Hide and shriek hack8/5/2023 The dialogue is cloying and at best very forgettable, and the "teaching him a lesson" ending just seemed extreme and out of character for Casper, it was most likely desperation and he meant well but it just came over as too mean and against what Casper stands out (which is to be friendly and kind). Spooky's design and personality is evidently still evolving, as his character design is pretty ugly and goofy here and he is rather annoying and fails being funny or cute, perhaps he was meant to be like that but it did feel like it was taken too far here. 'Hide and Shriek', signalling the debut of Cousin Spooky, is one of the better later cartoons, though not among the best of the series. After 'Boo Moon' (the last great Casper cartoons), many of the Casper cartoons were at best average, compensated by mainly the always outstanding music but hampered by being too twee and repetitive primarily. ![]() While Sharples' music still shone and the voice actors did their best the animation suffered due to lower budgets and tighter deadlines, the humour became more tired and slow in timing than sharp and funny, the stories became increasingly predictable and rehashed and some characters started losing their initial spark, this is particularly true of most of the later Herman and Katnip cartoons. Admittedly though, by the mid-50s through to the late-60s Famous Studios' cartoons did get repetitive. While they were very formulaic they were always well animated and voiced with some funny parts, some poignancy and decent characters and their regular composer Winston Sharples could always be relied on to write a great and often outstanding score. Famous Studios' cartoons are not for all tastes, but my opinion is that their early stuff and some of the early 50s output are good. Onwards, the quality did diminish quite significantly though the overall cartoons varied, some decent, many mediocre. The late-40s to the early/mid-50s Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons had a higher budget and overall the overall quality was much better.
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