Entry: Corpse Fuel! Tuesday, October 20, 2009



Bunnies are being made into biofuel.


Possibilities here are endless.
  • The ad council releases a "Power Puppies" commercial, a light-hearted, cartoon look at how your pets can become superheroes in the afterlife. Possibly with a shot of shovelling dead puppies into a vat.
  • Wealthy Indian CEOs finally find a use for their untouchables. Now they can power your car.
  • Poachers snagging pandas and elephants to sell to biofuel vendors.
  • An encouragement by ecologically minded radicals to reduce the population and polution at the same time: kill yourself for fuel.

    Etc.

    •    3 comments

    Moof
    October 21, 2009   02:13 AM PDT
     
    No. First rule of cartoons: Cute sells. You kill the cute things, you make kids cry, and the parents lunge for your throat.

    Have the good guys be a trio of friendly engineers from your local Biomass Reclamation Plant, who are secretly the POWER MASTERS™. Their job is to capture evil (and unhuggable) critters that attack the local tax-paying cityfolk and process them into fuel. When they get enough critters, they can power up the gigantic BIO BATTLER™ in combat against the vile ENVIRO-TRON™ and the forces of S.U.N.™

    Throw in an episode where S.U.N. blows up a pet store (for being a puppymill outlet) forcing the POWER MASTERS to tearfully scoop the dead up to feed into their robot in a vengence-laden rampage of a finale, and there you… go…

    I feel dirty now.
    acturi
    October 21, 2009   07:27 AM PDT
     
    I was thinking an adorable cartoon, where the adorable pets don't so much die as gain angel wings and a halo and ascend into the sky where they deliver SUPER POWER LIGHTNING BOLTS to power the city.

    Then somewhere cut in with that are some ill thought out, weekly reader style clips of the real plant, one of which has a brief clip of shovelling dead dogs into a generator. Making children cry is altogether the point.
    Moof
    October 22, 2009   01:15 AM PDT
     
    Yes, absolutely, but "kill your dog and it will recharge your gameboy" isn't much to base a series on.

    Give the kids a horribly-scarring cartoon short, and they cry for a day. Give them a horribly-scarring cartoon series, and they cry for the rest of their lives. And to make it a series, you have to be sneaky about your cry-induction methods. So: make it happy, make it cute, make it fundamentally unsound and disturbing upon reflection.

    You can't tell, but I'm cackling maniacally.

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