Tiny Toons Halloween intro

The Sandman (1991)

This creepy piece from 1991 was nominated for an animated short Oscar.

Michael Dougherty's Season's Greetings

This animated short from 1996 features the original appearance of "Sam," the iconic trick-or-treater who would later appear in Dougherty's live-action "Trick 'r Treat" feature film, as well as several shorts.

What Would Brian Boitano Do?

15 years ago today, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut hit movie theaters. And it's still great!

X-Men

In honor of today's big movie opening, an "X-Men" throwback.

BONUS: The 100 best animated movies

As voted on by industry professionals. See if your favorite made the cut!

Click here for the list

BONUS: Orchestra Plays 43 Cartoon Theme Song Mashup

With cartoon enhancements!

Animaniacs Noel

The Monkey Song

Draculee Draculaa

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Here's the theme song from the rarely-discussed animated spinoff of the b-movie parodies.

Long Live the King

Come on, we all thought of this, right?

T-Rex Go-Motion - Jurassic Park

Before committing to CGI, Steven Spielberg commissioned stop-motion test animation from Phil Tippett (or rather, the "go-motion" process Tippett pioneered). Here is Tippett's rendition of the T-Rex paddock attack.


Jurassic Park opened 20 years ago today.

Korn - Freak On a Leash

This music video from Korn was directed by comics legend Todd McFarlane.

Little Old Slappy from Pasadena

The Spirit of Christmas

This is where it all began for Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

As film students in 1992, they created the first "Spirit of Christmas" short using construction paper and an old 8mm camera.


A copy of this short somehow made its way to an executive at Fox, who then commissioned Parker and Stone to make a new "Spirit of Christmas" short which he distributed to some 80 friends as a "video Christmas card" in 1995.


It was so popular amongst its recipients that it became a must-have bootleg throughout the industry. It wasn't long before the TV networks started calling, and in 1997 "South Park" debuted on Comedy Central.

BONUS! Voice actor Rob Paulsen on playing Pinky, Yakko Warner, and two mutant ninja turtles

Voice actor Rob Paulsen on playing Pinky, Yakko Warner, and two mutant ninja turtles



Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

The actor: Rob Paulsen began his acting career in front of the camera, yet in spite of (or perhaps because of) featured roles in Body Double and Stewardess School, he took advantage of the opportunity to shift gears and pursued a career in voice acting instead. This decision was fortuitous: Paulsen has become one of the most recognizable and popular figures in his field, voicing characters in some of the most famous cartoons of the past few decades, including Animaniacs, Pinky And The Brain, The Tick, and, perhaps most impressively, two different heroes on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: first Raphael, and now, in Nickelodeon’s new incarnation of the series, Donatello. He also frequently discusses voicework with other ...

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This is Halloween

Happy Halloween, everyone!