My Kind Of DVD!

[Marty26]

Is anybody aware of this?

The Worst Cartoons Ever Made by Jerry Beck (http://www.rembrandtfilms.com/worst-cartoons-ever.htm).

Amazingly, not one of those have I ever even heard of until now (except for Luno, and that's only because I saw somebody declare it even worse than the :daffy::speedy: series).

[CartoonCrazy]

I've seen it on Jerry's site. I've just never had the courage to buy it. :D

[ThePeterNetwork]

I actually have a couple of VHS tapes of Spunky & Tadpole, which are featured on the bonus of this DVD. I don't know if that's a good, bad, or indifferent thing. :shame:

[CartoonCrazy]

Don't worry, I have Wacky and Packy episodes on a Gulliver's Travel DVD.

[cbrubaker]

Some time ago I bought a homemade DVD of one of Jerry's Worst Cartoon Ever thing.

Most of the cartoons were from the early TV era of the 50s and early '60s. Stuff like "Spunky and Tadpole" (which was part of Don Messick's early voice acting career), a bunch of Sam Singer shows, and a pilot from Harman-Ising's attempt at TV animation, "Sir Gee Whiz" which was never picked up (and for a good reason). And Fred Ladd's "Big World of Little Adam", which was so cheaply made that they covered the characters' mouths with a book so they didn't have to animate it. Oh, and Terrytoons' "Luno" was included.

If you want an example of how NOT to make a cartoon, then this DVD is for you.

[Marty26]

Are any of these available online? Just post what you feel are the absolute worst.

[Ray Pointer]

Is anybody aware of this?
The Worst Cartoons Ever Made by Jerry Beck (http://www.rembrandtfilms.com/worst-cartoons-ever.htm).
Amazingly, not one of those have I ever even heard of until now...


Well, Jerry was an Animation Student at The School of Visual Arts, but really, "the worst cartoons ever made by Jerry Beck"?:p

[ThePeterNetwork]

Well, Jerry was an Animation Student at The School of Visual Arts, but really, "the worst cartoons ever made by Jerry Beck"?:p
I wanted to be a student at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Their art demands were too high. And that's when I realized that there are no real careers for artists. :(

[Magpie]

I went to School of Visual Arts too...so I'm not sure how to reply.:)

Paddy the Pelican is so randomly constructed, that (to me) it almost plays like avant-garde cinema.

Almost.;)

[AnthroCoon]

And of course Jerry's Cartoon Dump project, along with TV's Frank of MST3K fame, has shown some of the worst cartoons ever made, like Mighty Mr. Titan, on YouTube/Cartoon Brew films and also live in NYC and LA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFRlHKLqwA

>>Do you love great animation? Are you a fan of quality cartoons? Well, if so, you will be appalled and horrified by Cartoon Dump

They should have had MST3K do some riffing of lousy cartoons--and actually now that I think of it, in their later years they riffed a Gumby short. I guess
this counts as animation (stop motion). We have movie sign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M4_XZ3FLHw&feature=fvst

[Marty26]

And of course Jerry's Cartoon Dump project, along with TV's Frank of MST3K fame, has shown some of the worst cartoons ever made, like Mighty Mr. Titan, on YouTube/Cartoon Brew films and also live in NYC and LA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFRlHKLqwA

That was... weird... to say the least.

[Marty26]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S56YQMY0kbk Bucky And Pepito - The Vexin Texan.

Why does that Texas Longhorn look like he's charging at a speed of about 0.25 miles per hour?

[Marty26]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxO9Nl3A5so&feature=PlayList&p=496DD19A7F1CFE29&index=1

Talking heads. The mouth movements are priceless!

[Marty26]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18QIcWR5oE&feature=PlayList&p=496DD19A7F1CFE29&index=2

What???

[J Lee]

Are any of these available online? Just post what you feel are the absolute worst.

There actually are a couple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NJpc9BMu) of Luno cartoons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_cEeCHpmg) on YouTube. And yet the Internet has yet to crash because of it. Amazing.

[Marty26]

There actually are a couple (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NJpc9BMu) of Luno cartoons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_cEeCHpmg) on YouTube. And yet the Internet has yet to crash because of it. Amazing.

That was lame, but not quite as bad as those Cartoon Brew cartoons. I wouldn't say this is any worse than an Alex Lovy directed Daffy/Speedy short. It's funny how people talk about how bad Luno was but don't really explain why.

[J Lee]

That was lame, but not quite as bad as those Cartoon Brew cartoons. I wouldn't say this is any worse than an Alex Lovy directed Daffy/Speedy short. It's funny how people talk about how bad Luno was but don't really explain why.

Well, they are the most childish theatrical cartoons ever made -- mainly because Terrytoons made them with the obvious idea that they would immediately go into syndication or possibly get a spot on the Saturday morning line-up (in contract, Gene Deitch's Tom Terrific cartoons were made for children, but at least threw a wink and a nod to the parents walking by the TV when Captain Kangaroo was on. These shorts play their childish story lines straight).

Even for 8-year-olds watching them for the first time when they hit TV in the mid-60s, the stories were too dumbed-down to warrant anything but a single viewing (compared to the Astronut, Hector Heathcoat or Deputy Dawg series that Terrytoons had going at that time).

[Fibber Fox]

Well, they are the most childish theatrical cartoons ever made -- mainly because Terrytoons made them with the obvious idea that they would immediately go into syndication or possibly get a spot on the Saturday morning line-up.

They're just insipid. I remember seeing them years ago and staring at the screen in disbelief. The only thing that would make them satisfying is if the horse and kid flew into a cliff and dropped into a moulten pit of fire, accompanied by the title card 'The End.'

I'm not a huge fan of Mighty Mouse, but at least it looked like the Terry people were trying to have fun with them so you can get caught up in the hamminess of it all. Luno seems to have been treated with utter seriousness, combined with cost-saving repetition.

F. Fox
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com

[Marty26]

But, objectively speaking, is Luno really any worse than See Ya Later, Gladiator or A-Haunting We Will Go?

[cbrubaker]

Really, most of the Terrytoons from the sixties were made-for-TV cartoons that were given theatrical release in order to fill the 20th Century Fox quota.

"Luno" was created as a middle segment for the syndicated "Astronut Show". Several of them were released theatrically.

[Marty26]

I only asked that question in post 19, by the way, out of rememberence of this comment: http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showpost.php?p=68455&postcount=14.

[J Lee]

They're just insipid. I remember seeing them years ago and staring at the screen in disbelief. The only thing that would make them satisfying is if the horse and kid flew into a cliff and dropped into a moulten pit of fire, accompanied by the title card 'The End.'

OK, that I would pay to see. :)

[Marty26]

Or if the horse turned on the kid and became a villain. Kind of like the witch in that Garfield And Friends (okay, "Odie And Friends") cartoon A Witch In Time (which was technically "Flat Tired").