Saturday Morning Cartoon: Pink Plasma

Happy Halloween!   This year I'm posting Pink Plasma, a Pink Panther cartoon from 1975.  This one is pretty significant for me, as I am aquainted with this cartoon's director Art Leonardi.  When I was a kid our family got together with the Leonardi family on occassion, and I remember him timing out this cartoon during a visit.   He demonstrated the monster voice to me at the time, and I am reasonably sure he did all the voices / utterances you hear in the cartoon.   Enjoy!

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Yankee Doodle Bugs

In our never-ending efforts to be timely, this week we bring you Yankee Doodle Bugs, a 1954 Looney Tune from Friz Freleng.  I donm't have much to say about this one, except this note to trivia fans:  This is one of only two cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny's nephew, Clyde.   His other appearance was in His Hare Raising Tale, released three years earlier in 1951.   (He also appeared in a television special, but we don't count that).  Enjoy!

Saturday Morning Cartoon - Gift Wrapped

Okay, I know I'm a bit behind in postings.   I haven't posted a cartoon in a while, so to celebrate the holidays, I'm posting a 1952 Christmas-themed cartoon:   Gift Wrapped, starring Sylvester and Tweety.   In keeping with the true spirit of the season, there are , explosions, gunplay, dynamite, and the chance to watch Sylvester swallow Tweety (and be swallowed, for that matter) at least three times.  Enjoy!

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Ballot Box Bunny

Only three more days until election day!   For today's cartoon I've picked a standerd Bugs Bunny / Yosemite Sam cartoon from 1950:  Ballot Box Bunny, directed by Friz Freleng.  This cartoon contains the infamous "Those Endearing Young Charms" exploding piano gag (used at least three times by the Warners crew) and a unusually dark ending that in recent years has been edited out of television showings.  I wish all elections could be determined this easily.   Enjoy!

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Here Comes the Grump!

Here's one of my all-time favorite Saturday morning cartoon shows:  Here Comes the Grump, produced in 1969 by Depatie-Freleng and broadcast on NBC.  The show must have cost quite a bit, as every episode required new characters, new settings, etc., as Princess Dawn and Terry visited new lands every episode in their pursuit of the Crystal Key.  Dave Depatie and Friz Freleng based the Grump on Yosemite Sam from the cartoon "Knighty Knight Bugs"  which Freleng directed while at Warner Bros.   Odd Fact:   Yosemite Sam was originally based on Friz Freleng himself.  Here is the title sequence, with a theme song I was still singing years after the show went off the air:



This is probably the best episode of the bunch....   And I am proud to say that I actually own the  "Cheese Mountain" background painting from this episode!   It's the Blabbermouth of Echo Island:



Here's The Grand Slam of Door City...



And the end credits...