And NO this isn't from Soul Train...
Posted on 05/27/2004 7:25:15 AM PDT by qam1
The maid on my dvd is the original voice. I've noticed the new voice on cartoon-network. This dvd has the all too famous "Thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomas!" with "Mammy's little Baby Loves Shortnin' Bread" playing in the background. heh heh
Racer X just looked cooler. What's up with Race's head? Looks like he dunked into a barrel of flour. :-D
And NO this isn't from Soul Train...
I'm cute, too. Everything evens out. :-)
Again I've got "all" the Tom & Jerry cartoons on laserdisc. They released several boxed sets: all the Hanna Barbera shorts for MGM, Chuck Jones shorts for MGM. These came with clips from movies that also featured Tom & Jerry.
They did not release the Gene Deitch 1960s Tom & Jerrys.
What is on DVD? EVERYTHING? Any bonus footage? Any widescreen (they did release widescreen shorts to laserdisc). Do they break them up by director or mix them together?
I've got some of these things on laserdisc and while I could see getting them on DVD, I'd rather get things on DVD that I don't already have. DVD is not the "final" format (there will be higher definition formats with better compression). I know that some of this stuff will be reissued again.
I was able to get the Jetsons season one for $35 new (postage paid). List is something like $65.
Does anyone have the Flintstones DVD set? What sort of bonus materials does it have? Does it have the Winston cigarettes commercials? The laserdisc boxed set does but I haven't opened it (I may still sell it although I think it has some exclusive material). It's easier to sell it sealed (certainly I could get more money).
It is mind boggling some of the things that got officially released with the modern corporate mindset controlling things.
Oddly when adult became perpetual juveniles
Well it looks like a quick search of discussions about the French Tex Avery DVD set is that they were sourced from censored tv prints (and they reportedly caught flak for it). I'd say avoid it (France, possible subtitles, edited shorts, R2-PAL...).
Maybe so but I'd say that Jay Ward was a perpetual juvenile and he didn't try for off color humor when he went "adult". He went historical, literary, topical, and political.
I stopped watching cartoons years ago but recently started to watch SpongeBob when my kids had him on. He makes me laugh right out loud.
If you take a look at the old GI JOE comic books, they are kind of corny, but they do have people biting the dust. Most of the time, it is the badguys, but on occasion a hero falls in the line of duty (General Flagg, Doc, Thunder, etc.).
Me too along with Beanie and Cecil. They had a good measure of the same.
This is a more appropriate roll...
Shmoo (not Schmoo) Facts & Info
Cartoonist Al Capp was already world-famous and a millionaire in 1948 when he introduced an armless pear-shaped character called the Shmoo into his daily "Li'l Abner" strip. The unusual creature loved humans.A Shmoo laid eggs and bottles of Grade A milk in an instant, and would gladly die and change itself into a sizzling steak if its owner merely looked at it hungrily. Its skin was fine leather, its eyes made perfect buttons and even its whiskers made excellent toothpicks. Shmoos multiplied much faster than rabbits, so owning a pair of Shmoos meant that any family was self-sufficient.
Of course the Shmoos proved too good for humanity's sake and therein was the basis for Capp's ultimate (and tragic) satire. But a remarkable phenomenon occurred during the telling of his tale.
Virtually overnight, -as a LIFE magazine headline put it- the "U.S. Becomes Shmoo-struck!" The character's remarkable success catapulted Capp to an all-new level of wealth and fame. It is difficult, fifty years later, to convey to new generations the profound impact the lovable Shmoo had on American culture. The following facts may help . . .
• Close to one hundred licensed Shmoo products from seventy-five different manufacturers were produced in less than a year, some of which sold five million units each. (Sources: Newsweek 9-5-49 and Editor & Publisher 7-16-49)
• The Shmoo was an unprecedented media and merchandise phenomenon (1948-52). America went Shmoo-crazy. There had never previously been anything like it. Comparisons to contemporary cultural phenomena are inevitable. But modern crazes are almost always due to massive marketing campaigns by large media corporations, and are generally aimed at the youth market. The Shmoo phenomenon arose immediately, spontaneously and solely from cartoonist Al Capp's daily comic strip (something that simply wouldn't happen today) and it appealed widely to Americans of all ages.
• Forty million people read the original 1948 Shmoo story (combined circulation of the 500+ daily newspapers carrying "Li'l Abner"). And Capp's already considerable readership roughly doubled following the overwhelming success of the Shmoo.
• Unprecedented serious attention. When Simon & Shuster published The Life & Times of The Shmoo in 1948, it was reviewed coast to coast alongside Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe (the other big book at that moment in time). The S&S Shmoo collection was the first cartoon book to achieve serious literary attention.
• Simon & Shuster sold 700,000 copies of its Life & Times of the Shmoo in the first year of publication alone, an undisputed best seller.
• Berlin Airlift. Shmoos were air-dropped to hungry Berliners by America's 17th Military Airport Squadron during the Soviet Union's tense blockade of West Berlin in 1948. "When the candy-chocked Shmoos were dropped a near-riot resulted." –Newsweek 9-5-49 (and 10-11-48).
• Time cover. The Shmoos and Capp made the cover of Time magazine (11-6-50). They also garnered nearly a full page (under "Economics") in the 8-13-48 International section of Time and Time's "The Press" section on 5-23-49. Similar major articles ran in Newsweek, Life, New Republic and countless other publications and newspapers.
• Shmoos invade the Presidential election. During the 1948 Presidential campaign, Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey accused incumbent Harry S. Truman of "promising everything including the Shmoo!" (Reported in Newsweek 9-5-48).
• A Shmoo Savings Bond was issued by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1949! The valid document was colorfully illustrated with Capp's character, and promoted by the U.S. Government with a $16 million dollar multimedia advertising budget. Al Capp accompanied President Truman at the bond's unveiling ceremony.
• During its first year Shmoo merchandise generated over $25,000,000 in sales (in 1948 dollars)!
The Shmoo continues to garner attention and prove collectible more than a half century after its debut. In the past two years alone a book from Overlook Press has been published in hard and softcover, Dark Horse Comics has produced a new Shmoo statue, button and collectible tin. Articles on the Shmoo have appeared in Pages (10-02), Toy Stories 2003 Annual, Salon.com, newsarama.com and elsewhere. Russian "nesting" Shmoos, a soft vinyl Shmoo, and a desktop CD featuring all-new Shmoo animation are in the works for the coming year.
-Denis Kitchen, © 2004
So basically they want something as bland and boring as everything else out there, but with a 'liberal' spin. Wasn't that the thinking which went into Air America?
Is that from the French New Wave??? He certainly looks like a New Waver.
Race Bannon was patriot, a former OSS member who was assigned to be a bodyguard for a famus Good-Guy Scientist.
Race Bannon was a moral, healthy, bad dude when he had to be, and quite giving and selfless, offering to put his life in danger for those whe agreed to protect.
The 1966 Jonny Quest Cartoon also had Jonny and Hadji PRAYING before bedtime in one episode, with Race and Dr. Quest watching on in approval!
:-)
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