who framed roger rabbit – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Tag Archives: who framed roger rabbit

Holy Hanna-Barbera!

The Hanna-Barbera Now initiative at DC Comics started in 2016, with the idea to use characters from the old studio’s cartoons in more modern and often darker stories. I’d been interested in the Flintstones series for a while now; it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged aliens, astro, augie doggie, bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cosmo g. spacely, dc comics, dogs, dorothy parker, elroy jetson, exit stage left, frank pugh, fred flintstone, gay marriage, george jetson, george o'hanlon, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, hanna-barbera now, homophobia, homosexuality, huckleberry hound, jane jetson, jimmy palmiotti, marilyn monroe, mark russell, marriage, mike feehan, nasa, pearl slaghoople, pebbles flintstone, peter potamus, pier brito, president richard nixon, puns, quick draw mcgraw, robots, rosey the robot, roy cohn, satire, snagglepuss, squiddly diddly, tennessee williams, tony danza, who framed roger rabbit, wilma flintstone |

‘Tis the Voice of the Plumber

After the trailer for the new Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped, there were a lot of takes on Mario’s voice, as performed by Chris Pratt. I don’t really know that we get enough of it to judge it. It seems like … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Food, Humor, Language, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged accents, anime, bob hoskins, captain lou albano, charles martinet, chris pratt, danny devito, danny wells, donkey kong jr., garfield, garfield and friends, hotel mario, king bowser koopa, luigi mario, marc graue, mario and luigi, mario bros., mario mario, mario teaches typing, movie trailers, pasta, peter cullen, plumbing, ronald b. ruben, saturday supercade, shigeru miyamoto, super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. movie, the adventures of super mario bros. 3, the great mission to rescue princess peach, tony rosato, walker boone, who framed roger rabbit, yoshi's island |

Illuminating the Issues

WARNING! SPOILERS for all three films! The Secret of Kells – I knew pretty much nothing about this 2009 French animated film. It takes place at a monastery in ninth century Ireland, where a curious boy named Brendan lives with … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cartoons, Celtic, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Frank Black/Black Francis, History, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Politics, Relationships, Religion | Tagged adam sandler, book of kells, chinatown, crom cruach, fairies, film noir, gospels, jack nicholson, mystery, paul thomas anderson, punch-drunk love, roman polanski, the secret of kells, who framed roger rabbit, william mulholland |

Koopas Behind the Curtain

This article I read this week discusses the idea of Mario and company being essentially actors in different scenarios, as per a comment from Shigeru Miyamoto comparing them to the cast of Popeye cartoons. It obviously addresses Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Mario, Muppets, Plays, Popeye, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged baby herman, doki doki panic, kermit the frog, king bowser koopa, lakitu, looney tunes, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mickey mouse, new donk city, paper mario, roger rabbit, shigeru miyamoto, super mario 64, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, who framed roger rabbit, wreck-it ralph |

You Got Live Action in My Animation!

One thing I wanted to mention about the most recent Simpsons episode was the use of live action footage. Principal Skinner forces the students at Springfield Elementary School to sit through all 152 minutes of the 1967 Doctor Dolittle, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged alice comedies, animaniacs, bedknobs and broomsticks, bonkers, daffy duck, disney, donald duck, fantasia, frank welker, mary poppins, mickey mouse, porky pig, raw toonage, roger rabbit, the three caballeros, tv tropes, warner bros, who framed roger rabbit |

Absolutely Cuckoo

I think the first time I came across the word “Cloudcuckooland” might have been in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, but I’ve come across the term occasionally since then. Apparently it’s actually used as the name of a place in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Cartoons, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Food, L. Frank Baum, Language, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Plays, Television | Tagged acme acres, alice's adventures in wonderland, aristophanes, arthur schopenhauer, big rock candy mountain, borat, burl ives, cloudcuckooland, cockaigne, cuckoo, david hulan, dodo, harry mcclintock, looney tunes, mo, nephelokokkygia, pepperland, perfect strangers, peter bruegel, porky in wackyland, porky pig, that 70s show, the birds, the dictionary of imaginary places, the glass cat of oz, tiny toon adventures, toontown, wackyland, who framed roger rabbit, wolkenkuckucksheim, yellow submarine |

Mr. [Blank] Needs a [Blank] in Order to [Blank] His [Blank]

We finally moved on to the eleventh of Disney’s animated features, and the last of the package films for a while, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Contrary to what the title may suggest, the two characters did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abraham van brunt, cyril longbottom, headless horseman, ichabod crane, j. thaddeus toad, katrina van tassel, kenneth grahame, mickey's christmas carol, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the legend of sleepy hollow, the wind in the willows, washington irving, weasels, who framed roger rabbit |

The Old Flutter-Maker

I think I’m starting to run out of topics for these Oz posts, and I have to wonder if anyone reads them anyway. I’ve already covered my personal favorite characters, and I’m getting to the point where there might not … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged braided man, dorothy and the wizard in oz, eleanor kennedy, melody grandy, ozma, r.k. lionel, the braided man of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the road to oz, tip, who framed roger rabbit |