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What A Cartoon! - Gerald McBoing Boing & Rooty Toot Toot
🕑 Added 2021-03-22 04:00:00 +0000 UTCChosen by premium Patreon subscriber Alex, we explore some defining works of Golden Age animation from UPA. We cover the complex history of UPA and its two best directors, and then explore two of their most beloved cartoons, the original Gerald McBoing Boing and the jazzy Rooty Toot Toot! Listen now before HUAC makes us name names!
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This episode has maybe the most FASCINATING (or, “fask-in-ay-tin”, as Popeye would have said) pre-history segment you guys have ever done! I learned so much, & it really ties in with the history & culture of the entire 20th Century in so many ways!
Echo Cimarron
I never really saw the UPA shorts growing up. I guess they just weren't as widely syndicated as a lot of other classic shorts. I was eventually introduced to them thanks to the fist Hellboy movie, of all thing. Guillermo Del Toro is a fan, and had a Gerald McBoing-Boing short playing on a TV in Hellboy's apartment. When the DVD came out, they threw several of the shorts in as a bonus feature. They weren't readily available at the time, so it was a pretty cool of del Toro to help introduce them to a new audience.
