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Seussical type of cartoon

mmf — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:41:27 -0800

Trying to remember a Dr. Seuss TV cartoon (or a Seuss-like one) which featured a baby and two grown-up creatures (probably male) who helped him imagine/decide what he might be when he grows up. This is not "Oh the Places You'll Go", it was on television perhaps in the 80's or 90's. Anyone?

Help with cartoon Film

maxmix — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:09:10 -0800

It is a 60's or 70;s cartoon film, it starts live action and involves a boy who enters a cartoon world, I seem to recall a winding road, and has a Dr Suess kind of feel to it.....Pretty vague I know, but it's all i can remember, apart from it being shown on Cartoon network about 10 Ish years ago, any one help me??

Help me find this cartoon about Renaissance architecture!

Ms. Informed — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:56:53 -0800

Help me find this cartoon: Disappointed medieval guys standing in front of a half-built gothic building, reading a scroll that says: "Beginning tomorrow, the Renaissance will be mandatory." Ring any bells? My sister-in-law has been trying for months to find this cartoon, which she saw while taking an art history class at the Cleveland Museum of Art in about 1993-94. She's googled, checked the most likely sources (New Yorker, etc.), and even written to the directors of the course, but to no avail. Although she IS creative, this cartoon seems too clever to have been imagined--has anyone seen this before? Any sources--online or print--would be greatly appreciated!

In what cartoon does Foghorn Leghorn say, "Kids coming up nowadays don't even know how to tie down their pumpkins"?

Joe Beese — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:49:24 -0800

In what cartoon does Foghorn Leghorn say, "Kids coming up nowadays don't even know how to tie down their pumpkins"? I've seen it attributed to "Henhouse Henery" (1949) - but this appears to be incorrect.

Christmas Flamethrower Cartoon?

cr_joe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:25 -0800

Looking for a specific Christmas cartoon printed in the New Yorker a couple of years ago. A couple of years ago, I saw a great cartoon in the New Yorker. It was a man and a woman barricaded indoors while gumdrops, gingerbread men, and reindeer were outside and visible through a bay window. The caption reads something like "Get the flamethrower."

Google fu is failing me. I've also looked through the New Yorker cartoon bank with no luck so far. Did I imagine this? Thanks for your help!

Anyone remember this robot flick?

chavenet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:36:44 -0800

I'm trying to find the name of or clips from an animated film that I saw on HBO or Showtime in the mid-1980s. It was about a robot who was looking for its mother. Some of the other robots said "One! One! One!" a lot. And there was a dumb joke in the middle: "Did you hear the one about the fire in the circus? The heat was intense!" Can anyone help?

Just a film about a couple of lovebirds.

cobwebberies — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:34:26 -0800

MovieFilter: does anyone remember an animated film about a couple who were magically turned into a heron and an egret? It might have aired on American cable TV in the 1990's, but I have no idea about its origins. Every so often I'll remember the voice of a little boy saying "the heron and the egret!" from an animated film that I'm pretty sure I saw on cable when I was a kid in the 1990's, though it could have been made before then. It was in color, in English, and I don't think it was a dubbed anime.

As best as I recall, the main plot revolved around a couple of star-crossed lovers who ended up transformed into a heron and an egret permanently. They were probably cursed by a magical antagonist, like a sorcerer or a witch. It was one of those framed narratives where an older female relative (mother? grandmother?) told the main tale to her young male relative, sort of like in The Princess Bride, except the boy in this film wasn't ill. They might have been staying at a lighthouse and I think the female character was sitting in an armchair while the boy sat on the floor.

Near the end of the film, the grandfather/elderly male character (a bearded captain?) returns from a sea voyage. The other two characters were probably waiting for his return and using the story to pass the time. When they look out the window, the boy sees a heron and an egret flying around in the sky. After they reunited with the elderly male character comes back, he says that the birds helped him find his way home. Not sure if it was through a storm or a fog, but it was something troublesome. The boy is thrilled because he thinks that the birds are the heron and the egret of the story he had just heard, so he's happy that they're still together.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? My google-fu has failed me thus far, so I doubt it was popular or that it aired on TV often. I'd love to see the film again, but it'd also be cool to know that I'm not the only one who remembers it.

Help me find an earworm from a cartoon...

Red Loop — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:50:29 -0800

It's an animated short from (probably) Liquid Television in the early nineties. It's got explorers on ships that find a new world and change the natives with religion and money. It's backed by an old song in Spanish from a scratchy record that I can remember no words to. The cartoon was actually pretty good, funny and sad (while I'm asking questions, isn't there a word for that?), but I'm really more interested in the song; the tune has been coming into my head for years now. I've looked and looked to no avail. Anyone?

Flash CS4 Quicktime Export leaves artifacts and looks like crud. Help!

buriednexttoyou — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:03:30 -0800

Flash animators: When I export my flash cartoon to quicktime, moving objects leave behind horrible artifacts. Apparently I am not the only one with this problem. If Flash's quicktime export is so crummy, how do the professionals publish their cartoons to video? I'm working with CS4 on a mac, but I've heard this is also a problem with CS3. I've also heard that you can import SWF files into After Effects and then export to video. As much as I'd like to be able to afford AE, I can't at the moment.

I know there are tons of animators working in Flash. Does this problem exist for you, and how do you deal with it?

He sailed the seven seas...?

saxamo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:16:40 -0800

Can you help me track down this early 90s cartoon movie on vhs? I'm trying to remember an old cartoon movie. It's very vague in my mind but I will try to list everything I remember about it. All of this is really subject to my own recollection so take it all with a grain of salt and list anything that you might think connects to my "evidence"

I THINK it's called Captain Columbus. But Google has not given any leads on that name.

The movie starts with a faerie that lives on some sort of chandelier with the other faeries. She also has a big head on the cover of the movie, sort of square like.

There's also this worm or insect or other little creature with a pointy nose used for carving wood he loved to eat wood or whatever he and lived inside Columbus's globe on his ship. Him and the faerie had a relationship together. But they were the subplot of the story.

So Captain Columbus he had 3 ships and he was like a scientist and captain of a ship.

He was searching for this pyramid of gold and found it but somehow it collapses in the end and they all get away.

This cartoon was from the 90s, early to mid 90s. I was in like 3rd or 4th grade. I lent it to someone else and they never gave it back to me. I appreciate all the help and guesses I can get! Thanks!

Dreamlike Animation from the Eighties

lilyflower — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:39:23 -0800

Half remembered international animated short story from the 80's - does anyone recognise this story? I have a faint memory of a cartoon in my head from when I was a child in the eighties, I believe it was an international animation as there was no language, it wasn't feature length and was very simple animation.

The basic outline of the story as I remember it was a man living in a house in suburbia with all the mod cons (at least that the 80's had to offer!). He was out driving in his car but when he went to fill up at the gas/petrol station there was a huge queue. He goes home and it seems that the lights aren't working and the heating is off too. Food becomes scarce and one day while driving his car runs out of fuel. He leashes an ox to the car and uses it as a cart to be pulled home on.

He soon runs out of food so has to go out hunting, he has no heating and the winter starts to come in so he chops up all his furniture to make a fire in the house. I think spring comes around and the trees have grown through his house and he ventures outside. A mammoth starts chasing him and he can't get away, he is then caught under the hoof of the mammoth and when you think he is about to be crushed he awakens in his bed! He jumps out and runs to the lights and flicks them on and off, he turns on the thermostat and runs hot water through the taps. He is so excited and relieved...

And that is what I can remember, sounds a bit like a dream but I am sure I saw this on TV and watched it over and over on video.

Anyone remember it? Any suggestions would be most welcome!

All Comics Big And Small And Dangly.

The Whelk — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:40:55 -0800

Where The New Comics At?: In addition to my many other hats I may be getting a job reviewing new erotica/sexuality/explicit etc comics in the future. I'd get my pick of any comic/graphic novel to review as long as it includes some element or discussion of sex or sexuality or whatever. The problem is that I have no idea what the new releases are and I can't seem to find a centralized list of upcoming titles with enough description. Where should I be looking for new and upcoming titles from big and small publishers, ideally with some description so I can tell what the hell it is?

cartoon hero names A-Z suitable for monkeys

miagaille — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:24:25 -0800

I work in a lab with rhesus monkeys. They need names. For reasons of historical precedent and notational convenience, lab animals are usually named alphabetically, from A ("Abe") until you run out of monkeys. For reasons of awesomeness, we're naming our monkeys after spunky cartoon characters. So, please help me come up with the best comic/cartoon/superhero names for each letter of the alphabet. We currently have two monkeys: Zim and Yogi (we started from the end of the alphabet). Eight new monkeys are arriving next week, and probably more in the months and years to come. The names should be short (no more than two syllables) or have shortened forms. Both male and female names would be great. We're especially in need of the rare letters (X?); we could skip them, but that would be less awesome.

Note: no monkeys were harmed in the preparation of this AskMe, and no monkeys are maimed/killed/dissected in our lab, either. They live long, healthy lives, which is why we need good names from the start. Thanks!

What is this cartoon from my childhood?

doublehappy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:48:25 -0800

This has been driving me crazy, and I'm obviously a weaker google user than I thought. I used to watch a cartoon on Saturday mornings and I have no idea what it was, or even if it was real. My recollection is hazy and may incorporate any number of other childhood memories and red herring elements, but I'm hoping someone can help me out! [I'm going italicize any element I'm unsure about - i.e. those elements that my memory may have fabricated.]

Each episode was about a race between groups of 2 animals/people. The races may also have been rescue missions of some sort.

The races were monitored by a boss type character at hq. The boss type character had scouts that would report the progress of each team back to him. The progress was recorded on a map (each team had a statue on the map and would be knocked over if they were out of the race).

There were malevolent crows that may or may not have been competing as well. They set up traps and sabotaged other teams. There is also a chance that the crows were not malevolent at all, and were in fact the scouts mentioned earlier.

In my memory, the animation is similar to Samurai Pizza Cats

Usually a different team won each episode, as they each had unique strengths and weaknesses.

Please don't suggest Wacky Races/Racers. The animation was less sparse, and the characters very different, and I hesitate to say there were no vehicles, but I don't think there were vehicles.

Please help! I realise that I haven't given much information - but I am almost sure this show existed in real life and someone must have seen it! (I was born in 86, so I imagine I watched it sometime between 91 and 99, but I grew up in New Zealand, where television was aired sometimes years later than in the US for example.

Thanks!

Do you remember that bouncing boy cartoon?

cCranium — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:15:48 -0800

Does anyone remember an animated cartoon from the early 1970s (late 1960s?) that featured a boy drawn as a bouncing yellow ball with arms and face?

Who arrrrrrrr ya?

twirlypen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:59:13 -0800

A British (I think) kids cartoon, probably from the eighties or nineties. There's a pirate with spiky blue hair, big eyes and a long thin moustache, with red and yellow clothes and a peg-leg. What's it called? In 2003 I bought a plush toy in London. It is as described above, and I was told at one point that it's a character from a somewhat well known kids cartoon.

The name 'Captain Pugwash' springs to mind, but all my googling only brings up a vaguely similar (in that all pirates are similar) cartoon from the fifties.

I think his crew may have included an octopus.

And that, I'm afraid, is about all I've got to go on.

If you can give me a name, I'll be very much in your debt.

If you can give me his face in a "Captain Pugwash (or whatever) Wants YOU" style poster, then you're some kind of god.

What is the name of the artist that drew this?

babsomatica — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:56:51 -0800

Who is the artist that drew this image? It looks like something I've seen more in the style of.... but am drawing a blank on who it is... any hints most appreciated P.S. It was not originally my mystery. Someone asked me and it stoked my curiosity so I do not even know the origins of the copy of the image even.

Help me find an old cartoon strip

mrthotep — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:42:10 -0800

I'm trying to find the title of an "independant" comic strip from late '80s and early '90s I need help finding an old comic/cartoon that used to appear in independent newspapers such as The Chicago Reader. The cartoon was typically a single panel, anywhere from 10x10 to 25x25cm in size, usually square. It typically showed a bug-eyed guy who self-professed to having drunk too much coffee and being stressed out by it. The visual style was somewhere between a Plimptoon and something slightly more schizophrenic in nature (think: Comedy Central's Superjail). Text within the panel filled in details about the stressed out guy's self-image, his relationship problems, and angst/anger with the world at large. Artwork of his was popular on t-shirts I saw at university in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I lost track of him and his art around 1995.

Note: this is NOT about "Too Much Coffee Man" - the guy didn't have a coffee cup for a head, he was simply too stressed out on coffee.

What is a great Biblical animation for kids

lynnie-the-pooh — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:39:10 -0800

Looking for a good animated Biblical DVD for my five year old. My daughter loves a DVD called Prince of Peace by Vision Video and it was made in the year 2004. Are there any other good videos or DVD's from that company or another company that make great animated Biblical stories for youngsters?

Thanks,
Lynnie-the-Pooh

I want to share the laughs

NoraCharles — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:59:09 -0800

Please help me find this cartoon where a son changed his grade. I saw it somewhere on the internet, I can't remember where and my google-fu is failing me.

It was a son and a mother. She was looking at his report card. I don't remember what she was saying, but the inset was a picture of said report card where he changed the "F" grade into "Fucking awesome" (or something like that).

I know some teacher friends that would appreciate it and would like to share it.

Can you help me find it?

What cartoon was this?

consummate dilettante — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:48:52 -0800

Can you help me find out the animated short I saw in the late 1990s on SPACE (the Canadian SciFi Channel)? This has been bugging me for ages, but I'm certain AskMe will provide.

As I said above, the cartoon was seen on the SPACE network in the late 1990s. It was a filler animation that they slotted in between programs.

Here's what I remember: It involved an evolutionary battle between a red dot and yellow dot. They start off as atoms (dots) hurtling through space until they both collide with a planet. On the planet they begin to evolve into more complex creatures, starting from single celled organisms, and, I think, ending up as giant fighting robots. They battle each other constantly at each stage of evolution.

Ringing any bells?

Help identifying an old cartoon?

branparsons — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:04:41 -0800

Help identifying a very old cartoon? I'm trying to recall an cartoon from my childhood... I can only remember very brief scenes from it, and certainly it was very, very old (it might be Merry Melodies -- that kind of animation style/look/era). The cartoon was about where babies come from and the setting involved a really cheerful factory/assembly line of sorts. I also think a stork was operating the machinery. There are scenes where they 'made' little girls and showed sugar and spice being used as ingredients, and for boys, they used "rats and snails and puppy dog tails" (natch). And the Stork was saying the rhyme while these scenes were shown. Does anyone else remember this? (Sound creepy enough?)

Thanks!

A cartoon about guys with giant foreheads

happyturtle — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:26:49 -0800

My friend is trying to remember a cartoon about two guys with abnormally large foreheads. He thinks it was from around 10-13 years ago. They had large pole with a wheel on the bottom to carry their foreheads. At some point, they argue, so one kicks the other guy's wheel thing. The weight of his forehead makes him fall forward and his forehead gets stuck in the ground. Then the same happens to the other guy.

That's pretty much it. Sounds familiar? Anyone?

Help me remember a childhood cartoon trauma

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:50:03 -0800

Do you remember an eighties cartoon about blood-letting? Sometime in the early eighties I saw a cartoon on swedish TV which spooked me pretty good. I don't remember much about it, other than:
* It was drawn in a semi realistic kind of way, sort of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe-ish
* The soundtrack to it contained either "Flight of the Bumblebee" or the "William Tell Overture"... I think
* It was quite sinister for a morning cartoon, or at least I thought so back then. There were heroes and villians (or one villian), and I remember that some of the heroes got their blood sucked out of them via some sort of machine. The blood-letting took place inside a mountain... I think
* I'm pretty sure that the cartoon was a one-off; it didn't star a gang of regulars, so to speak. Of course I could be wrong about this and what I'm remembering is an episode of Scooby-Doo, but I don't think so...
That's pretty much all I remember. It's all very vague but I'm sure one of you will know which cartoon I'm talking about!

Hello Minnelli

darksasami — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:01:54 -0800

How can I make a poster out of a coloring book page? So I've got a picture that I very much want to have on my wall, because clearly I have no taste. What I have is very simple, thick line art on crappy coloring book paper, at about 24x18 inches. What I want is a pretty, colorful poster using the original line art, suitable for framing and for making my house that much more tacky. How do I get from point A to point B?

Here are the obstacles I know about:

I never learned to color between the lines, so I would need someone to produce a color image for me, and I don't know anyone with that skillset.
It's a copyrighted image, and although this would be strictly for my personal use, that might make whoever I'm working with balk. That includes either whoever turns the line art into the image or the shop that prints the print.
It would be neat, though not strictly necessary, to add embellishment around it--background, borders, whatever. Ideally, I think I'd want to end up with something any Red Robin would be eager to have on its walls. I don't know how to find an artist who could do such things.
Even if I were to enlist an actual artist, I'm half convinced that they'd be insulted at what I was asking for.
I have no idea what getting a poster or print or whatever created entails, even if I had a finished image to work with.

Here's a variant (in hideous colors) of the image I'm after, just so you understand how refined a sense of artistic merit I have.

Can someone with experience in these kinds of things help get me started?