I can see that. The Greedy also came off to me as potentially spilled food or vomit from an overindulgent guest at Marcella's birthday party. Considering the sea was actually the small pond in Marcella's backyard, I wondered what the Greedy, Looneyland, Gadzooks, and all of the other characters really were versus what they appeared as with their symbolic value.
@wolfjak Apologies for taking years to notice this, ha. Okay, let me see if I remember. Each character from the Camel onward is a lost soul in a localized purgatory, with its own isolated boundaries from reality as the toys understand it. Though this purgatory appears to, in reality, be a hole in Marcella's back yard. Yet almost every toy we see even in the playroom can meet such a fate, because it seems that (arguably) barring Ann and Andy, every one of them has some manner of psychosis. They're mortally terrified of being separated from human structure and safety, because they'll devolve into irrevocable madness patterned on their existing eccentricities. The Camel seems to demonstrate this, after being thrown away by his owner's mother. The Camel himself teeters on the brink of embodying Envy, as does the Captain with Lust. The Greedy and King Koo Koo have themselves long since become Gluttony and Pride respectively. Gadzooks most befits Sloth, from what I can surmise. There is surprisingly little Wrath, however. Even as angry as Koo Koo gets, he never orders anyone's death, even the mindless maniacs that constantly laugh at him. Wow I put way too much thought into this.
"But I'm just a little ragdoll with a candy heart--" Why the hell would you say that RIGHT AFTER a musical number obsessing over devouring a sweet heart? Raggedy, you crazy. You a crazy doll.
She probably assumed he meant "sweetheart" in the standard connotation it has in most vernacular. Of course, it's possible that the Greedy doesn't understand the difference...
For 45 minutes Ann and Andy have just been in a girl's bedroom, and a back yard. Now they're in a distorted alternate dimension of insanity, a black void filled with a sea of peanut butter and domineered by a shapeless, boundless, supernatural being. What happened?
Yeah, tbh I thought it was either that the toys just have a different perception of reality than humans, or that the whole falling off a cliff thing broke them enough to where they began to hallucinate from damage to whatever the doll equivalent of a brain is. But I dunno.
I don’t.... I don’t wanna have to imagine what.... ungodly amount of effort went into animating this monstrosity.... I love how his facial features are non-consistent, but on top of that, you can kinda make out an expression but it’s never still. I mean he morphs some kind of pig snout when he’s stuffing his... “face”...? there’s never a break with how this character is animated, May god have mercy on the soul(s) tasked with the greedy
The Greedy sequence was my fav as a kid cos it looked so sweet and tastey :9 Now i am mind blown at how fluid the animation is and how stuff is constantly moving the entire time.
You notice that he says he eats but he's never satisfied. If you notice, whatever he eats, it turns into little cubes or chunks of it and they all just fall out of his mouth. No wonder he's never satisfied. He doesn't eat anything he puts in his mouth
Na, animation now a days does not take talent at all, it's just nerds at computers. It's not rude its true, and by the way I work in the film industry.
the Greedy's curse is twofold. an endless hunger, and even though all the worlds treats wind up in his pit, he can never leave. he probably doesn't even know which sweetheart he needs to free himself.
With everything negative going on the world, THIS brightened this 37 year old woman's heart and brought back childhood nostalgia. Now to share with the kids
literally some of the most insane and mindblowing animation i've ever seen. richard williams was incredibly ambitious and it gave us some amazing stuff.
Ok, so lots of people on Tumblr say that the Greedy has the perfect headcanon voice for the character Enoch from the game OFF and *HOLY HELL IT FITS LIKE A GLOVE* Also the animation is GORGEOUS.
Okay, question time. Where is The Greedy's consciousness stored? Does he have a very small brain that travels along whenever he loses his solid physical form? Or is he an entity that posses the entirety of the taffy pit? Is there a limit to how he can reform himself? Is he successful human instrumentality?
Richard Williams is the greatest animator in the business, as far as I'm concerned, and I particularly love this scene. This movie also distinguishes itself as the first animated feature to have a woman animate the lead character (raggedy Ann). For an industry which is still pretty macho, Williams 1970s casting decision was absolutely progressive. My only criticism about this film is that most of the exceptional animation occurs during musical numbers, and the music... well, definitely for children, and definitely ear-rape if you are an adult. "How can ya be.. Happy? How can ya be...smilin'?"
+IKFKSwitch I don't think she was chosen because she was a woman, but rather a person that qualified to do the task. But it's certainly encouraging to know women can make it in the industry, and not for the sake of being women.
Thanks so much for restoring this. It was one of those movies I watched in the theater as a kid and it just kind of rolled around in my head. It has the sort of scenes you have to go back and see again, because you're not quite sure you just saw what you think you saw.
The Great Mighty Poo has nothing on this abomination. Major props to the animators! I bet amorphous "Don Bluth" style movements are a nightmare to animate. Considering this creature convinced me of the third circle of hell, this nightmare is a testament to the quality of the animators' abilities.
One of the first films I remember seeing in a theater. Imperfect though it is, it's one wild adventure after another and I'm glad you gave it the attention you did. This is the best I've seen it looking since I was a kid going to summer movies.
so the Greedy is a shape shifting sentient blob of taffy that eats all the time but is never satisfied and it causes him misery so he has to have a sweet heart to free him from this curse and Raggedy Ann has a candy heart and so the Greedy tries to steal her heart.... that's kinda disturbing and i love it
Micah Buzan Well, perhaps Richard Williams and Katsuhiro Otomo should team up some day to make the most awesomly animated and most fucked up Animated Film of all time!
PATRiCKFBi MetalHead There are 2 kinds of people in this world, the kind who watch this and think " Ugh, I never want to eat again, especially sweets!" And the kind who watch this and think "Darn, I'm all out of candy, gotta run to the store!"
@KikyoChanXD: They ARE siblings. Even their creator said so. The issue is that even if they're siblings, they're also SOULMATES as they were LITERALLY MADE for one another. One can NOT exist without the other, as Ann was created for Marcella's first true birthday and Andy done in tribute, as Marcella died young at age 13.
When I heard the voice of the Knight, all I could think of was "This is Uncle Al, the kiddies' pal. Hello, little friends, hello! Oh Uncle Al had a lot of 'medicine' last night!" Laugh-In was and still his my favorite show of all time!
Since this whole "adventure" took place in Marcella's backyard, I'm presuming that the Greedy was actually a dish full of ice cream some kid next door dumped in Marcella's backyard because he didn't like the superfluous toppings added to it. Looney Land? That's something else.
And the animation - it's admirable that it's taking advantage of that fact, like animation is a separate world from reality. I mean, the little girl scenes are shot in live action, the toys in animation - comparing the two, we definitely get a glimpse of two completely different worlds, filled with characters that work off of it.
That just freaked me out again after all these years. If kids today had to watch what we did growing up (i.e. this, Labyrinth, Pink Elephants on Parade, Heffalumps & Woozles, etc.) they would cry themselves to sleep nightly. This scary animation/puppet stuff made us the mentally bravest generation!!
He had assistants of course, including Dan Haskett, who apparently hated the job. Also a couple of the last shots don't show the same quality of draftsmanship. That's because Emery took too long so they farmed it out to freelance animators. And at a very low rate which many animators balked at animating at the same quality as Emery for such a low wage. And so a few of the final shots aren't as good to make up for the low pay. Anyways, this sequence is a masterpiece of animation and Emery is one of the greats not only for this sequence but for a wide variety of work in different styles that's pretty much unparalleled during the golden age. He worked at every major studio not because he wasn't good enough to stay in one place but because he was always looking to grow as an artist. But animation is always a team sport, that's one of its charms. No one does everything :)
For something from a long while ago. 1. this is the best quality I've seen for this snippet of the movie. 2. I think the Greedy is never satisfied because it never truly eats the stuff. All he eats goes right back into him, back into the Taffy, so he never eats it, just shifts it around.
I had a Raggedy Andy doll when I was a little kid. Mum took me to see this in the theaters when it premiered. I was six. This film absolutely destroyed me. Any sense of childhood innocence was wiped away and replaced with the goddamned void. It showed me that no matter how much you love, that's not good enough and horrible things can and will happen to those you cherish most. If you're lucky, you might come out the other side. It's masterful, the animation is unparalleled. The themes heavy and world-changing. It makes Wonder Showzen, Superjail, Akira, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels all seem like dryer lint. It's worse than Grave of the Fireflies in that it shows you that you cannot escape life and its suite of ever-changing variables, no matter what.
Wonder the internet and what do I find? This bit was nightmare fuel when I was 4 years old (circa 80's, a few years after it came out). Watching it now with all the crazed symbolic morphing going on with this guy it extra specially unsettling. I mean amazing what they created, as it STILL freaks me out.
This freak me out as a kid but as an adult and an artist Im no astonished by the amount of work went into drawing each and every frame of animation for this scene
So you mean to tell me there is a pit filled with a living ocean of banana-cherry taffy that does nothing but constantly re-ears the same candy over and over again only to float up to the taffy's surface and be consumed again?
Call me weird, but I actually really like this movie. Sure it’s weird, but it's never dull, and the artwork is great for 1977, and the songs are pretty catchy also.
I'm not sure whether this would've been disturbing or enticing if I were a kid in the 70's watching this; it seems like I would've been scared by it, but, on the other hand, I would've also had my eyes drawn to the endless sea of sugary sweets.
According to the novelized version of the film, a Chinese fortune cookie he once ate left him a message that he will be finally be satisfied when he finds a sweetheart.
You know, this could be taken as a metaphor for coping devices - unable to satisfy one sensation, emotionally torn and shattered in its absence, one turns to a fascination in order to fill the newfound void. But if one doesn't take this new fascination in moderation, or never comes to terms with never moving beyond that which caused them so much pain to begin with, one becomes reclusive, sometimes repulsive, or even dangerous to one's fellow man.
Oh my gosh...I thought about this movie earlier today and this scene in particular. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid but I remember this being my favorite scene in the movie because all the candy and animation.
What I took from it is that this being is so desperate for a "sweet heart", that he probably tried to imagine and look like what is was to feel the happiness of having a "sweet heart". After speculating that, more questions arise. Such questions as how long has the Greedy existed? How did it conceive an image of a feminine "sweet heart" because he essentially only lives in the Taffy Pit? Did the greedy just poof into his depressing existence of eating himself or did some cruel being create him?
I feel seasick just watching this scene, the Nostalgia Critic was completely right, this is by far the most messed up thing I have seen all day. Not to mention this scene just makes me want to puke.
I actually kind of like the greedy. He's got pretty good manners to apologize for his behaviour. Just wish he didnt go ape crazy at the end or he'd make a pretty cool ally ów0
man the nostalgia critic is the one on crack, this movie is genius!! as for the box office failure, it's just a premonition that this movie would be a symbol of epicness for future generations... FOREVER!
I just realised, this film is one big adaption of the Divine Comedy by Dante, that story is about a man and an angel going travelling the seven circles of hell to rescue beatatrix! This story is similiar, but with toys!
So scary...that knight's laugh and attitude and the music freaked me out when I was little...GREAT animation but the colors are wrong a bit with everything making it more scary...and then the faces of the dolls are so creepy...and the way they bob around on the taffy is terrifying for a kid..the perspective is discombobulated and weird...I think what scared me most is that raggedy ann sounds like she's on drugs. Even when we can tell something's not right she's like, "hiiiii iiim rragggedy annnnn......"
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Gotta admit, for being "The Greedy", he's very polite with all his "Pardon me"s and "Excuse me"s.
Excatly, I completely agree.
@@eleanorhogan8643Pardon me, excuse me, can I eat you? - The Greedy
@@ThomasWeaver1992 I like that.
The animators did such a great job at physically making you feel gluttonous and full with all of The Greedys actions and movements. Fantastic
Anybody notice that the Greedy's nose transforms into a pig's nose when he eats? A subtle bizarre element that is difficult to unsee.
My eyes saw the change, but my brain didn't register it until now.
Charles Wagner Because the Greedy IS a pig.
+Charles Wagner Yep, noticed it right away.
It is at this point that I became convinced that this movie is a semi child friendly metaphor for Dante's Inferno.
That's a very interesting interpretation. I could see that
I can see that. The Greedy also came off to me as potentially spilled food or vomit from an overindulgent guest at Marcella's birthday party. Considering the sea was actually the small pond in Marcella's backyard, I wondered what the Greedy, Looneyland, Gadzooks, and all of the other characters really were versus what they appeared as with their symbolic value.
@wolfjak Apologies for taking years to notice this, ha. Okay, let me see if I remember. Each character from the Camel onward is a lost soul in a localized purgatory, with its own isolated boundaries from reality as the toys understand it.
Though this purgatory appears to, in reality, be a hole in Marcella's back yard.
Yet almost every toy we see even in the playroom can meet such a fate, because it seems that (arguably) barring Ann and Andy, every one of them has some manner of psychosis. They're mortally terrified of being separated from human structure and safety, because they'll devolve into irrevocable madness patterned on their existing eccentricities.
The Camel seems to demonstrate this, after being thrown away by his owner's mother. The Camel himself teeters on the brink of embodying Envy, as does the Captain with Lust. The Greedy and King Koo Koo have themselves long since become Gluttony and Pride respectively. Gadzooks most befits Sloth, from what I can surmise. There is surprisingly little Wrath, however. Even as angry as Koo Koo gets, he never orders anyone's death, even the mindless maniacs that constantly laugh at him.
Wow I put way too much thought into this.
"But I'm just a little ragdoll with a candy heart--"
Why the hell would you say that RIGHT AFTER a musical number obsessing over devouring a sweet heart? Raggedy, you crazy. You a crazy doll.
She probably assumed he meant "sweetheart" in the standard connotation it has in most vernacular. Of course, it's possible that the Greedy doesn't understand the difference...
Indeed! Either way, too much candy can cloud the mind.
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I mean that type of doll is the same type which Annabelle was created so...
For 45 minutes Ann and Andy have just been in a girl's bedroom, and a back yard.
Now they're in a distorted alternate dimension of insanity, a black void filled with a sea of peanut butter and domineered by a shapeless, boundless, supernatural being.
What happened?
cthulu took over the writing staff
Dante's Inferno.
Im guessing they got a contact high from whatever the camel's on to make him see camels in the sky
Yeah, tbh I thought it was either that the toys just have a different perception of reality than humans, or that the whole falling off a cliff thing broke them enough to where they began to hallucinate from damage to whatever the doll equivalent of a brain is. But I dunno.
I imagine its actually a mud pit in real life, evidenced by how the ocean in the movie is just a tiny pond in real life
The animation for the Greedy is some of the most hardcore work I've ever seen! And I thought the War Machine in The Thief and the Cobbler was amazing!
the animator for the greedy is Emery Hawkins he was Disney trained and it showed in his work on the greedy character .
Stanley jetson Animators and animation teams deserve medals, trophies, cash and snacks. For real!
guess you havent seen the thief and the cobbler
Grand Shock Trooper Oh I have, the Recobbled Cut, and I can’t compare the two! The Greedy and the War Machine are both just too awesome!
@@stanleyjetson2494 He also worked for Walter Lantz and Warner Brothers.
The Greedy's animator: Model sheets are for SCRUBS
- Emery Hawkins.
I don’t....
I don’t wanna have to imagine what.... ungodly amount of effort went into animating this monstrosity....
I love how his facial features are non-consistent, but on top of that, you can kinda make out an expression but it’s never still. I mean he morphs some kind of pig snout when he’s stuffing his... “face”...? there’s never a break with how this character is animated,
May god have mercy on the soul(s) tasked with the greedy
The Greedy sequence was my fav as a kid cos it looked so sweet and tastey :9
Now i am mind blown at how fluid the animation is and how stuff is constantly moving the entire time.
Definitely a 1970s loos, which is to be appreciated.
The dreaded secret level of Sugar Rush.
You notice that he says he eats but he's never satisfied. If you notice, whatever he eats, it turns into little cubes or chunks of it and they all just fall out of his mouth.
No wonder he's never satisfied. He doesn't eat anything he puts in his mouth
Why turn into cubes?
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I don't know. I didn't animate this
+fpbrunei Because God hates the gluttonous. ...and us, apparently, because this scene has been persevered for the world to see.
I think that's the same case with Cookie Monster
"Will never be satisfied"
Hamilton anyone?
Can we talk about how incredible Greedy's voice and sound design are?
The man who did the voice was also the voice of The Creep in Creepshow 2.
Holy shit this animation is impressive.
yep during its time!!!
+Goobli bloo! Very true, there is nothing with that amount of hard work behind it in animation today.
this terrified me as a child
Animators use computers for all kinds of shortcuts nowadays. This was done with nothing but pencils, paper and grit.
Na, animation now a days does not take talent at all, it's just nerds at computers. It's not rude its true, and by the way I work in the film industry.
the Greedy's curse is twofold. an endless hunger, and even though all the worlds treats wind up in his pit, he can never leave. he probably doesn't even know which sweetheart he needs to free himself.
"If nightmares were money, this episode would be the world's fourth largest economy."
Well said, Cracked. Well said.
With everything negative going on the world, THIS brightened this 37 year old woman's heart and brought back childhood nostalgia. Now to share with the kids
Nobody cares
literally some of the most insane and mindblowing animation i've ever seen. richard williams was incredibly ambitious and it gave us some amazing stuff.
I love how the fight against the Greedy looks like a freaking _boss battle!_
Ok, so lots of people on Tumblr say that the Greedy has the perfect headcanon voice for the character Enoch from the game OFF and *HOLY HELL IT FITS LIKE A GLOVE* Also the animation is GORGEOUS.
It's a crime this film never got a blu-ray restoration.
Raggedy Ann's voice is adorable
To be fair she is so cute.
The Greedy is eerily similar to the Great Mighty Poo in Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Pretty much, they're both blobs with great singing voices.
Or Belch from Earthbound
I could imagine aku being the greedy
The Greedy is sapient food constantly consuming himself. The great and Mighty Poo is what all consumed food becomes each of them are the other's Foil.
Okay, question time. Where is The Greedy's consciousness stored? Does he have a very small brain that travels along whenever he loses his solid physical form? Or is he an entity that posses the entirety of the taffy pit?
Is there a limit to how he can reform himself?
Is he successful human instrumentality?
Unknown, unknown, he's the entire pit, no, and I don't know. Just think sugared-themed Lovecraftian horror.
Richard Williams is the greatest animator in the business, as far as I'm concerned, and I particularly love this scene. This movie also distinguishes itself as the first animated feature to have a woman animate the lead character (raggedy Ann). For an industry which is still pretty macho, Williams 1970s casting decision was absolutely progressive. My only criticism about this film is that most of the exceptional animation occurs during musical numbers, and the music... well, definitely for children, and definitely ear-rape if you are an adult. "How can ya be.. Happy? How can ya be...smilin'?"
+IKFKSwitch I don't think she was chosen because she was a woman, but rather a person that qualified to do the task. But it's certainly encouraging to know women can make it in the industry, and not for the sake of being women.
How dare you imply that wasn't a good song.
Thank you 💋❤️ Andy you wonderful hero. You save Raggedy ann and canel 💗❤️
I can see where Adventure Time got their inspiration.
Thanks so much for restoring this. It was one of those movies I watched in the theater as a kid and it just kind of rolled around in my head. It has the sort of scenes you have to go back and see again, because you're not quite sure you just saw what you think you saw.
The Great Mighty Poo has nothing on this abomination. Major props to the animators! I bet amorphous "Don Bluth" style movements are a nightmare to animate. Considering this creature convinced me of the third circle of hell, this nightmare is a testament to the quality of the animators' abilities.
This terrified me when I was a child. The Greedy sequence is a psychotic claustrophobic eating disorder fueled nightmare.
One of the first films I remember seeing in a theater. Imperfect though it is, it's one wild adventure after another and I'm glad you gave it the attention you did. This is the best I've seen it looking since I was a kid going to summer movies.
so the Greedy is a shape shifting sentient blob of taffy that eats all the time but is never satisfied and it causes him misery so he has to have a sweet heart to free him from this curse and Raggedy Ann has a candy heart and so the Greedy tries to steal her heart.... that's kinda disturbing and i love it
For some reason this didn't freak me out as a kid, which is amazing because i was afraid of everything.
To a surreal mind, reality is the nightmare. (Not that either is better. I just had the same experience.)
Raggedy Anne and Andy don't seem appropriately disturbed by this character.
This reminds of the mutation scene in Akira.
Micah Buzan Well, perhaps Richard Williams and Katsuhiro Otomo should team up some day to make the most awesomly animated and most fucked up Animated Film of all time!
i was thinking exactly the sameeeeeeeeeee!!!!
RAGEDDY ANN HELP MEEEEE!
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HAHA!
That IS tetuso
This flows like a Jack Stauber video
This video makes me want to eat a bunch of candy. Not joking unfortunately....
PATRiCKFBi MetalHead There are 2 kinds of people in this world, the kind who watch this and think " Ugh, I never want to eat again, especially sweets!" And the kind who watch this and think "Darn, I'm all out of candy, gotta run to the store!"
this used to SCARE THE S**T out of me when I was younger. The animation used is very creepy. Acid-trip-city!
IKR? I mean how the *Greedy* looks too!
A'ight, but the animation in this movie is absolutely gorgeous and I love it.
@KikyoChanXD: They ARE siblings. Even their creator said so. The issue is that even if they're siblings, they're also SOULMATES as they were LITERALLY MADE for one another. One can NOT exist without the other, as Ann was created for Marcella's first true birthday and Andy done in tribute, as Marcella died young at age 13.
When I heard the voice of the Knight, all I could think of was "This is Uncle Al, the kiddies' pal. Hello, little friends, hello! Oh Uncle Al had a lot of 'medicine' last night!"
Laugh-In was and still his my favorite show of all time!
draconiclady0610 You have excellent taste, friend!
... That animation. Richard Williams was a god.
Since this whole "adventure" took place in Marcella's backyard, I'm presuming that the Greedy was actually a dish full of ice cream some kid next door dumped in Marcella's backyard because he didn't like the superfluous toppings added to it.
Looney Land? That's something else.
For being named The Greedy, the guy sure is polite.
I had this movie clip on vhs as a child. Rediscovering it after 25 years, all I can say is...
Dis sum trippy shiet
More like 35 years!
And the animation - it's admirable that it's taking advantage of that fact, like animation is a separate world from reality. I mean, the little girl scenes are shot in live action, the toys in animation - comparing the two, we definitely get a glimpse of two completely different worlds, filled with characters that work off of it.
whoever animated this needs an award.
oh that i agree non made this animation the way it used to be
it's emery hawkins
Emery Hawkins gets the award
Anne is very brave as well as kind.
That just freaked me out
again after all these years. If kids today had to watch what we did growing up (i.e. this, Labyrinth, Pink Elephants on Parade, Heffalumps & Woozles, etc.) they would cry themselves to sleep nightly. This scary animation/puppet stuff made us the mentally bravest generation!!
The last unicorn
This was animated by one person ONE ☝️ PERSON!!!
He had assistants of course, including Dan Haskett, who apparently hated the job.
Also a couple of the last shots don't show the same quality of draftsmanship. That's because Emery took too long so they farmed it out to freelance animators. And at a very low rate which many animators balked at animating at the same quality as Emery for such a low wage. And so a few of the final shots aren't as good to make up for the low pay.
Anyways, this sequence is a masterpiece of animation and Emery is one of the greats not only for this sequence but for a wide variety of work in different styles that's pretty much unparalleled during the golden age. He worked at every major studio not because he wasn't good enough to stay in one place but because he was always looking to grow as an artist. But animation is always a team sport, that's one of its charms. No one does everything :)
once you're in, you're in and nobody ever gets out!!
"But I'm just a little ragdoll with a candy heart" Raggedy Ann, were you trying to get yourself killed?
For something from a long while ago. 1. this is the best quality I've seen for this snippet of the movie. 2. I think the Greedy is never satisfied because it never truly eats the stuff. All he eats goes right back into him, back into the Taffy, so he never eats it, just shifts it around.
Greedy is a polite version of Jabba the Hutt.
However Greedy is still grotesque.
Do you know I just thought he might be Jabba the Hutt's cousin.
I had a Raggedy Andy doll when I was a little kid. Mum took me to see this in the theaters when it premiered. I was six.
This film absolutely destroyed me. Any sense of childhood innocence was wiped away and replaced with the goddamned void. It showed me that no matter how much you love, that's not good enough and horrible things can and will happen to those you cherish most. If you're lucky, you might come out the other side.
It's masterful, the animation is unparalleled. The themes heavy and world-changing. It makes Wonder Showzen, Superjail, Akira, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels all seem like dryer lint. It's worse than Grave of the Fireflies in that it shows you that you cannot escape life and its suite of ever-changing variables, no matter what.
It's weird, cause Ann wasn't lying about the candy heart. Watch the short "Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy." They were actually made with sweet hearts.
Omg im just amazed of how much animation was made for this part. Non stop traditional animation.
Wonder the internet and what do I find? This bit was nightmare fuel when I was 4 years old (circa 80's, a few years after it came out). Watching it now with all the crazed symbolic morphing going on with this guy it extra specially unsettling. I mean amazing what they created, as it STILL freaks me out.
This freak me out as a kid but as an adult and an artist Im no astonished by the amount of work went into drawing each and every frame of animation for this scene
So you mean to tell me there is a pit filled with a living ocean of banana-cherry taffy that does nothing but constantly re-ears the same candy over and over again only to float up to the taffy's surface and be consumed again?
Sounds delicious, right?
Call me weird, but I actually really like this movie. Sure it’s weird, but it's never dull, and the artwork is great for 1977, and the songs are pretty catchy also.
I completely agree with you.
I'm not sure whether this would've been disturbing or enticing if I were a kid in the 70's watching this; it seems like I would've been scared by it, but, on the other hand, I would've also had my eyes drawn to the endless sea of sugary sweets.
When he says he wants a sweetheart does he mean a girlfriend or the valentines day candies?
I don't think he really knows.
According to the novelized version of the film, a Chinese fortune cookie he once ate left him a message that he will be finally be satisfied when he finds a sweetheart.
@@trinitymplayers that makes perfect sense, *but what sweetheart was the fortune talking about?*
Oh my god, I'd forgotten all about this movie! We must have seen it in the theater and then had the soundtrack. On vinyl, of course.
This whole scene was an acid trip in 10 minutes
This thing MUST have inspired "The Shmooze" from that 80s pony cartoon, & The Great Mighty Poo from that Conkers game.
This song is soooo catchy 'Without a sweethearttttt i never get enough'
Sir Leonard the original Troll face
You know, this could be taken as a metaphor for coping devices - unable to satisfy one sensation, emotionally torn and shattered in its absence, one turns to a fascination in order to fill the newfound void. But if one doesn't take this new fascination in moderation, or never comes to terms with never moving beyond that which caused them so much pain to begin with, one becomes reclusive, sometimes repulsive, or even dangerous to one's fellow man.
I was completely mesmerized by this as a kid.
I couldn't blink for most of this, I don't know if it was because it was such a mind frag or because the animation was so gorgeous
Oh my gosh...I thought about this movie earlier today and this scene in particular. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid but I remember this being my favorite scene in the movie because all the candy and animation.
You don't need LSD for this movie, just watch and take a fantastic voyage to looney land!
Oh look, it's Nikocado Avacado's final form
The funkiest cartoon character in all creation! :P
I realized this actually teaches kids not too devour too many sweets.
wait what
@@patOhara08 It's about how this creature is gluttonous and eats too many sweets but it doesn't make him really happy.
My glucose levels have become dangerously high while watching this.
"Hehey, this is REAL sticky! Ooh... real delicious, too."
Welp, there we go. Childhood ruined.
I didn't notice anything wrong until I stumbled upon this comment, and I honestly regret it.
Greedy just kept farting, burping, just releasing all types of gasses... at least he kept trying to excuse himself...
Am i the only one that see a ressemblance on Mr Greedy with Mr Barf of EarthBound?
I think MrBarf was inspired
This might be why I need therapy.
What I took from it is that this being is so desperate for a "sweet heart", that he probably tried to imagine and look like what is was to feel the happiness of having a "sweet heart". After speculating that, more questions arise. Such questions as how long has the Greedy existed? How did it conceive an image of a feminine "sweet heart" because he essentially only lives in the Taffy Pit? Did the greedy just poof into his depressing existence of eating himself or did some cruel being create him?
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For an old children's movie, this is surprisingly well animated and well acted!
I feel seasick just watching this scene, the Nostalgia Critic was completely right, this is by far the most messed up thing I have seen all day. Not to mention this scene just makes me want to puke.
+EB1493 Same here - the Greedy's noises and voice are disgusting.
+Tiffany Robinson Not to mention his design is creepy
I could imagine aku being the greedy
I actually kind of like the greedy. He's got pretty good manners to apologize for his behaviour. Just wish he didnt go ape crazy at the end or he'd make a pretty cool ally ów0
man the nostalgia critic is the one on crack, this movie is genius!!
as for the box office failure, it's just a premonition that this movie would be a symbol of epicness for future generations... FOREVER!
So many movies ripped the GREEDY off....Neverending story, return of the jedi
Greedy reminds me of the great mighty poo from Conker's bad fur day.
I just realised, this film is one big adaption of the Divine Comedy by Dante, that story is about a man and an angel going travelling the seven circles of hell to rescue beatatrix! This story is similiar, but with toys!
yeah this movie is incredibly weird, but this is some of the greatest animation I have seen.
So scary...that knight's laugh and attitude and the music freaked me out when I was little...GREAT animation but the colors are wrong a bit with everything making it more scary...and then the faces of the dolls are so creepy...and the way they bob around on the taffy is terrifying for a kid..the perspective is discombobulated and weird...I think what scared me most is that raggedy ann sounds like she's on drugs. Even when we can tell something's not right she's like, "hiiiii iiim rragggedy annnnn......"
Technically it's a man and a poet traveling the nine circles of hell to rescue Beatrice, but close enough lol
Do you know what the greedy really needs? Some sweet corn.
... for some reason raggedy ann & andy doesn't scare me. I actually get it. :D
Jontron: Excuse me *WHAAAAAAAAAT?*
The guy who voices Greedy voiced the Creep from Creepshow.
I remember watching this at my grandmas house
Would this count as body horror?
***** It certainly feels that way...
Akira625 he does seem to be eating part of himself so yes. I think that's a safe interpretation
Family friendly body horror
If This guy wants a freaking sweetheart, why doesn't he just go and find it, instead of just whining and complaining?
Because he is stuck in his pit.
Oh, I see. Okay. Nevermind