Fun Fact about this show and it's production. The show's writers were stuck between a rock and a hard place with executives wanting the show to be more child friendly and Don Oriolo(The oner of Felix the Cat at the time) who wanted it to be more like it's 50s incarnation which the writers hated that era of the franchise. This clash between two people lead to two episodes that made fun of the show and the that era of Felix with "Attack of the Robot Rat" and "Phony Felix" and "The Fuzzy Bunny Show".
I noticed that the writers of the series had a lot of scathing hot-takes. I mean, that episode spoofing “Star Trek” feels like it was written by an individual who grew up hating the franchise.
Y'know, despite everything that went down behind the scenes, I'd still consider this to be the best incarnation of Felix The Cat we've ever gotten. Seriously, this show is a real gem, and I wish that if we ever get a new Felix cartoon it follows something along the lines of this rather than just sticking to the Magic Bag-related material.
The thing about Mickey Mouse is that he has always been a Knock-Off of Felix the Cat, even his 2013 series of shorts was just knock-off of Twisted Tales of Felix, which is why in terms of Legacy Felix will always be the Superior Toon.
Not only was Mickey Mouse a knock-off of Felix the Cat, but even Mickey's predecessor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a knock-off of Felix the Cat. Felix is the most influential cartoon character of all time by definition.
Also, a couple of Fun-Facts; #1, The aforementioned 'Felix' movie (which happens to be a personal favorite of mine and viewable right here on RUclips) was itself intended as a a backdoor pilot of sorts for an 80s-era TV-show. #2, The 50s show was actually where the term "Poindexter" comes from. Starting as the name of a character on the show, and eventually becoming a general term for a nerdy kid. ; ) =)
This Felix cartoon takes place in a separate timeline. The Twisted Tales of Felix series, which attempts to be an amalgam of the Silent and Oriolo eras of the series, being a retro cartoon throwback to the original Felix cartoons, as well as cartoons of the 1930s, such as those by Fleischer Studios. The Felix of this series is fully aware that he's a cartoon character.
So many great people in animation worked on the show. King of the Hill, Ren and Stimpy, Batman the Animated Series, they all have a connection to Felix!
I totally forgot about this cartoon series. I think it used to be on Fox kids or CBS if I remember correctly back in the early 90s but thanks for the review I think I will definitely check this out because it’s been along time since I’ve seen cartoons like this back in the 90s.
The funny thing is that the is one of the first vocal appearances by Doug Lawrence. This show feels like the missing link between the early eighties, and the late nineties and the 2000’s
It's unfortunate that we're stuck with Oriolo's Felix. All merch, comics and cartoons that've come out in the last two decades have been based exclusively on late '50s show.
I love anyone who talks about the eccentrically loveable feline Felix. With Lord of the rings, rick and morty,Teriminator and blade runner animes out I can only imagine what twisted directions Felix could take in animation. Especially if he was reinvigorated by the return of Masaaki Yuasa.
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose best thing is 2 things. 1. I'm friends with the writer/director/storyboarder for the episode. 2. I'm doing a Reanimated project of the episode that actually features Thom returning as Felix.
As much as I grew up with Charlie Adler as a kid, I always prefer Thom Adcox role of Felix over his. It actually fits with Felix's mischievous, cunning and child-like personality.
I remember the question mark thing from an old Felix the Cat cartoon. I think I remember the tail thing, too. Most of these things, I'm pretty sure, have just been brought back from the old days. I mean the old-old days.
This show was such a fever dream, but thats what made it work! I actually started checking it out again recently since every episode is on RUclips. I always preferred Thom Adcox-Hernandez voice for Felix though. When Charlie Adler started voicing Felix it was okay. I'm so used to Adler's voice, so when I hear his voice all I can hear is other characters he voiced. Because I didn't know Thom, he voiced was better suited Felix to me.
@@roostthecockatiel5227 The silent cartoons, and that version of the character, is in the public domain. Later versions are not, though. So you can't use the bag of tricks or characters from the 50s show.
thanks to video, i've been watching the series from the start. although its animation is fantastic, it can be scrappy in places although the music makes it all much fun as a animated cartoon.
"I watched a few episodes of the show and loved it! I actually prefer this over the 50s Felix the Cat series-not that it was bad, just not my cup of tea. My team is thrilled to work with Felix since he’s in the public domain, including his 30s design, which I think partially inspired his look in the 90s series. In our Sonic cartoon, Felix will appear in a few episodes. His personality is based heavily on the 90s series, but everything else will be a fresh reboot. If you're a fan of Sonic or Felix, stay tuned-it’s going to be special!" And feel free to ask about the show I'd be happy to share Whenever I have the free time
I didn't know this existed, but I watched the movie when I was a kid and it was pretty twisted. Might be the start of my obsession with adult oriented cartoons 😂
It's still a shame that Felix hasn't gotten a cartoon in so long. And it's even more of a shame that this wasn't how the franchise ended. Yes, such a short-lived show being the end would have sucked, but better to go out on such a unique show than what we actually ended with.
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose Indeed, they are. Instead, we got a glimmer of hope through comics, but the last thing we ended on was a babyfication anime mixed with the 50s era, and a 50s era direct to video special, leaving the Twisted era behind.
Hell yeah time to watch twisted tales of Felix and that awesome coverage! I miss this and the Felix the cat movie! ❤️ Believe it or not, I actually like the older Felix shorts where he was with Old King Cole and other various characters helping them on his adventures!
Felix has always been extremely fun. There hasn't been a version of Felix I haven't liked, the mischievous black and whites, the wholesome 50s, and the great 90s combo which just might be my favorite version overall. There's a lot of Felix to like!
I hope you got that smoke detector fixed. ...but yeah. It's a good show. I discovered it a little too late, and it was broadcast in the morning too early on CBS, if I remember right.
You want to know the reason behind the constantly in-flux creative direction, as well as the sudden changes behind the scenes ? That reason is Joe Oriolo, son of Don Oriolo (who made the 1950's Felix cartoon), who was also the one who made the 1980's Felix movie, and was one of the executive producers on twisted tales. The guy hanged over the shoulders of everyone on the team, watching like a hawk, forcing the team to rewrite parts of scripts and scenes often, thus annoying them so much, they reworked the professor character, as well as his dog, and wrote the episode they appeared in to entirely mock Don Oriolo's Felix series, pointing the awful voice acting and lip-synching, the terrible animation, the overbearing morality lessons, and removing all the mischeviousness from felix. Joe was a nightmare to work with, and once again caused a majority of the problems behind the scenes.
The only reason why I know about Felix and love him so much is just because of the Russian bootleg that was popular that got into a meme from vinesauce and siivagunner
@@Its_hoekin_time there was 2 scenes in the show, one where he ripped off the face of a fake felix and one scene where he face splits in half falling down. It's quite funny how they predicted the bootleg
I saw this show in reruns on YTV in Canada starting in or around 1998. When I think about my own webcomic characters, including one that's blatantly based on me when I was in my early-to-mid-teens, I see an eerie influence, and I think this may have something to do with the fact that I had already seen the '50s version of Felix at this time, so the extent of the departure of this reboot resonated with my developing brain in a very unique way. I haven't watched this show in years, but I think I unconsciously associate it heavily with the whole idea of doing unexpectedly and artistically transgressive things with cartoons beyond just making them "more adult". In particular, this version of Felix is the only time I've ever seen a "legacy" character that exists in a "fully cartoon" world that seems to be going through puberty, and because the voice actor switched to an older man halfway through, he also seems to come OUT of puberty over the course of the show. A PG-13 show could make a joke about his balls dropping, but instead, this is a G-rated show where it feels like that ACTUALLY HAPPENS and just isn't addressed. It's a weirdly unintentional bit of realism in a place where it feels like it doesn't belong that ends up reinforcing the meta-jokes around the surrealism of the show. It retroactively feels less like a '90s kids' cartoon with a subversive adult edge and more like early-2010s Newgrounds/RUclips animation made by artists who are themselves in their late-teens or early-twenties, many of whom had a kind of repor with their own audiences that the creators of this show didn't. (psychicpebbles and hotdiggetydemon spring readily to mind.) One footnote: I think the really seminal influence on "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" is less Ren & Stimpy and more the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse episode "Don't Touch That Dial", which I won't attempt to describe here, because it probably already has a video essay or two about itself. It certainly deserves one, seeing as it pretty much invented '90s cartoon meta-humor singlehandedly.
The last year of this series was the first year of Sam & Max: Freelance Police. If only they'd aired back-to-back. A match made in heaven like the 90s cartoons for Beetlejuice & the Addams Family. I do remember a couple of Betty Boop movies out around this time with very similar vibes.
don't forget about KoKo The Clown and his friends too but yeah mainly a lot can just think of Felix as over 100 years later is still popular in reruns in certain parts of the globe, Merch (Mainly today's Felix Exposure for the new era), and also take this with a grain of salt but what a theory is the classic Kat-Clock's with the Eye's swinging side to side, and the tail doing the same, the Creator gotten the idea thanks to Felix the Cat and made one from the Character but again take it with a Grain of salt as even Cartoon Historians don't think it was Only due to Felix to make those Kat Clocks but seeing the early ones you can speculate on.
You can make one yourself if you have the skills; the character's public domain. Just derive it off of the original Felix the cat rather than the awful 1950s Felix.
Was this version the one that had an episode about the mouse chasing Felix through a subway car with a meat-hook? Because yeah, that one was not for kids! LOL! XD
Honestly loved when the series was free flowing. It had a very Woodring's "Frank" vibe of being taken by the whims of a dream. Also very Sally Cruikshank. As my wife put it: 'it pleases the ADHD-brain's need for stimulation'.
I was wondering why I'd never heard of this show back when it was airing. It turns out it aired on CBS, and at this point in time, my local CBS affiliate didn't even show most of the CBS cartoons. :( It looks like something I would have liked. I'll watch it if I can ever figure out where to see it. (I've found a handful of episodes just now, but not the whole series.) I've mainly seen the old black and white ones. I've seen a few of the others, and I find his voice very annoying in a lot of the ones where he talks. He frequently sounds like someone doing a terrible Mickey Mouse impression. The two different voices shown in the clips in this video sound much better than the ones I've heard previously.
I started with the happy go lucky Van Beuren Felix of the 30s (thanks, VHS!), then went to this, then the theatrical movie that preceded it by a few years (thanks, VHS!), then the original 20s trickster in my teens, and only this year did I see the old TV version that introduced The Professor and the Magical Bag of Tricks. I consider the last of these by far the least funny and least interesting, as well as the most sloppily animated on a technical level, but it DID contribute a couple interesting characters to the movie and the awesome bag to Twisted Tales so it's not without merit. Twisted Tales is still my favorite Felix.
The one thing that I think of when I think of Felix, the cat is that one boo leg NES game. In the game when you get the game over Felix, the cat just rips his face off. It’s the most like shocking thing ever and it’s super funny and stuff. It’s awesome, but yeah that’s what I think of when I think Felix the cat.
0:15 Let's see: Famer Al Falfa (Paul Terry's easy-to-split-into-layers character) Milton Mouse (Similar to Mickey, but created earlier by Paul Terry or one of his animators.) Mary/Rita Mouse (Milton's girlfriend.) Peg Leg Pete (Bootleg Pete) Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Obvious) Gertie the Dinosaur Little Nemo* The Mosquito (From Windsor McKay's early short about a mosquito.) Colonel Heeza Liar (May have misspelled this. One of the characters who starred in shorts produced by the Bray studios.) Happy Hooligan* Krazy Kat* Mutt & Jeff* Felix The Cat (Of course) Jupiter the Cat (Disney's Felix) Koko the Clown (Fleischer Bros first character) Waffles & Don (I think. A dog & a cat. Predecessors to Van Beuren's Tom & Jerry.) *These characters came from comic strips, which helped them maintain some relevance after the silent era.
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose So, many people complain about how its story is pretty much an excuse plot for the animation. So maybe one thing you could discuss is how you would rewrite the plot.
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose honestly, yeah! It's not particularly a style I care for much, but as an aspiring animator, more exposure to it will definitely get me to appreciate animation's humble beginning
The only thing I disliked about it was how the intro dragged out so long. I liked the part with the 3d and then flying couldve been cut down and been fine
For me, I personally enjoyed Season 1 of Twisted Tales over Season 2! For me, Season 1 was a Great Modernized Take (& Love Letter) of the Original Felix the Cats Shorts from the 20's & 30's as well as Fleischer Studios' 30's Shorts (mainly Popeye & Betty Boop) with a Mix of Rocko's Modern Life! Season 2 is definitely Good on it's own Merits, but it was also largely just felt much more of what I would typically expect out of a Cartoon from the 90's! Which again, is definitely NOT a bad thing, I like Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Earthworm Jim, MOST of the Cartoon Cartoons! But it just felt less special in my eyes! Similar case with The Cuphead Show honestly! Again, Great Show on it's own Merits, but MOST of the Time (Especially in Season 2) I felt like I was watching a standard 2000's Cartoon Network Show much more than I was watching a Genuine Modern Take of an Actual 20's - 30's Rubberhose Cartoon...
I was born in 1993, and I have vague memories of my mom forbidding me from watching anything Felix the Cat related. I wonder if this show was why. She did relent at some point and rent us the 80s movie, which I remember liking.
This isn't Ren and Stimpy but more Sam & Max and The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog. With nonsense colour backgrounds, everything is bouncy and there's nonsense everywhere like it's normal. And the main characters are grounded but acts on their own type of nonsense that collides with their world's nonsense.
By the way, Felix the Cat is in public domain, so if ya want to make your own animated series, (As long as you derive it off of the original theatrical shorts, rather than the awful 1958 reboot, which is like the original Felix in name only) go ahead. Just be careful with trademark.
I vividly remember TTOFTC from my childhood. I must have only seen S1 though as i remember it as an anxiety inducing trip where every episode Felix could fall out of reality and end in a non euclidean nightmare universe.
Fun Fact about this show and it's production. The show's writers were stuck between a rock and a hard place with executives wanting the show to be more child friendly and Don Oriolo(The oner of Felix the Cat at the time) who wanted it to be more like it's 50s incarnation which the writers hated that era of the franchise. This clash between two people lead to two episodes that made fun of the show and the that era of Felix with "Attack of the Robot Rat" and "Phony Felix" and "The Fuzzy Bunny Show".
It's pretty amazing that the show came out as good as it did, considering how split the production behind the scenes was.
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose What's worse is seeing how the show ended. Symbolically.
Me: 😮 oh no
I noticed that the writers of the series had a lot of scathing hot-takes. I mean, that episode spoofing “Star Trek” feels like it was written by an individual who grew up hating the franchise.
That’s 3 episodes though
Y'know, despite everything that went down behind the scenes, I'd still consider this to be the best incarnation of Felix The Cat we've ever gotten. Seriously, this show is a real gem, and I wish that if we ever get a new Felix cartoon it follows something along the lines of this rather than just sticking to the Magic Bag-related material.
Well, I mean, Felix the Cat is public domain, so you could make one yourself, as long as you don't infringe on trademark.
The thing about Mickey Mouse is that he has always been a Knock-Off of Felix the Cat, even his 2013 series of shorts was just knock-off of Twisted Tales of Felix, which is why in terms of Legacy Felix will always be the Superior Toon.
Not only was Mickey Mouse a knock-off of Felix the Cat, but even Mickey's predecessor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a knock-off of Felix the Cat. Felix is the most influential cartoon character of all time by definition.
Also, a couple of Fun-Facts; #1, The aforementioned 'Felix' movie (which happens to be a personal favorite of mine and viewable right here on RUclips) was itself intended as a a backdoor pilot of sorts for an 80s-era TV-show.
#2, The 50s show was actually where the term "Poindexter" comes from. Starting as the name of a character on the show, and eventually becoming a general term for a nerdy kid. ; ) =)
Undoubtedly this show has more wit and personality than the majority of modern cartoons (imo)
It still holds up, too! That kind of comedy will never not be funny (at least to me)!
'GO AWAY IM IN MY OWN LITTLE WORLD HERE!' -random old man
One of my favorite jokes in the entire series!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose omg yes agreed
I will always remember Tony Jay as Megabyte from ReBoot.
He is one of the greatest most irreplacable losses to eng!ish language voice acting.
15:59 Plankton was the last voice I expected to hear out of this baby.
This Felix cartoon takes place in a separate timeline. The Twisted Tales of Felix series, which attempts to be an amalgam of the Silent and Oriolo eras of the series, being a retro cartoon throwback to the original Felix cartoons, as well as cartoons of the 1930s, such as those by Fleischer Studios. The Felix of this series is fully aware that he's a cartoon character.
Funfact the creator of Billy and Mandy worked on this show
So many great people in animation worked on the show. King of the Hill, Ren and Stimpy, Batman the Animated Series, they all have a connection to Felix!
Can’t also forget Milton Knight, best known for his involvement in AoStH - having designed and animated its version of Dr. Robotnik.
Makes sense.
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose not ren and stimpy
I totally forgot about this cartoon series. I think it used to be on Fox kids or CBS if I remember correctly back in the early 90s but thanks for the review I think I will definitely check this out because it’s been along time since I’ve seen cartoons like this back in the 90s.
Fun fact: Ralph Bakshi was involved with this series, & he also worked on Cool World.
John Kricfalusi worked on this show too.
So did Milton Knight, who also worked on Cool World and most notably Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog,
@@Harper_Onions ... as well as (from the 80s/90s comics boom) Midnight the Skunk, and Slug 'n Ginger.
John K working on the show is NOT a fun fact. 🤮
The funny thing is that the is one of the first vocal appearances by Doug Lawrence. This show feels like the missing link between the early eighties, and the late nineties and the 2000’s
It featured so many legends of the industry. I hope this show gets more appreciation, some day!
It's unfortunate that we're stuck with Oriolo's Felix. All merch, comics and cartoons that've come out in the last two decades have been based exclusively on late '50s show.
It would be nice to have at least the 50s and "twisted" branching timelines to enjoy. At this point, anything would be nice!
I love anyone who talks about the eccentrically loveable feline Felix. With Lord of the rings, rick and morty,Teriminator and blade runner animes out I can only imagine what twisted directions Felix could take in animation. Especially if he was reinvigorated by the return of Masaaki Yuasa.
I'd love to see them take another swing at a Felix show, or at least some cameos. He's too good to not still be around!
This is definitely one of my comfort shows. I especially loved the Detective episode in Season 2.
A Felix detective show would be pretty neat!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose best thing is 2 things.
1. I'm friends with the writer/director/storyboarder for the episode.
2. I'm doing a Reanimated project of the episode that actually features Thom returning as Felix.
Professor and Rock Bottom in Twisted Tales of Felix are rather honest parody versions of their former selves
As much as I grew up with Charlie Adler as a kid, I always prefer Thom Adcox role of Felix over his.
It actually fits with Felix's mischievous, cunning and child-like personality.
I love them both!
I remember the question mark thing from an old Felix the Cat cartoon. I think I remember the tail thing, too. Most of these things, I'm pretty sure, have just been brought back from the old days. I mean the old-old days.
Correct. Both those gags were in the silent cartoons. (Those are the only ones I've seen so far.)
This show was such a fever dream, but thats what made it work! I actually started checking it out again recently since every episode is on RUclips.
I always preferred Thom Adcox-Hernandez voice for Felix though. When Charlie Adler started voicing Felix it was okay. I'm so used to Adler's voice, so when I hear his voice all I can hear is other characters he voiced. Because I didn't know Thom, he voiced was better suited Felix to me.
Adler did voiced other characters such as Ickis from Ahhh! Real Monsters, too. He sure has good voice acting.
ngl, Mark Hamill as Felix would have gone hard. His personality fits the character well.
I'm EXTREMELY curious as to which voice he would have given to the character!
@@Augoeides32 I did not expect to hear that in the video tbh
Shit surprised me
We'll never see Felix the cat again thanks to DreamWorks owning the character
I'd like to think they, or someone who owns the rights in the future, will do something with him!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose I wonder if he's public domain
@@roostthecockatiel5227 The silent cartoons, and that version of the character, is in the public domain. Later versions are not, though. So you can't use the bag of tricks or characters from the 50s show.
@KasumiKenshirou what about the cartoons by Van beuren
@@KasumiKenshirou Also, I don't consider the 1950s Felix to be the real Felix, as the two are nothing like each other.
thanks to video, i've been watching the series from the start. although its animation is fantastic, it can be scrappy in places although the music makes it all much fun as a animated cartoon.
It's a really fun show! I hope you enjoy it!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose I haven't seen since I've been a kid! Been a writer/poet these days I enjoy the Sheba character 😅
Oh man his bag was so cool, it was like Mary Poppins huge magical bag that could probably fit an entire universe.
"I watched a few episodes of the show and loved it! I actually prefer this over the 50s Felix the Cat series-not that it was bad, just not my cup of tea. My team is thrilled to work with Felix since he’s in the public domain, including his 30s design, which I think partially inspired his look in the 90s series. In our Sonic cartoon, Felix will appear in a few episodes. His personality is based heavily on the 90s series, but everything else will be a fresh reboot. If you're a fan of Sonic or Felix, stay tuned-it’s going to be special!"
And feel free to ask about the show I'd be happy to share Whenever I have the free time
This is what the Cuphead Show wished it could be.
I watched this as a kid and it was a fever dream in the best way possible.
Twisted in the best way possible
I totally agree!
I didn't know this existed, but I watched the movie when I was a kid and it was pretty twisted. Might be the start of my obsession with adult oriented cartoons 😂
This show was my childhood, it because of it that i got interessted in the character
I'd say it's a pretty good one to start learning about the character from!
He pulled his tail off and made a sword but, then just a moment later he has his tail again and he's still holding the sword too.
It's still a shame that Felix hasn't gotten a cartoon in so long. And it's even more of a shame that this wasn't how the franchise ended. Yes, such a short-lived show being the end would have sucked, but better to go out on such a unique show than what we actually ended with.
I wish there would be two concurrent Felix timelines: the 50s version, and the "Twisted" version. They're both so great In different ways!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose Indeed, they are. Instead, we got a glimmer of hope through comics, but the last thing we ended on was a babyfication anime mixed with the 50s era, and a 50s era direct to video special, leaving the Twisted era behind.
Well I mean, anyone can make one because his theatrical shorts are in public domain, though make sure to be careful to not infringe on trademark.
I only really learned about him from the NES game.
It's worth checking out the cartoons. He's over 100 years old now, there's a lot to check out!
I remember getting a vhs tape of the show as a kid at a 99c store . It was amazingly weird and i loved it.
That's a steal for such a great show!
OH MY GOSH! IT’S THE GOOSE!
That's right!
Hell yeah time to watch twisted tales of Felix and that awesome coverage! I miss this and the Felix the cat movie! ❤️ Believe it or not, I actually like the older Felix shorts where he was with Old King Cole and other various characters helping them on his adventures!
Felix has always been extremely fun. There hasn't been a version of Felix I haven't liked, the mischievous black and whites, the wholesome 50s, and the great 90s combo which just might be my favorite version overall. There's a lot of Felix to like!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose There is! Gotta love this little guy!❤️
Felix the cat is Underrated and the creater of Cartoons characters in general.
For me this WAS the original Felix show. It was the only one I knew.
It was a good one to grow up with!
i saw this show as a kid and it's what i thought felix always was.
I love twisted tales just cuz it felt natural as an adult to watch.,
It didn’t feel like a kids show but the characters still didn’t have to cuss
I feel like they probably held back from having a lot more adult jokes and themes!
@ yea but what can you do, you wouldn’t want to alienate your target audience now
I hope you got that smoke detector fixed.
...but yeah. It's a good show. I discovered it a little too late, and it was broadcast in the morning too early on CBS, if I remember right.
It's never too late to discover a great cartoon! And yes, smoke detector will not be beeping in the next video!
Yeah. It ran on CBS, and then it was on Peacock at launch (to my own surprise).
side note found this on peacock, gonna binge
Hopefully more people will be able to discover it now that it's available to watch on streaming!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose thanks for the video reminding me that it even existed!
Wha about the mov- *glass bottle shatters against the wall right next to me*
Yes! I've been waiting for this❤
I hope you enjoy it! It's SUCH a good cartoon!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose it's the most artistic cartoon for me thank you
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose I remember reading this cartoon was very expensive to make
Felix being able to transform into ink to vanish into anything black is just a normal black cat thing. Black cat owners know.
I remember watching Twisted Tales Of Felix The Cat when it was on Saturday mornings. It was awesome!
I feel sad that I missed this show (and Duckman) when it aired. I was too busy watching the Critic. It stinks!
It's never too late to start watching, though!
You want to know the reason behind the constantly in-flux creative direction, as well as the sudden changes behind the scenes ? That reason is Joe Oriolo, son of Don Oriolo (who made the 1950's Felix cartoon), who was also the one who made the 1980's Felix movie, and was one of the executive producers on twisted tales. The guy hanged over the shoulders of everyone on the team, watching like a hawk, forcing the team to rewrite parts of scripts and scenes often, thus annoying them so much, they reworked the professor character, as well as his dog, and wrote the episode they appeared in to entirely mock Don Oriolo's Felix series, pointing the awful voice acting and lip-synching, the terrible animation, the overbearing morality lessons, and removing all the mischeviousness from felix. Joe was a nightmare to work with, and once again caused a majority of the problems behind the scenes.
You got their names mixed up, Joe is the father, Don is the son.
The only reason why I know about Felix and love him so much is just because of the Russian bootleg that was popular that got into a meme from vinesauce and siivagunner
So that’s why when he screamed in that one scene it looked like the bootleg game over screen
@@Its_hoekin_time there was 2 scenes in the show, one where he ripped off the face of a fake felix and one scene where he face splits in half falling down. It's quite funny how they predicted the bootleg
I saw this show in reruns on YTV in Canada starting in or around 1998. When I think about my own webcomic characters, including one that's blatantly based on me when I was in my early-to-mid-teens, I see an eerie influence, and I think this may have something to do with the fact that I had already seen the '50s version of Felix at this time, so the extent of the departure of this reboot resonated with my developing brain in a very unique way. I haven't watched this show in years, but I think I unconsciously associate it heavily with the whole idea of doing unexpectedly and artistically transgressive things with cartoons beyond just making them "more adult". In particular, this version of Felix is the only time I've ever seen a "legacy" character that exists in a "fully cartoon" world that seems to be going through puberty, and because the voice actor switched to an older man halfway through, he also seems to come OUT of puberty over the course of the show. A PG-13 show could make a joke about his balls dropping, but instead, this is a G-rated show where it feels like that ACTUALLY HAPPENS and just isn't addressed. It's a weirdly unintentional bit of realism in a place where it feels like it doesn't belong that ends up reinforcing the meta-jokes around the surrealism of the show. It retroactively feels less like a '90s kids' cartoon with a subversive adult edge and more like early-2010s Newgrounds/RUclips animation made by artists who are themselves in their late-teens or early-twenties, many of whom had a kind of repor with their own audiences that the creators of this show didn't. (psychicpebbles and hotdiggetydemon spring readily to mind.)
One footnote: I think the really seminal influence on "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" is less Ren & Stimpy and more the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse episode "Don't Touch That Dial", which I won't attempt to describe here, because it probably already has a video essay or two about itself. It certainly deserves one, seeing as it pretty much invented '90s cartoon meta-humor singlehandedly.
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*I'M INTERESTED.*
I stumbled on the twisted tales of felix while sufing youtube and i grew fond of it.
It's definitely a good one!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose no doubt about it. It's a great shame that cartoons aren't like this these days
You should talk about The Baby Huey Show and Animatic Battle next. (And maybe Kaput and Zosky if you have the time).
Kaput and Zosky is definitely on the list for next year! Baby Huey is a great classic, and I'll have to check out Animatic Battle sometime.
11:52 Don't forget Megabyte from ReBoot
YES PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT TWISTED TALES!!!
More people need to know about it!
@ Fr dawg the show is so underrated
I love Felix the cat but where is he now?
Owned by Dreamworks, and now he's just a clothing brand
@@Invidente7 thanks for the information I am watching the weird adventures of him right now
The last year of this series was the first year of Sam & Max: Freelance Police. If only they'd aired back-to-back. A match made in heaven like the 90s cartoons for Beetlejuice & the Addams Family.
I do remember a couple of Betty Boop movies out around this time with very similar vibes.
don't forget about KoKo The Clown and his friends too but yeah mainly a lot can just think of Felix as over 100 years later is still popular in reruns in certain parts of the globe, Merch (Mainly today's Felix Exposure for the new era), and also take this with a grain of salt but what a theory is the classic Kat-Clock's with the Eye's swinging side to side, and the tail doing the same, the Creator gotten the idea thanks to Felix the Cat and made one from the Character but again take it with a Grain of salt as even Cartoon Historians don't think it was Only due to Felix to make those Kat Clocks but seeing the early ones you can speculate on.
ok we now need a video game based on this version of felix and his abilities.
I would love to see how they would adapt this world of Felix's into a video game!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose it screams game to me - esp with those abilities
You can make one yourself if you have the skills; the character's public domain. Just derive it off of the original Felix the cat rather than the awful 1950s Felix.
Was this version the one that had an episode about the mouse chasing Felix through a subway car with a meat-hook? Because yeah, that one was not for kids! LOL! XD
Yes. that was actually one of the first episodes.
@@IsaaMation Thanks. Yeah, that one gave me nightmares! XD
Great video.
I appreciate it! It's a fantastic cartoon, super fun to watch!
I remember that show....
Talk about a fever dream
The 1950's Felix was much better than this reboot.
Lots of versions of Felix for everyone to love!
Honestly loved when the series was free flowing. It had a very Woodring's "Frank" vibe of being taken by the whims of a dream. Also very Sally Cruikshank. As my wife put it: 'it pleases the ADHD-brain's need for stimulation'.
I remember watching this.
It's hard to forget!
I was wondering why I'd never heard of this show back when it was airing. It turns out it aired on CBS, and at this point in time, my local CBS affiliate didn't even show most of the CBS cartoons. :(
It looks like something I would have liked. I'll watch it if I can ever figure out where to see it. (I've found a handful of episodes just now, but not the whole series.)
I've mainly seen the old black and white ones. I've seen a few of the others, and I find his voice very annoying in a lot of the ones where he talks. He frequently sounds like someone doing a terrible Mickey Mouse impression.
The two different voices shown in the clips in this video sound much better than the ones I've heard previously.
Is bro gonna replace the battery in his smoke detector or what?
I started with the happy go lucky Van Beuren Felix of the 30s (thanks, VHS!), then went to this, then the theatrical movie that preceded it by a few years (thanks, VHS!), then the original 20s trickster in my teens, and only this year did I see the old TV version that introduced The Professor and the Magical Bag of Tricks. I consider the last of these by far the least funny and least interesting, as well as the most sloppily animated on a technical level, but it DID contribute a couple interesting characters to the movie and the awesome bag to Twisted Tales so it's not without merit.
Twisted Tales is still my favorite Felix.
The one thing that I think of when I think of Felix, the cat is that one boo leg NES game. In the game when you get the game over Felix, the cat just rips his face off. It’s the most like shocking thing ever and it’s super funny and stuff. It’s awesome, but yeah that’s what I think of when I think Felix the cat.
0:15 Let's see:
Famer Al Falfa (Paul Terry's easy-to-split-into-layers character)
Milton Mouse (Similar to Mickey, but created earlier by Paul Terry or one of his animators.)
Mary/Rita Mouse (Milton's girlfriend.)
Peg Leg Pete (Bootleg Pete)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Obvious)
Gertie the Dinosaur
Little Nemo*
The Mosquito (From Windsor McKay's early short about a mosquito.)
Colonel Heeza Liar (May have misspelled this. One of the characters who starred in shorts produced by the Bray studios.)
Happy Hooligan*
Krazy Kat*
Mutt & Jeff*
Felix The Cat (Of course)
Jupiter the Cat (Disney's Felix)
Koko the Clown (Fleischer Bros first character)
Waffles & Don (I think. A dog & a cat. Predecessors to Van Beuren's Tom & Jerry.)
*These characters came from comic strips, which helped them maintain some relevance after the silent era.
I Love his season 2 Voice by the way.
I think both season 1 and 2 voices are great!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose You know what, Your right.
It was a great show from the episodes I've seen.
Do one about "The Thief and the Cobbler"
That would be a great one to do!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose So, many people complain about how its story is pretty much an excuse plot for the animation. So maybe one thing you could discuss is how you would rewrite the plot.
I keep hearing a fire alarm beeping in the audio throughout the video.
I know it wasn't from my end
Idk if ĺf the smoke alarm I hear is in your video or from my house
The cuphead show could never
It makes me wish there were more shows done in the rubber hose style of animation!
@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose honestly, yeah! It's not particularly a style I care for much, but as an aspiring animator, more exposure to it will definitely get me to appreciate animation's humble beginning
The only thing I disliked about it was how the intro dragged out so long. I liked the part with the 3d and then flying couldve been cut down and been fine
Can this be added on MeTV Toons?
For me, I personally enjoyed Season 1 of Twisted Tales over Season 2! For me, Season 1 was a Great Modernized Take (& Love Letter) of the Original Felix the Cats Shorts from the 20's & 30's as well as Fleischer Studios' 30's Shorts (mainly Popeye & Betty Boop) with a Mix of Rocko's Modern Life! Season 2 is definitely Good on it's own Merits, but it was also largely just felt much more of what I would typically expect out of a Cartoon from the 90's! Which again, is definitely NOT a bad thing, I like Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Earthworm Jim, MOST of the Cartoon Cartoons! But it just felt less special in my eyes! Similar case with The Cuphead Show honestly! Again, Great Show on it's own Merits, but MOST of the Time (Especially in Season 2) I felt like I was watching a standard 2000's Cartoon Network Show much more than I was watching a Genuine Modern Take of an Actual 20's - 30's Rubberhose Cartoon...
I was born in 1993, and I have vague memories of my mom forbidding me from watching anything Felix the Cat related. I wonder if this show was why. She did relent at some point and rent us the 80s movie, which I remember liking.
This show is way different from the 80s movie, but in a good way. There's not one version of Felix I don't enjoy!
damn, another interesting show missed that I've never heard of. And I like Felix the cat too! :/
Seems like John K worked on this
Is there any streaming platforms this is on?
Fun fact: Betty boob was Felix girlfriend before she got her own show.
6:53 HET.
This isn't Ren and Stimpy but more Sam & Max and The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog.
With nonsense colour backgrounds, everything is bouncy and there's nonsense everywhere like it's normal.
And the main characters are grounded but acts on their own type of nonsense that collides with their world's nonsense.
Felix the cat is
By the way, Felix the Cat is in public domain, so if ya want to make your own animated series, (As long as you derive it off of the original theatrical shorts, rather than the awful 1958 reboot, which is like the original Felix in name only) go ahead.
Just be careful with trademark.
Looks like Sonic the animated series.
Same people behind it especially Milton Knight father of AOSTH Robotnik
Sonic's design was partially inspired by Felix the Cat's design.
Funny you didn't mention "Felix The Cat The Movie" - which has absolutely no reason to exist
Showtime, Ahahahahahahaha!
Righty oh!
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Bruh
When I was a kid; I loved "The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat"; while my mom hated it (she prefered the Trans-Lux version).
6:31 Hey, it's Elsa and Anna's parent's ship.
6:51 Het
8:21 Нет
(not sorry)
I vividly remember TTOFTC from my childhood. I must have only seen S1 though as i remember it as an anxiety inducing trip where every episode Felix could fall out of reality and end in a non euclidean nightmare universe.
Even the more "normal" episodes were off-the-wall!
I hope the video brought back some fond memories!
@@ItsTheGooseItsTheGoose Yes, Most o the time I didn't know there were reboots, been travelling all my life! It's been 82 years. lol
You are tryharding on this one lol
There was just hoping to copy mighty mouses sucksess
Is that the Cartoon Cat?
@RandomCrapIUpload no cussing buddy 😡😤