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Andrew T. Starr '91-93 made news in the spring of 1990 when he reported to 20th Century Fox that Dunster House was reproducing a copyrighted image--that of cartoon bad-boy Bart Simpson--on its house t-shirts...
...Simpsons, Itchy and Scratchy are a sadomasochistic mouse-and-cat team that enacts scenes of baroque violence in a running parody of kiddie cartoon shows. On CAPITOL CRITTERS, cats really do chase mice -- and the trouble is, it's no parody. The new animated series from Steven Bochco Productions (ABC, debuting Jan. 28, 8:30 p.m. EST) revolves around Max, a country mouse from Nebraska who moves in with his cousin and a ragtag band of rodents living in the basement of the White House. Anyone expecting savvy political satire, however, is due for disappointment. With a few exceptions...
...gave rise to an even more insidious phenomenon: cartoon shows based on popular toys. Charren sought to ban programs like G.I. Joe and My Little Pony as little more than program-length commercials. Most have since expired from low ratings, but a fresh wave may be on the way: several new shows in development feature snack-food characters like Chester Cheetah, who hawks Cheetos. "It's nauseating," says Charren. "Having turned all the toys into programs in the '80s, now they're going to turn all the logos into programs...
That remains to be seen. The law is so vaguely worded that its impact depends almost entirely on how it is enforced. The key question is, What constitutes educational fare? (A documentary on rock music? A "pro-social" cartoon like Captain Planet?) Squire Rushnell, the former head of children's programming at ABC and now a producer of kids' shows, is pessimistic. "Until there is an impetus from the White House that would create a snowball effect with the FCC and on down, nothing is going to really happen...
...esoteric passions. In fact, he sometimes seems to relish making himself an easy target and regularly walking into the propeller of his unshakable image as a double- dome space cadet. "I don't know which image you have of me," Brown tells new audiences, as if to exorcize his cartoon nicknames. "Governor Moonbeam? The Governor who drove a Plymouth? Slept on the floor...