# Did I dream this surreal cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511 "2007-06-18T21:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/1 "2007-06-18T21:30:50Z")
It’s been driving me crazy for _years_. I saw(/dreamed) it when I was quite young, so it had to’ve been made in the 70’s or 80’s… All I can remember is it had something to do with pillows… a pillow land, or pillow people… and some evil queen who had evil berries. She wanted to make kids (or maybe the pillow people) eat the berries, but I don’t remember why. That’s all I got. It is MADDENING. Help me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/2 "2007-06-18T22:03:57Z")
Was it [The Huggabunch Movie](http://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2006/017_hbmovie/huggabunch.html)? Not a cartoon, but the plot and characters are right. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/3 "2007-06-18T22:04:32Z")
I don’t suppose it could be [Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088189/), could it? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/4 "2007-06-18T22:09:12Z")
Maybe you’re thinking of [The Pincushion Man (Balloon Land.)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincushion_Man) I had this cartoon when I was a kid and I always loved it. It sound kind of similar to what you’re talking about except there’s no queen with berries, and they’re balloon people, not pillow people. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/5 "2007-06-18T22:13:27Z")
[QUOTE=nevermore] All I can remember is it had something to do with pillows… a pillow land, or pillow people… and some evil queen who had evil berries. She wanted to make kids (or maybe the pillow people) eat the berries, but I don’t remember why. [/QUOTE] \ How was your relationship with your mother? \ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/6 "2007-06-18T22:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Maybe you’re thinking of [The Pincushion Man (Balloon Land.)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincushion_Man) I had this cartoon when I was a kid and I always loved it. [/QUOTE] I wonder if **nevermore** remembers seeing [a phallus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Balloon-land-title.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/7 "2007-06-18T22:25:29Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Maybe you’re thinking of [The Pincushion Man (Balloon Land.)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincushion_Man) I had this cartoon when I was a kid and I always loved it. It sound kind of similar to what you’re talking about except there’s no queen with berries, and they’re balloon people, not pillow people. [/QUOTE] There is a DILDO in the title card…no, really! ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/8 "2007-06-18T22:35:36Z")
I thought the Huggabunch movie as well. My precious BERRIES! The kids wanted to steal her youth berries to take home to grandma so she didn’t have to move out and into a retirement home. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/9 "2007-06-18T22:36:00Z")
…and Balloon Man blew up in my hand… ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/10 "2007-06-19T00:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Was it [The Huggabunch Movie](http://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2006/017_hbmovie/huggabunch.html)? Not a cartoon, but the plot and characters are right. [/QUOTE] Ack ack ack!!! I think that was ittttttttt :eek: omg, that movie was fucking frightening. I could have sworn it was a cartoon… I know I remember there being something about mirrors… anyway, god, what a fucked-up concept for a kid’s movie!!! ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/11 "2007-06-19T02:16:40Z")
And this is why this is the most awesome location anywhere on the Internet (or beyond)! Give the Teeming Millions nothing but pillow people and magic berries, and it takes exactly one response and 33 minutes to pull “The Hugga Bunch Movie” out of some deep dark hole (where, to be honest, it probably should have stayed). ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/12 "2007-06-19T03:25:25Z")
[QUOTE=Suburban Plankton] And this is why this is the most awesome location anywhere on the Internet (or beyond)! Give the Teeming Millions nothing but pillow people and magic berries, and it takes exactly one response and 33 minutes to pull “The Hugga Bunch Movie” out of some deep dark hole (where, to be honest, it probably should have stayed). [/QUOTE] Agreed, on all fronts. :[ ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/13 "2007-06-19T06:16:05Z")
Wow, those Hugga Bunches are seriously creepy. I’ve got to provide the obligatory link to the YouTube video of [Balloon Land](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKp7akCjiF4). Pincushion man has a pin for an erect penis! Swear to god, nothing Freudian about it! We used to call that guy a Pin Dick Bug Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/14 "2007-06-19T07:50:49Z")
I remember the Pin-Cushion Man from [The Pee-Wee Herman Show](http://www.amazon.com/Pee-Wee-Herman-Show-Live-Theater/dp/B000BZN1L4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1930880-1071304?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1182239328&sr=1-4) (the HBO special, NOT the kid’s show) ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/15 "2007-06-19T07:58:40Z")
Since the OP’s been answered, may I throw out another candidate? I saw this movie on TV, probably in 1975 or 76. Definitely animated; possibly in 60s/70s anime style (think a _Speed Racer_-ish look to the characters). The only scene I can recall is of a character on the floor of a large ampitheater-type room (think 18th century med school lecture hall); on tiers rising well above the character’s level are smallish animalistic characters (think Pickachu-looking) that are chanting/laughing (think the laugh in The Beatles’s “I Am the Walrus”). The character on the floor may be transforming into something (perhaps one of the Pickachu-ish things, but definitely something animalistic). Go! ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-dream-this-surreal-cartoon/408511/16 "2007-06-19T12:18:20Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Since the OP’s been answered, may I throw out another candidate? I saw this movie on TV, probably in 1975 or 76. Definitely animated; possibly in 60s/70s anime style (think a _Speed Racer_-ish look to the characters). The only scene I can recall is of a character on the floor of a large ampitheater-type room (think 18th century med school lecture hall); on tiers rising well above the character’s level are smallish animalistic characters (think Pickachu-looking) that are chanting/laughing (think the laugh in The Beatles’s “I Am the Walrus”). The character on the floor may be transforming into something (perhaps one of the Pickachu-ish things, but definitely something animalistic). Go! [/QUOTE] you’ll probably be more successful in getting answers if you start a new thread about this. 🙂