While we’re on the subject of cartoons that terrified us as children (please, I implore you: enter the contest. There’s one entry for god’s sake. your odds are pretty good.), I think it’s safe to say every child crapped themselves on the inside (which is shortly followed by the inevitable actual pants-crapping) when they see Claymation for the first time: it’s unnatural, it’s jerky, it sometimes involves large raisins playing saxophones. I remember catching this Mark Twain cartoon on TV when I was a child before it was banned altogether for sending most 6-year-olds screaming into rubber rooms for the rest of their lives. I’m sure you have too. If you haven’t, your memories of Mark Twain still include occasionally-racist rafting journeys down the Mississippi. For the rest of us, the Mysterious Stranger (not to be confused with the Phantom Stranger) ranks right up there with Phanto, the flying mask/key-stealing hellbeast from Super Mario 2. Oh, except he’s an Angel named Satan. Goof Troop it’s not.
Shown: one-way ticket to tears-land.
What the hell did I just watch?
Comment by Anne Packrat — April 27, 2009 @ 7:42 am
I was going to go out and get some coffee today… but then I watched that, learned nothing exists in empty space and I’m but a thought, and figured what’s the fucking point anyway?
Comment by Gary — April 27, 2009 @ 10:11 am
Goof Troop would have been a whole lot better with an angel named Satan.
Comment by Friginator — April 27, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
Best “Mr. Bill” ever!
Filled to the brim with “other curous things.”
Comment by dstyb — April 27, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
I actually came across a copy of that whole movie on DVD recently. I plan on using that segment as punishment when my own kids misbehave.
Comment by Palad — April 29, 2009 @ 10:10 am
I don’t know where the myth of this movie being banned came from, but it’s not. Some TV airing of this scene were cut out, but not all airings. And besides, it’s out on DVD, with the scene intact.
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Comment by Josue Leasher — May 30, 2011 @ 8:10 am
woow at first i thougt woow this is creeppy…but…kids are only scared of the word’’satan” and they actually dont even kno who it is or what it is…satan is only bad if u blieve in god…churchies need satan like america need taliban…so tht satan is also really pesimist i understand the writer of this episode wanted to see what kids would think after seeing his ideas …and if a kid got scared its only bcuz the parents do not teach them or teach em the wrong things…IS IT REALLY WORSE THAN POKEMON and all those really violent cartoons? nah
i actually enjoyed this episode ….
Comment by carlos — June 12, 2011 @ 6:28 am