Supervising Animator
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Nov 14, 2011, 6:52 PM
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Back to College
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If you read the news, are in Pennsylvania, or even support Paterno...you'll be hearing scandals!
But enough of that...this thread is about Cartoon Characters who are going to college. For example, Brian Griffin and Lisa Simpson tried their hands on College.
In one segment of a Disney Show, we see Donald Duck in a Graduation Gown and Mortarboard, and Principal Skinner was threatened to leave Springfield Elementary (Similar to Joe Paterno's departure of Penn State) in "Grade School Confidential", that Chalmers told him and Krabapple that they'd be out so fast their Mortarboards would spin...and he asks if he STILL had a Mortarboard.
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Toonhound / Moderator
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Nov 15, 2011, 12:04 AM
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The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky
Wossamotta U.
A college football scout from the failing team at Wossamotta U. witnesses Bullwinkle J Moose launching his buddy Rocky and sees the moose's fantastic arm as the key to his team's success. The moose is immediately given a football scholarship to Wossamotta and Bullwinkles's throwing arm launches the team to a winning season. Bullwinkle's nemesis Boris Badinov organizes a team of his own made up of thugs and underhanded cutthroats to stop Wossamotta's winning season cold
"Wossamotta, hats off to you!
To thy colors, ochre and Alice blue,
We will e'er be faithful and true!
Hail, Wossamotta, hail!
(Better we should be in jail!)
Hey, Wossamotta U.!”
Dexter’s Laboratory
Copping an Aptitude
Dexter's parents decide their son is better suited to college. Dexter hits the books relentlessly while his fellow student party. As finals approach, Dexter burns out while the rest of the students begin to get serious about their studies.
Dexter finally snaps and succumbs to the temptation to become a party animal, but since everyone else is partied out and hitting the books, he disturbs the entire student body with his chaos.
Dexter's parents are asked to take their little party monster back home.
MTV’s
Undergrads(2001)
The series follows the weekly trials of a group of
Four college friends.. A thick-headed jock, a young gay man,
A computer geek who‘s a shut-in, and an insecure Everyman,
who struggles with his attraction to a female friend who
may-or may not like him in “that way”
(This post was edited by Straydawg on Nov 15, 2011, 2:34 AM)
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Nov 15, 2011, 1:16 AM
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Olive Oyl criticizes Popeye in College Of Hard Knocks (Popeye; King Features Syndicate, 1960), so he goes to college. Olive has a crush on her college professor and vice versa, but Popeye's tagging along for class, so the professor has to humiliate and get rid of him before giving Olive a lesson in "l'amour, l'amour." But that's easier said than done. Professor Brutus uses tricks on Popeye to explain the laws of physics. Finally beating Popeye, Brutus goes for Olive, and when Olive sees the prof's true nature, her spinach-powered favorite freshman saves the day and straightens things out.
A letter, arriving 30 years late, sends Snuffy Smith to college in the 1963 Famous Studios cartoon Snuffy Goes To College. Snuffy, Barney Google and Louise receive scholarships to Backward University. Snuffy refuses to go. His wife and his cousin convince him that this could be beneficial to him. At Backward U., Snuffy proves to be the worst student that the college ever had... until he gets hit with a football, and a clout on the head gives him new mental powers. He becomes the school's most brilliant scholar!
Disney's direct-to-video An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) has single dad Goofy joining his son Max in college. Goofy loses his job, and he learns that he cannot get another job without a college degree. To his son's mortification, Goofy decides to join him in his campus to get that degree. Desperate to distract his father, Max talks him into joining the competing Gamma Fraternity team and introduces him to a wonderful librarian who shares his nostalgic love for 1970s pastimes. Unfortunately, things do not go according to plan as events put this father-son relationship to the test.
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Nov 15, 2011, 1:19 AM)
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Cartoon Aficionado / Contributor
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Nov 15, 2011, 6:34 AM
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Can't forget "Flintstone Of Prinstone." Fred goes to college, and ends up on the football team.
"Fido Beta Kappa." Famous Studios. Martin Canine's owner sends him to dog college, Doggone U, to be exact. The pooch returns, highly intellignet.
"Crime College," batfink, 1967. Hugo A Go-Go educates some criminals.
"College Of Crooks' was an episode of Cool McCool.
"The Way It All Began," The Fantiastic Four, Hanna-Barbera, 1967. This origin story includes Reed meeting both Ben Grimm and Victor Von Doom, AKA Dr. Doom at college.
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"Never walk alone in a danger zone."
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Animator
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Nov 15, 2011, 12:33 PM
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There's the quintessential The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (Warner Bros., 1942). Tom, Dick, and Harry all attend splendid Pimento University; Pimento U. Good ol' P.U. Their love interest is sweet, rich, Dora Standpipe, who is also the love interest of that coward, bully, cad and thief, Dan Backslide. How he loves her (father's money). He kidnaps Dora, and tries to advance on her. The Dover Boys attempt to rescue her, but she runs off with a beach comber that jumps every third step.
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Animator
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Nov 15, 2011, 8:29 PM
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Correction: Tom, Dick, and Larry. Got that one a bit mixed up.
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Animator
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Nov 15, 2011, 8:41 PM
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Another one:
Katnip Kollege (Warner Bros./Vitaphone, 1938) - A college for cats, the only required course (and only one taken by anyone, in actuality) is "Swingology". The Professor asks students to recite their assignments in a swinging number. One student in particular fails miserably, and the cats gather for an evening "study"/jam session on the college campus.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Nov 20, 2011, 3:29 PM
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Don't forget "Bugged By a Bee" (1969, Warner Bros. Animation) when Cool Cat attends Disco Tech. He even performs "I'm Working My Way Through College" near the beginning.
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"Being a genius certainly has its advantages."
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Animator
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Nov 20, 2011, 4:25 PM
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Don't forget "Bugged By a Bee" (1969, Warner Bros. Animation) when Cool Cat attends Disco Tech. He even performs "I'm Working My Way Through College" near the beginning.
A snippet of the song was featured earlier in "You're An Education" (1938, Warner Bros. Animation) while the camera quickly shows a travel pamphlet for Oxford, England, home of, of course, Oxford University.
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