FUNNY FACTS ABOUT CARTOONS

1. The Rugrats episode “Naked Tommy” was influenced by Maurice Sendak’s book In the Night Kitchen.

2. Melanie Chartoff, the voice of Didi on Rugrats, was once invited into the men’s room by the show’s illustrators and Didi was drawn in S&M inside the stalls. Chartoff says that Didi was “decked out in leather, with whips and chains: the whole dominatrix regalia.”
3. The creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, John Kricfalusi, was kicked off the show because the network thought the episode “Man’s Best Friend” was too violent.
4. Billy West, the voice of Stimpy, is also the voice of Fry on Futurama.
5. Chuckie Finster’s character and personality is based on Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh.
6. Mothersbaugh actually composed all the music for Rugrats.

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7. Toran Caudell, Rod on 7th Heaven, is the voice actor who played Arnold on Hey Arnold.

8. Mark Hamill was actually the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man.
9. When Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings called Beavis and Butthead “Buffcoat and Beaver” the show’s writers created the recurring joke where older people mispronounce their names.
10. The creator of Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Danny Antonucci, also helped produce The Smurfs.
11. Kelsey Grammar has voiced The Simpsons’ Sideshow Bob since 1990.
12. Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, was the voice of Donnie in The Wild Thornberrys.
13. Tim Curry, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, is actually the voice of Nigel Thornberry.

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14. On Doug, Doug’s sister Judy got her name from Virginia Woolf poem “Shakespeare’s Sister,” where Woolf says that if she had a sister, her name would have been Judith.

15. The Dinks’ (Doug’s neighbors) name stems from the acronym D.I.N.K., meaning “double income, no kids”.
16. Doug’s school’s vice principal, Mr. Bone, is based on Don Knotts.
17. Constance Shulman, Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black, is the voice of Patti Mayonnaise.
18. Space Ghost from Space Ghost Coast to Coast is actually based on a 1966 cartoon Space Ghost and Dino Boy.
19. The show’s creator, Mike Lazzo, began Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and Toonami, which brought anime into the American mainstream, and the What A Cartoon show, the launching pad for Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
20. Space Ghost Coast to Coast has rocks on Mars named after its characters Space Ghost, Zorak, Moltar, and Brak.

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21. Tracy Grandstaff, the voice of Daria, is currently the vice president of Comedy Central.

22. There’s a fan theory that believes SpongeBob and his friends are the result of radiation from nuclear arms testing that was performed on the Bikini Atoll in the late ’40s and early ’50s.
23. A restaurant in Rocko’s Modern Life was renamed the Chewy Chicken because the Chokey Chicken too closely resembled masturbation.
24. Carlos Alazraqui, of Reno 911!, was actually the voice of Rocko.
25. Matt Stone and Trey Parker created Cartman based on what they thought Archie Bunker from All in the Family would have been like as a child.

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26. The Ren & Stimpy Show had the following removed: a cross from the Pope’s hat, a scene where the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were burned, a severed head, and violent scenes where a baby punches Ren in the stomach.

27. “Onward and Upward,” an episode that depicted Ren and Stimpy as bisexual, was banned from Nickelodeon and aired as the first episode of Ren & Stimpy: “Adult Party Cartoon.”
28. Animaniacs once made a very inappropriate joke about Prince.
29. Casey Kasem provided the voice of Shaggy until the show’s producers asked him to film a Burger King commercial. Kasem was a vegan and wanted Shaggy to be also, so he quit the show after two decades in 1995.
30. SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron was canceled after one season despite being the No. 1 syndicated show of 1994.

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31. Reboot is the first television show to be completely animated with CGI.

32. The entire show spans over the course of one week.
33. The original three Warner brothers in Animaniacs were named Yakki, Smakki, and Wakki, and they were also ducks.
34. Dot’s full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Banna Bo Besca the Third.
35. Voice actor Jess Harnell modeled Wakko’s voice after Ringo Starr.
36. Pinky and the Brain was inspired by two producers of Tiny Toon Adventures, Tom Minton and Eddie Fitzgerald.
37. Richard Stone not only won an Emmy for the Pinky and the Brain theme song, he won seven Emmys for his work on Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Hysteria!. Stone also wrote music for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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38. All of the main characters in SpongeBob represent the seven deadly sins.

39. SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg based the idea of SpongeBob on The Intertidal Zone, a comic book he created in college.
40. Hillenburg, a former marine biologist, brought an aquarium into the SpongeBob pitch meeting and introduced all the characters inside the tank.
41. Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, previously starred as Heffer in Rocko’s Modern Life, Dog in CatDog, and also narrated The Powerpuff Girls.
42. There’s a theory that Courage of Courage the Cowardly Dog is a completely normal dog that sees the world through a dog’s eyes, so all the monsters and aliens are just regular humans.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2016

Copyright The Columbia University Press.

cartoon [Ital., cartone=paper], either of two types of drawings: in the fine arts, a preliminary sketch for a more complete work; in journalism, a humorous or satirical drawing.

Cartoons in the Fine Arts

In the fine arts, the cartoon is a full-sized preliminary drawing for a work to be executed afterward in fresco, oil, mosaic, stained glass, or tapestry. Glass and mosaic are cut exactly according to the patterns taken from the cartoons, while in tapestry the cartoon is inserted beneath the warp to serve as a guide. In fresco painting, the lines of the cartoon are perforated and transferred to the plaster surface by pouncing (dusting with powder through the perforations). Italian Renaissance painters made very complete cartoons, and such works as Raphael's cartoons for the Sistine Chapel tapestries (Victoria and Albert Mus.) are considered masterpieces.

Cartoons in Journalism

In England in 1843 a series of drawings appeared in Punch magazine that parodied the fresco cartoons submitted in a competition for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament. In this way cartoon, in journalistic parlance, came to mean any single humorous or satirical drawing employing distortion for emphasis, often accompanied by a caption or a legend. Cartoons, particularly editorial or political cartoons, make use of the elements of caricature.

 Political Cartoons

The political cartoon first appeared in 16th-century Germany during the Reformation, the first time such art became an active propaganda weapon with social implications. While many of these cartoons were crudely executed and remarkably vulgar, some, such as Holbein's German Hercules, were excellent drawings produced by the best artists of the time. In 18th-century England the cartoon became an integral and effective part of journalism through the works of Hogarth, Rowlandson and Grillray who often used caricature.Daumier , in France, became well known for his virulent satirical cartoons.

By the mid-19th cent. editorial cartoons had become regular features in American newspapers, and were soon followed by sports cartoons and humorous cartoons. The effect of political cartoons on public opinion was amply demonstrated in the elections of 1871 and 1873, when the power of Tammany Hall was broken and Boss Tweed imprisoned largely through the efforts of Thomas Nast and his cartoons for Harper's Weekly. In 1922 the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was won by Rollin Kirby of the New York World. Other noted political cartoonists include John T. McCucheon and others

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2016

Copyright The Columbia University Press.

cartoon [Ital., cartone=paper], either of two types of drawings: in the fine arts, a preliminary sketch for a more complete work; in journalism, a humorous or satirical drawing.

Cartoons in the Fine Arts

In the fine arts, the cartoon is a full-sized preliminary drawing for a work to be executed afterward in fresco, oil, mosaic, stained glass, or tapestry. Glass and mosaic are cut exactly according to the patterns taken from the cartoons, while in tapestry the cartoon is inserted beneath the warp to serve as a guide. In fresco painting, the lines of the cartoon are perforated and transferred to the plaster surface by pouncing (dusting with powder through the perforations). Italian Renaissance painters made very complete cartoons, and such works as Raphael's cartoons for the Sistine Chapel tapestries (Victoria and Albert Mus.) are considered masterpieces.

Cartoons in Journalism

In England in 1843 a series of drawings appeared in Punch magazine that parodied the fresco cartoons submitted in a competition for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament. In this way cartoon, in journalistic parlance, came to mean any single humorous or satirical drawing employing distortion for emphasis, often accompanied by a caption or a legend. Cartoons, particularly editorial or political cartoons, make use of the elements of caricature.

Political Cartoons

The political cartoon first appeared in 16th-century Germany during the Reformation, the first time such art became an active propaganda weapon with social implications. While many of these cartoons were crudely executed and remarkably vulgar, some, such as Holbein's German Hercules, were excellent drawings produced by the best artists of the time. In 18th-century England the cartoon became an integral and effective part of journalism through the works of Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray, who often used caricature. Daumier, in France, became well known for his virulent satirical cartoons.

By the mid-19th cent. editorial cartoons had become regular features in American newspapers, and were soon followed by sports cartoons and humorous cartoons. The effect of political cartoons on public opinion was amply demonstrated in the elections of 1871 and 1873, when the power of Tammany Hall was broken and Boss Tweed imprisoned largely through the efforts of Thomas Nast and his cartoons for Harper's Weekly. In 1922 the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was won by Rollin Kirby of the New York World. Other noted political cartoonists include John T. McCutcheon, C. D. Batchelor, Jacob Burck, Bill Mauldin, Rube Goldberg, Tom Little, Patrick Oliphant, and Herblock (Herbert Block).

Humorous Cartoons

Humorous nonpolitical cartoons became popular with the development of the color press, and in 1893 the first color cartoon appeared in the New York World. In 1896 R. F. Outcault originated The Yellow Kid, a large single-panel cartoon with some use of dialogue in balloons, and throughout the 90s humorous cartoons by such artists as T. S. Sullivant, James Swinnerton, Frederick B. Opper, and Edward W. Kemble began to appear regularly in major newspapers and journals. The New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post were among the most notable American magazines to use outstanding single cartoon drawings.

Single cartoons soon developed into the narrative newspaper comics but the single panel episodic tradition also survived and thrived. It is exemplified by the work of humorists such as Charles addams, Peter Arno,, Saul Steinberg, James Thurber, , William Steig, Helen Hokinson, Mary Petty, Whitney Darrow, George Price, Edward Koren, Roz Chast, the Englishmen Rowland Emmett and Ronald Searl, , and the French cartoonists André François and Bil.

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