Be born, be a less than average student, get a good job anyway and coast through a career. Get used up by your company and tossed when they don't need you anymore. End up unemployed on skid row. Win life's lottery when you're too old and decrepit to do anything about it but sleep. Life can be harsh
WOW! Spinolio is the very first video I ever saw on cable tv back in the early 1980's. I remember thinking back then that if all cable tv had this creativity, we were gonna get along just fine. Alas, it has gone to poop, BUT, I have never forgotten Spinolio. Thanks for making this great flick!
@@iliyanivanov7337 Ditto here, except the cynical cartoon video I saw had the same storyline, but involved a stuffed clown doll. I think I saw it on the Great Space Coaster.
How crazy is that. I thought I was the only one who would even remember this video. I finally remembered to search for it because I wanted to send it to my parents. We even had it recorded on a VHS tape which my parents probably still have somewhere. The good fairy she’s a come!! This has always stuck with me. 😊
Да уж. Мне сначала показалось, что это в первую очередь насмешка над системой, где человек-винтик,гвоздик,затычка и поэтому даже самая тупая деревяшка может сделать неплохую карьеру. Как-то так. Ну а тут, в комментах, смотрю, интерес больше направлен на исследование личностных качеств самого глав. героя, что вроде бы парадоксально, и тем не менее очень даже в точку )) Мульт-шедевр!
Ditto, thank you so much for posting this. It was a very vague memory from my misspent youth. Glad to see some nostalgia items hold up. Such a sad classic.
@@MikeB-vt4xj In big doses everything is a poison, even water. Too liberal and it turns to Anarcho-Corporativism, too conservative and you got Communism. Same shit, different package. The middle path is the right path.
But there is no perfect balance though. Flat line = death. Balance is an activity not a state. Due to the law of entropy (chaotic things randomly become orderly and given enough time they become chaotic again and then the cycle renews) You inevitably lose your balance no matter if you are a Lama or whatever. So you have to constantly force yourself to return in balance. Also it's fine to deviate a little as long as you compensate for it. Sometimes you just have to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
His whole life was made to be what everyone wanted him to be. He was artificial and hollow. After hitting rock bottom, he realized his mistakes and stopped caring about society, thus becoming an alcoholic, in a phase of life where he can be on his own and not have to become someone else's puppet. He is finally living, even though he had to pay that ultimate price for his freedom.
I guess Im asking randomly but does someone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly lost my password. I love any tips you can offer me.
Shorts that HBO used to show between movies. I made a whole VHS tape of them but it got taped over by mistake. This was the best one. I've been looking for years!! THANK YOU!!!
Spinolio was certainly a good listener, and he did stay out of trouble and never did tell lies. It didn't seem to make any difference when he did become real, either. So you could say he had a happy ending, sort of.
When he was a puppet he couldn't feel suffering. Now he can. And he is thrown in the gutter of society and becoming an addict escapist. I am not counting that as a happy ending.
It is incredibly comforting to know I am not the only one searching for this. I was sure I saw it on MTV soon after launch but guess it was HBO. Thanks bunches for posting:-) :-)
I remember years ago, a cartoon with a very similar storyline, I think I saw it on the Great Space Coaster, but instead of Spinollio, it was a doll that looked like a clown that some girl got for a present then lost in an alleyway, it then got picked up by a homeless guy to help him beg for money, then it also got a job, and years later was given a watch for retirement. Somehow the clown wound up in the same alleyway where the little girl now grown up found him and took him home. If anyone can identify that one, I would be greatly appreciative!
I think this cartoon artfully illustrates the old adage: 80% of success is just showing up. As a teacher, I've encountered more than a few Spinolio's in my career.
There are three boys in life. Pinocchio,Buratino,and Spinnolio. Pinocchio learns to be a good boy though a combination of hard work and effort and may or may not be rewarded depending on his choices, Buratino finds his own path and discovers his inner peace, Spinnolio does nothing in life,desires nothing,and as such is given nothing.
One of the meanings: we all often become puppets in the system: the ideal product of a consumer society that manipulates people. The fairy turned a wooden soulless puppet into a living being, but its essence did not change from this action: garbage remained garbage.
His whole life was made to be what everyone wanted him to be. He was artificial and hollow. After hitting rock bottom, he realized his mistakes and stopped caring about society, thus becoming an alcoholic, in a phase of life where he can be on his own and not have to become someone else's puppet. He is finally living, even though he had to pay that ultimate price for his freedom.
Por un momento pensé que era la versión canadiense de pornocho, de cualquier modo me parece más real este muchacho labrado de madera, se enfrenta al mundo al que muchos lo hacen en esta sociedad contemporánea.
Mum used to tell me about this cartoon. I must’ve seen it when I was about 13. Just as funny now as it was then. Saw It on a triple bill with Bambi Meets Godzilla And thank you masked man
I love how Spinnolio is a representation of the invention of social media and it’s effects on society. He is born out of need from a mad man and tossed into the world where he is used by others. wordless people abusing and using him until he is turned into one of them himself.
