region were Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. It was not a bad idea to team up the favorites...in theory. They didn't work well for a number of reasons.

For one thing, distributors began paying less and less for cartoons, due to television displacing movies as the more popular entertainment and theaters not being able to afford cartoon shorts. Thus, the post-1964 WB/Depatie-Freleng, and later the Warner Bros./7-Arts cartoons, are quite cheaply produced compared to the cartoons of the 40's and 50's.

Secondly, Robert McKimson, and later Alex Lovy,used the Chuck Jones version of Daffy, but for some reason made him disturbingly bitter. He clearly doesn't like rodents, Speedy just happens to be wherever he goes, and so cartoon plots were written concerning Daffy, for little reason, being mean to or chasing Speedy. These cartoons do have their moments, and many of them are quite good. Such cartoons as "Spy Swatter", "Quacker Tracker", "Feather Finger", "Go Go Amigo", and "Swing Ding Amigo" are among my favorites, a couple of these were directed by Rudy Larriva, the same director of the 1960's Road Runner films. These cartoons do not, in my opinion, deserve the trashing that they get by critics and historians. One thing I will agree on, however, is that the final theatrically-released film for both Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales was "See Ya Later Gladiator", and it has the honor of being possibly the WORST Warner Brothers theatrical cartoon ever made.

Daffy Duck cartoons were a staple on television packages of Looney Tunes cartoons since the 1960 when the Bugs Bunny show first appeared on television. Various incarnations of the Looney Tunes show appeared on network television through the 60's and 70's, there has been a Road Runner Show, a Daffy Duck Show, a Porky Pig show, A Daffy, Sylvester and Speedy Show, and a Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour, to name a few.

In 1980, things began to heat up again for the maladjusted mallard. George Lucas commissioned Chuck Jones to create a sequel to "Duck Dodgers In the 241/2 Century", to be theatrically released withone of his "Star Wars" films. However, when the finished product appeared somebody had second thoughts, and the cartoon found its way into a TV special instead. The 1970's and 1980's TV specials gave the Looney Tunes characters new life, as did several theatrically released movies, all of which were compilations of classic material linked together with new animation.Two of them directly starred Daffy Duck. The first of the Daffy movies,, made in 1983, was, of all things, essentially a new Friz Freleng Daffy/Speedy cartoon with other LT characters making wishes (ala clips from classic Warner cartoons ) into the duo's well as filler material. The second came in 1988, called "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters." This is considered one of the best of the looney compilation movies, using "Daffy Dilly" and the previous years' theatrical shorts "The Duxorcist" and "Night Of the Living Duck" as the major plotline cartoons. These 1987 cartoons were directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon, who, for a while at least, kept Looney Tunes alive again. The then- unreleased "Blooper Bunny" and the TV special cartoon "Invasion Of the Bunny Snatchers" both included Daffy, and were , in my opinion, quite good.

The Daffy we see today i generally in merchandise, and most of it uses Chuck Jones' 1950's version. In 1996, Warner Bros. released "Space Jam", a rather strange, but still quite good, fully new computer-animation/live action movie starring Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan. Daffy actually hearkens back to his crazy 1940's days in the film, even with hints at "The Daffy Doc". The movie also starred almost the entire major cast of Warner Brothers LT cartoons, and even most of the lesser-known supporting players at least appeared in crowd scenes. One memorable gag starred Sniffles the mouse, a character who hadn't see the light of day since 1946. Daffy Duck has since been involved in yet another re-opening and re-closing of the WB cartoon studio, this time called "Chuck Jones Film Productions." Chuck Jones, even in his eighties, was asked by WB to make new theatrical shorts starring the Looney Tunes characters, and beginning with 1994's "Charriots Of Fur", he attempted to do so. This film was good, it was released theatrically with "Richie Rich", and then to a very successful video compilation of Road Runner cartoons by the same title. After this, several other films were made by Jones' studio, but only one starred Daffy Duck, (1997's "Superior Duck") and only three of them recieved theatrical release, one direct-to-video and the rest never formally released. From what those who have seen the whole bunch have said, they are a mixed bag, ranging from very good to very bad. Like many projects, Warner Brothers must have gotten cold feet and stopped publicizing/releasing these films, and by 1997/98 the shop's contract was cancelled and it was shut down for good. Personally, I would love to see all of these films (I've only see one). Makes me very angry if you ask me, WB cancelling this so quickly, but I'm sure they had *SOME* reason for it.

The most current event to involve the duck at the moment is the 1997 merger between Turner Entertainment and Warner Brothers. Now, for the first time ever, the 1930's and 1940's Daffy Duck cartoons are shown on television alongside the 1950's shorts, and the former line between the pre-1948 releases (formerly owned lock, stock and barrel by Turner) and the post-1948 releases (Warner Brothers) is now rendered obsolete. All Daffy Duck films, except for the Speedy series, most of the TV specials , and "Superior Duck" have been shown on Cartoon Network, now the only television broadcaster of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

from : goldenagecartoons.com

Bugs Bunny cartoon character

2009-06-22T11:28:00.000-07:00

label : Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny cartoon character, Bugs Bunny funy pictures.

Bugs Bunny's origin was as a goofy antagonist for Porky Pig in the Warner Bros. cartoon Porky's Hare Hunt (1938), directed by Cal Dalton and Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, for whom the hare is named. Plotwise, it was virtually a repeat of the previous year's Daffy Duck intro, Porky's Duck Hunt, Back then, (our) Bugs was much smaller and more rabbit-like, and completely white but in wit, resourcefulness, and the sheer relish with which he demolished his antagonist, he very much resembled his later self.

Bugs evolved in a generally Bugs-like direction for a couple of years, emerging fully-developed in the Oscar-nominated A Wild Hare (1940), directed by Tex Avery. It was there that he first munched a carrot, first uttered his trademark line, "Eh, what's up, Doc?", and first kissed Elmer Fudd. The only thing missing was his name. He'd been referred to as "Bugs's Bunny" from the beginning, but it was only in Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941), directed by Chuck Jones, that he was first called "Bugs Bunny" on-screen.

Bugs also received an Oscar nomination for Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1942), and won the award for Knighty-Knight Bugs (1958). Both were directed by Friz Freleng. Other well-remembered Bugs cartoons include Tortoise Beats Hare (1941), by Avery, which re-enacts the old story; The Old Grey Hare (1944), directed by Robert Clampett, in which Bugs, known for sometimes-spectacular death scenes, tops himself by digging his own grave; Hillbilly Hare (1950), directed by Robert McKimson, which contains the tour-de-force "square dance scene", one of the greatest sustained gags in animation history; and What's Opera, Doc? (1957), by Jones, which crams Wagner's entire Ring Cycle into a seven minute cartoon.

The last theatrically-released Bugs Bunny cartoon was False Hare (1964), by McKimson. But The Bunny never faded away. He continued to appear on television, not just in packages of cartoons sold to local TV stations and on his network Saturday morning show, but also in commercials advertising a variety of products.

During the 1970s and '80s, he appeared in a long succession of prime-time TV specials and even feature films, produced by his old directors, and consisting mainly of clips from the old cartoons. In 1996, he and his Looney Tunes cohorts were catapulted back into the limelight when they co-starred with Michael Jordan in the feature film Space Jam. Two years later, he appeared on a U.S. postage stamp.

In comics, Bugs did not fare so well. He appeared in both newspaper strips and comic books between the 1940s and the '70s, but none of them truly captured his character; nor were any notable writers or artists associated with him. In recent years, he has been revived as a comic book character, appearing regularly in the monthly Looney Tunes Comics, an occasional oneshot or mini-series of his own, and even as a co-star with Superman.

Today, the original Bugs Bunny cartoons can still be seen regularly on television, alongside telephone commercials spun off from Space Jam. The Bunny shows no sign of ever giving up his stardom.

from : geocities.com/tazluvruk3

Pink Panther cartoon pictures gallery

2009-06-19T16:23:00.000-07:00

label : Pink Panther cartoon pictures gallery, Pink Panther funy pictures.

The Pink Panther was created by Friz Freleng for the opening title sequence of Blake Edward's, 1964 comedy farce THE PINK PANTHER. Almost instantly the cartoon character received reviews that were as good or better than the film itself! The new star had obviously clawed his mark, and a series of short subjects was immediately put info production.

Captain Tsubasa cartoon movie series

2009-06-19T15:31:00.000-07:00

label : Captain Tsubasa, Captain Tsubasa cartoon character, Japanes cartoon.

Captain Tsubasa is a popular long running Japanese manga, anime, and video game series, originally created by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of Football.

The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth football team and its football captain Tsubasa Ozora (Ōzora Tsubasa), whose name literally translates to "Big Sky Wings". The series is characterized by dynamic football moves, often stylish and implausible. The plot focuses on Tsubasa's relationship with his friends, rivalry with his opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of each football match.

The Captain Tsubasa manga series was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine between 1981 and 1988, spanning a total of 37-tankōbon volumes. It was continued onto a sequel, Captain Tsubasa: "World Youth" Saga, which was serialized between 1994 and 1997 in Shōnen Jump, spanning 18 volumes, and another sequel, entitled Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002, which was serialized between 2001 and 2004 in Weekly Young Jump, which spanned 15 volumes. The manga is still running, with the latest sequel entitled Captain Tsubasa: Golden 23, serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 2005 to currently.

The original Captain Tsubasa manga series was adapted soon into an anime series, produced by Group TAC and Toei Animation, whose first season premiered in Japan on the TV Tokyo network between 10 October 1983 and 27 March 1986. This first serie tells only the synopsis of the first 25 volumes. Four anime movies followed soon, between 1985 and 1986, continuing the storyline. In 1989 a new anime series, entitled Shin Captain Tsubasa, was produced by Shueisha and CBS Sony Group inc. and spanned 13 OAV. Shin captain Tsubasa tells the manga synopsis from volume 25 to volume 36. The anime series was followed soon after into a second sequel, entitled Captain Tsubasa J, produced by Nippon Animation, Studio Gallop, which aired between October 21, 1994 and December 22, 1995 in Japan on the Fuji Television network and spanned 47 episodes, as well an OVA series, Captain Tsubasa: Holland Youth, which was published in 1994. The anime series was continued on further into a third sequel, Captain Tsubasa: Road to Dream, also known as Captain Tsubasa ~ Road to 2002, the latest anime adaptation of the series, produced by Group TAC and Madhouse Studios, which aired in Japan between October 7, 2001 and October 6, 2002.

All of the versions of the Captain Tsubasa anime series has been broadcast by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across its original network in Japan and later across its respective networks worldwide, including East Asia, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and other regions. It has also been broadcast across several other regions over the world, including South America, Europe and the Middle East. The success of the series also spurred several Nintendo Super Famicom video game adaptations. Enoki Films holds the United States license to Captain Tsubasa, under the title Flash Kicker.

from : wikipedia.org

The Fantastic Four cartoon animated

2009-06-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

label : The Fantastic Four, The Fantastic Four cartoon animated

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic book published by Marvel Comics The group debuted in The Fantastic Four#1 (November 1961), which helped to usher in a new naturalism (literature) in the mass media The Fantastic Four was the first superhero team created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Jack Kirby who developed a collaborative approach to creating comics with this title that they would utilize from then on.

As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics, it formed a cornerstone of the companys 1960s rise from a small division of a publishing company to a pop-culture conglomerate. The title would go on to showcase the talents of comics creators such as Roy Thomas John Byrne Steve Englehart Walt Simonson and Tom DeFalco and is one of several Marvel titles still in publication since the Silver Age of Comic Books The four core individuals traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who gained superpower (ability) after exposure to cosmic ray during a scientific mission to outer space, are: Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), a scientific genius and the leader of the group, who can stretch his body into incredible lengths and shapes; the Invisible Woman (Susan "Sue" Storm), Reeds wife, who can render herself and others invisible and project powerful force fields; the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Sues younger brother, who can generate flames, surround himself with them and fly; and the monstrous Thing (comics) (Ben Grimm), their grumpy but benevolent friend, who possesses superhuman strength and endurance due to the nature of his organic stone flesh.

Since the original fours 1961 introduction, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as a somewhat dysfunctional yet loving family. Breaking convention with other comic-book archetypes of the time, they would squabble and hold grudges both deep and petty, and eschew anonymity or secret identities in favor of celebrity status. The team is also well known for its recurring struggles with characters such as the villainous monarch Doctor Doom the planet-devouring Galactus the sea-dwelling prince Namor the spacefaring Silver Surfer and the shape-changing alien Skrull. The Fantastic Four have been adapted into other mass media including four list of animated television series an The Fantastic Four (film) the major motion picture .

from : reachinformation.com

Donald Duck Picture Gallery

2009-06-17T12:47:00.000-07:00

label : Donald Duck, Donald Duck cartoon character pictures.

On this post I provide some cartoon character pictures of Donald Duck. Cartoon pictures of funy. We know that donald duck is a funny cartoon characters. Many people like Donald Duck, including me. I hope you also like this cartoon pictures.

Sailor Moon Cartoon Characters

2009-06-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

label : Sailor Moon cartoon characters, Sailor Moon, Japanese cartoon.

The protagonist of Sailor Moon, Usagi Tsukino, lives as an ordinary middle school girl until she is found by a talking cat named Luna. Through Luna, Usagi learns that the world is about to be attacked by a Dark Kingdom that had appeared once before, long ago, and destroyed the kingdom of the moon. Her dormant powers are then awakened to defend the Earth against the coming onslaught, and she is led to a number of friends who join her in the battle.

Usagi fights using the identity of Sailor Moon, and as the story progresses she learns more and more about the enemies which face her and the evil force that is sending them. Gradually she discovers the truth about her own past life, her destined true love, and the possibilities for the future of the Solar System.

The plot spans five major story arcs, each of them represented in both the manga and anime, usually under different names:
1. the Dark Kingdom arc
2. the Black Moon arc
3. the Infinity arc
4. the Dream arc
5. the Stars arc

The anime added an additional minor arc at the start of the second series, and spent the first few episodes of Sailor Stars wrapping up the plot from the previous series.

Sailor Moon characters

Usagi Tsukino
The main character of the series, called Serena in the English anime and Bunny in the English manga. Usagi, a carefree schoolgirl with an enormous capacity for love, transforms into the heroine called Sailor Moon. At the beginning of the series she is portrayed as an immature crybaby who hates having to fight evil and wants nothing more than to be a normal girl. As she progresses, however, she embraces the chance to use her power to protect those she cares about.

Mamoru Chiba
A student somewhat older than Usagi, called Darien in the English adaptations of the series. As a young child he experienced a terrible car accident that robbed him of his parents and of his knowledge of who he is. During the series he has some precognitive ability, including dreams that inspire him to take on the guise of Tuxedo Mask and fight alongside the Sailor Senshi. After an initially confrontational relationship, he and Usagi remember their past lives together and fall in love again.

Ami Mizuno
A quiet bookworm in Usagi's class, called Amy in the English adaptations of the series. Highly intelligent, with a rumored IQ of 300, she can transform into Sailor Mercury, acquiring power over all phases of water. Ami's shy exterior masks a passion for knowledge and for taking care of the people around her. She hopes to become a doctor one day, like her mother, and tends to be the practical one in the group. Secretly, she is also a fan of pop culture and romance novels, and becomes embarrassed whenever this is pointed out.

Rei Hino
An elegant miko (shrine maiden), called Raye in the English versions. Because of her work as a Shinto priestess, Rei can sense and dispel evil even in civilian form. When she transforms into Sailor Mars she can also manipulate fire. She is very serious and focused, but although easily annoyed by Usagi's flightiness, cares about her very much. Rei is portrayed as boy-crazy in the early anime, but is uninterested in romance in both the manga and live-action series. She attends a private Catholic school, separate from the other girls.

Makoto Kino
A tomboy who transfers into Usagi's school, called Lita in the English versions. Very tall and strong for a Japanese schoolgirl, she can transform into Sailor Jupiter, attacking with lightning and with some control over plants. Both Makoto's parents died in a plane crash years ago, so she lives alone and takes care of herself. She cultivates her physical strength as well as more domestic interests, including housekeeping, cooking, and gardening. She wants to marry young and to own a flower-and-cake shop.

Minako Aino
A perky dreamer who acted on her own as Sailor V for some time. Called Mina in the English versions, she has a companion cat called Artemis who works alongside Luna in guiding the Sailor Senshi. Minako transforms into Sailor Venus, Soldier of Love, and leads Sailor Moon's four inner guardians. She also dreams of becoming a famous singer and idol and attends auditions whenever she can. At the start of the live-action series, she is already these things, but has poor health and separates herself from the other Senshi.

Chibiusa
The future daughter of Usagi and Mamoru, Chibiusa travels from the 30th century to seek help to save her parents, then later to train with Sailor Moon to become a soldier. She learns to transform into Sailor Chibi Moon. At times she has an adversarial relationship with her mother in the 20th century, as she considers herself more mature than Usagi, but as the series progresses they develop a deep bond. Chibiusa wants to grow up to become a lady like her mother. In the English adaptations, she is called Rini, and her alter ego is called Sailor Mini Moon.

Setsuna Meioh
A mysterious woman, called Trista in the English anime. She appears first as Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time, who has the task of protecting the Space-Time Door from unauthorized travelers. It is only later that she appears on Earth, living as a college student. She has a distant personality and can be very stern, but can also be quite friendly and helps the younger Sailor Senshi when she can. After so long at the gate of time she carries a deep sense of loneliness, although she is close friends with Chibiusa.

Michiru Kaioh
A talented violinist with some precognition, called Michelle in the English anime. A year older than most of the other Sailor Senshi, she can transform into Sailor Neptune, channeling the power of the ocean. She worked alone for some time before finding her partner, Sailor Uranus, with whom she fell in love. Michiru is elegant and personable, already well-known for her music as well as her painting, but has given up her own dreams for the life of a Senshi. She is fully devoted to this duty and willing to make any sacrifice for it.

Haruka Tenoh
A good-natured, masculine-acting girl, called Amara in the English anime. Haruka, of an age with her partner, Michiru, transforms into Sailor Uranus, Soldier of the Sky. Before becoming a Sailor Senshi, she dreamt of being a racer, and is skilled at driving. She tends to dress and, in the anime, speak like a man. She is so friendly and genial that nearly everyone she meets is attracted to her. When it comes to fighting the enemy, however, she distrusts outside help and prefers to work solely with Sailor Neptune and, later, Pluto and Saturn.

Hotaru Tomoe
A sweet, lonely young girl whose name remains unchanged in English (though pronounced slightly differently). Daughter of a possessed mad scientist, she is sickly and weak as the result of a terrible lab accident in her youth. After overcoming the darkness that has surrounded her family, she is able to become the Soldier of Silence, Sailor Saturn. She wields forces of destruction so powerful that she is rarely called upon to use them, and unlike the others, her Senshi and civilian personae seem somewhat disconnected. She is often pensive, and as a human has the inexplicable power to heal others.

from : wikipedia.org

Doraemon, The Cat Robot from 22nd century

2009-06-14T10:25:00.000-07:00

label : Doraemon, The Cat Robot from 22nd century - The Cartoons World Japanese cartoon.

A cat-like robot from the 22nd century –

Doraemon was created by Fujimoto Hiroshi and Motoo Abiko in 1969-70. He is 129.3 cm tall and 129.3 kg. He has a pocket of the fourth dimension at his stomach. His favorite food is dorayaki, which is a sweet bean paste filled bun, and his birthday is 2112-9-3. Many people gave him a very cute nickname called "Ding Dong". He is scared of mice and also rats, because his ears were bitten off by rats. He became so popular and famous after the cartoon & comic followed the life of Nobita. Doraemon was sent back to the 20th century because Nobita's grandson can't bear to see his grandfather suffers. So he sent Doraemon to help out with Nobita's troubles.

Dorami is Doraemon's little sister. Her ears were not bitten by rats that's why the color of her body is different than Doraemon. Actually she looks the same as Doraemon since her color of her body is yellow in which Doreamon is blue. She has almost the same characteristics as Doraemon, including the fourth dimensional pocket. She is nice and not as grouchy as Doraemon. She does not live with Doraemon, but she appears in a situations which Doraemon cannot control.

Nobita Nobi is the main character in the story. He is a pretty irresponsible boy. He has every single bad habits such as getting 0's on the tests, being late for school and don't even spends time on his school works. It really hinders his chances of getting hooked up with Shizuka. In the future, Nobita and Shizuka are set to be married, but it seems like Shizuka is too good for Nobita. Nobita always interrupts Shizuka while she is taking a bath. He always wants Doraemon to get him whenever he is in troubles.

Shizuka is the only main girl character in the comic. She is adorable by many people, especially Nobita, Jyian, and Suneo. Of course it doesn't really matter because she is setted to marry Nobita in the future. Shizuka LOVES to take baths, about every ten minutes when she's at home. She has a very gentle girl and also a very caring person. She is a very good student, and always did good in school.

Jyian is tough and strong and has a terrible singing voice. He and Suneo always picking on Nobita, he is often jealous of Nobita and Suneo because of all the things they have. So he oftens stole their stuff and tortures them. He loves to read comic books, and his grades are terrible too, but not as bad as Nobita's. He always makes troubles.

Honekawa Suneo is a fox-faced creep. He lies and cheats in every way through his life. He is quite bright, if you watch the videos you'll see his knowledge is pretty extraordinary. He is spoiled, so he has everything he wants, but he wants Doraemon to live with him and give him some advantages. His best friend is Jyian. He loves to pick on Nobita and get him into trouble, he has a secret crush on Shizuka. Though he is a braggert and a snob, his true kindness really stands out in some of the Doraemon videos. Of course eventually he goes back to his old ways.

from : geocities.com/SoHo

Sponge Bob cartoon character

2009-06-13T13:44:00.000-07:00

label : Sponge Bob cartoon character, Sponge Bob movies series.

Sponge Bob's history can be traced back to 1993 when Rocko's Modern Life first aired. One of the producers was Stephen Hillenburg, a cartoon worker/marine biologist who loved both his careers. When Rocko's Modern Life was cancelled in 1996, Hillenburg began working on SpongeBob (although some sketches trace back to 1996). He teamed up with creative director Derek Drymon, who had worked on shows such as Doug, Action League Now!, and Hey Arnold!.

Drymon had worked with Hillenburg on Rocko's Modern Life as well, as did many SpongeBob crew members, including writer Tim Hill and voice actors Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence. Another crew member with previous Nickelodeon cartoon experience was former Angry Beavers story editor Merriwether Williams, who worked on that show for its first few seasons and switched to SpongeBob in July 1999.

During production of the show, Hillenburg provided a concept of short comics with the same style of the show, but the characters looked different. SpongeBob used to be named SpongeBoy, and used to wear a red hat with a green base and a white business shirt with a tie. The name "SpongeBoy" did not make it into the show since the name was already officially trademarked by Bob Burden, creator of Flaming Carrot. Hillenburg later chose the alternative name "SpongeBob." The original name was once referenced in the show by Mr. Krabs' line, "SpongeBoy, me Bob!." The Krusty Krab was originally spelled with the letter C rather than K, but Stephen Hillenburg thought K's were funnier.

from : directsource-games.com

Winnie The Pooh cartoon character

2009-06-12T07:39:00.000-07:00

label : Winnie The Pooh cartoon character, Winnie The Pooh, animal cartoon.

During the first World War troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way overseas to Europe where they should join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short.

Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Lt. Colebourn took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. Formally Colebourn presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where it became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.

The bear was also very popular by Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favorite at the zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie.... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name of Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in a poem from Milne's When We Were Very Young.

A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends at 100-Aker-Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. Other characters as Rabbit and Owl were based on animals that lived, just like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, on which 100-Aker-wood was based.

'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard, which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favourites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over!

The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all the world over. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proved to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, thirty years after the release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off.

from : winniethepoohbear.net

Scooby Do and the Mystery's Five

2009-06-11T11:24:00.000-07:00

label : Scooby Do and the Mystery's Five, Scooby Doo cartoon character.

In the fall of 1969, CBS and Hanna-Barbera Productions launched an animated half-hour comedy starring a cowardly but lovable Great Dane who traveled the world with his four human friends to solve spooky mysteries. Everyone involved was banking on the show's success, but nobody could have predicted that Scooby-Doo would become one of the most durable and popular cartoon characters of all time.

The history of Scooby-Doo and his gang -- Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy -- is a fascinating one. With the help of two creative forces behind Scooby-Doo who span the character's entire career -- Iwao Takamoto, vice president of creative design for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. (which is now owned by Warner Bros.), and Eric Radomski, supervising producer of the most recent series, "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!" on the CW Network -- we offer a behind-the-scenes look at these venerable characters.

Like most cartoon characters, Scooby-Doo did not spring forth fully formed. The first series, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!," went through many developmental changes and alterations along the way -- in fact, the first passes at the show did not even star a dog.

The impetus for "Scooby-Doo" came from Fred Silverman, who was then the head of children's programming for CBS. Silverman was looking for a different kind of animated show. He wanted one that, among other things, employed full half-hour episodes instead of the shorter cartoon groupings that were the Saturday morning norm. To achieve his goal, he called on Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, whose namesake company, Hanna-Barbera, was responsible for the majority of all animation on television.

"Fred came in and talked to us about doing a full beginning-to-end story that had enough time to have a little substance to it," said Takamoto. "He wanted to have a true half-hour show instead of the tricky breakdown kind of stuff that we had been relying upon and he had been programming for a couple of years." Silverman also wanted something within the mystery format, similar to the old radio show "I Love A Mystery."

Two young writers, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, got the assignment of developing the show, which they initially conceived as a straightforward mystery/adventure centered on five teenagers. Eventually a dog character was added, but only as a comic-relief sidekick. As development progressed, the emphasis was shifted away from serious thrills and toward comedy. The dog began to play a larger role, eventually becoming the titular star of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" Earlier working titles included "Mystery's Five" and "Who's Scared?" The original "Scooby-Doo" premiered on September 13, 1969. It was an immediate hit.

The latest series in the Scooby franchise, "Shaggy & Scooby Get A Clue!," contemporizes the classic characters in both tone and appearance. "The request from Warner Bros. was to stimulate the Shaggy/Scooby brand," said Radomski. "Comedy is king in Saturday morning cartoons, so [show developer] Ray DeLaurentis pitched a 'Dumb and Dumber' approach for the show -- 'Dumb and Dumber' being the epitome of 'buddy comedies."

That model also meant that the rest of the gang -- Fred, Velma, and Daphne -- now had to take a back seat to the primary comedy team of Shaggy and Scooby. "Attempting to include the rest of the gang in a show like this would have been difficult and cumbersome," Radomski said. The three do, however, show up occasionally in cameo guest-appearances.

This is not the first time Shaggy and Scooby have been separated out from the group -- they were on their own throughout many of the 1980s shows.

Similarly, the graphic style of the show has been altered. The designs of Shaggy and Scooby are a bit simpler, and they no longer have whites in their eyes (known as "dot eyes" in animation). "The contemporary art direction for the characters was chosen specifically to distinguish this series from all of the previous incarnations," Radomski said. "Also, the obvious graphic approach is a reflection of the popular digital aesthetic so prevalent in animated shows today. The 'dot eyes' seemed to blend well with the overall graphic simplification we were going for."

One thing that has not changed is the universal appeal of "Scooby-Doo." "The 6-to-11-[year-old] demographic is definitely the target of the CW Network," Radomski said. "But I never allow it to restrict my team from making shows that appeal to a much broader audience. There is no better compliment than hearing that older siblings and parents are watching and enjoying our shows, too."

"Scooby-Doo" and education? It's an interesting subject -- and we cover it in the next section.

from : howstuffworks.com

Casper the friendly ghost

2009-06-10T09:52:00.000-07:00

label : Casper the friendly ghost, Casper cartoon character.

Casper was created in the late 1930s by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, the former devising the idea for the character and the latter providing illustrations. Intended initially as the basis for a 1939 children's storybook, there was at first little interest in their idea. When Reit was away on military service during the Second World War before the book was released, Oriolo sold the rights to the book to Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division, for which he had occasionally worked.

The Friendly Ghost, the first Noveltoon to feature Casper, was released by Paramount in 1945 with a few differences from the book. In the cartoon adaptation, Casper is a cute, pudgy ghost-child with a New York accent, who prefers making friends with people instead of scaring them (Casper used to scare people but got tired of it all). He runs away from home and goes out to make friends. However, the animals he meets (a rooster, a mole, a cat, a mouse resembling Herman and Katnip, and a group of hens) take one horrified look at him and run off in the other direction. Distraught, Casper unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide by laying himself down on a railway track before an oncoming train (apparently forgetting that he's already dead) before he meets two little children named Bonnie and Johnny who become his friends. The children's mother at first is frightened of Casper, but later welcomes him into the family and sends him off with her children to town wearing clothes after he wards off a greedy landlord.

Casper appeared in two more subsequent books by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, There's Good Boos To-Night and A Haunting We Will Go. (There's Good Boos To-Night differs wildly from later Casper cartoons: although Casper trying to find a friend and scaring everyone away before succeeding also occurs in later cartoons, the tone of the cartoon turns dark when a hunter and his dogs appear. Although Casper scares them away, the fox he has befriended is killed, but happily returns as a ghost.)

These were later adapted into Noveltoons before Paramount started a Casper the Friendly Ghost series in 1950, and ran the theatrical releases until the summer of 1959. Nearly every entry in the series was the same: Casper escapes from the afterlife of a regular ghost because he finds that scaring people can be tiresome year after year, tries to find friends but inadvertently scares almost everyone, and finally finds a (cute little) friend, whom he saves from some sort of fate, leading to his acceptance by those initially scared of him. The cartoon series also boasted a catchy title song which was written by Jerry Livingston and Mack David.

from : Wikipedia.org

Yogi Bear Cartoon Character

2009-06-09T12:29:00.000-07:00

label : Yogi Bear, Yogi Bear cartoon character, animal cartoon.

Yogi Bear is smarter than the average bear, Yogi Bear is always in the ranger's hair. At a picnic table you will find him there Stuffing down more goodies than the average bear. He will sleep till noon but before it's dark, He'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park. Yogi has it better than a millionaire That's because he's smarter than the average bear.

"Yogi Bear" was the most popular television cartoon creation of TV's early years. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the "Yogi Bear" cartoons first appeared as a component segment of "The Huckleberry Hound Show" in 1958. An inhabitant of Jellystone National Park, with his little bear buddy. Boo Boo, Yogi was for the most part a sarcastic, rule-breaking bear with a great yearning for picnic baskets who credited himself as being "smarter than the average bear."

After three seasons of cartoons on "The Huckleberry Hound Show," Yogi appeared in his first spin-off series in January 1961. "The Yogi Bear Show" was the third Hanna-Barbera series to be syndicated (January 30, 1961) nationally on local stations, sponsored by Kellogg's Cereals. "Top Cat," the fourth Hanna-Barbera series to have Kellogg's as its sponsor, made its prime-time ABC-TV network debut later in the same year.

Featured along with Boo Boo and Yogi's friendly nemesis, Ranger Smith, several of the newer cartoons introduced such bright new characters as Cindy Bear, Yogi's love interest, and Park Ranger Tom Anderson. Ranger Smith's new assistant. Other animated segments included "Snagglepuss," the happy-go-lucky Shakespearian mountain lion, and "Yakky Doodle," about a little duck and his bulldog buddy, Chopper. Yakky was continually pursued by Fibber Fox, but always saved in the nick of time by Chopper. While Snagglepuss resembled comedian Bert Lahr's cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz, Yakky sounded as if he might have been related to Walt Disney's Donald Duck. Vocals for the series were provided by Daws Butler, Don Messick, Doug Young, Janet Waldo, and ventriloquist Jimmy Weldon, as Yakky Doodle.

During the early 1960s both Yogi and his pal Huckleberry Hound became national pitchmen for their sponsor, Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Their appeal to both children and adults created a merchandise phenomenon for the Hanna-Barbera Studios which has grossed over $100 million. Yogi's success also led to a 1961 comic strip that was syndicated in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, and in 1964 he became the first of the Hanna-Barbera characters to appear in a full-length theatrical production entitled "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!"

During the 1970s, 80's and 90's Yogi even managed a few comebacks in new cartoons that dealt with current issues. "Yogi's Gang" premiered on ABC in the fall of 1973, airing from 8:30 to 9:00 A.M., September 8, 1973, through August 31,1974. The following season, the show returned to ABC in the 8:00 A.M. half hour slot and was aired from September 7,1974, through August 30,1975. It was Yogi's first in a series of Saturday morning spin-offs based on the "ABC Saturday Superstar Movie," Yogi's Ark Lark, presented on Saturday morning the previous season. Here Yogi battled such environmental enemies as Mr. Pollution, Mr. Litter, Mr. Waste, Mr. Prankster, and Mr. Bigot, along with several of the old Hanna-Barbera favorites who had been featured over the years in shows of their own. This series was followed closely by "Yogi's Space Race" in 1978 on NBC. Featured in a variety of different formats and time slots, this series gave the Yogi gang new adventures throughout the solar system.

A weak attempt to recapture the flavor of the old series, "Space Race" was canceled in midseason. Here is the programming history of "Yogi's Space Race" which ran on NBC on Saturdays: 8:00-9:30 A.M., September 9, 1978, through October 28, 1978; 11:00-12:00 noon, November 4,1978, through January 27,1979; 8:00-8:30 A.M., February 3,1979, through March 3, 1979. Yogi was resurrected in 1985 for "Yogi's Treasure Hunt", syndicated as part of "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" series. "Yogi's Treasure Hunt", like 1973's "Yogi's Gang", featured Yogi along with a cast of classic Hanna-Barbera characters sailed around the world in the magical S.S. Jelly Roger in search of treasures which they would donate to charitable causes.

New episodes aired through 1988. In the fall of 1988, new six-minute episodes of "Yogi Bear" were shown in syndication, as were various cartoon episodes of the old shows. Yogi Bear's popularity has never diminished with viewers over the years. In 1990, Yogi Bear reappeared in “Fender Bender 500”, Hanna-Barbera’s latest “great race” cartoon. In addition to Yogi, it featured Boo Boo, Pixie and Dixie, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and a host of other classic characters competition racing in custom-designed vehicles. “Fender Bender 500" was syndicated as part of Hanna-Barbera's "Wake, Rattle & Roll" series. The series was renamed "Jump, Rattle & Roll" when it appeared in reruns on the Disney Channel.

from : toontracker.com

Huckleberry Hound cartoon character

2009-06-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

label : Huckleberry Hound, Huckleberry Hound cartoon character, Huckleberry Hound animal cartoon.

"The Huckleberry Hound Show" was William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's second made-for-TV series ("The Ruff and Reddy Show", NBC-TV 1957-60 was their first.) The series premiered in 1958 and starred a dim-witted, good-natured hound dog with a Southern drawl. The show took television audiences by storm. Sponsored nationally by Kellogg's Cereals, the show was the first fully animated series made strictly for television, in contrast to those hosted by live performers or ones with a cinematic history.

With a limited budget of about $2,800 per television episode, Hanna and Barbera invented a technique called "limited animation." This process, used in their first series, greatly reduced the number of drawings needed to complete a single cartoon, and the technique would carry them to the top of the ratings chart for the next three decades.

Syndicated on October 2,1958, and aired most frequently on Thursday afternoons, "Huckleberry Hound" was about an honest, hard-working dog who was trying out a variety of careers. In the premiere episode, "Wee Willie," Police Patrolman Huckleberry is assigned the difficult task of returning a playful escaped gorilla to the zoo. Subsequent episodes involved his pursuing such occupations as mailman, truant officer, veterinarian, lion tamer, explorer, mounted police officer, firefighter, and once even dogcatcher.

Huckleberry's relaxed Southern accent was provided by the late voice actor Daws Butler. A master of more than 100 vocal characterizations, Butler had previously worked with Hanna and Barbera at the MGM studios when the team was producing the extremely popular "Tom and Jerry" theatrical cartoons.

"Pixie and Dixie" and "Mr. Jinks" were the first additional segments on the 30-minute program. Pixie and Dixie were two little mice who were constantly menaced by their playful nemesis. Jinks the Cat, who "hates meeces to pieces." The theme was a low-budget version of Hanna and Barbera's old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, with the addition of an extra mouse.

Next came the immensely popular Yogi Bear, whose adventures made up the second featured segment. Calling himself "smarter than the average bear," Yogi was an inhabitant of Jellystone National Park, and the free-spirited bear was constantly busy pilfering picnic baskets, to the disapproval of his diminutive friend Boo Boo, as well as that of the generally good-natured Ranger Smith.

Voiced by Daws Butler, Yogi resembled Art Carney's Ed Norton, from "The Honeymooners" series, from his vocal attributes to his pork pie hat with the tilted brim. Yogi's success on The Huckleberry Hound Show, which even rivaled that of its star, eventually led to his own series in the fall of 1961. He was replaced by an even smarter animal, the conniving Hokey Wolf, whose gift for gab and deceit closely resembled comedian Phil Silver's Sergeant Bilko.

Although children comprised the show's largest audience, "The Huckleberry Hound Show" also became a favorite with many adults. In 1959 it was awarded an Emmy for Best Children's Program. It was the only cartoon series ever to win such an honor, until the premiere six years later of Charles Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The success of the series eventually led to a string of similarly animated types and brought in millions of dollars in sales revenue through products bearing the likenesses of the show's characters.

Through several revivals in the 1970s, with pal Yogi Bear, including repeats of the old shows. Huckleberry Hound remains one of television's most memorable cartoon characters.

Woody Woodpecker cartoon character

2009-06-08T07:57:00.000-07:00

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Walter Lantz decided that one new cartoon star wasn't enough for his new cartoon studio. He wanted a character he was sure would develop into a full-fledged star. So he and his crew came up with a new adversary for Andy Panda and his father to match wits with in their new picture: a crazy, red headed woodpecker. The plot of the cartoon involved the woodpecker drilling holes in the Panda family roof, and Andy Sr. and Jr. trying to get rid of it.

Of course, like all of the other characters at rival studios that would soon develop into full-fledged stars, being released in 1940, the woodpecker had problems. The head of the Universal short subjects department, Bernie Kreiser, rejected the new cartoon, entitled Knock Knock, telling Lantz that the woodpecker was the ugliest thing he had ever seen. "You're not paying for these pictures," Lantz told him. "All you're doing is distributing them, so release him, because I'm taking a chance". And so he did. The cartoon was a smash with moviegoers, and Kreisler asked for a series of comebacks, pretending nothing ever happened.

Lantz has said that a peculiar experience inspired him to create the character. He was on his honeymoon at Sherwood Lake, and throughout the night, a redheaded woodpecker was drilling holes in his cottage roof. Of course, it seems to be just a Hollywood tall-tale, as Lantz was on his honeymoon in 1941, almost a whole year after Knock Knock was released. With the character's first comeback film, Lantz needed a name for the character, and decided to go with 'Woody Woodpecker', which was also the title of the film. In this film, Woody goes to see a psychiatrist, after all of the forest animals call him crazy.

Most of Woody's early pictures involved him trying to get food, gate crashing an event, or heckling some unworthy slob. Like all characters, Woody's design changed after his first few years, to something cuter and more streamlined. The 1944 masterpiece, Barber of Seville, introduced the new look for Woody (designed by Emery Hawkins), which would remain the same for the rest of the 1940s. 1944 also introduced another important factor in Woody's career: his long-time adversary, Wally Walrus, in The Beach Nut. Wally would be the key character Woody would match wits with for many years (similar to Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd).

Woody was one of the most popular icons of the 1940s, and even got a song created for him, entitled (what else?), The Woody Woodpecker Song. It was recorded by Kay Kyser, and sung by Gloria Wood and Harry Babbit, in 1948. The song was a smash hit in June, 1948 (selling over 250,00 records within ten days of release). To help cash in on the popular tune, Lantz had the song rushed into his latest picture, Wet Blanket Policy, with Wood and Babbit supplying vocals. The cartoon has the honor of being the only one ever to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Song.

If that's not enough, Wet Blanket Policy also introduced another of Woody's co-stars, Buzz Buzzard, the conman always willing to filch Woody. Lantz had to close the studio for a brief period due to financial reasons after 1949. Beginning in 1951, Woody would be Lantz's only star until 1953.

With Ben Hardaway gone, Lantz had to get a new voice for Woody. When Lantz was holding auditions for the voice, Grace Stafford slipped in her recording of Woody. When Lantz picked that particular recording for the voice, he was shocked that he had picked his own wife! Woody went through several design changes in the 1950s, courtesy of Paul Smith and Alex Lovy. The new look for the new Woody is said to have been done by Laverne Harding. Woody was now cuter, slimmer, and had a comb similar to Warner Bros. Road Runner.

Woody's popularity seemed to be growing as the years went on. In 1957, Walter Lantz signed a deal with ABC and Kellogg's to do a half-hour programming of his theatrical shorts, entitled The Woody Woodpecker Show, with Woody as the lead character. Lantz himself would be in the show, not only in the opening and closing, but he even had special segments during the program. The first years of the show featured segments entitled A Moment with Walter Lantz, in which he showed how the cartoons from his studio are really made, with an animated Woody to help him along.

Of course, with the constant pecking of heads and explosions, ABC felt the show needed more educational value in the program. By the early 1960s, the "moments" were replaced with a corny segment called Woody's Newsreel. No comedic value whatsoever were in these, it was just black-and-white footage of various subjects, like sports, aviation, and farming, narrated by Lantz.
In 1972, the Woody Woodpecker theatrical cartoon series came to an end. After 32 years, and 198 shorts, Woody was put into a retirement from show biz. Woody and his pals still lived on, thanks to television distribution and merchandising of them.

In 1999, Universal wanted to cash in on the characters, so they hired a bunch of random people to put together an all-new look and show for Woody Woodpecker and his friends. This new series was called The Woody Woodpecker Show. Woody was voiced by Billy West, and starred in cheaply animated and written cartoons. The most likely reason for the show's immediate failure is that the people Universal hired really didn't care about the Lantz cartoon characters at all.

Popeye The Sailorman cartoon character

2009-06-08T06:47:00.000-07:00

Lebel : Popeye the Sailorman, Popeye cartoon character, Popeye funy cartoon pictures.

Been born in 1928 to work of the designer American Crisler Segar, Popeye the sailorman , appeared to the inside of the comic comic strip "The Thimble Theatre", devised review the same one To saw. Very soon, Popeye become the more important and famous personage than this head, much to make of the protagonist of a longest series to animated cartonns that it continues still today, all characterizes one to you most famous acronym.

Popeye is a sailor from the aspect a funny . Is mark from a pipe that door perennially in mouth, is squint to an eye, garment to the duffle-coat, has muscles of the forearms much more develops you of the two-headeds ones, on which tatooed the classic anchor of the sailor and walks with one particular at times hopping sailing point. But that that has rendered famous Popeye is the spinach. The its irritable, quarrelsome character, but also bravest, the door to face situations and enemies physically much stronger than he, to the point that Popeye is found taken to fists from the turn bad one and most times these punctually is a omone large and large with a black beard and hispid that he answers to the name of Bruto.

In the greater part of the cases, he happens that Bruto abduction or face of the evil to the fiancèe of Popeye, Oyl Olives which shrick "Help, Popeye!" . To this point Trial of strength arrives and in its crash with Bruto, as it has said itself, it demonstrates to be only a good boxed of violent fists, but it is here that the spinach enter in scene. Trial of strength with the single pressure of the fist, succeeds to open the box it, or uses the pipe like oxyhydrogen flame, and from moment in which nutre of this miraculous vegetable it becomes strongest to the point that enough only some fist in order to make to fly Bruto. Oyl Olives the fiancèe of Popeye is a funny personage much and likeable one.

High, lean E', and door the hats collected in one small chignon black. Although it carries out always the role of the victim, has a above suspicion force and most times one defends from Bruto using violent soccer and powerful fists, while wave with the totally flexible body. An other characteristic personage, of the friends of Popeye, is J. Ellington Wimpy an individual, lazy, most times unemployed person, but greatest voracious of hamburger sandwiches. J. Ellington Wimpy has always a detached air and not curing of what it happens to it around, garment always with a small bomb in head and is characterized gives of the moustaches .

An other personage is Swee' Pee, a baby dressed with a long blouse that turns out to have arrived to house of Popeye within a parcel post them. As Oyl Olives also Swee' Pee recites the person role to save, in how much for via of its curiosity, typical of the children, it goes to always hunt itself in a sea of troubles, without to become of account. Therefore Trial of strength must always make use of its inseparable ones spinachs in order to pull it outside from pies. Some time happens also that it is the same Swee' Pee to eat the spinachs and then... better to be to the wide one from this superchild powerfull. In history of Popeye, sometimes the father appears also Arm of Wood, rather active old who only distinguishes itself from the son for via of its beard white . He has a nervous and irritable character rather. Popeye possesses also a dog, but it is a dog of all the special one, in fact it comes from an other dimension and it answers to the name of Jeep It possesses of the extraordinary powers, like that one to become invisible, has also the particularitity to nourish itself exclusively of orchidee. In its adventures Popeye one does not only meet with Bruto, but also with enemies of every kind: witches, Martians and bandit of all the species.

The idea of spinachs and Popeye is been born to fine advertising, for reclamizzare exactly, this produced type and making that the children ate some without to make too many history the own parents. This found had such happening to make the fortune of many producers of spinachs Americans, to the point that to make to erect a monument of thanks for this extraordinary personage.

Cartoon character : Tom and Jerry

2009-06-08T03:08:00.000-07:00

Label : Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry cartoon character.

Tom and Jerry fame must be one of the all time favorite cartoon cats. This cat and mouse cartoon series kicked of on February 20, 1940 with the short "Puss Gets the Boot". Distributed by MGM, directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and produced by Rudolf Ising, this Academy Award nominee ran for just over 9 mins. Apart from the cat being referred to as "Jasper" and not Tom, and the mouse not having a name, this first adventure pretty much established the Tom and Jerry format.

Cat views mouse as a tasty snack. Cat chases mouse but is usually outwitted. Plenty of violence, mayhem and destruction. Lots of visual gags, little dialogue. This basically is the formula for every successful cat and mouse animated cartoon, and no other feline and rodent pair were better performers of the formula than Tom and Jerry.

The first series of Tom and Jerry pictures, directed by Hanna and Barbera for MGM, 1940 -1957, were absolute masterpieces of animation. Beautifully drawn, very fast paced action all the way and lovable, likable characters. Tom nearly always came off the worst in any encounter with cute little Jerry mouse. The cat would often be gullible enough to accept a lighted stick of dynamite from the rodent, stand there admiring it until it exploded, leaving him nothing but a black smudge with a pair of blinking, disbelieving eyes.

Hilariously impossible things happened in these early T&J shorts, the duo would hit each other with anything they could lay their hands on, push each other of off buildings, shoot each other and commit every conceivable (and inconceivable) act of violence to their opponent. All this with never a drop of blood, or long term harm! Wonderful supporting characters appeared in the early Tom and Jerry cartoons. Spike the Bulldog was a formidable adversary to Tom, who would often beat up on the cat egged on by the crafty little mouse.

The black housekeeper, often referred to as "Mammy Two Shoes", ruled the roost in the household. Mammy was only ever shown from the waist down, she gave a raucous cry of "Tomassss" whenever she discovered Tom's wrong doings. In today's world, of course, Mammy Two Shoes is considered to be a racist character and so her voice has been dubbed over and, in some reissue prints, she has incredibly been replaced by a white maid.

Hanna and Barbera said goodbye to MGM in 1957 when they left to open their own studio. There was no more Tom and Jerry cartoons produced by MGM until 1961 when the studio commissioned a short series from Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately, this run of animated shorts lacked the finesse, humor and magic of the original series and was never as popular.

In 1975 a new series of Tom and Jerry was made by the Hanna Barbera Studio, who had been able to buy their cat and mouse characters from MGM. This was a made for television run of cartoons and therefor was produced on a very low budget, and it showed. Far too little action, way too much dialogue and a shortage of 'violence' meant that these 48 TV cartoons bore little resemblance to the early series made for theatrical release.

The original T&J cartoons have been criticized by some for their barbarous content and the effect that they may have had on children. It is doubtful whether many kids got the impression that it was OK to act in the way the characters did in these cat and mouse chase adventures.

Tom and Jerry lived in their own world, separate from reality. These animated shorts were made to entertain, and entertain they did.

The Pink Panther cartoon character

2009-06-06T02:40:00.000-07:00

Pink Panther, The Pink Panther cartoon character.

The Pink Panther cartoon character is the main character in a series of animated short films. The character originally appeared in the opening and closing credit sequences of the 1963 live-action feature film The Pink Panther. The popularity of the character spawned a series of animated short films, and the character would appear in the opening sequence of every film in The Pink Panther series (except A Shot in the Dark). One-hundred twenty-four Pink Panther shorts (either theatrical or made-for-television) were produced, along with three prime-time television specials.

The animated Pink Panther character's initial appearance in the live action film's title sequence, directed by Friz Freleng, was such a success with audiences and United Artists that the studio signed Freleng and his DePatie-Freleng Enterprises studio to a multi-year contract for a series of Pink Panther theatrical cartoon shorts.

The first entry in the series, 1964's The Pink Phink, featured the Panther harassing his foil, a little moustached man resembling an animated version of the feature films' Inspector Clouseau, by constantly trying to paint the little man's blue house pink. The Pink Phink won the 1964 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, and subsequent shorts in the series, usually featuring the Panther opposite the little man, were successful releases.

In an early series of Pink Panther animated cartoons, the Pink Panther generally remained silent, speaking only in two theatrical shorts, Sink Pink and Pink Ice. Rich Little provided the Panther's voice in the latter shorts, modelling it on that of David Niven (who had portrayed Clouseau's jewel-thief nemesis in the original live-action film). Years later Little would overdub Niven's voice for Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther.

All of the animated Pink Panther shorts utilized the distinctive jazzy theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the 1963 feature film.

By the late-1960s, the Pink Panther cartoons were being shown Saturday mornings on NBC. Pink Panther shorts made after 1969 were produced for both broadcast and film release, typically appearing on television first, and released to theatres by United Artists. A number of sister series joined The Pink Panther on movies screens and on the airwaves, among them The Ant and the Aardvark, The Tijuana Toads (a.k.a. The Texas Toads), Hoot Kloot, and Misterjaw (a.k.a. Mr. Jaws and Catfish). There were also a series of animated shorts called The Inspector, with the bumbling Clouseau inspired Inspector and his Spanish-speaking sidekick Sgt. Deux-Deux, whom the Inspector is forever correcting. ("Deux" is French for "two", meaning the little man's name is both a pun and a play on words, "two" appearing two times in the name.) Other DePatie-Freleng series included Roland and Rattfink, The Dogfather (a Godfather pastiche), with a canine Corleone family and two Tijuana Toads spinoffs, The Blue Racer & Crazylegs Crane.

In 1976, the half-hour series was revamped into a 90-minute format, as The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show; this version included a live-action segment, where the show's host, comedian Lenny Schultz, would read letters and jokes from viewers. This version flopped, and would change back to the original half-hour version in 1977.

In 1978, after nine years on NBC, The Pink Panther moved to ABC, where it lasted one season before leaving the network realm entirely.

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was the last studio to produce new theatrical cartoons, finally ending production on Pink Panther and the other series in 1980. That year, United Artists Television syndicated a half-hour, repackaged version of the series, complete with original theatrical intros, outros and NBC-produced commercial bumpers, to local stations. Due to contractual obligations, many stations showed the series in the evening, as opposed to mornings or afternoons.

A single cartoon preceded the main feature in older James Bond VHS releases. In late 2004 in the UK and later in February 2006 in the US, all of the Pink Panther cartoons were released on DVD from MGM Home Entertainment.

After ending the Panther's theatrical run, DePatie-Freleng produced a series of three prime time Pink Panther television specials for ABC. The first of the specials was 1978's A Pink Christmas, which premiered on ABC during the panther's theatrical run for movie theaters. It featured the panther in New York being cold and hungry looking for a juicy holiday dinner. Two other primetime specials premered after the theatrical shorts ended in theaters, 1980's Olympinks and 1981's Pink At First Sight.

The studio was sold to Marvel Comics in 1981, and became "Marvel Productions". In 1984, the Pink Panther was licensed to Hanna-Barbera Productions, who produced the short-lived Saturday morning series The Pink Panther and Sons, in which the still-silent Panther was given two talking sons, Pinky and Panky.

Yet another new series of cartoons, called The Pink Panther, produced by MGM television animation, appeared in 1993, and had the Pink Panther speaking with the voice of Matt Frewer (of Max Headroom fame). Unlike the classic animated shorts, not all episode titles contained the word "pink", although many instead contained the word "panther".

The Flinstones cartoon character

2009-06-05T01:23:00.001-07:00

The flinstones, The Flinstones cartoon character, The Flinstones funy cartoon pictures.

If you were a kid anytime from 1960 to the present, then you probably not only know the melody to the Flintstones song, but all the words as well. Producing 166 episodes, the Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960 on ABC, and ran for six seasons. The final episode aired on April 1, 1966. The Flintstones was the first animated situation comedy shown in primetime television, and it gained high ratings in its first season. The Flintstones also broke new ground in that each episode contained only one story that lasted the full half hour. Until the 1960s, cartoons were generally only a few minutes long. Though The Flintstones got canceled in 1966, the series continued to have a strong afterlife in syndication.

Produced by Hanna-Barbera (William Hanna and Joe Barbera), The Flintstones was patterned after Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners. Designed as a program for the entire family, the program did not appear as "children's television" until its rebroadcast by NBC in 1967.

Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their best friends, Barney and Betty Rubble, live in the prehistoric city of Bedrock but faces the problems of contemporary working-class life. After a day at the rock quarry, Fred and Barney arrive home in a stone-age vehicle with stone wheels and a fringe on top. Their lives revolve around their home, friends, and leisure activities: a world of drive-ins, bowling, and their "Water Buffalo" lodge. They have a baby dinosaur and a saber tooth tiger as the family dog and cat. In 1962 and 1963, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm appears as the daughter and adopted son of the Flintstones and Rubbles respectively.

The Flinstone’s Characters

Fred Flintstone
Bedrock's most favorite guy. Fred is generally well meaning and is most known for his hollers of "YABBA-DABBA-DOO!"

Wilma Flintstone
Wilma is a truly modern stone age woman. Fun-loving and joyful, yet capable of managing Fred's zany outlook on life.

Pebbles Flintstone
Cuddly and cute, Pebbles is the apple of her parents' eyes, and an enduring soulmate to Bamm-Bamm

Barney Rubble
Barney is one happy guy and best buddy to Fred. (Most of the time).

Betty Rubble
Betty is Wilma's best friend who manages to stay calm and collected even when Fred and Barney are involved in zany activities.

Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Bamm-Bamm is the world's strongest kid! He is quick to help around the house, and he has strong devotion towards Pebbles.

Dino
This is definitely man's best friend. He's loyal and loving, and when Fred comes back from work, Dino always gives him a warm welcome home.

Hoppy
Hoppy is one cool pet! He babysits the kids as he takes them around in his pouch.

The Great Gazoo
Arriving from the planet Zaitox and invisible to all but Fred and Barney, Gazoo is often called into action to help is favorite "dum-dums".

The Flinstone’s Theme Song Text
Flintstones... Meet the Flintstones,
They're a modern stoneage family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.

Let's ride with the family down the street.
Thru the courtesy of Fred's two feet.

When you're with the Flintstones,
have a yabba dabba doo time,
a dabba doo time,
we'll have a gay old time.

Cartoon character : Goofy

2009-06-04T09:59:00.001-07:00

label : Goofy, Goofy cartoon character.

We all love the clumsy, in-his-own world Goofy. Believe it or not, his name was not always Goofy! Here is the history of Goofy Cartoon Shorts.

May 25, 1932: He first appeared in "Mickey's Revue", where Mickey and his gang performed a song and dance show. He appeared as a member of the audience whose name was "Dippy Dawg". That's right, he had a different name, and he was not part of Mickey's gang yet!

September 17, 1932: Dippy Dawg was in "The Whoopee Party" as a party guest and friend of Mickey and his gang. As Mickey's friend, Dippy Dawg made a total of four appearances in 1932, and two more in 1933.

In 1934, Walt described the Disney Studios cartoons as being "goofy", and in the "Orphan's Benefit" Cartoon, the name stuck! He was finally revealed as the Goofy we all know and love.

1935, in "Moving Day" is when Goofy really began to take shape, and really took off as a star! In the second half of the '30s, Goofy did several shorts, along side Micky and Donald Duck. These shorts started off on March 16, 1935 with "Mickey's Service Station". After that, as they say, Goofy went down in history!

March 17, 1939: Goofy appeared in his first cartoon alone in "Goofy and Wilbur". In this cartoon, Goofy and his pet grasshopper, Wilbur, shared a fishing trip together.

In 1941, Goofy starts his role in the "How-to" sporting shorts. Goofy, of course in his hilarious, innocent way actually shows us how "not-to" do what he's trying to show us. These series became popular, and is now the format that most of the Goofy shorts are presented.

1945 was the year Goofy began to explore his many sides with a series of shorts. In these shorts he was shown with a different personality. So, goofy didn't always have to be clumsy!

Just to prove he could be mature, in the 1960's he was in a Suburban role. He played as "Mr. George Geef" a married man with a son, going through modern life. Goofy shed his usual clumsy, silly-voiced self to portray the "normal" American life.

This is the history of his shorts. After all this, he went on to star in his own TV Series, "Goof Troop", with his son Max. Goofy starred in a few movies, and is now part of the TV series "the House of Mouse", and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Donald Duck cartoon character

2009-06-04T00:45:00.000-07:00

Donald Duck, Donald Duck cartoon character.

Donald Duck made his debut on June 9th, 1934 when he appeared in the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen. He had a small role, but his plucky (and less than noble) personality had a chance to shine. Although he appears more goose-like in this cartoon, he already has his signature sailor's hat and blue middy blouse.
He lost his temper for the first time on August 11th, 1934 when he appeared in the Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphan's Benefit. Donald Duck is one of several characters helping to put on a show for several orphans. Donald tries to recite "Little Boy Blue," but ends up throwing tantrums when the orphans keep heckling him.

At first Donald Duck appeared in cartoons alongside Mickey, Goofy, and/or Pluto. The Band Concert (February 23rd, 1935) is one of the more famous of these cartoons. While Mickey conducts an outdoor concert, Donald tries to join in with his flute. Mickey does his best to foil Donald, but the Duck just won't give up.

Don Donald (January 9th, 1937) marks Donald's first starring role. This is also the first time we see Daisy Duck, though here she appears as Donna Duck. Here Donald unwittingly gives us lessons on how NOT to treat your sweetheart.

Although Donald was already more popular than Mickey by 1938, his real rise to stardom began during World War II. Donald's stubborn personality and quick temper appealed to audiences at the time, and so he appeared in many war-related cartoons. The WWII propaganda cartoons were kicked off with Donald Gets Drafted on May 1st, 1942. This is where we learn that Donald's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Donald Duck has been voiced by two people so far: Clarence "Ducky" Nash and Tony Anselmo.

Nash provided the voice of Donald Duck from 1934 to 1983. He died of leukemia on February 20th, 1985. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)was the last feature film to have Clarence Nash provide the voice of Donald.

Before he died, Clarence Nash taught a young animator named Tony Anselmo to sound like Donald Duck. After Nash died, Anselmo became the voice of Donald.