January 14: The Simpsons episode "
Bart the Genius" first airs featuring the signature title sequence with Bart's chalkboard gag and the family's
couch gag.
Bart Simpson also uses the phrase "Eat My Shorts" for the first time and the characters
Edna Krabappel and Martin Prince first appear.[1][2]
April 21: The drug prevention TV cartoon Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue airs on four channels at once in the United States. It is notable for officially featuring cartoon characters from different animation studios all together in one film.[9]
July
July 6:
Hanna-Barbera releases Jetsons: The Movie. This movie met negative attention during the release,[10] including the lack of humor and the result of replacing
Janet Waldo with then-pop singer
Tiffany as the voice of Judy Jetson, as Waldo was dismayed about this.[11]The Jetsons would retire from subsequent medias until 2017.
Following the success of Saved By the Bell,
NBC begins airing independent animated programs for Saturday mornings, including Kid 'n Play[14] and Gravedale High, alongside the sketch series Guys Next Door,[15] which would gain interest to the young adult audiences, prior to the launch of the teen oriented block
TNBC two years later. This was skipped out from the Fall 1991 season due to then-president
George H. W. Bush signed a deal to air educational programs for children, known as the
Children's Television Act,[16] which ended the Saturday morning cartoons on the network quickly after regarding the experience as an overwhelmed disappointment.[17]
October 7: The first episode of Mannetje & Mannetje is broadcast on TV, an adaptation of
Hanco Kolk and
Peter de Wit's
photo comic of the same name. This marks the first time that computer techniques are used in Dutch animation.[20][21]
October 27: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" airs as it features the animated versions of European boy band members
Milli Vanilli, who got busted for
lip-syncing nearly three weeks later.[24] The episode from its original broadcast became coveted as the Milli Vanilli songs were replaced by generic instrumentals for subsequent reruns owing to the scandal.
February 16:
The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer (voice of Madea in the Robot Chicken episode "Endgame", Orion Hughes and Darius Hughes in The Simpsons episode "
Bart the Cool Kid", himself in the American Dad! episode "A Starboy is Born").
October 15:
Michael Cusack, Australian voice actor, photographer, animator, storyboard artist writer and director (co-creator and voice of Pim, Alan and other various characters in Smiling Friends, creator of YOLO and Koala Man).
October 18: Hamish Steele, British animation director, comic-book artist and writer (creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park).
December 8:
Dana Terrace, American animator, writer, producer, and storyboard artist (Gravity Falls, creator of and voice of Tiny Nose in The Owl House).
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 804–806.
ISBN978-1476665993.
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 466–467.
ISBN978-1476665993.
^"Star Wars to Snow White: The life of a dwarf actor". BBC News. December 23, 1999. Retrieved May 6, 2009. The movie also catapulted fellow dwarf David Rappaport to international fame. "He was a good little actor and went to America on the strength of Time Bandits." Baker blames Rappaport's suicide on Hollywood's indifference to serious dwarf actors: "Poor David couldn't cope with it."
^Flint, Peter B. (May 17, 1990).
"Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at 64. Top Showman Broke Barriers". The New York Times.
Archived from the original on July 9, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014. Sammy Davis Jr., a versatile performer and dynamic singer, dancer and actor who overcame extraordinary obstacles to become a leading American entertainer, died of throat cancer yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. he was 64 years old and had been in deteriorating health since his release from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on March 13.
^Ghez, Didier (August 30, 2016). They drew as they pleased : the hidden art of Disney's musical years : 1940s. Part 1. Chronicle Books.
ISBN9781452137445.
^"Jerry Iger". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
January 14: The Simpsons episode "
Bart the Genius" first airs featuring the signature title sequence with Bart's chalkboard gag and the family's
couch gag.
Bart Simpson also uses the phrase "Eat My Shorts" for the first time and the characters
Edna Krabappel and Martin Prince first appear.[1][2]
April 21: The drug prevention TV cartoon Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue airs on four channels at once in the United States. It is notable for officially featuring cartoon characters from different animation studios all together in one film.[9]
July
July 6:
Hanna-Barbera releases Jetsons: The Movie. This movie met negative attention during the release,[10] including the lack of humor and the result of replacing
Janet Waldo with then-pop singer
Tiffany as the voice of Judy Jetson, as Waldo was dismayed about this.[11]The Jetsons would retire from subsequent medias until 2017.
Following the success of Saved By the Bell,
NBC begins airing independent animated programs for Saturday mornings, including Kid 'n Play[14] and Gravedale High, alongside the sketch series Guys Next Door,[15] which would gain interest to the young adult audiences, prior to the launch of the teen oriented block
TNBC two years later. This was skipped out from the Fall 1991 season due to then-president
George H. W. Bush signed a deal to air educational programs for children, known as the
Children's Television Act,[16] which ended the Saturday morning cartoons on the network quickly after regarding the experience as an overwhelmed disappointment.[17]
October 7: The first episode of Mannetje & Mannetje is broadcast on TV, an adaptation of
Hanco Kolk and
Peter de Wit's
photo comic of the same name. This marks the first time that computer techniques are used in Dutch animation.[20][21]
October 27: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" airs as it features the animated versions of European boy band members
Milli Vanilli, who got busted for
lip-syncing nearly three weeks later.[24] The episode from its original broadcast became coveted as the Milli Vanilli songs were replaced by generic instrumentals for subsequent reruns owing to the scandal.
February 16:
The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer (voice of Madea in the Robot Chicken episode "Endgame", Orion Hughes and Darius Hughes in The Simpsons episode "
Bart the Cool Kid", himself in the American Dad! episode "A Starboy is Born").
October 15:
Michael Cusack, Australian voice actor, photographer, animator, storyboard artist writer and director (co-creator and voice of Pim, Alan and other various characters in Smiling Friends, creator of YOLO and Koala Man).
October 18: Hamish Steele, British animation director, comic-book artist and writer (creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park).
December 8:
Dana Terrace, American animator, writer, producer, and storyboard artist (Gravity Falls, creator of and voice of Tiny Nose in The Owl House).
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 804–806.
ISBN978-1476665993.
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 466–467.
ISBN978-1476665993.
^"Star Wars to Snow White: The life of a dwarf actor". BBC News. December 23, 1999. Retrieved May 6, 2009. The movie also catapulted fellow dwarf David Rappaport to international fame. "He was a good little actor and went to America on the strength of Time Bandits." Baker blames Rappaport's suicide on Hollywood's indifference to serious dwarf actors: "Poor David couldn't cope with it."
^Flint, Peter B. (May 17, 1990).
"Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at 64. Top Showman Broke Barriers". The New York Times.
Archived from the original on July 9, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014. Sammy Davis Jr., a versatile performer and dynamic singer, dancer and actor who overcame extraordinary obstacles to become a leading American entertainer, died of throat cancer yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. he was 64 years old and had been in deteriorating health since his release from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on March 13.
^Ghez, Didier (August 30, 2016). They drew as they pleased : the hidden art of Disney's musical years : 1940s. Part 1. Chronicle Books.
ISBN9781452137445.
^"Jerry Iger". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 8, 2017.