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Toon Funeral Home
by amid
December 4, 2009 5:31 pm


Illustrator Joe Fournier spotted this worrisome sign in Illinois. [Insert your Cartoon Network jokes here.]

Toon Funeral Home

12/4/09  5:34pm

Can the “Roger Rabbit” sequel be far behind?

12/4/09  5:41pm
Iritscen says:

I believe this was the planned setting for the sequel to Roger Rabbit.

12/4/09  5:51pm
james says:

I think this is where Turbo Teen went to die.

12/4/09  5:53pm
Ha! says:

They must’ve caught a look at the new revamped Looney Tunes show coming out of WB

12/4/09  6:02pm
spencer drew bogart says:

yeah! i think that’s in glen ellyn, just about thirty minutes or so outside of chicago. very odd. somewhere, i’ve got a few pictures of my own…

12/4/09  7:25pm
Jonah Sidhom says:

I see potential for a new hit CN reality show. guess which cartoon is buried under this tombstone while blindfolded on a roller coaster!

12/4/09  7:51pm
Feh. says:

Gotta love how people are already putting down the Roger Rabbit sequel without having absolutely any idea how it’s turning out or what Zemekis is ACTUALLY doing with it.

But hey. Who needs to have a legitimate reason before complaining about something they haven’t seen anything of yet, right?

12/4/09  7:53pm
Chris Sobieniak says:

So it is true! (hangs head in disbelief) :-)

12/4/09  8:09pm
Mike Johnson says:

I hear they gave Cartoon Network a group discount…

12/4/09  8:38pm
Tedzey says:

That is where the original (hand drawn) Mickey rolls in his grave everytime that shitty playhouse disney crap is played.

12/4/09  9:01pm
amid says:

Mike Johnson: If we rewarded comments, I’d give you the prize. =)

12/4/09  9:27pm
Nightmare Is Near says:

We all know the murderers who put them there are:
Stuart Snyder
Rob Sorcher
Andrew “Hearing what I said” W.K.
“The Dudes”
“The Othersiders”
Blake Micheal
and The City of Boston’s Paranoia on 1-31-07 NEVER FORGET

12/4/09  10:06pm
Ron says:

The floors must be messy in that place cuz they’re all covered with “Dip”.

12/5/09  12:17am
Dapper Jim says:

Woah…
From this DRY NEWS WEEK [not even reporting or making articles about the End of the Decade Best/Worst Lists...] You guys just have to post this.

Sure, Ill take it. Heh, FUNNY.

Oh, Its a Cartoon Network Joke. [PROTIP - You guys already made your point, thank you]

The cherry on top has to be that the ONLY PERSON who has made an INTELLIGENT comment [dear Mr. Feh.] and being completely ignored. Later on, Amid is here to congratulate the bashing… Is that what it takes The Brew to thrive nowadays? Really?

Heh, in that case… Pass me the stick, I wanna beat up this dead horse too!

12/5/09  12:34am
some guy says:

“Gotta love how people are already putting down the Roger Rabbit sequel without having absolutely any idea how it’s turning out or what Zemekis is ACTUALLY doing with it.”

yeah because how can you go wrong with classically hand drawn “toons” mixing it up with performance captured CG people… oh wait.

unless they plan on making the “real” world, “toon town” AND “cg town” but the locals call it “uncanny valley” and they just generally creep out the humans and toons and no one cares if they build a parking lot over where they live because, honestly, they’re REALLY creepy.

hmm… you’re right, I’d totally be down to see that version.

12/5/09  5:23am
M. Herren says:

Actually, there are two Toon Funeral Homes. One in Westmont and one in Downers Grove, IL. We’ve been driving past them for years and always note the fact that they’re the only funeral homes that we laugh about.

12/5/09  6:59am
Greg Chenoweth says:

Name to be changed soon to the Reality Home.

12/5/09  7:18am
FP says:

I bet the embalming tables look really cool and make farty whizzy sound effects.

12/5/09  11:43am

Boomerang?

12/5/09  1:56pm
Mark McDermott says:

Sorry I never offered a picture of this place, which is right down the street from me in Downers Grove (there are a few more of them in our area). If they buried the “Dick Tracy” cartoons after “Bozo” went off the air, I’d be just fine with that.

Wait, there IS a Roger Rabbit sequel somewhere in production? And Zemekis is doing it his way. Toon bad.

12/5/09  5:04pm
Leirin says:

Pretty much MOST toon-based channels have come to die there.

Or maybe, the villain of Who Framed Roger Rabbit rests there. Who knows.

12/5/09  5:59pm
fishmorgjp says:

Who would even want a Roger Rabbit sequel? That’s always been one unappealing character. They tried out a few cartoon shorts, but few cared. Since then, toon-and-live-action flicks like ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, SPACE JAM, COOL WORLD have left everybody cold. Zemeckis is doing the sequel? Eurgh, he’ll add CGI humans and Simpsons and Family Guy characters… forget it.

12/6/09  8:21am
Dylan King says:

Bonkers D. Bobcat., Darkwing Duck, Sonic The Hedgehog… the list can go on and on…

12/6/09  10:36pm
Celia says:

Toon Funeral Home: relics of my old stomping ground! As a kid, my parents would drive by the one in Downers Grove. I loved imagining what cartoon ceremony was going on inside.

12/7/09  4:37am
Jessica Jimez says:

R.I.P.
Johnny Bravo
The Goode Family
Cow and Chicken
The Adventures of Billy and Mandy
The Critic
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Rocco’s Modern Life

12/7/09  9:40am

“Neeh… what’s down, Doc?”

12/8/09  6:47pm

Probably co-financed by Video Brinquedo and Good Times, the leading producers of poorly, hastily-produced knockoffs of more popular animated films!

12/8/09  10:30pm
Brian says:

Ha. I went to high school just up the block from this place in Downers Grove. Now I’m studying animation in Chicago. I still drive by it all the time and never really thought about it. What a stra
nge coincidence.

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