8 Legged Entertainment

This is, by far, one of the most interesting sites I've seen in my search for everything octopus: It's Tako, the chef! "Deep Fried Live!", Tako's cooking show, claims to be the world's only cooking show hosted by an appetizer. Check out the video below to see what they mean...



"Deep Fried Live! is the ultimate culinary spectacle, offering cooking tips, in depoth food science, recipes, and links to the latest cookware & ingredients. It's also a thorough exploration of how much damage one octopus can do with an unlimited supply of kitchen artillery.

More cooking lessons, videos, and octoriffic goodness available at TakoTheOctopus.com and 8Legged.com

Squiddly Diddly Octopus Cartoon

A while back an Everything Octopus reader challenged me to find an old black and white octopus cartoon. In my search, I came across some unexpected and fun toons that I thought you might enjoy, including Hanna-Barbera's famous ceph, Squiddly Diddly.


Squiddly Diddly, who looks more octopus than squid, made his TV debut in 1965 on the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. An octopus after my own heart, Diddly is an aspiring musician who has the extraordinary ability to play multiple instruments at once. Diddly is confined to a life at Bubbleland, which is an amusement park similar to Sea World. In search of stardom, Diddly continually attempts to break out of Bubbleland, however his escapes are always foiled by the park's administrator, Chief Winchley.


Squiddly Diddly also made appearances on several other cartoons including Yogi's Gang, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, and Sealab 2021.

Cool Films Handcrafted by Cephalopods

Everything Octopus reader, Ian, shared this very cool video with us that I think you'll all enjoy!

Have you ever heard an octopus speak? Neither had I until I watched this interview with Reg the Octopus. He just might be the hardest working Octopus in Hollywood. Wait till you hear his resume...

Reg The Octopus on VPoint.tv

Dragon Ball Octopapa

Everything Octopus reader, Michelle my Bell, alerted me to the dark and sinister Dragon Ball character that is OCTOPAPA!!!


Octopapa is a giant octopus Goku encounters in the pirate cave. He was mistook for a spider which got him angry and he wanted to eat Goku. Goku ends up frying him with a Kamehameha Wave and eating him. According to Goku he apparently tastes like chicken.

Thanks, Michelle!

Freak! Octopus Cartoon

Dumbo Octopus Avatars

Check out these adorable animated Dumbo Octopuses. Perfect for your TONMO.com profile!

Happy Thanksgiving from Everything Octopus!

Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

More Octopus Pulp!

Here are some more rad Octopus Pulp covers that might tickle your fancy:

Octopus Virginity: Funny Cartoon Strip!

Click on the image to see the full size version :)

Suckers! Octopus Cartoon.

Octopus Pulp

Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s. But did you know that many of these fictional stories were about or featured octopuses?

Here are some images of my favorite octopus pulp covers:

Octopus Cartoon to Bring a Smile to Your Face

This is Amazing: Odd-Fish.net

Odd-Fish.net is a MUST go-to website for cephalophiles with a sense of humor. The site features a cartoon strip with recurring characters; the main character is an octopus named Lovecraft.

Below is an example of the glory that awaits you at Odd-Fish.net:

Octopus Cartoon Strip

My hunt for everything octopus brought me to www.du-artwork.de, the website of German graphic illustrator, Daniela Uhlig. The illustration below is simply titled, "sushi".


Visit her page for more tentacle-related art!