In 1960, King Features Syndicate brought forth “Popeye the Sailor,” an animated television series featuring new misadventures of the beloved spinach-chomping hero and his wacky circle of friends and foes. A total of 220 short cartoons were created for the series by multiple animation studios, and most them were forgettable. But there was one short that stood out for being an extraordinary detour from the usual Popeye-fueled knockabout.
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The 1979 television special “Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales” marked the first time since the end of the Golden Age that the Warner Bros. animators created a genuine classic. Consisting of three new shorts with brief bridging sections, this holiday offering was rich with inventive laugh-out-loud comedy.
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HIjinks ensue as science goes awry, leading to a hairy monster to rampage around the farm in the hilarious, charming, and truly delightful SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM.
A man believes his life is a simulation and tries to convince his friend of the same. Quintin Dupieux’s uniquely animated philosophical film Vertiginous, or La Vertige, is presented at Fantastic Fest 2026.
Warner Bros. cranked out these back-to-back primetime television specials that mixed post-1948 cartoon classics with so-so new animation bridging.
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Character actor Denver Pyle was the live-action host of this primetime television special that included a mix of post-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons with an old West theme.
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During the course of “A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court” (later retitled “Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court”), Yosemite Sam becomes so annoyed with an excessively verbose Bugs that he yells at him to shut up. The poor viewer watching this made-for-television special may have the urge to share that angry sentiment with all of the on-screen characters. This Chuck Jones-devised mess is one of the most obnoxiously talkative animation productions ever made.
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