Friday Fun Link: Littles Propaganda

Katherine Mangu-Ward | October 17, 2008

The Littles—creepy cartoon tiny mouse people—were buried somewhere deep in my memory until they were resurrected today, thanks to the almighty YouTube. Here, these horrifying desecrations of Stuart Little's memory tell kids to nag their parents to vote. The year?: 1984, naturally.

Seriously, if this ad is what finally drove you to the polls, you probably shouldn't be voting.

Two years later, the cast of rodentine humanettes did a made for TV movie called Liberty and the Littles. IMDB summarizes the plot thusly:

An ABC Weekend Special. It was about how the Littles were on there way to New York City for the 4th of July when their balloon crashed into the Statue of Liberty. There they find a tiny 19th Century Community that doesn't have freedom. Tom,Lucy and two of the tiny people (Michelle and Pierre) escape, and they all learn the truth about liberty and freedom.

reason movie night?

Comments

Tacos mmm...|10.17.08 @ 5:01PM|#

Stuart Little? Wasn't he the mouse with human parents? I remember that bothered me a lot when I was young, the idea of a human woman giving birth to a mouse. Ugh.

|10.17.08 @ 5:17PM|#

The Littles are my grandfather's creation. Unfortunately, he was a proud secular humanist and devoted liberal.

the innominate one|10.17.08 @ 5:20PM|#

movie night: I'll be there only if there will be regulation of interstate commerce. that would make that movie (OK, any movie) awesome!

|10.17.08 @ 6:09PM|#

Who was more oppressed, the citizens of Munchkinland, or the Emerald City?

Franklin Harris|10.17.08 @ 11:35PM|#

Thanks. And to think I had managed to blot out my memories of ABC's most loathsome 1980s Saturday-morning cartoon.

economist|10.17.08 @ 11:45PM|#

I used to think my parents were incredibly cruel for not letting me watch cartoons as a kid. Maybe they really did know best.

|10.18.08 @ 9:26PM|#

Bad as it is, it's still not as horrifying a desecration of E.B. White's story as that creeptacular Geena Davis adaptation.