Handcuffs on a Snake

An excerpt from the 1979 Filmation Mighty Mouse cartoon "Movie House Mouse", written by Sam Simon, storyboarded by Eddie Fitzgerald, animated by Kent Butterworth and featuring the wildest take I've ever seen in a TV cartoon!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mighty
• mouse
• filmation
• simpsons
• handcuffs
• snake

[aalong64]

That animation is great. According to John K, Kent Butterworth did it, which isn't surprising. What IS surprising, considering that it's Filmation, is that the written joke is pretty funny too.

[Poever]

how did Kent get such creative control over the scene I shouldn't wonder?

[timkelly]

Here's most of Kent's reply, dated 11/26/2006: "Yes, I animated that scene. Eddie storyboarded the scene and he got in trouble because the producer said it couldn't be animated. I had recently been promoted up to "full animator" and volunteered to do it. It took the better part of a week to animate - because it's pretty full animation (Filmation wasn't set up to do full animation - they were budgeted for very limited animation, and the scene really couldn't have been done limited."

[timkelly]

John K wasn't sure who did it when I asked him on his blog (I believe he said it was either Kent Butterworth or Tom Minton), so I asked Kent Butterworth on MySpace and he said yes, that he had animated it and Eddie Fitzgerald had storyboarded it.

There's a lot of clever gags in Filmation cartoons, and a lot of good spots of animation. You just have to watch them!

[poopybooyah]

I wish I could watch filmation's heckle and jeckle in every uncut and unedited episodes, Please :'(

[timkelly]

I have a lot of them, but I don't have the means to transfer them right now.

[TechnoHajikelist]

@LeothePatrioticLion

it can't be filmation, that wild take isn't their style but limited animation and recycled animation is... how can it be?

[QCBEC]

i hated micky mouse...i preffered bugs bunny

[xpander2k]

@timkelly : I don't know about that. There was some pretty impressive animation for Filmation cartoons like He-Man and Tarzan. Especially when He-Man was picking up a boulder or something and throwing it. Maybe for the goofier cartoons animation was limited, but for the more serious ones I though Filmation did a fantastic job. That's just me.

[RobochaoXX]

I remember seeing this clip a year ago.

Still awesome.

[90sComputerGames]

I love how the fat one practically melts into the side of that beam, then slides off. "errrruughh..."

So strange to see some fun actually slip through.

[Dalek44]

"HANDCUFFS?! ON A SNAKE?!"

XD