In the Pleistocene days of the internet, one of the first sites to create original content for the Web was Icebox. People said showing cartoons on the World Wide Web was crazy and would never take off, and indeed, Icebox died in the First Great Internet Crash. But not before presenting several episodes of John Kricfalusi’s WEEKEND PUSSY HUNT, one of the earliest web cartoons. In fact, this was the second Flash web cartoon — the first being Kohn K’s The Goddamn George Liquor Program.

WPH starred George Liquor and an unfortunate pup named Dirty Dog–the animation was simple by today’s standards, although this was only 7 or 8 years ago. In fact, we remember watching this on an early iMac, and having the music keep playing after we closed out browser…a ghostly little sound that haunts us to this day. Back when Icebox was live there were also little interactive Flsh games including one in which you xcould make Dirty Dog puke and poop at will. As we recall, the poops that shot out of Dirty Dog’s butt would pile up, for a very amusing effect.

WPH was intended to run for 14 episodes in typical John K. fashion, the site went out of business with only 12 of them produced. You can see all 12 on Youtube, but here’s the first one to get you started. Don’t miss the film noir opening credits, either!

PS: the music for this was mostly from the Chappell library, according to message board posting. Ren and Stimpy was mostly from the APM music library. If you hunt around long enough on the internet, you can find collections of the best R&S cues. Not legal, of course, so we’re not advising it!