A Fuzzy Memory

Back when I was really young, I was - and still am - a huge fan of the series "Home Movies" that aired on, originally UPN, but later Adult Swim for the remainder of its run. The animation style, the barely scripted dialogue, the concept itself and the tone overall just really sunk its teeth into me, and when Home Movies was over, I needed something else to fill that void. Thankfully, that something was O'Grady. Not thankfully, O'Grady didn't last nearly long enough. O'Grady, which aired on Nickelodeons sister station Noggin, later renamed simply The N to bring in a more diverse teenage crowd, was primarily aimed at said targeted crowd. It featured four kids - Kevin, Abby, Beth and Harold - who live in a town called O'Grady and go to O'Grady High. Fairly typical premise for a tv show based on that age group, right? Except O'Grady had one hidden trick up its sleeve. The town itself was a magnet, sometimes literally, for something called The Weirdness...

What It's Like Being Alone was a stop motion comedy series that aired briefly in 2006. In hindsight, it's rather crude and often crass and sometimes even cringy with its humor, but hey, that's the mid 2000s for you, I suppose. Even still, the somewhat immature and outdated humor aside, the show was something that caught my eye for various reasons. Part of it, truth be told, was simply the visual aesthetic. I've always been a sucker for stop motion. As a little girl, my favorite movie was Nightmare Before Christmas (well before Hot Topic got its grubby little paws all over it) and I've always been an enormous fan of Wallace & Gromit, even rushing to the theater opening day for their long awaited feature film. I liked Gumby, I liked the stop motion in Pee Wee's Playhouse, and I loved the Prometheus & Bob segment from Nickelodeon's KABLAM which I'm sure I'll cover at some point. But the second part is, frankly, the concept itself, and how oddly ...

I generally don't like to focus on one company back to back, like I'm doing with Disney these past two weeks, but since it's October now, I'm going to forgo my own rules and discuss one of the first things that came to mind when I created this blog, and that is Disneys Halloween Treat.  The special is a 1982 Halloween themed episode of the television anthology series "Walt Disney" which originally aired on October 30th. It's a fairly simple thing, chock full of Disney's "spookiest" bits from old cartoons and movies, including Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia and Ichabod Crane & the Headless Horseman, which, if you can find to watch, I highly suggest you do. It's a wonderful lost piece of classic animation.  There was also, in 1981, another special titled A Disney Halloween, a 90 minute Halloween special which originally aired as part of the Wonderful World of Disney on October 24th. For the sake of nostalgia, I'll be covering ...