Category Archives: Cartoons

There’s something usually very chilly and off putting about the precision and robot-like motions of computer generated animation. But it turns out to work very well for a new incarnation of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Nickelodeon, 11 a.m.). Voices for this generation of the heroes in a half shell are provided by Jason Biggs as […]

The thing that I forgot about Tennessee Tuxedo is that he was supposed to be educational. Sure, you get distracted by Don Adams’ distinctive voice, the cockeyed hat and his slothful friend Chumley. But whatever the caper that happened in the cartoon show, which ran throughout my childhood from 1963 to 1966, the penguin and […]

Kevin Smith wasn’t anxious to get back into television.  After all, his last “disastrous foray into TV” was an animated series based on his movie “Clerks” in 2000. “We only made six episodes and ABC only aired two,” he shrugged. So he mostly thought he wasn’t simpatico with television. But then producer Charlie Corwin of […]

One of the quirks of my mother growing up is that she didn’t like Dr. Seuss books. We never had any in the house. The ones at school were looked at askance if we brought them home. Was it the weird creatures in them, the strange, made-up rhymey words, or the anarchy in the stories? […]