Awesome Cartoons

Slow down and enjoy a Saturday morning classic theme song, as interpreted by the always awesome Scott Bradlee and friends, with POW!GRL dishing out the sultry vocals. Part of the new Saturday Morning Slow Jams series.

Have you ever been morose for so long that the weight of the emotion has become a part of you? It’s as if you’re each others’ shadow, and it fears that one day you’ll wake up feeling fine. Kokooma’s short film reminds us of those times.

(NSFW: Language) FoxADHD does for classic children’s stories and movies what it did for superheroes, taking any sense of wonder and magic and crushing it like a bug with its putrid guts splattering from beneath your shoe.

Screw all the pranks and veiled ads. The best thing to come out of this year’s April Fools’ Day is a new episode of Homestar freakin’ Runner. Go and watch Homestar and Strong Bad work their old schtick like it’s still 2000.

The musicians of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW play us through a bunch of classic (and a few obscure) cartoons with a jazzy orchestral sound. See if you can name all 43 cartoons, then head to the YouTube page to check your work.

Good grief! Charles Schulz’s classic cartoon is headed to the big screen, using a unique CGI style that does an impressive job honoring the style of the original characters. Let’s hope the humor and voice acting seal the deal.

An adaptation of Mike Lacher’s legendary tale… about the time he fixed his girlfriend’s grandparent’s Internet connection. Narrated by none other than H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) and animated by Jesse Benjamin.

“Half-man. Half-undead. All hero.” YouTuber veselekov imagines what a late 80s Dark Souls II cartoon might look like. Protector 101’s Cleaning Up the Streets and Zero Call’s Battle of Young match the campy animation perfectly.

The music video for Kong, a single from Close to the Glass, the upcoming album by German rock band The Notwist. The band is known for hopping across genres, and this time around it seems like they’re going for a bright pop sound.

(SPOILERS) Gravity is a fairly short movie, but if you just want to know enough for water cooler talk, watch Leigh Lahav’s entry for the Jameson Empire Done in 60 Seconds Awards. You’re bound to have a long chat.

(Crude humor) A hilarious short about the Russian version of Excalibur: the world’s funkiest dance shoes. Spacebound Penguin dubbed the music video for SLC’s Love The Way You Move with Prodigy’s Voodoo People (Pendulum Mix).

Cartoon expert Andre Meadows (aka @BlackNerd) teams up with Screen Junkies’ Hal Rudnick to school us on some of the lesser known appearances of celebrities as voices of cartoon characters. The Bryan Cranston one is priceless.

Animation Domination HD is known for its Scientifically Accurate series, but this time it does the exact opposite and wilds out on anime powers. And starts a flame war. Also this guy’s powers are awesome too. Awesome for us.

(NSFW) Adult Swim uploaded the fourth episode of Rick and Morty on YouTube for free. Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (Community), the show is about the misadventures of an alcoholic mad scientist and his grandson.

(NSFW) From Shinichirō Watanabe – Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo – and BONES comes Space Dandy, a comedy series about a space explorer paid to find new alien species. Simulcast in the US on Adult Swim and Funimation.

“If you saw it in a movie, you wouldn’t believe it! And it’d be a pretty bad movie too.” Yahoo! Screen parodies ESPN’s 30 for 30 sports documentaries by breaking down Michael Jordan’s awful live-action animated flick, Space Jam.

The dialogue in this entire scene from the cartoon Pinky and the Brain is almost entirely composed of tongue twisters. You can read the script here. The full episode is here, and these are the tongues that did the twisting.

A new show from former Adventure Time artist/composer Rebecca Sugar follows the adventures of an unlikely little boy on a team of intergalactic warriors. Watch the pilot episode now before the lawyers yank it. Premieres 11/4.

A hilarious parody of classic Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel. But instead of being idealistic, we’re schooled in how today’s world really works, and the future today’s young people can look forward to.

Natasha Allegri’s hilarious online animated series. Bee and PuppyCat is about a slacker who stumbles upon a half-cat, half-dog. It seems like it just wants to be a quirky .gif factory at times, but overall it’s a riot.

ADHD gets their first broadcast cartoon series with the animated version of Axe Cop, a hilariously offbeat comic written by a 6-year-old, and illustrated by his 30-year-old brother. Coming to FOX late night 7/27/13.

Fans of Cartoon Network’s offbeat Regular Show will want to get out their credit cards quick and place an order for this limited-edition Vannen watch, featuring the greatest band that never was.

It won’t be long before the Harlem Shake reaches its tipping point and becomes an online pest. Before you get sick of it, here’s one made by ADHD for 90s kids. Where’s Captain Planet and the X-Men?!