Jack has fallen in love with another short on Boomerang/Cartoon Network. This one pays homage to the classic 1960s animated show, "Jonny Quest" which was one of my favorites as a kid. It was one of the first cartoons that featured more realistic violence and suspense (and I'm not talking about the lame Scooby Doo variety).
It's shot in painstaking stop motion animation using action figures moving around a board game tableau of the show. Jonny, Hadji, Race and Bandit all are chased by bad guys - both humaniform and monsters - as they race to rescue Jonny's father, Dr. Benton Quest, from a giant octopus.
Really, it's better if you just watch it:
A larger version of the short can be viewed here. Unfortunately, Jack's Tivo only caught three fourths of it (it ran in front a Power Puff Girls episode). Neverthess, Jack is mad about it and wants to view it over and over. The music is an excellent acid jazz version of the original Jonny Quest theme performed by the James Taylor Quartet (no relation).
Like the interstitial/short of "El Kabong" I have captured this to my laptop. I foresee Jack asking for this one a lot in the future. Now all I have to do is to get him to watch an actual episode of the real show. It rocks.
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