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PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:39 am

You guys are so mainstream/too young/uncool.

I remember the earlier psychedelic era ultra cartoons.

Just off the top of my head...
Battle of the planets

Spartakus and the sun beneath the sea

D&D (this is better than the opening)

and king of the WTF?

Ulysses 31

Or perhaps I should say UlysseeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEes...

Neeeek · Post by **Neeeek** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:42 am

I've got some fond memories of the InHumanoids, as well as the Pirates of Dark Water. It's a shame they didn't make more of ther latter, it had a pretty decent adventure plot, and those are hard to find.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:44 am

PhoneLobster wrote:Just off the top of my head...
Battle of the planets

I remember that show.

PhoneLobster wrote:Spartakus and the sun beneath the sea

and king of the WTF?

Ulysses 31

Or perhaps I should say UlysseeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEEes...

But these I've never seen, and they look fvcking amazing.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:14 am

Inhumanoids. Ugh.
I saw that far too young.
Something about people being digested inside the stomach of a giant monster, transformations, shit bursting out of the ground...
No. Not child-friendly.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:36 am

I used to be all about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. One thing I never got is what Skeletor was doing that was so evil? Granted, I was a kid at the time, but other than having a girlfriend with the word "evil" in her name and trying to take over Eternia, why was he the bad guy? What if Skeletor actually had well thought-out ideas and would be a better ruler? Sure, he was kind of stupid, but so was everyone else on that show.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:30 am

I remember Jem and Spartakus... Wow. Just wow.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:20 am

sigma999 wrote:Nothing to add to Maxus and Talisman's lists. They've stated my entire childhood. There might be more but I pretty much watched anything that didn't have ponies, rainbows, or pastries as main themes.

Ha! I have a little sister, so I got the total experience -- My Little Ponies, Glo Friends, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake.

The Glo Friends were badass. They rode in a giant turtle that our G.I. Joes used as a hovercraft.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:13 am

I've been introducing my two-year-old daughter to the strangest of all cartoons.

David the Gnome - my wife deescribed it as an animated House without the snark.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:08 pm

Speaking of all this nostalgia has reminded me of two childhood shows, one I loved, Papa Beaver's Storytime, though I think I was older than the target audience when it was made, and one I never really cared for, Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant Show; the only thing I remember about the latter, aside from a few generalities, was that the guy, Bram I assume, looked just a bit like Billy Mays and the theme song.

...Skideraminkidinkidink skideraminkidoo*...

*My spell checker thinks this word is supposed to be "Alderamin", weird.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:23 pm

OK this is getting serious ... and so I really need to mention "Reboot."

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:35 pm

Reboot is weak tea, and already mentioned. I see you and raise you Mask

Mind you I don't see how I can do better than Ulysses I mean he has a pistol that is a light sabre, he stabs things with his gun damnit! No Jeep-Boat beats that.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:12 pm

I see weaksauce Reboot and Mask and raise you Darkwing Duck!

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:54 pm

I'll match your Mask with Centurions and raise you a Dinosaucers. This is fun.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:22 pm

Getting back to the original topic, this article made me laugh so hard I started tearing up a little bit and came close to peeing myself.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:18 am

I raise all you asshats Skeleton Warriors. Skeletons on jetbikes with lasers and shit. Thats so dumb its awesome.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:22 am

I see your Darkwing Duck and raise you a prior instance of Count Duckula The intro does not suffice however to describe the great Duckula.

I see your Skeleton Warriors and raise you the NOT "Real" Ghostbusters that made a run on the franchise name before the "Real" ones did.

I see your Centurions and raise you the disturbing almost Aryan superiority flick, Fire And Ice

And I see your Dinosaucers and raise you Wizards

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:48 am

Count Duckula was awesome.

Am I the only one here who liked Lady Lovely Locks?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:56 am

Count Duckula? Pfft, not even near absurd.

I'll see your Count Duckula and overpower it with BANANA MAN!

To take this one step further, we shall go to crazy with DANGERmouse.

Yes, the "danger" must be screamed.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:18 am

You might want to lean to exerts and opening themes before the gendarms put the boot in.

But you bastard, I was holding those in reserve!

Still Dangermouse is strong but cannot trump Duckula since Duckula is a spin off of Dangermouse and therefore stronger in absurdity. But dangermouse has a dark secret to become more absurd.

Revealed at five minutes The real Dangermouse
And later. Dangermouse in retirement appears here (don't bother watching all of that, he is dangermouse, that's the entire gag).

Banana man is indeed mighty if for no other reason than it is made by the Goodies. Though they lose credibility because Bill Oddie went on to become a televised elderly bird watching geek and was hunted down for his crimes.

Fortunately I held reserve anti Banana man weapons in the form of both the indomitable Roger Ramjet and Super Ted which sadly I could not find in its original Welsh for extra power, fortunately it powers up since the voice of Spotty the alien is John Pertwee.

josephbt · Post by **josephbt** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:20 am

Do NOT mess with my childhood idols!!

BananaMan and Danger Mouse were sunday morning cartoons here. Those and He-Man. You can still hear people quoting BananaMan. I miss those days.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:50 am

Okay, how about Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel? Or even... Toucan Tecs!

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:53 am

3 words. Fear them. use them for good or for awesome.

Eek the Cat

it is how heathcliff and Garfield should have been.

Also on a related note, I remember a show which used to come on in India. It was obviously an import.

A live-action show in which the teenagers get jacked into the net in giant mechas to fight viruses and stuff.

they'd go into electronic equipment and the likes as well. can't remember the name of this show. All the actors were western. Don't know if it was american show or a european show. I really couldn't tell the accents apart way back when.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:57 am

Duckula was fucking sweet.

PL's link reminded me of another piece of awesome Trap Door

Banana Man was crap but I liked Super Ted.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:31 am

Cynic, what is "SuperHuman Samurai Syber Squad"? Now, I'll take obscure classics for 400.

With the voice of Tim Curry, to boot.

Also, some other gems:
T-Bag and the Revenge of the T Set
The Sooty Show

Note: I saw much earlier seasons of Sooty than that one.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:11 am

You want to bring live action AND puppets into this? Those Frost and goodies references were just background damnit!

Well now you've done it. The Americans would have missed out on Agro systematically abusing his co-hosts

Don't make me get all Muppet Babies on you.