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Tintin
08-10-2002, 01:48 PM
Why the cartoons "Good Night, Elmer" and "Bedtime for Sniffles" were never seen on CN? Isn't it offensive or very bad cartoons? :confused:
Daniel P
08-10-2002, 01:52 PM
Originally posted by Martin Juneau
Why the cartoons "Good Night, Elmer" and "Bedtime for Sniffles" were never seen on CN? Isn't it offensive or very bad cartoons? :confused:

I have seen "Bedtime for Sniffles" before on CN and it is not, in my opinion, offensive.
Jack
08-10-2002, 02:33 PM
Nothing is wrong with either, though "Bedtime for Sniffles" may not be shown very much because it is a Christmas cartoon. As for Goodnight Elmer, it is considered one of the worst cartoons ever made (don't ask me why, it's not a favorite of mine, but it's far far far from the worst), so maybe they just don't like playing it.

Personally, I wish they would show Mexican Joyride more often, it's a favorite of mine (too bad it's edited :( ).


Jack :D
Daniel P
08-10-2002, 02:59 PM
Originally posted by Jack
Nothing is wrong with either, though "Bedtime for Sniffles" may not be shown very much because it is a Christmas cartoon. As for Goodnight Elmer, it is considered one of the worst cartoons ever made (don't ask me why, it's not a favorite of mine, but it's far far far from the worst), so maybe they just don't like playing it.

Personally, I wish they would show Mexican Joyride more often, it's a favorite of mine (too bad it's edited :( ).


Jack :D

Was Goodnight Elmer the short where Elmer is being annoyed by Sylvester?
Tintin
08-10-2002, 03:49 PM
Originally posted by dacp3
Was Goodnight Elmer the short where Elmer is being annoyed by Sylvester?

No

It's in "Back Alley Op-Roar"


Nothing is wrong with either, though "Bedtime for Sniffles" may not be shown very much because it is a Christmas cartoon. As for Goodnight Elmer, it is considered one of the worst cartoons ever made (don't ask me why, it's not a favorite of mine, but it's far far far from the worst), so maybe they just don't like playing it.

"Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol", "Gift Wrapped", "Night Before Christmas (the Tom and Jerry cartoon) and "Fright Before Christmas" are also a Christams cartoons, but that's sometime airing. :eek:
Daniel P
08-10-2002, 04:02 PM
Originally posted by Martin Juneau
"Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol", "Gift Wrapped", "Night Before Christmas (the Tom and Jerry cartoon) and "Fright Before Christmas" are also a Christams cartoons, but that's sometime airing. :eek:

"The Night before Christmas" aired today. The LT's have not aired in a while, but I would like to see them. :D
J Lee
08-10-2002, 04:27 PM
Was Goodnight Elmer the short where Elmer is being annoyed by Sylvester?

"Good Night, Elmer" is the one where Fudd fights a losing battle with various things (coats, hats, books, etc.) to try and get to sleep.

Yes, it's really slow at times, but I never found it as teeth-grindignly annoying as Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald did -- I thought Jones got a lot of personality animation into the candle, which is a pretty neat trick, and the amount of time spent in creating the effects images, mainly all of the Disney-flavored shadowing involved, made it one of the most detailed cartoons Warners ever put out (and Jones' design for Fudd in the cartoon -- modified slightly from the Avery/Givins look in "A Wild Hare" -- would eventually become pretty much the standard design for the character after his "fat period" from late 1941 to the fall of 1942).
snowpeck
08-10-2002, 05:34 PM
Originally posted by Jack


Personally, I wish they would show Mexican Joyride more often, it's a favorite of mine (too bad it's edited :( ).


Jack :D [/B]


I just discovered actually moments ago that I have an unedited copy from a 1988 TNT airing :D


Greg
Matthew Hunter
08-10-2002, 05:55 PM
i've seen "Good Night Elmer" a few times on CN. It's really not that bad a cartoon, but I would consider it one of Jones' weaker efforts. Well animated, well designed, but the timing is too slow at times, and the concept isn't particularly thrilling. "Bedtime for Sniffles" is played to death around holiday time, but I rearely see it any other time.
-Matthew
Pilmedium
08-10-2002, 06:34 PM
The Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Night Before Christmas" gets way too much airtime year-round.


Originally posted by Jack
As for Goodnight Elmer, it is considered one of the worst cartoons ever made (don't ask me why, it's not a favorite of mine, but it's far far far from the worst), so maybe they just don't like playing it.

"Good Night Elmer" is slightly underrated. However, it is not great.