tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post6019015838420266726..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Discuss: Favorite Cartoons That Might Seem Obscure NowDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-25130735997178066232014-03-28T08:21:02.424-05:002014-03-28T08:21:02.424-05:00Let's see obscure cartoons:
Anyone remember R...Let's see obscure cartoons:<br /><br />Anyone remember Rodger Ramjet and the American Eagles? It was by the makers of Rocky and Bullwinkle. I also liked:<br /><br />The Mighty Heroes <br />Clutch Cargo<br />Space Angel<br />Spider-Man : The 1967 version<br /><br /><br />Fantastic Four: The Hanna Barbera 1967 version<br /><br />and last but not least Duck Man with Jason Alexander! I wish the DVD's weren't so expensive. <br />fantastic four fan forevernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-18559904560281696072014-03-28T05:18:31.365-05:002014-03-28T05:18:31.365-05:00Anon, re: the Flash Gordon cartoon. Yes, I remembe...Anon, re: the Flash Gordon cartoon. Yes, I remember it quite well. It was produced by Filmation, which was also doing those Tarzan and Batman cartoons in the late '70s that I really liked. Anyway, the Flash Gordon cartoon was probably my favorite back in the day - I liked that way the story was serialized, unlike most other action cartoons back then.Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-62724884770510826152014-03-28T02:54:05.054-05:002014-03-28T02:54:05.054-05:00Whatever happened to Heckle and Jeckle?!? Did they...Whatever happened to Heckle and Jeckle?!? Did they offend the English and hard-nosed (beaked?) New Yorkers they represented?Abe Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13991534345391655980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-30160238066207904332014-03-27T23:38:07.056-05:002014-03-27T23:38:07.056-05:00I remember Klondike Cat. The mouse's name was ...I remember Klondike Cat. The mouse's name was Savoir Faire. He would say "Savior Faire eez everywhere!" with a French accent.<br /><br />And remember Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp? Best show ever!!!Hoosier Xhttp://mushtown.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-13498918079302775562014-03-27T23:13:20.160-05:002014-03-27T23:13:20.160-05:00Hey Doug, for myself it's not usually the read...Hey Doug, for myself it's not usually the reading time of the reviews. It's just that it's a very specific topic, one issue you and Karen are reviewing, and you cover it quite thoroughly. So it's often, "Well that was an interesting read" but with nothing more I can add.<br /><br />In the case of open topics, like what's your favorite burger/cartoon/song, everyone has an experience they can relate, so you're bound to get more posts. <br /><br />I like having both reviews and open topics. The idea of adding a question or two at the end of your comic reviews seems like a good one, to get people started. Garettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-30731516098597937762014-03-27T22:35:48.560-05:002014-03-27T22:35:48.560-05:00I recently caught an episode of SPACE GHOST COAST ...I recently caught an episode of SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST (ah, insomnia) in which Jan and Jace were suing Space Ghost on grounds of child endangerment and exploitation.<br />He told them they were ungrateful punks and that without him, they would be on the HERCULOIDS, following Gleep and Glerp with a broom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-61726709786608586452014-03-27T21:14:12.399-05:002014-03-27T21:14:12.399-05:00I nominate Top Cat and Jabberjaw - a wisecracking...I nominate Top Cat and Jabberjaw - a wisecracking cat and a talking shark always stick in your memory!<br /><br />- Mike 'no respect!' from Trinidad & Tobago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-56504156066662496822014-03-27T20:46:10.897-05:002014-03-27T20:46:10.897-05:00I'm with dbutler. THUNDARR! The barbarian.
Br...I'm with dbutler. THUNDARR! The barbarian. <br />Brought to us by the twin titanic talents of Mr. Steve Gerber and Mr. Jack Kirby.<br />Oh, and anybody remember that Flash Gordon cartoon? That was pretty cool. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-63256019271403664192014-03-27T19:16:04.831-05:002014-03-27T19:16:04.831-05:00HB, I can't let this go without letting you th...HB, I can't let this go without letting you that I haven't seen that Gilligan's Island episode for a good 30 years, but remember that "Pooloo See Bagumba" means "Release the prisoners"<br /><br />Cartoons, cartoons....there were a couple of DePatie-Freleng ones that I was addicted to - The Super Six: snazzy theme song by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, about an agency that keeps superheroes on its books, with backup cartoon The Brothers Matzoriley, about a body with three heads (one Chinese IIRC).<br /><br />Another one was Super President - now there's a concept I can't see them reviving at any point in the future.<br /><br />Lots of great Japanese animation from the early days - Eighth Man, Space Ace, Amazing Three, Marine Boy, Prince Planet...used to confuse me as a kid that I knew they were Japanese, but the credits said American International.<br /><br />Still have a real soft spot for those Beatles cartoons - I read somewhere that the Fab Four only agreed to them if they weren't shown in the UK; but they were screened subsequently, I believe. In the days before we had a record player, or I had a transistor radio, those cartoons were a great way to indulge in some Beatlemania....and i wonder how Ringo might have reacted the first time someone went "Hur-hur-hur-yeah" at him :-)<br /><br /><br />What the heck, as kid, I would watch ANY cartoons, and loved 'em all unreservedly<br />B Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618583443442543086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-49033120900353596352014-03-27T19:14:32.197-05:002014-03-27T19:14:32.197-05:00Edo --
I think it's just the nature of the po...Edo --<br /><br />I think it's just the nature of the posts we run. The "conversational" ones almost always garner more participation. Sometimes we wonder if the density of our reviews maked it difficult for our readers to get through on a coffee break or before/after work. The time it takes to read those probably inhibits the time needed to foster a cogent thought and post it, let alone come back throughout the day to check on any activity.<br /><br />But you're right -- it took me longer to find the right Felix the Cat image than it did to come up with the idea and ready today's post for publication. I maybe have five minutes invested in this today.<br /><br />That being said, I've spent the better part of a week trying to come up with a title for next Monday's "Secret Empire" installment!!<br /><br />DougDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-79530768274502823792014-03-27T18:48:40.006-05:002014-03-27T18:48:40.006-05:00I had almost forgotten Tom Slick. IIRC, it was a s...I had almost forgotten Tom Slick. IIRC, it was a segment of the George of the Jungle show. Sort of, what if Dudley Do-Right had been a race car driver instead of a Mountie. <br /><br />Which reminds me of Klondike Kat, a rare case of a cat-chases-mouse cartoon where the cat was the good (although klutzy) guy. <br /><br />Commander McBragg was pretty funny, although I didn't fully appreciate it until I saw some old British movies (particularly The Four Feathers) with C. Aubrey Smith. <br /><br />There was also a cartoon frog named Hoppity Hooper. Not to be confused with Hippity Hopper, the "giant mouse" that terrified Sylvester.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-14717803215884617792014-03-27T18:40:04.280-05:002014-03-27T18:40:04.280-05:00Mr. O and HB- I join you in saluting "Journ...Mr. O and HB- I join you in saluting "Journey to the Center of the Earth". It was part of that great ABC saturday morning lineup in '67, along with Spiderman, Fantastic Four and George of the Jungle (what a combo!). Always liked the gimmick of the ongoing search for a route to the surface while being pursued by the descendent of Arni Sachnussen (probably mis-spelled that...). Don't recall that they ever found the way out.Redartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221459636234713619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-64581409435755888782014-03-27T17:46:17.645-05:002014-03-27T17:46:17.645-05:00If only we'd had the presence of mind in our y...If only we'd had the presence of mind in our young adulthoods to turn all of this rampant mental energy & power of totall recall towards the betterment of mankind! (Well, Doug actually HAS kinda done that, as have several others of us, I bet, so maybe we're all still okay, yeah? )<br /><br />Hooier X, GOOD CALL on the Double Deckers. . . remembered the British import kids' show, but couldn't recall the title. Kind of a weird programming choice-- don't think it caught on in our midwestern neck of the woods at all.<br /><br />Prowler- Hong Kong Phooey had a catchy theme ("Number one super guy; Quicker than the human eye. . ."), and Scatman Crothers' voicing the title character was a huge plus. . . but even then I saw it as a shameless jumping onto the Kung Fu martial arts craze. It was also kind of funny that he was voicing Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon that was still hanging around at that point ("We've gotta get Geese before Geese's goose is cooked!").<br /><br />Mr O-- that Journey to Center of the Earth cartoon is also an excellent call. Quite a good cartoon, and engaging enough to get me to read and enjoy the book itself. So, for at least one kid, you gotta figure, "Mission Accomplished".<br /><br />HB (REALLY sucked into the topic today, folks-- so sorry!)Humanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-20333448224565045192014-03-27T16:14:46.900-05:002014-03-27T16:14:46.900-05:00I get The Lost Saucer mixed up with Far Out Space ...I get The Lost Saucer mixed up with Far Out Space Nuts, but whichever one starred Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors was the one with the chickaphants. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-59085366570071729762014-03-27T16:10:13.584-05:002014-03-27T16:10:13.584-05:00Hoosier X, I don't remember any chickaphants (...Hoosier X, I don't remember any chickaphants (although that sounds hilarious), but I vaguely recall Ruth Buzzi was in this show with Jim Nabors - they were some kind of aliens or something. *Consults to Wikipedia* Yes, it was called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Saucer" rel="nofollow">Lost Saucer</a>, and they were apparently androids...Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-66828695825336749282014-03-27T15:54:46.543-05:002014-03-27T15:54:46.543-05:00Anybody remember The Double Deckers?
And which sh...Anybody remember The Double Deckers?<br /><br />And which show had the chickaphants? They were half-chicken and half-elephant. The show might have had Ruth Buzzi, but I might be mixing it up with something else.Hoosier Xhttp://mushtown.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-28729994739892009602014-03-27T14:51:29.006-05:002014-03-27T14:51:29.006-05:00Doug, looking at the response to this post, I can ...Doug, looking at the response to this post, I can totally understand why you were so irked the other day over the (initially) low number of comments for the review of that Captain America issue. Heck, right now I'm a bit miffed on Karen's behalf that her excellent review of Cosmic Odyssey generated so little comment.<br /><br />Anyway, back to the topic at hand: Redartz, I totally remember Drak Pack! And yes, my favorite character was "Bad Toad!" Also, I loved that the bad guys all belonged to OGRE: the Organization for Generally Rotten Enterprises (whew, talk about remembering completely useless minutiae).Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-11133232926711132132014-03-27T14:35:24.557-05:002014-03-27T14:35:24.557-05:00The more I think about it, the more I come to real...The more I think about it, the more I come to realize I have the opposite mind of HB. My mind is literally a junk drawer. Or more likely, that weird melding of different bars of soap that happens occasionally. The longer something stays in my mind, the more it oozes into the memory next to it. I remember Clutch Cargo and his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot, Jonny Quest and Speed Racer, but they all seem to be from the same time period. I do remember the Marvel cartoons of Fantastic Four and Thor, but I know that was from before I started school. <br /><br />One of the obscure ones was the 90s Spider-Man cartoon on Fox. That run seemed to me the first time that what was on TV really seemed like a comic book to me. And each season was handled much like a maxi-series a overall arc that tied all the episodes together. That was also the beginning of the dark time when MJ started to eclipse Gwen.<br /><br />And now BOOM, as I'm typing, Hong Kong Phooey. He's a dog, a janitor and a martial arts expert. Did he also have a car?<br /><br />The Prowler (loses brain cells when he sneezes).<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-9257158187747075392014-03-27T14:28:48.855-05:002014-03-27T14:28:48.855-05:00Oh I nearly forgot the Journey to the Center of th...Oh I nearly forgot the Journey to the Center of the Earth cartoon! Which I loved and did not understand was a rerun and was so frustrated that they never showed new ones!mr. oyolahttp://themiddlespaces.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-23630444282018093432014-03-27T14:21:05.707-05:002014-03-27T14:21:05.707-05:00Just one more...vignette of Rocket Robin Hood hims...Just one more...vignette of Rocket Robin Hood himself, "robbing from the cosmic rich to give to the astral poor", and making his enemies "quiver in their space boots"! : )<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxjNeaN9EMc" rel="nofollow">Rocket Robin Hood vignette</a><br /><br />Seems to me they played these vignettes repeatedly through the show to fill up time.Garettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-2875337689142810002014-03-27T14:19:30.563-05:002014-03-27T14:19:30.563-05:00Points to Edo and J.A. for mentioning Bob Burns! H...Points to Edo and J.A. for mentioning Bob Burns! He is a wonderful guy, sort of the Great Uncle to all of us monster kids out there. AND...I may get to see him this weekend...Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-45156512809329462642014-03-27T14:07:13.776-05:002014-03-27T14:07:13.776-05:00Hey Mike, I haven't seen an episode since I wa...Hey Mike, I haven't seen an episode since I was a kid, but the animation looks pretty good in these vignettes, at least for the time. Maybe the appeal was jet packs! Or could it have been<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pcqYtKwJs" rel="nofollow">Little John and his Electro-quarterstaff!</a>Garettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-4873365243257759342014-03-27T14:06:04.304-05:002014-03-27T14:06:04.304-05:00I don't know about obscure, but my favorite ca...I don't know about obscure, but my favorite cartoons as a kid were: Thundarr the Barbarian, Tarzan Lord of the Jungle, and Star Blazers.dbutler16https://www.blogger.com/profile/00046066729353639991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-15067695274573379602014-03-27T14:04:33.241-05:002014-03-27T14:04:33.241-05:00Boy, our memories really ARE churning away, aren&#...Boy, our memories really ARE churning away, aren't they? And now I DO have one that absolutely fits today's premise, 'cause I thought it was a great, hilarious, not-just-for-little-kids show that disappeared right after its first-run, and didn't even make a full round of repeats.<br />It was a live-action, boy-band/secret agent spoof called THE KIDS FROM C.A.P.E.R. Gleefully absurdist, slightly hip(ster), irreverant, and the in-show music was decidedly catchier than the usual cartoon-show fare. It was a fairly early experience where I realized that something that was off-beat but certainly good (like The Tick live action show) would almost certainly be abandoned by impatient programming folks.<br /><br />Bob Burns, eh? Okay, gonna look him up. . . <br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-86942606691916945372014-03-27T13:40:50.685-05:002014-03-27T13:40:50.685-05:00@Garrett and anonymous: I was a big fan of Rocket...@Garrett and anonymous: I was a big fan of Rocket Robin Hood as a kid, but when I tried to watch it years later, all I could think was "What the hell did I ever see in this?" I think it's one of those cartoons (like Mighty Hercules) that you have to be a kid to appreciate.<br /><br />As far as other obscure stuff...I loved Battle of the Planets, but that's not really obscure I guess; maybe Kidd Video? I had such a crush on Gabrielle Bennett.<br /><br />Mike W.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com