{"id":3259,"date":"2022-01-08T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T23:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2024-12-31T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T18:44:03","slug":"get-your-scrappy-cartoons-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/get-your-scrappy-cartoons-right-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy Filmography, Now With Scrappy Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don\u2019t mean to brag, but Scrappyland\u2014which will celebrate its 17th birthday<\/a> later this month\u2014has been around so long that YouTube didn\u2019t quite exist yet when it launched. Back then, Scrappy\u2019s cartoons were surprisingly hard to come by: In an introductory article<\/a>, I even compared him to the famously missing Judge Crater. For years, all I had myself were a couple of gazillionth-generation VHS tapes given to me by Friend of Scrappy Kip Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now YouTube has become the most comprehensive archive of old cartoons we have. Nearly every Scrappy cartoon has made its way there. That being the case, it felt like it made sense to embed them here on Scrappyland.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rather than creating a new section of the site, I decided to stick the cartoons into an existing one: Our online version of the Scrappy filmography that originally appeared in Animania<\/em> #20 and #21 in 1981<\/a>. Written by Paul Etcheverry and Will Friedwald, it was a pioneering work of Scrapology at the time. More than 40 years later, it\u2019s still<\/em> the most comprehensive look at Scrappy\u2019s cinematic oeuvre. In 1981, the idea that you could read it and watch Scrappy cartoons right inside the article<\/em> would have blown my mind. Maybe it still does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few notes on the filmography: Paul and Will didn\u2019t manage to screen every Scrappy cartoon as part of their 1981 research, and so some still don\u2019t have descriptions\/critiques. Cartoon #64 in their listing, The Scary Crows<\/em>, features a blond kid whom the 1981 description says is Scrappy; he appears in a few other cartoons<\/a> and was dubbed \u201cSparky\u201d by Jerry Beck<\/a> in this century. Until someone else creates a Sparkyland site, I\u2019m leaving The Scary Crows<\/em> in the filmography as it originally appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While adding in the YouTube cartoons, I discovered that Paul and Will\u2019s roster was missing one short that\u2019s unquestionably a Scrappy, though not exactly a career highlight: 1940\u2019s Fish Follies<\/em>. With Paul\u2019s permission, I\u2019ve added it to the filmography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Scrappy film has come to light since 1981: The promo for his puppet theater<\/a>, which includes some bizarre animation along with live action of Edith Fellows<\/a>\u2014and which was preserved by UCLA through Jerry\u2019s generosity. Since it\u2019s not quite a Scrappy cartoon, I will present it to you here rather than trying to backfill it into the filmography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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