When I was a kid, one of the best things about the week­end was the extra hours one could spend run­ning around out­side but more impor­tantly it was the CARTOONS! Sat­ur­day morn­ings with Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes pro­vided a solid foun­da­tion for my humor later in life; I don’t think I shall ever tire of drop­ping anvils on my foes or order­ing office sup­plies from the ACME catalog.

Sun­days, on the other hand, were an utter dis­ap­point­ment in terms of enter­tain­ment. The best one could hope for was a left­over kung fu movie from the day before, assum­ing of course, there was no reli­gious com­mit­ment to attend. There was also Jonny Quest, and a few other odds and ends pulled together mostly from the six­ties. At first I really didn’t like Jonny Quest and his lameo friend, Hadji; and what was the deal with Dr. Quest and Race? But after what seems like years of wak­ing up to Jonny, now I sort of miss him. Sun­days just aren’t the same with­out cheezy car­toons from the past; n’est pas?

What week­end goofi­ness do you miss from your child­hood, dear readers?

After my recent posts about beloved car­toons, I’ve got­ten a num­ber of requests and rec­om­men­da­tions from read­ers and dear friends. So tonight, I’d like to share with you some of the early work of Aard­man, the bril­liant British ani­ma­tion team who gave us Crea­ture Com­forts and the much loved Wal­lace and Gromit series.

Ident, dates from 1989 and fea­tures the first appear­ance of the dog who would later become Rex the Runt.

Silly dogs AND Eddie Izzard as an alien, yes please.

Vince kills me. What do you think? What are YOUR favorite car­toons, dear read­ers? What other car­toons would you like to see on AmandaMuses?

Dig­ging up that last batch of car­toons made me won­der about other old favorites from my child­hood. Not sur­pris­ingly, the vast­ness of the Inter­net did not fail me. So I present to you two more child­hood Dis­ney favorites:

Man do I love Don­ald Duck.. the mut­ter­ing KILLS me… and both the sound­track and foley for these two are great. Even though I’ve prob­a­bly seen each of these at least a hun­dred times in the last twenty years and I know exactly what’s going to hap­pen next, I still smile and laugh every time I see these.

What are your old car­toon favorites?

For as long as I can remem­ber, Hal­loween has been my favorite hol­i­day. Each year, I’d look for­ward to an annual excuse to get dressed up and be silly, and go around the neigh­bor­hood trick or treat­ing, smelling the autum­nal smells and laugh­ing all along the way. Today, I still love the hol­i­day, even if I don’t have kids or even dress-up.

While work­ing in the yard today, I was over­come by the glo­ries of the autumn sea­son– crisp air, golden light, col­or­ful leaves crunch­ing in my hands, even the smell of an east­ern fall. Yum. Now inside, set­tled in with a glass of apple cider and a twitch­ing cat, I am just itch­ing for Hal­loween. So much so, that I thought tonight, I’d share with you, dear read­ers, some of my Hal­loween favorites. I grew up watch­ing these car­toons as a kid and still get a kick out of them:

The Skele­ton Dance By Walt Dis­ney from Kor­nell Rasta­fari on Vimeo.

Both are old Dis­ney car­toons from 1929… eighty years later they’re still great!