Morning Cartoon: Peter Bagge and Dana Gould's "The Murray Wilson Show"

Produced for Icebox in 2001, "Hate" writer and artist Bagge and comedian Gould are in fine form in part one of a four-part series of cartoons based on the tales of Murray Wilson, the father of "Beach Boys" Brian and Dennis Wilson.  Spoiler:  Wilson does not come off well.

Nestor Carbonell is Batmanuel in "The Tick"

Inexplicably non-eyeshadowed actor Carbonell turns 47 today, and while he may be more known now for his roles on "Lost" and "Bates Motel," he'll always be Batmanuel to me.  This minisode of the live-action "The Tick" features Batmanuel covering for the big blue crackpot.

Morning Cartoon: Night of the Living Doo, from the director of Too Many Cooks

Last week, the internet exploded with admiration for "Too Many Cooks," an impressively bizarre short film by Casper Kelly.  But this wasn't the first time Kelly had created a genre-bending one-shot work of weirdness for the Cartoon Network, for whom he also created "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" and "Stroker and Hoop."  In 2001, he and his "Stroker and Hoop" co-creator Jeffrey G Olsen produced NIGHT OF THE LIVING DOO, an animated special (originally shown in pieces) that teams Scooby and the gang with Gary Coleman and David Cross.  It's surprisingly funny, even if you think the Scooby-Doo parody has been done to death.  (His 1999 short THE SCOOBY DOO PROJECT is similarly inspired.)