The Delbert Cartoon Report

When Craig McKracken first came up with The Whoopass Girls in the early 90's, there were three girls created using sugar, spice, and everything nice plus an accidental dosage of "whoopass".  When Cartoon Network picked it up as a series of shorts, they toned it down for a more kid friendly audience by making them superheros and a new name....The Powerpuff Girls.  With the exception of "whoopass" being replaced by Chemical X, the concept was still the same.  The ingredients, sugar, spice, and everything nice, plus Chemical X created Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.  Therefore, it was always standard that there were three Powerpuff Girls.  Sure there were some exceptions over the course of its history, but each time on the show, it resolves itself back to three because in doing cartoons like this, you want to make sure that each episode flows well so that you can reset your characters for another new episode or an upcoming rerun. Flash forward to 2017.  ...

Warner Archive is getting ready to release a big cartoon DVD collection that stars Porky Pig.  Here's EVERYTHING you need to know about this set other than it comes out September 19th and only available online through Warner Archive. 1.  It took 5 years to come into reality This was one of many ideas that Warner Archive had for classic cartoons.  Unfortunately, many fell through to make way for cheaper alternatives (crappy Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 70's and 80's), but this one seems to have survived.  All 99 Porky Pig black and white cartoons (plus two color cartoons) make up Porky Pig 101.  Each cartoon had to be cleared for release. 2. The cartoons are not remastered, but are brand new transfers While WB has unlimited budgets and showed that in previous collections, Warner Archive has a smaller budget.  Therefore, they could not restore any of the cartoons per say.  However, George Feltenstein who runs Warner Archive really cares abou...