Awesome Cartoons

Musician PelleK covered classic cartoon theme songs from the 1980s and 1990s with his flamboyant power ballad vocalizations, 4-octave range, and a cheesetastic music video to go along with. Oh, and if you’re craving some DuckTales…

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.