TVSquad

Cartoon characters are, basically, exaggerations or mutations of the human body, so it stands to reason that their skeletons, if they had one, would look a lot different than ours. Okay, maybe you never thought of that, but if your artist Michael Paulus you not only think about it, but you actually draw what the skeletal system animated folk such as the Powerpuff Girls, Marvin the Martian, and Betty Boop might look like. This idea isn't entirely new. The late artists Jack Rickard drew very similar cartoon skeletons back in the early days of Mad Magazine. Nevertheless, it's both fun and creepy to gape at the grotesque insides of these usually adorable characters. I think the Powerpuff Girls may be the most disturbing. Those gigantic eye sockets make them look like something out of a Tim Burton movie.

CBS' Crime Scene Investigation franchise has done well with shows like CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, and CSI: Plus Calcium, but what about CSI: Mozart? That's what a TV station in Austria dubbed a forensic analyzation of a human skull which may or may not have belonged to the famous composer. The story goes that Mozart's skull was removed from his grave ten years after his death by the same man who buried him. The skull was kept on display before being moved to a safe in the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Tests, unfortunately, proved inconsequential, though I'm not sure that really matters. It's not like it's his brain or anything, which, had it been preserved, would be much more interesting to study, and/or feed to a bear. At any rate, I think the scientists who studied the skull's DNA may have a great idea for a new show on their hands, one in which investigators study a different deceased celebrity's skull in each episode. They could call it CSI: Famous Skull Unit. I'd watch something like that.