Monday, June 23, 2008

My favourite cartoon(s)

i was asked by LittleGillian last night about my favourite cartoon. I had a hard time thinking of a title. I came up with Cow & Chicken, but i knew there was another i really enjoyed and discovered quite recently when i was watching kids central a year or two ago. Toons-something.

This afternoon i told her Toonsville. Then i googled it, and nothing was linked to it.

Just 10 mins ago as i was mopping the floor, it came to me- ! Sweet. I've only watched one or two episodes but i definitely love the whole concept of it all. It is a little abject of some sort. A reversal in fact. Instead of the dead being the abject, the normal person is the subject. Imagine a town filled with the living dead, and you're the outcast living with them just because u are human.

Haha and a google search confirmed it.


"Cow and Chicken"
Cow & Chicken

Meet Cow and Chicken, who live under a suburban roof with human parents, human friends and inhuman adventures. Fortunately for Chicken, who ruffles the feathers of many a human counterpart, Cow has an alter ego known as Supercow who wields her beefy frame whenever a situation calls for a bovine intervention. Created by David Feiss, Cow and Chicken received a 1998 Prime-Time Emmy 


Toonsylvania

Toonsylvania is an animated television series, which ran from 1998 to 1999 on FOX's Saturday morning cartoon block (usually placed in a block called "The No Yell Motel" that contained scary kids shows such as Goosebumps and Eerie, Indiana) in its first season, then was moved to Tuesday afternoons from 1999 until its cancellation in 2000. It was produced in part by Steven Spielberg, following in the footsteps of his previous animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Much like Animaniacs, the show had recurring cartoon series that appeared in each episode. Unlike Animaniacs, Toonsylvania didn't have a wide range of characters and almost every episode had the same cartoon segments.

A typical episode of Toonsylvania starts with a cartoon featuring the adventures of Dr. Vic Frankenstein (voiced by David Warner), his assistant Igor (voiced by Wayne Knight) who always sets out to prove that he's the real genius instead of Dr. Vic, and their dim-witted Frankenstein monster known as Phil (voiced by Brad Garrett). Before the second cartoon, there is an animated vignette where Igor is on the couch with Phil and tries to fix the TV remote, but every episode, there's a new problem with it (a running gag akin to the couch gags seen on The Simpsons). After that, there is a cartoon series called "Night of the Living Fred," about a family of zombies (sometimes, a parody of a B-horror movie would air instead of a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon). After that is a short segment called "Igor's Science Minute," where Igor gives a science lesson (be it a musical piece or a spoken piece) that always ends in disaster. The final segment is "Melissa Screetch's Morbid Morals," where Phil the Frankenstein monster does something bad and Igor punishes him by reading a tale involving a bratty girl named Melissa Screetch (voiced by Nancy Cartwright of Simpsons fame) who doesn't heed the warnings of adults (usually given by her mother) and gets punished one way or the other for it.

catch episode: baby human here 

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