This show goes down weird roads sometimes. The horror theme episode nearly turned cooperative and now the Saturday morning cartoon episode goes all horny.
Let's be honest, though: if the pandemic and its lockdowns have taught us anything, it's that everyone who is not asexual is horny all the time and we need outlets. Rekha's just brave enough to embrace it 🤣
Um actually Gosalyn Mallard was not Darkwing Duck’s niece but his adopted Daughter. He took her in after her guardian (and grandfather) Professor Waddlemeyer was murdered by Taurus Bulba’s thugs.
Yeah their was a whole episode dedicated to explaining this. Though this does still kind of fit the theme that Disney has of having one of the parenting figures missing/dead. Also even Max's mother is missing and might even be in heaven as well so the ladies keying in on the fact that mothers in Disney do end up dying might have some weight to it. Also with the ducks the wouldn't they still lay eggs right? I mean does the way they reproduce change just because they are anthromophs? I mean mammal anthromorphs having live babys makes some sense. yet changing an egg laying animal to one that gives live births just because it's an anthro means you'd be changing a lot more of the characters innards than might be necessary. Also I would have gotten the Ghostbusters question as I have watched all three series, the filiations one having a gorilla named Tracy to help out, and an actual team of villains to fight instead of the 100 or so different Ghosts for the "Real/Extreme Ghostbuster teams to take on (usually a different ghost for each episode with Slimer, and the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man being the only two that might have been featured in more than 2 episodes). Also it's Braveheart Lion one of the Carebear Cousins for the symbol.
@@Wolfman3077 They do lay eggs. And in the reboot of Ducktales, they address the fact that Donald’s twin sister laid the eggs then disappeared. /spoiler: She DOES actually return later in the series, actually. But yeah.
There's a graphic novel based on this called Jimmy's Basterds where all of his Jimmy's (James Bond equivalent) illegitimate children form an evil group to kill their father lol
I honestly hope that the PCs were just as dedicated to their backstories and actually picked their Bond Girl moms who influenced their Class-Builds… I would totally watch that livestream (bonus points if they have a resident co-DM to act out the Moms & M/Moneypenny NPCs… helps with the immersion, but not completely necessary, also… this entire game has the potential to turn into a misogynistic nightmare if we don’t address that Bond is a womanizing, bungee-cord, absentee father… LoL)
Orientation week, freshman year of college, 1999, a girl walks by my door to ask directions. I didn't know, but I asked her name. "Rainbow" she said. "Really?" I asked. "No, its really Kerry, but I figured if I was going to change it, now's the time, so call me Rainbow." She ended up being one of my best friends throughout college. She was a big Rainbow Brite fan. She kept the name for a year and a half before switching back. But by then, we had another friend named Kerry, so we called her Rainbow Kerry to distinguish.
The niece/nephew thing makes things way easier on the plot. One parent means two parents, so in kid's properties changes romantic options. It allows new characters to easily enter or exit, and can avoid changing lore in existing properties while removing a potential bad-parent look. It also allows for characters to grow closer in a way you shouldn't see with parents, while potentially giving the adult character sympathy when they aren't good parents. It's just very convenient and I think shows up in any status quo episodic media like comic books.
@@jb888888888 Um Actually, the Ghostbusters cartoon based on the Ivan Reitman film is called _The _*_Real_*_ Ghostbusters,_ while the Filmation cartoon based on the TV sitcom with the gorilla was just _Ghostbusters._
@@romxxii I was going to say "Isn't that what I said?" but I realize that I was perhaps unclear. The cartoon was _Ghostbusters,_ but sometimes in order to specify which Ghostbusters cartoon was being referenced it was referred to as _Filmation's Ghostbusters._ The toy line had "FIlmation's Ghostbusters" on the packaging. The comic book based on the show was explicitly called _Filmation's Ghostbusters._ I had a copy at one time. (No I don't remember anything about it.) There is a full-page promo ad by the studio which calls it "Filmation's Ghostbusters." I'd link it but you know how external links have been lately, it might delete my whole comment. Suffice it to say "image search for filmations's ghostbusters comic book and you'll see it."
I recall being very confused by this as a kid because our local station played both series back to back in the afternoons. Ghostbusters got the earlier time slot so we missed it unless you didn't go to school that day and The Real Ghostbusters was on when we got off the bus.
Villains be good to your daughters Daughters will rule like you do Girls become muggers, who turn into villains So, villains be good to your daughters, too -John Mayer, probably
@@frostboi77 the suggestion that the full title was "Rainbow Brite and the Color Children" came close to the offensively racist term "colored children", which the cast then riffed on with modern phrases associated with the cultural, systematic and institutionalized racism they are rallying against.
Reminds me of the old joke about Mickey at court trying to divorce Mini, and the Judge says "You cant divorce her because she is crazy" and Mickey responds "I did not say she is crazy, I said she was F'en Goofy"
I could tell none of them ever played the game Punch Out. I wish I could've told Winston A. Marshall that what he was looking at was not King Hippo's nose but in fact his gigantic moobs.
I think the reason they made all main characters uncles and aunts was to keep the door open more easily for love interests for future episodes/ or in movies
Happy Friday, fellow routine Um actually viewers! And Happy Saturday to everyone who lives far away from me! And a very special happy Friday to Mantaur!
Would love to see more of these themed episodes like one with classic adventure video games (Sierra's King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and LucasArts games. etc.)
Man, haven't thought about space quest in so long. Kings quest fucks until... 6? I think, whenever they focused on combat instead of puzzles. 5 was my favorite, but I'd love to pay money to play them again
2:29 "we might have a nick toons episode" , Brennan is in a dark empty room with only a TV and microwave ramen going on a binge watching spree, in case he gets asked to do it
I got confused for a second, thinking there were two new episodes of Um, Actually this week, then realized I had listened to the audio version on a long drive on Wednesday. I still rewatched this one though! Gotta love them Saturday morning cartoons!
Tracy was his name and he appeared in both the animated series and the original live action series from 1975. He’s the only character to carry over as a main cast member in the two series!
That legal dispute surrounding Ghostbuster actually also included the original movie which was almost called Ghoststoppers instead. And several scenes were recorded with this alternate title because the issue wasn't resolved when shooting started.
@@Sam_on_RUclips "The Flintstone Kids," Pebbles is Fred and Wima's biological daughter. (Bamm Bamm was a doorstop baby left at the Rubbles' door.) "The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan" Charlie had 10 kids.
uhm actually: Gossalyn isn't darkwing's niece, She's his (adopted, though this fact isn't mentioned again after the opening story) daughter. The point that this is an exception 'among surviving disney characters' is still noteworthy though.
Um, actually. The show "Ghost Busters" is spelled with two words and was live action. There was an animated series with the same name, characters, and premise, but that came out after the movie.
UA the live action show was _THE Ghost Busters,_ three words. The animated _Ghostbusters_ was one word. Yes, _Ghostbusters_ came out after the movie to capitalize on the film which is one reason why the cartoon based on _Ghostbusters_ wasn't called simply _Ghostbusters._ Filmation owned the rights to the name (somehow, trademark law is complicated) and the movie _Ghostbusters_ had to license the name from Filmation. The incorrect statement was that all three GB cartoons were based on the movie, but only "The Real" and "Extreme" were based on the movie
You are correct, I don’t know why this didn’t get much attention. The Ghostbusters show is a sequel I think to “The Ghost Busters” and wasn’t released until 1986, two years after the release of the Ghostbusters movie so I don’t think Trapp was correct in saying that Ghostbusters (show) predates Ghostbusters (movie), because he clearly wasn’t referring to the live action
The Boxcar Children, Hunny Bunch, The Happy Hollisters, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsy (?) Twins, I had most of them and loved them all! Did you know that The Boxcar Children also have a cookbook?
Asexualizing is probably a reason for all the 'uncling'. But, I think more practically, a character who is a parent must have the kid in every episode. Otherwise, the kid appearing and disappearing will annoy the viewing children (where's James, Jr.?). If you want/need a kid for the episode, it's best to make it a nephew/niece.
It started in the comics when they introduced Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdy. And for a very simple reason, they wanted him in a father role, but couldn't have him suddenly have two kids that were never seen before. So they made him an uncle instead. Than Donald got three nephews to one-up Mickey. Then Scrooge was introduced as an estranged relative and that just worked better with an uncle than with a father. From that point onward it was just tradition.
In the last season of Archer, there's an origin story in which he has an uncle/mentor named McGinley, the pattern of weird unclue/nephew secret agents can't be a coincidence
_Ghostbusters_ was based on the Saturday Morning LIVE ACTION show _The Ghost Busters_ starring Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch who solved ghost related crimes along with a gorilla. "I'm Spencer, he's Tracy, I'm Kong." The cartoon version was their sons, along with the original gorilla.
Um, actually, the original Ghostbusters Saturday morning show, though later re-tooled as an animated cartoon, was live action, with Larry Storch and Forest Tucker (the duo from from F-Troop).
After nailing the part of the James Bond Jr. theme about him being named after his uncle, I was sure Winston would get the part about SCUM because the theme song ends with "James Bond Junior chases SCUM around the world."
Um Actually, M.A.S.K. (which was an acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) was a brand created by Kenner Toys and aired its premiere in September 1985, and was most DEFINITELY not adapted from the March 1985 biopic starring Eric Stoltz and Cher about Rocky And Rusty Dennis, a son with a skull deformity and his mother respectively. Or maybe I just didn’t notice the transforming vehicles, hidden mountain base and explosive combat in the background of the tender family story.
She does have a RUclips channel, though it's all older stuff. And she's at least writing for some shows, like Hulu's Animaniacs, Comedy Central's upcoming Digman and NBC's Grand Crew.
Um Actually the _James Bond Jr._ theme says "he learned the game from his uncle James / now he's heir to the name" not "he got the name from his uncle James / but he's there to remain."
My mom got the Rainbow Brite question almost instantly aha. She got recordings of it for us to watch growing up and she loved it as a kid. Paused the question after it was said and was looking at it thinking all of thats right though? 🤔 Showed her it, paused it and after saying the answers can be a bit pedantic she worked it out! I totally wouldn't gave gotten that. She and I also weren't impressed with them calling Twink a horse 😅
The early 90s was a sensational time for Saturday morning cartoons. Eek the Cat/Terrible Thunder Lizards, Recess, X-Men, The Tick, Beast Wars....ah...memories.
30:00 ok so weird thing, the main villains henchman in Teddy ruxpin often says his name wrong on purpose as a joke and his name is tweeg and so he gets called Twink so much
Oh gosh! When I was growing up we had different local tv stations and I was only able to watch the super globetrotters on days of good weather when I could just barely receive the signal from the next county over, and it was mostly fuzzy the whole time, but I loved it.
Oh man, I have been waiting the ENTIRE run of this show for there to be a question about Samurai Pizza Cats and I thought for sure this would be the episode to finally feature it, especially in the Find the Fake game. But alas, no Samurai Pizza Cats... (Maybe it wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon though. I don't remember.)
SPC has strong Saturday morning vibes regardless of when its actual air time was. Its time will come when the special episodes reach the “bizarre anime dubs of the 80s and 90s” niche, along with Robotech and Teknoman.
@@justincoleman3805 It was an anime where the dubbers threw away the original script and cut up the footage and just made something up with a bunch of pop culture references. As a child I loved it, I don’t think it’s held up well over the years.
It's not just random crap, it's intentional misrepresentations of pop culture items. Square pokeballs, a D20 with a 21 where the 20 should be, a Mjolnir that's shaped more like a claw hammer instead of the solid sledgehammer blockhead popularized on the MCU, a "Vulcan salute" where the it's split down the wrong set of fingers, the self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future 2 but it's Adidas instead of Nike, and Freddy Kruger's glove but it's spoons instead of knives. The intent is to trigger some know-it-all on the Internet to say "UM ACTUALLY THOSE ARE ALL WRONG", kinda like what I'm doing right now.
Law of character conservation. If the main child characters live with their uncle, then there's only one parent-figure you have to design, write, and animate. If it's a parent, you either have to have both of them or address the implication of one of them being dead or absent.
23:45 I thought somewhere in e the lore it was the reason Penny lives with her Uncle Gadget is M.A.D. got her parents. So she was put with her uncle so he could use his cyborg powers to defend her.
@@meoff7602 "I'm not a chicken! I'm a fowl!!!" I had a friend that had the playset the size of your torso and i was so jealous, he also had an unrelated robot toy that talked child me was like "this dude is loaded!"
Will we ever get an episode themed after the 2000s cartoons, like Kids WB? Because I grew up on Kids WB and the nostalgia alone would have me wanting to click 'like' on that video fifty times.
Thanks to this episode and the wikipedia article about Inspector gadget, I finally remembered the name of a thing I've tried to figure out for years!! I could never find it cuz all I could remember about "The Secret Show" was when the boss introduced himself but I always got cyber security results cuz i couldn't figure out how to filter those out. But I tried it again today and now I finally found out where the mysterious quote in my mind for the last 10 years came from
16:49 Awwwww…I wish I was on the show for this one as I LOVED the Filmation Ghostbusters! Nobody ever talks about that show, and it had one of the coolest ideas for an archnemesis villain of all time - a sorcerer who’s also a ghost who’s somehow also a cyborg! (Sure, he rarely used the full extent of his powers…but man, if they ever revived this series or somehow allowed Prime Evil to cross over into the Ghostbusters movie universe, he’d be a far more compelling villain than what we got in Frozen Empire…)
I love that Winston said something like "Donald Trump pulled all that out his butt from when he watched Starcom in his footie pajamas in the 80s" cause I love imagining him, then anywhere from 34 to43 years old, watching Saturday morning cartoons in a big ass onsie lmfao
This show goes down weird roads sometimes. The horror theme episode nearly turned cooperative and now the Saturday morning cartoon episode goes all horny.
Let's be honest, though: if the pandemic and its lockdowns have taught us anything, it's that everyone who is not asexual is horny all the time and we need outlets. Rekha's just brave enough to embrace it 🤣
Musical theatre turned into a full on bloody war
But most get horny in one way or another...and Ify is normally the instigator
Um actually Gosalyn Mallard was not Darkwing Duck’s niece but his adopted Daughter. He took her in after her guardian (and grandfather) Professor Waddlemeyer was murdered by Taurus Bulba’s thugs.
This, quite appropriately, has such big Batman energy.
Yeah their was a whole episode dedicated to explaining this. Though this does still kind of fit the theme that Disney has of having one of the parenting figures missing/dead. Also even Max's mother is missing and might even be in heaven as well so the ladies keying in on the fact that mothers in Disney do end up dying might have some weight to it. Also with the ducks the wouldn't they still lay eggs right? I mean does the way they reproduce change just because they are anthromophs? I mean mammal anthromorphs having live babys makes some sense. yet changing an egg laying animal to one that gives live births just because it's an anthro means you'd be changing a lot more of the characters innards than might be necessary. Also I would have gotten the Ghostbusters question as I have watched all three series, the filiations one having a gorilla named Tracy to help out, and an actual team of villains to fight instead of the 100 or so different Ghosts for the "Real/Extreme Ghostbuster teams to take on (usually a different ghost for each episode with Slimer, and the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man being the only two that might have been featured in more than 2 episodes). Also it's Braveheart Lion one of the Carebear Cousins for the symbol.
@@Wolfman3077 i’m late but yeah they do lay eggs
& I’m the nerd who corrected Archivist Dave Smith on that in Disney Magazine since it was wrong in a trivia card game
@@Wolfman3077 They do lay eggs. And in the reboot of Ducktales, they address the fact that Donald’s twin sister laid the eggs then disappeared.
/spoiler:
She DOES actually return later in the series, actually. But yeah.
A former roommate of mine once played in a TTRPG campaign where all of the characters were James Bond's children.
I once ran where everyone was conan the barbarians kids
That sounds frikkin hilarious
There's a graphic novel based on this called Jimmy's Basterds where all of his Jimmy's (James Bond equivalent) illegitimate children form an evil group to kill their father lol
I honestly hope that the PCs were just as dedicated to their backstories and actually picked their Bond Girl moms who influenced their Class-Builds… I would totally watch that livestream (bonus points if they have a resident co-DM to act out the Moms & M/Moneypenny NPCs… helps with the immersion, but not completely necessary, also… this entire game has the potential to turn into a misogynistic nightmare if we don’t address that Bond is a womanizing, bungee-cord, absentee father… LoL)
Getting in bed with James Bond is, under Massachusetts state law, assisted suicide.
Orientation week, freshman year of college, 1999, a girl walks by my door to ask directions. I didn't know, but I asked her name. "Rainbow" she said. "Really?" I asked. "No, its really Kerry, but I figured if I was going to change it, now's the time, so call me Rainbow." She ended up being one of my best friends throughout college. She was a big Rainbow Brite fan. She kept the name for a year and a half before switching back. But by then, we had another friend named Kerry, so we called her Rainbow Kerry to distinguish.
That's incredible. I know exactly three things about this person and I love her lol
@@Jayman1clone It's like that John Mulaney bit
I read this in the voice of Dwight Schrute describing his perfect crime lol
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_push_
-homeless
-gay
-aids
_-new in town_
@@IrvingIV imma PUSH him
The niece/nephew thing makes things way easier on the plot. One parent means two parents, so in kid's properties changes romantic options. It allows new characters to easily enter or exit, and can avoid changing lore in existing properties while removing a potential bad-parent look. It also allows for characters to grow closer in a way you shouldn't see with parents, while potentially giving the adult character sympathy when they aren't good parents. It's just very convenient and I think shows up in any status quo episodic media like comic books.
That being said, Gosalyn was Drake Mallard’s officially adopted daughter, not his niece. It was actually really heartfelt
Disney seems to be okay with the live father, dead mother formula. They use that for a large percentage of their characters.
Um, actually.
The "Ghostbusters" while bumbling idiots, also included a Gorilla who was the smartest of the trio.
@@GarthMcMurray Correct, though there *was* a cartoon based on the live action show. The cartoon was called "The Original Ghostbusters".
@@SimonMoon5 No, it was either _Ghostbusters_ or _Filmation's Ghostbusters._
@@jb888888888 Um Actually, the Ghostbusters cartoon based on the Ivan Reitman film is called _The _*_Real_*_ Ghostbusters,_ while the Filmation cartoon based on the TV sitcom with the gorilla was just _Ghostbusters._
@@romxxii I was going to say "Isn't that what I said?" but I realize that I was perhaps unclear. The cartoon was _Ghostbusters,_ but sometimes in order to specify which Ghostbusters cartoon was being referenced it was referred to as _Filmation's Ghostbusters._ The toy line had "FIlmation's Ghostbusters" on the packaging. The comic book based on the show was explicitly called _Filmation's Ghostbusters._ I had a copy at one time. (No I don't remember anything about it.) There is a full-page promo ad by the studio which calls it "Filmation's Ghostbusters." I'd link it but you know how external links have been lately, it might delete my whole comment. Suffice it to say "image search for filmations's ghostbusters comic book and you'll see it."
I recall being very confused by this as a kid because our local station played both series back to back in the afternoons. Ghostbusters got the earlier time slot so we missed it unless you didn't go to school that day and The Real Ghostbusters was on when we got off the bus.
This is such a supportive group. And Rekha is bringing that energy strongly.
She usually does!
What we learned: Main characters have nephews and nieces, and villains can have sons and daughters.
that implies interesting stuff about Goofy then
Villains be good to your daughters
Daughters will rule like you do
Girls become muggers, who turn into villains
So, villains be good to your daughters, too
-John Mayer, probably
@@binary_terror2 Or his wife, maybe that's why she isn't in the picture. :P
Villian fuck
Like how good guys can't be queens. Princess Celestia is named as such because Hasbro wouldn't let the god-monarch of Equestia be called a Queen
I love the different themes on this show, they are always so fun and different
That sounds amazing!
Um, actually - one of the shiny questions definitely should've been about the Saturday Morning Cartoon Theme Songs! They always had bangers!
the rainbow brite but had me laughing as hard as the cast, what a great episode
what exactly is the rainbow brite thing? i didn't get it ehh
@@frostboi77 the suggestion that the full title was "Rainbow Brite and the Color Children" came close to the offensively racist term "colored children", which the cast then riffed on with modern phrases associated with the cultural, systematic and institutionalized racism they are rallying against.
@@leonadams8097 ohhhhh thnx
@@frostboi77 Oh shit I didn't say "Um, actually..."
@@leonadams8097 HAHAHHA is fine lmao
The "I watched the goofy movie" had me absolutely dying. You guys are my favorites.
I appreciate how quickly everyone got to the "Goofy fucks" meme. Gives another context to the "Goofy yell," doesn't it?
Reminds me of the old joke about Mickey at court trying to divorce Mini, and the Judge says "You cant divorce her because she is crazy" and Mickey responds "I did not say she is crazy, I said she was F'en Goofy"
Saying "What's wrong with this picture?" after the picture of King Hippo could have been comedy gold
I could tell none of them ever played the game Punch Out. I wish I could've told Winston A. Marshall that what he was looking at was not King Hippo's nose but in fact his gigantic moobs.
I think the reason they made all main characters uncles and aunts was to keep the door open more easily for love interests for future episodes/ or in movies
so what you're telling me is "Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos" didn't fight Komplex, that's krazy
Happy Friday, fellow routine Um actually viewers! And Happy Saturday to everyone who lives far away from me!
And a very special happy Friday to Mantaur!
Happy Friday, Benton, and thank you for the special happy Friday^^
Friday? You Americans stuck in the past, smh.
@@teelo12000 Nope, still Europe here, and still Friday.
Would love to see more of these themed episodes like one with classic adventure video games (Sierra's King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and LucasArts games. etc.)
I'm a huge fan of adventure games. I support this idea.
Man, haven't thought about space quest in so long. Kings quest fucks until... 6? I think, whenever they focused on combat instead of puzzles. 5 was my favorite, but I'd love to pay money to play them again
Did you ever play Torin's Passage? That was a weird one, point and click Sierra adventure, snarky af humor. It was great.
This is by far the best energy group youve ever gotten. Flawless spotless vibes, pure energy.
Agreed. Perfect group dynamic and hilarious riffs!
Uncle detectives is the greatest narrative hook to ever hit the gameshow circuit.
2:29 "we might have a nick toons episode" , Brennan is in a dark empty room with only a TV and microwave ramen going on a binge watching spree, in case he gets asked to do it
Contestants for this episode should have competed in mandatory Saturday morning flannel PJs.
i was just on an um actually marathon i’m so glad this is out
God I wish I haven't seen every episode so I could binge em for the first time. This is genuinely such a good show.
I'm a little bit younger and can definitely confirm that Saturday morning cartoons were still a thing in the 00's. At least the early to mid 00's.
I was sad that they spent most of the episode pre-1990. If they had gone later in the timeline I might've stood a chance
Yeah, why did they go so early when the contestants probably weren't even alive when those shows were on the air?@@WarriorofChaos20
I genuinely had to pause fact check that James Bond Jr. theme song. Yes, it's in there.
Yup. ruclips.net/video/MKgi7m5Ki5o/видео.html
Is a real bop though
Your moms a bop
@@justincoleman3805 Thanks guy! She really does try.
I got confused for a second, thinking there were two new episodes of Um, Actually this week, then realized I had listened to the audio version on a long drive on Wednesday. I still rewatched this one though! Gotta love them Saturday morning cartoons!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the most interesting element of "Ghostbusters", and that is their gorilla sidekick.
They had guns that shot bubblegum. Checkmate.
Tracy was his name and he appeared in both the animated series and the original live action series from 1975.
He’s the only character to carry over as a main cast member in the two series!
That legal dispute surrounding Ghostbuster actually also included the original movie which was almost called Ghoststoppers instead. And several scenes were recorded with this alternate title because the issue wasn't resolved when shooting started.
Um actually Gosalyn is Darkwing Duck's adopted daughter not his niece.
It must be adopted though. Because no character that appears on screen on Saturday Morning Cartoons is allowed to fuck... except Goofy.
Beat me to it!! I loved that show as a kif
Um actually Drake Mallard adopted Gosalyn.
Mallard adopted Gosalyn after her grandfather was murdered in the events before the first episode.
@@Sam_on_RUclips "The Flintstone Kids," Pebbles is Fred and Wima's biological daughter. (Bamm Bamm was a doorstop baby left at the Rubbles' door.)
"The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan" Charlie had 10 kids.
My favorite abbreviated organizations will always be from Phineas and Ferb
Duck tales took it a step further even since Donald is Huey, Dewey, and Louie's uncle and Scrooge is Donald's uncle.
That Rainbow Brite segment... I'm in tears. The only way it could have been weirder and funnier would be if Brennan were a part of this episode.
"Go Go Gadget Parenting" had me rolling
Yes Winston yes!!! The bubbles song slaps hard. “Love makes the world go round”
uhm actually:
Gossalyn isn't darkwing's niece,
She's his (adopted, though this fact isn't mentioned again after the opening story) daughter.
The point that this is an exception 'among surviving disney characters' is still noteworthy though.
Yes, but she's still not the result of the main character's procreation.
Also before Darkwing adopted her she was being raised by her Grandpa so still no parents
Um, actually. The show "Ghost Busters" is spelled with two words and was live action. There was an animated series with the same name, characters, and premise, but that came out after the movie.
UA the live action show was _THE Ghost Busters,_ three words. The animated _Ghostbusters_ was one word. Yes, _Ghostbusters_ came out after the movie to capitalize on the film which is one reason why the cartoon based on _Ghostbusters_ wasn't called simply _Ghostbusters._ Filmation owned the rights to the name (somehow, trademark law is complicated) and the movie _Ghostbusters_ had to license the name from Filmation. The incorrect statement was that all three GB cartoons were based on the movie, but only "The Real" and "Extreme" were based on the movie
You are correct, I don’t know why this didn’t get much attention. The Ghostbusters show is a sequel I think to “The Ghost Busters” and wasn’t released until 1986, two years after the release of the Ghostbusters movie so I don’t think Trapp was correct in saying that Ghostbusters (show) predates Ghostbusters (movie), because he clearly wasn’t referring to the live action
i was too young to play along with this episode, but i still loved all the tangent conversations
I turn 36 next month and I still missed a lot of this only being born in '86
All of the people on this show were too young to have actually watched most of these shows.
The Boxcar Children, Hunny Bunch, The Happy Hollisters, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Bobbsy (?) Twins, I had most of them and loved them all! Did you know that The Boxcar Children also have a cookbook?
Someone named "Winston" really should have been able to get the _Ghostbusters_ one.
Oh, so all Winstons know each other?
Asexualizing is probably a reason for all the 'uncling'. But, I think more practically, a character who is a parent must have the kid in every episode. Otherwise, the kid appearing and disappearing will annoy the viewing children (where's James, Jr.?). If you want/need a kid for the episode, it's best to make it a nephew/niece.
It started in the comics when they introduced Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdy. And for a very simple reason, they wanted him in a father role, but couldn't have him suddenly have two kids that were never seen before. So they made him an uncle instead. Than Donald got three nephews to one-up Mickey. Then Scrooge was introduced as an estranged relative and that just worked better with an uncle than with a father. From that point onward it was just tradition.
Haven't watched a super ton of these, but this is definitely my favorite group so far.
Um, Actually, Goslyn is genuinely Darkwing's daughter, albeit adopted.
The Quivering Quack
This episode brought me pure joy. Thank you.
I feel like uncles in kids cartoons are like substitute teachers: kids feel like they can get away with more junk than with their real parents.
In the last season of Archer, there's an origin story in which he has an uncle/mentor named McGinley, the pattern of weird unclue/nephew secret agents can't be a coincidence
I think they’re all nieces and nephews because then at the end of the summer they have to take the bus home from Gravity Falls.
I admit it. I had some work zoom meetings during the pandemic that got this derailed, and I was loving it. It was laughter we all needed to share.
All three guests were awesome!
I love the quarantine episodes. Y’all are so silly.
" love makes the world go'round" Bubbles
I played this song recently and came into tears.
Rainbow brite and the star stealer
_Ghostbusters_ was based on the Saturday Morning LIVE ACTION show _The Ghost Busters_ starring Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch who solved ghost related crimes along with a gorilla. "I'm Spencer, he's Tracy, I'm Kong." The cartoon version was their sons, along with the original gorilla.
Did they have sons with the gorilla? And why a bubblegum gun?
Um, actually, the original Ghostbusters Saturday morning show, though later re-tooled as an animated cartoon, was live action, with Larry Storch and Forest Tucker (the duo from from F-Troop).
After nailing the part of the James Bond Jr. theme about him being named after his uncle, I was sure Winston would get the part about SCUM because the theme song ends with "James Bond Junior chases SCUM around the world."
As well as "No one can stop him but S.C.U.M always tries" if I remember correctly.
Disappointed nobody was eating cereal during this recording.
Not gonna lie, the fact the ET one was cell shaded quickly gave it away. I ain't never seen a cell shaded 80s cartoon.
This ep was so funny and upbeat and had great cameraderie
Rekha needs to be in literally everything she has just the perfect energy xD
Rekha and Mike were in a great episode of Game Changers, too
Her combination of sexualizing, being super dismissive (that poor pony), and objecting to things while laughing nearly nonstop was just perfect 😆😆
This episode has the best vibe of any of them. What a great group.
Um Actually, M.A.S.K. (which was an acronym for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) was a brand created by Kenner Toys and aired its premiere in September 1985, and was most DEFINITELY not adapted from the March 1985 biopic starring Eric Stoltz and Cher about Rocky And Rusty Dennis, a son with a skull deformity and his mother respectively.
Or maybe I just didn’t notice the transforming vehicles, hidden mountain base and explosive combat in the background of the tender family story.
Um Actually, I think they were referring to The Mask, adapted from the Jim Carrey movie.
This episode was so off the rails and it was amazing
REHKA’S AMAZING 😻!!! I want to see her in more of the things. Movies and tv shows, maybe (in a Dr. Zoidberg voice)?
She does have a RUclips channel, though it's all older stuff. And she's at least writing for some shows, like Hulu's Animaniacs, Comedy Central's upcoming Digman and NBC's Grand Crew.
@@ZipplyZane thanks. I subscribed for a while. There was a lot of cooking and talking.
Video is about Saturday Morning Cartoons?
[Releases on a Friday afternoon]
I swear, Rekha should do a smash or pass with cartoon and video game characters.
Yet another Uncle/ niece combo is Jackie Chan Adventures
Um Actually the _James Bond Jr._ theme says "he learned the game from his uncle James / now he's heir to the name" not "he got the name from his uncle James / but he's there to remain."
This is the hardest I've laughed at this show. The Rainbow Bright riff was impressive.
Not, "Go go gadget parenting." It's "Go go gadget HELICOPTER parenting!"
This is my favorite episode JUST for the Rainbowbright jokes 😭
My mom got the Rainbow Brite question almost instantly aha. She got recordings of it for us to watch growing up and she loved it as a kid. Paused the question after it was said and was looking at it thinking all of thats right though? 🤔 Showed her it, paused it and after saying the answers can be a bit pedantic she worked it out! I totally wouldn't gave gotten that. She and I also weren't impressed with them calling Twink a horse 😅
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
Rainbow Brite and the 3/5ths compromise. LMAO. That's hilarious
The early 90s was a sensational time for Saturday morning cartoons.
Eek the Cat/Terrible Thunder Lizards, Recess, X-Men, The Tick, Beast Wars....ah...memories.
This was hands-down the funniest episode to date.
30:00 ok so weird thing, the main villains henchman in Teddy ruxpin often says his name wrong on purpose as a joke and his name is tweeg and so he gets called Twink so much
Oh gosh! When I was growing up we had different local tv stations and I was only able to watch the super globetrotters on days of good weather when I could just barely receive the signal from the next county over, and it was mostly fuzzy the whole time, but I loved it.
That reminds me the days of turning the antenna trying to get the channels. No one orientation got more then 2 of the 4ish stations.
Oh man, I have been waiting the ENTIRE run of this show for there to be a question about Samurai Pizza Cats and I thought for sure this would be the episode to finally feature it, especially in the Find the Fake game. But alas, no Samurai Pizza Cats... (Maybe it wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon though. I don't remember.)
I feel like it was definitely a Saturday morning cartoon.
AT LEAST two of the cartoons they talked about weren't aired on Saturday mornings.
SPC has strong Saturday morning vibes regardless of when its actual air time was. Its time will come when the special episodes reach the “bizarre anime dubs of the 80s and 90s” niche, along with Robotech and Teknoman.
I have a question about Samurai Pizza Cats.
What’s Samurai Pizza Cats?
@@justincoleman3805 It was an anime where the dubbers threw away the original script and cut up the footage and just made something up with a bunch of pop culture references. As a child I loved it, I don’t think it’s held up well over the years.
My favourite part about the show is just seeing the random junk on the shelves.
It's not just random crap, it's intentional misrepresentations of pop culture items. Square pokeballs, a D20 with a 21 where the 20 should be, a Mjolnir that's shaped more like a claw hammer instead of the solid sledgehammer blockhead popularized on the MCU, a "Vulcan salute" where the it's split down the wrong set of fingers, the self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future 2 but it's Adidas instead of Nike, and Freddy Kruger's glove but it's spoons instead of knives. The intent is to trigger some know-it-all on the Internet to say "UM ACTUALLY THOSE ARE ALL WRONG", kinda like what I'm doing right now.
I know but it’s easier to say junk
Law of character conservation. If the main child characters live with their uncle, then there's only one parent-figure you have to design, write, and animate. If it's a parent, you either have to have both of them or address the implication of one of them being dead or absent.
23:45 I thought somewhere in e the lore it was the reason Penny lives with her Uncle Gadget is M.A.D. got her parents. So she was put with her uncle so he could use his cyborg powers to defend her.
I don't remember where they aired but would have been excited to see questions about "Mighty Max" or "Tales of the Dark Watter"
Mighty Max was a personal favorite. One of the few I never missed.
@@meoff7602 "I'm not a chicken! I'm a fowl!!!" I had a friend that had the playset the size of your torso and i was so jealous, he also had an unrelated robot toy that talked child me was like "this dude is loaded!"
I think in "find the fake" you can always tell by the art style. ET looked like a digital painting.
Will we ever get an episode themed after the 2000s cartoons, like Kids WB? Because I grew up on Kids WB and the nostalgia alone would have me wanting to click 'like' on that video fifty times.
The 60s and 70s mystery boom was brought on by the insane popularity of "Scooby-Doo! Where are You."
Thanks to this episode and the wikipedia article about Inspector gadget, I finally remembered the name of a thing I've tried to figure out for years!! I could never find it cuz all I could remember about "The Secret Show" was when the boss introduced himself but I always got cyber security results cuz i couldn't figure out how to filter those out. But I tried it again today and now I finally found out where the mysterious quote in my mind for the last 10 years came from
I watch this show quite a lot in the background but this episode distracted me and made me laugh more than most.
The Ghostbuster cartoon was based on a live action show from '73-'74. It starred
d Larry Storch from F Troop..
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who reads vintage children's lit for the food descriptions xD
@20:39 THAT needs to be a jingle so bad. Rewatched that at least 5 times 😎
16:49 Awwwww…I wish I was on the show for this one as I LOVED the Filmation Ghostbusters! Nobody ever talks about that show, and it had one of the coolest ideas for an archnemesis villain of all time - a sorcerer who’s also a ghost who’s somehow also a cyborg! (Sure, he rarely used the full extent of his powers…but man, if they ever revived this series or somehow allowed Prime Evil to cross over into the Ghostbusters movie universe, he’d be a far more compelling villain than what we got in Frozen Empire…)
Rainbow Brite and the Last Black Man in San Francisco
Game show, or comedy show? I think we all know why we're here. Seriously, all, this ep is a giant bundle of laughs. Happy holidays, everyone!
Because the word “color” is hilarious?
It was the 80s, none of us GEN X ever questioned missing parents. Half of s were sent off to our relatives in the summers anyway.
I think this is the hardest I've laughed at an episode of Um Actually.
I love the clean points in this episode
Um, actually... the heart symbol with a crown belongs to Braveheart Lion, a Care Bear cousin
I grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons on Boomerang, so The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Tom and Jerry, and Looney Tunes.
These are uploaded on Saturday mornings here. So that's perfect.
Fun fact about James Bond Jr; in the Swedish version, the Jaws character was renamed as Dong.
Rainbow Brite had me dying
I love that Winston said something like "Donald Trump pulled all that out his butt from when he watched Starcom in his footie pajamas in the 80s" cause I love imagining him, then anywhere from 34 to43 years old, watching Saturday morning cartoons in a big ass onsie lmfao