Return of the thread: What you think is the weirdest cartoon ever?

[Pietro]

What you think is the weirdest cartoon ever?
I think the early Van Beuren Tom & Jerry cartoon
"Wot a Night" is pretty weird.
A close runner up is WB's "Norman Normal".
And then there's the three surreal cartoons, "Bimbo's Initiation" (Fleischer), "You Don't know What You're Doin'" (WB), and "Spooks" (Universal).

-Pietro

[Nelson]

FISH FRY The ending fo this cartoon is just plain weired, when the cat see Andy's bulldog, the cat keeps bumping into a mailbox, and a lightpost.The cat runs away and runs right back to the bulldog with this bizzare and demented look on the cat's face, as he says to the dog, I MADE IT, I MADE IT, I MADE IT and then he starts hitting himself on his head just going very crazy.

[Mibbitmaker]

Although it's a 1990s TV cartoon rather than a classic theatrical release, I'd have to say probably the strangest cartoon I can think of from the John K Ren & Stimpys (not counting the post-K ones, all weird only due to low quality) was Stimpy's Fan Club. Ren's overnight agonizing was as psychotic as I've seen the asthma hound chihuahua. Love that one.

If I were to count really,really BAD-weird in the R&S area, it'd be Hermit Ren, one of my least-favorite.

[kiddiesunshine]

r&s was one of strangest. i haven't seen it in a while. not since nick CENSORED IT!

[Argus Sventon]

Ko-Ko's Earth Control has to be the weirdest cartoon. "Do Not Pull Lever or the World Will End". Fitz pulls the lever and things get bizarre.

[mmv3000]

believe it or not, many of the old Betty Boop shorts weird me out. They're just SO bizarre sometimes.

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Nelson
FISH FRY The ending fo this cartoon is just plain weired, when the cat see Andy's bulldog, the cat keeps bumping into a mailbox, and a lightpost.The cat runs away and runs right back to the bulldog with this bizzare and demented look on the cat's face, as he says to the dog, I MADE IT, I MADE IT, I MADE IT and then he starts hitting himself on his head just going very crazy.

Yeah, that ending IS weird. Some of the weirdest are the Gene Deitch cartoons, especially "Landing Stripling". That bird is just plain weird, especially the way he looks and sounds. The ending is also weird, with Tom falling off of the plane onto the tree branch, and the bird slapping a "Via Air Mail" sticker on the cat's forehead, and Jerry kissing him. :confused: :confused: :confused:

The drunk horse scene in "Lady Play Your Mandolin" is very bizzare, but VERY funny. Also, the ending of "Drooler's Delight" always confused me. Okay, I know Woody was pretty short compared to Buzz Buzzard, but small enough to fit into an ice cream dish? VERY strange. Especially how Woody is tall when he walks into the diner, and small as Jerry Mouse when Buzz puts him in a Drooler's Delight.

-Thad:D

[TServo2049]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski
Also, the ending of "Drooler's Delight" always confused me. Okay, I know Woody was pretty short compared to Buzz Buzzard, but small enough to fit into an ice cream dish? VERY strange. Especially how Woody is tall when he walks into the diner, and small as Jerry Mouse when Buzz puts him in a Drooler's Delight.

Oh, is this a Paul J. Smith-directed cartoon by any chance? (Because in those, he always kept changing size.)

[Thad Komorowski]

No. This cartune was directed by Dick Lundy and was the last Woody Woodpecker cartune released by United Artists (in 1949). The story was by Heck Allen (who wrote the scripts for many of the MGM Tex Averys), which could explain why Buzz was in blackface briefly.....

-Thad:D

[Matt Yorston]

Disney's "Duck Pimples" is certainly one of the strangest cartoons ever made. I mean, all the characters from the novel Donald is reading magically come out of his book and get him involved in the whole caper. Some other weird gags too (i.e. the cop pulling the bracelets off the lady's arm then dunking them in coffee and eating them as if they were doughnuts; the lady, still searching for her pearls, pulls at a string connected to the cop's pantleg. She keeps unravelling it until she comes to the "end of the line" with a fish dangling from it). The story was written by Virgil Partch, a man who later became famous for drawing silly magazine cartoons with gags similar to the ones in this cartoon.

"Now Hear This" from WB is also an obvious choice. Weird things happening from the beginning of the cartoon to the end linked by a weird "hearing aid" that actually belongs to the devil himself.

[Thad Komorowski]

How could I forget "Duck Pimples"? That is CERTAINLY weird.

-Thad:D

[Gossamer]

I noted that everything listed on here so far had been produced by or for a Hollywood studio, so I'm going a bit further afield. Scant Sanity and La Salla from National Film Board of Canada (for that matter, almost anything by Richard Condie) out-weirds anything listed so far. So does a cartoon series Gene Deitch did feauring a character named Nudnik. Cartoons called Balance and Tango would certainly qualify, as would one called Ersatz. But the strangest cartoon I have ever seen (also one of the best and my personal favorite) is a cartoon called Great. I could probably list a dozen more, but I won't. Of the major series, Betty Boop, Krazy Kat and Felix the Cat were probably the strangest. Toodle-pip!

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Gossamer
I noted that everything listed on here so far had been produced by or for a Hollywood studio, so I'm going a bit further afield. Scant Sanity and La Salla from National Film Board of Canada (for that matter, almost anything by Richard Condie) out-weirds anything listed so far.


If you're going to include the National Film Board of Canada, don't forget "Juke Bar". How many other cartoons feature stop-motion-animation cockroaches partying inside a Wurlitzer "bubbler" jukebox?

[lislebartman]

A couple of cartoons come to mind:

1) "Now Hear This" - one of the strangest animated films ever. This cartoon is only enjoyable when under the influence of some real hard drugs.

2) "Martian Thru Georgia" - is this film supposed to be funny? It isn't, just weird.

3) "Go Fly A Kit" - another strange Chuck Jones film. Does anyone else out there like this one? If the cat waiting at the airport is the flying cat's girlfriend , why does the cartoon end with four little flying kittens? What could Mr. Jones be implying? Who knows?

[Jack]

3) "Go Fly A Kit" - another strange Chuck Jones film. Does anyone else out there like this one? If the cat waiting at the airport is the flying cat's girlfriend , why does the cartoon end with four little flying kittens? What could Mr. Jones be implying? Who knows?
I love that cartoon, it's sort of remenisant of Jones' 40s one-shot cartoons (a strange, but simple story). The only thing that ever bugged me was that if the flying cat could lift a dog and a trash can alllll the way up to the top of a skyscraper, couldn't he easily take his girlfriend south with him?


Jack:D

[Larry T]

That's a good point about NFB having some pretty weird cartoons. Actually, a lot of weird cartoons come out of Europe- I think there's a Bruno Bozetto cartoon about all these mosquitoes going mass production on blood usage from a sleeping man's finger- that one was always pretty strange. There's a series of plasticine cartoons from Hungary about a character called "Augusta" that get quite strange too- but they're really funny anyway. And of course, Richard Condie does a lot of far-out stuff in his cartoons.

"Quasi at the Quackedero" wins for bizarre cartoons. It's like watching a cartoon backwards through a fun-house mirror while on LSD, (not that I'd really know how that would look- it makes a good comparison, though). :p

For Hollywood stuff, I've always said "Betty Boop MD" and "Mysterious Mose" are pretty weird. The Windsor McKay "Dreams Of a Rarebit Fiend" are mind-numbing too.

[simon]

For Hollywood stuff, I've always said "Betty Boop MD" and "Mysterious Mose" are pretty weird.

Those are my two favourite cartoons of all time. I could watch either one or both all day and not get bored.

Simon

[Andrew Gilmore]

"Presto Change-o" (the WB one, not the Paul Terry one) is quite weird.. I watched it a LOT when I was a kid.. maybe that explains why I grew up to BE weird! :D

And along the lines of the previous Ren and Stimpy comments, some other weird 90s TV toons:

The Simpsons episode where Homer eats dangerously hot chile at a chile cook-off and starts hallucinating. That one freaked me out the first time I saw it, and I shut it off after about 10 minutes!

And South Park's plots are often quite weird, especially "Mecha-Streisand" and of course the first episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
("Cartman! There's a 80-foot satellite dish sticking out of your a--!" "Suuure, you guys. Whaaat-everrrr!")

[Brandon Pierce]

Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers was a pretty bizzare episode, esp. the scene with the David Feiss-like Daffy. This is the weirdest Bugs Bunny cartoon I've ever seen (next to Devil's Feud Cake, which is considered the worst BB episode ever made. I actually prefer the LLLBBM version.)
And I know The Angry Beavers aren't "classic", but they are in my opinion. The strangest TAB episode I've seen so far is "The Loogie Hawlk". It's odd in a way because Looney Tunes gags pop up every 3 seconds, you never actually "see" the Loogie Hawlk, you only hear him coughing, and the ending is just plain bizzare!