Movies and TvShows featuring "modern-madcaps" theme.
A Russian matchmaker tries to find a wife for a space alien who has landed in the neighborhood.
Sir Blur stumbles into a kingdom. A king is having trouble getting someone to marry his daughter because she's, to put it mildly, ugly. Guess who stumbles into the contest? Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
Professor Schmaltz, an "inventor, genius and stuff like that there," makes life easier for his wife Lena- or so he thinks- by coming up with new household gadgets. Instead of helping her, his inventions all go awry.
A baseball team in desperate need for a star player drafts a horse.
Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeepers knew as a "puppy." Jeepers helps Creepers look for his old girlfriend.
In his first outing at trying to do his first good deed as a Boy Scout, Goodie is tormented by the evil gremlins at every turn. The other gremlins hate Goodie because he won't let them have fun going bad things. When he stops two gremlins from starting a fight with two friendly neighbors, the evil sprites tie Goodie up and continue to make trouble with the neighbors. Getting some assistance from an unlikely source, Goodie foils the gremlins' scheme, and the two neighbors became pals once again.
A French shopkeeper's life is disrupted by a daily parade. The parade consists of "ze king, ze premier, all ze lords and ministers, army, navy, department sanitaire." When the "department sanitaire" hits a pothole, all the garbage gets dumped onto the street in front of his store.
Wingy the chicken is excited that it's the first day of school. Buck the weasel, disguises himself as his teacher, builds a dilapidated schoolhouse, and tries various ways to eat Wingy!
One in the "Modern Madcap" series.
Fuddlehead is addicted to watching television. He runs his life according to what products are advertised on the commercials. The idiot does everything that the TV tells him, much to his wife's annoyance. It gets him pummeled, the kitchen floor wrecked, the kitchen demolished, and the house repossessed. But when Fuddlehead wins a TV contest, things work out for the best... or do they?
A classical music concert can't go on while neighboring Luigi the village blacksmith works his noisy trade. Eventually, the problem is worked out.
The new sheriff of an Old West town enforces a "no guns" policy.
A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.
Professor Schmaltz tries to study a hungry termite and ends up with a super-termite who is much too hard to handle.
While Cousin Maggie is away, Honey Halfwitch gets soaked in a potion that makes her grow to gargantuan proportions.
A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.
Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
Mr. Harmonica regales the local kids with the tale of why pigs wallow in mud. As the story goes, pigs once lived very clean lives in houses, always picking up after themselves. Despite their cleanliness, they are rejected by others because they are ugly. Junior falls in the mud one day and is washed off by his frantic mother. She discovers that the mud takes away Junior's blemishes. Other pigs catch ear of this and begin wallowing in mud to become beautiful, with no results.
Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for ruining the bad deeds of the other Gremlins. The Gremlin judge orders the nonconformist to sabotage a rocket flight to the moon. Goodie foils the plot and the rocket heads for the moon on schedule.
The harried wife of an incorrigible cigarette smoker confines her husband to an institution that promises to break him of his habit.