Thursday, June 11, 2009
And Speaking of Cartoons...
New episodes of Phineas and Ferb resume on Friday. This replace SpongeBob as my favorite kid's show. The show is very funny and they've got songs in every episode. Here's a few good songs:
There's lots more one YouTube.
Recently my friend Art from Dallas suggest I watch a show on Cartoon Network called The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. This show is rather silly and the animation is bad. It took me a few episodes to get into it. It's about a kid who was adopted by a big whale named Bubbie. It's kind of confusing because she is raising him to be and Adventurers yet she is very over protective. Helping out with Flapjack's adventure training is Captain K'nuckles who leaches off of Bubbie and usually gets Flapjack into trouble on his ever present quest for candy. Candy is a metaphor for booze which an old sea captain would really be searching for. The captain has had most of his body parts replaced with wooden artificial limbs. They live at Stormalong Harbor in the pirate/Victorian era. The docks seem completely disconnected from any land mass. All of the actual land are islands which have very specific purposes such as Maple Syrup Island, Pickle Island, Plague Island, and the always elusive goal of Candied Island. My friend Betsy from Sacramento hates this show. Sorry Betsy but I like it.
While watching Flapjack I saw commercials for a show called The League of Super Evil. I've been watching this all week. It has a great collection of bumbling wanna be super villains. Their leader is Voltar who never sets his evil goals high enough. For instance he aspires to change the city clock ahead five minutes so every thinks they are late. Muh-hu-ha-ha-ha! The super genius Doctor Frogg is constantly getting hurt while he tries to take over the world. The dim witted Red Menace doesn't really even know what evil is and mostly ends up doing good. The final member of the team is Doomageddon. He their pet who has actual super powers. He can teleport and hover and shrink in size. He's the only one who ever ends up doing any evil, usually against his fellow team members. In fact the super heroes in their city are usually the ones who do bad things, causing collateral damage or overzealously enforcing the rules. It's a fun show.
There's lots more one YouTube.
Recently my friend Art from Dallas suggest I watch a show on Cartoon Network called The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. This show is rather silly and the animation is bad. It took me a few episodes to get into it. It's about a kid who was adopted by a big whale named Bubbie. It's kind of confusing because she is raising him to be and Adventurers yet she is very over protective. Helping out with Flapjack's adventure training is Captain K'nuckles who leaches off of Bubbie and usually gets Flapjack into trouble on his ever present quest for candy. Candy is a metaphor for booze which an old sea captain would really be searching for. The captain has had most of his body parts replaced with wooden artificial limbs. They live at Stormalong Harbor in the pirate/Victorian era. The docks seem completely disconnected from any land mass. All of the actual land are islands which have very specific purposes such as Maple Syrup Island, Pickle Island, Plague Island, and the always elusive goal of Candied Island. My friend Betsy from Sacramento hates this show. Sorry Betsy but I like it.
While watching Flapjack I saw commercials for a show called The League of Super Evil. I've been watching this all week. It has a great collection of bumbling wanna be super villains. Their leader is Voltar who never sets his evil goals high enough. For instance he aspires to change the city clock ahead five minutes so every thinks they are late. Muh-hu-ha-ha-ha! The super genius Doctor Frogg is constantly getting hurt while he tries to take over the world. The dim witted Red Menace doesn't really even know what evil is and mostly ends up doing good. The final member of the team is Doomageddon. He their pet who has actual super powers. He can teleport and hover and shrink in size. He's the only one who ever ends up doing any evil, usually against his fellow team members. In fact the super heroes in their city are usually the ones who do bad things, causing collateral damage or overzealously enforcing the rules. It's a fun show.Labels: League of Super Evil, Phineas and Ferb, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Remember when cartoons were only on Saturday morning? Now I have like four channels for just cartoons 24 hours a day. Anyway, here's my weekly favorite Phineas and Ferb song. It's their One-Hit-Wonder song that took most of the morning and half a dozen phone calls to become a huge hit.
Labels: Phineas and Ferb
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Disco Miniature Golfing Queen
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Do you trust me?
Well if you trust me you should put Phineas and Ferb on your TiVo or DVR or whatever. Why? It's very funny and smartly written. It's also the best cartoon to come along since SpongeBob SquarePants. I've only seen about a half a dozen episodes but I've had a big laugh in each episode.What's it about? Phineas and Ferb are two step-brothers and best friends who are making the most of every day of every day of their summer vacation. They also have the ability to build huge and amazing things in a short time such as teleporters, time machines, or an enormous and amazing mini-golf course. The antigonist to their fun is their older sister Candace (voice of Ashley Tisdale) who is always trying to bust them for doing stuff. But whatever they build gets moved, destroyed, or shrunk before mom and dad get around to seeing their shenanigans.
The other thing you should know is they have a pet, Perry the Platipus, who is a secret agent. His one goal each week is to stop the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz. The boys know nothing of his secret life or his headquarters under the house. Luckily while foiling the evil plan, Perry manages to destroy the evidence of whatever Phineas and Ferb are doing. Plus they have a lot of random songs. Trust me, it's very funny.
Labels: Phineas and Ferb
