Noveltoon: Caspar The Friendly Ghost in There's Good Boos Tonight (1948)

★★★★ · Just saw it again on a dollar DVD · RonaldB · 2006-03-05

Like a recent poster, I remember seeing this cartoon at my aunt's house when I was about 8. Her stations carried a wider variety of cartoons than the ones in my hometown. That was one of the things I looked forward to when I went to her house. I remember being very moved emotionally by the story. The other guy was right also in that this was much darker tone than most Casper cartoons I remember. Could this one have been the "pilot" of the whole series? Recently I purchased a DVD at the dollar store that had two 1950s horror movies and this cartoon. I thought of the cartoon with Casper and the…

★★★★ · British Government took note of this one.. · Spuzz · 2006-04-16

Great debut for Casper the friendly ghost here, as there is some backstory here, and then a bit of a plot about how Casper tries to make new friends, and finally does, with a fox named Gertie. They have plenty of fun together until uh-oh, A fox hunt comes their way, leading to, well, a rather macabre conclusion if I may say so. I was actually quite surprised at how plot-heavy this one was in itÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs 8 minute + running time. Finally, what the heck does the title mean?

★★★★ · The Most Tragic of all Casper Cartoons · Sci-Fi Film Follower · 2005-07-30

Usually in the most Casper films, They have very happy endings, But I never thought that one of them can be very heart breaking! This one is way too much. Casper goes out and tries to make friends but everybody runs when they see him. Suddenly he meets this cute little fox cub he names Ferdie, They both play together but then a hunter comes and shoots him! That was very unexpected! However this cartoon does have a happy ending, But I still feel for the poor fox. All the rest of the Casper cartoons, His animal friends don't get killed at all. This one is the saddest one ever made, Even back in…

★★★★ · Death Is Fun, Kids! · Christine Hennig · 2005-09-06

Casper cartoons are usually sickly sweet, but this one is unexpectedly dark and tragic. Casper makes friends with a little fox and they have lots of fun times together until the fox hunters show up. Casper manages to scare them away, but not in time to save the fox, who dies of a gunshot wound. Casper grieves pitifully until he realizes that, being a ghost, his friends donÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂt necessarily have to be alive, which gives you an idea of how the cartoon ends. I suppose this is supposed to be a happy ending, but it makes death look way…

★★★★ · Caspar Title Meaning · dzondzon · 2006-07-20

The title is a play on words. Gabriel Heatter was a famous newscaster in the 1940's that would open his broadcast with the introduction, "There's Good News Tonight."

★★★ · Kind of twisted plotline · human · 2008-08-17

Am I the only one that's a bit bothered by this plot line? Next thing you know, ol' Casper's gonna go an' have hisself a lil' ol' killin' spree so he kin have hisself lotsa new friends. I don't know why I just wrote that in dialect, but somehow it seemed to fit.