Posts Tagged ‘Hanna-Barbera’
Gabba Gabba Hey meets Yabba Dabba Do…
The late Seventies re-imagined: from artist Dave Perillo (AKA montygog), a look at what might have happened if two paragons of Punk had instead gone the Hanna Barbera route…
[TotH to the always-amazing Dangerous Minds and to the ever-bodacious Boing Boing]
As we contemplate the consolations of a cel out, we might send trenchant birthday wishes to two of history’s most acute observers of the human condition: Jonathan Swift, the satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric who’s probably best remembered for Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal, was born on this date in 1667.
And Samuel Langhorne Clemens– Mark Twain– the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and its sequel, “The Great American Novel” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was born on this date in 1835.
Swift ultimately rose to high church office, serving as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Clemens did not.
I’m so Glad(well)…
Readers can create their own best-sellers at The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator.
[TotH to the wonderful Pop Loser]
As we decide what to do with our royalties, we might recall that it was on this date in 1940 that MGM’s first Tom and Jerry cartoon, “Puss Gets the Boot,” premiered; the inter-species couple would go on to “star” in over 100 more cartoons. It was the first collaboration between William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (founding a partnership that would last over 50 years and yield such treasures as The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Top Cat, and Yogi Bear); at over nine minutes in length, it’s the longest T&J ever produced– and the first of three T&J essays (with “Puss n’ Toots” and “Puss ‘n’ Boats”) to pun it’s title on the fairy tale “Puss in Boots.” “Puss Gets the Boot” was nominated for an Academy Award– the first of Hanna and Barbera’s many Oscar nominations.
The cat in “Puss Gets the Boot” was actually named “Jasper”; the mouse, “Jinx.” But when the pilot got the go-ahead to become a series, animator John Carr won a studio-wide naming contest with his suggestion: “Tom and Jerry.” Jasper’s owner, “Mammy Two-Shoes,” was voiced by June Foray— who later earned immortality as the voice of Rocky J. Squirrel.
How many can YOU name?!?!?…
From Chilean designer Juan Pablo Bravo, “600 Hanna-Barbera Characters“…
The characters are shown in chronological order, with their respective names in English and Spanish (of the TV series and the characters). Excluded repeats and new versions of some series. The image sizes are not to scale.
The full catalogue looks like this:
… only, of course, much larger. To see the rendering full-size, click here.
TotH to Laughing Squid.
As we wonder why the live-action version of The Flintstones hasn’t been remade at least once, we might recall that it was on this date in 1989 that French law enforcement officials admitted that they had a computer problem: 41,000 Parisians had received letters over the prior weekend accusing them of murder, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking and other felonious pursuits. But consolingly– if bewilderingly– to the accused, they were asked only to pay minor fines.
When the Gendarmerie came clean, they admitted that the recipients of the notices were in fact guilty of unpaid parking and traffic fines. Revised invoices were mailed– along with letters of apology.
Hey, squirt!…
(Photo by Helen E. Raleigh of C.W. Slagle Antiques, via Popular Mechanics)
Given the season, one might be grateful to Popular Mechanics for its round-up of The Top 6 Water Guns of All Time…
As we pack for the pool, we might might stutter a respectful “Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks!,” as it was on this date that Melvin Jerome “Mel” Blanc– the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and countless other Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes (and later Hanna-Barbera) cartoon characters– died in 1989… just a year after voicing Daffy Duck in his classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit duel with Donald…
(source: The B.S. Report)
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