Credits

Cast: Erica Doering (Compost Brite), Frank Conniff (Moodsy the Clinically Depressed Owl)
Produced by Jerry Beck and Frank Conniff
Directed by Scott Ingalls
Created by Frank Conniff
Developed by Jerry Beck
Written by Frank Conniff
Music by Brad Kay
Lyrics by Frank Conniff
Cartoon curator: Jerry Beck
Director of Photography: Tomas Arceo
Art Department and Wardrobe: Scott Ingalls, Lily Feliciano, Katie Lee
Editor: Adam Daroff
Make-up: Starlooks
Assistant Director: Jonathan Casson
Stage Manager: Steven Pope
Photography: Eric Meacham
Cartoon Dump logo by Leslie Cabarga
Production services provided by Fleaco Pix
Special Thanks to The Steve Allen Theater, Amit Itelman, Rorry Daniels

Bucky and Pepito credits:
A Samsing Production (1959)
Executive Producer Sam Singer
Associate Producers: Ray Stone, Edwin Helfant
Voices: Dallas McKennon
Animation: Ken Southworth
Production Direction: Edwin Rehberg
Backgrounds: H.P. McDermott
Music Supervision: Johnny Holiday
Song by Johnny Holiday, Gerry Dolin
Photography: Glenar Studios

Film Notes

Do you love great animation? Are you a fan of quality cartoons? Well, if so, you will be appalled and horrified by Cartoon Dump, our weekly web series based on a live comedy show presented monthly at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA. Cartoon Dump is the unholy alliance of noted author, producer and cartoon scholar Jerry Beck and writer/producer/comedian Frank Conniff (”TV’s Frank” from Mystery Science Theater 300).

During his many years of cartoon research, Jerry Beck has collected and assembled some of the most disturbing and incompetently made “animated” TV shows from the Fifties and Sixties, considered by many pop culture pundits to be the golden age of Saturday Morning Cartoon Crap. Long forgotten titles like Mighty Mr. Titan, Big World of Little Adam, Bucky and Pepito, Spunky and Tadpole, and Sir Gee Whiz, which have never been seen since their original release, mainly because nobody in their right mind would ever want to see them again.

And speaking of people not in their right minds, Frank Conniff has created a deranged TV kids show where these animated atrocities are prominently featured, a show that is sure to make the FCC plead, more in sorrow than in anger, “At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?”

Cartoon Dump takes place in a garbage dump, a filthy, disease-ridden stink hole where whimsy, imagination and a child-like sense of fun are as common as the used heroin needles and discarded crack pipes that litter the ground like magical four-leaf clovers. Cartoon Dump boasts a beguiling cast of characters who will bring laughter and joy into the hearts of borderline schizophrenics and catatonic acidheads the world over.

The host of the show, COMPOST BRITE, is a sweet and beautiful young lass. Through story and song, she teachers her young viewers important lessons about love, friendship, and self-mutilation. Compost Brite was born and raised in a dumpster, yet she has still somehow managed to maintain a perky, positive outlook on life, along with a severe eating disorder.

And she is joined by her frisky animal friends:

MOODSY, THE CLINICALLY DEPRESSED OWL, a delightfully despondent creature whose vast store of ancient wisdom is almost as huge as the hollow chasm of emptiness he feels deep within his soul.

HANGOVER HOUND, a cuddly canine. He may be man’s best friend, but his best friend goes by the name of Johnny Walker Red. His speech is slurred and his liver is failing, but Hangover Hound’s booze-fueled antics always result in a chronic case of Cirrhosis of the Funny Bone.

BUFF BADGER, THE RAGEAHOLIC ANIMATION HISTORIAN. As her scholarly expertise has grown, the psychological scars of an abusive childhood have abated not at all. The result is the most enchanting hair-trigger temper you’ll ever love.

About the Director: Scott Ingalls

Scott Ingalls received a Kodak Scholarship to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology to study photography. Upon attending, he became fascinated with film. After receiving an Associates degree from RIT, he left upstate New York to study experimental animation at CalArts. Prior to directing commercials, Scott worked as a Special Effects Engineer. From 1990 to 1992 he taught film techniques and film. He has recieved an Annie award, was supervising producer on The Green Screen Show and has directed over one hundred campaigns over the past twelve years.