Terrytoons Serials???

[Thad Komorowski]

While watching some Terrytoons, there was a narrator saying "In our last episode..." and what happened. But in the last cartoon with the characters, NOTHING similar to the plot happened! This can be heard in 1948's "Triple Trouble" (Mighty Mouse) and "Out Again, In Again" (Heckle and Jeckle). Was this used so nobody would be confused with what was going on, and why it was happening? Hope someone here knows.

BTW, why the heck was the non-sports themed cartoon "Triple Trouble" on that Terrytoons OLYMPICS tape any way? :confused:


-Thad

[J Lee]

I used to wonder about that too. It was actually the Terry's people take-off on the melodrama serials, where each chapter would begin with a summation of the last one. In the case of the Mighty Mouse cartoons, it served a double purpose -- as a gag about those types of films and their cliffhanger plots, and as a way to get Mighty Mouse involved in the plot from the start of the cartoon, instead of having to go three or four minutes setting up the situation to get a character into trouble so Our Hero could save them.

[Geezil]

... but ever so frustrating when those of us who grew to be Terrytoons fans via TV were a bit too young to have known (yet) about those cliffhanger serials.

As for Heckle and Jeckle, I could swear there was at least the one pair of vintage Terrytoons shorts that had them first behind bars and then, of course, "Out Again, In Again." Am I mistaken here?

[Thad Komorowski]

Well, there was the H&J cartoon, "Free Enterprise", but that was released after "Out Again, In Again". "Free Enterprise" was about salesmen H&J trying to sell escaping tools to the prisoners, but are chased by Dimwit.


-Thad