1995’s “The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat” sought to bring back Felix the Cat’s original impishness, combined with the more well-known qualities surrounding the franchise, namely his magic bag, and varying side characters. This endeavor resulted in the single most bold and unique project the character has ever been subjected to, surprisingly more reminiscent of “Ren and Stimpy“ than anything in its own past, and it shows in every way, from the surreal, madcap humor, to the larger than life citizens and world he inhabits.
But would the new, radical direction work in the show’s favor? Or was the show too far off the deep end for audiences to connect with it? Let’s set the record straight on “The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat”.
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The one thing that I think of when I think of Felix, the cat is that one boo leg NES game. In the game when you get the game over Felix, the cat just rips his face off. It’s the most like shocking thing ever and it’s super funny and stuff. It’s awesome, but yeah that’s what I think of when I think Felix the cat.
For me, I personally enjoyed Season 1 of Twisted Tales over Season 2! For me, Season 1 was a Great Modernized Take (& Love Letter) of the Original Felix the Cats Shorts from the 20's & 30's as well as Fleischer Studios' 30's Shorts (mainly Popeye & Betty Boop) with a Mix of Rocko's Modern Life! Season 2 is definitely Good on it's own Merits, but it was also largely just felt much more of what I would typically expect out of a Cartoon from the 90's! Which again, is definitely NOT a bad thing, I like Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Earthworm Jim, MOST of the Cartoon Cartoons! But it just felt less special in my eyes! Similar case with The Cuphead Show honestly! Again, Great Show on it's own Merits, but MOST of the Time (Especially in Season 2) I felt like I was watching a standard 2000's Cartoon Network Show much more than I was watching a Genuine Modern Take of an Actual 20's – 30's Rubberhose Cartoon…
Showtime, Ahahahahahahaha!
I have a tape of this. Like the one they printed in 1992 that has only 3 episodes on it. lol it used to be listed on Amazon for $80! Yes, $80. I doubt anyone ever bought it. I got mine at goodwill for $2. But the whole series is on YouTube
There was just hoping to copy mighty mouses sucksess
No one beats out paul rubins riscusting this show is trash
0:15 Let's see:
Famer Al Falfa (Paul Terry's easy-to-split-into-layers character)
Milton Mouse (Similar to Mickey, but created earlier by Paul Terry or one of his animators.)
Mary/Rita Mouse (Milton's girlfriend.)
Peg Leg Pete (Bootleg Pete)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Obvious)
Gertie the Dinosaur
Little Nemo*
The Mosquito (From Windsor McKay's early short about a mosquito.)
Colonel Heeza Liar (May have misspelled this. One of the characters who starred in shorts produced by the Bray studios.)
Happy Hooligan*
Krazy Kat*
Mutt & Jeff*
Felix The Cat (Of course)
Jupiter the Cat (Disney's Felix)
Koko the Clown (Fleischer Bros first character)
Waffles & Don (I think. A dog & a cat. Predecessors to Van Beuren's Tom & Jerry.)
*These characters came from comic strips, which helped them maintain some relevance after the silent era.
You are tryharding on this one lol
6:53 HET.
I love Felix the cat but where is he now?
The thing about Mickey Mouse is that he has always been a Knock-Off of Felix the Cat, even his 2013 series of shorts was just knock-off of Twisted Tales of Felix, which is why in terms of Legacy Felix will always be the Superior Toon.
side note found this on peacock, gonna binge
ok we now need a video game based on this version of felix and his abilities.
I remember watching Twisted Tales Of Felix The Cat when it was on Saturday mornings. It was awesome!
Is that the Cartoon Cat?
I watched this as a kid and it was a fever dream in the best way possible.
The only thing I disliked about it was how the intro dragged out so long. I liked the part with the 3d and then flying couldve been cut down and been fine
Can this be added on MeTV Toons?
This isn't Ren and Stimpy but more Sam & Max and The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog.
With nonsense colour backgrounds, everything is bouncy and there's nonsense everywhere like it's normal.
And the main characters are grounded but acts on their own type of nonsense that collides with their world's nonsense.
I keep hearing a fire alarm beeping in the audio throughout the video.
I saw this show in reruns on YTV in Canada starting in or around 1998. When I think about my own webcomic characters, including one that's blatantly based on me when I was in my early-to-mid-teens, I see an eerie influence, and I think this may have something to do with the fact that I had already seen the '50s version of Felix at this time, so the extent of the departure of this reboot resonated with my developing brain in a very unique way. I haven't watched this show in years, but I think I unconsciously associate it heavily with the whole idea of doing unexpectedly and artistically transgressive things with cartoons beyond just making them "more adult". In particular, this version of Felix is the only time I've ever seen a "legacy" character that exists in a "fully cartoon" world that seems to be going through puberty, and because the voice actor switched to an older man halfway through, he also seems to come OUT of puberty over the course of the show. A PG-13 show could make a joke about his balls dropping, but instead, this is a G-rated show where it feels like that ACTUALLY HAPPENS and just isn't addressed. It's a weirdly unintentional bit of realism in a place where it feels like it doesn't belong that ends up reinforcing the meta-jokes around the surrealism of the show. It retroactively feels less like a '90s kids' cartoon with a subversive adult edge and more like early-2010s Newgrounds/Youtube animation made by artists who are themselves in their late-teens or early-twenties, many of whom had a kind of repor with their own audiences that the creators of this show didn't. (psychicpebbles and hotdiggetydemon spring readily to mind.)
One footnote: I think the really seminal influence on "The Fuzzy Bunny Show" is less Ren & Stimpy and more the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse episode "Don't Touch That Dial", which I won't attempt to describe here, because it probably already has a video essay or two about itself. It certainly deserves one, seeing as it pretty much invented '90s cartoon meta-humor singlehandedly.
damn, another interesting show missed that I've never heard of. And I like Felix the cat too! :/
I only really learned about him from the NES game.
Idk if ĺf the smoke alarm I hear is in your video or from my house
As much as I grew up with Charlie Adler as a kid, I always prefer Thom Adcox role of Felix over his.
It actually fits with Felix's mischievous, cunning and child-like personality.
The last year of this series was the first year of Sam & Max: Freelance Police. If only they'd aired back-to-back. A match made in heaven like the 90s cartoons for Beetlejuice & the Addams Family.
I do remember a couple of Betty Boop movies out around this time with very similar vibes.
Fun fact: Ralph Bakshi was involved with this series, & he also worked on Cool World.
John Kricfalusi worked on this show too.
I will always remember Tony Jay as Megabyte from ReBoot.
He is one of the greatest most irreplacable losses to eng!ish language voice acting.
I feel sad that I missed this show (and Duckman) when it aired. I was too busy watching the Critic. It stinks!
Felix the cat is
Felix the cat is Underrated and the creater of Cartoons characters in general.
I Love his season 2 Voice by the way.
Wha about the mov- glass bottle shatters against the wall right next to me
3:23
Bruh
Oh man his bag was so cool, it was like Mary Poppins huge magical bag that could probably fit an entire universe.
You want to know the reason behind the constantly in-flux creative direction, as well as the sudden changes behind the scenes ? That reason is Joe Oriolo, son of Don Oriolo (who made the 1950's Felix cartoon), who was also the one who made the 1980's Felix movie, and was one of the executive producers on twisted tales. The guy hanged over the shoulders of everyone on the team, watching like a hawk, forcing the team to rewrite parts of scripts and scenes often, thus annoying them so much, they reworked the professor character, as well as his dog, and wrote the episode they appeared in to entirely mock Don Oriolo's Felix series, pointing the awful voice acting and lip-synching, the terrible animation, the overbearing morality lessons, and removing all the mischeviousness from felix. Joe was a nightmare to work with, and once again caused a majority of the problems behind the scenes.
I started with the happy go lucky Van Beuren Felix of the 30s (thanks, VHS!), then went to this, then the theatrical movie that preceded it by a few years (thanks, VHS!), then the original 20s trickster in my teens, and only this year did I see the old TV version that introduced The Professor and the Magical Bag of Tricks. I consider the last of these by far the least funny and least interesting, as well as the most sloppily animated on a technical level, but it DID contribute a couple interesting characters to the movie and the awesome bag to Twisted Tales so it's not without merit.
Twisted Tales is still my favorite Felix.
Seems like John K worked on this
I didn't know this existed, but I watched the movie when I was a kid and it was pretty twisted. Might be the start of my obsession with adult oriented cartoons 😂
This Felix cartoon takes place in a separate timeline. The Twisted Tales of Felix series, which attempts to be an amalgam of the Silent and Oriolo eras of the series, being a retro cartoon throwback to the original Felix cartoons, as well as cartoons of the 1930s, such as those by Fleischer Studios. The Felix of this series is fully aware that he's a cartoon character.
YES PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT TWISTED TALES!!!
tTHE FUCK YOU MEAN MARK HAMILL WAS MEANT TO BE FELIX?!!
Looks like Sonic the animated series.
ngl, Mark Hamill as Felix would have gone hard. His personality fits the character well.
"I watched a few episodes of the show and loved it! I actually prefer this over the 50s Felix the Cat series—not that it was bad, just not my cup of tea. My team is thrilled to work with Felix since he’s in the public domain, including his 30s design, which I think partially inspired his look in the 90s series. In our Sonic cartoon, Felix will appear in a few episodes. His personality is based heavily on the 90s series, but everything else will be a fresh reboot. If you're a fan of Sonic or Felix, stay tuned—it’s going to be special!"
And feel free to ask about the show I'd be happy to share Whenever I have the free time
Honestly loved when the series was free flowing. It had a very Woodring's "Frank" vibe of being taken by the whims of a dream. Also very Sally Cruikshank. As my wife put it: 'it pleases the ADHD-brain's need for stimulation'.