dimanche 7 décembre 2025
End of the episodes critics and reviews
jeudi 4 décembre 2025
Holidays Magic by Coca-Cola
When we know the rate of obesity keep to augmented anywhere in the world, that junk-foods chains from the America are become more accessible than before or that fatphobia is what screams those university intellectuals who only own knowledge from ChatGPT or Wikipedia, the history of Coca-Cola went from a medicine syrup that didn't worked out well. Releasing tons of plastic bottles of this the day in the world by also exploited the most vulnerable communities (Like the ordeal when a TV spot was made in 2015 on a Mexico-like community and where rotten hipsters carry the Holidays magic by made-up a Christmas tree with the bottles' caps -- But who actually do THIS at home??) is all the more nerve-wrecking. Especially if I know tons of people who never dare to drink milk, or so, water!mardi 2 décembre 2025
R.I.P. My comics life - 2005-2025
samedi 29 novembre 2025
R.I.P. Tony Benedict
vendredi 28 novembre 2025
The origins of Frank's "Best Ove!"
Longtime François Pérusse's fans like me known that he has done everything -- from TV animated shows to commercials to live-action movies and now, a theatre play for the upcoming year! He is an humorist, author-composer-writer, have won tons of Gémeaux for his past albums and also own a very succesful time with Europe, by be able to clash his ludicrous and predictable puns to their own ropes without betraying anyone who have helped him to make a bright career in first place.
Now at his age of retirement, the "retirement" word sounds too much at a risk nowadays, which it's not guarantee that you'll lived happily after quit the working world. François is now age 65, but his peak days is for long behind him, enough to still attract a nostalgic audience who have supported him until his label, Zéro Musique, does its part for the Earth by make its 2021s final album in Digital download only. Not the greatest album I ever hear from him, but still...
jeudi 27 novembre 2025
Mickey's Good Deed
With the Holidays shopping rush is officially launch by the American Thanksgiving, I have not a big amount of love for the Christmas time, especially not since the "magical" touch that keeping it in life by the lives of my own grandparents has faded away with them for a longtime, (F**k Cancer!) and then, the ordeal to hear overbearing and rather unnimpressive Christmas songs while at work for hours make me all the more stressful. Seriously, spending a day in an Haunted House seems less frightening than that.
Christmas appear like the most natural theme for any animated offerings. It went by association to at least, producing one special episode for every show in this Holidays time. And where some-known TV specials has make the test of time. Some keep the Christmas-feel that we all need in this troubled time - SOME - but to others, they are just plain forgettable, by promote more the cynical commercialization of the Holidays with main characters acted at selfish brats. Such a thing that even the very first Peanuts' TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, has took figuratively to this complain.
But here's something different for this blog: A comparison of two versions of the same cartoon that themed of Christmas, and with the times, it is among one of the greatest ever: Mickey's Good Deed!
While Walt Disney getting big fame by his own Mickeys and color Silly Symphonies series, the iconic rodent star is always plays like the top-header of the early-1930s cartoondom. And where Van Beuren and others tried hardly to imitate and even so, copying the Mickey/Minnie characters all the way, with legal sue that Walt has took in action against these copyacts.
This 1932s cartoon is released from the Post-Depression era, where people changed anytime jobs in order to getting something off to their table. Mickey, with his dog Pluto, are tramps in this charming short, by playing violin in order to own money for a good Christmas meal. But chaos endured when Pluto is been adopted by a family of wealthy dog/pig-like people in exchange of money to our mouse hero that also featuring one of the earliest impressions of a spoiled-brat kid and actor Jimmy Durante in a cartoon.
The bratty piglet is nearest of the same vein as Huey, Dewey and Louie or Sylvester Jr. in Goldimouse and the Three Cats when his father keep to tell him at a "spoiled-brat". (Despite these spoilers, the Freleng/Maltese short has none connection with the Sylvester/Jr. cartoons from what Robert McKimson had made in the same period.) I haven't seen this short in ages and that the only time I has took this chance, is from a family-friendly Disney's DVD that Blockbuster having for rental at that time, back in 2006. It was the 1991s colorized version, which actually, don't looked on different to the Computer-Colorized versions from black-and-white Warner films, but are times more watchable than those ill-fitting redrawn Porkys or Popeyes shorts!
The cartoon has all -- Heart, a clear life-observation of poverty or that not every people have the same chance to own Christmas presents and treats (Such tragic that the same problem does happen with the inflation of today!), the issues between the smarmy wealthiest and poorer classes of people, a charming humor and music that work with the biggest care, or simply that Mickey was at the peak of his career. This is what many of his imitators lacking -- A sense of humor and royalty by not playing the cloying urban mans like in his 1940s or 50s shorts. Despite the earliest influence went throughout the likes of Douglas Fairbanks, in this, he's likely Charlie Chaplin in his own fine form, like the Pink Panther were seen like a hungry hobo in several of his own shorts.
It's also a testament that nearly one century later, the cartoon remains timeless and fresh by be devoid of musical numbers that would slipped off to the radar. It's not the same Feel-Good production thing that we are scared of. Animation in our age, is definitely controlled by large corporations who have no heart for what they owned for, are also cynical with the silenceful majority like it were in the late-1990s and let lots of animators and artists in a tacky nine-to-five job instead to let them exploring their own ideas to an audience who gains excitement to fresh blood. Walt Disney was fair that the 1930s Mickeys were among the greatests of that era, but it didn't took long before competition with other studios would make losing his appeal, and eventually, Mickey's biggest opponent is maybe not Betty Boop, Popeye or Porky Pig. It's... COLOR!
This is in the process to producing the later Mouse's shorts on color that he soon, losing his hero status, and for Walt's desires to climb the limits of the art, animated features were planned to the drawing board too. That may explain why for many fans out there, the Mickeys comics were truly more larger-than-life than it were in his later cartoons shorts.
Mickey's Good Deed still works today by be both timeless and a powerful message of caring and giving to the unluckiest ones of the society in this time of narcissism and pure greed. And they were better drawn than the competition who still went with crude cartoon art!
And here's the original Black-and-White version for comparison! Enjoy, 'toons fans!

