Comments on: Something Light: Saturday morning heroes

By: Mr_Meaner

Mr_Meaner — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:03:28 +0000

Zoinks!
I, too am an “old school” Scooby fan.
The new Scooby is horrible. It’s too politically themed.
I don’t want to see themes like global warming, and corporate corruption in my funnies.

The Superfriends, Pink Panther, and Tom & Jerry also provided me countless hours of entertainment.

Outkast:
I’m a big Family Guy fan, myself.
South Park, too. (if a lot of swearing doesn’t bother you)
*cowering down w/ hands covering face*

Anyone remember the Laff-Olympics?
It was an athletic competition between teams of catoon characters. It usually was the last cartoon on Saturday morning before sports.
The teams were the Yogi Yahooies, the Scooby Doobies, and the Really Rottens. (made up of all the various cartoon villains) Of course, the really rottens would try to cheat in all of the events.
That was some good stuff.

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By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:36:32 +0000

Early on my favorite was Donald Duck and the entire duck clan: Heuy, Louie, Dewey, and Scrooge.

Later on the Roadrunner and the wiley Coyote became my favorites. The creative ways the Coyote was always getting mangled were very funny.

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By: preptalks

preptalks — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:33:05 +0000

Okay,I’m dating myself too. I’m with Metanoia (#5). . . MIGHTY MOUSE!! “Here I come to save the day!!!” Like Paula (#13), my brothers & me were allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons so our parents could sleep in. Unfortunately, we had noisy disputes about which cartoon station to watch. My brothers preferred “King Leonardo & His Short Subjects” which was on another station at the same time as my beloved Mighty Mouse. In a poor imitation of my rodent superhero I used physical force to get my way(!). Mom & Dad woke up and ultimately settled the matter by turning off the set.

I also have to credit “Looney Tunes” for my interest in detailed illustration, and my rich, albeit inadvertent, knowledge of classical music. It was only when my own children started piano lessons that I realized Hungarian Rhapsody #2 wasn’t just a Bugs Bunny soundtrack.

Today’s cartoons are stiff and poorly drawn. Their soundtracks are loud, driving and forgettable IMHO.

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By: Theo Godwyn

Theo Godwyn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:14:23 +0000

I forgot about Muppet Babies.

Oh yeah, loved Battle of the Planets.

Simpson Halloween episodes were the best. Haven’t watched them for a few year though.

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By: Justus331

Justus331 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:59:11 +0000

HAHAHAHA This was such a treat on a saturday morning….just to watch those cartoons. Alot of those you all mentioned were great. I can recall my fave group of heroes, The Mighty Heroes!
DiaperMan, RopeMan, TornadoMan, StrongMan….and CuckooMan!

And don’t forget everybody’s favorite spinach-chuggin sailor, POPEYE!

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By: kBells

kBells — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:23:31 +0000

I personally like “Avatar; the last airbender”. It is very well written, but it is a little too new age for the kid. I looked for a picture of the main character to use as my avatar, but I doubt few would hvae gotten the joke.

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By: Pauline

Pauline — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:21:25 +0000

Kyle A,
Snagglepuss! Yes, that was it.

And Huckleberry Hound. Thank you both, Kyle A. and Peter L.

I recently suggested to my older son that I was thinking of seeing if the video store had any tapes or DVDs of TV shows I used to watch as a kid. He said he wasn’t interested – it would just be kiddie cartoons and soap operas (not that I’ve ever watched a soap opera in my life, except in a waiting room where I couldn’t avoid it). He just has no idea what he’s missing.

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By: VS

VS — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:33:17 +0000

Luke – You mentioned Alvin and The Chipmunks – my husband and I took the grandchildren to see the movie on New Year’s Day. It was kind of cute. I didn’t think I would like it but it wasn’t bad at all. I have memories of my younger brother playing a record of them over and over and over when we were younger. (Horrible)

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By: StuBob

StuBob — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:31:44 +0000

Or you could be talking about Droopy Dog, who was originally called The Happy Hound.

I love the opening to all of the Droopy cartoons, where he looks into the camera and whines, “Hello, all you happy people.”

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By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:27:26 +0000

Oh the memories. I liked SuperFriends. My father, the racist, and I never missed Fat Albert and the Gang which leaves me puzzled as to why my dad hates black people. We also loved to watch Pink Panther. Recently I watched it on one of the cable channels and just didn’t get it.

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