# Name that television cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [April 25, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549 "2026-04-25T14:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/21 "2026-04-25T15:59:00Z")
Quite true. Now hush. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/22 "2026-04-25T16:00:34Z")
I looked it up. You guys are nerds! (in a good way) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/23 "2026-04-25T16:02:11Z")
BTW, Otherworlds TV played an episode of Crusader Rabbit next, followed by the movie serial “The Phantom Creeps”. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/24 "2026-04-25T16:04:21Z")
Googled and found but also never heard of it. Of course I was just one at the time. I had been thinking Clutch Cargo. Loved the mouths! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/25 "2026-04-25T16:06:40Z")
Yeah, but he was no “Space Angel”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/26 "2026-04-25T16:09:15Z")
By the way, the cartoon was “Q.T. Hush”. Loved the voicework and the animation backgrounds. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/27 "2026-04-25T16:30:45Z")
Uncle Cecil has a column about Clutch Cargo. On **The Incredibles** DVD, the extras menu has an “early” Mr. Incredible episode that uses the mouth feature. That Brad Bird don’t miss a trick. Found it: > **[How did they make those weird lip movements in the old Clutch Cargo cartoon...](https://www.straightdope.com/21341553/how-did-they-make-those-weird-lip-movements-in-the-old-em-clutch-cargo-em-cartoon-series)** ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/28 "2026-04-25T18:26:40Z")
_ **Clutch Cargo** _? Damn! Someone beat me to it! ☹ I remember watching _ **Clutch Cargo** _ every afternoon on WCCO (Channel 4, MPS/StP) when I got home from school (first grade). I think it was featured on _ **Axel’s Treehouse** _, and it was touted as a radical new way of making cartoons by superimposing actors’ mouths on animated characters. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549/29 "2026-04-25T18:51:43Z")
Even as a very young child, I rolled my eyes and thought “How lazy. Just draw some mouths, it’d be less creepy.” (The mouths all seemed to have narrow, red lips… a little disturbing when manly Clutch was talking.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-television-cartoon/1029549.md?page=1)