In a message dated 4/23/01 11:48:43 AM, [email protected] writes:
<< Donald Duck, Tom & Gerry, Roadrunner, Snagglepuss >>
I always hated Disney as a child (except for Fantasia, and I saw that as a
teen) and I'm 47. I never got the joke. Were there jokes?
Tom and Jerry was violent without being funny. I hate it when creatures blow
up and don't die.
Roadrunner - I always felt sorry for the poor coyote, (he was starving)
though generally I like the WB sarcasm of Bugs and Daffy. Bugs went in for
serious underground tunneling. He could get from any spot on Earth to Pizmo
Beach in about 15 seconds.
Snagglepuss had some pretensions at culture; and there was something slightly
sophisticated about the Hanna-Barbera stable of cartoons. What pussy cat
could resist the witty and urbane Top Cat?
Fractured Fairytales was an education in folk tales and Mr. Peabody was my
first exposure to genius! (Peabody would have been my choice as a cartoon
explorer of the hollow earth) -- the Jay Ward mentality was hilarious and
loaded with double entrendre.
But The Simpsons and Futurama are my all time faves. Mat Groening rocks.
Maybe we can interest him in the hollow earth?
Laura