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TopicThe 100 Dumbest Events In Children's Television History- Part 2 (The Top 30)
RySenkari
07/08/23 9:25:07 AM
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#16: Clutch Cargo

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When you manage to make even Annoying Orange look like a normal cartoon...

Clutch Cargo was a 1959 cartoon about an adventurer who traveled around the world on dangerous adventures, sort of a proto-Race Bannon. One of the first televised cartoons, it could've been an innovative and groundbreaking show, and indeed, it did feature a creative story now and again, but what ultimately doomed Clutch Cargo to its status as a weird footnote in animation history was the producers' insistence on a shoestring budget for practically everything involved with the show, to the point where its producers said that they're not making an animated cartoon at all. Instead, most of the show's "animation" consisted of still frames of animation with live action movement superimposed on them, including, most infamously, the mouths of the performers, a technique known as "Synchro-Vox". This served to give talking characters an incredibly strange and disturbing look, with the real mouths of actors speaking the characters' dialogue and being shown on screen. Corners were cut on pretty much every aspect of production to save time and animation cels, with one producer bragging by comparing the production costs of Clutch Cargo to that of Disney at the time (one forgets that at this time, Disney was making the epic Sleeping Beauty, with animation that is still cited as some of the most beautiful ever produced). The disturbing animation techniques, combined with some pretty blatant racist stereotypes in a number of episodes, would ultimately relegate Clutch Cargo to obscurity and infamy, with only one season produced despite the low budget. What Clutch Cargo is mostly known for now is for having its theme song hummed during the infamous Max Headroom broadcast intrusion incident, and what that man put himself through is sort of how it feels like to watch Clutch Cargo today: screaming nonsense while being spanked repeatedly.

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