Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #3: ThattaBoy

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   Previously:  what if   The Three little pigs were in X-Files? [HERE]

  

                               #3  ThattaBoy

                                  Season 1 Episode 3b

          Thattaboy  was created by Alex Kirwan who was hired to work at Frederator studios (the studio working on this series) right after leaving High School.  He worked drawing plots for "Johnny Bravo" and worked later on "My Life as Teenage Robot" , but he did submit one short for "Oh Yeah!" this one!

             

        This one has a vibe of classic cartoons to it, Thattaboy is superhero  who is tired of fighting robots.  Meanwhile there's an alien who wants to kidnap a popular TV dog to then invade the world.(That's a plan)  Also, there's a girl named Georgette who has Medusa snake hair who's birthday is coming up and wants Thattaboy so she can destroy him. 

   

    There's some teenage girls stealing things and they crash into Georgette's supervillain father where Thattaboy comes up and stops them.  His girlfriend, Polly, wants to be a supervillain. (What a twist!)  She let's the villains go and Thattaboy wonders if he should give, then the Martians show up and he goes maybe not .

    It's quick paced  and packing a lot in it's  almost 7 minutes.  The animation style has a retro almost art deco future style, giving the 30's vibe of what the future could look like.  The character designs are interesting. They are very distinctive, Thattaboy's eyes come together taking up most of his face, his costume is distinct, with a mix of yellow, blue, and red. His robot dog is very interesting too. The villains all have their own nice looks too, very creative Martians. Polly has a very retro cartoon woman design. 

          I think the  stories would have worked as eleven minute stories or a show having 3 7minute segments.  I do think this could have been interesting as a series, it's a fun superhero styled show with creative ideas, I liked that Polly is bored and decides to become evil, such a funny way to make a new villain.  Thattaboy is  a very focused on fighting crime character there are a lot of things that could be done with that. 

    The comedy is fun and past paced as well.  The  plans are creatively silly.  There's a really fun aesthetic  to this . Though, I will say some parts of it do feel like a little too fast and so, like you might not want to try to absorb it too fast.   There's some fun to be had watching this, so do go that. 

     

   That's it for now, tune in next time, when we turn evil. oooh