Back in the day!!!!!
Okay kids. today were goin to pick to bits all the great chilhood cartoons we all know and loved (and still do). Are we all sitting comfortably then well begin.
The Defenders of the earth. A childood classic It had everything a great cartoon needed, a great 80's opening theme tune, a fantastic ensemble of superheros and one evil mastermind whose only goal was to take over the world in an imaginative and innovative way. However as great as it was it was a product of 80's television and therefore was riddled with cheddar chese. If you watch an episode today you will notice that it has a constant soundtrack. Not one piece of dialogue is spoken without fearsome backing music. It only had one female charcter (as did most other cartoons of its age) who always seemed to be flirting or going on dates with the other cartoon charcters, disrearding the fact that it was a cartoon, she probably slept about a lot and considering that Flash Gordans son was also included she probably got about the family!!!!!! Other inadiquicys with the cartoon include the animation. None of the cast seemed to have and upper lip, there was just a curved line to represent the bottom lip. Also Mings face constantly changed colour, In one episode he would be Green then suddenly light blue and finally finishing with purple. And yet for some reason its a cult classic!!!!
Next up is He man and the maters of the universe. This one goes all the way back to the 70's. Has spawned 3 re-animations, the only cartoon to have a spin off show (not including the rugrats) and even got the hollywood treatment with Dolph Lungdren taking the lead. Here was the ultimate in camp cartoons. The hero wore a leather thong, when not in disguise wore a pink shirt, was built like a brick shit house and got fucked off when his long flowing Blonde hair was damaged (he could have been a spokesperson for Loreal.) The amimation was as good as it came for the era though. He-man himself had the only disguise worse than Clark Kents', he didnt have one and still no one copped on who He-man really was. He didnt wear a mask, all Prince adam really did to change into He-man was strip!!!!!! Also for a Skeleton Skeletor was surprisingly Muscular. He-man also had a pet with a personality disorder, neverminding the fact that it could talk. when Adam changed into He-man his cowardly cat suddenly became more pissed off than Mr T.
Moving Forward a decade and a half we have The turtles. Again this has produced 1 re-animated series, a live action series and also had the hollywood treatment with 2 sequels Having non other than cult icon Corey felman providing the voice. Nothing was wrong with the animation. Personally i think that animation and drawing skills Reached its peak in this era. Again though It was amazing how our innocent minds provided us with enough ignorance to block out the stupidity of it. Beginning with Brians point On April O'neil, this i think is the most important. She was supposedly a young very attractive women who wore a full body leather suit,walked down very dodgy dark alleys by herself filled with street thugs and believed she would be fine. Therfore posing Brians very obvious question. Why was this women never gang Raped? Also why was she always single? Next up was the sanitation, If the sewers in New York city were as clean as the Turtles would have us beieve then why werent more people living down there. Miss O'Neill often made trips down there to visit her 5 mates. Also when the Turtles went up into the street in broad daylight, No one bothered to question the actions of 4 8 foot tall men all wearing long trenchcoats, bolar hats and rubber faces!!!! They also didnt seem to notice that these 4 "unquestionably normal Individuals" all had green hands and feet. But then again this was the country that voted Bush into power twice!!!!!
Finally was captain Planet. Again a cartoon with 80's spandex written all over the opening tune. a number of questions stand out over anything. Here we have 5 individuals all around 15 to 18 taken from there homes with out question, Am i right in believeing that that is known as Kidnapping? They are then given rings that provide power to cause natural catastrophes and told to use them at there own will (except the heart one, they needed something to make it sorta legal.) when all are shot into one another they create a man with a green face and a mullet also wearing a white spandex suit!!! really sorry, i know it was a cartoon but am i right in saying that another way of putting this is, 5 kids get kidnapped, brainwashed by a hippie cult told to destroy anything that causes smoke and one of the leaders has a green face. Also when there is a green faced man with a mullet and white spandex flying around Blowing up oil rigs, would it not be on the news? Again our innocent mind provided us with enough ignorance to ignore that.
Yes it true i have no life. Please send any comments and questions to the usual adress, or just click on post reply!!!! Next up the live action shows.
The Defenders of the earth. A childood classic It had everything a great cartoon needed, a great 80's opening theme tune, a fantastic ensemble of superheros and one evil mastermind whose only goal was to take over the world in an imaginative and innovative way. However as great as it was it was a product of 80's television and therefore was riddled with cheddar chese. If you watch an episode today you will notice that it has a constant soundtrack. Not one piece of dialogue is spoken without fearsome backing music. It only had one female charcter (as did most other cartoons of its age) who always seemed to be flirting or going on dates with the other cartoon charcters, disrearding the fact that it was a cartoon, she probably slept about a lot and considering that Flash Gordans son was also included she probably got about the family!!!!!! Other inadiquicys with the cartoon include the animation. None of the cast seemed to have and upper lip, there was just a curved line to represent the bottom lip. Also Mings face constantly changed colour, In one episode he would be Green then suddenly light blue and finally finishing with purple. And yet for some reason its a cult classic!!!!
Next up is He man and the maters of the universe. This one goes all the way back to the 70's. Has spawned 3 re-animations, the only cartoon to have a spin off show (not including the rugrats) and even got the hollywood treatment with Dolph Lungdren taking the lead. Here was the ultimate in camp cartoons. The hero wore a leather thong, when not in disguise wore a pink shirt, was built like a brick shit house and got fucked off when his long flowing Blonde hair was damaged (he could have been a spokesperson for Loreal.) The amimation was as good as it came for the era though. He-man himself had the only disguise worse than Clark Kents', he didnt have one and still no one copped on who He-man really was. He didnt wear a mask, all Prince adam really did to change into He-man was strip!!!!!! Also for a Skeleton Skeletor was surprisingly Muscular. He-man also had a pet with a personality disorder, neverminding the fact that it could talk. when Adam changed into He-man his cowardly cat suddenly became more pissed off than Mr T.
Moving Forward a decade and a half we have The turtles. Again this has produced 1 re-animated series, a live action series and also had the hollywood treatment with 2 sequels Having non other than cult icon Corey felman providing the voice. Nothing was wrong with the animation. Personally i think that animation and drawing skills Reached its peak in this era. Again though It was amazing how our innocent minds provided us with enough ignorance to block out the stupidity of it. Beginning with Brians point On April O'neil, this i think is the most important. She was supposedly a young very attractive women who wore a full body leather suit,walked down very dodgy dark alleys by herself filled with street thugs and believed she would be fine. Therfore posing Brians very obvious question. Why was this women never gang Raped? Also why was she always single? Next up was the sanitation, If the sewers in New York city were as clean as the Turtles would have us beieve then why werent more people living down there. Miss O'Neill often made trips down there to visit her 5 mates. Also when the Turtles went up into the street in broad daylight, No one bothered to question the actions of 4 8 foot tall men all wearing long trenchcoats, bolar hats and rubber faces!!!! They also didnt seem to notice that these 4 "unquestionably normal Individuals" all had green hands and feet. But then again this was the country that voted Bush into power twice!!!!!
Finally was captain Planet. Again a cartoon with 80's spandex written all over the opening tune. a number of questions stand out over anything. Here we have 5 individuals all around 15 to 18 taken from there homes with out question, Am i right in believeing that that is known as Kidnapping? They are then given rings that provide power to cause natural catastrophes and told to use them at there own will (except the heart one, they needed something to make it sorta legal.) when all are shot into one another they create a man with a green face and a mullet also wearing a white spandex suit!!! really sorry, i know it was a cartoon but am i right in saying that another way of putting this is, 5 kids get kidnapped, brainwashed by a hippie cult told to destroy anything that causes smoke and one of the leaders has a green face. Also when there is a green faced man with a mullet and white spandex flying around Blowing up oil rigs, would it not be on the news? Again our innocent mind provided us with enough ignorance to ignore that.
Yes it true i have no life. Please send any comments and questions to the usual adress, or just click on post reply!!!! Next up the live action shows.