As Roger Ebert memorably put it in his review, whoever came up with the concept of “child abuse meets Peter Pan” must have lost a bet.
And Ocean nearly made an SNES game based on it until they found out what the film was actually about…
- Using Sesame Street Muppets in Instagram posts without prior authorization from Sesame Workshop
- Accusing Sesame Workshop of violating their agreement by “failing to invest” in the Sesame Street brand by cancelling their HBO agreement despite a new one signed with Netflix
- Late payment of due royalties and outright cessation of royalty payments since summer 2025
- Choosing to run San Diego’s Sesame Place on a seasonal schedule despite better overall weather year-round than in Pennsylvania
In the lawsuit filed in New York district court, the non-profit owners of the Sesame Street name and characters accuse the theme park chain of doing irreparable harm to the Sesame Street brand through multiple violations of their licensing agreement, including but not limited to:
Sesame Workshop has sued United Parks and Resorts (formerly Sea World Entertainment) to see termination of the agreement the two companies have operated under since the opening of Pennsylvania’s Sesame Place in 1980: www.reuters.com/world/seawor...
[to the tune of “The Loco-Motion”]
Everybody’s buying some brand new pants now
I know this meme comes from one of the post-Super Show Mario cartoons, but this is the first thing that came to mind.
The series, created by Seth MacFarlane and “Family Guy” writer Kirker Butler and showrun by Butler, sees Stewie entering a new preschool where everyone from the students to a talking turtle is in bad spirits until Stewie decided to use his inventions to shake things up.
The Hulu/Fox/Disney Animation Domination partnership continues with a “Family Guy” spinoff “Stewie” being added to the current quartet of Sunday night series, having been picked up by Fox and Hulu for two seasons: deadline.com/2026/03/stew...
Drop something yellow 🐝
In 1984, when advocates accurately pointed out the harm that G.I. Joe’s Zartan caused by being described as an “schizophrenic who grows into various multiple personalities”, your predecessor not only recalled the toy but partnered with a mental illness charity.
Try harder.
I have mixed feelings on Sesame Street characters in commercials, but this Uber Eats ad making the obvious pun on “Burt’s Bees” is probably one of the better ones as it’s a joke you can only use these characters to make (also Muppet Wicker Man?) youtu.be/m4fzGF6OIgE
Imagining “hump-plumping injectables” being read by Orson Welles in the same manner as “crumb crisp coating” in the outtake reel for the frozen food commercials
Pretty wild that Nintendo got a rival mascot platformer star to voice one of their characters
And one of his writing credits is the episode “ah, mango juice” comes from?!
“Celebrity makes an offhand remark that accidentally offends the entire ballet and opera community” sounds like setup to a Simpsons joke
#Hoppers is set to become the highest-opening animated film in nearly a decade (since 2017’s “Coco”).
Although he is only a minor character in Hoppers, Tom Lizard has proven without a doubt that even in 2026, viral marketing still works to break through.
“The Art of Gravity Falls” by Alex Hirsch & Rob Renzetti with introduction by James Baxter was announced today by Disney Press with a September 15 release.
A deluxe edition exclusive to Barnes and Noble features a replica of Dipper’s letter from the finale.
Hirsch promises no “fucking AI slop”.
Following its two Mo Willems series, Paramount+ has announced its next animated series: hailing from sister Nickelodeon Animation, a Garfield show led by “Middlemost Post” showrunners John Trabbic III and Dave H. Johnson. “Fargo”’s Lamorne Morris stars. deadline.com/2026/03/garf...
Cookie’s Bustle is an obscure Japanese point-and-click game which has gained notoriety thanks to a copyright troll who issues takedown notices to anyone who even mentions the mere existence of the game.
As part of their continued fantastic work, the VGHF proved these claims are dubious.
Eric Bauza’s Children’s Emmy streak is over, but ironically and fittingly it was broken by a revival of a TV show about kid cartoon characters who go to a school run by the Looney Tunes.
Congrats David and here’s to Phineas and Ferb when it’s eligible next year.
A Florida man has been arrested for stealing Pokémon cards from Target on 75 separate occasions. The scam involved using the self-checkout to ring up an equal amount of 99¢ taco seasoning packets to the number of boxes of cards stolen. www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/...
The film, though short and simple, rather cleverly uses actors of various sizes and a doll to depict a mechanical clown which comes to life and hits its operator with a stick, leading him to use an oversized mallet (predating a common cartoon trope) to bash it out of existence.
Made in 1897 by George Méliès, “Gugusse and the Automaton” was restored by the Library of Congress from a fourth-generation copy owned by one William Frisbee, a potato farmer who on the side would travel across Pennsylvania to show some of the first movies and would die in 1937.
With AI and various pieces of media inaccurately called “lost” being frequent topics in online circles, what a coincidence is it that we have an honest-to-goodness genuine piece of lost media that is believed to be the first depiction of a robot in film? www.loc.gov/item/2026125...
G.G. Santiago, a Latvian-born artist who escaped Nazi persecution and designed Rainbow Brite for Hallmark Cards, had died at 82. Her death was announced by her friend Muriel Fahrion, who created the competing Strawberry Shortcake for American Greetings. people.com/rainbow-brit...
Variety has updated their cover regarding the Warner Bros. merger alongside a fantastic cover story about the potential fallout as Warners employees lash out at “complete and total fucking merger fatigue”: “Ellison scares the shit out of me.” variety.com/2026/film/ne...
RIP Neal Sedaka. Not only is “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” a fantastic song, it also inspired the most successful Garfield strip Jim Davis ever wrote
Even if Landis had not been involved, “let’s have two people write two scripts for a G.I. Joe movie at the same time and then try to make them into one movie” is perhaps one of the dumbest scriptwriting decisions in recent memory.
