Thread: All-time great cartoon freakouts.
Humpty Bumpty the camel should've gotten an Oscar for this amazing breakdown from the 1938 Looney Tune PORKY IN EGYPT.
My favorite cartoon freakout is Daffy Duck completely losing it in DUCK! RABBIT! DUCK! So much pent-up frustration from years of getting his beak shot off.
Rare example of Bugs Bunny losing his cool and flipping his lid in 1943's TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE. Beautiful distorted animation by Rod Scribner in this.
Mel Blanc is at his absolute best in this really affecting scene from BIRDS ANONYMOUS where Sylvester finally can't take it anymore.
I love this scene where Tom finally goes ballistic and gets his revenge on Jerry (from MILLION DOLLAR CAT).
Amazing cartoon flipout from the Tex Avery classic DROOPY'S DOUBLE TROUBLE. This is how I want to go out.
You have to love Donald Duck going ballistic in this horrifying clip from MICKEY AND THE BEANSTALK.
And let us never forget Donald Duck’s greatest flipout, from the masterful 1943 anti-Hitler cartoon DER FUEHRER’S FACE, where Donald is driven bonkers by Nazi oppression and lunges into hallucinatory madness.
Great scene of Daisy Duck going mental / suicidal / cannibalistic (from DONALD'S DILEMMA).
More incredible cartoon freakouts: Woody Woodpecker going demented while shaving this guy in THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. There's murder in Woody's eyes here.
Popeye's convulsions in HOSPITALIKY are genius.
Lucy going crazy on Schroeder's piano (from BE MY VALENTINE, CHARLIE BROWN) is one of the great Peanuts scenes. Full of raw pain, typical of Schulz.
Some of the best cartoon freak-outs of all time are from Ren & Stimpy. This sequence from SPACE MADNESS is gloriously twisted.
The most hilariously disturbing moment in TV history. (From SVEN HOEK.)
Great Ren & Stimpy flipout from MAN'S BEST FRIEND, the episode that got banned. Some great emotional voicework by @TheBillyWest in this.
@TheBillyWest Few things are funnier than Homer Simpson trying to kill his family in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR V.
@TheBillyWest A favorite underrated bit from childhood: Ickis getting consumed by greed and paranoia in the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode COLD HARD TOENAILS. The voicework by @charlie_adler is deliciously impassioned and energetic.
@TheBillyWest @charlie_adler Speaking of @charlie_adler, any moment from Cow & Chicken would qualify as an A+ cartoon freakout, but this is a particularly hyperactive sequence from STAY AWAKE.
I'm sure @_ibcf_ and @animegolem could think of other good ones.
@TheBillyWest Kudos to @DaveMirkin and the entire crew on this one. One of the funniest episodes in TV history.
@TheBillyWest @charlie_adler Another iconic cartoon freakout: the "chocolate" guy from Spongebob.
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