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 Captain Lou Albano Memorial Animation TournamentCLAMAT 2018 Round 3 by Ianissimo McKenzie1. After being discharged from the Navy, this man, who was portrayed by John Heder on screen, became a banker in Los Angeles. He became the CEO of the company he is most associated with in 1929, and delayed his 1966 retirement by two years. His son remained prominent in that company until being squeezed out and going on to form the “Save Disney” campaign. When asked what would happen to his most ambitious project if he were struck by a truck, this man’s brother said “Absolutely nothing. My brother… runs this company. I just piddle around,” and indeed, FTP, what man completed his deceased brother’s dream of a theme park in Orlando, Florida?ANSWER: Roy Oliver Disney (prompt on Disney; do not accept Roy E. Disney)2. Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, and Nichelle Nichols were among the Star Trek alumni to lend their voices to characters in this show, and Shakespearean characters encountered in this series include MacBeth, the Weird Sisters, Prospero, and Puck, who had assumed the form of Owen Burnett, assistant to the series villain, until the last episode of season 2. One of the main characters accidentally shoots his friend, NYPD officer Elisa Maza, with her own gun before eschewing the use of all firearms. The leader of the protagonists has an on-again off-again relationship with the volatile Desdemona. Bronx is the only one of the main characters who doesn’t talk. Ed Asner voiced Hudson, and the third season was named Goliath Chronicles for the main protagonist, the only one not named for a New York City landmark. FTP, name this series about stone characters who return to life when Illuminatus Xanatos raises their castle above the clouds.ANSWER: Gargoyles3. Born Jack Westelman, his first role as a cartoon voice actor for television was as Bush the sheepdog in Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats. This man’s second most well-known role was as Charlie the Bartender on The Jeffersons and in his most famous role, his character was exorcised by Slimebuster Ernie Hudson, and in another episode is mummified by Elvira. That character has a crush on Annette Funicello and describes one animated co-star as “the nicest little fungus I ever knew.” In “Santa Claus Is Coming to Flatbush,” his character plans to give his brother his wrench, and in still another episode, he helps Cyndi Lauper search for Captain Lou Albano. FTP, name this man whose roles on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show included Luigeena, Luigi Bob, and Luigi Luigi.ANSWER: Danny Wells4. The Flaming Lips sing of this character that “You think he would've found by now / To be sought as a king / We don't need a burn,” in a song titled for his nemeses “[Confronting] the Psychic Wall of Energy.” On the Best Day Ever album, he sings “You Will Obey,” though his wife kicks him out when he refuses to acknowledge her new screen saver. That wife developed Plan Z and gained a body of her own in this character’s first film appearance when he stole King Neptune’s Crown. Writer Doug Lawrence created and voices this character who, in exasperation, is often heard to exclaim “I went to college!,” particularly when he and his robot wife, Karen, fail to obtain what he believes will save his restaurant, the Chum Bucket. Constantly seeking the Krabby Patty formula, FTP, name this diminutive Spongebob character.ANSWER: Sheldon Plankton5. He sang the “Spectrum Song” as voiced by Paul Frees in his debut appearance on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, and, in Fun and Fancy Free, he replaced Edgar Bergen as host of the “Mickey and the Beanstalk” segment in some releases. He was a good fit to play Herr Drosselmeyer in House of Mouse’s adaptation of The Nutcracker, and he is an expert in toon physics and his psychiatric patients include Bonkers T. Bobcat and Launchpad McQuack. Don Rosa identifies him as Scrooge McDuck’s brother-in-law. Born in Vienna, Austria, FTP, name this bumbling professor uncle of Donald Duck.ANSWER: Ludwig von Drake6. Gregory La Cava was the supervisor of this man’s animation studio, and La Cava helped lure Bill Nolan, Frank Moser, and Raoul Barre to join as well. Abie the Agent, Happy Hooligan, and Bringing Up Father are poorly remembered “living comic strips” to have come from his studio, which produced more enduring hits with The Katzenjammer Kids and Krazy Kat. The day he liquidated his studio, International Film Service, is known as “Black Monday,” though he licensed the Bray Studios to continue to produce films using his properties for several years more. Winsor McCay had produced comics for this man years before, and he briefly served in Congress with backing from Tammany Hall. Perhaps the inspiration for Citizen Kane, FTP, Name this newspaper magnate and grandfather of bankrobber Patti.ANSWER: William Randolph Hearst7. Created by Doug Tennapel for Shiny Entertainment, antagonists of this character include the ruler of La Planeta de Agua (Arriba!) who is aided by muscle-bound feline minions and is named Bob the Killer Goldfish, as well as Evil the Cat, ruler of the planet Heck. Another enemy, Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, developed the apparatus which gave this protagonist his powers. His love interest is Princess-What’s-Her-Name, who is often kidnapped by Psy-Crow. She is invariably rescued by this character with the aid of his pet, Snot, and his sidekick, Peter Puppy. Often opposed by the evil Queen Slug-For-A-Butt and thwarted by falling cows, FTP, name this groovy Dan Castellaneta-voiced annelid, possessor of a Super Suit.ANSWER: Earthworm Jim8. In the episode, “Gump Roast,” these characters appear in tuxedos to tell another character that humanity’s fate rests with him. In a Tapped Out Halloween event, they can earn fairy and pirate costumes. “The Man Who Came to be Dinner” featured their most significant “canon” appearance, and the Twirl and Hurl ride at Universal Studios, Florida, is themed for them. In their first appearance, they were accompanied by Serak the Preparer. They went to summer camp with Roger the Alien from American Dad, and Lrrr and Ndnd the Omicronians refer to them as the Johnsons in “Simpsorama.” They are either Jewish or Quantum Presbyterians. Preparing a banquet with the book, “How to Cook for Forty Humans,” FTP, name these Rigellians voiced by Harry Shearer and Dan Castellaneta who have appeared in every Treehouse of Horror.ANSWER: Kang and Kodos9. The Jigsaw Seen performs an altered cover of a song by the Kinks at the end of this film in which a log with a Halloween mask is passed off as the Loch Ness Monster, and a twice-decapitated character tells Barbados Slim to “Kiss my front-butt!” Nudar, Fleb, and Schlump administer an obedience virus that, among other things, results in a hand being removed with a very dull saw. An organ known as a sprunjer makes possible the discovery of combination blood, urine, and stool samples and it is explained that a Narweek lasts six days. Coolio voices the Kwanzaa-bot who, with the Chanukkah Zombie and Robot Santa Claus, sings “This Toy Shop's Going to War” before a brigade of children are destroyed by a fleet of remote-controlled solid gold Death Stars. Lars Fillmore is actually a doomed time-duplicate of Fry in, FTP, what first Futurama movie in which Bender earns the Dirty Double Cross after acquiring significant earnings.ANSWER: Bender’s Big Score (prompt on Futurama)10. Sperling’s partial report paradigm was intended to study iconic memory, often attributed as the cause of this phenomenon, and the stroboscopic experiments of Peter Mark Roget in 1824 are cited as its basis. Flicker rate in film and temporal aliasing in digital media are mechanical impediments to this process which lends its name to a 2012 Kevin Schreck documentary about Richard Williams. The realist theories of Andre Bazin and Christian Metz are predicated on it and, in his book, Productive Thinking, Max Wertheimer propounded the related Phi phenomena which was joined with this phenomenon in theories elucidated in Hugo Munsterberg’s The Photoplay: A psychological study. The Thaumatrope, zoetrope, and phenakistoscope were some of the earliest devices to be produced predicated on this theory. Largely considered outmoded by psychologists, FTP, name this theory that states that the retention of still images on the retina produces the illusion of motion.ANSWER: Persistence of Vision or equivalents11. Director of the 1932 film, “l’Idee” was from Polaun in what would become this country. Anifilm, founded in 2010, is held here, and Boris Karloff narrates The Thief and the Nightingale, a feature film by an animator from this country, whose final film, “The Hand,” was voted the 5th best animated film in history. The stop-motion duo, Pat and Mat, were created here by Lubomír Bene?, and special effects guru Karel Zeman created the feature film, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne here. Nudnik creator, Gene Deitch, has been in this country’s capital since 1959. 2005’s “The Torchbearer” is a film by this country’s most famous animator’s son, and that animator, Jan Svankmajer, directed feature films including Alice and Faust from his home in, FTP, what modern country with capital at Prague?ANSWER: Czech Republic prompt on Czechoslovakia, I guess.12. A [this]man was a superhero animated for the BBC in 1983, and a Mr. [this]grabber on Arrested Development was modeled on Gob Bluth. The beginning of Don Hertzfeld’s film, “Rejected,” depicts one of these things announcing that he is one of these things to a man with a big spoon. Indie darling Johnny Ryan’s debut series is named Pig Goat [this]Cricket. Weird Al Yankovic voices Dr. Screwball Jones who resembles one on Wander over Yonder as well as one of these on Adventure Time who builds a rocket in Jake’s croak dream and who later helps Finn and Jake restore a truck. One of them named “Joe” in The Amazing World of Gumball tells off-color jokes. Characters known to enjoy these things include King Louie, Magilla Gorilla, Grape Ape, and Donkey Kong. FTP, name this fruit whose peel causes cartoon characters to slip.ANSWER: Bananas13. The name of a Go Nagai manga from the seventies may have inspired the scene in this show’s pilot in which the protagonist takes his name. Some talking dog archaeologists may be the distant descendants of the Two Stupid Dogs and a dog from Townsville. A tribe of blue gorillas teach the protagonist to jump good, and he aids a dragon with powerful flatulence in another episode. Generally rife with Sergio Leone homages, one episode of this show recently depicted the protagonist hiding among tombs from assassins in direct reference to the climax of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. After issuing forth fifty daughters over fifty years, The Scotsman was killed. Scaramouche is an assassin with a Sammy Davis Jr. Complex. Phil Lamarr again voices the protagonist and Tara Strong voices Ashi, the protagonist’s ally and love interest in the final season of this series, though Mako was unable to reprise his role as the antagonist due to being dead in, FTP, what Genndy Tartakovsky series about a warrior who seeks to get back, back to the past?ANSWER: Samurai Jack14. An IDW mini-series is named for the fact that they destroy everything after obtaining a time-scepter. Though they were originally devised simply as action figures for a toy line, writer David Wise fleshed them out as characters in their first appearance. A latter incarnation of these characters gives their names as Ivan Steranko, who wields a sickle and hammer, and Anton Zeck, a high-tech mercenary. First voiced by Barry Gordon and Cam Clarke, the collapse of a trans-dimensional portal eventually strands them in Dimension X, from which they presumably never return. They inadvertently created Muckman, Joe Eyeball, Groundchuck, and Dirtbag, and Slash was originally a pet belonging to one of them. Respectively sporting camo pants and a combat helmet, and a purple Mohawk and matching glasses, FTP, name these mutants, a warthog and a rhino who answer to Shredder.ANSWER: Bebop and Rocksteady15. George Pal animated the stop-motion squirrel in The Great Rupert, starring this man. An indubitably delicious cereal, Crispy Critters, were represented by a mascot based on this man. Mickey’s Good Deed may be the first cartoon to use this man’s likeness, as a jack-in-the-box, and Mickey mocked him in person in Hollywood Party. Tweety’s last appearance naked, A Gruseome Twosome, partnered sylvester with a cat modeled on this man, and in Bosko’s Picture Show, a tasteless cutaway shows Hitler chasing him across Europe. House of Mouse’s Mortimer Mouse is based on this man, as is the Hanna-Barbera character, Augie Daddy. In the Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, he is on the cover of Edna Ferber’s So Big. Spike the Bulldog’s voice is based on this man’s, especially when opining “dat’s mah boy!” His most famous animated role was as a narrator who tells of a titular character who yells “don’t you cry. I’ll be back again someday!” FTP, name this man who didn’t mention his Schnozzola or say “ha-cha-cha-cha-chaaa!” in Frosty the Snowman.ANSWER: Jimmy Durante16. This man was in the control group of a military experiment called Operation: Infinite Walrus. He angers his cousin, Gilbert [zheel-BAIR], when he seeks to commercialize his family’s secret Bar-B-Que sauce. He sang with the Harmonaholics and after a diagnosis of pre-diabetes, played wheelchair rugby. He met his wife at a Molly Hatchet concert, and he would ruin a Christmas party years later dressed as that ex-wife, Lenore. After this man’s best friend mooned former Texas Governor Ann Richards, this man began dating her. Other lovers have included Reverend Karen Stroup, Laoma Souphanousinphone and the drunken Leanne Platter. Employed as a barber with the US Army at Ft. Blanda, he also briefly cuts hair at the fashionable Hottyz in partnership with Luann. Voiced by Stephen Root and infatuated with Peggy Hill, FTP, name this friend of Hank, Dale, and Boomhauer from King of the Hill.ANSWER: William Bill Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive17. The director of Pinocchio in Space, Ray Goossens, directed this character’s first animated series and first feature for Belvision. Tensions between Syldavia and Borduria form the backdrop of an animated feature directed by Raymond leBlanc, and his first animated adaptation was in a stop-motion film directed by Claude Misonne in which the ship Karaboudjan features. His friend General Alcazar often vies for control of San Theodoros with General Tapioca. A scholar of this character, Phillip Goddin, was consulted during Nelvana’s adaptation which depicted Nestor buttling at Marlinspike Hall after the discovery of Red Rackham’s treasure, a story also depicted in a Steven Spielberg film which added opera singer Bianca Castafiore to the story. That story also introduced Professor Calculus, though The Crab with the Golden Claws saw the introduction of his best friend, Captain Haddock. Also assisted by his terrier, Snowy, FTP, name this Belgian comics creation of Hergé. ANSWER: Tintin18. These things replaced the slash system developed by Raoul Barré with Bill Nolan. Image fogging is a complication of their use in more complicated scenes. Developed by Earl Hurd and John Bray, these things were cleaned during the Great Depression using turpentine, acetone, and benzene, and early ones were plasticized with camphor and triphenyl phosphate, making them highly flammable. Many of them are preserved at “the Morgue” on the Disney lot. Disney’s first feature employing them in combination with xerography was 101 Dalmations, and The Little Mermaid was the last Disney feature produced using them exclusively, after which they were replaced by the Computer Animated Production System, or CAPS. Cosmetic blush was applied to them in animating Snow White. Employed in the first season of Spongebob Squarepants, Ed, Edd, and Eddie was the last US show to employ them. Inking and painting them was originally a task designated almost exclusively to women. Eliminating the need to redraw the background every frame, FTP, name these obsolete clear pieces of paper.ANSWER: Cels or Acetates or maybe clear pieces of paper before mention, I guess19. This story begins with Groundskeeper Willy commenting that “me own father got thrown in the bog” as he prepares to bury Superdude, the fourth grade hamster. Among the new approved expenditures are a crystal bucket for slopwater, new cafeteria staff, a Tito Puente-led jazz program, chocolate microscopes, those guitars that are like, double guitars, and more rubber stamps. In a Twin Peaks parody, Lisa tells Chief Wiggum that “the suit burns better” in this story. After being fired, Smithers spends his days drinking cheap scotch and watching Comedy Central. This is because he refused to take part in Mr. Burns’ scheme to blot out the sun. This scheme renders the sundial useless, though Lisa still regards it as a clue when a character gestures to “S” and “W,” or, from his perspective, “M” and “S.” Parodying a ploy from the show, Dallas, and being the only Simpsons cliffhanger ever, FTP, name the question that titles two Simpsons episodes, the canon answer to which is Maggie Simpson.ANSWER” Who Shot Mr. Burns? Pts. 1 and 2 (prompt on description, I suppose)20. This man was the production designer for Disney’s Atlantis: the Lost Empire and also contributed concepts to Pixar’s Brave. In direct-to-video sequels of a live-action adaptation of one of his works, a character must battle the ancient Japanese deities Thunder and Lightning and the vampire, Erzabet Ondrushenko. Those sequels are subtitled Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron. An animated pilot was produced based on one of his characters, a 19th-century robot, The Amazing Screw-On Head. Bruce Timm also had him produce designs for Batman: the Animated Series, by which time he was beginning to make a name for himself in comics, which would include spin-offs about Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and other members of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. FTP, name this creator of Hellboy.ANSWER: Mike MignolaTB This television show had so called “phonisodes” that could be downloaded onto the eyePhone and changed by users, often used to enter themselves into the show. This show had an interactive film in which viewers could choose to send the main character into a fight scene or double check his paperwork. This TV show’s main character is informed by his motherboard that he was adopted and in another episode that character found Monique in bed with his half-brother Boxy. The main character of this soap opera forgives his friend for being “only human” in the episode I-Roommate, and received his arm from Project Satan. For ten points, name this Soap Opera that stars Calculon on the TV show Futurama. Answer: All My CircuitsDon’t snicker as you answer these questions about the output of Wang Film Productions, FTPE:[10] Wang Films was involved in the production of the New Adventures of this character in a show helmed by Ralph Bakshi, who scrambled to obtain the rights after promising CBS he already owned them. This Terrytoons superhero often rescues Pearl Pureheart from Oil Can Harry and boasts a catchy theme song riffed on by Andy Kaufman.ANSWER: Mighty Mouse[10] Among Wang’s many productions for Disney television adaptations is one based on this character. In this incarnation, he is voiced by Patrick Warburton and aided by Booster, Mira Nova, and XR as they battle Emperor Zurg for Star Command.ANSWER: Buzz Lightyear (accept either)[10] Wang provided principle animation for this 1987 film based on a Thomas M. Disch story in which some appliances follow their master Rob to college. The titular character travels to Mars in a sequel.ANSWER: The Brave Little Toaster2. The Mayan death god provided inspiration for his book, Ah Pook Is Here, a reading of which was animated in a short by Philip Hunt with music by John Cale, and this man’s other book The Last Words of Dutch Schultz was made into a short feature employing rotoscoped animation. FTPE:[10] Name this man most famous for the novel Naked Lunch.ANSWER: William S. Burroughs[10] The Junky’s Christmas was adapted from a Burroughs story into a stop-motion film produced by this man who also directed Apocalypse Now.ANSWER: Francis Ford Coppola[10] This bizarre Canadian auteur is set to direct a stop-motion adaptation of the short film, Foxed! It would be his first foray into animation; he earlier directed a feature adaptation of Burroughs’ Naked Lunch.ANSWER: David Cronenberg3. After Fred Seibert conceived of the pilot short series, the What a Cartoon! Show, it became responsible for the launch of basically every original Cartoon Network series for the next half-decade. Name some FTPE:[10] After this Van Partible series was picked up, it launched the careers of Butch Hartmann ****. Its Elvis-inflected titular character chases girls and dances the Monkey.ANSWER: Johnny Bravo[10] This man’s film, Larry and Steve was a precursor of his most famous series. He also produced The Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, but was thankfully thwarted in his attempt to reboot The Flintstones.ANSWER: Seth MacFarlane[10] This Dave Feiss series was launched from the What a Cartoon! Show. This show, most of whose characters are voiced by Charlie Adler, caught flack for an episode about a girl gang, the literally rug-munching Buffalo Gals. I Am Weasel spun off of this show, and that series’ protagonist was opposed by I.R. Baboon.ANSWER: Cow and Chicken4. Answer some questions about animation-live action-hybrid music videos FTPE:[10] A play on this man’s name titles a 1979 music video featuring his song, “The One That Got Away,” directed by John Lamb. In it, this man is rotoscoped dancing beneath a streetlamp with a woman who strips naked and then climbs in a car and drives away. This gravelly crooner also had hits with “Tom Traubert’s Blues” and “The Piano Has Been Drinking.”ANSWER: Tom Waits[10] Ralph Bakshi directed the live-action portion of this video, delegating the animation to his protege, John Kricfalusi. In this Rolling Stones tune, a hapless cat eventually finds love in a New York borough.ANSWER: Harlem Shuffle[10] Chris Bailey, a Disney feature animator, directed the animated segments of this video in which a live-action Paula Abdul dances with the animated MC Skat Kat, whose notoriety quickly faded.ANSWER: Opposites Attract5. Identify some experimental animators and their works, FTPE:[10] This man collaborated with people like Joseph Cornell and John Cage on films like Centuries of June and In Between. He would claim that his fatal bladder cancer was caused by the dyes he used to paint directly onto film, as in his Dante Quartet.ANSWER: James Stanley Brakhage or Stan Brakhage[10] Oskar Fischinger’s work mostly focused on his technique of stratocut animation, in which layers of wax were successively cut away and photographed. Before a falling out, he briefly collaborated with Disney on this segment from Fantasia. The very first segment, it is completely abstract and set to a namesake piece by J.S. Bach.ANSWER: Toccata and Fugue in D minor[10] Viking Eggeling’s most famous film, Symphonie-Diagonale, was made with cut paper and tin foil while he was hanging out with artists like Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara at the Cabaret Voltaire, associated with this nonsensical early-20th century art movement.[10] Dada6. It includes reusing animation cycles, holding parts of characters to only animate eyes and mouths, and other cost-cutting techniques. FTPE:[10] Give the term for this range of methods of producing quicker, cheaper animation, made cool in the ‘50’s by UPA shorts like Rooty Toot Toot and Gerald McBoing Boing.ANSWER: Limited animation[10] Limited animation was never more elegant than in the designs of Paul Julian, notably on display in this film directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason. It’s an adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe about an old man with a horrible eye.ANSWER: The Tell-Tale Heart[10] Limited animation was never less attractive than in the technique of Synchro-Vox, developed by Edwin Gillette, in which live footage of an actor’s mouth is superimposed on a drawing of a character, and notably used in this series. The titular action hero was assisted on his quests by his pilot, Swampy, his young ward, Spinner, and the Wienerdog, Paddlefoot.ANSWER: Clutch Cargo7. The Salieri to Tim Burton’s Mozart, answer some questions about Henry Selick FTPE:[10] Selick’s first directorial feature NOT to have Tim Burton’s name in the title was this Roald Dahl adaptation. Jack Skellington cameos as a pirate and, with the help of some bugs, the title character stands up to the sky-rhinoceros that killed his parents or something.ANSWER: James and the Giant Peach[10] Selick also directed this live-action/animation hybrid starring Brendan Fraser and Chris Katan. An all-star cast and some outrageous visuals couldn’t save this stinker about comatose cartoonist Stu Miley’s battle with his simian alter-ego.ANSWER: Monkeybone[10] Selick produced animated sealife for this Wes Anderson film from 2004, including the elusive jaguar shark, which Bill Murray’s character hunts while matching wiles with his rival, Alistair Hennessey, played by Jeff Goldblum.ANSWER: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou8. Name some landmark Silly Symphonies, FTPE: [10] Les Clark and Wilfred Jackson aided Ub Iwerks in animating this first Silly Symphony from 1929. Composer Carl Stalling has said that the music was actually not adapted from Camille Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre:ANSWER: Skeleton Dance[10] This film from 1932 was already in production as a black-and-white when it was scrapped and begun from scratch to become the first film to be released in the Technicolor three-strip process. It depicts some lively flora frolicking before putting out a forest fire.ANSWER: Flowers and Trees[10] This Hans Christian Anderson adaptation was the last Silly Symphony to be produced and the only Symphony to be a remake, specifically of another short from 1931. It won the 1939 Academy Award for best short subject. Unlike the earlier version in which the title character simply saves the day, he is actually revealed to be a swan.ANSWER: The Ugly Duckling 9. Answer some questions about the works and relations of Preston Blair, FTPE:[10] Blair’s most important contribution was writing this book which has become the standard for cartoon draughtsmanship, simply titled for its artform.ANSWER: Animation (accept also Cartoon Animation or Learn to Draw Animated Cartoons)[10] Blair also animated this buxom titular character of a 1943 Tex Avery film at MGM. This ginger character would reappear in five other cartoons, including Swing Shift Cinderella, Uncle Tom's Cabana and The Shooting of Dan McGoo, often pursued by a wolf and rescued by Droopy.ANSWER: Red Hot Riding Hood[10] Blair’s brother, artist Lee Blair, married designer Mary Blair. In addition to designs for many Disney films and various murals and mosaics, Blair notably illustrated several of these children’s books. Named for their diminutive size and and the color of their binding, they are still being made today.ANSWER: Little Golden Books (prompt on partial answer)10. Guillermo del Toro and David Fincher were to be involved in a stalled remake of this 1981 film which was produced by Ivan Reitman. FTPE:[10] Name this anthology film for which Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis provided several voices and which centers on an evil orb called the Loc-Nar.ANSWER: Heavy Metal[10] This man also provided several voices in the film. He was the titular camp counselor in a short lived Saturday morning cartoon, but you’re more likely to see him each Thanksgiving in Plains, Trains, and Automobiles.ANSWER: John Candy[10] Julie thwarts the plans of the evil space guy, Tyler, to obtain an elixir of immortality in a second Heavy Metal film built around a single narrative which was released in this year.ANSWER: 200011. One time on a forum, someone claiming to be Richard Williams told this man he thought his alter-ego of the “Animation Pimp” was tasteless. FTPE, answer these questions about the writing of Chris Robinson.[10] Time Out of Mind is Robinson’s unconventional book about animation from this country, in which he discusses filmmakers including Yoji Kuri and Atsushi Wada.ANSWER: Japan[10] His book about this country is subtitled “Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy.” He blogged recently about a desperate plea from animators at this country’s only animation college after the sacking of Priit Parn. Rein Raamat’s film Porgu from this place is truly hellish. Its capital is Talinn.ANSWER: Estonia[10] His book about his home country is called Looking for a Place to Happen, perhaps in reference to the title of a song by The Tragically Hip. In it, he talks with animators including Wendy Tilby and Chris Landreth, who have animated for this country’s National Film Board.ANSWER: Canada12. Identify these Termite Terrace personalities from anecdotes FTPE:[10] This man who later created Beany and Cecil was known to have gouged a hole in the studio wall, drawing eyes above it and a mouth below it. When visitors passed through, he would pass his penis through the hole, giving the face a nose. Among his more famous films are “Porky in Wackyland” and “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.”ANSWER: Robert Clampett[10] This “man of a thousand voices” credits Bugs Bunny with having saved his life after a car accident that left him comatose when the doctor began addressing him as Bugs. He also voiced Daffy, Porky, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Pepe le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, and many others.ANSWER: Mel Blanc[10] This speech-impedimented producer at Warner Bros. was often the unwitting butt of Termite Terrace mockery and derision. After he heard Mel Blanc’s characterization of Daffy Duck, Chuck Jones quotes him as saying unironically ''That'th a funny voithe! Where'd you get that voithe?'' He faked a heart attack to avoid giving his animators a raise and, in “You Oughta Be In Pictures,” he redeems the contract of Porky Pig, also a caricature of him.ANSWER: Leon Schlesinger13. Proponents of various traditional animation media will tell you that their medium of choice will never die. Squigglevision actually did die, though. FTPE, answer these questions about a digital animation technique devised by Tom Snyder for his studio, Soup2Nuts, which is now entirely defunct.[10] Among the perhaps half dozen shows created with this technique is this one which lasted for six seasons on Comedy Central and whose titular celebrity psychiatrist physically resembles and is named for the comedian who voiced him. It was produced by Loren Bouchard.ANSWER: Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.[10] Snyder, Bouchard, and Jon Benjamin reunited on this series. Only its first season, which aired on UPN in 1999, was made in Squigglevision. Co-created by Brendan Small, it centers on three school kids who make short films in their spare time.ANSWER: Home Movies[10] Rather than a third part about Science Court, name this fictional band from Brendan Small’s Metalocalypse, even though it was animated in Flash. Their final real album was called Doomstar Requiem.ANSWER: Dethklok14. Simpsons writer Mike Reiss has stated that this duo, not Tom and Jerry, were the inspiration for Itchy and Scratchy. Maybe that’s because one of them thin-sliced the other with a wheel of knives in “Mouseum,” or dressed up the other’s corpse as a Christmas tree in “Mice Meeting You.” FTPE:[10] Name this Famous Studios cat-and-mouse team who occasionally teamed up with Buzzy the Crow, a minstrel-esque character voiced by vaudevillian Eddie Anderson.ANSWER: Herman and Katnip[10] The Herman and Katnip series made quite a contrast to shorts featuring this other Famous Studios character, a dim-witted, obese, diaper-clad duck. He was notably voiced by Sid Raymond, who also voiced Katnip.ANSWER: Baby Huey[10] Disney veteran Bill Tytla had a turn directing Herman Mouse before designing this diminutive Famous Studios character. Voiced by Mae Questel, she can be recognized by her red hair, blue dress, and inclusion on every public domain collection ever.ANSWER: Little Audrey15. Created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera and originally voiced by Gary Owens, this character’s first show often crossed over with the Herculoids. FTPE:[10] Name this character whose villains included Metallus, Creature King, Moltar, and Brak.ANSWER: Space Ghost[10] On Space Ghost Coast to Coast, this one-time villain led Space Ghost’s house band, the Original Way Outs. C. Martin Croker initially tried to emulate Don Messick in voicing this green mantis.ANSWER: Zorak[10] One of Space Ghost’s guests was this man. One of his breakout roles was in Savage Steve Holland’s One Crazy Summer, and he’s voiced characters in the work of that film’s animation director, Bill Kopp, many times since. Even in live-action roles like the titular character in Shakes the Clown, this comedian’s most salient feature is his quavering, high-pitched voice.ANSWER: Robert Francis "Bobcat" Goldthwait16. A 2012 CG series on Nickelodeon is named for him, and his creator denied Walt Disney the rights to adapt him for screen in her lifetime. FTPE:[10] Name this bunny, the World of Whom names an artful BBC series from 1992 which was directed by Dianne Jackson. He loses his jacket in Mr. MacGregor’s garden with his cousin Benjamin.ANSWER: Peter Rabbit[10] Diane Jackson died during production of The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. Her magnum opus, though, was a 1982 adaptation of this Raymond Briggs Christmas classic. The “Walking on the Air” sequence features mind-bogglingly luscious colored pencil art, redrawn entirely each frame.ANSWER: The Snowman[10] Jimmy Murakami was an executive director on The Snowman; by that time, he had cemented his collaborative relationship with producer Fred Wolf, with whom he worked on this film. Adapted from Harry Nillson’s 1971 album of the same name and narrated in three different releases by Dustin Hoffman, Alan Thicke, and Ringo Starr, it tells the story of Oblio, a geometrically blunt boy.ANSWER: The Point!17. Live action films often find a second success on the Saturday morning small screen, but should they? Answer some questions about series based on films children shouldn’t watch FTPE, none of which are Rambo:[10] Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall starred in the salacious comedy romp that inspired six sequels and this animated series. Mahoney, Hightower, and the rest are assisted by a group of crime-fighting dogs known as the Canine Corps.ANSWER: Police Academy[10] While the film franchise that inspired this series depicted Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery beheading people in some muddled plot about immortal aliens, it’s enough for the protagonist of this post-apocalyptic series, Quentin, to earn a quickening by sharing.ANSWER: Highlander: The Animated Series[10] Lloyd Kaufman’s production house, Troma Inc., is known for many things, but family entertainment is not one of them. In an adaptation of a popular Troma character, the janitor Melvin Junko becomes a mutated, mop-wielding hero to oppose Dr. Killemoff and other polluters from the planet Smogula. Name either the film or series.ANSWER: Toxic Avenger or Toxic Crusaders18. In the endlessly profuse torrent of terrible anime being produced, it’s easy to forget that some of it rocks pretty hard. Answer some questions about some prodigiously creative anime filmmakers FTPE:[10] This prolific godfather of manga produced some truly innovative works but is best known for creating Kimba the White Lion and Astroboy, as well as a manga adapted into a 2001 remake of Metropolis.ANSWER: Osamu Tezuka[10] This man’s first big screen project was a segment of an anthology film, Neo Tokyo, helmed by the estimable Rintaro. He then went on to create such memorable films as Robot Carnival, Akira, and Steamboy.ANSWER: Katsuhiro Otomo[10] The work of Satoshi Kon often focuses on the blurred boundaries of reality, as in Perfect Blue and Paprika, though this 2003 film of his featured a much more linear narrative about two homeless men and a transvestite who find a baby on Christmas Eve in the titular city.ANSWER: Tokyo Godfathers19. Answer some questions about largely cringe-inducing animated series based on video games in the ‘90s FTPE:[10] This series’ main failing is having Tony Rosato in the titular role that Captain Lou Albano had made memorable. To date, it is the last time Nintendo’s biggest franchise has been brought to the small screen and it is based on an SNES release title of the same name.ANSWER: Super Mario World[10] In this series based on a game that crossed over with Battle Toads, Billy and Jimmy Lee bear “the mark, the mark, the mark of” the titular mythological beast and battle the Shadow Master. There are two of them, and they bear the mark of a mythological beast. That’s about all I can give you.ANSWER: Double Dragon[10] In this CG series, based on the first title of an Ubisoft game franchise, the main character is distinguished by his floating, armless hands. The Rabbids series is a spin-off of it, which was adapted into a good CG cartoon.ANSWER: Rayman: The Animated Series20. This city may be in proximity to Duckberg, Spoonerville, and St. Canard. Name some things about Cape Suzette, FTPE:[10] Somewhere in the vicinity of Cape Suzette is a club owned by this Jim Cummings-voiced Orangutan. In The Jungle Book, he was voiced by a singer surnamed Prima.ANSWER: Louie[10] The largest corporation in Cape Suzette is run by this tiger who has occasionally contracted with Higher for Hire to have the Seaduck make deliveries for him. In The Jungle Book, he tries to kill Mowgli.ANSWER: Shere Khan[10] Cape Suzette is the setting of this Disney Afternoon cartoon in which Baloo and Kit work for Rebecca Cunningham, often foiling Don Karnage’s air pirates.ANSWER: Tailspin ................
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