What Is Your Favorite Animation

[DrEntropy]

Any Chuck Jones, some early Hanna-Barbera... Ponsonby Britt (Jay Ward) still kills me.

 

[Brooklands]

Doc,
I had to recheck on Ponsonby Britt O.B.E., but did find the answer without getting out my history of Jay Ward book.

 

[DrEntropy]

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[William]

I've always liked the classic cartoon shorts-when I was a kid in the 80's they were a staple of local television during the morning and early afternoon (back in the days before WFLD became Fox and WGN got the CW). So I've seen them all, amazingly, and before they cut up the classic Tom & Jerry shorts to make Mammy Two-Shoes more PC and therefore more offensive, and before they took smoking out of toons.

My favorite, though, is a sixties short of Norton Juster's short story The Dot And The Line: A Romance In Lower Mathematics. This was done in '65 by Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation studios, right at the time they were doing the really weird, slightly psychedelic Tom & Jerry shorts and the classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas with Boris Karloff. It's just brilliant.

YouTube, of course, has it: The Dot And The Line

-William (someday I'll animate myself and then I can send the cartoon to work and stay home)

 

[William]

At one time for me...Johnny Quest.

Jonny Quest fans will probably like Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., which draws heavily from Jonny Quest, up to and including using the characters of Jonny and Race Bannon at one point. It is one of the funniest cartoons out there, and is eminently quotable. Cartoon Network doesn't show it very often right now (weird late night Sunday slots), but it's worth catching, or better yet, buying the season one and two DVD sets.

<span style="color: #3366FF">Note: This is absolutely <span style="color: #FF0000">NOT</span> a kids cartoon. Language, violence, nakeditity, and the voice of Patrick Warburton all feature. Parents with younguns strongly cautioned.</span>

 

[racingenglishcars]

I like Dexter. He's almost as good as McGeiver. Can make anything.
My daughter likes Totally Spies.
My wife likes Dexter's sister DiDi.
In my famly, I'm the technical one, my wife's the feeling type. She really relates to DiDi and thinks Dexter is the weird one.

 

[Banjo]

Oh yea.. The Pink Panther. those were as good as the movies.
and The Ant and the Aardvark.
I enjoy I.D.ing famous voices in cartoons. Like
the previously mentioned "Two stupid Dogs" the big fat dog is voiced by Brad Garrett (brother Robby on Everybody loves Raymond)
Or the show on PBS called "Cyber Chase". not one of my favorites, but the bad guy is voiced by Christopher Lloyd. and I think Gilbert Godfrey does a voice in that one too.
Another one on Cartoon network called "I.M.Weasel" has the title charecter voiced by Michael Dorn (AKA Wharf on Star Trek)
It's funny when you recognize them.

 

[pa297pass]

Any Chuck Jones, some early Hanna-Barbera... Ponsonby Britt (Jay Ward) still kills me.

I'm with you Doc ... Chuck Jones all the way. This is definately one of my favorites.

Transylvania 6-5000

"You wouldn't hit a bat with glasses on ... would you?"

"THONK"

I still LOL when I watch it.

Matt

 

[rick_ingram]

"Boom" network (channel 297) on DirecTV shows classic MGM toons...things that would NEVER be made these days out of Political Correctness.

 

[DrEntropy]

Digressive Thread Drift:

Last May a friend and I took his Maine registered "cat boat" on an excursion up-river and back on the Sliver River to the Spring... On return to the dock a crowd was watching this somewhat unusual craft and one bystander, seeing the registration: "ME" remarked we were a bit far form home.

... I couldn't resist. Turning to my friend I said: "See! I told ya we made a wrong turn in Albuquerqe!"

It was actually understood, too. Guffaws from more'n one onna dock.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

and The Ant and the Aardvark.

Oh yeah! "Hey Ant! I'd like a word with you please..." If the voice wasn't Joey Bishop's, it sure sounded like him!

 

[racingenglishcars]

"I.M.Weasel" has the title charecter voiced by Michael Dorn (AKA Wharf on Star Trek)

That's what I get for living in this dump. We get Steen Rasmussen's voice

 

[William]

... I couldn't resist. Turning to my friend I said: "See! I told ya we made a wrong turn in Albuquerqe!"

I use that line, or variations of it, all the time. It's only funny if you use "Albuquerqe", and pronuncicate it "left toin" and "Al-bah-coi-kee". In the same way that "murder" is funny when pronounced "moider", and downright hysterical when it's "moiderize" and coupled with a Moe Howard "Why I oughta..." shaken fist.

Did the vulture in the old WB shorts have a name? My Dad always calls him "Bardoop" because of what he would sing while flying- "bar-dooop-bar-doop, bar-doop-bar-doop..."

Friend of mine's girlfriend is named Jane, and he frequently annoys her in the car by shouting "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"

-Wm.

 

[Banjo]

Did the vulture in the old WB shorts have a name? My Dad always calls him "Bardoop" because of what he would sing while flying- "bar-dooop-bar-doop, bar-doop-bar-doop..."

Killer.
His "Momma" would call for him in her Italian accent
"Oh Killaher Why you no bring home dinna likah you brothers"
"OOOhhh nononononononno nope not gonna do it nope uh uh"
Man.. I need help.

 

[DrEntropy]

'twas done in my finest Brooklynese, Will'm.