Cartoons and Animation

The Worst Peanuts Special Ever

It Just Needs a Little Love: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Best Cartoon Bands

The Apples in Stereo and Dressy Bessy

Off Limits

Good grief

Touch of Evel

Good grief

Down South

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art -- with fries.

Just Say Huh?

A very cloudy anti-smoking campaign aimed at kids.

Chriscross

MC Chris's rap career gets a boost from Adult Swim -- or is it the other way around?

The Metamorphosis

Boy turns bug in this redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation.

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House.

Danger Doom

The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph)

MC Chris

Wednesday, October 26, Rock Island, 303-572-7625.

Say Cheese

Wallace and Gromit make their long-overdue feature debut.

Print Master

Wallace and Gromit make their long-overdue feature debut.

Viva Latinos!

PBS series is previewed at Starz

Flick Pick

Spirited Away

Bless the Blockhead

How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost wasn't, then became a tradition

Building the Perfect Beast

Special-effects wizard Phil Tippett--creator of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--envisions the digital future.

Double Dribble

Special-effects wizard Phil Tippett--creator of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--envisions the digital future.

Corpsetimer at the Larimer Lounge

Special-effects wizard Phil Tippett--creator of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--envisions the digital future.

Video: Local cartoon studio Mighty Fudge animates "I Got Lenoed"

Three not-evil Jay Lenos.​While Colorado doesn't boast that many animation studios, those we have are known to pack quite a punch. Take Mighty Fudge Studios, a Boulder operation that for the past eleven years, has been churning out Saturday morning-style cartoons with an adult twist by way of ... More >>

Bugs Bunny wants to feed your children

​The smart people at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University just delivered a brand-spankin' new study that shows a correlation between licensed cartoon characters and kids' affinity for snacks. A motley crew of forty munchkins between the ages of four and six was subj ... More >>

Where does Fox News anchor Ron Zappolo get his grub on? Venice Ristorante and Wine Bar

Ron Zappolo likes what he likes.​He might hang out at cocaine- and sex-fueled parties on South Park, but in real life, you're more likely to report that local Fox News anchor Ron Zappolo is savoring saltimbocca and sipping red wine at his favorite Denver restaurant, Venice Ristorante and Wine ... More >>

Slurm, Butterbeer and Spoo: Fake foods we're glad aren't real

Via Flickr​ As important as food is to the real world, there aren't all that many foods unique to the fictional world...which might be a very good thing, considering the inherent dangers in these following fake-foods and drinks. Some dangers are slight, others more sinister, some plain disgus ... More >>

Duff beer, brontosaurus ribs and gummiberry juice: top five cartoon foods we wish were real

We're glad spoo isn't real. ​There are quite a few cartoon foods we're glad aren't real: spoo, for example, a substance described as "meat jello," that's made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods found in cartoons include the sawdust-y "powdered toast" from Ren a ... More >>

Marijuana Mad Men: Colorado's blooming MMJ television commercial scene

​A few weeks ago news outlets across the nation, including Westword, reported on what appeared to be the first-ever pot commercial on regular TV, a spot for a California dispensary on Sacramento station KTXL. But as it turns out, irregular TV around Colorado has been running dispensary ads fo ... More >>

Ken Buck & Michael Bennet, South Park-style: Who's the douche and who's the turd sandwich?

​KOA's Mike Rosen accused AM 760's David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero -- a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann branding him the worst p ... More >>

Two-year-old spoof of "What What (In the Butt)" garners copyright infringement suit

According to an official statement from Brownmark Films, the company, best known for the above completely idiotic video and Internet phenomenon from 2007, has decided to file a lawsuit against Viacom International, Comedy Partners, Paramount Pictures Corporation, MTV Networks and South Park Digita ... More >>

Scientology's got a hold on you: Five believers you might not expect

The guy who invented Scientology also wrote this.​The dark empire of Church of Scientology, well known for its extensive real estate holdings, expanded its reach in Denver yesterday by throwing down $8.5 million in cash money on a new facility to house its secretive minions. Believed by its ad ... More >>

ThunderCats's new look: Why so serious, Lion-O?

​Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world's most block-headed straight man -- even Tim B ... More >>

Comedy Central's Comedy Awards: Due recognition or sideshow?

​Comedy Central announced an awards show devoted to comedy today. It will be called The Comedy Awards and will air simultaneously on Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, TV Land and Nick at Night on March 26. On one hand, comedy does tend to get boned in the other major awards, particularly the Oscars ... More >>

Gas exploration and five other things the residents of South Park have been upset about

Leading the charge against El Paso Corp.?​Even when you're talking about the real actual place called South Park, which is not really a town, but rather a 1,000-some square-mile area of grasslands southwest of Pikes Peak, the phrase "gas exploration" sounds like a set-up for a Terrance and Phi ... More >>

Hulu's Best in Show sets out to determine the best show on TV

​Hulu's latest thematic bundling of its online TV content takes the form of a bracket trying to determine the best show on TV. It's a great idea, generally, but it depends on fan voting. So, get excited for the finals showdown between Glee and Modern Family. As with all brackets, it's most exc ... More >>

Medical marijuana hearing nods to "Drugs are Bad, M'Kay" South Park ep? (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Video below.​Yesterday's judiciary committee hearing about HB 1250, a medical marijuana infused-products bill, took some unexpected twists. The legislation, which initially sought to ban all MMJ edibles, has now evolved into a packaging bill. But in arguing why it's necessary, sponsoring Repre ... More >>

Reader: Jason Sheehan should have fit right into smug Seattle

South Park is no Seattle...or Philadelphia.​The news that Jason Sheehan is leaving the Pacific Northwest to return to the East Coast and a job at Philadelphia Magazine inspired numerous comments that indicated Sheehan may be long-gone as the Westword food critic, but will never be forgotten. A ... More >>

Tonight: Adult Swim's weird carnival comes to Boulder

This could be you.​Adult Swim has always been Cartoon Network's flawless answer to the demand of nostalgic man-children everywhere to be served bizarre, absurdist deconstructions of the entertainments they liked when they were actual children (look at the website and tell me that's not what th ... More >>

John Suthers, attorney general, channels South Park to stop underage drinking (VIDEO)

​Imagine my surprise the other night when, in the midst of enjoying an episode of Friday Night Lights on Hulu (Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!), a commercial popped on featuring Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. And not just any John Suthers -- an animated John Suthers straight out ... More >>

The Book of Mormon gets 12 Drama Desk noms: South Park creators getting respectable?

Matt Stone.​Eighteen years ago this week, Westword published my interview with CU students Trey Parker and Matt Stone about their in-progress film Alferd Packer: The Musical. Did I predict in that piece that they'd someday create an acclaimed Broadway show? Sadly, no -- but the South Park crea ... More >>

The ten best children's shows not meant for children

​We miss Saturday mornings sometimes, when we would run downstairs filled with sugary cereal and spend the day watching cartoons and "educational programming." Even though these days we're well aware of the alphabet (some of us, at least -- mostly those that don't comment articles on the inter ... More >>

Bill Plympton on surrealism, seediness and doing the job himself

Bill Plympton has actually eaten all of these things.​Although he's been nominated for a couple of Academy Awards, Bill Plympton has always been a little too weird for the mainstream. His surreal animation, in which human forms are stretched, kneaded and punched to their breaking point, is fre ... More >>

Playtime Bill

Bill Plympton has actually eaten all of these things.​Although he's been nominated for a couple of Academy Awards, Bill Plympton has always been a little too weird for the mainstream. His surreal animation, in which human forms are stretched, kneaded and punched to their breaking point, is fre ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head and four other '90s shows that deserve a revamp

​Ever since MTV announced in February that Beavis and Butt-Head would return to television, we've been getting more and more stoked for the comeback of these cherished cartoon cretins. In anticipation of the re-do, which is slated for this summer, we take a look at four more '90s TV shows that ... More >>

Janice Hahn attack ad filmmaker fine with liberal media branding his clip racist (VIDEOS)

Video below.​Last week, we noted the weird cameo by convicted Greeley gang-banger Christian Hanson in an allegedly racist attack video aimed at Janice Hahn, a California candidate running for Congress in a special election taking place tomorrow. Afterward, we heard from filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger ... More >>

Animation, epilepsy and all the things you can do with LEGOs

Whoa, shit just got crazy meta.​There are a lot of things that LEGOs are known for: building elaborate worlds and models with small blocks, providing meticulous, mildly OCD adults with a pastime, getting caught in the throats of small children. But it's that second subset that's creating a leg ... More >>

Gio Toninelo, the man behind GI Joe Fest and Pond Patrol, on movies and miniatures

This photo is basically blowing my mind right now.​In the small (literally) but fascinating world of people who make art using GI Joes, Gio Toninelo is pretty much a god. The founder and curator of GI Joe Fest, an international GI Joe-centric stop-motion film festival that branched out of Denv ... More >>

Reader: Seeing The Book of Mormon and South Park doesn't make you an LDS Church expert

​Our post about the I'm a Mormon billboard campaign in Denver has spurred some intriguing theological back and forth. Here's the take of a reader who places what she sees as discrimination against Mormons in a historical context, using the name of someone who's already history.

I lost the Futurama quiz last light by one @#*&#! point

​Last night's "All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event " at Rackhouse Pub, sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, was a pretty raucous time, and I definitely debunked the myths that geeks can't drink, party, be hot or win things. The evening didn't turn out exactly how I wanted -- my team lo ... More >>

Reader: Can't wait to return to Colorado's most famous restaurant...Casa Bonita!

​On Friday the 300 (or so) restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week will be posting their $52.80 (for two) menus for the two-week eating orgy that starts on February 25; we're offering $52.80 to both the diner and the restaurant employee who offer the best Denver Restaurant Week sur ... More >>

Reader: The Book of Mormon is going to be the hottest ticket this summer...if you're a scalper

Jumping for joy over The Book of Mormon tickets.​People are still comparing notes on how long they tried to log on to buy tickets for The Book of Mormon when they were available for a few brief hours on Sunday, January 22. Those who gave up on technology and simply went to the ticket windows a ... More >>