Cartoons I’ve Missed…

Posted on September 14, 2008

I’m an eternal kid at heart. And I don’t readily admit this but Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon are part of my regular TV viewing regiment. When I was younger, I used to watch the Bugs Bunny/Tom and Jerry era cartoons sometimes on Saturday mornings instead of the more modern fare (which at the time, included TMNT, Bobby’s World, Darkwing Duck, X-Men… I could go on, but that’s not the point of this post).

There were some cartoons that I saw and loved instantly the first time. Unfortunately, these were also the cartoons that the networks never ever wanted to play. It’s like they only wanted me to see them like once a year, if that. Evil networks (imagine me pouting when you read that to get the full effect).

Anyway, thanks to the magic of YouTube, I’ve found these cartoons again and I want to share them with you. Now I know that most of you won’t take the time to actually sit down and watch all these videos (it’s like 25 minutes of watching!), but if you do have the time, I hope you enjoy.

The first is probably the result of one too many psychedelic mushrooms or LSD trips. Long story short - well actually short story short, it’s like 6 minutes - the devil loses his horn and an old fella finds it and all of a sudden starts having all these trippy hallucinations, hearing weird things and having weird experiences. Amidst all this is a funny like Andy Capps-like fellow to further mess with the old guys head. It’s called “Now Hear This” and it was released in 1962 and directed by Chuck Jones.

 
The next cartoon is a story of love. A line falls in love with a dot, but she ain’t feeling him because she thinks he’s too boring; she’d rather have an unkempt squiggle who she thinks is fun. Sigh, the good girls always want the bad boys, even in the cartoons.

 
The last cartoon is “The Bear That Wasn’t” and it finds a bear emerging from hibernation to find that his forest has been cut down to make way for a factory. The foreman tells him to get back to work and when the bear tells him that he doesn’t work there (because he is a bear), the foreman tells him that he’s just a “silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat.” Despite his protests, he’s told be several people that he’s just a silly man, etc until he begins to believe it. The cartoon speaks to how people tend to shift their views if told the same thing over and over again. For example, if you’re told repeatedly that you’re stupid, you may begin to believe that you are.

 

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