Terrytoons on Me-TV Toons

This is likely an announcement on the classic theatrical animation bubble that we never thought to be made, but Me-TV Toons went to the act by including the Paul Terry's Terrytoons library with Mighty Mouse and Friends every Sunday on a two-hour block - 3pm to 5pm - beginning in November 2th!

The new was spread by columnist and writer Lauren Ashton from Animation Scoop, which sadly reflected that the actual new cartoons they envisionned on this website are rather more unwatchable and ill-fitting than we do all remembered of the shows we have all seen at kids.

But looking of the way the newer Me-TV outlet dedicated to the 20th century's classic cartoons was a dream come true that it would never made the day (A feat that even Teletoon Retro HAS never completed!), if it wasn't by historian, author and teacher Jerry Beck to worked at part of consultant. I having to chat with him many years ago, even if that was somehow to me unsafe. He was a good caring man from I remember of him from our talks. That weren't very fine days to me, by be still too younger (In my twenties, it figures!) to be able to reach the real steps of adulthood and working place.

But enough of my personal life, let's go back to the case - Mighty Mouse and Friends, that will also include such Terrytoons series like "Heckle and Jeckle" (Think of a male version of Cheryl and Meryl, but more fun and appealing than these), "The Terry Bears", the campy 1960s TV show "Mighty Heroes" and even so, the 1987s "Mighty Mouse" TV series (Not the Filmation one) that has created such of a heavy impact by making cartoons at fun again, courtsey of legendary producer Ralph Bakshi (By have also involving in the late studio's day) and a batch of fresh newer creative people who had all part contributed of the short-living TV series before to merging their efforts in the 1990s frantic and creators-driven era of animation.

This is rather odd that they don't even picked up the whole studio's library (Probably due to issues with Paramount Sundance, the current owner of these cartoons) at its fullest, but looking to how rather formulaic and antiquated some of the shorts were compared to the era that came from, made me a little pessimistic. These are all pleasant time-wastings, even more so than the orgy of violence and crual humor from Famous or the budget-cuttings things from the Lantz cartoons of the 1950s. It did took them so long to updated the clearly outdated background cartoon art for a much stylized one, when Gene Deitch is been the producer after Paul Terry solded his studio to CBS, back in 1955.

It's as if the only noteworthy thing we could saying is that for a long period, it do keeping jobs at the New York's Rochelle mid-town, even by a strike between artists in 1947 or something. To seen him hurry to producing ONE newer 6-minute short every two weeks, without any artistic vision or anything and that he ended his life to be rich unlike the animators and producers who have worked to him make it likely very weak quality works, and where the music scores and sound-effects are more oft-putting to hear by took all the place for fewer laughs.

Such weird that Me-TV Toons picked up a fraction of the Terrytoons' library, but we could do give them credits to presenting these for the first time on National Television in decades. Hopefully that the Disney classic library to be the next! They really need this.