The cheerleading joke is an exact flipping of a joke in Archie comics, where the guys say they will never join the football team and risk their necks until they see the cheerleaders. And another Archie joke where the guys laugh at the idea of being male cheerleaders until they discover it's for the girls volleyball team.
If anything, Granny was the actual detective. Sylvester just tried to eat Tweety, and Hector the bulldog just usually beat the crap out of Sylvester. I.E., more of the same stuff from the old shorts.
Why is the captain invisible? There's actually a simple explanation to that, one that I'm surprised you didn't pick up on. The artist was lazy and didn't feel like drawing into every panel.
Kimi FW The show itself was made my DiC Entertainment, a company infamous for its badly animated shows (i.e. all 3 Mario shows, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the last seasons of Alvin & the Chipmunks, etc.).
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Can't blame you for not knowing this (Wish Kid was a horrible show anyway, but I digress) I am only explaining the in-universe reason why he didn't wish the criminals back and wish for his powers is that the wishes are limited to one per day. So yeah... still stupid but there was a reason why he didn't wish them back.
I'm the same generation as you Linkara (I'm actually 7 months older than Linkara), so I can relate. For me it was Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, The Tick, Spider-Man and Back to the Future Animated Series.
They should have been they spend more time solving crimes than you know actual medical work.....Ms Pennypacker....Cancel my 2 o clock I gave to solve a case....But that is a man bleeding out from bullet wounds....Tell them to come back at 4
I think my generation (90s) was the last full generation to have Saturday morning cartoons. The kids of the 2000-2010 were lucky to get full cable networks where Saturday morning is everyday and repeat episodes at naseum
+Tareltonlives The worst part is, I think I can remember watching a little of these things when I was living in Qatar for a couple of years. Arabic television broadcasts of whatever is in the U.S seems to be about 3 months behind and on other channels that are shown entirely in Arabic with no subtitles, you'll find some long forgotten shit.
Only Super Mario World and Yo, Yogi! found there way into my childhood, I'm British. Super Mario World I saw early into my childhood, but Yo, Yogi! I didn't come across til 1999, and even then I only got to see it on sick days due to the time slot it occupied that year.
Never saw the NBC lineup as it was before my time but I'm glad that I grew up with Kids WB, One Saturday Morning, Cartoon Network, Nick, and ABC Family. The 80's NBC lineup sounds good, though.
Beneath the sea beside the flame Off the coast where the lost beast came To bring the world misery and shame A piece of the world is missing The path you should have never crossed The Beast exacts a heavy cost The number of the Beast is lost You will know it by its hissing The bones from hell you cannot tame Devour your life and all your fame That is the price to play its game And all while you're reminiscing
Speaking of detective spin-offs, wasn't there a Sylvester & Tweety cartoon with Granny being a detective solving mysteries? I also think a Richie Rich cartoon did the same thing. Yeah... that is an interesting thing to note.
I kind of remember the "Chip and Pepper" thing. There was a bit where they turned into cartoon bull dogs and a silly guy in a bathrobe. I used to tape it, fast forward that crap and watch the old cartoons which were the only good parts. :)
The CW had the last Saturday morning lineup, now kids can watch any time because of the Internet. By the 2000s, the original three networks of NBC, CBS and ABC decide not to compete with kids cable channels, and deal with parents lobbying groups.
If you ask me, with the streaming market becoming a Wild West causing families to be priced out of kids programming, it is WAY past time for those FCC requirements for educational programming to be abolished! If I were running the FCC, I’d not only abolish said requirements, I’d also introduce a new mandate requiring free-to-air networks to air 1 hour of TV-Y programming EVERY day between 7am and Noon! In order for a network to be exempt from said mandate, it’s need to register as, and be confirmed as, a dedicated news, sports, music or shopping network. Saturday morning cartoons need a proper comeback, plenty of toons whether you can afford cable and/or streaming or not!
Saturday mornings during the KidsWB/FoxKids age was amazing. My family still has boxes of Pokémon and power rangers tapes from back than and the opening monologue really took me back to those days
In “Yo Yogi”’s case, it was probably Hanna Barbara once again trying to clone Scooby Doo. As for detective shows in general . . . They kind of ARE all-purpose plot generators; the writers of “Angel” specifically admitted Angel Investigations existed mainly to generate stories. It’s why so much of television is cop shows and why Luke Cage set himself up as the Hero for Hire: it provides a convenient excuse to have people bring their problems to the protagonist and why the protagonist doesn’t need a lot of motivation to get involved; it’s their literal job description. This is ignoring the inherent thrill of a good mystery, which detective stories by their nature live to manufacture. I can see that it’s a trope lazy writers fall back on, but for good writers (like on “Angel” or “NCIS” it provides an interesting A-plot to move the episode along while letting the storytellers focus on character beats, character interactions, setting, and other B-plot stuff
Long-time watcher, first-time commenter! Actually, Bo Jackson DID talk like that, mostly for his endorsement for Nike (according to Wikipedia). It was basically Bo trying other sports (because he played baseball and football at the same time), including tennis and auto racing. Although, it's pretty much all he's known for nowadays, besides his nigh-invincible pixelated self on Tecmo Super Bowl.
It was exclusively "Bo knows," too. No other verbs. Sports listed grew more and more outre. Then, at the end, famous (quite elderly by then) bluesman Bo Diddley would pop up at the end and grandpa-lecture him: "Bo, you don't know diddly!" it was comic and clever.
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. I'm 25, but I'd still watch FoxKids/FoxBox/4Kids, Vortex, or Bionics (Yes that was a Friday night programming block, but I lump it together because that was the beginning of my weekend) today.
You talk about feeling old... I was already in high school by the time you were watching the cartoons you mentioned watching as a kid. Thanks for making me feel older. Lol.
4:33 Make a contract with me and... wait you're a male, never mind. 5:17 Though since Ma'ti's out of the picture that means Wheeler's on the chopping block, GO FOR IT KID!!! 18:37 HOBSON SMASH!!!
18:12 also the process of setting up concert equipment and the noise pollution when the concert in in motion would cause MAJOR INTERFERENCE with the wildlife.
While the Lady Gaga review has made me laugh the hardest, I think THIS review made me laugh the most so far. The sheer bewilderment and annoyance you express for the All Stars and Space Cats segments were hilarious.
Back in those dates were three or four months LATER than release. A cover date of December really meant a shelf date of August or September. And in this case, it was a $1.25 because that was the cover price for most of Harvey and Archie's comics back then. But it was actually GIVEN away at Toys R Us, Kaybee, some video stores, etc.
If you want to see the episode of ProStars featured in this comic, here you go: ruclips.net/video/NgtTbPf78Ho/видео.html And it's every bit as brain-melting as you'd expect. FUN FACT: Townsend "Michaelangelo" Coleman voices Gretzky.
6:47 Wish kid suddenly reminds me of Fairly Odd Parents. Except I'm certain Timmy probably DID wish for those things at some point but things obviously went horribly wrong which he then had to fix in order to ensure a status quo
I watched Fairly OddParents up until 2008. I don't remember him ever wishing for world peace, though the world became peaceful after he wished that kids ruled it. He wasn't allowed to wish for money because that's counterfeiting. He could simply wish for the things he wanted to buy with the money, but that made his parents suspicious. He once wished he was popular and lived in a mansion, but then he got his godparents taken away for being ungrateful. Another time he wished he was "the most wanted kid" which made all the fairies in Fairy World fight over him. When Chester had Norm as a godparent, he tried wishing away the world's problems, but being a little kid, he misunderstood what those problems really were. I guess the point we can get from all this is that children are too selfish and naïve to wish for world peace, and they can't handle power or fame either.
This episode makes me feel old, with the G1 Digimon, Zilla, & Power Rangers clips, as well as all the talk about Saturday morning cartoons (Which no longer exist, because of all the networks pumping out shows that, in my day, would be too childish for Treehouse.). Personally, I remember Friday night Bionic better. (From 6pm till 1am nothing but anime (With exceptions like Transformers: Cybertron, & a Power Rangers rip off where 4 30 year old teenagers fight monsters. I think it was called Monster hunters, or something.). I do remember FoxKids, FoxBox, 4Kids!, & Vortex, but I guess I just liked the older anime more. Thinking about it now makes me kinda sad. Yeah, I could watch everything online, but theres just something nostalgic about watching it late on Friday nights, trying to decide between adult anime on Bionic (No more, atleast not were I live.), Friday Night Smackdown! (Now on Thursdays), & I Shouldn't Be Alive, & The Haunting on Discovery Channel (Both canceled)......Why is everything I love changing? One day I hope to get Cartoon Network, & watch their Thursday night anime marathon.
If "Captain N & the New Super Mario World" was part of NBC's line-up, I wonder why neither of those shows had a story in this comic. Did Nintendo threaten legal action or something? If so, they either saved those shows a butchering, or denied this comic something that would've been...decent?
I have a couple minor notes I want to make about this video. 10:49 - 11:05 No mention of Droopy, Master Detective? 1:28 I'm glad Super Mario World didn't have a story in this. Oogtar and Yoshi are so annoying! (Dino-bunga!) 4:06 I have an OC on my DeviantArt page with the last name "Duttweiller." You can find me there as LuketheToonManTaylor. 16:31 They, at least, look better than Magic Johnson in that SNES game. 1:25 Space Cats was made by Paul Fusco, the guy who created ALF. I think ALF should've tried to eat them. ;) 0:11 Looks like you mainly grew up watching the later years of Fox Kids, judging by the promos you showed. Eek! The Cat and Taz-Mania were the best! 23:22 At least it's better than "Close Encounters of the Furred Kind." 14:44 GET IT?! BECAUSE MACAULAY CULKIN WAS IN HOME ALONE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! (mouth foams up) 14:21 The idea of the Chip and Pepper show makes me think of Club Mario, a different version of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with the live-action segments with Danny Wells and Lou Albano replaced with these "totally radical" segments with Tommy Treehugger and Co-MC. Look it up, if you dare! 3:44 Not gonna lie, this bit made me snicker. 22:37 This bit made me snicker, too. 20:35 That "joke" was Luan Loud levels of bad. (Oh yeah, I said it!) 9:20 Someone should make an Adam Ant "Friend or Foe"/Atom Ant mashup video. I'd watch it. 16:11 That guy looks like Mowgli from The Jungle Book. (I know someone else already mentioned this...) 23:37 I don't know why, but I think I'd like to hear Kate Micucci say that dumb line with her Sadie Miller voice. Someone get on it! And one more note 26:20 I know this is more related to the next episode, but it's still better than Mighty Muffin Pounder Rangers.
Saturday mornings was a good time back in the day. I think started getting disconnected from when when I was around 13, sadly. The stuff they showed kinda just stopped appealing.
Funny, since in "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" (my all-time favorite video game, BTW), there's literally a spell that's called "Enemies Explode". It's very expensive, but you can buy it from the Mages Guild in Bravil.
Worth noting that Amazonite is actually a real mineral that gets it's name from stones that share the same colour and are found in the amazon river, though it is unknown if any of those stones are amazonite. What's also kind of funny is that Amazonite is found more commonly around Miass (which no doubt gets the same cheap laughs from the English as Uranus does) in Russia.
So, this is basically the comic book equivalent of a compilation of video game demos. The only difference is that you don't need to pay money in order to play a demo, you usually got them bundled with the full version of other games or could download them from the Internet, both for free. $1.25 is way too much for a bunch of incomplete stories. They could've at least given us one full story in this comic to justify the price!
5:12 Man, the Infinity Gauntlet event was dumber than I though 9:22 Jellystone Nights: Somehow less insane than Baywatch Nights Pro Stars will always be baffling, but still completely understandable speaking as a 90's kid. No resolution for a single storyline:when JJ Abrams read this comic it was like when Truffaut saw Citizen Kane
Don't know if you read new comments on old videos but on top of a time limit, the wishes are only once a week. You're forgiven for not knowing the deep history and lore of Wish Kid
I was also a Fox Kids/Kids WB kid when I was growing up. Also, in the Omaha, Nebraska broadcast area, which is where I live, they would show Fox Kids Saturday morning on Saturday, and Kids WB Saturday morning would be on SUNDAY mornings, and since 1999, they switched it around.
Since you've done comics with both Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan you should complete the basketballer trilogy by covering the comic adaptation of the Steel movie staring Shaq at some point
Holy crap--revisiting this is quite the nostalgic kick. However, it makes me have an idea: how about revisiting the Magic Catcher's Mitt as a plot device? Sure, Linkara's not going to be dumb enough to reuse an obvious Monkey's Paw....mitt, but someone else could be desperate enough tobe tempted into use a magic wish-granting glove, even knowing there would be negative consequences.
that feint he plans to corner the market on cheap jewelry. and thus make absolutely no money what so ever because operating a submarine and the lack of amazonite in the amazon. also the space cats was a weird show it had a puppet portion before the episode started with the chief, a giant head and the commander of the space cats. plus i remember one episode they defeated the bad guy be concocting an antidote to the shampoo she was distributing that would make everyone balled, i think its been a bit, because she put the ingredients on the label. when asked she said well of course it the law.
Let's not forget Sylvester and Tweetie Mysteries... Boy I watch too many cartoons... also, does Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers count as a Detective spin off?
Eh, kinda sorta. It was that and a type of world adventure show inspired by Indiana Jones (it being both is the reason Chip is dressed similar to Indiana Jones and Dale is dressed like the lead in Magnum PI)
By the way, Brazilians don't speak Spanish like most of Latin America, Buon is Italian according to google translator and wiktionary (we don't even have that much of a phonetic influence from Italy, since we speak another Latin-derived language, Portuguese), and Paco is not a common name around here. I don't know how common it is in Spanish speaking countries In South America, though)
So Linkara, not sure if you'll see this but I wonder, you're pretty big into sci-fi. Ever seen a TV shows about a bunch of jeans wearing guys with jackets who are supposed to be aliens ? I've been trying to remember what that was for years since I found it on retrojunk ages ago.
***** It's the rule of two that was created by the lords of the Sith. One day Sonic Boom will kill Pokemon and a new cartoon shall take it's place as Sonic Boom's apprentice.
***** Yep, but I still like the new Pokemon games(been playing since Yellow). I was referencing Star Wars, I don't know if there will be a new show soon.
There will be again starting September! A new 2 hour block will launch that month and will air in syndication. Programming will include He-Man, Casper's Scare School and George of The Jungle.
10:44 There's also Kamen Rider Den-O Climax Deka but that wasn't a tv show but a post-series movie and a "crossover" (in a very lose sense) with Kamen Rider Kiva.
Amazonite (sometimes called "Amazon stone") is a green variety of microcline feldspar . Green gemstone and main area where it is found now is Colorado USA also mined in Russia , Brazil and Madagascar ... even when its name is from amazon river its not really found round it ... not much to start a huge illegal mining operation :-)
"let the cat puns begin"
Diamonds are fur-ever.
let the cat puns end... please.
Kfor Kira I thought that was purr-fect.
I can't think of any meow
Pro Stars was even worse than Linkara said. It was based on a CEREAL promoted by the three athletes.
Yeah, as Simpsons creator Matt Groening once said, Saturday morning cartoons prove adults think kids are idiots.
I guess it's kind of off topic but do anyone know of a good place to watch new series online?
The cheerleading joke is an exact flipping of a joke in Archie comics, where the guys say they will never join the football team and risk their necks until they see the cheerleaders. And another Archie joke where the guys laugh at the idea of being male cheerleaders until they discover it's for the girls volleyball team.
"Who knew explosions were, in fact, magic?"
So _that's_ where Konosuba got the idea.
All those detective series and not one mention of The Syvester and Tweety Mysteries.
It's wasn't that well promoted. Hell I only remember that show because you mentioned it.
I used to watch Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries on Kids WB as a kid, those were good times.
If anything, Granny was the actual detective. Sylvester just tried to eat Tweety, and Hector the bulldog just usually beat the crap out of Sylvester. I.E., more of the same stuff from the old shorts.
You have no idea how much it baffles me to see a supposedly Brazilian character say "buon dia", "señor" and be named PACO...
+Pedro Leal Outro Brasileiro por aqui?
"Because all South Americans sound alike, right? And they're all dark and Catholic, right?"
Tareltonlives Given the giant Jesus in Brazil...
"Buon dia" isn't even Spanish, let alone Portuguese.
Oh my god, I didn’t even realize! he’s speaking Spanish instead of Portuguese jfc this comic
The detective agency thing is true though. Even freaking Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny from the Looney Tunes had a detective spinoff once. Seriously.
As I recall, it was pretty good.
@@Nintendon85 That's what I remember, too, though I haven't seen it in a very long time.
Why is the captain invisible? There's actually a simple explanation to that, one that I'm surprised you didn't pick up on.
The artist was lazy and didn't feel like drawing into every panel.
It's based on a cartoon series, so more like the animators were too lazy to draw him.
Kimi FW Little of column A, little of column B.
Kimi FW The show itself was made my DiC Entertainment, a company infamous for its badly animated shows (i.e. all 3 Mario shows, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the last seasons of Alvin & the Chipmunks, etc.).
Andrew Del Pilar Hey! DiC also did some awesome shows, and some awesomely odd ones.
Nick V They did but those were few and far between. Most of the shows they made were terrible.
For some reason the Adam Ant joke remains one of my favorite gags on this show
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Can't blame you for not knowing this (Wish Kid was a horrible show anyway, but I digress) I am only explaining the in-universe reason why he didn't wish the criminals back and wish for his powers is that the wishes are limited to one per day. So yeah... still stupid but there was a reason why he didn't wish them back.
I'm the same generation as you Linkara (I'm actually 7 months older than Linkara), so I can relate. For me it was Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, The Tick, Spider-Man and Back to the Future Animated Series.
Just have to point out-- Diagnosis Murder wasn't about a detective agency. They were doctors who just happened to run across mysteries every week.
They should have been they spend more time solving crimes than you know actual medical work.....Ms Pennypacker....Cancel my 2 o clock I gave to solve a case....But that is a man bleeding out from bullet wounds....Tell them to come back at 4
When I hear "Amazonite", I immediately think "Bees. My God."
"Duttweiler" just makes me think of Recess, an infinitely better TV show. :P
Dosbilliam AzureIronskull Now I'm tempted to go watch a marathon of Recess and Philmore.
Amazonite is a real mineral, but it's a gemstone.
and now i know
Tsiki Condor And knowing is half the battle!
+Andrew Addams GI JOE!!!!!!! also why do see you every were bob and know at4w
Tsiki Condor I have no idea what you just said.
+Andrew Addams i see you post on
I think my generation (90s) was the last full generation to have Saturday morning cartoons. The kids of the 2000-2010 were lucky to get full cable networks where Saturday morning is everyday and repeat episodes at naseum
I'm VERY glad these guys weren't part of my childhood
+Tareltonlives The worst part is, I think I can remember watching a little of these things when I was living in Qatar for a couple of years. Arabic television broadcasts of whatever is in the U.S seems to be about 3 months behind and on other channels that are shown entirely in Arabic with no subtitles, you'll find some long forgotten shit.
Only Super Mario World and Yo, Yogi! found there way into my childhood, I'm British. Super Mario World I saw early into my childhood, but Yo, Yogi! I didn't come across til 1999, and even then I only got to see it on sick days due to the time slot it occupied that year.
Tareltonlives I watched every one of them.
Never saw the NBC lineup as it was before my time but I'm glad that I grew up with Kids WB, One Saturday Morning, Cartoon Network, Nick, and ABC Family. The 80's NBC lineup sounds good, though.
Beneath the sea beside the flame
Off the coast where the lost beast came
To bring the world misery and shame
A piece of the world is missing
The path you should have never crossed
The Beast exacts a heavy cost
The number of the Beast is lost
You will know it by its hissing
The bones from hell you cannot tame
Devour your life and all your fame
That is the price to play its game
And all while you're reminiscing
Obviously Captain Mayhem was a devout follower of Lord Helix.
Speaking of detective spin-offs, wasn't there a Sylvester & Tweety cartoon with Granny being a detective solving mysteries? I also think a Richie Rich cartoon did the same thing. Yeah... that is an interesting thing to note.
There was! With that exact name even
I kind of remember the "Chip and Pepper" thing. There was a bit where they turned into cartoon bull dogs and a silly guy in a bathrobe. I used to tape it, fast forward that crap and watch the old cartoons which were the only good parts. :)
"He and his dog, Nuke, counter-counterattacked!"
YOU MAGNIFICENT B****** I READ YOUR BOOK!
The CW had the last Saturday morning lineup, now kids can watch any time because of the Internet. By the 2000s, the original three networks of NBC, CBS and ABC decide not to compete with kids cable channels, and deal with parents lobbying groups.
If you ask me, with the streaming market becoming a Wild West causing families to be priced out of kids programming, it is WAY past time for those FCC requirements for educational programming to be abolished! If I were running the FCC, I’d not only abolish said requirements, I’d also introduce a new mandate requiring free-to-air networks to air 1 hour of TV-Y programming EVERY day between 7am and Noon! In order for a network to be exempt from said mandate, it’s need to register as, and be confirmed as, a dedicated news, sports, music or shopping network. Saturday morning cartoons need a proper comeback, plenty of toons whether you can afford cable and/or streaming or not!
Saturday mornings during the KidsWB/FoxKids age was amazing. My family still has boxes of Pokémon and power rangers tapes from back than and the opening monologue really took me back to those days
90's Kid is like a personification of my love of shlock.
Too bad NBC cancelling their Saturday Morning lineup would be the beginning of the end of the Saturday Morning cartoon.
I'm not all that broken up about it.
KidSnivy69 Me neither because the stuff they had back then was garbage.
I mean, it's NBC. Have you seen their lineup? Detective spinoffs of detective spinoffs are the bread and butter of the network.
Makeover Fairy PI...yes!
In “Yo Yogi”’s case, it was probably Hanna Barbara once again trying to clone Scooby Doo. As for detective shows in general . . . They kind of ARE all-purpose plot generators; the writers of “Angel” specifically admitted Angel Investigations existed mainly to generate stories. It’s why so much of television is cop shows and why Luke Cage set himself up as the Hero for Hire: it provides a convenient excuse to have people bring their problems to the protagonist and why the protagonist doesn’t need a lot of motivation to get involved; it’s their literal job description. This is ignoring the inherent thrill of a good mystery, which detective stories by their nature live to manufacture.
I can see that it’s a trope lazy writers fall back on, but for good writers (like on “Angel” or “NCIS” it provides an interesting A-plot to move the episode along while letting the storytellers focus on character beats, character interactions, setting, and other B-plot stuff
Captain mayhem the third partner to Professor Chaos and General Disarray
Don't forget Major Anarchy too.
@@yakkowarner1990 Don't forget about Sergeant Madness!
Long-time watcher, first-time commenter! Actually, Bo Jackson DID talk like that, mostly for his endorsement for Nike (according to Wikipedia). It was basically Bo trying other sports (because he played baseball and football at the same time), including tennis and auto racing. Although, it's pretty much all he's known for nowadays, besides his nigh-invincible pixelated self on Tecmo Super Bowl.
also Amazonite is a real thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonite
"Bo knows baseball"
It was exclusively "Bo knows," too. No other verbs. Sports listed grew more and more outre. Then, at the end, famous (quite elderly by then) bluesman Bo Diddley would pop up at the end and grandpa-lecture him: "Bo, you don't know diddly!" it was comic and clever.
Wayne Gretzky is Canadian.
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. I'm 25, but I'd still watch FoxKids/FoxBox/4Kids, Vortex, or Bionics (Yes that was a Friday night programming block, but I lump it together because that was the beginning of my weekend) today.
I honestly don't know if I should be proud or embarrassed how many of these books I picked up during there release. I remember this one.
You talk about feeling old... I was already in high school by the time you were watching the cartoons you mentioned watching as a kid. Thanks for making me feel older. Lol.
And thus the inspiration for Butters's Professor Chaos persona was created.
4:33 Make a contract with me and... wait you're a male, never mind.
5:17 Though since Ma'ti's out of the picture that means Wheeler's on the chopping block, GO FOR IT KID!!!
18:37 HOBSON SMASH!!!
Resquiescat in Pace, Saturday Morning cartoons.
Ten years of NBComics
18:12 also the process of setting up concert equipment and the noise pollution when the concert in in motion would cause MAJOR INTERFERENCE with the wildlife.
Maybe the chair lift is a fun alternative for disabled people and the elderly???
Yes because most elderly people LOVE sitting on a seat high above people with nothing to hold them there
AH a lost bygone era Saturday Morning Cartoons
Linkara: "I wish this comic didn't exist; I wish this comic didn't exist!!!"
Me: Be careful what you wish for Linkara.
While the Lady Gaga review has made me laugh the hardest, I think THIS review made me laugh the most so far. The sheer bewilderment and annoyance you express for the All Stars and Space Cats segments were hilarious.
Back in those dates were three or four months LATER than release. A cover date of December really meant a shelf date of August or September. And in this case, it was a $1.25 because that was the cover price for most of Harvey and Archie's comics back then. But it was actually GIVEN away at Toys R Us, Kaybee, some video stores, etc.
Anyone else think Pro Star looks hilariously awesome? Or that it would be if it was a bit more self aware?
If you want to see the episode of ProStars featured in this comic, here you go:
ruclips.net/video/NgtTbPf78Ho/видео.html
And it's every bit as brain-melting as you'd expect.
FUN FACT: Townsend "Michaelangelo" Coleman voices Gretzky.
I lost it at the pro-stars faces part.
6:47 Wish kid suddenly reminds me of Fairly Odd Parents.
Except I'm certain Timmy probably DID wish for those things at some point but things obviously went horribly wrong which he then had to fix in order to ensure a status quo
I watched Fairly OddParents up until 2008. I don't remember him ever wishing for world peace, though the world became peaceful after he wished that kids ruled it. He wasn't allowed to wish for money because that's counterfeiting. He could simply wish for the things he wanted to buy with the money, but that made his parents suspicious. He once wished he was popular and lived in a mansion, but then he got his godparents taken away for being ungrateful. Another time he wished he was "the most wanted kid" which made all the fairies in Fairy World fight over him. When Chester had Norm as a godparent, he tried wishing away the world's problems, but being a little kid, he misunderstood what those problems really were.
I guess the point we can get from all this is that children are too selfish and naïve to wish for world peace, and they can't handle power or fame either.
This episode makes me feel old, with the G1 Digimon, Zilla, & Power Rangers clips, as well as all the talk about Saturday morning cartoons (Which no longer exist, because of all the networks pumping out shows that, in my day, would be too childish for Treehouse.). Personally, I remember Friday night Bionic better. (From 6pm till 1am nothing but anime (With exceptions like Transformers: Cybertron, & a Power Rangers rip off where 4 30 year old teenagers fight monsters. I think it was called Monster hunters, or something.). I do remember FoxKids, FoxBox, 4Kids!, & Vortex, but I guess I just liked the older anime more. Thinking about it now makes me kinda sad. Yeah, I could watch everything online, but theres just something nostalgic about watching it late on Friday nights, trying to decide between adult anime on Bionic (No more, atleast not were I live.), Friday Night Smackdown! (Now on Thursdays), & I Shouldn't Be Alive, & The Haunting on Discovery Channel (Both canceled)......Why is everything I love changing? One day I hope to get Cartoon Network, & watch their Thursday night anime marathon.
I thought it was nbc omics. You know, like reaganimics but instead of only benefiting the rich it benefits no one
If "Captain N & the New Super Mario World" was part of NBC's line-up, I wonder why neither of those shows had a story in this comic. Did Nintendo threaten legal action or something? If so, they either saved those shows a butchering, or denied this comic something that would've been...decent?
What kind of superhero would call them self “captain mayhem “ I mean seriously WHO DOES THAT! 🤬😡😠😤
Still better than THE RAVAGERS
Agree
I have a couple minor notes I want to make about this video.
10:49 - 11:05 No mention of Droopy, Master Detective?
1:28 I'm glad Super Mario World didn't have a story in this. Oogtar and Yoshi are so annoying! (Dino-bunga!)
4:06 I have an OC on my DeviantArt page with the last name "Duttweiller." You can find me there as LuketheToonManTaylor.
16:31 They, at least, look better than Magic Johnson in that SNES game.
1:25 Space Cats was made by Paul Fusco, the guy who created ALF. I think ALF should've tried to eat them. ;)
0:11 Looks like you mainly grew up watching the later years of Fox Kids, judging by the promos you showed. Eek! The Cat and Taz-Mania were the best!
23:22 At least it's better than "Close Encounters of the Furred Kind."
14:44 GET IT?! BECAUSE MACAULAY CULKIN WAS IN HOME ALONE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! (mouth foams up)
14:21 The idea of the Chip and Pepper show makes me think of Club Mario, a different version of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with the live-action segments with Danny Wells and Lou Albano replaced with these "totally radical" segments with Tommy Treehugger and Co-MC. Look it up, if you dare!
3:44 Not gonna lie, this bit made me snicker.
22:37 This bit made me snicker, too.
20:35 That "joke" was Luan Loud levels of bad. (Oh yeah, I said it!)
9:20 Someone should make an Adam Ant "Friend or Foe"/Atom Ant mashup video. I'd watch it.
16:11 That guy looks like Mowgli from The Jungle Book. (I know someone else already mentioned this...)
23:37 I don't know why, but I think I'd like to hear Kate Micucci say that dumb line with her Sadie Miller voice. Someone get on it!
And one more note
26:20 I know this is more related to the next episode, but it's still better than Mighty Muffin Pounder Rangers.
We need Pro-Stars to be greenlit again, but with Sidney Crosby, Shack, & Cocoa Crisp.
Saturday mornings was a good time back in the day. I think started getting disconnected from when when I was around 13, sadly. The stuff they showed kinda just stopped appealing.
FUN FACT: "Yo Yogi" was the last cartoon Don Messick did before he died.
20:30 Amazonite is a real stone, but oddly enough it’s not found in Brazil. I don’t think it has any use beyond being a cool rock though
Covered in Missed Opportunities
Actually, speaking in the third person was kind of part of Bo Jackson's public persona, a take on the whole "Bo knows" Nike ad campaign.
Never heard of any of NBC Saturday cartoon shows.
"Who knew explosions were, in fact, magic?"...Michael Bay?
Funny, since in "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" (my all-time favorite video game, BTW), there's literally a spell that's called "Enemies Explode". It's very expensive, but you can buy it from the Mages Guild in Bravil.
Hey does anyone know where I get batteries for my laser bat?
Worth noting that Amazonite is actually a real mineral that gets it's name from stones that share the same colour and are found in the amazon river, though it is unknown if any of those stones are amazonite. What's also kind of funny is that Amazonite is found more commonly around Miass (which no doubt gets the same cheap laughs from the English as Uranus does) in Russia.
So, this is basically the comic book equivalent of a compilation of video game demos. The only difference is that you don't need to pay money in order to play a demo, you usually got them bundled with the full version of other games or could download them from the Internet, both for free. $1.25 is way too much for a bunch of incomplete stories. They could've at least given us one full story in this comic to justify the price!
4:54 - 4:56: Or he could put in a call to Crazy Steve.
5:12 Man, the Infinity Gauntlet event was dumber than I though
9:22
Jellystone Nights: Somehow less insane than Baywatch Nights
Pro Stars will always be baffling, but still completely understandable speaking as a 90's kid.
No resolution for a single storyline:when JJ Abrams read this comic it was like when Truffaut saw Citizen Kane
Don't know if you read new comments on old videos but on top of a time limit, the wishes are only once a week. You're forgiven for not knowing the deep history and lore of Wish Kid
Also he can't cancel a wish he has to see it through till it times out
9:58 hey don´t underestimate giant roaches, TerraFormars proved that they are terrifying
the lost beast has found a home
...and this review is the reason I discovered Adam Ant. I can't quite hate the comic, just because of that :)
Same!
it,s actually more like a hardlight hologram than lazer. so it's a bat made of " light" projected from his wrist band.
I was also a Fox Kids/Kids WB kid when I was growing up. Also, in the Omaha, Nebraska broadcast area, which is where I live, they would show Fox Kids Saturday morning on Saturday, and Kids WB Saturday morning would be on SUNDAY mornings, and since 1999, they switched it around.
Since you've done comics with both Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan you should complete the basketballer trilogy by covering the comic adaptation of the Steel movie staring Shaq at some point
Holy crap--revisiting this is quite the nostalgic kick. However, it makes me have an idea: how about revisiting the Magic Catcher's Mitt as a plot device? Sure, Linkara's not going to be dumb enough to reuse an obvious Monkey's Paw....mitt, but someone else could be desperate enough tobe tempted into use a magic wish-granting glove, even knowing there would be negative consequences.
This nbc lineup clearly shows the stupid mentality of "It's just for kids, we don't have to try"
Amazonite is a real stone used in jewlery, by the way.
Y'know, Amazonite is a real thing and that makes the "gah" all the funnier.
though, when you look up the uses of it, you realize how dumb it is that he was going to use it take over the world.
Thomas Jenkins Fair enough, though.
that feint he plans to corner the market on cheap jewelry. and thus make absolutely no money what so ever because operating a submarine and the lack of amazonite in the amazon.
also the space cats was a weird show it had a puppet portion before the episode started with the chief, a giant head and the commander of the space cats. plus i remember one episode they defeated the bad guy be concocting an antidote to the shampoo she was distributing that would make everyone balled, i think its been a bit, because she put the ingredients on the label. when asked she said well of course it the law.
Wasn't Kelly already a cheerleader on Saved by the Bell?
16:13 I don't mean to be racist, but why is Paco look like Mowgli from Disney's "Jungle Book" the cartoon version?
Trust me, you're not racist. I got the same impression.
Donzy213 But what if YOU'RE Racist? DA DA DA!
I thought that as well
Because Steve Bannon did the inking
The start of the Laser Bat gag.
My favorite are the Space Cats but only because that was the only thing I saw as a kid.
Let's not forget Sylvester and Tweetie Mysteries... Boy I watch too many cartoons... also, does Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers count as a Detective spin off?
Eh, kinda sorta. It was that and a type of world adventure show inspired by Indiana Jones (it being both is the reason Chip is dressed similar to Indiana Jones and Dale is dressed like the lead in Magnum PI)
I remember my copies (plural) came in promotional boxes when I got stuff at Toys R Us. It had free legos, candy and other cool stuff as well.
By the way, Brazilians don't speak Spanish like most of Latin America, Buon is Italian according to google translator and wiktionary (we don't even have that much of a phonetic influence from Italy, since we speak another Latin-derived language, Portuguese), and Paco is not a common name around here. I don't know how common it is in Spanish speaking countries In South America, though)
So Linkara, not sure if you'll see this but I wonder, you're pretty big into sci-fi. Ever seen a TV shows about a bunch of jeans wearing guys with jackets who are supposed to be aliens ? I've been trying to remember what that was for years since I found it on retrojunk ages ago.
Another favorite of mine. Sadly now there are no Saturday morning cartoons.
XSiRenfieldX Yes there are
Kay I was apparently wrong
***** It's the rule of two that was created by the lords of the Sith. One day Sonic Boom will kill Pokemon and a new cartoon shall take it's place as Sonic Boom's apprentice.
***** Yep, but I still like the new Pokemon games(been playing since Yellow). I was referencing Star Wars, I don't know if there will be a new show soon.
There will be again starting September!
A new 2 hour block will launch that month and will air in syndication. Programming will include He-Man, Casper's Scare School and George of The Jungle.
Saw a lot of NBC Saturday cartoons back in the day, but my day was early to mid 80s.
10:44 There's also Kamen Rider Den-O Climax Deka but that wasn't a tv show but a post-series movie and a "crossover" (in a very lose sense) with Kamen Rider Kiva.
In all fairness, NBC once had better Saturday morning cartoons. When I was a kid in the 1980's, they included the Smurfs and the Gummi Bears.
A Laser Bat! Ha! Just Roll With It Dude
NY has a mall like that. It's called the Pallisades.
Does it have a chair-lift?
I don't remember. It's been a while; but it did have a merry-go-round.
Amazonite (sometimes called "Amazon stone") is a green variety of microcline feldspar . Green gemstone and main area where it is found now is Colorado USA also mined in Russia , Brazil and Madagascar ... even when its name is from amazon river its not really found round it ... not much to start a huge illegal mining operation :-)
0:17 if that isn't the worst green screen or whatever it is ever, then fucking kill me.
Makeover Fairy: PI
An explanation for the laser bat, it's the end result of a collaboration between Laser Floyd, and Count Floyd.
Diamonds are also unbreakable
Michael Jordon looks like Curly from the Harlem Globetrotters.
Finally- a comic series for people outside the gender binary
ADAM ANT TO THE RESCUE