Welcome to a special non-comic edition of “Inhuman Relations” (otherwise known as a blog post). Sometimes I do these things when I don’t have time to finish a cartoon, and unfortunately, this is one of those sometimes.
So anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to plug a great new DVD release. And that great new DVD release is …
Mighty Mouse!
“Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures” was produced by Ralph Bakshi in 1987, and he recruited so many talented people to work on this show I’m not sure I can even name them all: John Kricfalusi (this show was a testing ground for what he would do 3 years later in “Ren and Stimpy”), Bruce Timm (of Batman fame), Tom Minton (later a writer for Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky & The Brain, et al), and Kent Butterworth (who would go on to work on the earliest seasons of The Simpsons) are the ones that immediately come to mind. And it was on “Mighty Mouse” that their talents were first fully utilized.
Today, most people only know this version of Mighty Mouse for the controversy surrounding one episode where Mighty is supposedly seen sniffing cocaine (actually it was a crushed flower). The crazy religious freakout that followed eventually led to the series’ cancellation in 1988, but luckily we now have all 19 episodes available on DVD to watch whenever we want. And this time Reverend Sun Myung Moon can’t do a damn thing about it.
Here are some frame grabs from the “cocaine” episode to entice you:
The right-wing nuts who got their panties in a bunch over Mighty Mouse allegedly sniffing cocaine apparently had no objection to the following sequence … in the same episode!
There’s a great heartwarming ending to this episode … but this isn’t it; you’ll have to buy the DVD to find out what it is!
(BTW, This show doesn’t credit individual directors, but I’m 99.9999% sure that this episode was directed by John Kricfalusi. Pathos mockery, Kirk Douglas, crazy sight gags … yep, it’s gotta be John K. The man is a genius.)
You should be a cartoon historian! Maybe get on Jeopardy!!
And look at what we have now on cartoons like South Park and Family Guy…
I’ll have to write a post about how much Family Guy sucks.
They use the same three poses and the same three expressions and the same one 80s joke. Over and over and over. Even the stale and lifeless South Park has more personality than Family Guy.
I was thinking along the lines of vulgarity. South Park had the running joke of a small child being violently killed each week, for example.
The vulgarity doesn’t bother me — and I gotta confess, OH MY GOD THEY KILLED KENNY was kind of funny.
The main reason I don’t like South Park and Family Guy is that they look like crap. You can try and defend the writing or whatever (I wouldn’t), but there’s no way of denying that both shows artistically suck balls.