[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I wondered who peed in Ruy's Wheaties this morning. ***

The animation was still atrocious! The only thing I have seen worse was some English "animation" cartoons called Gigantor the Space Age Robot. H-B was great compared to it.

[sine_nomine]

OK. Bad animation. Low budget. They did a lot with it.

Disney spoiled us. I recently watched Fantasia 2000 by Disney after showing the original to many different college classes (Fantasia with Tocatta and Fugue and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony). I was shocked that Disney put out something so plain and cheap looking as F 2K. F 2K was still clever, but the production values were garage band level.

[Post-Neolithic]

I grew up during both eras and liked them both. While some things that H&B did were not very good,the Smurfs come to mind, they still made people laugh, myself included.

But it was a different kind of laugh, while H&B, except for the Flintstones, were more of the laugh for laugh's sake,Bowinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bugs Bunny ETC. were more of the "Thinking" kind of comedy.

They both fit certain viewers needs, and some like me enjoy them both. Comedy, like beauty, is in the eyes (or ears), of the beholder.

The things I remember most about the cartoons of the day, are as follows,

1. What a Maroon.
2. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.Nothin up my sleeve, presto. Don't even know my own strength.
3. I ams what I ams
4. Yaba, Daba, doo
5. Exit, stage left even
6. (Russian accented), Moose and Squirrel
7. Not bird nor plane nor even frog, it's just little ole me underdog!

No matter what people say, you are never too old to enjoy a good cartoon.