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My mom is a first grade teacher and some educational entertainment place sent her a series of educational dvd's one of the dvd's had Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman on it . It's creepy for adults let alone six year olds. It's not really all that famous so most people won't have seen it, but I think you might have fun with it. Here is a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M2Hq4AzOhds.html
There's the Gargoyles episode 'Deadly Force' where Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa Maza. And the Captain Planet episode 'Mind Pollution' where we see an actual death by drug overdose on screen in a kids show.
I know right? The poor guy's been down there for hours. He's so scared, he can barely meow, and Porky's reaction? He demands that Sylvester take off that "makeup" this instance. SMH.
I got so scared as well as felt sad for Sylvester While we're talking about sad/freaky reactions Sylvester makes I also think when the very image of him on the thumbnail had that same affect. How ironic a scared cat reactions is scarier than what is causing him to BE scared
"He doesn't even question why he has an anvil". In the Looney Toons universe, I'm pretty sure they're issued. Baby is born? Its anvil has been delivered and placed on the doorstep.
The reason why Sylvester was renamed from Thomas was because Warner Bros. didn't want to be confusing considering they and MGM already have a Tom Cat named Tom.
As much as I like this series, I wish Doug would bring back "Was That Real?", cause there is still a ton of shows that are still remembered by some but not many people know of.
I had no idea he had a show like that but I had a moment or two where I questioned memories of stuff I saw as a kid. Like a Courage the Cowardly Dog episode on the scooby doo alien invaders VHS or Kablam from Nickelodeon.
The sylvester and porky one with the hotel was creepy too. Just seeing those eyes everywhere (nooks and crannies and the Moosehead) was really eerie, especially at the end.
I think Looney Tunes should do a version of The Wicker Man starring Sylvester, with Porky as the villain Lord Porkysle. "Sylvester: Oh, No! Not the Tweety Birds! Not the Tweety Birds! Ahhhhhhh oh, they're in my eyes!"
For me the most alarming shot is when Porky's tied up with that sign saying "you were right"--wow! I also love that tilted angle when he's covered in flour or whatever and he's staring at the camera! That genuinely is really creepy!
5:14 Actually nice detail with how Porky unloads it. Cylinder out, barrel pointed away from either of them. He clearly has some familiarity with gun safety.
I love this series so much because of how he gives background, history and animation and art trivia with these cartoons and not just talking about the scary stuff.
"Damn Porky,,hide your shame!" That line cracks me up.😆 I'm glad he introduced us to Lou Lehr, for a long time I thought the mouse was doing Jerry Colonna (also a radio personality and voice actor with a mustache and a very distinct voice). Clearly, I was wrong Doug thank you.
Oh my gosh, I remember watching this cartoon when I was little. Had a bunch of Looney Tunes recorded on VHS, with this being one of them. Ah, the memories. We don't get cartoons like this nowadays.
Something I loved about a lot of Thomas episodes is that they had a sense of peril or unease to them. Duncan Gets Spooked is still one that sticks with me.
How about another dark Jones cartoon called “The Hypochondri-Cat?” It’s another in the series of “Hubie and Bertie torture some poor cat” cartoons, in which they convince hypochondriac Claude that he died and became an angel! What’s unusual about it is that Claude never realizes he’s been duped-at least as far as we know. The cartoon is noteworthy for the hallucinatory visuals in the “operation” scene.
That reminds me of the one in which the gophers trick the dog by putting him in all these weird places when he's asleep. Really messed-up stuff. Oddly enough, when I was in the hospital due to complications of Crohn's that caused me to go septic and almost killed me, one of the medicines I was given made me hallucinate. I actually saw Looney Tunes cartoons playing that weren't actually on. It was either that one or the one you described that "played," and I believed that it was a sign that the nurses and even my parents were in on a plot to drive me crazy. I also heard movie gangster voices coming out of my IV machine and thought it was some weird electronic malfunction. No idea what it was that they gave me that made me hallucinate that vividly, though, but I'm thankful that they stopped. To this day, I am not sure what was real and what wasn't during that period of time.
2 things: 1) I remember and love this episode! Didn't know this was the episode where Sylvester got his official name, though. That's a neat fact to know 2) Probably not gonna happen, but maybe do Graveyard Shift or Nasty Patty from SpongeBob SquarePants?
Grew up with this one. My favorite of these is the one where Sylvester sees a 'ghost' walking down a hallway which is actually mice stacked on each other's shoulders and you hear the 'doo doo doo' music. Loved it so much I used to walk down the hallway at night with a sheet over my head going 'doo doo doo, doo doo doo'
Actually it was Porky who did that. See how he unloads the weapon with the barrel pointed away from both of them? He at least knows some of the basic safety rules.
If you’d like to see another one from Cartoon Network, I would recommend Dee Dee’s Room from Dexter’s Lab! It literally opens with a detailed illustration of Dexter with bloodshot eyes, as he says, “The horror! The horror!” 👁👁
I used to have a DVD that included this short, I remember watching this short all the time and laughing really hard at it. I’m getting so much nostalgia watching this.
Thanks Doug, I'm glad you highlighted these 3 cartoons, they cracked me up as a kid and it was the only times where I did feel bad for Sylvester and wanted to smack Porky lol :)
Wow, it's been over 25 years since I've seen this cartoon! Funny thing, they would always cut it at the part where the mice bring out Porky with the "you were right Sylvester" sign, so the ending was left even more dark and open to interpretation!
Whenever I saw it on TV--they'd cut out the part where Sylvester attempted to kill himself. I'm quite certain the first time I saw the short, I actually did see this, but I was far too young to remember that part (I just remember Porky giving in, and letting Sylvester go to bed with him--but I definitely knew when I saw the short again on TV that something was missing because they'd immediately cut from Porky yelling at Sylvester to get out to Sylvester inside the bed with Porky while the mice rolled it out the window.
Oh my god!! I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid and I have always remembered it but was never able to find it again! I’m so happy you have reintroduced this to me after all these years! Thank you!
Doug really knows his stuff when he talks about the animation! I met him once at a Comic-Con and he was really nice. It would be so fun to hang out with him. I feel like we get on like a house on fire! We both love animation!
the amount of detail that went into this episode of loony toons is really good I love dark cartoons they are amazing and will always be amazing
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I used to love this Porky & Sylvester trilogy as a little kid but I swear I didn't realize how dark this one actually is, until now. It really is the scariest and darker one out of the three shorts, the other two are more focused on comedy, and one specifically, on sci-fi themes (my personal favorite of the trilogy)
Thanks Doug, this is one of my all-time favorites for Sylvester. The proofs in the pudding that non verbal characters can emote so much if well animated
The Cobweb Hotel (1936) is one of my favorite cartoons. I watched it as a kid a million times and it always made me so uncomfortable but I couldn't help but love it, and it still has the same effect on me today.
I don't think any of us kids understood that joke as a kid--that it was a reference to an old actor at the time known for that look and catchphrase "Monkeys is the cwaziest people!" All I knew was that this reference showed up in quite a few Looney Tunes shorts.
I'd love to see you do a Gravity Falls episode. A bunch could work but 'Northwest Mansion Mystery ' and 'Sock Opera' are probably the darkest when it comes to full episodes. The Weirdmageddon episodes are probably too long to do in this format style.
When Sylvester meowed after Porky saw him after whatever happened in that room or wherever, I thought the mice either _lobotomized_ him or administered some kind of _electroconvulsive torture_ to him. I'm so used to hearing him talk that I thought him meowing was supposed to be a sign that he was _brain damaged_ or something. Granted in this cartoon, he didn't talk prior to the torture, but he didn't act any different than usual apart from being scared of the house.
Doug should definitely do Invader Zim's "Dark Harvest", even if he hasn't seen the whole show that episode is definitely iconic for what it got away with.
Jeffrey Weber also doug Little bit more info of zim becouse unlike courge which don,t need that mush backstory Zim one Weird backstory is was creator by guy who wrote comic about serial killer this is like garth ennis make children cartoon or mark millar make one or Frank Miller oh shit he made one and not thing i would say is it
I've been watching looney Toons since I can remember. I thought I figured out all the celeb references, but I never knew where the "craziest peoples" line came from. You learn something new everyday. :D
Yes! I've been waiting for you to cover this one! This is one of my favorite Looney Tunes shorts. The atmosphere, music and animation in this short are top notch fantastic. A perfect blend of humor and horror. My only nitpick is that when I was a kid, they used to butcher out the scene where Sylvester is yelled at by Porky to get out--and he pulls out a gun from the drawer and tries to commit suicide--they'd usually skip that scene and cut immediately to the part where the mice are rolling the bed out the window without any context as to how Sylvester ended up in the bed with Porky whatsoever. I even knew that something was cut, because I vaguely remember seeing the scene uncut when I first saw this short--although I was too young to remember the suicide sequence. In addition, I believe they also used to cut out the scene where a hooded mouse attempted to shoot Porky with a gun while he held an unconscious Sylvester in his arms.
I remember watching this on a vhs cartoon collection as a kid and after many years the only thing i remember is the ending where sylvester is carrying porky out and hes just singing "where the deer and antelope plaaaay"
Yes, there should be. As well as an "Old vs. New" of Disney's Peter Pan against the british non-Disney live-action Peter Pan from 2003. And a "Dark Toons" about the episode of "Legend of the Three Caballeros" episode "Mount Fuji Whiz" where Donald Duck and friends die, go to the Underworld for real and must escape back to the world of the living. Really dark and trippy for a Donald cartoon.
Nobody cares about the live-action Lion King anymore. That movie's 15 minutes are up, and every reviewer (Doug included) has already weighed in on that. That corpse has been picked clean.
My mom was always a huge Looney Toons fan, and I remember watching this toon with her when I was seven...always recognized that it was a little darker and scarier than most episodes, but it was still one of my favorites, and it remains so to this day.
Omg! Thank you. I've been wondering what that "craziest peoples " was suppose to be referencing since I was a kid. Normally asked my mom about that stuff and sometimes she knew but she didn't know either at the time.
I really love this series! :D I hope you're able to find more and more films to cover, to keep it going! - This one here, we had on VHS growing up. This was extra fun for me :D Thanks, Critic!
Better that than "Education for Death", which is also an anti-Nazi political commentary 'toon but without the comedic aspects or "Oh, thank God it was just a dream" end that "In the Fuehrer's Face" had. An entirely different kind of dark 'toon.
@@The_Str4nger No he wasn't. Conditions in nazi Germany during the war were horrible for the average german worker. I remember hearing how children got to eat normal bread and adults eating bread made out of sawdust.
10:02 Thank you for explaining one of the deeper mysteries of my childhood. It makes sense because in another Looney Tunes cartoon the story took place in a movie theater and you’re just watching a bunch of zany jokes and antics and parodies on the screen. One of them was one of this guy’s fake news broadcasts, it was called “Nit Wit News” (the sketch, not the cartoon).
I really like this series. 👍👍 I just enjoyed you reviewing old cartoons, whether they're dark or not. You have some good insight and are very knowledgeable about the topic.
