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As I'm sure some of you reading are aware, about two weeks ago, I did review of CartoonMania: The Movie.
And in that review, I went over the renowned controversy around the antics of the series creator: Matthew Littlemore.
However, there were a few things I forgot to mention.
And I wanted to go over them real quick.
(I got this idea from @infezunko from their reblog of my post.)
There were some other nasty things Matthew did that I forgot to bring up.
He did two other animations that got him into trouble back in 2020, just a few months before he was exposed.
The first (and least bad) was an animatic of Victor asking Penny to paint him in order to sneak into Matthew's room.
With him tearing off his code pattern, which were apparently his clothes, causing Penny to blush.
This was obviously a reference to the scene from The Simpsons' episode "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song".
Once again, while it was clearly a comedy reference, the fact that it has a character, who may I remind you, is canonically 4-years old, stripping down naked does make this kinda yikes.
This is even worse with the next animation.
This one was Matthew's take on the Bolgy Wolgy meme.
Featuring Penny and Victor because of course it does.
But that's not the worst part.
The animation has Penny basically giving Victor a LAP DANCE and shaking it in front of him!
Along with kissing and licking his neck and doing the aforementioned orgasm face I mentioned last time.
Why is Matthew the way he is?
And just to add salt to the wound, Penny was wearing the same revealing attire she did in the infamous 69th Floor animation!
Speaking of that, there are two things I forgot to bring up in regards to thet.
1#) The animation for that is shockingly more fluid and lively when compared to the entirety of CartoonMania.....including the movie!
2#) It was an homage to a belly dancing scene from the anime: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.
I heard about this and I checked out.
And by God, the were right!
Apart from the difference in animation and detail, they're literally 1-to-1 with each other.
However, little do some people know, there's an animation that Matthew did that was even WORSE than the 69th Floor.
But it's practically lost.
This is Pinkgalaxxy (or at the very least, a fanart piece of their Sona), the voice of Penny.
Was brought on board to voice the character in 2019.
One important thing to note is that Matthew had a huge crush on her.
And contrary to what most of you are probably thinking now, she wasn't a minor!
Pink was a little older, being about 22-23 when she was brought on board for CartoonMania.
Like I said in previous post, Matthew was exposed for being down-bad to an unhinged degree!
So as you would expect, he did not handle his crush in the best way at all.
He constantly kept making advances towards Pink, which went on for about a year.
And as you would expect, she was understandably uncomfortable about all this and begged him to stop.
But the straw that broke the camel's back was the fact that Matthew did a PORNOGRAPHIC ANIMATION of her Sona getting raw-dogged!
Once again, why is he like this?
However, the animation is practically lost media.
It might possibly be some "particular" sites, I don't have the courage to bring myself to find out.
The only remnants of it is a leaked preview image found on a forum board.
Given how Pink was already becoming uncomfortable with Matthew because of his clingy advances, imagine how she must feel about THAT!
I could also already see her being pretty uncomfortable with how Penny was portrayed in the series.
Plus the fact she was doing this to a character who was voiced by a minor at the time (Tenor R.)
But anyway, moving past that nasty shit, we come to the sus stuff.
In the movie, there were moments scattered throughout that hinted at Matthew's true nature.
Besides the Penny and Victor stuff, there were...
-Panty shots from Tanya and Penny. Most of these were blink and you'll miss it moments, but there were a few that weren't. Practically the scene in Matthew's bedroom where the main toons were talking to the injured pedophi-I mean, hero. In the scene, we see backshots of the characters. But in the case of Tanya and Penny, their backshots featured full-on upskirts!
-A gag during Matthew's chasing of Timmy and Tanya had them taking a bath together and covering themselves up when Matthew catches them.
-After getting out of the book, Penny takes off her shirt and dumps out tons of sand. Gracing us with the shot of her being fully topless.
-When Lucifer grabs Penny by her shirt, her entire stomach is exposed. As a tweet that talked about this scene said, "Who the fucks draws a five-year old like this?"
-In the end credits (which featured the characters dancing), Tanya was swaying her hips in a rather....sensual manner. And then she starts throwing it back, accompanied by yet another upskirt shot.
There's also the comics, which had one particularly sus moment.
This being the two-parter: Hug a Sheep Day.
As you can see, it's essentially one big innuendo.
With the second page making it seem like they're about to do it.
Granted it was just leading up to a joke about them jumping on the bed, but the fact that Matthew did this for characters, who remember, are canonically the age of pre-schoolers, does not paint him in a flattering light.
It's unfortunately a little worse with the few comics made for the planned reboot back in 2019-2020.
Here's this one made for Valentine's Day of 2020, with the ending punchline leaving some pretty concerning implications.
And most infamously.....this one.
This honestly speaks for itself.
Oh yeah, there's also the fact that the updated character sheets for the reboot featured Tanya and Penny having visible upskirts!
And lastly we come to the current stuff made for 320 Freleng Avenue, the current iteration of CartoonMania.
As I stated there, all the characters got redesigns.
With a notable standout being in the case of Tanya.
For obvious reasons.....
At this point, Matthew's just not trying to beat the allegations.
And as @infezunko mentioned, it's really telling how Tanya's look notably has more detail when compared to everyone else's.
Also, Matthew is still obsessed with Penny x Victor.
Two things people have noted is....
1#) Penny always has the same fucking expression in all these pieces. Those being the damn bedroom eyes. Dude, Family Guy characters are more expressive than this sheep! Plus, why are you giving the 5-year old that kind of look! That's one of the reasons you got in trouble before!
2#) Penny is always drawn with Victor. All the other characters are usually drawn with someone else for the sake of dynamics. Including Victor! But in the case of Penny, she's always exclusively drawn with Victor!
A few more things to note is that ever since the original series ended, Matthew had made jokes about Penny and Victor's relationship.
Largely about how everyone finds it very much concerning and weird.
You can tell he's aware of the criticism the ship has gotten.
It's also the reason why she was made into a magician, since a massive criticism was the fact that she had no personality outside of being in love in Victor.
However, it's clear he doesn't really care.
Since he's still making art of the two together.
Plus it was revealed that Matthew had actively deleted comments that criticize the ship.
There's also the fact that they alone have gotten more art than most of the major characters.
Yeah!
JoJo, Stanley, and even Timmy and Tanya are often overshadowed by these two little shits!
And lastly, he gave an in-universe for why Penny is the way she is.
He explains that Penny actively tries to break free from the stereotypes associated with sheep.
Being docile, passive, unintelligent, and timid.
It's the reason why she always tends to come off as rather volatile and why she tends to avoid being around the other toons.
As for why she fell madly in love with Victor.
Well, like I said before, Victor was something of a social outcast due to his adware flu.
And so, they found a connection with other.....which became love.
It's stupid, I know.
