tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472929492655604605.post8183027796620465455..comments2023-11-22T03:35:10.707-03:00Comments on What A Cartoon Review Blog: Dino in "Stay Out"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723524821953467511noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472929492655604605.post-44958445471688738972013-05-13T14:57:03.511-04:002013-05-13T14:57:03.511-04:00I wouldn't be surprised if it was still viewin...I wouldn't be surprised if it was still viewing this as a "early" sort of thing or wanting to re-envision the character as a baby from the start. I suppose we'll never know the inner-workings that went into many of these shorts (of course the studio had it big with "The Tom & Jerry Kids" show a few years before that reinvented the duo as junior versions of themselves). The fact that something new could be done with the Flintstone characters was fine enough after having come out of two TV movies based around Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as adults getting married and having kids, as well as a festive take on A Christmas back in '94. I suppose we deserved a break after this. but I think we would end up with one or two more live-action features before it's said and done (and the 2001 special I alluded to earlier).<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfRMelaPMjsChris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472929492655604605.post-86004149565189380822013-05-01T01:09:02.089-04:002013-05-01T01:09:02.089-04:00About the only thing I remember about this short i...About the only thing I remember about this short is that as a young child, I kept wondering why Baby Puss was literally a, well, baby cat when he was full grown in the original Flintstones. Hey, I was a kid, can ya blame me? Neo Yihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607835476791001036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472929492655604605.post-47965509662385356052013-04-30T14:53:16.819-04:002013-04-30T14:53:16.819-04:00"Also, one could argue this was a pilot for a...<i>"Also, one could argue this was a pilot for a Flintstones spin-off, but did we really need another of those?"</i><br /><br />By the end of the 90's, probably not, but they kept on doing it. Though arguably the only good thing to come out involving The Flintstones was "The Flintstones: On The Rocks" for Cartoon Network around 2001.<br /><br /><i>"The concept of this cartoon is one that has existed for decades, which consists in one character trying to get rid or avoid another characters, but all attempts fail."</i><br /><br />let alone a premise that has been in the show's end title sequence from day one! I suppose the only difference here is that it's meant to be the first time this sort of thing occurred (or a beginning of it if you will), as the saber-toothed kitty in this would become the full-grown cat we otherwise seen in the end credits. By the way, his name is "Baby Puss", though it's not a name most people would know of as he hardly ever gets screen time in the serie itself. Just one of those little things you pick up along the way in finding out these guys.<br /><br /><i>"but she never intervenes or does Dino make any attempts to make sure she's fine. Fred even calls for her at the end of the episode. Why not make a single establishing shot that shows her asleep with ear-muffs or something?"</i><br /><br />That would be the best joke in the whole thing, that she's been asleep and earmuffed the whole time. But as it stands, we really don't know what she's doing the whole time.<br /><br /><i>"I don't want to blame this entirely on Welker either, as he was likely directed to do it like this. I find it hard to believe he can't do puppy barks."</i><br /><br />No doubt they didn't plan ahead here and simply assumed he could do Dino anyway (Baby Puss' few vocal moments were fine too).<br /><br /><i>"This scene just went too long. In fact, when I first saw it, I thought the "THE END" sign meant the actual short was ending."</i><br /><br />Not me, though I was already a high school student when I saw this and assumed this was joking on the whole fake TV thing anyway. They really did milk these things all they're worth and it's climax was very predictable.<br /><br /><i>"This is kind of an animation goof. Not only are the running cats obviously a looped sequence, but they look bigger than the one with Fred and Dino, and we've established they're all the same size (otherwise the running gag doesn't work)."</i><br /><br />Typical Cukcoo's Nest clunkiness!<br /><br /><i>"I do like this part at the end, mainly because it always bothered me that at the end of the original closing credits, Fred never bothered to enter the house through the window, but here the cat actually closes it."</i><br /><br />That was a good oversight here. I remember thinking the same way in the original show that that window was still open and Fred could easily fit right in if the cat could do it before. It's right there in front of him yet he simply didn't think to look beyond the door itself.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com