San Diego Comic-Con 2007 - Page 9 - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

Ccook50 · 07-16-2007, 03:26 PM

I'll be coming in from Escondido, so what I've usually done is park at the lot at Broadway and Pacific Hwy. and hoof it to the Convention Center. If you get to town early enough, you may get a spot at the Convention Center's underground parking.

Sparky · 07-16-2007, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cartman414

Thanks for the advice. I've been planning on leaving from my house at 8 am, in hopes of getting in on time for the beginning of registration at 9:30. Would there be any serious traffic around that time?

You *are* going to pre-register for that day, aren't you? Seeing as Saturday has already sold out, Friday could well do so too.

(I'm afraid I'm not sure about the traffic.)

One Radical Dude · 07-16-2007, 03:44 PM

Yeah, I would urge you to register online, so you don't end up as one of those folks that are shown the exit, due to the convention reaching the maximum capacity.

cartman414 · 07-16-2007, 03:45 PM

I already pre-registered, as I pointed out earlier. Friday and Saturday.

One Radical Dude · 07-16-2007, 03:48 PM

Oh, yeah -- that's right. Okay!

Just get there as early as you can, then.

Sparky · 07-16-2007, 03:52 PM

My bad, I missed that, then. I'm really glad you did that.

Kzinistzerg · 07-16-2007, 04:29 PM

Awwwww, I really wanna go, But I can't.

Foster's'll be there.... Mike Nelson will be there...

Ccook50 · 07-20-2007, 04:53 AM

I have kept an archive on the previous three Worst Cartoons Ever festival, and this is what we were exposed to:

2004
Mighty Mr. Titan. This lengthy interstitial was intended to forward the effort of physical fitness to kids, even with the addition of a little squiggly mascot, whose timely appearance and gesture during Titan's sit-ups regimen had us rolling in the aisles. Horribly animated and campy as all get out.

Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero. This 1967 product from Joe Oriolo (Felix The Cat, The Mighty Hercules) and Seven Arts was the first American syndicated cartoon that had its animation farmed out to Japan. Non-existent from storyboard to filming.

Super President.. From 1967, DePatie-Freleng (The Pink Panther) forgot to say "Mother May I?" when creating this Saturday morning debacle for NBC. James Norcross (voiced by Paul Frees) is president of the United States who is also a superhero. Ill-timed as well: Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated the following June of 1968, prompting NBC to buy out the remainder of the show's contract and cancel it before the fall season started.

Captain Zammo was a segment of DePatie-Freleng's Super 6 series (NBC, 1966-69). Picture a beefed up Felix Unger in a sissy elevator operator costume and you have Captain Zammo. 'Nuff said.

Muggy Doo, Boy Cat was a comic book in the late 50s created by Hal Seeger, and in 1963 Seegar (who had already done made-for-TV cartoons of Max Fleischer's Out Of The Inkwell series) decided to make an animated pilot (Boy Pest With Osh). It went nowhere in a hurry, but when Seeger created Milton The Monster two years later, he refurbished the character and renamed him Muggy Doo, Boy Fox as an infrequent segment of the show.

Filmation produced a new batch of Tom & Jerry cartoons for CBS in 1980, and included was Droopy. The screened cartoon, where Droopy competes against Slick Wolf at a disco contest, received the loudest chorus of boos from the audience out of all the cartoons we saw. John Kricfalusi worked (in protest) on this series and his graphic influence can be readily--albeit fleetingly--detected.

Superkatt was a late 40s Columbia cartoon about a housecat that disguises himself as a superhero to fool a wisecracking mouse. The best animated of the lot but still dreadful dull and by-the-numbers.

Courageous Cat And Minute Mouse has the dubious distinction of being a bad cartoon show that was created by Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. It was produced by Sam Singer, widely regarded as the worst cartoon studio of all time. One look at Courageous Cat and you'll see why. Kane would create Cool McCool much later.

The unscreened pilot for George Of The Jungle was actually the quality of the festival. While George kept calling Ursula "Fella," she was actually identified in the narration as Jane.

Also included was material that Jerry wrote and recorded as part of an aborted special he was going to do for ToonHeads on the Worst Cartoons Ever. Included were scenes from such wastes of cels and paint as Turbo Teen (ABC, 1984), Mighty Man & Yukk (ABC, 1980), The Robonic Stooges (CBS, 1977) and The Super Globetrotters (NBC, 1979).

2005
We were treated to some good old stand-bys from the previous year--Mighty Mr. Titan, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero, Super President--with different episodes this year. A rose by any other name...

Rocket Robin Hood, or Six Years Before Josie & The Pussycats In Outer Space, was produced by Canada's Trilliam Productions and animated by Krantz Films in New York (1960s Marvel superheroes, 1967 Spiderman), A space age take on the tale (Sherwood Asteroid?! WTF?) that is mesmerizingly bizarre.

Spunky & Tadpole was an obscurity from Ed Janis' Beverly Hills Films that wanted to go one up on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the hero department in that it featured a boy and his pal--a goofy bear--sent on heroic missions from the President, of all people. Implausible doesn't even begin to describe it.

The Big World Of Little Adam was one of those 1960s educational syndicated features that must have had the lowest budget of any cartoon made. We just see the faces of two kids behind a book with the only thing moving being their eyes. Cute theme song, though.

Captain Fathom was from the notorious Cambria studios and featured the Synchro-Vox process--superimposing real human lips reading the dialogue over the cartoon drawings. Freaky and dull at the same time.

Bucky & Pepito has been deemed--by Jerry, anyways--as the worst cartoon ever made, by the Ed Wood of cartoon studios, Sam Singer. It just sits there and pays no attention to the star characters.

King Kong was by Rankin-Bass, animation farmed out to Japan's Toei studios(!) and aired on ABC from 1966 to 1969. Infinitesimal quality control of script direction and animation--when Bobby's dad talks, he doesn't close his mouth on consonants that require it, like "b" and "m"!

2006
We were, uh, treated to new---I take that back--different episodes of favorites from last year, Mighty Mr. Titan, The Big World Of Little Adam, Spunky & Tadpole, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero and Super President, while this year's crap was rolled before our unsuspecting eyes:

Paddy The Pelican has replaced last year's Bucky & Pepito in Jerry's eyes as the worst cartoon ever. This Sam Singer production certainly had the worst quality control I've certainly ever seen as the animation was never inked on cels or colored and the hilariously awful dialogue never matches the mouth movements. I'll vouch for Jerry there.

Pow-Wow The Indian Boy is another Singer craptacular that I actually remember from childhood. Dialogue is all narration, no character voices (that came later in the series) but really slipshod work on the animation and story.

Sir Gee Whiz was a 1960 cartoon by, of all people, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, makers of those Disney-esque MGM cartoons of the 30s. Sir Gee Whiz is a leprechaun who takes a little girl to where he came from--the other side of the moon. Brain cells are duly sacrificed here.

We saw a cartoon called The Mummynappers as an episode title of a series presumably called Sidney Backstreet. This was nothing more than live action actors in black silhouette composited on cartoon backgrounds. Nobody knows where this came from, and in this case, ignorance is bliss.

Luno was a theatrical cartoon from 1963 by the Terrytoons studio about a magical flying horse who starts out as a toy but comes to life at the whim of a little boy, Tim, and takes him on magical adventures. It was actually cute in a moronic way. We saw what we think was the debut cartoon; Tim's voice was furnished in the short by Norma McMillan (later the voice of Sweet Polly on Underdog). Bob McFadden took over that voice later.

Sparky · 07-20-2007, 02:47 PM

I wasn't even aware that there was a show in 2004. We don't have that DVD, maybe its not available on Beck's site any more. (Government Man was the one who bought the other DVDs, and I'm sure he would have grabbed 2004 if it had been available).

Ccook50 · 07-21-2007, 03:01 AM

Oh, yes, there was indeed a show in '04. The pain was exquisite.

07-16-2007, 03:26 PM	#81
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	I'll be coming in from Escondido, so what I've usually done is park at the lot at Broadway and Pacific Hwy. and hoof it to the Convention Center. If you get to town early enough, you may get a spot at the Convention Center's underground parking. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius)

07-16-2007, 03:44 PM	#83
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07-16-2007, 03:48 PM	#85
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07-16-2007, 03:52 PM	#86
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07-20-2007, 04:53 AM	#88
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	I have kept an archive on the previous three Worst Cartoons Ever festival, and this is what we were exposed to: 2004 *Mighty Mr. Titan. This lengthy interstitial was intended to forward the effort of physical fitness to kids, even with the addition of a little squiggly mascot, whose timely appearance and gesture during Titan's sit-ups regimen had us rolling in the aisles. Horribly animated and campy as all get out. Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero. This 1967 product from Joe Oriolo (Felix The Cat, The Mighty Hercules) and Seven Arts was the first American syndicated cartoon that had its animation farmed out to Japan. Non-existent from storyboard to filming. Super President.. From 1967, DePatie-Freleng (The Pink Panther) forgot to say "Mother May I?" when creating this Saturday morning debacle for NBC. James Norcross (voiced by Paul Frees) is president of the United States who is also a superhero. Ill-timed as well: Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated the following June of 1968, prompting NBC to buy out the remainder of the show's contract and cancel it before the fall season started. Captain Zammo* was a segment of DePatie-Freleng's Super 6 series (NBC, 1966-69). Picture a beefed up Felix Unger in a sissy elevator operator costume and you have Captain Zammo. 'Nuff said. *Muggy Doo, Boy Cat* was a comic book in the late 50s created by Hal Seeger, and in 1963 Seegar (who had already done made-for-TV cartoons of Max Fleischer's Out Of The Inkwell series) decided to make an animated pilot (Boy Pest With Osh). It went nowhere in a hurry, but when Seeger created Milton The Monster two years later, he refurbished the character and renamed him Muggy Doo, Boy Fox as an infrequent segment of the show. Filmation produced a new batch of Tom & Jerry cartoons for CBS in 1980, and included was *Droopy.* The screened cartoon, where Droopy competes against Slick Wolf at a disco contest, received the loudest chorus of boos from the audience out of all the cartoons we saw. John Kricfalusi worked (in protest) on this series and his graphic influence can be readily--albeit fleetingly--detected. *Superkatt* was a late 40s Columbia cartoon about a housecat that disguises himself as a superhero to fool a wisecracking mouse. The best animated of the lot but still dreadful dull and by-the-numbers. *Courageous Cat And Minute Mouse* has the dubious distinction of being a bad cartoon show that was created by Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. It was produced by Sam Singer, widely regarded as the worst cartoon studio of all time. One look at Courageous Cat and you'll see why. Kane would create Cool McCool much later. The unscreened pilot for *George Of The Jungle* was actually the quality of the festival. While George kept calling Ursula "Fella," she was actually identified in the narration as Jane. Also included was material that Jerry wrote and recorded as part of an aborted special he was going to do for ToonHeads on the Worst Cartoons Ever. Included were scenes from such wastes of cels and paint as Turbo Teen (ABC, 1984), Mighty Man & Yukk (ABC, 1980), The Robonic Stooges (CBS, 1977) and The Super Globetrotters (NBC, 1979). 2005 We were treated to some good old stand-bys from the previous year--*Mighty Mr. Titan, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero, Super President--with different episodes this year. A rose by any other name... Rocket Robin Hood, or Six Years Before Josie & The Pussycats In Outer Space, was produced by Canada's Trilliam Productions and animated by Krantz Films in New York (1960s Marvel superheroes, 1967 Spiderman), A space age take on the tale (Sherwood Asteroid?! WTF?) that is mesmerizingly bizarre. Spunky & Tadpole* was an obscurity from Ed Janis' Beverly Hills Films that wanted to go one up on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the hero department in that it featured a boy and his pal--a goofy bear--sent on heroic missions from the President, of all people. Implausible doesn't even begin to describe it. *The Big World Of Little Adam* was one of those 1960s educational syndicated features that must have had the lowest budget of any cartoon made. We just see the faces of two kids behind a book with the only thing moving being their eyes. Cute theme song, though. *Captain Fathom* was from the notorious Cambria studios and featured the Synchro-Vox process--superimposing real human lips reading the dialogue over the cartoon drawings. Freaky and dull at the same time. *Bucky & Pepito* has been deemed--by Jerry, anyways--as the worst cartoon ever made, by the Ed Wood of cartoon studios, Sam Singer. It just sits there and pays no attention to the star characters. *King Kong* was by Rankin-Bass, animation farmed out to Japan's Toei studios(!) and aired on ABC from 1966 to 1969. Infinitesimal quality control of script direction and animation--when Bobby's dad talks, he doesn't close his mouth on consonants that require it, like "b" and "m"! 2006 We were, uh, treated to new---I take that back--different episodes of favorites from last year, *Mighty Mr. Titan, The Big World Of Little Adam, Spunky & Tadpole, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero and Super President, while this year's crap was rolled before our unsuspecting eyes: Paddy The Pelican* has replaced last year's Bucky & Pepito in Jerry's eyes as the worst cartoon ever. This Sam Singer production certainly had the worst quality control I've certainly ever seen as the animation was never inked on cels or colored and the hilariously awful dialogue never matches the mouth movements. I'll vouch for Jerry there. *Pow-Wow The Indian Boy* is another Singer craptacular that I actually remember from childhood. Dialogue is all narration, no character voices (that came later in the series) but really slipshod work on the animation and story. *Sir Gee Whiz* was a 1960 cartoon by, of all people, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, makers of those Disney-esque MGM cartoons of the 30s. Sir Gee Whiz is a leprechaun who takes a little girl to where he came from--the other side of the moon. Brain cells are duly sacrificed here. We saw a cartoon called The Mummynappers as an episode title of a series presumably called *Sidney Backstreet.* This was nothing more than live action actors in black silhouette composited on cartoon backgrounds. Nobody knows where this came from, and in this case, ignorance is bliss. *Luno* was a theatrical cartoon from 1963 by the Terrytoons studio about a magical flying horse who starts out as a toy but comes to life at the whim of a little boy, Tim, and takes him on magical adventures. It was actually cute in a moronic way. We saw what we think was the debut cartoon; Tim's voice was furnished in the short by Norma McMillan (later the voice of Sweet Polly on Underdog). Bob McFadden took over that voice later. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius) Last edited by Ccook50; 07-20-2007 at 05:36 AM.

07-16-2007, 03:45 PM	#84
cartman414 At Home Has too much time on his hands. Er, hooves. Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 204	I already pre-registered, as I pointed out earlier. Friday and Saturday.

07-16-2007, 04:29 PM	#87
Kzinistzerg Foster's Legend Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 803	Awwwww, I really wanna go, But I can't. Foster's'll be there.... Mike Nelson will be there...

07-20-2007, 02:47 PM	#89
Sparky Undisputed Ruler of Terrencania Am not Slave-O-Matic! Am Johnny Five! Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 5,715	I wasn't even aware that there was a show in 2004. We don't have that DVD, maybe its not available on Beck's site any more. (Government Man was the one who bought the other DVDs, and I'm sure he would have grabbed 2004 if it had been available). __________________ Custom Machine Embroidery & More

07-21-2007, 03:01 AM	#90
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	Oh, yes, there was indeed a show in '04. The pain was exquisite. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius)