Kennedy Cartoons

Kennedy Cartoons
"Everyone do the Kennedy Kick Dance!"
Founded: 1989 Defunct: 1997 Industry: Animation Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Key people: Glen Kennedy

Kennedy Cartoons was an animation studio based in Toronto, Canada founded in 1989 and led by Glen Kennedy, who formerly worked as an animation supervisor for Hanna-Barbera and Filmation during the 1980s. It went defunct in 1997.

Shows produced by Kennedy Cartoons

• Aladdin: The Series
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• What A Cartoon! Show
• Space Jam
• Darkwing Duck
• Goof Troop

Bad Qualities

Note: Please don't change the headings to "Why It Sucked" and "Redeeming Qualities", as there are some people who enjoy the studio's animation.

1. Their repetitive "Kennedy Kick Dance" was very notable in their shows they worked for like Tiny Toon Adventures, Goof Troop and Darkwing Duck are examples of this, which can get annoying.
2. Their animation and character designs were inconsistent and all over the place.
3. The studio had a tendency to the characters animated by them declaring their fingers when they speak, to the point as if they were giving an announcement rather than having a normal conversation.
4. They animated characters as bouncy and stretchy, mouths that were frequently in the "o" position, shuffling feet, stretching them to ridiculous lengths, and doing the same repeated gags (the Kennedy Kick Dance and declaring their fingers, as mentioned before)
5. Their animation was very off-model, sloppy and messy, mainly in Tiny Toons, causing them to be fired from Warner Bros. after the first season.
6. The reason why this studio was made was all because Glen Kennedy got jealous of Fil-Cartoons.
7. They would also farm animation scenes to OTHER animation houses when the studio got too busy or lazy to complete shows on their own.
8. Speaking of Glen Kennedy himself, he threatened Tom Ruegger to kill him.

Good Qualities

1. Although their animation, especially in Tiny Toon Adventures, are inconsistent, they can be fluid and expressive at best ironically.
2. Jin Kim's (who would later work at Disney) work at Aladdin helped him to improve his animation skills.
3. There are some great animators such as David Feiss (who would later create Cow and Chicken/I Am Weasel) and Jon McClenahan (who would later be found StarToons), some good animators such as John Williamson and Jin Kim, and decent animators, such as Glen Kennedy himself.
4. Certain animators from the studio (such as Glen Kennedy) went above and beyond by producing full animation for their sequences. For a TV production, this was (and still is) rare, especially from a domestic studio.

Reception

Due to Warner Bros. being dissatisfied with Kennedy's animation work in the first season of Tiny Toon Adventures and the death threats that Glen Kennedy sent to executives such as Tom Ruegger, they were eventually fired after that said season.

Trivia

• The Kennedy Kick Dance was referenced in the ending of the episode "Let's Watch the Pilot" of the first season of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
• A branch in the Philippines opened in 1992 (largely for ink-and-paint/camera work). When it closed, some of it's Manila staff migrated to Toon City.

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