''Flicks'', also known as ''Loose Joints'', is a 1982

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comedy film consisting of a series of comedic segments themed after Saturday afternoon matinées.

Segments

No Way, Jose

A parody of coming attractions where a trailer for a film called ''No Way, Jose'' makes lofty promises of an all star cast and extensive location shooting before saying it was too expensive to actually make.

Cat and Mouse at (the) Home

A parody of Tom and Jerry cartoons, a cartoon cat and mouse reminisce about their careers chasing and beating each other up at a retirement home for cartoon characters while lamenting the diminished quality of modern cartoons which leads them back into their old habits.

News 'R' Us

A parody of Newsreel filmstrips featuring stories such as the collapse of a spice factory from every employee sneezing at once, Siamese twins being compressed into one single individual, the cartoon duo of Cat and Mouse announcing their retirement, and the sensation of "whacking" (with paddleball toys) takes the world by storm..

Lost Heroes of the Milky Way

A commander on board a space station deals with small-scale annoyances from mechanical breakdowns and striking staff.

Cast

* Joan Hackett * Richard Belzer as Stoner * Martin Mull as Tang the Tasteless

Phillip Alien. Space Detective

A space-themed noir segment following an insectoid alien detective

House of the Horny Corpse

A married couple buys an old Victorian house only to discover it is haunted by a man who mails surgically removed parts of himself to his neighbors.

Cast

* Martin Mull as Arthur Lyle * Betty Kennedy as Beth Lyle

Production

The idea for the film originated with Peter Winograd who took the concept to '' Saturday Night Live'' writers David Hurwitz and Larry Arnstein, and '' The Groove Tube'' Lane Sarasohn with whom Winograd routinely played basketball. Following troubled preview screenings, United Film Distributors recut the film without input from Winograd and re-titled it ''Loose Joints''. The animated segment ''Cat and Mouse at (the) Home'' was animated by Mark Kausler and directed by Kirk Henderson.''

Giannalberto Bendazzi Giannalberto Bendazzi (17 July 1946 – 13 December 2021) was an Italian animation historian, author, and professor. Life and career Born in Ravenna, Italy, and raised in Milan, Bendazzi started his career as a journalist and at the same time a ...

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Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets
at Google Books, p. 148 The four and a half minute long short took six months to produce, and was made by San Francisco based animation studio Colossal Pictures.

Release

The film was released on videocassette on May 23, 1987.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0093033, Flicks
The entire animated segment ''Cat and Mouse at the Home'' posted by Ironic Times on YouTube
1982 films American anthology films American independent films American parody films