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Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Now that Easter is over, I suppose I should write about the relevant cartoons Beth and I watched this year. A Claymation Easter – This was on the same DVD as A Claymation Christmas, and I thought it would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Easter, Fairy Tales, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Stan Freberg, Technology, Television | Tagged a claymation christmas, a claymation easter, bears, berenstain bears, burl ives, casey kasem, chickens, claymation, danny kaye, daws butler, dr. spike rabbit, ducks, easter bunny, fairies, frosty the snowman, hallelujah jones, here comes peter cottontail, irving berlin, january q. irontail, mike berenstain, paas egg dye, paul frees, peter and the magic egg, peter paas, pigs, rabbits, rankin/bass, ray bolger, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus is comin' to town, sheep, stan and jan berenstain, the berenstain bears' easter surprise, the easter bunny is comin' to town, the first easter rabbit, the little engine that could, the velveteen rabbit, tobias tinwhiskers, trains, turtles, vincent price, will vinton |

Food and Cheer Over Hoarded Gold

I saw two old animated specials last night that were quite different, although I guess you could say that Garfield and Bilbo Baggins both have a similar desire for food and comfort. Garfield: His 9 Lives – This 1988 special, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Monsters, Music, Poetry, Television | Tagged bilbo baggins, cats, cave cat, court musician, diana's piano, dogs, dragons, dwarves, elves, gandalf, garfield, garfield his 9 lives, gollum, hans conried, in the garden, john huston, jon arbuckle, king cat, lab animal, odie, orson bean, otto preminger, paul frees, rankin-bass, smaug, space cat, stunt cat, the hobbit, thorin oakenshield |

Don’t Say Nothing Bad About My Baby New Year

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year – This 1976 Rankin-Bass special is currently up on YouTube, although I can’t say whether it will stay there. I can’t recall having seen this one before, although Beth had. The most famous reindeer of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, New Year's Day, Television, Uncategorized | Tagged baby new year, father time, frank gorshin, harold peary, paul frees, rankin-bass, red skelton, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, rudolph's shiny new year, santa claus |

Cereal Offenders

The Internet has had a lot of talk about cereal commercial mascots, but I figured I might as well add my voice to the hubbub. I never was big on this sort of dry cereal myself, partially because my parents … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Food, Television, The Flintstones | Tagged bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cap'n crunch, cereal, cocoa krispies, cocoa pebbles, cocoa puffs, dean martin, fred flintstone, froot loops, frosted flakes, fruity pebbles, gerry matthews, golden crisp, gramps, granny goodwitch, jay ward, jean lafoote, king vitaman, leprechauns, lucky charms, lucky the leprechaun, mascots, mel blanc, paul frees, pebbles flintstone, quick draw mcgraw, snagglepuss, soggies, sonny the cuckoo bird, sugar bear, sugar crisp, sugar frosted flakes, sugar smacks, tony the tiger, toucan sam, trix, trix rabbit |