Your Clairy Godmother

Hello, my beautiful fairies! My name is Claire Aimée, your fairy Clairy Godmother, and you know what you’re here for: cartoons! I’ve been a cartoon addict ever since I was a wee little pixie, and I am always on the prowl for new pieces of animation to indulge myself with. Watching them, talking about them, and studying them in these reviews and retrospectives is a huge part of my life. Sure, I don’t think I’ll ever be an animator myself one day, but I do everything from voice acting to illustration work inspired by my love of animation in general. Of course, it can be hard to count your favorites or the most memorable cartoons when you watch as many as I do. Gargoyles is my absolute favorite show of all time, while my other favorite choices are rather cliché: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Batman: The Animated Series, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe; very stereotypically critically-acclaimed stuff. But my favorite kinds of cartoons to watch in terms of retrospectives are simply the fringe...

Raggedy Ann and Andy: a Musical Adventure (Part 4) We're back in the playroom for the final time, my beautiful fairies! It's time to reach the end of our journey with Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure.  We've got no time to waste on this long and ludicrous round of playtime, so let's wrap this rag dolly!   We see that Raggedy Ann, her brother Andy, and The Camel With The Wrinkled Knees have escaped King Koo Koo and his court and flee into the sea. Thankfully, they use their telescope and find Babette and the pirates in the horizon! It seems the Mademoiselle Babette is doing pretty well for herself, as she has literally taken over the ship as the captain. Singing and dancing in a new outfit, Babette promises to take her former kidnappers back with her to Paris, where she promises them the high life. The shots of the pirate ship itself are incredibly detailed with intricately-drawn wooden carvings and shading on every piece of glass, and the song Babette sings to ...

Raggedy Ann and Andy: a Musical Adventure (Part 3) Welcome back my beautiful fairies, it's about time we return to the toybox with Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure. The slow pace at the beginning was saved only by its songs and charming characters, but now that the plot is really moving, the madness can begin! Let's not waste any time in getting to it. After the song "Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers", the sentimental sweetness keeps coming, as we’re introduced to The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, voiced by Fred Stuthman- who wasn’t an actor at all. Composer Joe Raposo simply noticed Stuthman from the studio's demo room due to his similarity to The Camel and asked him to read the script and sing a song. And because of that, The Camel found his voice. The Camel’s main animator was famous Disney animator Art Babbitt, who said he divided the design of the character into three personalities: a "pretty dumb" back end, a "little bit smarter"...