Cartoons and Hell

[J Lee]

Just a couple of others:

In "Bargain Daze" Heckle and Jeckyl take a department store elevator down only to discover they've got a few floors past the bargain basement.

Honorable mention to the Paramount "Goodie the Gremlin" cartoons, which replaced the sold-off-to-Havery Publishing ghosts with a bunch of characters with horns and tails.

 

[Merrytoon]

Just a couple of others:

In "Bargain Daze" Heckle and Jeckyl take a department store elevator down only to discover they've got a few floors past the bargain basement.

I remember the same thing happening to Bullwinkle, though I do 't remember which episode.

 

[Cartman]

There is also the Willie Whopper cartoon HELL'S FIRE.

 

[Tom Stathes]

You know you could not escape my knowledge of silents!

Happy Hooligan goes to hell in the 1920 cartoon entitled "Spider and the Fly".
He is sent down to hell once he finds out that you have to work in heaven, and Happy is a total slacker.

-Tom

 

[John Pannozzi]

In a Marvel Ren and Stimpy comic I have (forgot the number) that was made around Halloween 1993, R&S work as gravediggers and at the bottom of the grave Stimpy's digging there's fire and stuff and Spumco no Akuma looks up and says "Hello" to Stimpy and Stimpy, terrorfied, quickly covers up the grave.

 

[angilbas]

He did wear a devil costume, but he ascended upwards after blowing up, so one assumes he's going to heaven rather than the other place.

I wonder what Friz's fixation with death and the afterlife was... we have Satan's Waitin', all the versions of Devil's Feud Cake, Show Biz Bugs, the Three Little Bops...

Let's not forget The Lion's Busy. No hellish props in this one, but we have a lion who reads that he has reached the average lifespan for his species ... and a buzzard who can't wait for said lion to become "decently deceased."

We do see a devil costume at the end of Dumb Patrol. Sam's the 'man in the red suit,' but he carries a harp as he ascends; on this account, Bugs calls him a "Hell's Angel." Gerry Chiniquy is credited as director for this film, but one suspects that he had help from his mentor Friz.


-Tony

 

[Matthew Hunter]

Yeah, angilbas, I'm surprised you're the first one to mention "Dumb Patrol". Looks like that's the last one...or is it? Take a look at "Tin Pan Alley Cats", where the version of Wackyland that Cats Waller experiences seems to be his own personal Hell...

-Matthew

 

[guy incognito]

It could be argued that Elmer winds up in Hell at the end of Back Alley Op-roar.

 

[John Pannozzi]

Rocko's Modern Life: Heffer goes to Heck in To Heck and Back and to "glorious You-Know-Where" in Heff in a Handbasket

 

[billyjoelfan]

I forgot to mention in my prevous post that futurama has a few eps that featured robot hell as well as Beelzebot (Aka the robot devel)

 

[Bugsmer]

Speaking of Hell, does anyone know whether the Devil's original line in "Devil's Feud Cake" will be restored sometime before it's released on DVD? That goes for the original soundtracks for "The Crackpot Quail", "Bugs Bunny Rides Again", and all other altered shorts.

 

[Emmanuel Cruz]

At the end of "Clean Pastures," when Lucifer is let into heaven, with a nice halo above his head.

I love what Homer said after being revived with the defribbilator in "Homer's Triple Bypass": Oh, Doctor, I was in a wonderful place, full of fire and brimstone! And there were all these people in red pajamas sticking pitchforks in my butt!

Don't forget the song from "Sunday Go Meetin' Time", "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta! You gotta give the devil his due!" A bit creepy, IMO.

-Emmanuel

 

[ThePeterNetwork]

Speaking of Hell, does anyone know whether the Devil's original line in "Devil's Feud Cake" will be restored sometime before it's released on DVD?

What was that line then?

 

[Merrytoon]

What was that line then?

"Who in Hell are you?" was replaced with "What the devil is your name?"