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10/04/09

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Nice list. But where is Super President?
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Pope John Peeps II
10/04/09

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I think maybe this is only a Canadian thing, but I'd like to point everybody to Rocket Robin Hood - perhaps the greatest theme song any cartoon has ever had:

[www.youtube.com]
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Wookie1972
10/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II:

The Evil Infinita of Dimentia 5 was the scariest thing I'd ever seen.
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Hamslicer
10/04/09

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Don't know if anyone plopped this in. The Herculoids reminded me of this guy.
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dorkhero
10/04/09

@Hamslicer: Ah Thundarr, a favorite of mine. Reminds me so much of the first RPG I played, TSR's Gamma World.
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Ghede
10/04/09

@dorkhero: Oh god, Thundarr, Herculoids, and the Thundercats were a favorite of mine as a kid. CartoonNetwork back when it played old cheap cartoons was the best. If I ever have a kid, I'm going to raise him on the same crap I watched, watch his brain slowly turn to mush.
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franklinshepard
10/04/09

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What the deuce??!
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WhitlawDioscuri
10/03/09

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Now... was Rocket Robin Hood only here in Canada? Or did its awfulness spread to the US? I remember seeing an episode that had the exact same backgrounds and villain as a Spider Man cartoon. Even at eight I realized someone was being very, very thrifty.
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Julius Seizure - Canuck
10/04/09

@WhitlawDioscuri: I believe it showed on a few US stations but it was just so awful I hope they didn't pay for it. It was animated in Toronto at the same shop that was making the animated Spiderman series. Yes, they reused many items for both series. I, too, have a vivid memory of some sort of insectoid villain playing some sort of organ in both series.
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MonkeyT
10/03/09

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I've always felt the Mighty Heroes to be the spiritual precursor to the Tick - ridiculous parodies of superheroism who, despite good intentions, mostly managed to defeat evil while consistently getting in each others way. I loved it because of that.

It never took itself seriously and never expected its audience do so either. It's hard to consider it as FAIL when it accomplished precisely what it intended to do.
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James7344
10/03/09

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These are FORGOTTEN heroes?

At any rate, I find your opinions denigrating at best. Cartoons in the 60s were made for kids, not grown up boomers with a need for advanced plots and hidden meanings. The abovementioned cartoons, like the rest of the 60s output, was fun for kids.
They also turned out to be remarkably influential. So there.
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Roklimber
10/03/09

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Oh, does anyone remember a cartoon where there were lots of strange types in a car race?

I remember that there was car number 00, with the villain and his dog (Mutley, as I recall), and there was a car with a haunted house mounted on it, another car had Charming Penelope (that's straight translation to English from the dubbed Portuguese, so I don't know if that's her name in the actual original sound track), yet another had two cavemen, and so on. It was hilarious.
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Roklimber
10/03/09

@Roklimber: Nevermind... I found it:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Ah, how I managed to live most of my life without the internet escapes me entirely.
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AmishJohn
10/03/09

@Roklimber: Wacky Races.
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Roklimber
10/03/09

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I saw several of those as a kid and I still like The Herculoids quite a bit. I'd love to see a live-action remake of it, done *right*, like an "origins" story. I think it would be awesome.
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Convair 990A
10/03/09

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Ah, the good old Herculoids and Space Ghost, both made better when H-B made new episodes for the Space Stars series. Too bad that's never been put out on DVD; I could overlook the Astro-Mutt thing.

Having a grudge against Roger Ramjet is probably tantamount to support for al-Qaeda.
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Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
10/03/09

@Convair 990A: I think it's more that he was even more of an all-American boy than Cap' that made him difficult to appreciate in the UK.

Plus, he was kind of a dick. I wouldn't be surprised if Seth MacFarlane based American Dad at least partly on him...
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Convair 990A
10/03/09

@Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: OK, granted. If it had been the bumper between something else and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, I can see where you might get a little angry. If given the choice between Roger or Firestar, well, eh...

I just can't turn away from a guy who says "Come back after the commercial, or I'll make sure all you little kids are drafted." For a while, a local TV station in the mid-1980s seemed to have an endless supply of the cartoons like this (and a bunch of Jay Ward's stuff), so it brings back a certain amount of fond nostalgia for the last era when television was worth watching.
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Moff
10/03/09

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Awwww, I always dug the Herculoids. So much untold backstory there! Did they come from the planet they lived on, or had they immigrated? What did Zandor do to make so many space enemies? Were they raw-fooders? (They struck me as raw-fooders.) Dorno calling his parents by their first names always seemed awfully progressive to me.
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Wookie1972
10/03/09

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Also, I can't believe that Dr. Millenium somehow managed to *not* be used on Harvey Birdman.

Ha ha! Not.
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Wookie1972
10/03/09

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That's JUDGE Mightor to you. and don't forget that Gravity Girl became Gigi, Harvey Birdman's slutty "wife."
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Delphinus100
10/03/09

@Wookie1972: Wife? I've seen her screwing around with Peter Potamus, but didn't know the wife thing...

I didn't watch the original series very much (I was glued to the CBS cartoons, Birdman was NBC), but I did appreciate her hot, semi-Vulcan look (Yes, she had pointed ears under that red shag)
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Wookie1972
10/04/09

@Delphinus100: No, she definitely married Birdman. However, she slept with pretty much every male character EXCEPT Harvey, whom she told that she wasn't ready.... Sigh.
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Doug Nelson
10/03/09

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Don't forget Tobor the Eighth Man, who got his power from cigarettes. My first exposure to anime.
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Bill-Lee
10/03/09

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Really good superhero cartoons didn't come along until the 1990s and Batman:The Animated Series. Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Alan Burnett know how to do superheroes.
How is Space Angel a superhero series? It seem more like Buck Rogers or a Star Trek prototype.
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Wookie1972
10/03/09

@Bill-Lee: The Fleischer Superman cartoons were pretty awesome, and they were arguably the inspiration for the Timm/Dini cartoons.
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Bill-Lee
10/03/09

@Wookie1972: The Fleischer Bros. cartoons certainly inspired the look of Batman, Bruce Timm has said as much in interviews. However, the writing in the Fleischer cartoons was as flat and lifeless as some of the crap on this list. Bruce Timm and Paul Dini brought a more complex level of writing than previously thought possible in animation aimed at children.
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