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RIP Christopher Plummer, who absolutely crushes it in multiple animated movies:
A genuinely menacing baddie in Up, the narrator of The Man Who Planted Trees, the caustic but warm lead in My Dog Tulip, and turning it way past 11 as the Duke of Owls in the ludicrous Rock-A-Doodle
This wouldn't be unheard of! It would put him in the rarefied company of various real-world celebrities who've had kids' multimedia franchises built around fantasy/sci-fi/superhero versions of themselves
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Linus is saved from Maud’s fate by Lucy, who takes pity on her brother and brings him into the house and back to society. Her counterpart Amanda, meanwhile, uses her last interaction with Maud to mock her once more, driving her even further away
Post-Halloween take: Having now seen both, it’s clear to me that Saint Maud and It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown are basically the same movie
Prostrate yourself before my impossibly niche, mildly spoilery thread:
Ah time to forget my problems with some classic animation
I’ll just take a long sip of water and boot up Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1995 anthology Memories...
2. Bugs Bunny
The joy of seeing a Bugs Bunny cartoon is just sitting back and watching him work
Like Groucho Marx meets the Terminator, you know he's gonna destroy anyone he comes up against without breaking a sweat, but you love to see how he gets there
5. Coyote & Road Runner
Distilling the chase down to its essence, these guys drop gag after gag while also getting into the pathos and pathology of what it means to devote your life to an unattainable goal
They deserve some kind of award. Nobel Prize for literature maybe?
18. Porky Pig
Yes, Porky is an absolute icon. He gave the world 'That's All Folks!' and for that alone he has earned his place in Valhalla
But he's also an eternal straight man, and while he has his moments (especially when paired with Daffy) he can't compete in the big leagues
34. Andy Panda
Also from the Walter Lantz studio and also filed under not-nearly-as-cute-as-he-thinks-he-is
When you've got so little going for you they have to pair you up with Woody Woodpecker of all people, you know you've let the side down