"Cult" Classic....

[Nelson]

In the entire history of the animated cartoon, what would you consider to be an animated "Cult" classic???Here is my list of "cult" classics...

Winner By A Hare (1953)Tommy Tortoise And Moe Hare
Bars And Stripes (1931) Krazy Kat
Sham Battle Shenanigians (1942) Gandy Goose & Sourpuss
Bear Feat (1949) The Three Bears
The Beach Nut (1945) Woody Woodpecker
Hell's Bells (1929) Silly Symphonies
Koko's Earth Control (1927) Koko The Clown
Balloon Land aka "The Pincushion Man" (1935) Comic Color
Piano Tooners (1932) Tom & Jerry
The Ducksters (1950) Porky Pig & Daffy Duck
Yelp Wanted (1931) Scrappy
Slay It With Flowers (1942) The Fox And Crow
Chew Chew Baby (1958) Noveltoons
Which Is Witch? (1949) Bugs Bunny
At The Circus (1944) Mighty Mouse
Presto Chango (1929) Aesop's Fables
Fish Fry (1944) Andy Panda
His Mouse Friday (1951) Tom And Jerry
Sinkin In The Bathtub (1930) Bosko
Great Guns (1927) Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
Thugs With Dirty Mugs (1939) Merrie Melodies
When Magoo Flew (1955) Mr. Magoo
Sheep Shape (1946) Blackie The Lamb
Barnacle Bill (1930) Bimbo
Traffic Troubles (1931) Mickey Mouse
Der Fuehrer's Face (1943) Donald Duck
A Dream Walking (1934) Popeye
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs (1943) Merrie Melodies
Puss N' Booty (1943) Looney Tunes
Hockey Homicide (1945) Goofy
Prison Panic (1930) Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Tweety & Sylvester


These are just some of mine..anyone else has a list of their "cult" classic?

[Patrick McCart]

I'd call Russian Rhapsody a cult classic.

It's also one of the funniest cartoons ever made. ("Eh, who else?")

[Tintin]

"The Dippy Diplomat" - 1945
"Birds Anonymous" - 1957
"Duck Amuck" - 1953
"Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor" - 1936
"Guided Muscle" - 1955
"The Cat Concerto" - 1947
"Rhapsody Rabbit" - 1946
"Long-Haired Hare" - 1949
"Rabbit Seasoning" - 1952
"Der Fuherer's Face - 1943
"The Spirit of '43" - 1943
"Steamboat Willie" - 1928
"The Little Orphan" - 1949
"What's Cookin, Doc?" - 1944
"You Ought to Be in Pictures" - 1940

[Gossamer]

I'd say the ultimate cult classic is Bambi Meets Godzilla. Of the WB shorts, Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves and All This and Rabbit Stew would probably qualify. Disney, Der Fuehrer's Face and Hell's Bell's. A cult classic is something which has developed it's own following and has some life of it's own. Rocky Horror Picture Show or Dark Shadows are examples. So, for my money, the top one would be Bambi Meets Godzilla. For anyone who hasn't seen it, you should. It's hilarious, although I suspect that Uncle Walt was whirling in his grave!

[Thad Komorowski]

Oh, definitley "Bambi Meets Godzilla". It's got to be one of the funniest cartoons ever made, even if it was only less than a minute, and NO dialogue. No wonder it's one of the 50 greatest cartoons.


-Thad

[Pietro]

"Bambi Meets Godzilla" is the probably most "cult classic ever!

Then, there's "Quasi and the Quackedero" (I think that's it), it's very strange and kinda wacky and loose. I remember seeing that on CN on "The 50 of the Greatest Cartoons" marathon. If this isn't a "cult" classic, then I don't know what is!

Another "cult" classic would be "Silly Scandals" (1931 - Felischer Talkartoons).
Very bizarre but very well animated and kinda funny.

-Pietro:D

[barnyarddawg]

Thanks to Michael Cowand for sending me this cult classic .... Norman Normal.

[PorkyandDaffy]

I've always wondered this, and I think it's about time to ask: what is a cult classic? I've always heard this term, but was never sure what it was. Does it just mean rare cartoon classic?

[Nelson]

I'll try to answer this in the best way I possibly can.Let's say that a cartoon was panned by movie critics but the cartoon was a big hit with moviegoers for generations to follow and the cartoon would a reputation with movie fans.

[J Lee]

A cult classic is usually a film that people have limited access to but develops a huge fan base despite a lack of publicity. Certainly in the Warners world, cartoons like "Coal Black" apply, and hard as it is to believe nowadays, with CN repeating certain cartoons over and over and over again, but until about a decade ago "Porky In Wackyland' qualified and up until the mid-1970s, even Jones' cartoons like "Duck Amuck" and "One Froggy Evening" were on the list, because of the limited TV air time and lack of publicity they received. (Time's Jay Coc-ks knocked those two off the list when he wrote his 1973 feature on Jones, singling those two shorts out).

Meanwhile, cartoons that got tons of airtime 25 years ago, but don't anymore, like "Inki and the Minah Bird" can be added to the cult list. Those are the cartoons that, if you're talking to someone (in this case, someone at least 35 or older) and mention it, it will pop into their head because the images/story/music made such an impact when they were younger.

Other classic cartoons right now that fit the bill include a lot of the Lantz and Paramount cartoons, like "The Legend of Rockabye Point," "Drooler's Delight," "Bimbo's Initiation" any of the Betty Boop-Cab Calloway shorts, "Play Safe!" "Small Fry" "Seein Red, White 'N Blue," "A Bout With A Trout" and "Le Petite Parade," just to name a few.

(Terrytoons is kind of funny about this -- so much of Paul Terry's output is so similar to other Paul Terry cartoons, it's hard to tell them apart, so instead of cult flims, you get cult scenes, mostly built up around stuff animated after 1946 by Jim Tyer, though some of the Gandy-Sourpuss stuff like "Sham Battle Shenanigans" or "The Magic Pencil" probably qualify).

[Geezil]

Originally posted by J Lee
(Terrytoons is kind of funny about this -- so much of Paul Terry's output is so similar to other Paul Terry cartoons, it's hard to tell them apart, so instead of cult flims, you get cult scenes, mostly built up around stuff animated after 1946 by Jim Tyer, though some of the Gandy-Sourpuss stuff like "Sham Battle Shenanigans" or "The Magic Pencil" probably qualify).

Gandy & Sourpuss in "Post War Inventions" definitely qualifies!

[rex racer]

I think a few of the UB Iwerks Comicolor Cartoons would certainly qualify.

"The Pincushion Man" (aka Ballonland) got a lot of play on the old USA network "NightFlight" show, advertised as a "Cult favorite".

I'd have to include "Humpty Dumpty Jr." with the eggettes dancing girls, and "Simple Simon" just for it's totally goofy themesong and main character.

It would be interesting to make a compendium DVD of cult cartoons. Of course most of the banned cartoons are cult classics as well. Look how many of us wish we had choice copies in our cartoon libraries. I'd shuck out a lot of $$ to have the Lantz musical cartoons akin to "Scrub Me Momma With A Boogie Beat!"
Not because they have black characters, but because the music and animation is so lively.

[Thad Komorowski]

How about the mid-1950s Chilly Willy cartunes? Those had great animation, and designs. Chilly Willy's "Half-Baked Alaska" should qualify too, since that's remembered as almost everyone's favorite Lantz cartune they remember seeing.


Woody Woodpecker in "Ski for Two", "The Dippy Diplomat", "Who's Cookin' Who?", and "The Reckless Driver" would definitley qualify as well. Where else would you get these great lines?

"Aren't you a little impulsive?"
"Impulsive? No, I'm re-pulsive!"

"Well what do you know, guess who I'm going to have dinner with?"

"That was a wolf at your door..."
"A WOLF?!!" (Woody quickly pulls out book titled "100 Ways to Cook a Wolf")

"Read that chart!"
"I can't see a thing"
"Can ya read it know?!"
"I can't see a thing"

Basically any Lantz cartune from the 1940s would qualify.


-Thad

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Thad K
Basically any Lantz cartune from the 1940s would qualify.

Another Lantz cartune everybody remembers is "Bunco Busters".

"If Woody had only gone to the police.... NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!"


-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

I don't remember that one, but I'm hoping to get "Bunco Busters" in a month or so. :D

All of the Buzzy the Crow cartoons would qualify too...


-Thad

[Matthew Hunter]

I'd say the Bosko cartoons and Bob Clampett's more risque stuff ("Coal Black", "Russian Rhapsody") would all count as 'cult classics'. I have heard of the Bambi/Godzilla thing, but I have never seen that one. I think the Columbia Fox and Crow as a series has become a cult favorite too...I read somewhere that "Fox and Grapes"(the cartoon as well as the Aesop fable) partially inspired the setup of Jones' Wile E. Coyote films.
-Matthew

[Howard]

While they are TV shows, I would think "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol" , and "Kimba, the White Lion" would count as "cult" classics as these are seldom seen yet fondly remembered.

[Pietro]

The early Lantz Oswalds would qualify. Especially some of the more bizarre ones such as, "Spooks," "The Mechanical Man," or "My Pal Paul."

Columbia's "Fox & Crow" cartoons would be considered as "cult" classics.

The "Flip the Frog" cartoons would definetly qualify. The animation is superior to anything released at the time and the gags are extremely outrageous.

Tom Terrific, the little-known Saturday morning cartoon show from the late 50s, would be considered as a cult classic since you don't very well see it often.

And almost ANYTHING from the Fleischers in the early 30s and Lantz in the early 40s (especially that Andy Panda cartoon, "The Painter and the Pointer.")

-Pietro:D

[Jon Cooke]

Judging from e-mails I have received over the years, these cartoons would also qualify as "cult classics" (in addition to Lantz's "Bunco Busters")...

"Oily Hare" - people seem to love Maverick

"Dog Gone South" - people often ask which cartoon had the line: "Belvedere, come here, boy!"

"Hare-less Wolf" - again, people remember the forgetful Charles M. Wolf

"The Oily American" - "You're ARROW, sir!"

Any of the Inki and the Mynah Bird cartoons.

"Symphony in Slang" (MGM)

"Early to Bet" and "It's Hummertime" - people remember the "penalties" ("Oh no, not HAPPY BIRTHDAY!", etc.)

And the two winners... from the e-mails over the years are without a doubt:

"Rabbit's Kin" - for Pete Puma (of course)

"I Love to Singa"


And an honorable mention to anything with Beaky Buzzard, Gossamer, or the Abominable Snowman.


-Jon

[BlueAngelGal]

Yes, no list would be complete without "I Love to Singa" :) I'd like to add pretty much anything with Bertie and Hubie to the list...I can't count how many times I've heard "Yeah yeah, sure sure!" from people who probably don't even know where they got it from anymore :).

[Nelson]

One of the newest "cult" cartoon classic would be the 1931 Krazy Kat classic "BARS AND STRIPES".To just give you an idea on how popluar this cartoon is, that when I gave this cartoon to dance & rock clubs, it became such an overnight hit, that this cartoon would be the most requested short by fans wanting to see this classic gem at nay kind of dance clubs.