ReFrederator Blog

Wow! A daily dose of vintage animation! A cartoon a day, five days a week … as handy as your morning weather forecast (and, admit it, a lot more relevant to YOUR lifestyle than a weather forecast.) A cartoon classic every morning. Now that’s an idea who’s time has come.

Actually a second coming. Long before the age of Sponge Bob… heck, long before the age of HeMan, Smurfs and Scooby Doo… Baby Boomers raced through breakfast, hoping they could sit in front of the family’s one and only television set for seven and a half minutes before Mom threw them outside to catch the school bus. Just one quick cartoon, that’s all they wanted. A fast glimpse of the early morning kiddy show, before long hours memorizing multiplication tables and state capitols. The cartoon in question was probably ancient —twenty, thirty, maybe forty years old — which made it’s appeal all the more hypnotic. Odd, alien music, topical references that were totally unfathomable, and, of course, more violence than you could shake an anvil at. These things weren’t off putting. Quite the opposite. They fascinated children of the cold war. Every kid “got” Bugs Bunny, and at the same time, nobody understood his adult catch phrases (”I’ll hate myself in the morning”.) It’s as if they were watching something made especially for them… on another planet! And they were limitless! Hundreds of ‘em! Lot of ‘em funny! Lot of ‘em creepy! Delivered one at a time. Every day!

And that’s the basic idea of ReFrederator. Really, really old cartoons, one at a time, everyday. We’re almost ready. The launch is just around the corner. We’ll be up and running before you can say “Boo Boop a Doop”. Now, hurry up and finish your Sugar Crisp.

Dave Kirwan