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[kelson]

Re-watched some classic cartoons yesterday.  It started when alenxa and I were talking about Duck Dodgers at breakfast, and wondered when it had been made.  That led to an IMDB lookup, which mentioned it was #4 on a list of 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time from 1994, and that had me looking up "One Froggy Evening" to verify that it was in fact the

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[kelson]

Gleek, IIRC. Oddly enough, now that people who grew up on Super Friends are finding themselves in positions of power at DC, elements of the cartoon are finding their way into the comics canon. The Justice League is now based in the Hall of Justice. Wendy and Marvin showed up in Teen Titans. (And then Wonder Dog ate them. Don't ask.)

The last time I saw "What's Opera, Doc?" was also the last time I saw "One Froggy Evening." alenxa and I got together with a group of my high school friends for a concert at Irvine Meadows -- excuse me, Verizon Wireless -- that was called something like Bugs Bunny on Broadway and featured a bunch of classic Warner Bros. cartoons that were built around existing music, with a live orchestra performing. That's also when we decided we needed at least one cell phone, because the car wouldn't start and we ended up stranded in the parking lot in the middle of nowhere at midnight, with no way to call the rest of our group and let them know why we hadn't caught up with them at Denny's. (There was a pay phone, but I don't think I knew anyone's phone number.)