Watch Jim Reardon's "Bring me the head of Charlie Brow

John Pannozzi · Post by **John Pannozzi** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:11 pm

WARNING: Lots of bloody violence and intense humor

Jim Reardon, who made this film while still a student at CalArts, later went on to work on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Tiny Toon Adventures and the Simpsons.

Watch out for Godzilla!

Enjoy

http://mirror.sardonica.net/BmthCBVCD.mpg

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:12 pm

Who's Charlie Brow?

John Pannozzi · Post by **John Pannozzi** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:41 pm

Spazz wrote:Who's Charlie Brow?

Sorry. Typo, meant to say " Charlie Brown".

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:24 pm

I always wondered, what was up with Mighty Mouse.

Post by **G.Silver** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:15 pm

That was unexpectedly entertaining.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:41 am

That was almost as wrong as Charlie Brown's cameo on Drawn Together. XD

And speaking of controversy with Peanuts characters, I heard a recent episode of Robot Chicken was banned do to the comic portrayal of the Peanuts characters. Unfortunatly I never got to see the episode in question, I can imagine that there could be some truth to at least the banning of the skit since Schultz's people seemed to be touchy when people parody their characters.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:10 am

I saw the Peanuts parody. It was hilarious, especially when Charlie Brown pointed out how that he can't understand the adults' "wahwahwah" sounds they make. I could see why it was banned, though; it was pretty mean-spirited. Charlie Brown calls Lucy a "bitch", for one (something he didn't say even in MAD TV's parody of Peanuts).

Post by **Esrever** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:55 am

Double-S- wrote:I always wondered, what was up with Mighty Mouse.

Mighty Mouse: The New Advenutres was directed by John K, the creator of Ren and Stimpy; and produced by Ralph Bakshi, the director of the first ever X-rated cartoon, Fritz the Cat. How those two ever wound up helming a show for children, I have no idea. But it certainly explains why it turned out the way it did. (Awesomely.)

I hope it makes it to DVD some day.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:39 am

Ralph Bakshi, of animated "VIKING-BOROMIR/mentally retarded Gamgee" Lord of the Rings fame? He's a good thing?

Post by **Esrever** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:29 pm

Oh, no! Sorry, he's a massive hack. His impressive resume includes Cool World, a bunch of really shitty 1970s rotoscoped adult cartoons, and about half of the original Spider-man cartoon.

But his involvement in Mighty Mouse didn't extend much beyond handing it over to John K, and then paying for it. He was a good thing in that one case, because I don't think ANYONE else would have been crazy enough to hand John K creative control of a children's show.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:32 pm

He did a damn fine job with the later episodes of Rocket Robin Hood, though, although I suspect acid had more to do with it than talent.

Post by **Esrever** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:07 pm

Did you know that every episode of the Spider-man cartoon that he produced was completed entirely in one week? I remember reading an interview with him where he explained how difficult it was to fill an entire half hour with only a week's worth of work. Whenever an episode was running short, they'd just go back and pad it with more clips of Spider-man swinging around on his webs. "Just keep that bastard swinging!" as he put it.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:54 pm

Wait, they made all the episodes in a week or each episode they made took a week?

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:27 am

Each episode, I assume.