Anthropomorphism
Food
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 29, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Stop-motion Animation
Consul the Chimp
A once-famous resident of the Bellevue Zoological Gardens in England, known for his pipe-smoking habit.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 26, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Smoking and Tobacco, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Follies of the Madmen #219
The connection? I can only assume that once upon a time, tennis rackets were restrung with sheep guts. But the image is certainly bizarre.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 06, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Sports, 1940s
Fresh-Up Freddie
Disney characters have touted much merch. But rarely has the studio designed a character expressly as a corporate spokesman. The exception is Fresh-Up Freddie for 7-Up.But what a godawful mess he was, all over the stereotype map.
In this non-embeddable commercial Freddie is manic like Woody Woodpecker or Daffy Duck. Then he does a Maurice Chevalier imitation. There are real humans and teenybopper birds.
Still manic, but now he's also a "teenager" Fred Astaire.
Some kind of socialite William Powell/Richie Rich.
Texas oil baron.
Now he talks like Speedy Gonzalez, as a bullfighter.
Cowboy.
And last but not least, Freddie has a sex change.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 25, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Stereotypes and Cliches, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Cartoons
Cortocircuito en la Selva
PeloMONO - Cortocircuito en la selva from Perles & Perles on Vimeo.
That sure is a swell tune. Weird video, though.
The group's homepage, in Spanish.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 12, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Music, Surrealism
Manhog
)I have no explanation for this micro-video. It might be the work of this fellow. But whatever the source, whatever the intention, it sure is weird.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 23, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Video, Surrealism
Gelato Go Home
GELATO GO HOME (Director's Cut) from Trunk Animation on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 20, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Natural Wonders, Trucks
Wish List
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 27, 2014 -
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Category: Aliens, Anthropomorphism, Body Modifications, Emotions, Surrealism, Cartoons
Atomic Rabbit
Radiation makes everything better.
From this encyclopedia entry:
Atomic Rabbit was a lot like Atomic Mouse, but with a species change and a couple less supporting characters. He protected Rabbitville, rather than Mouseville, from the depredations of Sly Fox, rather than Count Gatto. Instead of an inept assistant, Sly had two kids.
He, too, got his super powers from doubly-forbidden fruit by today's standards — drugs and radiation. But while both their power-enhancers were as radioactive as can be, Mouse's was more blatantly a drug. He got his super powers from U-235 pills, whereas Rabbit's U-235 carrots could be passed off as good nutrition, like Atomictot's vitamins and Popeye's spinach. But while Popeye of the E.C. Segar comics ate lots of spinach for strength through nutrition, the animated Popeye treated it like a drug, getting a huge rush from it and sometimes, just for emphasis, sucking it in through his pipe. Good nutrition or not, Atomic Rabbit definitely fell into the category of drug-based superheroes.
Ten full issues here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 22, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Drugs, Comics, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #216
I understand James Cameron is already adapting parts of this for the Avatar sequel, along with all his other "influences."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 09, 2014 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
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