tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post3784600068073658797..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Explaining MagooYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-57770144428325842392022-05-23T18:43:28.151-07:002022-05-23T18:43:28.151-07:00As with the limited animation Popeye cartoons made...As with the limited animation Popeye cartoons made at the same time as the Saperstein Magoos, you have to consider the source. You try producing theatrical quality animation with one third the budget in one fourth the time; you try coming up with stories for cartoons numbering in the hundreds. Take the glass-half-full approach: all things considered, it's a tribute to all concerned that the cartoons are as good as they are. After all, it was Saperstein who finally brought Magoo and McBoing Boing together (the former as the latter's babysitter, of course).<br /><br />Anyway, why do they keep saying that Magoo was a supporting character in "Ragtime Bear"? He's prominently billed in the opening credits (admittedly, it says "with Mister Magoo" instead of "starring," if you want to quibble), or was that an after-the-fact reissue thing? And from the beginning, he seems like the lead when he addresses the narrator "Which way is Hodge Podge Lodge?"Hans Christian Brandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06416468263840479174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-19540985755216168262022-05-23T11:16:48.535-07:002022-05-23T11:16:48.535-07:00As a child, I had no knowledge of the 'inferio...As a child, I had no knowledge of the 'inferiority' of the made for TV Magoo cartoons...I loved them and I loved the character. Now having seen the entire Magoo aggregation I appreciare him all the more, but I'll always have a fondness for the TV shorts. And "Magoo's Christmas Carol" will always remain my favorite version of that story. I treasure my three Magoo cels, and many Christmases ago I bought my brother a master pan cel set up with the original background from "Ragtime Bear" - I wonder whay it's worth now!busby1959https://www.blogger.com/profile/01166683082201603508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-36387701312267470772022-05-21T12:15:31.623-07:002022-05-21T12:15:31.623-07:00I'm sure I've talked here about "booi...I'm sure I've talked here about "booing" at the TV set at the end of one of those Saperstein Magoos. I saw very few of the theatricals when I was a kid, just the eye-rolling TV versions. I don't know how anyone found them entertaining.<br />Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-29289572793600074272022-05-21T09:37:42.652-07:002022-05-21T09:37:42.652-07:00I tend toward a knee-jerk reaction where Mr. Magoo...I tend toward a knee-jerk reaction where Mr. Magoo is concerned, probably because I grew up seeing those lousy made-for-TV Magoo cartoons, which a local station ran for years as part of a "cartoon carnival"-type series of whatever animated odds and ends the station had leased at the time. I couldn't stand Magoo. How many rubber-stamped cartoons could you make about a near-sighted old man who is forever mistaking one thing for another? Maybe if I'd seen any of the theatrical Magoo cartoons or the Magoo "Christmas Carol" I would have felt differently about him.<br /><br />It didn't help that one of my best friends was Chinese, and he and his family were always appalled at Asian stereotypes like Magoo's houseboy, a horrifyingly racist character with buck teeth and a chronic inability to speak proper English or to address his employer as anything other than "Mis-tah Ma-gloo."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com