12 Awkward Days of Christmas

Brian Henson has created a new brand, "Miskreant Puppets", allowing him to do things the Muppets could never do. (Especially now that they are owned by Disney.) Not meant for kids, but I wouldn't say NSFW.

Bambi vs Godzilla

The short classic by Marv Newland.

Blockheads Revenge

John Carpenter hosts, a new version of "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." Using the same lines from the classic special, "Funny or Die", twists it around into a live action teen slasher film trailer.

Mysterious Mose

Share this Halloween puppet video with the kids! This is a real favorite of mine! Made in the 90's, it feels like an old Fleischer cartoon, back when they were at their 1930's their best. The band in particular is great. Made by Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Trapped in the Drive-Thru

Another great Weird Al Yankovic music video. An honest song about relationships and,...
 "No,.... What do YOU want for supper? " Animated by Dog Toons. It's a little long, but that's part of it's charm and it always cracks me up.

Pigeon: Impossible

A curious pigeon gets trapped inside his multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. Walter Beckett, rookie secret agent must figure out what to do. The music may have a lot to do with it, but this one seems self-consciously influenced by the Incredibles.

Meet Buck

Bad enough when your girlfriend's Daddy has a gun. Worse still when he's a game hunter, and you're the game. I really like the inventive style of this short. It's 3d, but every frame looks like a painting.

The Cat Came Back

If you have kids, make sure they see this cartoon at least once. A classic animated short by Cordell Barker.  And yes, the song will probably be stuck in your head for days! Richard Conde's "Mr Johnson" vocalizations remind me of Rowan Atkinson's "Mr. Bean."

Bon Appetit

Bon Appetit from Kilogramme on Vimeo. A little girl goes to great lengths to get her ice-cream back.

Teaching Poodles To Fly.

Raul's wild kingdom. This is a classic from Wierd Al Yankovic's "UHF". Nature's suction cups. LOL.

The Great Cognito

Long before computers allowed us to morph everything, claymation animator Will Vinton was producing cool shorts like this one with painstaking frame by frame stop motion. Vinton and his studio would later go on to create the California Raisin commercials, and "The Noid" for Domino's Pizza.

He later created several TV specials, and contributed to Michael Jackson's "Captain EO" and "Moonwalker." Now-a-days this sort of short would be done with 3d software. Back in the 70's it was brute force animation with just clay and a camera, and a lot of patience.

John Belushi Skylab is falling

With the NASA satellite UARS about to crash to Earth, John Belushi reminds us that it's happened before. This is comedy from the 70's kids, long before there was a "The Daily Show." By the way, Kelly Freas, who we talked about last week, designed the original mission patch for Skylab featured here.

(Thanks to Mike Schley and David Johnson who bird-dogged this clip.)

Weird Al Yankovic... "Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me"

Yes I get the irony of my posting this.

Nope...It's just Chuck Testa.

Hilarious deadpan amateur commercial. Not for the PETA-wise sensitives.

Alien Owie

Shameless plug of a video my son and his friend made in 2005 one evening.

Futurama as Anime

In the season finally tonight Futurama is re-envisioned as a Fleisher era cartoon, a video game, and as an anime series.

Istanbul (not Constantinople)

An oldie but goodie from "They Might Be Giants"

Speaking of Terri Gilliam...

Here is an educational video by the master himself! It's kind of long, but he demonstrates how he did all his cut-out animation for Monty Python. This is how we did it before Flash was invented kids.