When ABC believed in Cartoons

Here’s a unique vintage promo for ABC’s Saturday morning programming that was aimed at adults. Shown in prime time during summer 1973, …

Stop Mo “Community” clip

NBC’s Joe McHale/Chevy Chase sitcom Community is doing a holiday themed show in faux-Rankin-Bass style stop-motion. Here’s a 13-second …

“The Dukes” on DVD

How’s this for a merchandising ploy? This came in today’s email: “Warner Archives is offering the first 400 pre-orders for Hanna …

The Stiffsons

Wow, twenty years sure makes a difference: If a Hell exists for animation artists, I imagine it would involve having to work on …

Banksy directs “Simpsons” show intro

British street artist/prankster Banksy “directed” the intro to tonight’s episode of The Simpsons. It’s provocative, but the statement …

Winky Dink

The early television kids show, Winky Dink (CBS, 1953-57), was less an animated cartoon and more a two-dimensional puppet show (Mae …

“The Flintstones” turn 50

The first episode aired on ABC on September 30th 1960. Yup, The Flintstones turn the big five-o today. Everyone should sing Happy …

Here comes The Hub

I don’t know about where you live, but popping up all over L.A. are these scary billboards (see above) promoting The Hub, Hasbro and …

Sym-Bionic Titan talkback

Starts tonight on Cartoon Network: Genndy Tartakovsky’s latest series (created with Bryan Andrews and Paul Rudish), Sym-Bionic Titan. …

Phil Roman’s Holiday Hello (1992)

In December 1992, employees of Film Roman received a special Christmas bonus. No, not cash, but a VHS of this video, Phil Roman’s Holiday …

TALKBACK: The Regular Show

The first episode of the fifteen-minute series The Regular show premiered yesterday on the Cartoon Network. It can be seen below. …

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