Movies and TvShows featuring "modern-madcaps" theme.
Specs is a little boy who dreams of being president of the United States and turning America into one gigantic amusement park for everyone. But when he considers the speeches and the work of balancing the budget, he forgets the idea, and he's happy just to be president of the little boys' ball club.
A stereotypical Italian landlord who owns a glass shop rents out his room to a drum-playing beatnik - but things get bad when the beatnik starts banging on the drums driving the landlord crazy.
Sir Blur was Famous Studios' answer to Mr. Magoo in that he was another nearsighted fellow who mistakes something or someone for something else.
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.
A man schemes to get rich with a talking horse.
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.
Professor Schmaltz sets out to prove his theory about music's soothing abilities throughout Africa.
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 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.
The harried wife of an incorrigible cigarette smoker confines her husband to an institution that promises to break him of his habit.
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.
A humorous look at the future of suburbia.
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
Mike the masquerader disguises himself as a kid in order to rob a bank.
A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.
A ghost is hired by a real-estate agent on the behalf of a Scots-client to haunt the tight-wad's mansion while he is away so he won't have to pay for a caretaker. A weary hobo, who doesn't believe in ghost, tries to move in the invitingly-empty domicile...and rues the day.
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!
A boy with a springlike spine bounces his way through childhood.