Category: Television/Short Subject Reviews

Delightfully cute/devilish short bit of animation.  Watch the whole thing.

Grade: A-

Don’t bother.

Highs:
toothpaste scum collection
The Tooth Beaver
cute pile of tooth
disgusted flies
The Nerve-Ending Fairy!
$400 of lint
new logs
Stimpy’s divine light
the wonders of Stimpy’s nipples
circus-midget defense
ultra-paranoid horse
one mistake
two more mistakes?
big nipple
rubber walrus protectors
rubber nipple check
nipple advancement
1001 nipple uses
knee nipples
Stooges’ bull ending

Lows:
just a few intermittent lulls

Grade: A

Highs:
one last alternative
random weird stuff
repugnant and delicious
alternate universe left socks
High-Fashion Log for girls!
Dream-date Log
Ren’s slight outburst
electric beaver
electric duck
Stimpy’s fifth latest invention
happiness resistance
SO…HAPPY…
“Happy Happy Joy Joy”

Lows:
underwear
slow implosion
The Log song…I mean, enough already.
Stimpy’s first latest invention
part 2 ending

Grade: B

Highs:
flaccid rocket
cool noises
convenient moon
My Little Brother doll
A DUCK!
elusive horny-billed chihuahua
giant soft-shelled stimpy
little stimpys
scavenger attack
keen sense of radar
slow-motion magic
the art of camouflage
terrible, fearsome crocostimpy
haunting mating call
the … yak
nature-show-host attraction

Lows:
part 1 recycling…again…already
part 1 ending (and some of the middle)
part 2 ending

Grade: B

Highs:
circus midgets
big baby
big horse
Mr. Horse’s carefully considered reaction
big walrus w/little hat
big elephant
the eternal ladder
burning up on re-entry
soothing litter
Log…for girls!
really close moon
repulsive titanicism
lots of anything

Lows:
Dr. Stupid
part 1 intro
part 1 ending (notice a pattern here?)
part 2 intro…recycling already?
most of part 2, actually.

Grade: B-

Highs:
anti-gravity bubblegum
spine-tingling toast
Ren snapping
convenient statue
Ren’s ice cream bar
covetething
THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON!
voiceover announcer
in-the-scene announcer
announcer’s buttcheeks
hard-working filth
electric woodchuck
nibbling on Ren
Yak-Shaving Day
shaving scum

Lows:
part 1 intro
Roger
towel-snapping
toothbrush melee
part 2 intro
part 2 sketch ending

Grade: B+

Highs:
Powdered Toast Man!
huge pectoral muscles
lower-Stimpy buttoning
melon/chicken/moose
cheerleaders/criminally insane
poor-turned-rich fleeing peasant
evil cow
evil sheriff of Dodge City
fair hair
generous portion of giblet gravy
random sheep
nose-pouch of holding
spleen-cleansing
Ren’s defensive fur
random Mr. Horse

Lows:
too many costume changes
Rarin to go/lickity split
monks?
part 1 ending
the oath
part 2 beginning
part 2 ending

Grade: B

Highs:
Log
Stimpy’s brain
Muddy Mudskipper
mudskipping
segmented eyes!
The many benefits of Gritty Kitty
hand-eating
Stimpy’s poem/shriek of joy
Stimpy-grooming
fresh redundancy
a priiiiiiiiiiiize!
Mr. Horse!
Mr. Horse’s catchphrase
magnificent hunk of cat
cute masochism

Lows:
contest-winning scene
Ren’s pining (not for the fjords)
Stimpy’s omnipresence/breakdown

Grade: A

Worthy of Note:
Kick-a$$ music
Old Man Hunger
Old Man Pigeon
Old Man Lady Luck
Dog catcher’s ray of hope
fodder for intros
Stimpillow
interspecies romance
at-the-time fairly revolutionary animation antics

Lows:
extended hairballs
extended ending

Grade: B

Not the best, but…interesting take on escapism.  A good, solid ending.

Talk about haunting music…not bad.

Naughty ventriloquist dummy, part two.  Not bad.

Predictable, but fairly creepy.  Borderline.

Included only because it’s so INCREDIBLY bad.

Message: Marry who your daddy says cuz *cue Gwen* “you’re just a  girl…”, and if you follow your heart you’ll always regret it.  Can someone MST this, please?

Agnes rocks!  I wanna get one of those.  But…maybe just the laptop.

Decent.  Interestingly macabre twist.

Watch this only if you want the essence of ‘Brave New World’ without having to actually read the d@mn thing.

Interesting take on history/fascination with.

Going by the Netflix listings for episode number.  Why?  Consistency.  And because the real episode 130 kinda sucks, so who cares?

Moderately interesting space/biblical theme.

A poor man’s ‘Time Enough At Last’, without the setup.  Ehhh…not bad.

Shatner’s back, and this time he’s got a really creepy friend with him.  A good one.

Boxing in the “future”.  Fairly interesting, with a determination/loyalty/nostalgia angle.

Unavailable on Netflix streaming, as of this writing.

They’re hour-long.  Caveat Emptor.

Great idea, PAINFULLY bad execution.  For Bradbury fanatics only.

Another interesting take on, you guessed it: perception.  With a rather interesting space morality play thrown in.  MIB-worthy.

Persistent Man’s Crisis Of Identity In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century.

Extra-terrestrial fairy tales can come true.  Cute little twist.

Brilliant.  Second-best ever, after ‘It’s A Good Life’.

Personally, I watch it whenever I want to remind myself how foolishly ignorant arrogance is.

Man wakes up during his own funeral.  As you can imagine, fairly interesting.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  From a piano, yet.

And one pretentious complete scumbag.

Reminds me of ‘Hagakure”s dragon quote.

A light-hearted lesson.

All Dogs Go To Heaven. 

Man’s best friend.  Ruff!

The Eternal Shoe. 

Decent.

Somewhat interesting take on death.

Message: “Don’t be as bad as the Japanese”.

What an offensive, racist, propagandist crock of sh1t.  At least when the Stooges made their anti-Japanese commentaries we were actually STILL AT WAR.

And God has nothing to do with war.  War is a human construct.

Alternate Title: ‘Episode 10 – Propaganda Day’

4/15/16: I expect better from Rod Serling, he was usually right on/ahead of his time.

A good ‘MIB’-ending-esque reason not to get too arrogant about what you “know”.

Charmingly quaint.  Cute and fun in a somewhat Stooge-ian way.

Another good take on perception and desperation.

I applaud the anti-sadism and anti-Nazi-apologist messages.

Unlike episode 10, the condemnation is totally and completely justified.

The best ‘Twilight Zone’ episode ever.

Ultra-creepy, twisted, dark, intelligent, and thought-provoking.

Be wary of power without wisdom and self-control.

Jack Klugman’s second episode.  Unusually good acting/script.

What happens to “civility” when things go horribly wrong. 

Interesting, but pretty badly written and cliched.  Borderline.

Oh Oh Oh, an AERO-plane…couldn’t resist.

Not worth your time.

Charles Bronson has never acted better.  For whatever that’s worth. 

No real hook, and fairly predictable…but in this case, mildly interesting.

Anti-Fascism.  Orwell would have been proud.

The “diner” episode…absolutely classic.

Exceptionally well-acted for one of these, and very interesting.

“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream” – Y. Tsunetomo

“The essentials of speaking are in not speaking at all.” – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Or…

The premise is amateurish and kinda silly, and so is the execution.  But I like the statement on greed.