Welcome to Fantom Island, where iLL-Literacy's legend finds its habitat. If you've happened upon this portal, may we be as bold as to assert that nested in you is a healthy curiosity. Whether you were drawn here by the Slanted i at this page's 1-o-clock, the quick flash of during loading, or simply because you have a click-happy finger – you've arrived. HihowRUhi?
The peculiar thing about Fantom Island is that it is but a mirage – an Imaginary oasis isolated in the confines of our brainwaves. We shall gradually reveal morsels of our folklore here, so please visit often. To return, simply bring your Imagination as your passport.
Fantom Island
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON: Bump in the Night
Considering that claymation is one of the greatest things in the world, why, pray tell, do claymation series’ never last? Do the animators’ fingers just get tired? Don’t answer that question. Anyway, I’d like to take us back to ’94, when albums like Illmatic and Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik came out. I, of course, was still in my Ninja Turtles pajamas watching cartoons like Bump in the Night, a series about a closet monster named Mr. Bumpy who played in little boys’ rooms while they were away. Completely inappropriate nowadays, but apparently exactly what CBS wanted in its Saturday morning lineup…for one season, that is. But any cartoon with a full minute-long theme song is okay in my book.
