Slappy Squirrel Animation Smear -- "Bumbie's Mom"

Here's a beautiful animation smear of Slappy Squirrel from Jon McClenahan, Barry Caldwell and the Startoons crew in Chicago.  

The series:  Animaniacs.  The episode:  "Bumbie's Mom."  

At the local multiplex, Slappy's nephew Skippy is enjoying the movie -- "Bumbie" -- until there's an onscreen gunshot and it appears that Bumbie's mom has been killed by a hunter.  Skippy burst into tears, waking Slappy from a sound sleep and resulting in the one frame Slappy smear featured below.  

Spoiler Alert:  The episode has a happy ending.  

Startoons's brilliant creative team animated and produced many of the very best Slappy and Skippy Squirrel cartoons during the entire Animaniacs run (1993-1998).   The Startoons Slappy cartoons include:  "Slappy Goes Walnuts," "Guardin' the Garden," "Critical Condition," "...And Justice For Slappy," "Scare Happy Slappy," "Soccer Coach Slappy" and "Bully for Skippy," among others.   All feature the brilliant voice performances of Sherri Stoner as Slappy and Nathan Ruegger as Skippy Squirrel.  And many of the Slappy cartoons are written by Sherri, as well as John P. McCann, Earl Kress, Nick Hollander, Nick Dubois and me...   

Animation Smears, Wild Takes and Strong Poses from "Woodstock Slappy"

Animation Lesson:

 

1.  Here are some in-between smears that intensify the acting and animation in "Woodstock Slappy."

Slappy leans in on Skippy with a smear face stretch.    

 

Slappy makes a fast, single-frame gestures toward the stage... 

 

Slappy uses her arms to beseech Skippy to answer the question that's driving her crazy:   "Who's on stage?"

Skippy stretches up then goes down into a squash and freaks out as Slappy sings along with her accordion.

  

2.  Some wild takes from "Woodstock Slappy." 

Slappy wakes up to the song stylings of a screaming Janis Joplin... 
 

 

 

3.  And here are some excellent strong poses and acting from director Audu Paden and his brilliant crew of artists, story-boarders and animators on "Woodstock Slappy,"  helped by some great vocal performances by Sherri Stoner, Nate Ruegger and the rest of the cast.

 

  

"WOODSTOCK SLAPPY" PAN -- 5OTH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK

IN CELEBRATION OF THE 5OTH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK...

Here's a pan of the Woodstock crowd as Slappy Squirrel tries to shoo them away form her summer treehouse in "Woodstock Slappy" from "Animaniacs" (1994).  

And here's Slappy grabbing Jimi Hendrix guitar in an attempt to bring the concert to a close.  

 










 

"THE 7D" -- Another Batch Of Images From New Episodes

More images from new "7D" episodes to premier in the coming weeks on DisneyXD:

"I'm Not Very Nice"
In a music video directed by Alfred Gimeno,  Hildy Gloom (voiced by Kelly Osbourne) sings "I'm Not Very Nice," written and composed by our "7D" series songwriter, Parry Gripp.

 
"A Royal Pain In The Castle"  
Written by Brad Rozman.  Directed by Charles Visser.
Grumpy is appointed substitute King for a Day and must contend with a saber-rattling Gnome King during a peace summit.  

 "A Sneeze in Time"
Directed by Alfred Gimeno.  
Sneezy is allergic to Grumpy's spicy Chilipeeney Peppereenie cheese.  In fact, it makes him sneeze so hard that he sneezes the 7D into the future...to a time where Hildy has taken over Jollywood.  Our crew must sneeze back through time to fix the past in order to save the future.    

More New Episodes of "THE 7D"

Here are some images from additional new episodes of  "THE 7D" which will be premiering in the coming weeks on DisneyXD.
 

"Once In A Purple Moon" 
Written by Sherri Stoner, Deanna Oliver and Sindy Boveda Spackman.  Storyboarded by Doug McCarthy.  Directed by Jeff Gordon.  
When Doc is laughed out of the Academy during his lecture on  phenomena that will take place during an upcoming full moon, he vows to prove that his "Mooney Schmagooney Theory" is correct.  But strange happenings accompany the next full moon, which is not a regular full moon, but rather, "a triple-color full moon all the way!"  

"Water You Doin', Dopey?"

Written by Mike Loprete.  Storyboard by Kexx Singleton.  Directed by Charles Visser.  

Dopey uses his supernatural water-finding skills to leads the 7D on a desperate search for the Fountain of Youth in order to save Queen Delightful from an aging spell cast by Hildy Gloom.   

 

BTW, the voice of the audio book version of Doc's new "Encyclopedia Enchantica" -- re-titled as the "Encyclopedia En-Blab-ica" -- is provided by guest-star Fran Drescher!