Other Burbank Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 picture image

Other Burbank Hunchback of Notre Dame

Back before the this blog began and I was just watching every Hunchback version I could get my hands on,  I was aware that there was another knock-off Disney kicking around but I never did get the chance to watch it and then I just forgot about it existed. So when people requested the other Burbank version of Hunchback, I thought great another crappy hunchback to suffer through and then rip apart. After watching it, I relived that this one was the one I forgot about and honestly that is where this version should be left, forgotten.

I started watching it on two separate occasions and I didn’t even make it passed the first line but these things must be done so let’s just get on with it.

Just so everyone is clear this version came out in 1996, so unlike the one that came out in 1986 this one is an attempt to make money off the Disney version. It is also attributed to Burbank Animations Studios whereas the 1986 version was from Burbank Films. I don’t think there is much difference expect  Burbank Films made videos between 1982 to 1989 and Burbank Animations Studios made videos from 1991 to 2002. They also didn’t just rip-off Disney but also Don Bluth, DreamWorks  and more. I don’t know it  that makes it better or worse.

The 1996 habitat from South Park  Season 2 Episode 18, Prehistoric Ice Man   picture image

The 1996 habitat from South Park Season 2 Episode 18, Prehistoric Ice Man

In Season 2 Episode 18 of South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, Stan and Kyle find a man frozen in ice since 1996. The town put the man on display since they are sure he can’t adjust to the world of 1999, so they make an little habitat filled with that were topical in 1996. This includes a bedspread of The Hunchback  Notre Dame. You can tell because it’s label.

The Ice Man sits on his Hunchback Bed set, South Park Season 2 Episode 18, Prehistoric Ice Man picture image

The Ice Man sits on his Hunchback Bedspread, South Park Season 2 Episode 18, Prehistoric Ice Man

Clopin Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame picture image
Clopin Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Disney version starts off with Clopin (Paul Kandel) regaling small children with the tale of the mysterious bell ringer and how he came the position.  Though a song (The Bells of Notre Dame) and a flashback Clopin tells of a group of Gypsies entering Paris via the Seine, the notable Gypsy is a women with a child. After docking the Romani are caught by Judge Claude Frollo (Tony Jay). Frollo doesn’t care much for gypsies and orders their arrest but when he tries to take the baby from the women (he thinks it stolen goods) she runs toward Notre Dame. After the chase Frollo kills the women on the steps of Notre Dame and Frollo tries to drown the child who is deformed. Before Frollo can do it he’s stop by the Archdeacon (David Ogden Stiers) who guilts Frollo into taking care of child but Frollo  demands that the child must live in the bell-tower. Clopin then asks us to consider what the bells supposedly say “who is the monster and who is the man”

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