Evolution of CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST - 75 Years Explained | CARTOON EVOLUTION
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2020
- CARTOON EVOLUTION #16
To celebrate his 75th Anniversary, I take a look at the history and evolution of CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST, the kindly, spirited creation of animators Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo
Sold to Famous Studios as a one-off character. A surprise instant sensation, Casper was the first major character to emerge from the studio, becoming a star of his own cartoons and comic book series, and face of a lucrative merchandise line.
Over the years, Casper has seen varying levels of fame, appearing on-and-off again in numerous cartoon series, including one produced by Hanna-Barbera, and five feature-length films - one produced by Steven Spielberg.
I take a look at how Casper has evolved from story to screen, discussing the most important changes in his design and personality and in the stylistic and narrative structures of his productions prevalent across 75 years of media.
Here's my look at Casper the Friendly Ghost through the years!
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MEDIA FEATURED:
CASPER FAMOUS / PARAMOUNT CARTOONS
The Friendly Ghost
There’s Good Boos Tonight
A Haunting We Will Go
Spree Under the Sea
Once Upon a Rhyme
Boo Hoo Baby
Boo Scout
Takes a Bow-Wow
Comes to Clown
Ghost of the Town
Red, White and Boo
Peekaboo
To Boo or Not to Boo
Cage Fright
Frightday the 13th
Pig A Boo
By the Old Mill Scream
Spooking with a Brogue
Puss ’n Boos
Keep Your Grin Up
Boo Kind to Animals
Casper Genie
Boo Moon
Ground Hog Play
Ghost of Honor
Ghost Writers
Down to Mirth
Boo BopSpook and Span
Not Ghoulty
Dutch Treat
Which is Witch
Not Ghoulty
Doing What’s Fright
Casper’s Birthday Party
THE NEW CASPER CARTOON SHOW
The Witching Hour
Growing Up
Little Lost Ghost
Greedy Giants
Professor’s Problem
The Bored Billionaire
Kings of Toyland
A Visit from Mars
Cold Wave
Bedtime Troubles
Lonesome Giant
OTHER CASPER MEDIA
Matty’s Funday Funnies
The Harveytoon Show
Casper and Friends
Casper and the Angels
Casper’s Halloween Special / Casper Saves Halloween / He Ain’t Scary, He’s My Brother
Casper’s First Christmas (with Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Snagglepuss)
Casper (1995 Movie, produced by Steven Spielberg)
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
Casper Meets Wendy
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Casper’s Haunted Christmas
Casper’s Scare School
Casper’s Scare School: The Series
Movie Night with Casper the Friendly Ghost - GEICO Insurance commercial / ad
Harvey Girls Forever: Scare Bud
OTHER CARTOONS
Out of the Inkwell - The Tantalizing Fly / Bedtime
Popeye the Sailor - Betty Boop / Wotta Nitemare / Stealin’ Ain’t Honest / Baby Wants a Bottleship / Her Honor the Mare / She-Sick Sailors / Spooky Swabs
Gabby - Alls Well That Ends Well
Gulliver’s Travels
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Superman
Noveltoons - Cilly Goose (Baby Huey) / Suddenly It’s Spring (Raggedy Anne) / Scrappily Married (Herman and Henry) / Quack-a-Doodle (Baby Huey) / The Stupidstitious Cat (Buzzy)
Little Lulu - Eggs Don’t Bounce / I’m Just Curious / Lulu’s Birthday Party / Magica-Lulu
Mr Magoo - The Dog Snatcher
Scooby Doo Where Are You!
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Who Framed Roger Rabbit!
OTHER MEDIA
Popular Science - The Fleischer Studio
CHiPs
Charlie’s Angels: The Series
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I like how Casper's live action design is a pure perfect combination of 2D and 3D.
@Brandon Brooks and they look better on him than sonic
Me 2
I always loved Bart Simpson's joke that Casper and Richy Rich look EXACTLY the same!
Hot Stuff as well.
That comment that Bart Simpson made about Casper being the ghost of Richie Rich was based on a fan theory.
@@melissacooper4282 Richie Rich died suddenly & became Casper the friendly Ghost .🤫🤫🤫
@@davidwesley2525 What if Casper really is Richie Rich.
Would you kids lighten up a little
I'm surprised at how much Casper media I actually consumed. I used to watch that 90s film and the Haunted Christmas movie on repeat, Casper's Scare School aired all the time, I couldn't beat his PS2 game and I had a huge collection of his old shorts on those black market DVDs with cartoons in the public domain. He never really died off and he might have been enough of a stand-in to fit into any situation thrown his way.
By PS2 game (Its also on the GameCube.) You mean *_"Casper: Spirit Dimensions."_* Yeah I tried playing through that game myself back in the day and I didn't even knew how to get past any objective or how to properly play BEING a ghost until I received the big damaged existence erasure death thing (Sorry, Just how Casper can die if he's physiology dictates that he's already dead, No wait there are ways to truly kill a Ghost in fiction, Its just not that easy!) In that game shows Casper using his ghostly physiology in more offensive approaches while entering through different dimensions and still retain that good will by any chance would have been somewhat interesting I guess but it just did not work well on me from what I remember.
I've also had some experience with some Casper toons myself on Boomerang and yes Scare School (chuckles.) Being on of them on CN WAAAAY BACK WHEN. Including some DVD's from the dollar store I used to have called *_"Toon Factory."_* Don't know if you heard of it? The DVD also had Casper, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Outside of the recognizable toons the DVD had Some Playdoh things (Not actually the title, I can't remember the name but it had to do with clay or stop motion if you can call it that.) And singing dwarfs that had separation between cherry and dreary with the dreary getting cured by...drinking some type of potion milk? I dunno, That's all I could remember in those CD's.
Fr man I started watching him in 2001 when I was 5 but ain’t play the game tho my friends said it was good tho
As someone that never got into the shorts as a kid, I think the 1995 movie is probably the best incarnation of the character yet even the short lived series that came after was pretty funny at times
I also like you video too
I mean, it’s kinda hard to die off and if you’re already dead.
I’m sorry. I’ll see myself out.
The 1995 Casper movie is also the first time give an audience a backstory on how Casper died
The official one, of course. Early Crazy magazine, in a satire of the comics, gave him a much darker backstory.
I cried at that scene in the movie when Casper was telling Kat how he died.
How he died?
@@esztervarga5431 pneumonia (he played in the snow too long)
@@christabelk16 although some internet theorists say his dad murdered him.
The reason why Casper has stayed relevant for so long is because the story and the character is something anyone, in any era can appreciate
I love Casper the friendly ghost although there be no more no longer be on the television but I’m still Mister Cartoon
I love Casper the Friendly Ghost too.
Of course Jones tried to take credit. That’s classic Chuck for you.
Can't all my heroes just be nice chill dudes?
I never got into Casper and vaguely remember "Ghost Wanted" (appeared in a "Toon Heads" episode, which mentioned the character being similar to Casper) Wouldn't mind a Cartoon Evolution on Sniffles, one of Chuck Jones's early Disney-esque characters, though only appeared in a dozen shorts between 1939 and 1946, few cameo appearances on tv/film from the 1990's to present (ie 'Space Jam", "Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries", and "Wabbit"/"New Looney Tunes"), and had a lengthy run in comic books (now obscure "Mary Jane and Sniffles" from Dell "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies" comics)
@Jason Bailey The antisemitism allegations have been repeatedly debunked
by many artists who worked for Walt with legendary storyman Joe Grant (who was Jewish himself) saying
"As far as I'm concerned, there was no evidence of anti-Semitism
I think the whole idea should be put to rest and buried deep. He was not anti-Semitic. Some of the most influential people at the Studio were Jewish. It's much ado about nothing. I never once had a problem with him in that way. That myth should be laid to rest."
And Kay Kamen who was the head of Disney’s merchandise department for over a decade (and was Jewish also) one quipped that the Disney Company "had more Jews in it than the Book of Leviticus."
@Jason Bailey I guess that proves that you can't believe everything that you hear
@lProN00bl his tom and jerry run was solid and fire but damn dont take cred away from Harvey, they are some of the most underrated animated shorts but had some of the wildest stories jaja, Harvey deserved better rip
We haven’t gotten any new Casper shows since Casper’s Scare School.
I grew up with that
They did harvey girls with wendy the witch. Casper shows up in a episode. So we got a spin-off.
I grew up with Casper's Scare School and it was very hard to watch because of the animation, same goes for that CGI Garfield show
@@youprobablyforgotaboutthis7200 I grew up with the 2009 show. I liked the animation as far as TV animation goes. I also grew up with The Garfeild show but I hate it now
@@saturdaymorningfan3123 Harvey Girls Casper looks so bland and awful looking. I can't put my finger on it, but it looks like they took one character from in the show and pasted Casper over them. IDK, something about the poses look generic and recycled.
I loved the old Casper cartoons when I was a kid, and I loved the 1995 film too. I'm glad he's not forgotten like a lot of the other Harvey characters.
Yeah, I grew up on a bunch of the shorts via VHS tapes, as well as the 1995 film, "Casper: A Spirited Beginning" and "Casper Meets Wendy", and "Casper's Haunted Christmas", which, when I was 5 years old, I got on VHS as a Christmas gift at a family Christmas party in 2000, when the movie was new.
It's surprising that they never did a crossover with Scooby Doo during the Hanna Barbera agreement. The monster of the week scaring Shaggy and Scooby, Casper accidentally scaring the monster and chasing after him to apologize while Fred, Wilma and Daphne try to catch Casper with traps that don't work on him, not realizing that he is a real ghost.
Thinking about it, Casper has lots of crossover potential, for example the Ghostbusters (Filmation's and the "Real" ones), Hotel Transilvania, The Addams Family...
But we now we have Scoob meeting Courage
Boo Brothers actually originated as a Scooby-Doo and Casper film till it fell through
I always love Casper cuz he's so cute and kind I just want to give him a hug if he ever appeared at universal studios. And he acts like a hero sometimes when he stands up to bullies without giving them the the true scaring treatment will rather teaching them a lesson.
Hes also lame
Perfect timing for Halloween. Casper is a good character and I'm glad to see that unlike other characters he hasn't ended up forgotten.
The 1995 Casper along with Casper Meets Wendy were my FAVORITES when I was little!! Now that Universal has the rights, it would be really cute to bring him back through Universal Studios! He could be the face of a less-scary alternative to Halloween Horror Nights, for kids!
Anyone find it cool that Christina Ricci was not only Wednesday Addams but also Kat, Casper's love interest and later the damsel in Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton?
she was everyones first goth girl crush
@@reynellfreeman8761 I thought that was Lydia
@@zacharyyamashita8554 Actually it was both Ricci AND Ryder (Lydia) who were many early 90s first goth crushes
@@christabelk16 Yep
@@reynellfreeman8761 still my goth girl crush
The live action movie that has Christina Ricci was the best one. It was my most favorite Casper movie ever
Obviously the '95 movie is the best version. Spielberg's charm just knows how to make a character timeless.
Definitely, I love that movie!
I love that movie so much! I remember my dad showed it to me as a kid and then put it away for years. And I asked him for it one day and I always go back to watch it ever since. The backstory always got to me and it is most def not comparable or good to anything made after that.
I'd love to see an evolution of the Muppets at some point! Not exactly a cartoon butvit would still be cool.
Or ninja turtles
Am I the only o e who wants a Muppet version of Casper to come into fruition anytime soon in the 21st Century??
@@kieranstark7213 no
@@National7575 Well how can it be made possible??
@@kieranstark7213 I agreed with you
Finally, a happy ending, with no cartoon purgatory!
Well, ghosts can't go to purgatory.
The reason why Casper has stayed relevant for so long is because the story and the character is something anyone, in any era can appreciate
I was rather shocked to learn that Casper is still being made and still relevant post-95. I honestly had no idea.
Honestly, the most interesting version of Casper were the 3D animated films, because they actually gave him friends to interact with, a world that rejects the friendly monsters because they’re afraid that if they’re too nice, humans will be back to oppress them but if they become too violent, humans will be back to oppress them again. Casper rejects this ideology and he actually doubts himself before reaffirming his beliefs, and he becomes friendly towards humans, but he doesn’t force this change, he lets the humans and monsters actually slowly begin to tolerate each other.
*cough cough* _USA_ *cough cough*
What about the USA
Casper has charm and innocence in spades I'll give him that! I didn't get to watch much of the 90s animated Casper series based on the Spielberg movie but I liked the few episodes I saw and also really enjoyed the Spielberg movie. The prequel, not so much.
Well, "Casper: A Spirited Beginning" isn't really set in the same universe as "Casper"[1995], which is apparent when you watch it. It's fascinating though that both Ben Stein and Rodney Dangerfield appeared in both movies. That's really bizarre!
I have been waiting for so long for this Cartoon Evolution thank you for making it.
Thank _you_ for watching!!
I used to love all of the live-action Caper movies, even Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy. It’s a shame we don’t see more Casper media these days. Casper is long overdue for a new movie. Perhaps animated by Dreamworks!
"Hello everybody"
*Old woman has a stroke*
Casper has been one of the nicest and sweetest Cartoon Characters around and I always tend to sympathize him, I wouldn't mind becoming Friends with the Friendly Ghost. 👻👻😃
My favorite Incarnations of Casper were the late 1940-1950's cartoons featuring the ghost and the 1995 film version. I also even happen to enjoy the direct-to-video films (Casper: A Spirited Beginning, Casper Meets Wendy, and Casper's Haunted Christmas) despite the CGI feeling dated compared to the 1995 version.
I'm optimistic that Universal and DreamWorks Animation will bring back Casper for a new film or animated series to a new Generation of Fans, and his appearances in the 2019 Geico Commercial and Harvey Street Kids were a start.
Thank you for the Cartooooooooon Evolution of Casper Dave and looking forward to his Voice Evolution this week. Lastly Happy Early Halloween. 👻🎃
This ghost was my very first character which I sympathized with. I remember watching an old tape with him in it.
I sympathize with him too. Here he is always trying to make friends but nearly every living thing screams and runs from him! Eventually there is an innocent child or animal takes pity on Casper and befriends him. However there was one Casper cartoon where I cried my eyes out because a little fox cub whom Casper befriended was killed. A hunter shot the fox cub! But it did end happy when the fox came back as a ghost himself.
I loved the first two direct-to-video movies as a kid, but I don't feel they hold up. Great for kids, not so much for adults. (Though I do wish they released the soundtrack for both of the movies, I do still enjoy the music lmao). While I've seen those two movies recently enough to know this, I'm unsure about the 95-movie-universe cartoon. I remember enjoying it when I was little, but I also have memories of it being "a little weird" but don't ask me what that means.
I've not seen anything after that, it didn't look appealing despite how much I loved Casper as a kid. It was absolutely the cheapness of the productions that put me off and I'd 100% be on board for new Casper material on par with that 95 movie. It's such a shame they didn't do a sequel back in the day.
Also I really should re-watch the original cartoons and the Angels series. I had all of them when I were little, but of course the 1980s/90s bumper videos didn't last for very long so I've not seen them in a very very long time.
Casper was on my 6th birthday cake and I remember being Very Excited about it xD
Butters : am i a joke to you
@@menciqontino3685 I don't watch South Park.
I always felt sorry for Casper as a kid and one time, my babysitter drew a picture of him on my chalkboard with a caption reading “Would you be my new friend? Great!” and I cried happy tears (I remember getting so mad when my sister erased it ha ha). It wasn’t until recently that I made the sad realization that he’s mostly a one-joke character but I still like him for nostalgia’s sake and I just couldn’t resist buying his Funko Pop figure lol. The 1995 movie has also held up surprisingly well
When the Ghostly Trio debuted in the comics, they were named Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo with the latter misnamed as Eeko and Stretcho in one story. They were renamed for the film as the new personalities didn't fit the old names.
The first Casper movie I watched was the 1 live action and then the scare school. It was my childhood
Poor Casper, he deserves much better.
Dude I remember being like 6 and having DvDs of the scare school show and looking back it, I don’t know why I ever liked them.
16:48, 18:17, 18:30
Casper and the Angels, Casper's Saves Halloween and Casper's First Christmas
Courtesy of NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (formerly known as NBCUniversal Television Distribution) (on behalf of DreamWorks Animation's DreamWorks Classics) and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment).
I remember this ghost. As a kid, I felt sorry for him and wanted to be his friend, and I still do. I also remember Noveltoon a little. Not sure, but probably. But I sure do remember a whole lot of these cartoons, especially Little Lulu!
Happy 75th Birthday, Casper!
As a nineties girl, my first introduction to Casper was the live action movie with Christina Ricci. To this day I still love that movie.
Casper cartoons, movies and these other cartoons were my childhood!
This Evolution series brings back so many childhood memories. I remember being really into Mr. Magoo & Captain Caveman.
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Marvel was acquired by The Walt Disney Company way back in 2009 and it became a division of Disney since then.
The Casper ps2 game was so good yall. I watched Casper meets Wendy again today and it’s like the lines never left my brain lol. They are so iconic.
Casper The Friendly Ghost makes Great Nostalgia but even more so for the New Casper Cartoon Show of which would follow with The Ghostly Trio, Wendy the Witch more regularly and The Ghost Horse Nightmare.
I always felt sorry for the lil guy in the cartoons. I always tend to think: Such stupid silly people who get frightened by such a friendly lil fellow. He'd have a friend in me. Like if you agree.
ye, I often asked "what's so scary about a ghost anyway?"
I agree Just respect the ghost
@@james739123 My only guess was usually that the people in the cartoons saw the Ghosts in a much scarier way. To compare ferocious Animals that you'd likely not get near towards in real life look mostly goofy and friendly in shows from those specific animation companies.
Or the people in that universe are just comically screamish. Good that in various stories Casper still befriended somebody in the end. =3
I would be Casper the Friendly Ghost's friend :)
I think the reason why people get scared silly at seeing Casper in the cartoons is because to them all ghosts are scary. The other ghosts get their kicks out of being frightening and scaring the daylights out of the living. Casper is different from his ghostly brethren. All he wanted was to have friends. Unfortunately due to the scary reputation is the reason that living people and most animals are frightened at him.
I haven't thought about the 90s Caspar cartoon in years. That's definitely my iteration of the character.
I just realized from the first few seconds that the old lady’s reaction is in the live action Casper movie. That part of the movie was an Easter egg!!!!!!! MIND BLOWN YALL!!!!!!!
YEEEES The video I was looking forward to the most! I love the older cartoons the most due to the nostalgia and artwork. As an artist something about those painted backgrounds/set pieces in old cartoons just resonate.
Man was the 95 movie Casper creepy- "Can I keep you?" Euuugh.
My grandma's favourite was Spooky because he'd get the ghost uncles back for the shit they'd put him through, she thought Casper was too much of a wimp, I guess.
I remember the cartoon short where Casper befriended a fox that gets killed and comes back as a fox ghost in the end.
If Casper comes back in a new tv series on him the fox ghost should be with him as his pet.
And yeah I was there in 1995 at the age of 6-7 seeing the Casper movie in theaters. And I would watch it every October when it came on tv.
Wow this was incredible
Was? It’s a 27 minute video and it’s only been up for 8 minutes 😜
But, thanks 😅
@@DaveLeeDownUnder you included all the animators! I have a plot if you want to see it!
That's so crazy how that ggggg ghost scene was from the actual cartoon and they put it in the live action, I never knew that
Casper's like one of the easiest, if not the easiest, characters to draw, so how on Earth did the Nostalgia Critic's version of Casper, which was used for his skits during his review of the 1995 film, look so off-model?
Likely for comedic effect.
Until Bloo came around. He became the most easiest cartoon character.
I watched Casper when I was a kid in the 60's. I even once had a Casper Halloween costume.
I enjoyed the 1995 movie and the following animated series. In one early Casper cartoon, he's shown with having parents. I believe it's the only time Casper was shown in that manner.
I believe so too. In the comic books and movies he is residing with The Ghostly Trio. The 1995 film explained somewhat that both his parents had crossed over. It didn't really say much about his mother but his father was grief stricken. He tried to invent a machine to resurrect Casper but was put away in a mental hospital and died there.
I had a Herman the Mouse Halloween costume when I was nearly 6. Actually, I just had the mask, and I wore a gray turtleneck and red pants. I loved Herman and Katnip!
I always got angry at those people who ran from this sweet ghost. I’d be his best friend if I could. 😤🥺😇
Definitely love the live action movies most.
5:26 : Lovely Felix the Cat guitar, there!
I think part of what made Casper an endearing character is that underneath his fun, innocent exterior he is a bit of a tragic character and the eternal underdog; he is a ghost, which is the spiritual manifestation of someone who cannot rest in peace and stays on Earth in hope of fulfilling their mission. Casper is forever haunted (no pun intended) to be an immortal being in search of happiness but failing at it. Take the short where he befriends a fox; the fox is MURDERED and Casper is devastated by it. It has a happy ending in that the fox returns as a ghost and they remain friends, but tje fox was still dead. This was pushed harder in the 1995 movie where we learned that he had died tragically and wanted to rekindle his passion for life.
Hence why it's emotionally cathartic when Casper does make a friend, triumphs and defeats the odds because he is a spirit in one realm but his goals are in another. Casper to me represents our innocence and pure desire to just be happy despite adversity.
So he is a very simple, straight forward character that has some hidden layers to him that makes us sad, melancholic and root for him at the end
*sigh* watching this brought back memories of me watching Boo Moon, I remember watching that cartoon when I was a toddler and it was my introduction to the character of Casper, heck the movies were very influential for me (yes especially the prequels) and it's awesome animated series from the 90's that's based on the amazing 1995 movie.
I know that some don't like him and find him boring but Casper has always been one of my favorite characters in a long time, I also hope we get a feature film reboot of the character and his fantastic friends in the near future. And they better include The Ghostly Trio lol, these jerks always cracked me up in the original movie.
I could picture this origin of the friendly ghost. Enemy planes flying over an English countryside, dropping bombs over an orphanage, one bomb striking a room, smashing all those baby bottles, causing those infants to cry and scream. One more bomb drops on their nursery, killing all those babies. Then all those infants begin floating upwards to heaven, but one baby was still crying but went silent as he dies, then he floats upwards from the ruins of the orphanage, IT'S CASPER!!!
The first Casper live-action is probably my favorite, though i do remember liking the Prequel and Casper & Wendy.
about the cartoons i only recall seeing the Casper and the Angels (there was this DvD wich some old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, i've never seeing before)
Seeing Casper's Scare School brings me back so many memories. I just wish I could be Casper's friend.
casper is my favorite ghost.😁.
The friendliest ghost you'll know!
The second-to-last Casper on this list looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy for some reason. I like the Casper's that actually have a ghost tail looking thing instead of legs
I actually enjoy the 1995 live-action adaptation from Universal pictures.
Same here. Remember me this way is one of my fave movie themes too
And Universal Pictures now currently owns Casper the Friendly Ghost and other Harvey Comics characters in which DreamWorks Animation currently owns under Classic Media (operating as DreamWorks Classics) since 2016.
I used to watch the show "The Harveytoons Show" during my younger days. Plus I still remember going to the movies to see the Casper the friendly Ghost. My granny (my mom's mother) would buy me coloring books of Harvey Toon characters which had Casper in them. She also had a VHS of some of the older classics too. I would watch them over and over and over. That's one of the ways I remember being introduced to him. Such a great character and I really do hope to see more of him in the future.
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And Universal Pictures who also originally produced the 1995 feature length film, Casper in which NBCUniversal / Comcast currently owns DreamWorks Animation's DreamWorks Classics who now currently owns the rights and manage of Casper and other Harvey Comics characters. Hoping that Universal Pictures will restore the Paramount Pictures' Casper the Friendly Ghost and other Harveytoons cartoons in HD with original titles just the same as WarnerMedia (now renamed as Warner Bros. Discovery due to it's joint venture between WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc.) did for Popeye the Sailor cartoons with Paramount's original titles restored, and Universal also owns the 1929-1949 Paramount Pictures library under EKMA Ltd. (through Universal Television).
I loved watching the Casper movie. It’s my favorite movie.
It’s awesome to finally hear a reviewer talk about the Noveltoons!
I miss so much with cartoon characters
The best part of Casper is his Gieco Commerical. Alright let's do the other Gieco cartoon cameo, Rocky and Bullwinkle.
"There's a girl on my bed. …...YES!!!!" -Casper, 1995 Film; the best "Casper" quote ever!!!!!!
The 40s appearance is the bomb
I just recently found this channel a week or 2 ago and I've binged so many videos but my favorites have easily been this entire cartoon evolution series. I've watched all of them at least once and a few 2-4 times. I didn't even know it was a monthly series but that makes it even better
I cry a little every time I see that proposed funeral scene. I’d have loved for that to make it to the screen
The first Casper design looks like a less thicc Big Chungus
I like Caspers Scare School the Series its amazing
Yee
indeed XD lmao
I used to love Casper when I was little. I loved the 1995 movie and would constantly rent the VHS from the video store. I would always wish Casper was real so I could be his friend lol.
Ayyyyy
I always loved Casper. He was always so sweet and adorable but I'd feel so sad when no one would want to be his friend. I still want to be his friend 💙
Cartoon Evolution never needs evolution! Keep it up!
While I have a soft spot for his classic shorts as well as the H-B holiday specials (Casper's Christmas FTW), my favorite interpretations of him have got to be from the 1995 movie and the Spooktacular Adventures cartoon of the same year. After all that cartoon had people from the original Animaniacs & Pinky & the Brain work on it. XD
Whenever I see those limited animation cartoons, Like 50s felix the cat, to 60s woody woodpecker. I immediately think of the original Astro boy anime, And I don't know why.
AstroBoy and early anime of the 50s and 60s were Japan’s equivalent to the limited television animation of the West
Casper will always be cool...I like his cousin Spooky even better.
Before watching this video the only casper cartoon I know was casper scare school.Super video ,I'm happy to have discovered so much about I character I haven't heard about in years
Someday I wish somebody did a video on the rise and fall of the Fleischers. The bits and pieces I gathered from this and your Betty Boop video has a tragedy in the making.
I remember watching his original cartoons on dvd and crying when his friend the fox died
I kinda wished Paramount reacquired the Casper/Popeye rights. You know, just to not to confuse the ownerships.
My mom dressed up as Casper for Halloween when she was 4.
Most of my memories of Casper involve the "The Friendly Ghost," "There's Good Boos Tonight," and "Boo Moon" shorts, a bit of the 1995 film, and the "Spooktacular New Adventures" series.
Funny enough, I recently learned about Casper's origin as a children's book a couple of weeks ago, although I never saw his original book design until now. He kind of looks like a wooden doll covered in a bed sheet, which is pretty interesting.
Any idea how Casper died in that book? I only know about his death from the 1995 feature film.
@@melissacooper4282 The 1995 movie was the first piece of "Casper" media to depict Casper as the kind of ghost that was once a living being. Casper had traditionally been portrayed as one of the kinds of ghosts that had always been ghosts.
Enjoyed a lot of the classics but the Christmas special is a particular favorite and I watch it most Christmas seasons.
Oh, cute. Casper has been around long enough to evolve the dreaded Cal-Arts mouth... 😳😳
I watched too much of the live action Casper films but I miss the 90's animated series. Good times.
I wish there was an old episode where his mortal friend see him as a superhero instead of a poltergeist.
His abilities
. Flight
.Invisibilities
.Walk through walls
.Possessing objects (by accident)
. Making people to be friendly with a hug
. Scaring into punishment (only bullies and criminals but not Innocents)
Casper has starred in six television shows:
Matty's Funday Funnies (1959-1961)
The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963-1970)
Casper and the Angels (1979-1980)
Casper and Friends (1991-1993)
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (1996-1998)
Casper's Scare School (2009-2012)
After Harvey bought the rights to Casper and many other Famous properties in 1959 (including Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey), they began broadcasting the post-September 1950 theatrical Famous shorts on a television show sponsored by Mattel Toys titled Matty's Funday Funnies on ABC in 1959 which introduced the Barbie doll to the public. The other Famous produced Casper cartoons had already been acquired by television distributor U.M. & M. TV Corporation in 1956. U.M. & M. retitled just "A Haunting We Will Go", but credited "Featuring Casper The Friendly Ghost" as "Featuring Casper's Friendly Ghost".
New cartoons were created for The New Casper Cartoon Show in 1963, also on ABC. The original Casper cartoons were syndicated under the title Harveytoons (initially repackaged as Casper and Company) in 1963 and ran continuously until the mid-90s. Casper has remained popular in reruns and merchandising.
Hanna-Barbera Productions also gave Casper two holiday specials, Casper's First Christmas (which also starred Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy) and Casper's Halloween Special (aka Casper Saves Halloween), and also the Saturday morning cartoon series Casper and the Angels (an animated takeoff on two live-action hit shows Charlie's Angels and "CHiPS") in the autumn of 1979, all on NBC. Also featured on the NBC version was a big ghost named Hairy Scary (voiced by John Stephenson). None of Casper's original co-stars appeared in the show.
NBC featured it during Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness in fall 1991 to the summer of 1992.
In 1996, Amblin Entertainment and Universal Cartoon Studios created a new Casper series for Fox Kids called The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, based on the 1995 feature, that lasted two years and was never seen on television again after 1998. Two live-action direct-to-video follow-ups to the film, Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy (which introduced Hilary Duff as fellow Harvey Comics character Wendy the Good Little Witch), were made. They were followed by Casper's Haunted Christmas (starring Spooky and Poil from the comics and animated spin-off of the first movie), and Casper's Scare School, which were done entirely in CGI with no live-action elements. These films are often referred to as being "prequels" to the 1995 feature despite the fact that they heartily contradict the feature and do not appear to even take place in the same universe.
In 2007, MoonScoop Group, in association with Classic Media, TF1 et DQ, produced a TV show of 52 X 12 named Casper's Scare School.
In 2020, Casper appeared in a supporting role in the "Scare Bud" episode of Harvey Girls Forever!, a series based on Harvey Comics characters.
I think it's fair to say that the 1995 film was the best thing Casper has been in .
Norman: That was my childhood cartoon alongside Tom and Jerry, Pink Panther, Looney Tunes(only Space Jam) etc
Love this! love Casper!!!! Love ur channel ty
Thank you for watching!
Over the years Casper has evolved from just a cute little cartoon character into a symbol of friendship, kindness, and love for children all over the world.
(Don’t judge a book by its cover… or a ghost by its appearance)
Holy hell I have seen literally every show in this video
The 1963 Casper cartoon stories took stories from the Casper comic books of the early 1960s(which I'd read when they first came out). I wonder if anyone else recognized the stories?
I'm really surprised that nobody's tried to make a dark and gritty Casper reboot.
I guess the 1995 movie somewhat counts as that?
It probably wouldn’t work out, I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn it into a horror movie and that’s already a bad idea
I wish I wonder what future movie studios will make Casper illumination or dreamworks animation.
You know you did a pretty good job with this Casper video. One of my favorite scenes from the 1995 live action movie was the guest cameos who the ghostly Trio scared out of the house one of them was Dan Aykroyd in his Ghostbusters uniform. My favorite cartoon series has to be to see the spectacular Adventures of Casper wish I really hope Universal would release the entire series on DVD. In Harvey girls forever I was reading an interview on the show and one of the writers did reveal that Wendy the Witch was supposed to make an appearance but for unknown reason she was cut. While there hasn't been any news on any featuring Casper there still is hope considering Hollywood is interest in old cartoon properties.
0:05 That scene was playing on a TV in the Casper Movie with Casper watching it, I think.
My 10 year old sisters favourite show ever is Caspers Scare School and I don't know why...oh and she is one of those sweet little girls who hates scary stuff and loves flowers and dolls
I love your videos! You deserve more subscribers, your the quality of of your videos is really good.
I love how in depth you go with all of these evolutions. Is there anyway you could do one on the Smurfs?
I remember watching Casper's Scare School on Cartoon Network's Fridays.
Cartoon network fridays
2006