There were a lot of weird things about the end of the ’80s, but perhaps one of the weirdest came in the sudden infusion of cartoon/live action hybrid movies. I’m sure it all spun out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but between your Space Jam, your Cool World, and whatever the hell was going on in Rock-A-Doodle, there were a lot of cartoon crossovers to choose from. The sheer number of sexy cel-based ladies was a bit unnerving, but you could understand why Eddie Valiant or Jack Deebs might consider Toontown as their cartoon home, leading us to today’s squash-and-stretch query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) considered a realistically drawn reality ala Heavy Metal but pretty much everybody died there, so I figure, go with Family Guy, where being a mediocre fat guy seems to come with all sorts of perks, asking: Tomorrow, you’re moving into an established animated universe: What will be your new Cartoon Home?
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I feel like the post-laughter fuel conversion world of Monsters, Inc would be a fun and interesting place to live in. I could be a monster-human liaison, or an emotion tester. Maybe theres an even better source of emotional fuel for Monster World out there. Maybe ambivalence is like their version of hydrogen.
I was going to say “The Jetsons” with its future tech of flying cars that fold up into briefcases, but then I realized how sadly racially un-diverse that world is. So, to keep that edge of future tech I’ll say “Jem and the Holograms.”