Saturday Morning Cartoon

For the past two years, SVA grad Ross Bollinger has been animating his own web series, Pencilmation, out of Charlottesville, Virginia. These modest little stick-figure films have gained a following for their humor and simplicity. Here’s a sample:

Saturday Morning Catroons

Venture Ponies.

That is all.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

A look into the future, by Tex Avery.

I have a feeling Tex hated his mother in law.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dr. Who

Paul “OtaKing” Johnson‘s ’80s-style anime version of Doctor Who stars the martial-arts-loving Third Doctor, John Pertwee.

The animation is impressive, but the plot is pieced together from a mishmash of sound clips. Trying to fit the Master, the Cybermen and Daleks all into one 13-minute story is a bit of a stretch, even by modern Doctor Who standards, but damn, he did it all by himself!

Enjoy your Saturday Morning Cartoon, kids.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Popeye: Beware of Barnacle Bill

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Storm

The animated adaptation of Tim Minchin’s 9-minute beat poem “Storm” has finally arrived. A year late / but worth the wait.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Daffy in "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"

Saturday Morning Video

Electric Feel - by the Showbiz Pizza Band

Saturday Morning Cartoon Special: Star Wars Super Documentary

Superfan Jambe Davdar has spent an awe-inspiring amount of time piecing together three absolutely must-watch Star Wars fan documentaries — essentially, the original trilogy re-cut with alternate takes, deleted scenes, concept art, original audio, production footnotes, and commentary from the cast and crew.

Star Wars Begins: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Building Empire: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Returning to Jedi: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.

Get comfortable

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Rocky And Bullwinkle

Saturday Morning Cartoons

The American Dream

The latest animated explanation of how the recent transition of the American Dream (purchased entirely on credit), was virtually guaranteed to become an American Nightmare. This is an extremely well done cartoon that takes a satirical look at “The American Dream”.

The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Donald Duck - Snowball Fight 1942

Daisy 2010

It’s from the American Values Network, a hard-left progressive faith group:

Burns Strider, the group’s founder, was a former aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and was a faith advisor to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. In other words, this is a Democratic ad blitz using the most outlandish fearmongering imaginable. The original “Daisy Girl” ran at the height of the Cold War. It came in response to Barry Goldwater’s bellicose comments on the use of nuclear weapons against the Soviets. There’s little of that kind of rhetoric in today’s GOP — and we’re not on the brink of a nuclear holocaust — and the ad’s claims on inspections under the new START are entirely dependent on Moscow’s compliance and transparency. When Obama signed the treaty in April, our Czech allies dissed it as “appeasing Russia.” “Trust Russia on START?”

Now, in case you missed it, here's the original scare the hell out of you ad from LBJ's camp against Barry Goldwater.

Radical

Tony Hawk!? More like Tony Parakeet!

Did you know that Tony Hawk was once known as the Birdman? Hmmm?

Saturday Morning Cliches

In 1965, a nameless ad agency, as in-house joke, put together a short, comical introduction to the various cliches found in the television commercials of the time.

(sNSFW, brief boob shot @ 4:09)

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Saturday Morning Cartoons

For Halloween, from 1954, it's Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel in Bewitched Bunny.

Fear The Boom and Bust

Filed under Saturday morning cartoons: bonus time... here's the EconStories guys are back with three video lectures about "Fear The Boom And Bust"

Part III: The Cluster of Errors

Saturday Morning Cartoons

From 1960, here's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam in Horse Hare.

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Favre's Pecker

If there is a scandal in need of animation, you can bet Taiwan’s NMA will be there. Up now: “Brett Favre’s Pecker is the talk of the town.”

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Cartoon Network is bringing animator/director Genndy Tartakovsky back to prime-time television with a new sci-fi series called Sym-Bionic Titan.

The show, will focus on three extraterrestrials from the war-torn planet Galaluna who crash-land, only to be swept up in high school and the fate of the Earth as we know it.

Tartakovsky’s animated 2003 Clone Wars miniseries paved the way for the ratings success of Cartoon Network’s CGI-soaked Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is currently owning the boys 2-11 demographic. If Sym-Bionic Titan is anything like Tartakovsky’s stellar Samurai Jack, the new show promises to deliver some seriously kinetic eye candy.

It's pretty damn awesome.