GeekOut BandPants
The SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Band Geeks” originally aired on September 7, 2001. Since then, there have been 276 more episodes of the show. “Band Geeks” still holds, in my opinion, the title of having the coolest scene in all of SpongeBob history:
It’s Like a Reward
So for whatever reason, I’ve decided that I’m not allowed to decorate my office door with cartoons and the like until (unless) I get tenure.
That’s…that’s just the rule.
BUT, while I was running this morning, I thought of a cool way to display said cartoons should I actually get tenure. I could make like a little Cartesian plane on my door with one axis that goes from “no math” to “math” and another axis that goes from “not obscure” to “obscure” and then plot a bunch of cartoons according to these to criteria.
If that’s not a perfect way to display cartoons in a math/stats department, then there isn’t one.
Music and Cartoons
Holy crap, so this Twitter thread brought back so many childhood memories. Some of my favorite WB cartoons were the ones that involved musical sequences like this. I remember “What’s Opera, Doc?” was one of the best.
(That fat horse, oh my god)
I also loved “The Rabbit of Seville.”
“Carnival of the Animals” was good, too!
And I have some vague memory of some VHS tape we had where there was some concert thing and Claudio Abbado was a puppet…Peter and the Wolf, maybe? I can’t remember.
Edit: YES, THIS THING:
I think these really helped instill my love of music. I remember enjoying how the action paired with the changes in the tempo/mood/volume of the music and thinking how it was SO FREAKING COOL.
“What happened to the stairs?!”
Hahaha, this makes me super happy and nostalgic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdRhiFdNojM
Sorry, I’ve been having a really crappy day and this made things a little bit better.
Oh Internet…
There has been at least one previous blog post in which I’ve mentioned an assortment of Garfield parodies/tributes.
Well here’s another one. Garkov uses a Markov model to take transcripts of old Garfield strips and rearranges it to make new strips.
Some of them that you get are freaking great.
There’s also a list of other Garfield fun on the internet at the bottom of the page.
Awesome.
The Panther, the Wizard, and the Laundry Chute
For all of you who enjoy my stats-related posts, here are some of my dumb cartoons. Yes, I know they suck. Yes, I know I can’t draw/Photoshop/be funny. Oh well. Click to enlarge.
(Source for original scale pic)
Zazz
DUDES, did anybody else ever watch these?
YouTube is single-handedly making me relive my childhood. Freaking awesome.
Oh, Canadians…
When I was a kid and still going over to my dad’s place on the weekends, we’d often watch his old VHS tapes of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. One component of the show that (for whatever reason) was brought to the forefront of my memory today was the old Dudley Do-Right segments.
The humor of these must have just gone completely over my head as a kid, but as I’m typing this now I’ve got this one playing in the background and I’m laughing like crazy.
Here are two others:
“We’ve destroyed more bridges than a near-sighted dentist!” Hahahaha.
Why don’t the other months get “Fests?” October’s not THAT special! Where’s my FebruaryFest?
Hey people! So I was dinking around on YouTube and the like tonight. Anybody else remember these? What strange and magnificent memories they evoked:
What’s Opera, Doc?
Duck Amuck
One Froggy Evening
Rabbit of Seville
Great lazy days of childhood, where have you gone?
Remembering…
…old cartoons.
I was watching Boomerang tonight and Two Stupid Dogs came on.
Did anyone else watch that when they were younger? The one with Noah’s Ark was on and I found it rather disturbing that I remembered most of the lines.
Who watched Eek? I loved Eek!
And Talespin. Best. Freaking. Cartoon. Ever.
I miss cartoons.
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