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- From: moakler@romulus.rutgers.edu (bam!)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: The DUMBEST saturday cartoon ever
- Message-ID: <Nov.23.15.58.32.1992.25940@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:58:33 GMT
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- kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) writes:
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- >Wait...I just thought of a better one: "The harlem globetrotters"
- >They had one player who had a HUGE afro and when they were in
- >danger, he would pull objects out of his hair to help them escape
- >just like the old batman did.
-
-
- >Now THAT's Dumb! :)
-
- It's more than just dumb. Somehow, I don't think that this is
- what the NAACP and other groups had in mind when they clamored for
- more positive presentations of minorities on children's television.
-
- As far as the other shows people have been mentioning, It's
- true that most anything from H-B in the 70's was truly tedious, though
- I haven't seen anyone mention some of the really dreadful stuff.
- Anyone for some episodes of...
-
- The Funky Phantom
- Dynomutt
- Shazzan
- Speed Buggy
- (That show with the fat, incompetent genie who said "Yabble-Dabble!")
-
- As for cheesy non H-B stuff, I heartily recommend USA's Cartoon
- Express. Where else could you experience the exquisite horror of
- watching Sport Billy and Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch back to back?
-
- However, to see some really awful stuff, try looking at the late-70's
- to the mid-80's, when an unholy alliance of watchdogs and licensing
- agents seemed to control programming and things went down the toilet.
- I was worrried at one point that the networks would bet rid of
- cartoons altogether. Some "great" shows from that era:
-
- Pandemonium
- Monchihis
- any of the Ruby-Spears arcade game shows
- Meatballs and Spaghetti
- The Getalong Gang
- and the list goes on and on....
- (I don't remember too many becuause even as a ten year-old I couldn't
- stand watching them.)
-
-
-
- >- Rich
- > kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu
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