Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.comics Subject: YADR (Yet Another Dangermouse Raving) Message-ID: <246@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:19:17 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.246 Posted: Mon Jan 14 22:19:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 01:34:52 EST Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.tv:2307 net.comics:1365 Yes, after watching two episodes of this, I am prepared to say to the faitful: THE WAIT IS OVER. A FUNNY, WELL-WRITTEN ANIMATED CARTOON IS ON THE AIR. AND THE ANIMATION IS BEAUTIFUL! (Even Bullwinkle didn't have good animation...) 1) The writing is simply hysterical... I have enough quotes from the last two shows to keep me going for months worth of signiture lines. The in-jokes are also excellent (in a time-travelling story, DM returns to the future... only to be replaced in the past with a police callbox...). Not boring, and sometimes up to (dare I say it?) Monty Python standards (the last episode closed with Henry the Eighth reading from Shakespeare...). 2) Very fresh animation, somewhat in the style of parts of ALLEGRO NON TROPPO and YELLOW SUBMARINE (mixing animation with tinted photographs for settings). But the motion (especially of DM's car) is some of the smoothest I've ever seen, and what is doubly remarkable, is that the same smooth motion is in three dimensions! Three-dimensional movement is so common that you don't notice it at first. But then one remembers the standard crapola found on Saturday morning (sans some of the Japanese piecemeal stuff), you realize just how nice it is. I think I can safely say that this is the finest English-speaking (non-dubbed) animated program that I have seen since Bullwinkle. Hope they keep producing it. Well worth the extra $6 for Nickelodeon... "I'm not SURE that that makes sense, DM." "Well, it is a CARTOON, sir..." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA