CineTV contest 70 - Favorite Children's Cartoon: Krazy Kat-Cool Mc Cool-Milton the Monster-Quick Draw McGraw
How difficult it is to choose a favorite cartoon from my childhood, there are so many. I grew up between the 70's and 80's, where here in Venezuela there was an invasion of Japanese anime, which were combined with American and Chinese cartoons.
I leave out the Japanese anime and Chinese series, and I will talk about some very old cartoons but that are among the favorites of my childhood, and even now I watch them again and I am fascinated with them:
1.- Krazy Kat.
Ignatz the mouse, Krazy Cat's impossible love, apparently loathes her by always throwing bricks at her head. She believes that these actions of the mouse are a proof of love. At the same time, Ignatz is pursued by Pupp, the police dog secretly in love with this unique cat.
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Officer Pupp, representing the law in Coconino County, devotes all his efforts to protect his beloved and stop the misdeeds of Ignatz the mouse, who usually ends up detained in the local jail, a brick prison.
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The character of Krazy Kat, became part of the world of cinema in 1916, when several short films were made. Shortly thereafter, influenced by the success of this feline, an executive of Paramount Pictures hired cartoonists Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer to make a film starring a character created by Sullivan: Felix the cat.
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These characters originated as a newspaper humor strip, created by George Herriman. Krazy Kat was published in newspapers in the United States between 1913 and 1944, especially in the New York Evening Journal, owned by William Randolph Hears, and remained in his newspapers for 20 years. In the comic strips Krazy Kat's sex was undefined.
An animated series of Krazy Kat was produced between 1962 and 1964 for television, here, Krazy Kat is presented as an unmistakably female character because they wanted to avoid any possible homosexual interpretation.
The first thing that struck me about Krazy Kat was that I couldn't understand how a love triangle could be so funny and so painful at the same time, if they were three different kinds of animals!
I had a lot of fun with Ignatz the mouse's chattering, Krazy Kat's crazy nonsense and Pupp the police dog's jealousy.
2.- Cool Mc Cool.
As a secret agent Cool McCool works for his boss who calls himself Number One, who sends him to fight and catch bad guys like: the Owl; Jack-in-the-Box; Dr. Madcap, the mad scientist, and his green-haired henchman, Greta Ghoul; the snaky Rattler and Hurricane Harry.
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The protagonist defeats his enemies by sheer luck, but then messes things up with Number One, so Number One kicks him out of his office.
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Cool McCool is a parody of adventure and spy movies. He was created by Al Brodax, and Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman.
The mythical phrases of this character are: "Danger is my business", "That will never happen again, Number One" and "When you're right, Number One, you're right".
Cool Mc Cool was my first approach to the spy genre, although everything went wrong for him, but by chance he managed to defeat his enemies. I liked him a lot and the antagonists were very funny, especially Hurricane Harry.
3.- Milton The Monster.
Milton is like Frankenstein's monster, but in an oversight his creator gives him too much tenderness due to an error in the ingredients added during its manufacture. The series focuses on the attempts of his creator to turn him into the terrible being he wanted, or expel him from the mansion, which he never achieved.
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Milton has the ability to shoot columns of smoke from the top of his head as if it were a chimney. His creator is Professor Weirdo, a mad scientist whose assistant is Count Kook. Milton's brothers are two monsters named Heebie and Jeebie.
Heebie is a skeleton with long hair, wearing a black suit and hat. Jeebie is a green hairy creature with a single fang and a single eye.
Hal Seeger is the creator of this series in 1965, he was a producer and director of cartoons and also owned his own animation studio.
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Milton the Monster, always trying to do good, despite the attempts of his creator and sometimes his brothers, I always associated him with the incomparable Herman Munster.
4.- Quick Draw McGraw.
Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw was a horse who was always accompanied by a small Mexican donkey named Baba Looey, together they lived endless funny adventures in the dangerous and far West. They fought against the bandit of the day and against the dangerous Indians.
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Quick Draw McGraw could also become a masked Super Hero, with cape and guitar in hand, imitating the popular Californian vigilante hero: El Zorro.
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I couldn't miss Quick Draw McGraw and his adventures in the wild west alongside his sidekick Baba Looey. By the way, Baba Looey was often the one who got him out of very difficult situations. I used to laugh my head off when Quick Draw McGraw would smash his guitar into the heads of the bad guys under the personification of Kaboom! I always wondered where he got so many guitars.
This is my participation in the initiative Cine TV Contest #70 - Favorite Children's Cartoon Link Here. Thank you very much for stopping by, greetings to all and good luck to the other participants.
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Cool Mc Cool is cool 😄, I saw this cartoon on a retro content block on TV back in the 2000s
Danger is my business in Spanish they translated it as Yo amo al peligro, that phrase was Cool, and I remember as a kid when in school when we were going to do something wrong and all the kids knew it was something bad we would say this phrase. Thanks for stopping by, regards.😁