So I was watching the Cartoon Network, some time back. It’s about 2 in the morning, and they’re showing a whole mess of old cartoons, I’d guess they were all pre-1950s. After a smattering of Popeyes, this weird-weird-WEIRD cartoon comes on.
I don’t remember that much of it, but the basic premise involved some kid’s bedroom. There was a rag-doll, a cloth horse, and probably a few others.
I don’t even recall if there was a kid featured, but the main character was the rag-doll and his (her?) trusty steed.
At the beginning, the doll and the horse were standing on some sort of bedspread, which morphed into the background of the scene. The basic idea was, they were fighting this odd, multi-headed dragon, all in this bedspread-based fantasy world.
I recall little else of it, except that they eventually came upon the dragon, some sort of battle ensued, and the cartoon ended with the creatures spilling back into the real world of the child’s bedroom.
I’d love to see this again, because I remember being somewhat amazed at how weird it was (not that the description here does it any justice). Not weird in the usual cartoon weird sense, but weird in that the action, art, dialogue, et all truly appeared to be the stuff fueled by psychoactive chemicals. It had an odd “stream-of-consciousness” style (can a cartoon really be created as a stream-of-consciousness? don’t they take months to make?) that one associates with certain drugs (or perhaps certain mental conditions).
Anyway, I digress. And its very possible that I’m remembering this as odder than it truly was, but the person I was watching tv with at the time was pretty surprised at it as well.
Anyone seen it? I know there are a few old animation buffs on the board.