{{Short description|Comedy podcast}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Comedy | creator = Frank Conniff | director = Scott Ingalls | creative_director = | developer = Jerry Beck | presenter = Erica Doering | starring = Frank Conniff <br> Kathleen Roll | voices = Joel Hodgson/J. Elvis Weinstein as Dumpster Diver Dan<ref name= "tonight">{{cite news |last=Beck |first=Jerry |authorlink=Jerry Beck |url= https://www.cartoonbrew.com/events/cartoon-dump-live-tonight-4372.html |title=Cartoon Dump Live – Tonight! |work=Cartoon Brew |date=October 23, 2007 |accessdate=April 9, 2021}}</ref> | narrator = | theme_music_composer = Brad Kay <br> Frank Conniff | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = Brad Kay | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 6 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = Jerry Beck <br> Frank Conniff | editor = Kevin O'Regan | location = | camera = Tomas Arceo <br> Eric Meacham | runtime = 7 to 10 minutes | network = Official website; YouTube | first_aired = {{Start date|2007|07|11}} | last_aired = {{End date|2007|10|21}} | related = }} '''''Cartoon Dump''''' is an online comedy web series/video podcast created by Frank Conniff (formerly of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'') and animation historian Jerry Beck.<ref name= "Conniff">{{cite magazine |last=Lewinski |first=John Scott |url= https://www.wired.com/2008/02/cartoon-dump-dr/ |title=Cartoon Dump Drops Bad Cartoons on L.A., NYC |magazine=Wired |date=February 26, 2008 |access-date=April 9, 2021}}</ref><ref name= "Beck">{{cite news |last=Ziemba |first=Christine N. |url=https://laist.com/2009/01/13/laist_interview_animation_cartoon_h.php |title=Four Questions for Animation and Cartoon Historian Jerry Beck |work=LAist |date=January 13, 2009 |access-date=April 9, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410010118/https://laist.com/2009/01/13/laist_interview_animation_cartoon_h.php |url-status=dead}}</ref> A live version was making monthly performances at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles, California, through late 2018 and ran on the first Mondays of each month at QED Astoria in Astoria, New York, starting in January 2008 and continuing through 2018.<ref name= "kiddie">{{cite news |last=Painter |first=Alysia Gray |url= https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local/kiddie-tv-gone-wrong-cartoon-dump/1885171/ |title=Kiddie TV Gone Wrong: Cartoon Dump |work=KNBC |date=November 24, 2008 |access-date=April 9, 2021}}</ref><ref name= "Conniff" />
==Story and format== Set in a garbage dump, the show is a parody of stereotypical children's TV programming. The host of the show, "Compost Brite" (Erica Doering), despite being constantly cheery, obviously has depression as well as anorexia nervosa. Compost Brite starts each episode with the show's theme song, a jolly tune played on a theatre organ (although, Compost Brite is seen playing a guitar). Each episode features slightly different lyrics. After this, Compost Brite usually has a brief satirical discussion with the viewers on topics such as nutrition, dry heaves or how mediocrity pays off in the end. Later, one of Compost Brite's friends, usually "Moodsy the Clinically Depressed Owl" (Conniff) joins in to sing a song or plug some fictional product that is sponsoring the show. This leads into the bulk of each episode, an obscure cartoon from Jerry Beck's archives.
==Episodes== As the episodes have no official titles, they are shown here with the titles of their respective cartoons:
#"Mighty Mister Titan" #"The Big World of Little Adam" #Bucky and Pepito: "The Vexin' Texan" #Captain Fathom: "Rustlers of the Sea Range" #"The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole" #"The Adventures of Sir Gee Whiz on the Other Side of the Moon"
==References== {{reflist}}
==Links== * {{Official website|http://www.cartoondump.com/}}
Category:2007 web series debuts Category:Video podcasts Category:American animated web series