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Sick humor. That's what Paco loved, and he couldn't get enough of it. Gahan Wilson cartoons, Gary Gilmore jokes, National Lampoon raised to the nth degree--Paco took it all in and somehow managed to keep from gagging. His favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after...
...cartoon showed a restaurant kitchen, the type of fancy kitchen where they dressed up two rancid cuts of meat so it's almost worth the twelve-fifty the maitre d' with the phoney accent and the once-broken nose asks you to pay. In the middle of kitchen sits a meat grinder, a perfectly normal meat grinder with a lot of perfectly normal ground meat coming out of it. The only abnormal thing is that there's so damn much of it: at least 150 pounds or so, enough meat to build your own cow. Too much meat...
...format betrays the fact that it started out to be something else: a musical intended as a TV special. When the producers switched to animated film, they made the dubious decision to use the conventions of Broadway staging. Hence solo turns and production numbers are dutifully reproduced cartoon-style. The songs by Joe Raposo, composer of TV's Sesame Street, are deft, pleasant and numerous (16 in all). Songs may be the heart of a musical; but when they start and stop this often, the show goes into what might be called suspended animation...
...give you an idea: a short called "Ass," by Tom DeMore, is built on the idea of a stag movie for donkeys, replete with all but completely graphic bestiality. A cartoon short called "Desire Pie," meanwhile, filmed by a group from the Carpenter Center, looks like an animated version of the amateurish depictions of coitus in bathroom stalls around campus (with a few touches reminiscent of The Yellow Submarine thrown in--for artistic merit...
...Wall advertises these shorts as non-sexist. Don't believe it. One of the funniest, "The Club," is a cartoon based on the idea of a very British eating club for phalluses; the viewer is led in through the door, and there are the penises, reading the Sunday papers, smoking pipes, doing vigorous push-ups in the adjacent gym. Another, "The Bed," by James Broughton, explores some of the possibilities of interaction with that piece of furniture, some unusual (doing a ritual dance around it), but others stereotypical and crude...