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I'd be surprised if too many people remember this little cartoon, but I was obsessed with it when it was on! Monster Tails was on a kids morning show called Wake, Rattle And Roll, about a kid in his basement with a Johnny 5 like robot. The two cartoons aired during the show were Monster Tails and a variation of Wacky Races. Monster Tails is about the pets of Hollywood's famous classic monsters, and Igor's son. Frankenstein's dog Frankenmutt has a genius brain, and takes it out to massage it when he thinks hard, Bride of Frankenstein's dog Elsa has the brain of a parrot and likes Frankenmutt, Dracula's cat Catula's kind of a jerk with powers, The Mummy's dog Mumfrey is always trying to sleep everywhere, Creature From The Black Lagoon's goldfish Angel has a blasting scream and when Dr. Jekyll's dog Dr. Veenie sneezes, he turns into Mr. Snyde. This super rare
show is impossible to find so these aren't screen grabs, these are drawings I did in 1990 from paused screens of a video tape I wish I still had! I drew all the major characters and the logo, and just recently pulled them from the bottom of my portfolio. I scanned them, then traced and re-colored them in photoshop. There are barely even any real links out there that mention the show, Toonarific has the only actual pictures from the show I could find, and YouTube has the intro for Wake, Rattle And Roll with a tiny bit of Monster Tails in it. I made these for myself really, and they make me grin every time I see them, but I hope there are other fans out there who will find these as cool as I do!
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