I never watched The Mighty Ducks movie, I was never anywhere nearly as interested in live-action Disney as I was the animated stuff. But I do remember watching one episode of the cartoon, and since I never watched the movie, I couldn't have cared less how very loosely the cartoon was based off of it. I still thought it was really dumb, though.
Yeah--I suspect its short run was due more to the referenced conflict of vision between the folks producing the show. Younger kids didn't know what to think of it, a lot of older kids avoided it 'cause it was a cartoon and they were trying to distance themselves from that sort of things...and adults just didn't know what they were missing. I watched it in HS and enjoyed the heck out of it.
Re: The Mighty Ducks animated series, the show was based on the NHL's Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim's Mascot, Wildwing, rather than the original youth hockey themed movies.
Hey at least that explains why the kids from the movie was it in the show. As a kid watching that show myself I was highly disappointed it confused as to where the mighty ducks was.
But the team name was directly based off the movies and was owned by Disney. That's why they changed the name to the Ducks after Disney sold and changed the logo for some time. All three ducks franchises are directly related.
I think the show was ahead of its time. There are moments I didn't get as a kid and now find funny. I've heard some fans say they felt like Freakazoid was a prototype for memes and a clean version of Deadpool! 😅😅😅😂😂😂
No Pirates of Dark Water?! The show was amazing, but also amazingly expensive by the standards of Hanna-Barbara. It failed, but it was so good that someone should continue it on Netflix or something.
In this day and age? Best let sleeping dogs lie. Ren would have his twink features exaggerated to obscene degrees, and Ioz would be constantly emasculated by Tula sporting the half shaved hairdo the world has come to despise and somehow not only being an ecomancer but the BEST econancer AND secretly a child of Primus and princess of Octupon who can find the Treasures of Rule without the compass, kill the constrictus singlehandedly, defeat Bloth and not be effected by the Dark Water.
You do realize that Freakazoid was literally the EMBODIMENT of "modern cringe" humor, right? It's not even remotely THAT old enough for that style of humor to have gone away, either. You don't know what you're talking about.
@@thenightstar8312 self awareness differences. Him being insane was the point. The theme song literally has "he drives the villains crazy because he's a lunatic" in the lyrics Modern cringe would be taken 100% seriously and treated like an important topic that couldn't be mocked
For sure. I remember it being rife with societal and political jokes, but they didn't seem mean-spirited, or an attempt to make a point. It was more like playful ribbing. Tonally, it was something between Pinky & the Brain and a show like The Simpsons. I think it could work today with a slightly more cohesive vision and an older target demographic...but, to your point, not in the current state of entertainment. But to be fair, I don't think 98.73% of what has been made since 2016 is worth a damn, and it probably will stay that way until about 2030. Maybe then it can be revisited.
@@thenightstar8312Swing and a miss. Another person that doesn’t know the meaning of “ literally “ surprised not surprised. The dumbest people are usually the smuggest unfortunately!😂😂😂
When I was a kid I really didn't get Freakazoid's humor so I skipped it. it was only decades later when I rewatched it that I realized it was really good and a shame I couldn't enjoy it at the time.
Yup! I remember having to piece together some of the jokes from context, and was able to find them amusing. As an adult, being more aware of certain names, situations, and the political landscape, I've developed a greater appreciation for what the show was able to weave into its episodes.
I used to love watching Freakazoid! as a kid! The humor was so wild and random it had me laughing nonstop. Even though a lot of the jokes probably went over my head at the time, the energy and craziness of the show kept me hooked. Definitely one of those cartoons that holds up even as an adult.
Freakazoid was like Deadpool for kid it was so funny and I enjoyed also I remember watching the mighty ducks I like it and i think watcher some of the show on here
@@Mafon2I don't think you have ever read a Deadpool comic before he was never made for kids he's a character made that was made for the adult comic book adult readers and he still is a character targeted towards adults freakazoid was definitely Deadpool made for kids there's a real big difference between the two characters.
Ok, now, to be fair; 'The Hulk/She-Hulk', 'Mighty Ducks', and ESPECIALLY 'Freakazoid' all have a pretty loyal cult-following to this day! (I mean, how many other kids cartoons back then would've referenced Cthulhu? XD) The others I was barely or not even aware of, but I think I used to get 'World of Tex Avery' confused with the Tex Avery -themed block of classic shorts they showed late nights on Cartoon Network. XD =)
Hulk was my favorite marvel cartoon after xmen and spiderman. I liked ironman but, something about banners trying to cure himself was interesting. I wish it was as popular and long running as spiderman with more crossovers. Silver server was the first time knowing about thanos, kree skrulls
Freakazoid was genius, and even as a 7th grader I knew that. This and the Tick were in top 5 during the 90s What about Histeria! Now that is one no one talks about. It had the vibe of Animaniacs/Freakazoid but actually taught accurate history.
It's weird I was a kid when I watched the mighty ducks movie and then when I saw the animated show also as a kid it made perfect sense to be actual duck super heroes. The 90s were just weird like that
Oh, same dude. I think the SNES and SEGA games based off of movies and TV shows that basically did the same thing are probably what made it make so much sense to us as kids. We were already seeing things so different from the source material with the same name.
Cosgrove: hey freakazoid wanna go get some frozen yogurt or whatever he would say at different times. Freakazoid: do I? That was always a hilarious joke
looking back they hinted Cosgrove was gay with them saying quote Cosgrove I'm not married I like meat to much Freakazoid you can get married now Cosgrove really
Freakazoid was the most unhinged of the cartoons I binged as an adult and I loved it! The police chief was hilarious, poo gas, the Archer guy lol just great show
I liked the Mighty Ducks cartoon! And that's such a shame about Tex Avery. He made some of my favorite cartoons of all time, the car of tomorrow and the house of tomorrow.
Freakazoid was brilliant, probably too much ahead of its time. And for being an extended toy commercial, Dragon Flyz was surprisingly entertaining and well put together.
The Mighty Ducks was a fun cartoon, I actually have a few action figures from the show and even a bank believe it or not. The movies were fun but personally I actually have more nostalgia for the cartoon!!!
My sister and I used to love Freakazoid! It's a shame it didn't last longer than it did. The writing on this show was so hilarious and brilliant. You can't find this kind of humor in cartoons, anymore. Also, I thought he was cute! 😍
Arms Akimbo was a man who would always walk around with his long arms positioned like a teapot on each side of his body and it was so funny to see a villain like that on Freakazoid.
Freakazoid was one of the first cartoons to actually make me laugh so hard I cried. It was the “poo gas” and “doodie water with rats” bit that killed 9 year old me.
I actually had the opposite reaction to "The Mighty Ducks", & was immensely disappointed to discover the movies had nothing to do with anthropomorphic super ducks. 😂
Freakazoid was amazing! I remember watching episodes every Saturday morning as I got ready to go to my job at The Rag Shop (anybody remember that place?).
It only had 24 episodes and that's including the reworking they did halfway through making it less fun in a way that was supposed to make it more kid friendly.
@@christianlorre For sure. It started really strong and then kinda got 'meh' later on. I didn't know they tried to make an adjustment. Wish they hadn't. The early stuff was perfect.
I watched Mighty Ducks and Freakazoid, enjoyed them both. I never actually watched the Mighty Ducks movies, but I was aware that the show was something entirely different. And I liked what it was, that being a silly action show. I never hear about it much, so it sits in the "did that really exist" corner of my memories. One of my favorite gags was a fourth-wall break in which they had less time to get out of a trap because they sat and waited during the commercial break. Freakazoid was just wacky, with some laugh-out-loud moments. It paired well with Earthworm Jim, a similarily wacky and short-lived show. Freakazoid (the character) even directly referenced it once, threatening to replace his narrator with the narrator from Earthworm Jim. That said, the shows couldn't have been more different. For as wacky as Freakazoid was, it was a "classy" wacky, for lack of a better word. Earthworm Jim was more "zany", and had more action. Both shows were pretty random, though, and that made them fun to watch.
I remember Freakazoid, Hulk, Nightmare Ned, Mighty Ducks cartoons. I also remember the infamous Wacky World of Tex Avery, which I really hated because it had nothing to do with classic Tex Avery cartoons, they only used the name for some cowboy who’s a Yosemite Sam rip-off! I can’t believe the cartoon aired just before the Fox Kids, UPN or Kids WB block!
Freakazoid is definitely the cartoon-equivalent of a cult classic. If it suffered from anything it was that Spielberg-Warner flooded the zone (so to speak) with their content.
I remember the mighty ducks cartoon, the incredible hulk and freakazoid! Fun fact Tim curry and the late Tony jay voice 2 of the antagonists in the mighty ducks cartoon!
I did not see the incredible hulk till about a decade ago. I watched Mighty Ducks at the time, but did not appreciate Tony Jay and Tim Curry, Clancy Brown, and Frank Welker. Freakazoid was amazing
When we talk about 90s animation nowadays, we usually talk about the Iron Giant, Family Guy because it's still running, The Simpsons because of how much it sucks now, Disney's renaissance era (remember when Disney was actually great?), and the DCAU being the model for mature and well-written animation. There's actually a lot of stuff from the 1987-2006 golden age of animation that's been lost to the sands of time
I think I've seen a couple of episodes dad had on tape of Mighty Ducks and Incredible Hulk, but I know for certain I've seen all the episodes of Freakazoid, as I have the full series on DVD. But found all of these online, no matter if it here on RUclips, Internet Archives, or for a couple of them, other online sites. That Van-Pires just feels like cheesy fun, that's for sure. Anyways, thank you, enjoyed this.
The Mighty Duck's cartoon was interesting, but it was kind of a Biker Mice from mars concept. Kinda odd they didn't do a Duckwing duck, Talespin, or Goof troop take, with anthro duck kids or cast based on the films.
Ironically Bruce Timm wanted Freakazoid to have a darker, grittier tone, but as you said Spielberg overruled him🤡. This led Timm to create the mesmerizing Batman the Animated series🦹♀️🤩!
Is it strange to say one of the oddest things I remember about the Mighty Ducks Cartoon was that the Goalie was also the Captain? A first for me at the time. :)
I remember all of these. But I never got a chance to watch Nightmare Ned or Tex Avery short of commercials and promos. Mainly because they would always come on at times where I was either still asleep or on my way to school. From the sounds of it I dodged a bullet with the Tex Avery show.
Freakazoid was the only cartoon on this list that I liked. there was a lot of jokes that had me laughing. Freakazoid supposed to be a wacky and zaney character but there were characters that did stuff so stupid that even Freakazoid was questioning it. like when he hired a new butler to serve him. Butler: I slave away without end and never once had a vacation! Freakazoid: What do you mean? It's your first day here! Then the episode of an alien landing on Earth with an important mission, but can't remember what that mission is. this alien was so stupid that even Freakazoid's patience was being tested. what was this important mission? to tell the Earth's protectors about an asteroid on its way to Earth. they look up... and it's already entering the atmosphere... and the episode just ends. I couldn't stop laughing. XD
Surprisingly but also happily, Freakazoid is the only show I'd ever seen from this list. I think the series was solid overall, though the conflicting visions for the series was bound to make it hard to snag a kid audience; they either want a cool hero like Batman, or a goofy protagonist like P&B or Animaniacs. (The Tick cartoon lasted three seasons, but it had garnered an audience first as a comic, and I think it 'picked a lane' a bit more.) I was in HS at the time and liked the mix, but even then, I had to rely on context to get a lot of the more political/social jokes. ("Rush Limbaugh has become a bleeding heart liberal! ...Euro Disney is packed?! Cold fusion works!? There's no more Chevy Chase movies?! --The world IS a better place!") I can understand why it ultimately didn't have a long lifespan, but I was thrilled to find the two short seasons on DVD. Watching it post-college, I think it suffered mostly from being made in a time when cartoons (aside from a few like Beavis and Butthead) were still largely aimed at kids. P&B, Tiny Toons, and Animaniacs worked because they were tailored for kids with a lot of fun stuff for an older audience sprinkled in...and the writing wasn't dumbed down in general. Hard to go wrong with fun, wacky, often self-aware characters who could do slapstick while throwing in a humorous aside about a societal trend. Freakazoid just had more of the latter than the former, while airing on a channel and at a time that was meant for school-age kids. I need to revisit it to be sure there was enough quality comedy (I remember a lot of episodes seeming a bit languid and kinda 'meh', with a few gems scattered throughout) but I think this show deserves a strong cult following if it doesn't already have one.
I don't think anyone expecting a TV show adaptation of "The Mighty Ducks" when we heard about the TV show. It was pretty clear about what it was from the point of it's announcement. It actually looked like a really cool idea (like Ninja Turtles with extreme Hockey). But it just ended up being mostly boring lol
Some of these had redeemable aspects. Honestly, there's probably a ton of hidden gems from that time, for no actual fault of their own, there was just so much great stuff being put out back then.
I remember being nine years old and seeing the ad for the "Mighty Ducks" cartoon and thinking, "That is the stupidest thing I've ever seen." In a generation of Ninja Turtles and Street Sharks, ducks were apparently where I drew the line.
I remember a couple of these, the best among them for me, was The Mighty Ducks and ironically I never associated them with the movie. I enjoyed it for what it was worth and each of the characters was awesome to see on the screen. It is a shame it only got such a low ratings and having watched all three movies of the Hockey movies, I can safely say, I enjoy the second one the best of them.
I'm surprised you released this video a day early, Review Team!😂 I'm also surprised that your video isn't an hour old yet, & it has over 600 views at this time. But less than 100 likes, what's up with that?!😮
How can you say the Mighty Ducks failed? Disney sponsored the shit out of the team and it worked. That’s why they made the cartoon series and the movies.
I have been a fan of Tex Avery, since as a small child, I enjoyed watch the cartoons he created, in particular "Screwy Squirrel". This may be why I never liked "The Wacky World of Tex Avery" which came out in 1997, a full seventeen years after Tex Avery had passed on. I'm not sure who thought this show was a good idea, but I found it an insult to the memory of the legendary cartoonist.
I rather enjoyed Mighty Ducks. I hadn't seen the movies and wasn't even a hockey fan at the time but hey, anthropomorphic action heroes in the same vein as SWAT Kats. For a toy line tie-in, Dragon Flyz sure didn't skimp on the drama. I mean damn, that opening theme legit sent shivers down my spine as a kid (Before the Earth goes dark and dies, the only hope is in the skiiiies"). Normally only Japanimation could provide high stakes drama of that ilk (yes I still use that ancient term, as I'm old school like that).
I saw and enjoyed most of these as a kid (even Wacky World of Tex Avery, don't hit me). However Van Pires passed me by because the character designs were terrifying.
Mighty Ducks and Freakzoid. Those are the ones I remember. Mighty Ducks was just bizarre, but Freakzoid was a good time, even if some of the references flew over my head back then.
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Do you remember watching any of these?
Hulk smash.
Freakazoid and Wacky World, thou Freakazoid def holds up better 😅
The Tex Avery one, unfortunately.
I never watched The Mighty Ducks movie, I was never anywhere nearly as interested in live-action Disney as I was the animated stuff. But I do remember watching one episode of the cartoon, and since I never watched the movie, I couldn't have cared less how very loosely the cartoon was based off of it. I still thought it was really dumb, though.
Yes Freakazoid, very funny cartoon and the celebrities parodies 😅
Freakazoid is brilliant and it should never been canceled in the first place. 😀👍
Its actually mid
Yes it was a funny cartoon that included celebrities parodies 😂
That show was amazing
Had it been pitched to MTV or adult swim, we may never have gotten Aqua Teen Hunger Force
@@mhdualbladesonlyrespectfully, nah. it was brilliant.
Freakazoid changed my life and is still one of my favorite titles of this legendary era
Free kazoo?
Frickasie
Freak a you
Freak a me
@@jennifercody3088 his brains overloading, it has a chocolate coating
"Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins!" ...And "nut bunnies" is still my go-to 'profanity' when things go awry. :)
I am shocked that Freakazoid wasn't popular. Everyone I knew (my age) watched it.
It was, actually.
Yeah--I suspect its short run was due more to the referenced conflict of vision between the folks producing the show. Younger kids didn't know what to think of it, a lot of older kids avoided it 'cause it was a cartoon and they were trying to distance themselves from that sort of things...and adults just didn't know what they were missing. I watched it in HS and enjoyed the heck out of it.
Same. My friends and I knew the show and watched it as well
@@thenightstar8312 lol why are you so mad about this.
@@stuppittyhedI don’t see any anger from his comment
Re: The Mighty Ducks animated series, the show was based on the NHL's Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim's Mascot, Wildwing, rather than the original youth hockey themed movies.
True, but it was made directly after the movies riding high.
My brother and I had like 5 of their action figures. We loved that show.
Hey at least that explains why the kids from the movie was it in the show. As a kid watching that show myself I was highly disappointed it confused as to where the mighty ducks was.
This makes so much sense! I admit as a kid I wondered why it wasn’t like the movie, but for me I ended up loving this way more than the films.
But the team name was directly based off the movies and was owned by Disney. That's why they changed the name to the Ducks after Disney sold and changed the logo for some time. All three ducks franchises are directly related.
I loved the Mighty Duck's show when I was a kid!
🏒🦆
Yes!
God bless y’all
I loved that show so much as a kid, I was so sad to see it go.
Me too. 👊🏼
That's weird. The show was objectively terrible.
Freakazoid was so big I never realized it didn’t last that long
Freakazoid voice talents,writing and animation is so good. So happy you reminded me of this so I can rewatch the whole thing as a adult
I think the show was ahead of its time. There are moments I didn't get as a kid and now find funny. I've heard some fans say they felt like Freakazoid was a prototype for memes and a clean version of Deadpool! 😅😅😅😂😂😂
Freakazoid, the original Superhero of the Internet
No Pirates of Dark Water?! The show was amazing, but also amazingly expensive by the standards of Hanna-Barbara. It failed, but it was so good that someone should continue it on Netflix or something.
Oh heck yes... loved that cartoon
Preach the good word.
In this day and age? Best let sleeping dogs lie. Ren would have his twink features exaggerated to obscene degrees, and Ioz would be constantly emasculated by Tula sporting the half shaved hairdo the world has come to despise and somehow not only being an ecomancer but the BEST econancer AND secretly a child of Primus and princess of Octupon who can find the Treasures of Rule without the compass, kill the constrictus singlehandedly, defeat Bloth and not be effected by the Dark Water.
Freakazoid suffered from being ahead of its time. And they can't remake it because they would just load it with modern cringe.
You do realize that Freakazoid was literally the EMBODIMENT of "modern cringe" humor, right? It's not even remotely THAT old enough for that style of humor to have gone away, either. You don't know what you're talking about.
@@thenightstar8312 self awareness differences. Him being insane was the point. The theme song literally has "he drives the villains crazy because he's a lunatic" in the lyrics
Modern cringe would be taken 100% seriously and treated like an important topic that couldn't be mocked
For sure. I remember it being rife with societal and political jokes, but they didn't seem mean-spirited, or an attempt to make a point. It was more like playful ribbing. Tonally, it was something between Pinky & the Brain and a show like The Simpsons. I think it could work today with a slightly more cohesive vision and an older target demographic...but, to your point, not in the current state of entertainment. But to be fair, I don't think 98.73% of what has been made since 2016 is worth a damn, and it probably will stay that way until about 2030. Maybe then it can be revisited.
Remade for "modern audience" is all I need to hear to know it's s*it.
@@thenightstar8312Swing and a miss. Another person that doesn’t know the meaning of “ literally “ surprised not surprised. The dumbest people are usually the smuggest unfortunately!😂😂😂
When I was a kid I really didn't get Freakazoid's humor so I skipped it. it was only decades later when I rewatched it that I realized it was really good and a shame I couldn't enjoy it at the time.
Yup! I remember having to piece together some of the jokes from context, and was able to find them amusing. As an adult, being more aware of certain names, situations, and the political landscape, I've developed a greater appreciation for what the show was able to weave into its episodes.
Freakazoid in a video about disasters, no sir. This I will not stand for.
Nor I! XD
Indeed!
Comments section confirmed it...Freakazoid needs a come back. 😂
That depends. How was the reboot of The Animaniancs received?
@@lmno567 well it ran for 3 years and has a 90% on rotten tomatoes so I'd say it did pretty dang well 😁
I used to love watching Freakazoid! as a kid! The humor was so wild and random it had me laughing nonstop. Even though a lot of the jokes probably went over my head at the time, the energy and craziness of the show kept me hooked. Definitely one of those cartoons that holds up even as an adult.
Freakazoid was like Deadpool for kid it was so funny and I enjoyed also I remember watching the mighty ducks I like it and i think watcher some of the show on here
Freakazoid was more like the mask using toon force
Nah, Deadpool is a Freakazoid for kids.
@@Mafon2I don't think you have ever read a Deadpool comic before he was never made for kids he's a character made that was made for the adult comic book adult readers and he still is a character targeted towards adults freakazoid was definitely Deadpool made for kids there's a real big difference between the two characters.
@@feliciasteward777 Freakazoid predates modern Deadpol by, at least, 10 years, or so.
I wish Deadpool had a Mr. Tubakins.
Ok, now, to be fair; 'The Hulk/She-Hulk', 'Mighty Ducks', and ESPECIALLY 'Freakazoid' all have a pretty loyal cult-following to this day! (I mean, how many other kids cartoons back then would've referenced Cthulhu? XD) The others I was barely or not even aware of, but I think I used to get 'World of Tex Avery' confused with the Tex Avery -themed block of classic shorts they showed late nights on Cartoon Network. XD =)
Hulk was my favorite marvel cartoon after xmen and spiderman. I liked ironman but, something about banners trying to cure himself was interesting. I wish it was as popular and long running as spiderman with more crossovers. Silver server was the first time knowing about thanos, kree skrulls
@@Yroko Ok then. Great. =)
Freakazoid was genius, and even as a 7th grader I knew that. This and the Tick were in top 5 during the 90s
What about Histeria! Now that is one no one talks about. It had the vibe of Animaniacs/Freakazoid but actually taught accurate history.
I was just thinking of the Tick and that show with the Short fat bald guy from back in the day. Also Gilbert and Daria
Dude, YES! Histeria was so fun to watch when I was in 5th grade, the theme song lived rent free in my head for years.
It's weird I was a kid when I watched the mighty ducks movie and then when I saw the animated show also as a kid it made perfect sense to be actual duck super heroes. The 90s were just weird like that
Oh, same dude. I think the SNES and SEGA games based off of movies and TV shows that basically did the same thing are probably what made it make so much sense to us as kids. We were already seeing things so different from the source material with the same name.
Freakazoid is still one of my favs. Also you have Ed Asner voicing the police chief. Still love this show. I still quote it to this day!
Cosgrove: hey freakazoid wanna go get some frozen yogurt or whatever he would say at different times.
Freakazoid: do I? That was always a hilarious joke
looking back they hinted Cosgrove was gay with them saying quote Cosgrove I'm not married I like meat to much Freakazoid you can get married now Cosgrove really
The first season of Incredible Hulk and the 2nd seasons of both Iron Man and Fantastic Four were awesome cartoons. Almost as good as X-Men
I love watching those still got the ff theme song in my head
Man the 90s was truly the golden era for superheroes
Me too
Loved Mighty Ducks and Freakazoid as a kid!
Freakazoid was the most unhinged of the cartoons I binged as an adult and I loved it! The police chief was hilarious, poo gas, the Archer guy lol just great show
I liked the Mighty Ducks cartoon! And that's such a shame about Tex Avery. He made some of my favorite cartoons of all time, the car of tomorrow and the house of tomorrow.
Freakazoid was brilliant, probably too much ahead of its time.
And for being an extended toy commercial, Dragon Flyz was surprisingly entertaining and well put together.
Freakazoid is the best. I cherish my boxset. Watch it every year.
The Mighty Ducks was a fun cartoon, I actually have a few action figures from the show and even a bank believe it or not.
The movies were fun but personally I actually have more nostalgia for the cartoon!!!
My sister and I used to love Freakazoid! It's a shame it didn't last longer than it did. The writing on this show was so hilarious and brilliant. You can't find this kind of humor in cartoons, anymore. Also, I thought he was cute! 😍
It was Neil McDonough who voiced banner but Lou did voiced hulk. Neil actually did reprise his banner Role in the hulk ultimate destruction game
Yeah, I thought Lou voicing banner was an odd choice so this makes way more sense.
And Ron Pearlman voiced Banner on the fantastic four and iron man.
@@trale3053 and ironically Blonsky/ abomination in ultimate destruction too
Arms Akimbo was a man who would always walk around with his long arms positioned like a teapot on each side of his body and it was so funny to see a villain like that on Freakazoid.
I actually LOVED the 'Freak-a-zoid' cartoon. I even have a t-shirt with his emblem
Freakazoid was one of the first cartoons to actually make me laugh so hard I cried. It was the “poo gas” and “doodie water with rats” bit that killed 9 year old me.
I actually had the opposite reaction to "The Mighty Ducks", & was immensely disappointed to discover the movies had nothing to do with anthropomorphic super ducks. 😂
Freakazoid is way better then its being given credit for.
I love Freakazoid. The song was catchy and funny. It was fun to sing along with.
Freakazoid , Hulk, and Mighty Ducks were some of my favorite cartoons growing up. I even had the action figures
Honorable mention: The Maxx
A short lived series that aired 1995 on MTV (at least in our country).
I really liked the unique style of the show.
The Maxx, shifts between these worlds. Great show!
Thank you for bringing up The Mouse and The Monster. I feel like I’m the only person that remembers that show
The only ones of these I know are the Mighty Ducks (I think I have an action figure of Wildwing) and Freakazoid (which I loved).
I absolutely loved Freakazoid! I always wished he did a crossover with Batman, but I guess Creeper was enough
imagine a Freakazoid and Deadpool crossover
Freakazoid was amazing! I remember watching episodes every Saturday morning as I got ready to go to my job at The Rag Shop (anybody remember that place?).
Freakazoid was an awesome show!!! I’m surprised that it was considered a flop?!
It only had 24 episodes and that's including the reworking they did halfway through making it less fun in a way that was supposed to make it more kid friendly.
@@christianlorre For sure. It started really strong and then kinda got 'meh' later on. I didn't know they tried to make an adjustment. Wish they hadn't. The early stuff was perfect.
I think The Mighty Ducks cartoon was kinda meant to be a glorified commercial for the NHL team.
Loved Freakazoid. I feel like Deadpool’s personality was modeled after Freakazoid.
Idk if Spawn was a success or not, but I used to stay up until 3:30am to watch it as a kid. Lol. Historia was a good one, too.
I watched Mighty Ducks and Freakazoid, enjoyed them both.
I never actually watched the Mighty Ducks movies, but I was aware that the show was something entirely different. And I liked what it was, that being a silly action show. I never hear about it much, so it sits in the "did that really exist" corner of my memories. One of my favorite gags was a fourth-wall break in which they had less time to get out of a trap because they sat and waited during the commercial break.
Freakazoid was just wacky, with some laugh-out-loud moments. It paired well with Earthworm Jim, a similarily wacky and short-lived show. Freakazoid (the character) even directly referenced it once, threatening to replace his narrator with the narrator from Earthworm Jim. That said, the shows couldn't have been more different. For as wacky as Freakazoid was, it was a "classy" wacky, for lack of a better word. Earthworm Jim was more "zany", and had more action. Both shows were pretty random, though, and that made them fun to watch.
I loved the mighty ducks cartoon and the theme song as well
I remember Freakazoid, Hulk, Nightmare Ned, Mighty Ducks cartoons. I also remember the infamous Wacky World of Tex Avery, which I really hated because it had nothing to do with classic Tex Avery cartoons, they only used the name for some cowboy who’s a Yosemite Sam rip-off! I can’t believe the cartoon aired just before the Fox Kids, UPN or Kids WB block!
I remember the Mighty Ducks show. It was so strange that they took a movie about hockey and turned it into literal duck superheroes. lol
Actually it's not based off the movie it's based off of the actual NHL team
Freakazoid may have been short-lived but it wasn't a failure
considering it's cult classic status
Out of all these I only recall Freakazoid, & had no idea that it only lasted 2 seasons. I seem to remember it being a pretty popular series!
Freakazoid a failure? How could that be? It inspired the Candlejack m
Freakazoid is definitely the cartoon-equivalent of a cult classic. If it suffered from anything it was that Spielberg-Warner flooded the zone (so to speak) with their content.
Wait .... freakaziod is like obscure? I loved it as a kid me and my bro still reference it till this day
Nut bunnies!
I remember the mighty ducks cartoon, the incredible hulk and freakazoid! Fun fact Tim curry and the late Tony jay voice 2 of the antagonists in the mighty ducks cartoon!
I did not see the incredible hulk till about a decade ago.
I watched Mighty Ducks at the time, but did not appreciate Tony Jay and Tim Curry, Clancy Brown, and Frank Welker.
Freakazoid was amazing
When we talk about 90s animation nowadays, we usually talk about the Iron Giant, Family Guy because it's still running, The Simpsons because of how much it sucks now, Disney's renaissance era (remember when Disney was actually great?), and the DCAU being the model for mature and well-written animation. There's actually a lot of stuff from the 1987-2006 golden age of animation that's been lost to the sands of time
Well written comment
I think I've seen a couple of episodes dad had on tape of Mighty Ducks and Incredible Hulk, but I know for certain I've seen all the episodes of Freakazoid, as I have the full series on DVD. But found all of these online, no matter if it here on RUclips, Internet Archives, or for a couple of them, other online sites. That Van-Pires just feels like cheesy fun, that's for sure. Anyways, thank you, enjoyed this.
I always viewed the Mighty Ducks cartoon as a gross amalgamation between the original movies & "Howard the Duck".
Yup! I also saw it like that 😂
The Mighty Duck's cartoon was interesting,
but it was kind of a Biker Mice from mars concept.
Kinda odd they didn't do a Duckwing duck, Talespin, or Goof troop take,
with anthro duck kids or cast based on the films.
I thought the Mighty Ducks cartoon was more based on the mascot of the real Hockey team in Anaheim.
YES! That's what I thought too, given that there was a character named Wild Wing.
They need to put Freakazoid in MultiVersus.
Ironically Bruce Timm wanted Freakazoid to have a darker, grittier tone, but as you said Spielberg overruled him🤡. This led Timm to create the mesmerizing Batman the Animated series🦹♀️🤩!
Nightmare Ned was such a gem. I loved playing the game 🥲
Is it strange to say one of the oddest things I remember about the Mighty Ducks Cartoon was that the Goalie was also the Captain? A first for me at the time. :)
I remember all of these. But I never got a chance to watch Nightmare Ned or Tex Avery short of commercials and promos. Mainly because they would always come on at times where I was either still asleep or on my way to school.
From the sounds of it I dodged a bullet with the Tex Avery show.
I HATED that Tex Avery cartoon, I couldn't switch the channel fast enough when it came on.
Freakazoid was the only cartoon on this list that I liked. there was a lot of jokes that had me laughing. Freakazoid supposed to be a wacky and zaney character but there were characters that did stuff so stupid that even Freakazoid was questioning it. like when he hired a new butler to serve him.
Butler: I slave away without end and never once had a vacation!
Freakazoid: What do you mean? It's your first day here!
Then the episode of an alien landing on Earth with an important mission, but can't remember what that mission is. this alien was so stupid that even Freakazoid's patience was being tested. what was this important mission? to tell the Earth's protectors about an asteroid on its way to Earth. they look up... and it's already entering the atmosphere... and the episode just ends. I couldn't stop laughing. XD
The only one of these shows I remember and still love to this day is Freakazoid
Surprisingly but also happily, Freakazoid is the only show I'd ever seen from this list. I think the series was solid overall, though the conflicting visions for the series was bound to make it hard to snag a kid audience; they either want a cool hero like Batman, or a goofy protagonist like P&B or Animaniacs. (The Tick cartoon lasted three seasons, but it had garnered an audience first as a comic, and I think it 'picked a lane' a bit more.) I was in HS at the time and liked the mix, but even then, I had to rely on context to get a lot of the more political/social jokes. ("Rush Limbaugh has become a bleeding heart liberal! ...Euro Disney is packed?! Cold fusion works!? There's no more Chevy Chase movies?! --The world IS a better place!") I can understand why it ultimately didn't have a long lifespan, but I was thrilled to find the two short seasons on DVD. Watching it post-college, I think it suffered mostly from being made in a time when cartoons (aside from a few like Beavis and Butthead) were still largely aimed at kids. P&B, Tiny Toons, and Animaniacs worked because they were tailored for kids with a lot of fun stuff for an older audience sprinkled in...and the writing wasn't dumbed down in general. Hard to go wrong with fun, wacky, often self-aware characters who could do slapstick while throwing in a humorous aside about a societal trend. Freakazoid just had more of the latter than the former, while airing on a channel and at a time that was meant for school-age kids. I need to revisit it to be sure there was enough quality comedy (I remember a lot of episodes seeming a bit languid and kinda 'meh', with a few gems scattered throughout) but I think this show deserves a strong cult following if it doesn't already have one.
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Freakazoid was amazing!
I don't think anyone expecting a TV show adaptation of "The Mighty Ducks" when we heard about the TV show. It was pretty clear about what it was from the point of it's announcement. It actually looked like a really cool idea (like Ninja Turtles with extreme Hockey). But it just ended up being mostly boring lol
the video is called "cartoon disasters" but the thumbnail is Freakazoid and I am *so* mad XD
Incredible Hulk, Mighty Ducks, Dragon Flys and Freakazoid are the best ones from this video.
Especially if you are into Waifu characters.
Some of these had redeemable aspects. Honestly, there's probably a ton of hidden gems from that time, for no actual fault of their own, there was just so much great stuff being put out back then.
Wow, I absolutely forgot about Mighty Ducks cartoon
Oh wow, there's some real nostalgia with this one...
I remember being nine years old and seeing the ad for the "Mighty Ducks" cartoon and thinking, "That is the stupidest thing I've ever seen." In a generation of Ninja Turtles and Street Sharks, ducks were apparently where I drew the line.
Freakazoid is really funny. It was on tubi but now it's gone
You can get it on YT
@jamesstutz-c5o yeah no thanks.
@@randomreviews4278I agree. 😀👍
I might know a site for it 🤫
I'm not sure how easy it is to find these days, but I was happy (and surprised) to find both seasons on DVD a decade or so ago.
I remember a couple of these, the best among them for me, was The Mighty Ducks and ironically I never associated them with the movie. I enjoyed it for what it was worth and each of the characters was awesome to see on the screen. It is a shame it only got such a low ratings and having watched all three movies of the Hockey movies, I can safely say, I enjoy the second one the best of them.
I'm surprised you released this video a day early, Review Team!😂 I'm also surprised that your video isn't an hour old yet, & it has over 600 views at this time. But less than 100 likes, what's up with that?!😮
Why this time couldn't last I miss everything about this time
This is such a great channel, thank you!
Thank you SO much!
I loved Hulk, Mighty Ducks, and Freakazoid growing up but Nightmare Ned gave me anxiety attacks.
Its rare for me to not have heard of things from the 90s, but theres 3 shows here i never heard of.
How can you say the Mighty Ducks failed?
Disney sponsored the shit out of the team and it worked.
That’s why they made the cartoon series and the movies.
Freakazoid was a classic and will never be forgotten..I need DVD versions of all of these cartoons
I loved Dragon Flyz as a kid. I wanted to have those dragons as toys
12:48 wait a damn minute I loved the Mighty Ducks cartoon
I have been a fan of Tex Avery, since as a small child, I enjoyed watch the cartoons he created, in particular "Screwy Squirrel". This may be why I never liked "The Wacky World of Tex Avery" which came out in 1997, a full seventeen years after Tex Avery had passed on. I'm not sure who thought this show was a good idea, but I found it an insult to the memory of the legendary cartoonist.
Fam…I thought you said Paul Rudd, I was mind blown thinking Ant Man was once Freakazoid 😂😂😂
I rather enjoyed Mighty Ducks. I hadn't seen the movies and wasn't even a hockey fan at the time but hey, anthropomorphic action heroes in the same vein as SWAT Kats.
For a toy line tie-in, Dragon Flyz sure didn't skimp on the drama. I mean damn, that opening theme legit sent shivers down my spine as a kid (Before the Earth goes dark and dies, the only hope is in the skiiiies"). Normally only Japanimation could provide high stakes drama of that ilk (yes I still use that ancient term, as I'm old school like that).
Thats crazy I was remembering the dragonflyz toy I had but couldn't remember the name. Thanks fam
I saw and enjoyed most of these as a kid (even Wacky World of Tex Avery, don't hit me). However Van Pires passed me by because the character designs were terrifying.
Freakazoid was brilliant, tex averey was hilarious and mighty ducks was pretty decent to watch while waiting to watch gargoyles.
Freakazoid! I loved that one. Also, unless I missed it, still waiting for a Project G.K.R. (geeker) episode ;)
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I mean... The Mighty Ducks had Tony Jay AND Tim Curry in its voice cast. I'll watch any animation their voices are involved in.
Freakazoid was an adult animated sitcom.
Can't believe some think its a cartoon
Mighty Ducks and Freakzoid. Those are the ones I remember. Mighty Ducks was just bizarre, but Freakzoid was a good time, even if some of the references flew over my head back then.