All of these characters will be familiar to people of my generation that grew up on these TV shows. I vaguely remember watching this in my elementary school. This video is very strange because of its blending of name-recognition commercialism and realism in dealing with a serious topic, an "Alice and Wonderland" style, a realistic ending that doesn't quite solve the problem, and the fact that so many different characters from each with different copyright holders appear together. Its easy to laugh at this film, but its also kind of astonishing that it was ever produced in the first place.
Did this show have an impact on its intended audience? Of course, its imposible to say for sure, but I'd like to think that it did. Seeing it now that I'm older and working in television animation was quite an interesting experience for me. Very few films, animated or otherwise, capture a moment in history so completely as this one captures the United States circa 1990.
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Shiv
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 08:40:57 I think the comments on the YouTube page give a good spread of different responses from:
After seeing this again I decided to smoke some pot and see if my sister's Garfield lamp would come to life... it didn't... I was severely let down.
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how dare they take my childhood heroes and turn them into canon fodder for their political agenda
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Oh, this brings back memories of elementary school, we watched this. I'm pretty sure this video actually helped me stay away from drugs all my life. The ensemble of cartoon characters is awesome too.
