2008 Woodie Awards
Reed All About it:
Toon-in to the smurfalicious eighties
Reed Stratton
Issue date: 2/19/04 Section: Features
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It's 1985, and you are bleary-eyed on Saturday morning after a long night of Ghost in the Graveyard with the neighborhood rag tags. You grab a bowl of Cocoa Wheats and a Bullwinkle mug of orange tang and flop in to your magenta beanbag chair in time for a Saturday morning animation fest.
In light of Brian Moser's exclusive interview with modern Nickelodeon and Disney storyboard artists, Carson and Tina Kugler, now is the time to recall the profound effect cartoons have had on the lives of college students, especially those from the era of puffy, all-white Nikes, and hyper color shirts stained by Pop Rock residue.
At sunrise, you flip on the TV and hear that smurfilicious theme song. Immediately you wonder why there is one female smurf for 100 males; of course most of us are used to that kind of ratio on this campus. But according to www.bluebuddies.com, the conniving warlock Gargomyle concocted Smurfette to destroy the race of Smurfs. Sending a rosy-cheeked blonde to destroy a mushroom village populated entirely by males? That guy was a genius. Eventually the dwarfish dons got the cutie to reconsider and unite to dispute the evil wizard. The crew spent our early Saturday mornings trekking through the haunted woods and hiding from the hunched over old man and his wicked cat, Azrael who is a direct ancestor of "Precious" the campus cat who recently got trapped in the school store.
After a half hour and a smurftastic victory march, nothing goes better than turtles. Now back on the tube for one "shell" of a ride are those five foot tall, pizza-scarfing amphibians, no I'm not talking about your noisy next door neighbors. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back after an original birth in 1987. The dudes played a significant role in our lives in the 80s with their after school cartoons and a series of video games for NES. In the 90's they made three feature films about their crime crushing expeditions in Manhattan and vicinity, and now they're back for another generation to enjoy; however, they no longer fight the organized crime lords, the Footclan but a gang called the purple dragons.
In light of Brian Moser's exclusive interview with modern Nickelodeon and Disney storyboard artists, Carson and Tina Kugler, now is the time to recall the profound effect cartoons have had on the lives of college students, especially those from the era of puffy, all-white Nikes, and hyper color shirts stained by Pop Rock residue.
At sunrise, you flip on the TV and hear that smurfilicious theme song. Immediately you wonder why there is one female smurf for 100 males; of course most of us are used to that kind of ratio on this campus. But according to www.bluebuddies.com, the conniving warlock Gargomyle concocted Smurfette to destroy the race of Smurfs. Sending a rosy-cheeked blonde to destroy a mushroom village populated entirely by males? That guy was a genius. Eventually the dwarfish dons got the cutie to reconsider and unite to dispute the evil wizard. The crew spent our early Saturday mornings trekking through the haunted woods and hiding from the hunched over old man and his wicked cat, Azrael who is a direct ancestor of "Precious" the campus cat who recently got trapped in the school store.
After a half hour and a smurftastic victory march, nothing goes better than turtles. Now back on the tube for one "shell" of a ride are those five foot tall, pizza-scarfing amphibians, no I'm not talking about your noisy next door neighbors. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back after an original birth in 1987. The dudes played a significant role in our lives in the 80s with their after school cartoons and a series of video games for NES. In the 90's they made three feature films about their crime crushing expeditions in Manhattan and vicinity, and now they're back for another generation to enjoy; however, they no longer fight the organized crime lords, the Footclan but a gang called the purple dragons.