Was he a true ghost or not, and what even was a ghost? Why was there no one else like him? Or Casper. Luckily for me, I grew up, grew out the perm, and stopped pursuing friends who wanted to get away from me. But I will always feel a kinship with poor Casper. Whatever the little guy is — dead or alive, trapped in existential limbo, or just bad at his job — I still think about him and his quest. Just as those TV show reruns ended, eventually so did my years of loneliness. But to this day, there are few things as comforting as the sight of a friendly looking tree.
Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Photo: YouTube. Tags: fixations culture i think about this a lot ghosts friends More. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Frank Gallop Narrator as Narrator voice uncredited. Jack Mercer Ghost as Ghost voice uncredited ….
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Storyline Edit. However, Casper scares away a banker who is coming to foreclose on the woman's house, and this wins her heart for Casper.
Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Quotes Casper : It's no use User reviews 6 Review. Top review. An excellent start of the "Casper" cartoon series.
Here is an excellent start of the "Casper" cartoon series, because this is the very first Casper cartoon. I remember watching this short from an old VHS I used to have, but was lost with the other two early Casper cartoons ever made. He runs away from home and goes out to make friends. However, the animals he meets a rooster, a mole, a cat, a mouse resembling Herman and Katnip, and a group of hens take one horrified look at him and run off in the other direction.
Distraught, Casper unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide by laying himself down on a railway track before an oncoming train apparently forgetting that he's already dead before he meets two little children named Bonnie and Johnny who become his friends.
The children's mother at first is frightened of Casper, but later welcomes him into the family and sends him off with her children to town wearing clothes after he wards off a greedy landlord. There's Good Boos To-Night differs wildly from later Casper cartoons: although Casper trying to find a friend and scaring everyone away before succeeding also occurs in later cartoons, the tone of the cartoon turns dark when a hunter and his dogs appear.
Although Casper scares them away, the fox he has befriended is killed, but happily returns as a ghost. These were later adapted into Noveltoons before Paramount started a Casper the Friendly Ghost series in , and ran the theatrical releases until the summer of Nearly every entry in the series was the same: Casper now slightly thinner than his obese self that first appeared in the earlier cartoons escapes from the afterlife of a regular ghost because he finds that scaring people can be tiresome year after year, tries to find friends but inadvertently scares almost everyone, and finally finds a cute little friend, whom he saves from some sort of fate, leading to his acceptance by those initially scared of him.
The cartoon series also boasted a catchy title song which was written by Jerry Livingston and Mack David. Template:Citation needed By , however, composer Winston Sharples composed an entirely new instrumental theme for Casper's cartoons. Casper went on to become one of the most famous properties from the Famous Studio. Alfred Harvey , founder and publisher of Harvey Comics began producing Casper comic books in , and in , purchased the rights to the character outright.
After Harvey bought the rights to Casper and many other Famous properties in including Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey , they began broadcasting the post-September theatrical Famous shorts on a television show sponsored by Mattel Toys titled Matty's Funday Funnies on ABC in which introduced the Barbie doll to the public. The other Famous produced Casper cartoons had already been acquired by television distributor U.
The original Casper cartoons were syndicated under the title Harveytoons in and ran continuously until the mids. None of Casper's original co-stars appeared in the show. The film constructed a back-story for Casper and is the only time in the series that the question of his death has been addressed.
According to the film, Casper was "straight Gang Banging" until he died from pneumonia. Whipstaff Manor appears to represent the historic Schroeppel Mansion in Syracuse, New York, which is a national monument.
McFadden seems to be the name the writers used because the actual family named von Schroeppel lost a twelve-year-old son named Casper to drowning in Morristown, New York, who is said to haunt the family's estate in Syracuse. Casper was a name that could be used but not the actual name of the family. In , Fox created a new Casper series, based on the feature, that lasted two years. In the late s, two live-action direct-to-video follow-ups to the film: Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy which introduced Hilary Duff in her first feature were made.
They were followed by Casper's Haunted Christmas starring Spooky and Poil from the original 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 being regarded as "prequels" to the feature despite the fact that they heartily contradict the feature and do not appear to even take place in the same cartoon continuity.
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