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Family Guy Helps Make Emmy History

16 July 2009 5:40 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

While Emmy didn't bite HBO's vampire hit True Blood for any of the major categories, Family Guy became the first animated series since The Flintstones in 1961 to be nominated as best comedy series - which will pit it against a record six other programs, it was announced Thursday morning. »

- Stephen M. Silverman

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[DVD Review] The Jetsons: Season 2: Volume 1

24 May 2009 9:50 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

The Jetsons was Hanna-Barbera’s answer to its own question. Creating The Flintstones in order to use every rock, stone and boulder joke in the English language, they realized they’d missed a valuable comedy niche: the future. I believe it was David X. Cohen who noted that adding “space” (or a similar celestial phrase) to any word instantly makes it better and funnier. For example, take pope. Now add “space”. Space pope. That’s an improvement. Cosmic Toast. Galactic hangover. It all works, and it’s but one of the many keys to the comedy of The Jetsons.

Most of the episodes follow George’s struggles with an evil boss or a malfunctioning robot in fantastical sci-fi situations. The futuristic concept makes it unique for its time, but it still has the same sitcom tropes set in a new time period. Lost pets, surprise parties and new cars compose »

- Lex Walker

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Review: 'Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s Volume One' on DVD

24 May 2009 6:55 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

As the 1970s dawned, I was 12 and no longer as interested in Saturday morning fare. There was Little League which was either in the morning or afternoon and I found myself drifting more towards the Bowery Boys shorts that ran on channel 5 after the cartoons wore themselves out.  My younger siblings watched, but not with the same passion I had shown just a few years earlier.

For me, the Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 1 , coming tomorrow from Warner Home Video, was more introductory than revisiting my childhood. Having just finished the 1960s volume, it was startling to see how rapidly things had changed. Spies and super-heroes were rapidly supplanted by large gaggles of people either playing music or solving mysteries or both. The disc opens with a cheat, an episode of The Jetsons, which may have run in the 1970s for the umpteenth time, but was emblematic of an earlier era, »

- Robert Greenberger

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Review: 'Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume 1'

23 May 2009 10:10 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Back in the days after the dinosaurs died out, Saturday mornings meant all three networks would run children’s programming from as early as 7:30 until noon or so. Every fall, as we started a new school year, we eagerly anticipated what new animated fare there might be and were mesmerized by the cartoon antics of anthropomorphic animals, adventurous humans and some downright silly-looking monsters. The baby boomers born at the end of the generation were raised on this diet animated diet as it proved cheaper to produce than live-action fare.

Warner Home Video has collected a wonderful sampling of those shows in Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Vol. 1 , going on sale Tuesday. There are 12 different series presented on two discs, providing me with five hours or reliving my childhood.

Back in the day, with few channels to pick from, we would watch these shows endlessly, repeated throughout the year and »

- Robert Greenberger

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