Thursday, February 25, 2021

Inside Out Boy - Toonstalgia

What it is

Inside Out Boy was a series of claymation shorts that aired on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1993 during the commercial breaks about a boy turned inside out. He had the power to be gross.

Thoughts

Actually, he had an adorable aesthetic if you didn't think about how being inside out would work.

I forgot about this. I totally forgot about this. But one glimpse and I remembered seeing the shorts in between episodes of Pete & Pete.

Each short featured a conflict and Inside Out boy resolving the problem. In one short he gets arrested for robbing a bank. He explains what happened and they let him go. In another short he helps a classmate cover for the fact that he didn't do a science fair project.

It's got a very cute style to soften the distressing premise of a boy with his organs and bones on the outside. The idea that swung on his swing over the bar is a perfect bit of kid logic. It made sense to me at the time I saw them. 

M.C. Mallet = M.C. Hammer

An M.C. Hammer joke as the center piece of a short. The 90s

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