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This mesmerizing little Canadian gem has popped up on the Cartoon Network and is hard to come by elsewhere, but make the effort if you can. John Weldon gives us a modern day fable that's both consistently funny and genuinely disturbing. It concerns an amazing invention that's initially intended as a form of "Beam Me Up Scotty" transportation, but ultimately leads to a revelation that could keep the current human cloning debate going on forever. A truly thought-provoking flicker.

If I were to develop X-ray vision that allowed me to see into the minds of Sup's most fervent fans, I still may never be able to fathom the appeal of these soulless, bloodless, cliche-riddled adventures. It's as if a cartoon talent agent noticed the impossibly wooden prince from Disney's "Snow White", took him aside and promised him a new outfit and his own series. The Fleishers put painstaking care into these films, but it's impossible to care what happens to these robotic, semi-rotoscoped humanoids. This series seems to be the start of a woeful institution of films that are long on technical expertise and devoid of all personailty. And I still think Clark Kent's glasses wouldn't fool Mortimer Snerd, although The Tick would likely buy it.

One of the unjustly forgotten comic strips, Milt Gross's "Count Screwloose of Tooloose" used to house it's nutty hero in a sanitarium. The Count later escaped and settled in suburbia and that is where we find him and J.R. the Wonder Dog in this pull-the-stops-out animated adaptation from MGM. Originally an unreleased flicker, it now pops up intermittently on Cartoon Network's "Late Night Black and White" and is worth hunting down. A hoot from start to finish involving J.R.'s plot to marry off his obnoxious master to an aging spinster. Wacky enough to make you wonder what sanitarium Gross broke out of.