1990 in animation

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Events in 1990 in animation.

Events

January

• January 14: In The Simpsons episode Bart the Genius the signature title sequence with Bart's chalkboard gag and the family's couch gag are first used. Bart Simpson also uses the phrase "Eat My Shorts" for the first time and the characters Edna Krabappel and Martin Prince make their debut.[1][2]
• January 21: In The Simpsons episode Homer's Odyssey Otto Mann, Chief Wiggum, Waylon Smithers, Jasper Beardley, Sherri and Terri make their debut.[3]
• January 28: In The Simpsons episode There's No Disgrace Like Home the policemen Lou and Eddie make their debut.[4]

February

• February 4: In The Simpsons episode Bart the General Nelson Muntz makes his debut.[5]
• February 11: In The Simpsons episode Moaning Lisa Bleeding Gums Murphy makes his debut.[6]
• February 25: In The Simpsons episode The Telltale Head Sideshow Bob, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Reverend Lovejoy, Jimbo Jones, Dolph Starbeam and Kearney Zzyzwicz make their debut.[7]

March

• March 18: In The Simpsons episode Life on the Fast Lane Lenny Leonard and Helen Lovejoy make their debut.[8]
• March 25: In The Simpsons episode Homer's Night Out Carl Carlson makes his debut.[9]
• March 26: 62nd Academy Awards:
  • Balance wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[10]
  • Alan Menken's soundtrack for The Little Mermaid receives the Academy Award for Best Original Score, Menken and Howard Ashman win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for their song "Under the Sea".[10] The song was performed by singer Samuel E. Wright, and was influenced by the musical styles calypso and reggae.

April

• April 15: In The Simpsons episode The Crepes of Wrath Bart travels to France, which marks the first of many "visit to a foreign country"-related episodes in the show. In the same episode Agnes Skinner makes her debut.[11]
• April 21: The drug prevention TV cartoon Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue airs on four channels at once in the United States. The TV special is notable for officially featuring cartoon characters from different animation studios all together in one film.[12]
• April 29: In The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Busted Kent Brockman makes his debut. While Sideshow Bob had appeared in an earlier episode this year, this is the first time that the character is voiced by Kelsey Grammer and revealed to be a criminal.[13]

July

• July 6: Hanna-Barbera releases Jetsons: The Movie.[14]

August

• August 3: DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is first released.[15]
• August 8: The first episode of Moomin is broadcast.[16]

September

• September 7: The first episode of TaleSpin, produced by the Walt Disney Company, airs.[17]
• September 8:
  • The first episode of Bobby's World is broadcast.[18]
  • New Kids on the Block, a celebrity animated TV show based on the popularity of the boy band New Kids on the Block airs, but only lasts a season.[19]
  • The first episode of Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates airs on television.[20]
• September 14: The first episode of Tiny Toon Adventures is broadcast.[21]
• September 15: The first episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers is broadcast.[22]
• September 13: Woody Woodpecker receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[23]
• September 25: The first episode of The Dreamstone is broadcast.[24]
• September 28: The Danish film War of the Birds is first released.[25]
• September 29: The first episode of Widget is broadcast.[26]

October

• October 7: The first episode of Mannetje & Mannetje is broadcast on TV, an adaptation of Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit's photo comic of the same name. This marks the first time that computer techniques are used in Dutch animation.[27][28]
• October 11: In The Simpsons episode Bart Gets an F Mayor Quimby makes his debut.[29]
• October 19: Fantasia is added to the National Film Registry.[30][31]
• October 25: The first Halloween episode of The Simpsons is broadcast, Treehouse of Horror, marking the debut of Kang and Kodos. The Halloween-themed episodes will become an annual tradition for the show.[32]

November

• November 16: The Walt Disney Company releases The Rescuers Down Under, directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel. It is the first animated Disney film to use the CAPS system, the first to fully use digital ink and paint, and the first to be produced without cameras.[33] The same day, the film studio also releases The Prince and the Pauper by George Scribner.[34]
• November 29: Peter in Magicland premiers.[35]

December

• December 6: The Simpsons episode Bart the Daredevil first airs, featuring the classic scene where Homer Simpson is skateboarding over a gorge.[36] After the episode the animated music video Do the Bartman, starring The Simpsons and co-written by Bryan Loren and Michael Jackson, is first broadcast.[37]

Specific date unknown

• Milan Blažeković' The Magician's Hat premiers.[38]
• JoWonder's The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp premiers.[39]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 1990

Television series

Main article: List of animated television series of 1990

Births

Deaths

January

• January 8: Terry-Thomas, British actor and comedian (voice of Kaa in Jungle Book and Sir Hiss in Robin Hood), dies at age 78.[40]
• January 19: Tommy Luske, American actor (voice of Michael Darling in Peter Pan), dies at age 42.[41]

February

• February 16: Tadanari Okamoto, Japanese animated film director and producer (Echo Incorporated), dies at age 58.[42]

April

• April 7: Dick Lundy, American animator and animated film director & producer (Walt Disney Company, MGM, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, co-creator of Donald Duck), dies at age 82.[43]

May

• May 25: Vic Tayback, American actor (voice of Carface in All Dogs Go to Heaven), dies at age 60.[44]
• May 31: William Timym, also known as Tim, Austrian-British animator and comics artist (Bleep and Booster and Bengo the Boxer), dies at age 87.[45]

June

• June 21: Margaret J. Winkler, American animation producer and film distributor (Pat Sullivan, Fleischer Brothers, Walt Disney) and wife of Charles Mintz, dies at age 95.[46]

July

• July 17: George Waiss, American animator and comics artist (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers Animation, Fleischer Brothers, Fine Arts Films, Filmation), dies at age 83.[47]

August

• August 17: Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (voice of Mrs. Elephant in Tubby the Tuba, Big Mama in The Fox and the Hound), dies at age 72.[48]

September

• September 5: Jerry Iger, American animator (Fleischer Studios) and comics publisher, dies at age 87.[49]
• September 13: Joaquin Garay, Mexican actor (voice of Panchito Pistoles in The Three Caballeros), dies at age 78.[50]

October

• October 7: Grim Natwick, American animator and film director (Fleischer Studios, designed Betty Boop, worked for Ub Iwerks, Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, UPA, Richard Williams), dies at age 100.[51][52]

November

• November 4: Hicks Lokey, American animator (Fleischer Studios, Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 86.[53]
• November 19: Nicholas Tafuri, American animator (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 77.[54]

December

• December 21: Susi Weigel, Austrian illustrator, comics artist and animator, dies at age 76.[55]
• December 23: Serge Danot, French animator, animated film director and producer (Le Manège Enchanté (known in English as The Magic Roundabout), dies at age 59.[56]
• December 27: Helene Stanley, American actress (model for Cinderella in Cinderella, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Anita Radcliff in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), dies at age 61.[57]

See also

• 1990 in anime

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