But someone obviously likes this stuff-- they continue to make it. I suspect I've answered my own question about who likes SquiggleVision: Non-artists. But that's the reason I'm bringing this up here... discuss Squiggle Vision!

Does any animation enthusiast enjoy it? (I'll confess now that I had a chuckle or two while watching Dr. Katz while drunk at 3 in the morning back in school.... ah, to be young again.)

While I am not a fan of bad in-betweening, I am okay with it being used as a legitimate technique. For instance, I think it was used to great efect in the NFB short "The Cat Came Back'. And, in the case of Dr. Katz, (which is the only thing on your list I've actually seen) I felt the squiggly line was being nicely used to disguise the static, severely limited movement of the show.

Personally it didn't bother me, because I thought the content was hilarious and the solutions to their obvious budget constraints were clever.

As far as the Dr. Katz show, like I said I laughed at some of the dialog between the son and dad myself, 'cause it was funny. And I think some of the holds on blank eyeballs or slight twitches of the face they animated really punctuated the dry humor.

So what was my point after all.. hmm... I dunno...

When I need to relax a bit I animate some squiggly traced-back stick figure being hit by a bus er sumpthin. It's really fun after coming down off of some strictly modeled project.

Sqigglevision DOES NOT refer to every cartoon with sqiggly lines. I believe it is a term specific to the 2d pixelated squiggily computer animated stuff, coined by the people who created the style (Dr. Katz, Home Movies)

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Tom Snyder: "First and foremost, we have never hired anyone trained in animation. We only hire illustrators. If you bring in animators, they'll bring you a guy jumping over a fence they've worked on for nine weeks. We like the immediacy and uncarefulness of Dr. Katz's style. Most animators, especially if they're guys in their 20s, can only draw large-breasted women and guys with huge muscles because they're really into Japanese cartoon ****. It just depresses the hell out of me. It's been elevated to an art form because the Japanese do such a good job, and it's got this cultural chic about it, but we couldn't be less interested in any of that junk."

When asked, "What cartoons did you watch growing up?
Snyder's response: "None actually. Well, maybe ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE. I didn't like cartoons that much. I found them kind of boring. I watched ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE even though I couldn't stand Rocky because I could tell it was a woman's voice. It was sickening somehow. It was well, is it a guy or a woman? But it was very clever writing.

The way we run our studio is that audio and performance are king...Yes, I think really the only reason I use animation is because I'm so into the audio performance.
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Kind of leaves you speechless.

And another thing I'm pissed about: National Missile Defense... F**k that s**t!

And another thing I'm pissed about: National Missile Defense... F**k that s**t!

THEN WHY IS EVERYONE MUMBLING LIKE DAVID DUCHOVNEY ON VALIUM!?!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. I've seen bits of all the "Squigglevision" shows, and none of them appeal to me for that reason: the performances are so low key that they bore, the animation uses the squiggles to mask the fact that there's less motion than a Clutch Cargo cartoon, and neither of those are enough to keep me interested long enough to even care about the story.