La Linea
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| Metta il resto della linea qui! [TV5.org] |
If anyone is looking for a highly effective and entertaining way to waste some time (apart from reading this), I recommend checking out a series of cartoon shorts called La Linea. I guess there were about 100 of them made by an Italian cartoonist named Osvaldo Cavandoli in the early '70s. In each episode, he draws a single white line, of which the ill-tempered main character is a part, and he presents him with various sadistic obstacles and the objects he uses to overcome them. And it's all in jibberish, so there's no need for translation.
When I was little, I'd see one of these little clips every day on an embarrassingly memorable kids' morning show called The Great Space Coaster. These things still crack me up. I could watch them all over and over. I love the très européan hand gestures and the simple expressions of emotion, especially when he turns to cuss out the cartoonist.
One can find them on the French TV5 Web site or, naturally, on YouTube, where there's even a naughty sex-themed episode available. (I didn't see this one as a kid!)
Here's a good one:
Labels: Art, Europe, Nostalgia, Television
posted by Eric @ 4:39 PM
2 Comments:
His "gibberish" a decidedly Italian accent!
Roaring toward the other side...where only rainbows hide!
I used to LOVE The Great Space Coaster! Gary Gnu and all that jazz. I totally forgot about those little cartoons until you posted this. The minute I saw the still image I knew exactly what it was. Memory lane. Good times.
~Casey
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