Archive for the ‘television’ category
December 4, 2010
– – If you enjoy the unexpectedly weird, you might like Regular Show, an offbeat cartoon on The Cartoon Network about a blue jay called Mordecai and a hyperactive raccoon named Rigby who work as groundskeepers at a large park, spending much of their time and effort avoiding work and seeking to entertain themselves. They are essentially slacker-type twenty-somethings bossed by a living gumball machine who have a Yeti coworker.
In spite of these and other surreal characters, the Regular Show while bizarre is a kid’s animated series written for adults, and it works!
Categories: absurdities, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, cartoons, furry, television
Tags: Normal Show
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November 12, 2010
– – Talk about guerilla theater! Earlier this month during a live newscast tracking the progress of Hurricane Ike that showed the wave-lashed beach off Galveston, Texas the on-site weatherman had to cope with the unexpected appearance behind him of…an anthropomorphic bear!
In a surreal moment worthy of the best of Trigger-Happy TV, the bear-costumed figure moved with grace and agility behind the weatherman, seemingly unconcerned about the rough seas and striking a pose or two for the viewing audience. The befuddled newscaster, his thunder utterly stolen, could think of nothing better to do other than to shift the camera to a view of a battered pier…all the while kinda pretending that the bear’s antics were not going on!
…caught by surprise by a furry, it was a moment to live for!
Categories: absurdities, animal oddities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, cool things, furry, furry stories, strange happenings, television
Tags: figure in bear costume hijacks newscast, fursuit follies
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October 22, 2010
– – Madagascar is a kind of lost world that is home to a variety of unusual wildlife. One primate-like cryptid reputed to live there is the Kalanoro, a small humanoid creature that is supposed to be yet strong enough to kill and maim; it has been described as a “little man” less than a meter tall with hair all over its body and long potentially dangerous fingernails. The subject of one investigation on a recent Destination Truth episode, Josh Gates and his team go into the dense jungle in Madagascar in search of the Kalanoro. Seemingly credible witnesses there believe in the creature, including a park guide who says he was grabbed by one and Dr. Goodman of the Chicago Museum of Natural History.
They get a hit on a thermal imager and something on an IR camera, but are unable to track down the anomalies. Footprints are also found in the soggy terrain that are too wet and deteriorated to allow for a casting to be made. A hodgepodge of sounds are also heard from many of the animals that live in the area.
During later analysis, it was felt that the thermal hit and the IR image were the size and shape of a lemur, which a local zookeeper feels is one of the animals that the Kalanoro could easily be mistaken for. The multiple animal noises prevalent in the area are felt to give rumors of the reported creature a larger than life reputation…
Categories: cryptozoology, rare animal, television, Uncategorized, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: the Kalanoro
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October 3, 2010
– – I’m more a fan of The Jetsons myself, but The Flintstones turned 50 at the end of last month. Owing much to “The Honeymooners,” the Bedrock gang in turn set the stage for the success of more adult-styled cartoons such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and many others.
Running from 1960 to 1966, The Flintstones didn’t start their popular “Meet the Flintstones” theme until their third season. – -And who can forget the infamous commercials of the cartoon characters smoking, since the show was sponsored in part by Winston?
My personal cast fave Dino (pronounced dee-no), the Flintstone pet dinosaur, was not mentioned by name until the fourth episode, and in an apparent flashback story sequence of episode 18 was portrayed as very anthropomorphic indeed, complete with powers of speech! 
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, cartoons, television
Tags: Dino the dinosaur, The Flintstones turn 50
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October 1, 2010
– – There are some clever and innovative commercials featuring furry characters, such as the Geico ad with Maxwell the pig. Other commercials with furry characters do not serve the fandom well, such as the one with a trio of kittens screeching “five-four-three” to the tune of Three Blind Mice.
The kitten “Singamals” appear in a rhythm-challenged brass band, singing very badly about the joys of the fast food franchise’s Value Menu. Internet condemnation of the ad is almost universal, with one commentator stating that the ad “is worse than one can possibly imagine,” and another saying that the kittens resemble “brain-damaged rejects from karaoke night.” These kittens get old very quickly!
Not all Quiznos commercials have been horrendous; I rather liked a 2003 ad called Raised by Wolves which featured Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory as a businessman flashing back to suckling at the teat of a Siberian Husky. While the kittens aren’t creepy, they certainly get annoying in short order… 
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Quiznos' Kittens, Singamals
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September 25, 2010
– – We all know that the government does terrible things behind our backs, like the calamitous Plum Island experiment that created yours truly.–Well, it would appear that the Navy has engineered a half-shark, half-octopus killing machine as a super-weapon which, of course, gets out of control as genetically-engineered creatures are prone to do…life would be so dreary if they didn’t!
The sharktopus shows a perverse predilection for beautiful blond women in bikinis, dragging them off boats, beaches, and bungee cords…gotta love the big lug! He also is not deterred by machine gun fire, otherwise the movie might be over quickly.
Coming from B-movie king Roger Corman and boasting a cheesy theme song, the absurd, low-budget made-for-tv movie Sharktopus may be a real hoot! –Witness the glory that is Syfy this Saturday night!
Categories: absurdities, animals, Brilliant but twisted, cool things, creature features, furry, imaginary animals, movies, television
Tags: Sharktopus
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September 22, 2010
– – A regular furry character appears, in all places, on The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of Family Guy. This character is Tim the Bear, who is a telemarketer working at the local cable company with Cleveland. Voiced by Seth MacFarlane, Tim speaks with a Slavic or Eastern-European accent, and is the son of a black bear and a kangaroo!
Tim tends to be a bit naive about American culture, and is partially a psychological derivative of Steve Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy persona. Tim has an ursine wife, Arianna, and a son, Raymond. Tim has deep religious convictions, and considers it racist when someone screams because he is a bear. He often accidentally slashes things with his claws, something that he’s quite ashamed of.
While I’m not a great fan of The Cleveland Show, it’s nice to see the infiltration of furry characters here, who seem to fit in rather well as bears in human society…and yes, he has a Facebook page!
Categories: absurdities, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, cartoons, furries, furry, television
Tags: The Cleveland Show, Tim the Bear
Comments: 2 Comments
September 16, 2010
– – Geico has brilliantly re-invented classic lines and slogans, beginning with the little piggy who cried wee-wee-wee all the way home, and now posing the question of, “Can Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance?–Do woodchucks chuck wood?”- Remember how kids love that old chestnut of a tongue-twister when they’re about ten?
Well, these anthropomorphic woodchucks certainly chuck wood, and they appear to have made an afternoon’s entertainment of it, taking turns heaving the wood into a pond accompanied by their own maniacal laughter, sorta like the Beavis and Butthead of the rodent world.- -Oops, watch out, here comes the farmer, and he’s mighty ticked, shouting “Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!” None too deterred by the farmer, the woodchucks continue chucking their wood…and do you blame them?– They’re woodchucks, for crying out loud, it’s what they do!
– -Catch this video airing on television or YouTube and elsewhere, sure to be a classic!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, cool things, furry, television
Tags: Do woodchucks chuck wood?, Furry Commercials, Geico woodchucks
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September 9, 2010
– – You gotta give the Syfy channel credit for trying to please us, and Beast Legends starting September 9th at 10:00 in my area just might be the ticket! Billed as an “investigative adventure series,” Legends features a team of a globetrotting animal doctor, a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology, a gifted illustrator, and a mythology maven as they explore the truth behind some of the world’s most renowned creatures. Your payoff will be a life-like computer-generated model of the creature investigated depicted living in the real world at the end of each show, kinda like the mortal combat simulations shown at the end of Deadliest Warrior matchings.
The show will follow season four of Destination Truth, which could make Thursday night quite a draw on Syfy for our types!- –All hail the mighty Kraken!
Categories: anthropomorphic, creature features, cryptozoology, furry, imaginary animals, mysteries, television, unexplained, unidentified, weird
Tags: "Beast Legends", New Syfy show
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September 3, 2010
— Cats kind of tolerate us because we are useful to them; one can see this orientation in Katz, villain of Courage the Cowardly Dog. Now Courage has faced many enemies, often anthropomorphic, including my personal fave The Cajun Fox, who treats even his rivals with friendliness and can drive a car and pilot a plane!
Not as relaxed and laid-back as the Cajun Fox, Katz is a red, lanky anthropomorphic cat with purplish stripes who specializes in scam businesses, such as a vacation resort and motel, always with the intent of killing the patrons when he has no further need of them. Katz’s catchphrase is, “I wish you hadn’t done that,” usually uttered after he gets injured. Katz enjoys a “little spot of sport” with Courage, as all of his battles with the dog are games, such as a staring contest.
Springboarding off our previous post featuring spiders, an episode called A Night At The Katz Motel was indebted to Hitchcock’s Psycho, and featured Katz trying to kill Courage’s masters by using giant, horrifying spiders to eat them. Katz is a smooth and wonderfully sadistic feline who has a vaguely British accent and his own sinister background music, and lovingly maintains a spider collection.
As Katz did say, “Yes, set a plan; cunning, elaborate, over the top!”- –This is a furry villain you’ve got to love! 
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, cartoons, furry, furry art, television
Tags: Katz from Courage the Cowardly Dog, Katz the Cat
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