FOF #1743 – Amazingly Strange Saturday Morning Cartoons
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In the 80s, it seemed everything and everyone had a animated cartoon and breakfast cereal. All of a sudden, cartoons were being made as infomercials to promote toys and video games.
Today pop culture fanatic, comedian Brian Sweeney joins us to look at amazingly strange Saturday morning cartoons that affected us deeply, turning us into the sick demented guys we are today.
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Fausto,
Wendy and Marvin (and Wonder Dog) were the precursor to Zan and Janna on Super Friends. They were “resurrected” in the Teen Titans comic books, and Marvin later gets killed by a rabid Wonder Dog and Wendy becomes paraplegic.
But another awesome episode. You guys brought back a lot of great memories of my childhood.
I had forgotten about the cartoon shorts at the beginning of movies in the theaters. They should bring that back; get rid of that 20 crap.
I have the entire Batman The Animated Series on DVD and still watch it. It’s art.
Good show today, fellas.
Ditto Than. Batman the Animated Series is my fav. TV show of all time!
When I read Batman, it’s Kevin Conroy’s voice I hear in my head.
And DEFINITELY when I read the Joker, it is Mark Hammill’s voice.
great show!
I was born in the late 80′s so I missed out on some of those Saturday morning shows you guys mentioned, I did watch all the Warner Brother and Hanna Barbera cartoons, probably Scooby Doo the most. I kinda loved and hated that show at the same time, I didn’t totally LOVE it, but if it was on TV I would usually watch it. I remember watching all the spin-off series they did with it, with annoying Scrappy-Doo and the celebrity guests.
but my favorite show that was brought up by Brian was Batman the Animated series. I loved that show to death as a kid, that cartoon and Tim Burton’s Batman movies is what got me into Batman.
I would mostly watch cartoons that were geared to boys(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was another show I was obsessed with), because the only cartoons they had that were for girls were utter garbage for the most part.
I’d say cartoons these days have gotten both better and worse in different ways, but I’d say they are more gender-neutral than many of the cartoons from the 80′s and I guess 70s were
there are still no cartoons geared towards children that feature a LGBTQ character. There is a cartoon called Adventure Time which “sort of” has two lesbian characters, but it’s never been stated that they are lesbians in the show, just friends. The reason for the perceived lesbianism is because one of the people who works on the show drew some art of the characters being lesbos with each other, and because of that, most fans consider it “canon” even though it really isn’t. kind of.
ALTHOUGH, there was the show Ren and Stimpy from the 90s and it was pretty obvious they were gay. Years later after the show was done with, the disgruntled creator of the show went on to make a raunchy adult-version of the series were they were gay lovers in some episodes.
I really rambled on there! But animation/cartons is my passion
I always love your comments Chickn Girl!
“Years later after the show was done with, the disgruntled creator of the show went on to make a raunchy adult-version of the series were they were gay lovers in some episodes.”
Wow you are so right!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/999369/
Anyone remember Roseanne Barr’s Saturday Morning Cartoon Lil Rosie? Hard to believe this is actually her voice. I think they pitched shifted it a bit. (Thanks Benjamin)
Oh Fred!
Woof!