1990 in animation
Events in 1990 in animation.
Events
January
- January 14: The Simpsons episode Bart the Genius is first broadcast, featuring the signature title sequence with Bart's chalkboard gag and the family's couch gag. Bart Simpson also uses the phrase "Eat My Shorts" for the first time and the characters Edna Krabappel and Martin Prince make their debuts.[1][2]
- January 21: The Simpsons episode Homer's Odyssey is first broadcast with Otto Mann, Chief Wiggum, Waylon Smithers, Jasper Beardley, Sherri and Terri making their debuts.[3]
- January 28: The Simpsons episode There's No Disgrace Like Home is first broadcast with the policemen Lou and Eddie making their debuts.[4]
February
- February 4: The Simpsons episode Bart the General is first broadcast with Nelson Muntz making his debut.[5]
- February 11: The Simpsons episode Moaning Lisa is first broadcast with Bleeding Gums Murphy making his debut.[6]
- February 18: The Simpsons episode The Call of the Simpsons is first broadcast.
- February 25: The Simpsons episode The Telltale Head is first broadcast with Sideshow Bob, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Reverend Lovejoy, Jimbo Jones, Dolph Starbeam and Kearney Zzyzwicz making their debuts.[7]
March
- March 18: The Simpsons episode Life on the Fast Lane is first broadcast with Lenny Leonard and Helen Lovejoy making their debuts.[8]
- March 25: The Simpsons episode Homer's Night Out is first broadcast with Carl Carlson making 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 influenced by the musical styles calypso and reggae.
April
- April 15: The Simpsons episode The Crepes of Wrath is first broadcast where Bart travels to France, which marks the first of many episodes involving the Simpsons family visiting another country. 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. It is notable for officially featuring cartoon characters from different animation studios all together in one film.[12]
- April 29: The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Busted is first broadcast with Kent Brockman making his debut. While Sideshow Bob had appeared in an earlier episode in the season, this is the first time that the character is voiced by Kelsey Grammer and is revealed to be a criminal.[13]
May
- May 13: The Simpsons episode Some Enchanted Evening is first broadcast. It was supposed to be the first episode aired, but was pushed back due to production and animation issues.
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.[20]
- September 14: The first episode of Tiny Toon Adventures airs.[21]
- September 15: The first episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers airs.[22]
- September 13: Woody Woodpecker receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[23]
- September 25: The first episode of The Dreamstone airs.[24]
- September 28: The Danish film War of the Birds is first released.[25]
- September 29: The first episode of Widget airs.[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: The Simpsons episode Bart Gets an 'F' is first broadcast with Mayor Quimby making his debut.[29]
- October 18: The Simpsons episode Simpson and Delilah is first broadcast.
- 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, guest starring James Earl Jones and marking the debuts of Kang and Kodos. The Halloween-themed episodes will become an annual tradition for the show.[32]
November
- November 1: The Simpsons episode Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish is first broadcast.
- November 8: The Simpsons episode Dancin' Homer is first broadcast, guest starring Tony Bennett.
- November 15: The Simpsons episode Dead Putting Society is first broadcast.
- 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 22: The Simpsons episode Bart vs. Thanksgiving is first broadcast.
- November 29: Peter in Magicland premiers.[35]
December
- December 6: The Simpsons episode Bart the Daredevil is first broadcast, featuring the classic scene where Homer Simpson skateboards 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]
- December 20: The Simpsons episode Itchy & Scratchy & Marge is first broadcast.
Specific date unknown
- Milan Blažeković' The Magician's Hat premiers.[38]
- JoWonder's The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp premiers.[39]
Films released
Television series
Births
February
- February 16: The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer (voice of Madea in the Robot Chicken episode Endgame, Orion Hughes and Darius Hughes in The Simpsons episode Bart the Cool Kid, himself in the American Dad! episode A Starboy is Born).
May
- May 3: Harvey Guillén, American actor (voice of Funny the Funhouse in Mickey Mouse Funhouse).
- May 13: Monica Ray, American actress (voice of Miko Kubota/Me-K.O./ミK.O. in Glitch Techs).
- May 16: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor (voice of Ferb Fletcher in Phineas and Ferb).
June
- June 19: Ashly Burch, American voice actress (voice of Enid in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Molly McGee in The Ghost and Molly McGee), and writer (Adventure Time).
July
- July 24: Daveigh Chase, American actress (voice of Lilo Pelekai in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, and Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away).
August
- August 2: Saki Nitta, Japanese voice actress (voice of Pakuri in Kill la Kill, Bridget Faye and Cache Dop in D.Gray-man Hallow, dub voice of Dogo in The Lion Guard, Bullied Sheep in Zootopia, and Rosa Rivera in Coco), (d. 2022).[40]
- August 9: Emily Tennant, Canadian actress (voice of Ghost Spider in Marvel Super Hero Adventures, the title character in Polly Pocket, Mary Test in Johnny Test).
- August 29: Erika Harlacher, American voice actress.
December
- December 8: Dana Terrace, American animator, writer, producer, storyboard artist (Gravity Falls) and voice actress (creator of The Owl House).
Deaths
January
- January 8: Terry-Thomas, British actor and comedian (voice of Sir Hiss in Robin Hood), dies at age 78.[41]
- January 19: Tommy Luske, American actor (voice of Michael Darling in Peter Pan), dies at age 42.[42]
- January 24: Gerry Johnson, American actress (voice of Betty Rubble in the final two seasons of The Flintstones), dies at age 71.
February
- February 16: Tadanari Okamoto, Japanese animated film director and producer (Echo Incorporated), dies at age 58.[43]
March
- March 18: Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (Bebe's Kids), dies from a heart attack at age 36.[44]
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.[45]
May
- May 2: David Rappaport, English actor (voice of MAL in Captain Planet and the Planeteers), commits suicide at age 38.[46][47]
- May 16: Jim Henson, American puppeteer and animator (creator of Muppet Babies) dies at age 53.
- May 25: Vic Tayback, American actor (voice of Carface in All Dogs Go to Heaven), dies at age 60.[48]
- 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.[49]
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.[50]
July
- July 17:
- George Waiss, American animator and comics artist (Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Brothers, Fine Arts Films, Filmation), dies at age 83.[51]
- Bernard Cowan, Canadian actor (Spider-Man, The Marvel Super Heroes, The King Kong Show, Rocket Robin Hood, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies at age 68.
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.[52]
- August 26: Retta Scott, American artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 74.
September
- September 5: Jerry Iger, American animator (Fleischer Studios) and comics publisher, dies at age 87.[53]
- September 13: Joaquin Garay, Mexican actor (voice of Panchito Pistoles in The Three Caballeros), dies at age 78.[54]
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.[55][56]
November
- November 4: Hicks Lokey, American animator (Fleischer Studios, Walter Lantz, Walt Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 86.[57]
- November 12: Dave Willock, American character actor (narrator in Wacky Races, Augustus "Gus" Holiday in The Roman Holidays), dies at age 81.
- November 19: Nicholas Tafuri, American animator (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Ralph Bakshi), dies at age 77.[58]
December
- December 21: Susi Weigel, Austrian illustrator, comics artist and animator, dies at age 76.[59]
- December 23: Serge Danot, French animator and film director and producer (Le Manège Enchanté, known in English as The Magic Roundabout), dies at age 59.[60]
- December 27: Helene Stanley, American actress (model for Cinderella in Cinderella, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Anita Radcliffe in One Hundred and One Dalmatians), dies at age 61.[61]
See also
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- Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Bart the Genius". BBC. Retrieved August 5, 2007.
- Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Homer's Odyssey". BBC. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
- Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "There's No Disgrace Like Home". BBC. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
- Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Bart the General". BBC. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
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- Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "The Tell-Tale Head". BBC. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
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- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp at IMDb
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- TaleSpin at IMDb
- Bobby's World at IMDb
- New Kids on the Block at IMDb
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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