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What shorts are you most excited to review?

TOO MANY!!! The Great Piggy Bank Robbery for sure will absolutely be my #1 i’m excited for, along with other favorites like Baby Bottleneck and Kitty Kornered… i’ll warn you in advance that i already KNOW those are going to be insanely long because i really want to talk about the most minute details (like watching Piggy Bank the other day i spent about 10 minutes thinking about why does Daffy have a mailbox? does he own the farm? that’s weird if he does. but why would only he have the mailbox if he’s a farm animal? and look! it has his name on it! he used a stencil. there was not at all intended to be so much thought put behind this but the implication is fascinating. these are the kinds of things i like to scrutinize)

HARD TO SAY THOUGH there truly are so many… 99% of the Porky and Daffy entries for sure HAHA. i try to focus on the present, but like… right now, i’m really looking forward to reviewing Porky’s Last Stand, which was the first short of 1940 and one of my favorites—before that i was excited for Wise Quacks, before that The Daffy Doc, etc. i do tend to think in terms of “what’s my next favorite” BUT i’ve learned to love many cartoons i never would have liked had i not dug super deep into them, so it’s really hard to say!! i enjoy surprising myself with shorts i didn’t know i would like in the first place… pretty much all of the Daffy and/or Porky shorts though without a doubt though

#for example Naughty Neighbors is next and i personally think it’s one of Clampett’s worst #but as i was picking through it i was like ‘oh the timing on this is good the contrast is really effective here the layouts are gorgeous ‘#and i found myself liking it giving it that sort of scrutiny more than i would as a normal watcher. i still think it’s a supremely lame #cartoon but having the insight i do now i appreciate it much more #working in the animation industry and in a pipeline sort of reminiscent to how these cartoons were made (like SpongeBob operates with a #director and their team of plussers/revisionists much like a director and his team of animators in the golden age where you’re able to #identify each animator’s style but the director sets the overall tone of the short) so having that sort of hands on experience has been #really enlightening too. so my reviews are sort of written with that background/opinionation in mind #but then again i’m not writing these as scholarly articles and purely objective. i do have my biases for sure and will acknowledge them #absolutely but it would be so fruitless to do otherwise you know? personal voice and opinion matters #IDK WHY I’M PONTIFICATING ABOUT THIS IT’S TANGENTIALLY RELATED HAHAHAHHA BUT #anonymous #asks

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