Thanks. You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things.

@pfitzner1

5 жыл бұрын

But it helps!

@tximistarissole

4 жыл бұрын

PREACH

@Silentskip001

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@chasegriffin5205

2 жыл бұрын

So very beautifully true 👍💯

@synthonaplinth5980

2 жыл бұрын

Frank Zappa would have agreed with that wholeheartedly.

I adore the fact that one of the greatest animators of the 1970s and 80s published one of her greatest works 14 years ago on KZread and still regularly responds to KZread comments. Props to you, Mrs. Cruikshank.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Max Herman, that's very nice of you, thank you!

@loril.mangold8160

2 жыл бұрын

She actually made these movies long before that, but only more recently uploaded them to You Tube

"i sure do love looking at pictures of people working" is probably one of my new favorite quotes ever

@gooberdog666

3 ай бұрын

SAME

I found out that this cartoon is preserved in the library of Congress and I think that's amazing! Congratulations, your work is wonderfully bizarre, and will be preserved forever!

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Phoenix Quill! Bizarre lives on!

Absolutely love the scene with the woman looking in the mirror, and seeing her holding all the animals whose skin make up her clothes and items. So fun!

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

thanks lannydragonlover

This is the bees knees , amazing toon ! I’m watching the rest of your portfolio in a flash !

@sallycruikshank

9 ай бұрын

Yay hooray you're my favorite kind of commenter!

“I love to watch pictures of people working!” -Quasi predicts modern tv?

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

It's certainly no surprise why this is considered one of the greatest pieces of animation of all time. Truly a joy to behold.

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

So nice of you and cool avatar too

"You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things".

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Ain't it the truth!

@GriffinGuitartwelve

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank Indeed! All you need to have are weird dreams and a vivid imagination!

Whenever something embarrassing happens, my parents and I just instinctively whimper "THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME!" People look at us funny but we laugh everytime

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

I'm laughing reading this!

Back when I was 6 years old, Cartoon Network had a day where they aired what they called the "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". I randomly remembered I saw this cartoon on there, but only the end where they pushed Quasi over. Not the name or any really solid details. This was a little too abstract for my kid brain at the time to remember it very well. Luckily there was a list compiled of all the cartoons that aired during that day and it didn't take long of Googling each one to find this. I can appreciate it now as an adult and I'm absolutely going to watch the other cartoons on your channel. Really love how trippy and fun your ideas are.

@sallycruikshank

7 ай бұрын

That's so nice, thanks!

I saw this many many years ago - when I was in college late 70's to early 80's and it has always stuck in my mind and heart. My best friend then who still is my BFF, will call me up and say, "hey ya quasi, wanna go to the quackadero?" So great to see this again and discover other works by Sally Cruikshank. Many thanks to her for this wonderfully fun and fantasy escape imaginary world.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Julie, thanks for your really nice comment. How wonderful to still have your best friend as your BFF!

Still a classic. Something that I'm enraptured by with this cartoon, that I don't think I've ever seen put into words, is the fact that it's set in this colorful and whimsical wonderland, with so many scenes focused on exposing the darker, adult nature of the characters. Winky's perversion, Quasi's childlike wish to harm his friends, and of course Anita and Rollo's straight-up abandonment of Quasi, all given opportunity to be expressed through a theme park. It might not even really hit you just how wonderfully rotten these characters are, at least from what I see. Truly a cartoon that has it all!

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

I just absolutely love your analysis of my cartoon. Whew, spot on!

That's one of my favorite parts too. The music is what makes it so great.

I guess we're never seeing quasi ever again, Rest in peace....

This animation gets better everytime i watch it!

@sallycruikshank

7 ай бұрын

Ha, I wish it did!

I saw this in 1980 (?) on Dutch tv, was absolutely fascinated by it and as my dad had recorded the broadcast on VHS, just couldn't get enough of it and kept watching it over and over again for years! The dialogues, plot, the music... even the name Sally Cruikshank sounded mesmerising to me and how happy I am now I've found it now on youtube!

@sallycruikshank

4 жыл бұрын

Dutch tv? That's very cool.

Wow this kinda reminds me of that Yellow Submarine movie or a even more ethereal Tex Avery! Thanks for filling so many imaginations with this!

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Thanks back!

7:22 "What did you say your name was?" " QWA-ZEE! >:V" *smacks forehead*

The dream reader sequence in this short has stuck with me since the first time I saw it years ago, though the entire thing is wonderfully unique. 50 Greatest cartoons introduced me to your work but its quality speaks for itself. Thanks for the memories!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your nice comment. Maybe some day there will be dream readers.

The funny thing is that the creeps/smiles effect is exactly what I was trying to do.

I was not expecting this to be so good. I think the voice acting is the best part of it all.

@sallycruikshank

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Oh wow, I saw this back in the 70's when I was in college, and I NEVER forgot it. So very glad to see it again, and now that I'm an animator myself, I'm even more amazed by it. Brilliant.

It's still superb after all these years. A thanks goes to not only you Cruikshank for making it but also to the National Film Registry for introducing me to it.

@sallycruikshank

8 ай бұрын

Thank you @misterjj that's so nice of you!

@misterjj

8 ай бұрын

You're most welcome. It's important for artists to know that their work is greatly appreciated.@@sallycruikshank

@sallycruikshank

8 ай бұрын

@@misterjj I like your attitude. I see so many artists creating great things and they're barely noticed. Jasper Johns is an artist whose work especially annoys me.

@misterjj

8 ай бұрын

I've heard that name but must check out his work. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure what your music tastes are but there was a great band out of Melbourne called Models.@@sallycruikshank

The one and only time I saw the Twilight Zone movie on TV as a kid, the animated sequence was instantly seared onto my consciousness forever. I'm so glad I came back to investigate it in later years and found this channel. Now I adore this masterpiece. Thank you so much for sharing your unique, funny, startling imagination with us! Quasi lives!

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

This makes me very happy, thank you!

Listening to one of Terence Mckenna’s interviews (his last interview in 1999 actually) and he recommended this animation! This must’ve been right up his alley, he loved art and animation.

@sallycruikshank

10 ай бұрын

It's amazing to me that so many people have seen this because of T. McKenna's interviews. I wish I'd known him.

I remember seeing this during Cartoon Networks 100 greatest cartoons back in the 90s. It sort of disturbed me in a way as a kid, but it also stuck with me. It's definitely one of the more interesting cartoons I've seen.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow! I saw this in Petaluma, CA at an arty theater downtown - sometime around 1975/76 - with my friend Tasha, whose boyfriend (Lonnie) played bass in the Steve Miller Band. Just thought of this film during a sleepless night a few days ago. Brings back a lot of fond memories of those long-ago times... Thanks for making this, and thanks for posting this work!

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

That's really great. I remember that theatre I think, and know the feeling of sleepless nights all too well lately.

The music was composed and performed by Robert Armstrong and Allan Dodge.

We first saw this in a theater when i was a kid. We got a poster there and you signed it for us. We still have it! Later my parents managed to obtain the 16mm reel of it, which we also still have! Just thought to look you up on KZread and here you are. Thank you for your art, which has been so important in my life (Face Like a Frog is another favorite).

@sallycruikshank

4 ай бұрын

That's so nice. Now the poster sells for $500! The 16mm print is probably faded though. Thanks for your lovely comment.

The local sports talk radio host here in Tallahassee (of all people) was discussing this today on his podcast. He absolutely raved about it.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Mike West, that's a wonderful story, Send me his name and radio show name and I'll surprise him with a free cel

@mikewest5796

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank the Jeff Cameron show. 97.9 ESPN Radio in Tallahassee, Florida.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikewest5796 thanks so much!

Every time I rewatch this, I keep forgetting how much I enjoy it. Truly one of the high points of humanity

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

Yikes, thanks.

@ProfCoolio

5 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank wow. You responded to little ole me. This moment is going up there on my list of best moments in my life.

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

@@ProfCoolio some times I get comments I really want to reply to, but when I hit the reply button from email the comment has vanished.

@ProfCoolio

5 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank regardless, you really made my day.

This takes me back. I found this cartoon very interesting and unique as a kid.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel.

I got this movie from the Public Library back in 1983 or 82, when I lived in Iowa City , Iowa, I just thought about Quasi, and looked it up on Google, because I was telling someone about the Animation, and here in 2022 you can look this movie up on your phone, the only hitch was googles robot kept spitting out Quasi at the Darrell, not hearing Quackadarro. I LOVE all these movies

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Cool memory, thanks!

Ms. Cruikshank, I just want to offer you the same praise I once offered Bill Plympton: your work scarred me as a child. This may sound like a complaint, but I thank you for it. My first experience with Quasi At The Quackadero came with Cartoon Network's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time" and it was wholly unlike anything else I'd seen up to that point. Everything had such a whimsical, surreal, dreamlike quality to it, yet there was a recurring streak of existential dread running through it. The scene with the time holes was the most existentially terrifying thing I had ever encountered up until that point in my young life. Thank you for creating this true masterpiece of animated cinema and for the seeds it planted in me, which have since blossomed into the weird, wonderful person I am today. Without the works of true artists such as yourself, I'd probably be just another nameless, faceless gear in the machine of this world.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Hi ChineseTonyDanza, thank you for this intriguing comment. I understand what you are saying about existential dread, (at least I think I do), but no one has ever said anything like that about it before.

Sally, you are fantastic, absolutely fantastic!!

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you Fernando.

Back in the early 1980s when I was in the Navy, we had several short 16mm reels of these cartoons, courtesy of AAFES. We were moving from an onboard television film chain system to video tape and I recorded all the reels to video tape. I found these cartoons strangely compelling and would schedule them between shows (ships at sea have no advertising) whenever possible.

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

My gosh, that is truly amazing. Thanks for telling me about this!

@FeoAmante

Жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank Thank you for leaving such a great mark on me!

my dad showed this to me like 15 years ago, and no one in our family really got it at all, but he was a film minor in the late 70's or early 80's and i guess was trying to show us what was hip at the time. anyway, he and i both still sometimes exclaim "Rollo!"

Wow I don't know if I just watched something or I dreamed I did but its well earned its spot on the 50 greatest cartoons list

My sister, who is obsessed with your animations, showed me this along with a few others the other day while we were hanging out. Didn't think I'd be watching them again voluntarily but here I am, and it's GREAT

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks. Say hello to your sister for me!

one of the best and most entertaining cartoons of all time.

This is amazing! I am obsessed with these kinds of funky animations. So intriguing, well done!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks joy!

This is one of my favorite animated short films ever, and one of the the inspirations for my interest in animation. Thank you Sally, and thank you Quasi!

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Stay inspired!

Wow! as an aspiring underground animator this is it! Really shows what incredible metaphysical potential lies in the animated form. Thanks Sally

In this day and age, it doesn't even occur to people that a great cartoon can be created without a huge team of animators. The work you put into this shows, and will only impress people MORE as time goes by.

NO WAY! I found this... way cool, this is SO bizzare! I too saw this at a film festival... mid 70's. I love the womans voice. THANK YOU!

"I love to look at pictures of people working!"

@florakagan2760

4 жыл бұрын

My brother Joes fav saying! lol

I am 25 and came here to watch this video again and write almost this exact statement. Your work is an inspiration that has had a wide spread influence on many artists, thank you so much for making these videos available.

How have I lived this long without knowing about this????? This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a while!

This is not getting enough attention. With today's technology this could be a massive hit, again.

I saw this at a midnight movie back in the day. Nice to see it when I can remember what I was watching! Superior.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found your way back to the Quackadero, cheers.

@BillyDBunny

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank Merry Christmas, Ms. Cruikshank, an honor and a thrill to hear from you. Best wishes!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@BillyDBunny Same to you!

I saw this way back when at "Off the Wall Cinema" a tiny cafe in Cambridge Mass. that showed short films, I was always excited to see a Sally Cruikshank film there. So happy to have found you here. 😍

@sallycruikshank

7 жыл бұрын

Rally Truly, I wish so much I had visited "Off the Wall". They were such big boosters of my films. So many people have written me about how great that café was. And only a few years before I was in misery at Smith College in Northampton.

Thanks, the guys who ran Off the Wall did so much to push the popularity of this short along.

Glad you have the films on KZread I love your art

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you saen. The two musicians, Robert Armstrong and Allan Dodge, were friends of mine and composed the music for the film. They were then part of a group "The Cheap Suit Serenaders" and they have some cds on amazon. I just checked.

@thoughtsurferzone5012

3 жыл бұрын

That was Robert Crumb's group, I believe. Do you know Crumb?

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@thoughtsurferzone5012 Knew him many years ago.

I saw this 30 years ago too, as a student in California. So many details stuck in my mind! Great to find it again.

I saw this cartoon at some animation fest at UC Berkeley in 1975 or 76. I have Remembered this piece until this day.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

That's where I was living. I wonder why it's being presented in the KZread black letter box now.

Fun fact: I recently knew that Kim Deitch(The Voice of Quasi) was the son of the one and only... Gene Deitch(I appreciate his work at Terrytoons and at Chezcheslovakia)

Hi Sally, I just did a research essay about you for animation school, and I just wanted to say that your work is extremely inspiring. Thank you so much for everything you have done, and I hope you're doing well!

@sallycruikshank

5 ай бұрын

Amanda, thank you for your lovely, lovely message. Stay inspired! Best, Sally

Saw this at a little coffeehouse theater circa 1980. Had to give it a standing ovation. Wonderfully quirky experience.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I wonder if it was Off the Wall in Boston?

I absolutely love the Madame Xano dream sequence.

Just marvelous! As fresh as when I initially saw it in the seventies at an animation festival in San Francisco, where I was completely blown away first by the hilarious title and inspired music, then of course by the characters, voices and animation. (I'd been looking for this; glad I found it again on this site.)

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

+salodaysofsodom Thank you, nice way to start the day.

This was just incredible! I first heard of this cartoon when I was a lad, around 1995 or 1996, when I bought a book called "The 50 Greatest Cartoons." The 10 plus years looking for it did not end in disappointment! Thank you for posting everything on KZread, I'm sorry I've missed your work all this time!

More rad than just about anything. Saw it 35 years ago and have never forgotten it. And such credentials! Kim Deitch? Cheap Suit Serenaders? Is there a sequel?!

@sallycruikshank

10 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks. Well, my cartoon "Make Me Psychic" has many of same talents in the wings.

@jonathanbutterick4073

10 жыл бұрын

Sally Cruikshank There is! There is a sequel! I had no idea. It's fantastic.

Great stuff..saw it 30 years ago and it still makes me happy!

Thank you for making such incredible art.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your enthusiasm- cheers!

I just discovered the existence of this animation. I'm now interested in your other works.

@sallycruikshank

10 ай бұрын

Great. Grab a chair!

I love the auto-captions, lol. 2:30: "Iranians looking me partisan is on linking your land Alamo". I mean sure, why not?

@sallycruikshank

11 ай бұрын

OMG I'd never seen the closed captions before. Hysterical!!

@MiketheratguyMultimedia

11 ай бұрын

@@sallycruikshank That's automated captions for you, lol. It is the world of AI that we all must fear! :D

As I understand it, "That never happened to me." Thanks for the heads up on the stalled loading.

Somebody was watching yellow submarine. Very trippy. Seen this on some TV show back in 79

fantastic, thanks for the leap in imagination

Greatest cartoon ever made. 😎👍🏻

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

oh my, scrape me off the floor! thanks.

@MelloGee33

Жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank 😊👍🏻❤️

Legendary Cartoon, I love Quasi

OMG I haven't seen this (well, clips of it) since the early 80s!!!

Lilith- Found your comment quite touching, especially since some of my closest childhood friends are at the base of this film.

First time I've seen this & it's great! It looks like a Fleischer Betty Boop crossed with Yellow Submarine.

It's like Betty Boop meets Yellow Submarine

My co-worker three times my age showed me this and it's become our favorite thing to watch at work. With permission I'm hoping to get a Quasi tattoo. Thanks for your inspiring work Sally!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cameron. Of course you can use any image of mine for a tattoo.

@cameronmee7634

3 жыл бұрын

@@sallycruikshank I got the tattoo! Is there an email I can use to who the result? Thanks again for permission to get it done.

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

@@cameronmee7634 With gmail I'm funonmars@

Thanks, I've wanted to see this for over 10 years :)

My cousins & I first saw this cartoon in the 80s on TV (probably a public access channel) in Southern CA - it was late at night & we were flipping through channels. We were equal parts intrigued, troubled, and electrified. For years we joked about the National Vegetable Convention & naked carrots, but we couldn't track down the source. Flash forward to about 5-6 years ago, when I did some googling and lucked out in finding an online listing for a cel, then found this link. We made it back to the Quackadero! Whoo hoo! Last year we did a group watch via Zoom & I have referred to the 3 of us as the Sisterhood of the Quackadero. Every watch still intrigues, troubles & electrifies me. As my cousin says, "Thank you, Sally Cruikshank, for another banger!"

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers for the Sisterhood! Great comment, thanks!

I've been hearing about 'Quasi' for more than 10 years, and now I've finally seen it.

I last saw this on HBO around 93/94. They used to rerun these between movies late nite.

o how lovely, i can't get enough of this cartoon! i think it is so cool of you to post these on u-tube.

You all have such great memories of time and place!

Heard about this from Terence McKenna's last interview. Glad I decided to give this a watch

@sallycruikshank

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. He sent a lot of people here. Sorry I never met him.

i hope we get to see some of sally's work in the future. its always so beautiful and unique

@sallycruikshank

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks TailsCosmoLove. I've done some work on a new cartoon being produced by an actual company, well we'll see!

@TailsCosmoLove

8 жыл бұрын

+Sally Cruikshank terrific! that's great to hear

This is amazing. I don't know how I have never heard of this artist. This stuff was absolutely revolutionary.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

thank you thank you thank you!

Sally, thanks...just watching again as a way of grounding myself after a challenging few weeks and find that Quasi makes me feel so happy...somehow as elemental as air and water. New appreciation for the soundtrack, too.

Love it!!! Thanks for sharing

I love absolutely every video on your channel. This may be my favorite singular cartoon ever and it’s such an endless joy. Thank you for all the absolutely wonderful work you’ve done!

@sallycruikshank

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's really nice, Dr. Teeth! Thank you!

Sally...you... you are a genius

@sallycruikshank

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy!

The background music at 8:04 until 9:20 is literally so good and i love it so much 🩷

I saw this at the New Varsity Theater in Palo Alto. There is nothing like the big screen.

I remember seeing this cartoon, shortly after it was released, probably in Pasadena or South Pasadena. It was a hallmark of the time and a pleasure to see today. Thank you, Sally for the creativity.

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

And thanks for remembering it, David Drake.

I was trying to find this as I watched it well over 20 years ago. Thankfully I remembered the names of the main characters. This was so surreal and you know what. I loved it! Surreal storytelling is one of my favorite types of presentation

@sallycruikshank

2 жыл бұрын

So nice. I wonder if you cook surreal style too!

I have LOVED this animated film since I first saw it in college in Boston sometime in the late 70s. And it's just as amazing and gorgeous and entertaining today as it was then. Thank you for making it available on youtube!!!

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

So nice. It was always especially popular in Boston in those days. That coffee house, um, what was the name?

@189beacon

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure but maybe you mean Passim's in Harvard Square? It was always popular with the folk and folk-rock music crowd.

@sallycruikshank

5 жыл бұрын

@@189beacon Just remembered, it was Off the Wall.

I first saw this on a Cartoon Network marathon (based vaguely on the Jerry Beck top-50 list), and I fell in love with it. I'm tickled to finally get to see the unexpurgated version.

Every time I’m stuck in an animation rut I come here and watch all your videos, super inspiring!

Oh man, I haven't seen "Quasi" since the Off the Wall Cinema in Cambridge closed in the 80s. Wonderful stuff!

thank you kirsten- glad you've gotten so much out of them.