Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #2 : F-Tales

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                 Oh Yeah! Previously, Jelly's Day was fun we spent a day had fun, saw plant -human love come in action.  [HERE] 

 

 

#2 F-Tales

                                                              From Season 1, episode 2a

       No, we aren't covering up the F-word, that's the name of the short. This is one going as parody of  "The X-Files" because this is the 1990's and of course there is going to be a parody. 

   

   It even has "X-Files" tile theme intro, just enough to be different so they don't get sued, but close enough to make sure you notice it.  This one was created by Rob Renzetti. he worked on a few Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network shows before doing things for Nick and we'll be seeing his name a few times during our journey.  He did get a Nick series that being "My Life as Teenage Robot".  

      The F in F-Tales is based on fairy tales stories and doing fairy tale stories as mysteries to be solved.  A Fox woman and Chicken Little are our two lead investigators our Muller and Scully if you will. They are investigating the story of the "Three Little Pigs"

      You can tell where this story goes, mostly but the twist is fun and like how the wolf is defeated. The ending is funny too. I like how the Chicken Little's madness is set up from the start. 

  

               This was fun, but I can tell why this was wise not to make it a series. The thing that hurts it is the "X-Files" parodying, that wouldn't really hold the show as much, the only thing that works for maybe is the X Files. That's fun for an episode, but I can see where it would wear thin as a series. Also fairly tales, the subverting Fairy tales thing could have worked though as this was right before "Shrek" would scratch that itch. 

    For what it is though, it's a pretty fun short, the humor is well done. It was all fun to see.  The character designs and personalities were fun. The nervous chicken-little who worried about the sky falling and thinking everything is a conspiracy (so he's Facebook?) , the cool fox who's more grounded, the pigs have their own designs and personalities.   Give this one a look. 

     Oh yeah! Some of these posts are going to be short, I'm giving each short their own little post, instead of doubling them up. 

    Anyway that's it for now, tune in next time when we investigate why the little mermaid melted into foam.