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Holidaytime Television

Here are my thoughts on a few Christmas specials Beth and I watched this month, not counting ones I’ve already written about. Frosty’s Winter Wonderland – I vaguely remember seeing this years ago on a black and white TV, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged andy griffith, big bad wolf, bob newhart, chuck jones, comet, daws butler, dean martin, dennis the menace, dom deluise, frosty the snowman, frosty's winter wonderland, jack frost, jay north, jimmy durante, june foray, parson brown, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, rankin-bass, reindeer, santa claus, the great santa claus caper, variety shows, winter wonderland |

A Foray Into Animated Enchantresses

A few days ago, Tavie brought up how both Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons have witches named Witch Hazel, both voiced by June Foray, and said I should write a post about that. From the brief research I did, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Etymology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Names, Television, William Shakespeare | Tagged bea benaderet, bewitched bunny, broom-stick bunny, bugs bunny, carl barks, casper the friendly ghost, chuck jones, donald duck, ducktales, huey dewey and louie, june foray, little lulu, looney tunes, macbeth, madam mim, magica de spell, scrooge mcduck, the sword in the stone, trick or treat, witch hazel, witches |

The Tentacles of Time

Day of the Tentacle – In my younger days, the NES version of Maniac Mansion was a favorite of mine. It was bowdlerized somewhat from the original computer version, particularly in terms of Nurse Edna’s sexually suggestive comments. Nintendo initially … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, History, Humor, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged benjamin franklin, bernard bernoulli, betsy ross, chuck jones, constitution, day of the tentacle, dead cousin ted edison, dr. fred edison, george washington, green tentacle, john hancock, lucasarts, maniac mansion, nurse edna edison, purple tentacle, red edison, thomas jefferson, time travel, weird ed edison |

The Money Cat Knows Where the Money Tree Grows

Gay Purr-ee – Apparently Chuck Jones beat Disney to an animated movie about cats in Paris by almost a decade. There was some real star power behind it, too. It was Judy Garland’s only animated role and Robert Goulet’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Music, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged cats, chuck jones, gay purr-ee, harold arlen, judy garland, robert goulet, united productions of america, warner bros, yip harburg |

And Juster for All

Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth was a favorite in my childhood, and I’m pleased to say it still holds up. I recently checked out The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, with annotations by Leonard S. Marcus, which was published in 2011. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alice in wonderland, butch patrick, chuck jones, dictionopolis, flatland, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jules feiffer, kabumpo in oz, leonard marcus, mathematics, norton juster, rith metic, synesthesia, the annotated alice, the annotated phantom tollbooth, the dot and the line, The Phantom Tollbooth |