Daddy Deth (deliberately misspelled like the heavy metal band Megadeth), is a cartoon made by Ryan Hunter in the early 1990's, when he was attending North Carolina State University. Hunter is shown in the cartoon's credits to be its director, with Kyle Hansil credited as handling the audio portion of it.

The two-episode cartoon focuses on the title character (whose actual name is never revealed), trying to repair his home or car with a variety of handyman techniques, all of which fatally backfire on him (much like Wile E. Coyote's inventions always backfiring on him). Daddy Deth often enlists the help of his son Timmy (whose mother is never actually shown), but Timmy invariably misinterprets his father's instructions, which resulst in Daddy Deth's death numerous times. For example, while attempting to repair his home's garbage disposal, DD comments that it's too dark in the kitchen and asks Timmy to turn on one of the lights. Timmy, unsure of his father's request (which shows Timmy with a rather cofused look on his face with a question mark appearing next to him), instead accidentally turns on the garbage disposal, which then violently pulls Daddy Deth into the drain, shredding him to pieces and sending a torrent of blood ejecting from the sink.

The first episode of Daddy Deth was titled Hellacious Handyman, with the second episode titled Big Bang Theory, which refers to Timmy being visited by his friend Dean, who has a number of firecrackers with him, all of which end up killing Daddy Deth in one way or another. Dean and Timmy also attempt to stall Daddy Deth's car by wedging a potato into the exhaust pipe of the car...Daddy Deth tries to turn the car on anyway, and the potato is ejected from the tailpipe of the car at a high speed, which flies right through Daddy Deth, leaving a large hole in his chest and causing him to collapse to the ground right before his blood immediately drains from him, leaving him dead in a pool of blood.

Ryan Hunter provided the voice of Daddy Deth and Timmy's friend Dean, with Kyle Ha
nsil providing the voice of his son Timmy. the cartoons were shot entirely in stop-motion animation on Hunter's Super-8 camera, which had the ability to film one frame at a time.

The title and credit graphics were made with a Disney animation program on a vintage Commodore Amiga computer, with the cartoon's theme music being the insturmental part of the main guitar riff from Rage Against The Machine's Bullet In The Head, although it was added at the last minute to replace the band Exhorder's song "Desecrator."

Daddy Deth was submitted to the cartoon festival Sick and Twisted, but the festival organizers felt the Super-8 film format of the cartoon was inappropriate for the festival, which was shown in movie theaters.

Hunter did the animation for both cartoon episodes in about a day apiece, with Big Bang Theory benefiting from somewhat better animation. The lip-syncing of the characters was made possible by Hunter studying the timing of speech on a rather precise clock, which he stole from his high school physics class.

Hunter had also previously made a comic strip version of Daddy Deth previous to his animation venture, which was featured in the comics section of a small newspaper made by a local record store.

throughout the series, Daddy Deth was killed in such manners as: Run over by a roto-tiller, blown up when Timmy accidentally mistakes a grenade for a baseball while playing a game of catch with his father, decapitated by the hood of his car when Timmy mistakes the hood's prop-open bar for the dipstick of the car, accidtally being pureed to bits when Timmy attempts to use an electric mixer to make a whirpool for his father's bath, being ground to bits by his own car when Timmy mistakes his father's saying "Dammit!" for the phrase "hit it!", which was Timmy's cue for starting the car that his father was attempting to repair, being blown up by Dean's firecrackers on several occasions (in one instance, Dean decides to dispose of all the dud firecrackers in Daddy Deth's barbecue grill, which Daddy Deth first dowses with lighter fluid before tossing a match on the grill), and being run over by a U.S. Postal truck when Dean and Timmy decide to surprise their mailman by leaving a lit firecracker in the family's mailbox.

Daddy Deth also stole a number of gags from the cartoon series The Inspector, such as both the sides of Daddy Deth's dumbell falling to the ground, revealing them to actually be bombs with light fuses. the cartoon also stole all of its sound effects from other cartoons, notably The Pink Panther and the Liquid Television short series The Specialists.

Source: <ref>The Wall Street Journal</ref>