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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

Who's Charlie Brow?

Spazz wrote:Who's Charlie Brow?

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

I always wondered, what was up with Mighty Mouse.

That was unexpectedly entertaining.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Each episode, I assume.