I’ve just mailed a care package to the Sporn studio that I’m sure everyone will like…. On a slightly related note (well, not really, but whataveh), I hope you aren’t burned out on watching animation just yet. I think it works with the bold color backgrounds, like a psychedelic Charlie Brown. Who knows? If someone uploaded it to YouTube, I’d be happy to take a look.Īt the very least, those two cell drawing are really good. Again, I’ve never seen Spunky and Tadpole (just try to write that without snickering!), and it may have been a crummy bit of animation.
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At the very least, I always thought that if the writing was good, the actors sounded right, and the jokes were funny, then it was a good cartoon show. I’d much rather watch Rocky and Bullwinkle than anything else, so I guess my mind doesn’t conform to the whole Disney model. I’m afriad I wouldn’t be a good judge whether or not this old show was any good. These little wonders made no impression whatsoever.
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I was all over TV back then, and loved every cartoon that I saw. The pictures you posted did not jog any memory at all. I remember the NAME of this cartoon from my very youngest years, but have absolutely no recollection of anything else about them. Lots of jerking from pose to pose animation.)Ĭomments (27) 27 Responses to “Spunky & Tadpole” (Sore subject because Bad Acting is pretty much all I see these days. I enjoy these posts they get my mind working on a sore subject.
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Speaking of good animation acting, Mark Mayerson has another chapter in his provocative series on Acting in Animation. Some time ago, I still couldn’t resist buying a couple of cels which were selling on Ebay for just about nothing. (Click on images to enlarge and properly view the excellent inking.) This cast means the show was probably done in LA. Ed Janis replaced Don Messick in the last episodes. The cast included: Joan Gardner as Spunky, Don Messick as Tadpole. I was surprised to find out that as many as 150 episodes of the serialized cartoon series were produced. Spunky & Tadpole were featured on local programs that had local hosts introducing shorts. The show went into distribution via syndication in 1958 and was virtually knocked out of business by the rise and popularity of Hanna-Barbera’s product, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear. (Someone on a chat room thinks he may be the producer of The Regis Philbin show.) I haven’t been able to locate any information about him either. The only credit listed anywhere on-line is that of a director, Art Moore, whoever he may be. A couple of vhs copies of the series exists in the remainder bins of the internet and can be bought for little. There seems to be very little recorded about the production of the show. It was bad just not among the very worst.
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At least Spunky and Tadpole had a bit of style perhaps because it stands out, it can be recognized as bad. (I don’t agree with that, certainly not with all those abominable Hanna-Barbera/Filmation/ Ruby-Spears shows that were so godawful and unwatchable. Jerry Beck listed it as one of the ten worst animated series ever created.
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Spunky and Tadpole is a dark spot in my unconscious memory of bad animation that I