Recent content by Howard Fein

The Frankenstones had an unusual lineage. They were first seen in a couple of prime-time FLINTSTONE specials on NBC in fall 1980 that were (a) filler for lack of original shows during an actors' strike; and/or (b) a possible new FLINTSTONES half-hour series for prime-time. NBC had launched a new...

Great topic, and certainly one I'm qualified for as I have an 11-year-old son who grew up with CN, Nick and videocassettes. Two years ago we finally got a DVD player, and one year ago Boomerang:D - so our vistas have opened up considerably. For several years in the late nineties Rob and I...

As for live-action movies, I recall the 1994 live-action Universal FLINTSTONES feature featuring H-B SFX sparingly. (There was also some classic Curtin score redone and played over a few scenes, but that's another story.;) ) Using them with any frequency in a live-action movie would've...

Ah, yes! Cartoon SFX, one of my pet topics.:) :D ;) [I]

You must not watch much contemporary TV animation. Dale Gribble is the Hills' paranoid neighbor on FOX's KING OF THE HILL, which is finally having its belated Season 10 premiere. Dale, voiced by comedian Johnny Hardwick, is always spouting on some largely self-imagined conspiracy theory. Go back...

The 'exploding piano' bit was never used in any :tweety: :sylvester cartoon. Sylvester did suffer the indigities of pianos being dropped on him in Canned Feud and Muzzle Tough, which resulted in the standard 'piano keys as teeth' gag. But as you correctly stated, it was in the first DFE...

The fact that the show was syndicated rather than on a network really has nothing to do with how many seasons it ran. Many first run made-for-syndication shows (usually shown by network affiliates in the 7:30 PM 'fringe' slot) lasted only one season. In the late-seventies to mid-eighties, there...

Inevitable given his age, but still- :ack: :sweat:. Having been born a couple of years after Hanna-Barbera productions was founded, I can say without exaggeration that I grew up on its TV product. While recently helping clean out my parents' house, I found a photo of me, age 3-, wearing a...

The whole special is extremely bizarre. Since I intensely dislike Casper (and most of the Famous/Harvey canon), I never watched his H-B revival. The few times I've bumped into it, or this special, I was repulsed all over again by his overly cutesy personality that was further magnified by Julie...

You've touched on an interesting point. FLINTSTONE KIDS, WISHKID, RUGRATS, FAIRLY ODDPARENTS and BILLY & MANDY are other cartoon series featuring African-American children who are super-intelligent and/or affluent when compared with their Caucasian peers. When Hanna and Barbera adapted the Our...

On a 2002 flight on Jet Blue, Boomerang was available. For the 45-minute trip from NYC to Rochester, we got RUFF & REDDY, GULLIVER, HUCK FINN and I think THE IMPOSSIBLES. That made me very jealous, as the network was unavailable on my system at the time. Now that I have it, none of those shows...

Admittedly, there are many Lippy and Touche cartoons I haven't seen. For some reason the trilogy series they shared with Wally Gator was hardly even rerun on any NYC local station- unlike the 1958-61 characters and the Gorilla/Potamus franchise. But my point is that during this one or...

Regular Boomerang watchers are familiar with the two different promos for the hourlong BOOMERANG ZOO anthology. One shows clips of Huck being clobbered by an offscreen gorilla; Yogi doing a spit-take; long-censored footage of a roller-skate wearing Magilla crashing through the floor; Peter...