What San Francisco Neighborhoods Would Cartoons Live In?
Imagine this scenario: Cartoon characters exist in the real life, just like in Cool World and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s Thursday night at the Holy Cow/Friday night at Delirium/Saturday night at The Matrix/Monday night at 540 Club/wherever you go to catch STDs on any given night. You run into Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, Harvey Birdman, Daria, and the Smurfs and have a blast getting hammered and making bad decisions. You end up going home with a cartoon character. If you woke up in one of these neighborhoods, whose bed would you be in?
SoMa
Underdog, The Tick, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Batman. Photo: Troy Holden of CaliberSF.com
Check out the rest after the jump!
North Beach
Mario & Luigi. Photo: Troy Holden
The Haight
Scooby Doo & Shaggy, Beavis & Butthead. Photo: Troy Holden
The Mission
Trent Lane, Jane Lane, Daria Morendorffer, Quinn Morgendorffer, Captain Planet, Bender. Photo: Troy Holden
The Fillmore
Bucky, Fat Albert, Bill, Weird Harold, Russell, Mushmouth. Photo: Troy Holden
The Marina
Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Johnny Bravo. Photo: Chris Saulit
Golden Gate Park
Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear & Boo Boo, Winnie the Pooh. Photo: Troy Holden
The Castro
G.I. Joe, Peter Pan, The Smurfs. Photo: pbo31
The Tenderloin
Ren & Stimpy, Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Stimpy. Photo: Troy Holden
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Does anyone have any other cartoon character + neighborhood ideas? Leave a comment or hit me up on Twitter @genejo
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Tags: cartoon characters, cartoons, Golden Gate Park, north beach, san francisco cartoons, SOMA, the castro, The Fillmore, the haight, the marina, The Mission, the tenderloin
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Haha, as I was looking through the pics, I thought it was a great idea, but damn, this fool could have spent a few more min to do the job right!
Haha I know. I went from idea to finished product in minutes. Not too shabby!
This is such a clever idea and very well executed. Awesome!
What, no “Family Guy” in Noe Valley?
murphstahoe: LOL! Great idea, I should throw in Bobby Generic from Bobby’s World in there, too. Great Noe Valley blog, btw
bert and ernie in the castro!!!
also stewie and smithers in the castro.
no, no family guy. sorry.wrong hood for that.
ratdoginastroller: Hm, since the Griffins are from the North East, they would be relegated to the Marina, based on this guy’s observation that North East SF = North East US
http://icetubesblog.com/2010/04/29/is-north-east-san-francisco-the-northeast-of-san-francisco/
Funny post, and generally on point, but I don’t see the Griffins in the Marina.
a little confused about the Fillmore as a white-middle-class male. you missed all the anime characters. they’ve overgrown japantown.
i’m also confused by the fillmore…
smither’s would have been perfect in the castro.
another good one for the mission would be dora the explorer.
other than that, these are great. minus dude’s shitty photo-cropping job. seriously!!
LOL! I’d be hangin’ with the Birdman in SoMA!
indiequick & angela: The Fillmore is considered the historical center of African-American culture in San Francisco. It’s an inner-city neighborhood populated by primarily lower income African American families, much like Fat Albert and the gang, who grew up in inner city Philly. The kids were also all musicians, which ties in directly with the Fillmore’s rich jazz history.
I like the anime and dora the explorer ideas! And yes, I know I suck at photoshop! lol
I respect your photoshop skills, Gene.
Yogi Bear & Boo Boo really should be in the Castro. The rest I fully agree with. Great job.
These are great! I laughed at every single one. You should expand and refine this. Put the Family Circus kids in Noe Valley.
Velma from Scooby-Doo, Catwoman, Josie and the Pussycats, Michiru and Haruka from Sailor Moon, and Peppermint Patty — they all in Bernal
Oh, and you forgot Life in Hell’s Akbar & Jeff in the Castro.
I think Velma & Peppermint Patty belong in Noe Valley.
LOVE IT!
Velma and Peppermint Patty belong in Bernal Heights.
Sunset: King of the Hill cast (or at least Dale Gribble). And the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
Marina: Richie Rich.
Noe Valley: Rugrats.
Lower Haight: Ren and Stimpy.
Richmond: Inspector Gadget seems appropriate. Space Ghost. And Hello Kitty, of course…
I think Richie Rich would be in Pacific Heights.
I think Quinn would be in the Marina.