Channel Frederator Blog

If you get OVATION on your cable television line-up, this is a special animation-themed weekend. I just watched Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (again). Here’s what’s left for the rest of the tonight and tomorrow (at least on the East Coast, where I am):

8 PM, 11 PM: Tokyo Godfathers

10 PM, 1 AM: Chuck Amuck

2 AM: Triplets of Belleville

SUNDAY

1 PM: Wallace and Gromit Go To Hollywood (doc about Aardman)

2 PM: The Ub Iwerks Story

4 PM: Tokyo Godfathers

6 PM, 2 AM: Dante’s Inferno (with puppetry by Paul Zaloom)

And then–in case you are in the mood for some creative despair–at 8 and 11 PM they will be playing the documentary Crumb.

(At top, a somewhat loosely-related YouTube clip for PES’ free holiday “Yule Log” screensaver.)

—Anne D. Bernstein

Moose A. Moose (Noggin mascot) sings about his vehement hatred of an innocent tri-colored treat. You can also watch an official Noggin version here.

His voice is by Paul Christie, who also provided the voice for Louie the Lizard in the Budweiser “frog” commercials. Lyrics by Matt Perreault.

Moose A. Moose was designed by illustrator Melinda Beck.

Candy corn also makes a cameo appearance in Western Spaghetti by PES:

—Anne D. Bernstein