For those wondering how the hell this cartoon got made; Kevin Eastman, who was also a big Troma fan, convinced Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, the production company behind TMNT, into producing a cartoon spinoff based on Toxic Avenger.
+Tetsuron I wonder why he thought it would be a good idea. The Toxic Avenger remake that is in development is supposed to be PG-13, apparently inspired by the cartoon in that it's more family friendly.
There are five major classes of superheroes. 1- Light heroes. (Superman Flash etc. ) 2- Dark heroes. (Batman, The Shadow etc.) 3- The anti-heroes (Punisher, Wolverine, etc.) 4- Evil heroes. Heroes that draw their power from evil sources. (Spawn, Ghost Rider, etc.) 5- And my favorite. Weird heroes. (TMNT, Swamp thing, and of course, Toxic Crusader.)
In 1990, Kaufman sought to expand Troma’s audience base into the juveniles by bringing Toxie to the mainstream; namely, Saturday morning network television. Troma partnered with Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, who had brought another adult-oriented mutant-hero franchise to animation with their adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original comics, while not as brutal as the Avenger films, were decidedly more violent than the eventual cartoon version), Alvin and the Chipmunks (season 6), The California Raisin Show, Barnyard Commandos, etc. Of course, the series would have to be almost entirely scrubbed of Troma’s signatures in order to be appropriate for young audiences. Also, to fulfill FCC requirements for children’s programming, the show took on a pro-ecological message. Toxie (Rodger Bumpass) had a similar origin as he did in the films, except he didn’t go on a murderous vengeance spree on those who wronged him and future foes. The mop that he used to clean the health club where he worked was also changed by the toxic waste to be a super-powered, semi-sentient being (aptly named Mop). Further differences included Toxie was given a team of similarly mutated freaks. Amongst them was No-Zone (Paul Eiding), a test pilot that crashed into a silo of radioactive pepper giving him powerful sneezing powers; Major Disaster (Ed Gilbert), a soldier that fell into a radioactive swamp and gained the power to control plants; Junkyard (Gregg Berger), a homeless man merged with a junkyard dog after he took shelter in a toxic waste-covered dog kennel that was struck by lightning; and Headbanger, a fusion of mad scientist Dr. Bender (Hal Rayle) an surfer-like singing telegram boy Fender (John Mariano) that became fused when Fender accidentally knocked them into Dr. Bender’s invention. Together, they became the Toxic Crusaders, often aided by Toxie’s tone-deaf girlfriend, Yvonne (Kath Soucie), and his mother (Susan Silo). Toxie was also given a pet in the form of Blobbie; a little blob of goo that came to the toxic waste dump that served as the primary base for the Crusaders. Their primary foes were the Smogulans; aliens from the planet Smogula who wanted to pollute the Earth in order to make it habitable for their people and conquer it. The primary ruler of the planet was Czar Zosta (Patric Zimmerman), whose forces on Earth were led by Dr. Killemoff (Bumpass). Psycho (Michael J. Pollard) was an obese bio-mechanical being that worked for Killemoff and had the uncanny ability to predict the future-usually the failure of Killemoff’s plans, that often went unheeded. Hazmat-suited minions known as Radiation Rangers served as Killemoff’s foot soldiers and cannon fodder. Bonehead (Hal Rayle) was the lead health club bully (replacing Bozo from the first movie) that led to Toxie’s creation who himself was changed into a monster when Toxie threw him into a barrel of acid rain. Bonehead joined forces with Killemoff, but wasn’t much of an asset as he was brainless and incompetent. Also working with the Smogulans was the corrupt mayor of Tromaville, Max Grody (based on the mayor from the first movie, voiced by Chuck McCann). The Toxic Crusaders (so named because Avengers was deemed too violent sounding) premiered in syndication on March 1st, 1991. Even though they couldn’t go to the lengths of brutal, dark, gross-out humor that the films it was based on did, the series had its fair share of adult-oriented jokes, toilet humor, and often broke the fourth wall by being self-referential. The series was written by a combination of MWS and Troma alum, including Jack Mendelsohn, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, D.J. MacHale, Ned Candle. Walt Kubiak, Jeffrey W. Sass and Andrew Wolk, along with Chuck Lorre and Herz. Lorre, who had written the Turtles theme, co-wrote this series’ theme with Dennis C. Brown. Brown and Larry Brown handled the rest of the series’ music. Although the Avenger films were popular enough to inspire enough networks to put decent orders for the series, they weren’t sufficient enough to guarantee a second season. The show ended after its 13-episode run. During the show’s run, Marvel Comics released an 8-issue comic series that ended up cancelled along with their other TV-based projects. In the UK, Fleetway Publications published their own series that run two issues longer. Playmates, who produced the toys for Ninja Turtles, made a line of figures in a similar style. Bandai and Sega released side-scrolling platform beat ‘em up video games in for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and Sega Genesis developed by TOSE, Realtime Associates and Infogrames, respectively. A SNES version was also planned by Bandai at the same time with the NES and Game Boy, but never released. Other merchandise included trading cards by Topps, coloring/activity books and puzzles published by Golden Books, junior novels by Boxtree, a card and board game by International Games, a Colorforms playset, lunchboxes by Thermos, costumes by Collegeville and costume patterns by McCall’s Patterns.
I loved the toxic avenger cartoons when I was a kid watching TNMT every week I even love the movie I wish Nickelodeon or cartoon network could bring this guy back in action toxie the toxic avenger is the BEST independent scifi superhero ever
a cool fact is that they honored him in teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 , where they made an episode called the noxious avenger which is a tribute to the movie and the cartoon , starring the mutant muckman which is a tribute to both toxies since he had an origin grotesque and violent like the Toxic Avenger, but became a hero loved by New York City like the Toxic Crusader for Tromaville, he also had a mutant friend named Joe Eyeball who makes reference to Toxie's friend Blobbie
Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders I had no friends. No girls would hug me til I got radioactive ugly! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders I live in a dump cause the rent's real low! Got a little pet blobblie and he loves me so! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders Now me and the boys fight against wrong! Though we're hideously deformed! (Guitar solo) Hey, I'm sitting on top of the world! With my mop, tutu, and girl! Wow! Toxic Crusaders Toxic Crusaders Toxic!
TMNT been crossing over with everyone lately, Street Fighter, Stranger Things, Master of the Universe, there's a Transformer due out later this year... We need a TMNT x Toxic Crusaders collab
For a while this was my favourite cartoon. I remember my aunt and grandma buying me the action figures. Man, Saturday morning kids tv was absolutely golden here in the uk.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage yeah. Another one from the time was captain N the gamesmaster. Did you watch that? The real ghost busters is prob my fave tho of the time.
@@Eggnoodlesandketchup3 I loved captain N. I was always a fan of the mega man and castlevania games so I was all over that cartoon. And yeah, the real Ghostbusters was fantastic too. It was awesome to see great cartoons still being made in the 90s after all the sublime ones we had in the 80s, like he-man, thundercats, centurions, bravestarr, the raccoons, transformers, mask, dungeons and dragons, duck tails, teenage mutant ninja turtles. Man, the list goes on and on. Great time to be a kid for sure. It's better than the absolute rhubarb they make for kids in the 21st century.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage the early 90s I suppose was still kind of like the 80s...films, music, cartoons, comic books, games, toys not a patch now on what they were. Would rather go back in time and straight to the source.
Man, I used watch the HELL out of this show as a kid. I had an action figure of Toxie, and it had a glow in the dark eyeball if I'm not mistaken. Wish I still had that damn thing...
I'm not too sure about the glow in the dark eyeball. Then again, I might not have had a Toxie figure. I know I had the big nose guy and the dog man. I think I settled on the latter because Toxie was sold out. I was also like 5 when this was a thing, so...
@@AzureSenel it was pretty big here in the uk. I remember having all the action figures. Obviously it wasn't on the level of mask, he-man, tmnt, or thundercats. But it was still really big over here.
I remember watching this cartoon not knowing about the movie, I just recently watched the movie for the first time and how the hell did they make a cartoon from it? Good job Troma and Lloyd Kaufman :D
I can not thank you enough for putting up such a high-quality version of this intro. The toyline for this show was my WORLD during my kindergarden years.
Marvel Comics released an eight-issue comic book series for 7 months, from May to December 1992. It had no regular writer. Each issue was written by such notables as Steve Gerber (issues #3 and #5), Ann Nocenti (issue #7), David Leach and Jeremy Banx (lead strip script and artwork) and David Michelinie (back up strip) (issue #8), Hilary Barta (issue #2), and Simon Furman (issues #1, 4, and 6). A four book mini series was written and drawn by David Leach & Jeremy Banx. The series was solicited and the first issue written and drawn before being canceled along with all of Marvel TV tie-in titles. One issue was a direct parody of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Issue #8 was the only mainstream US comic book ever published to carry an 'Approved by the Comic Code Authority' stamp while at the same time featuring a man sat on a toilet defecating. It ran at the same time as Barbie, Barbie Fashion, Captain Planet, NFL SuperPro, Pirates of Dark Water, the Bill & Ted's series, Kid 'n Play, Defenders of Dynatron City, WCW: World Championship Wrestling, and Ren & Stimpy.
@@marthagilbert3459 The cartoon was surprisingly really good and despite being toned down for kids still had a lot of adult humor. I'd love to see Toxic Crusaders done as a movie but with the ultra-gory violence of the movies.
My cousins and i had the toxie action figure! Between that and the cap planet toys which we would colour over with red marker to show blood, we had a blast haha
I found a picture of me dressed up as the toxic avenger and wasn’t sure why I looked so cartoony. It was from this cartoon and I completely forgot it existed
They made kids' versions out of a lot of stuff from adult-oriented media. The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was based off a character from Saturday Night Live and its Canadian counterpart, SCTV. Pee-Wee's Playhouse is from Paul Reubens' HBO special "The Pee Wee Herman Show." Robocop and Rambo (two very violent R-rated movies of their day) had their own SatAM series. Hell, even Police Academy (which had a lot of comic violence and inappropriate humor) had their own kids' cartoon. I wish "Airplane!" did too, but that will always be a lost dream.
Well Rambo in 1985/1986 had merchandise aimed at kids even PJS to Halloween costumes to cards to toys and all before a cartoon and in 1988 Robocop had toys even some merchandise for kids and all. Terminator 2 had merchandise aimed at kids even Demolition man and Aliens and Predator
@@MephProduction it's funny u say that. Saw the cartoon when I was little, sort of like and had action figures. When I was in my older teens i discovered the R rated movie and thought someone made an adaptation of the cartoon series. To my horror and somewhat amusement I learned that was NOT the case 😳😂
I liked Toxic Crusaders and James Bond Jr but they never lived up to Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. Watching these, after school or on a Saturday morning while playing Nintendo with friends.. miss the early 90s
so Irma from tmnt put on a blonde wig and took off her glasses to become Yvonne. Vernon Fenwick became a punk and then mutated into Bonehead. Then rocksteady became a dog called scrapyard? Then they just mutated the secretary Janine from the real ghost busters. My friend had a toy or two of these but watching this intro for the first time i can see the reused characters in some ways.
Videos been up for 10 years, suddenly everyone commenting in the last 3 weeks XD An old episode of Um, Actually brought me here. Why is everyone else suddenly here?
I always liked Psycho it was clear they had the voice actor reading from the future script like when killemoff disposed of the toxic waste(or whatever it was) Psycho said "but what if some nerd gets turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength"lo and behold some nerd got turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength :P
Mad cartoon watched as kid in aus now 38 have on dvd and still watch today the toys were cool have some still somewhere I think I brought dvd from jbhifi had it for years
Toxic Crusaders first aired in 1991 for Fox. The series ran for 13 episodes, before Fox decided that it was a no go and pulled the plug, but it did show briefly on USA's Cartoon Express.
You hit the nail right on the head, man. Tim Burton's characters all have a great deal of depth and development to them, something that I'm sensing the Toxic Avenger himself doesn't have. I don't know that for sure because I never saw the movie. I never saw "Eraser Head" either. I've heard about it but I never knew what it was about. Now when you strip "Toxie" himself down to his bare essentials, he's a SUPERHERO. Kids LOVE superheroes, so I think that explains "Toxic Crusaders."
How the hell did this show not catch on?! TMNT and X-Men were damn good I'll admit, but at least THIS show showed what MUTANTS really mean by definition of the word.
geez, when I think of all the sickness and XXX stuff that went on in these movies and troma.....its a wonder how this got made into a cartoon for a saturday morning line up....so much nostalgia, thanx for posting
I researched if Ireland ever had the 'Toxic Crusaders' on TV and by what I found it seems they first aired the show on the 'Children's Channel' by satellite on 18th November 1992.
I was 9 when this show aired and dug it! i had a t-shirt, a few of the toys even Toxie, i had a coloring book and i had some comics and cards! then i rented the movie at that age to see where it all began and OMG it shocked the hell out of me especially when that kid gets his skull crushed in detail by a car which made me sick and after that i was like "they made a kids show out of this?" yet was an awesome movie despite that horrific scene. I had no problem with watching R-rated movies as a kid in video, cable, TV or theaters since i was 4 starting with Alien and First Blood on TV with Fright Night, Commando, Rambo 2, Elm Street 1 and 2 etc on HBO to seeing Aliens and Cobra in theaters at that age and i had cool family and parents. I also remembered having a Rambo toy gun, action figure and tricycle of Rambo when i was 4 plus i remembered they did a weekday morning cartoon and all and remembered seeing Rambo III in theaters when i was 6 on my last month of living in St Louis before moving to Omaha. They did merchandise for kids based on Rambo First Blood II even a luncbox. I also remembered seeing Robocop in theaters when i was 5 with my dad, my 12 year old big brother and my 15 year old bigger brother and thought it was an awesome movie and had a couple of Robocop toys and watched the cartoon on sunday mornings plus they did merchandise for kids and a lunchbox as one of my friends in second grade had a Robocop lunchbox. I had a few Aliens toys when i was 10 as i did saw Alien on TV when i was 4 even saw Aliens in theaters along with Cobra being the first r-rated films i saw in theaters at that age. I also saw Terminator when i was 4 on HBO and T2 in theaters when i was 9 as i had some T2 merchandise even t-shirt to toys and a lunchbox.
This show's finally getting what it deserves; a TMNT-styled arcade beat-em-up with all the Crusaders playable, made by Retroware!
It's also getting a 4K remaster on Blu-Ray, also from Retroware!
Wow cool!
I'm a complete newcomer. I had no idea of this show's existence until I saw the trailer of the game.
@@gonzalot.605loved the show as a kid
@@gonzalot.605Now check the movie series: The Toxic Avenger... CRAZY!!
I remember watching this as a kid. Can’t lie the 80s and 90s cartoon theme songs were so catchy.
The 80s actually has the best musics more than any decades had.
They're memorable
It really was!
Sure, I never fotgot this
@@fzcbh4698 Early 90s. 1991 to be exact. I got the Whole Toyline on Clearance at Kaybee Toys in 1992.
For those wondering how the hell this cartoon got made; Kevin Eastman, who was also a big Troma fan, convinced Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, the production company behind TMNT, into producing a cartoon spinoff based on Toxic Avenger.
+Tetsuron I wonder why he thought it would be a good idea. The Toxic Avenger remake that is in development is supposed to be PG-13, apparently inspired by the cartoon in that it's more family friendly.
+Tetsuron The original TMNT comic was pretty violent, so it makes sense.
Living Punching Bag
Wasn't exactly the first cartoon based on an R-rated movie.
*****
There was also Rambo and the Forces of Freedom.
And a Robocop cartoon.
There are five major classes of superheroes.
1- Light heroes. (Superman Flash etc. )
2- Dark heroes. (Batman, The Shadow etc.)
3- The anti-heroes (Punisher, Wolverine, etc.)
4- Evil heroes. Heroes that draw their power from evil sources. (Spawn, Ghost Rider, etc.)
5- And my favorite. Weird heroes. (TMNT, Swamp thing, and of course, Toxic Crusader.)
Jesse Tellez Well written. #agreed
Your weird heroes nice list but I don’t think weird is a good name I say Mutant heroes
This makes a lot of sense.
Well said!
How is The Shadow a dark hero and yet The Punisher is an Anti-Hero? The Shadow literally laughs like the Joker when he guns down punks.
In 1990, Kaufman sought to expand Troma’s audience base into the juveniles by bringing Toxie to the mainstream; namely, Saturday morning network television. Troma partnered with Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, who had brought another adult-oriented mutant-hero franchise to animation with their adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original comics, while not as brutal as the Avenger films, were decidedly more violent than the eventual cartoon version), Alvin and the Chipmunks (season 6), The California Raisin Show, Barnyard Commandos, etc. Of course, the series would have to be almost entirely scrubbed of Troma’s signatures in order to be appropriate for young audiences. Also, to fulfill FCC requirements for children’s programming, the show took on a pro-ecological message.
Toxie (Rodger Bumpass) had a similar origin as he did in the films, except he didn’t go on a murderous vengeance spree on those who wronged him and future foes. The mop that he used to clean the health club where he worked was also changed by the toxic waste to be a super-powered, semi-sentient being (aptly named Mop). Further differences included Toxie was given a team of similarly mutated freaks. Amongst them was No-Zone (Paul Eiding), a test pilot that crashed into a silo of radioactive pepper giving him powerful sneezing powers; Major Disaster (Ed Gilbert), a soldier that fell into a radioactive swamp and gained the power to control plants; Junkyard (Gregg Berger), a homeless man merged with a junkyard dog after he took shelter in a toxic waste-covered dog kennel that was struck by lightning; and Headbanger, a fusion of mad scientist Dr. Bender (Hal Rayle) an surfer-like singing telegram boy Fender (John Mariano) that became fused when Fender accidentally knocked them into Dr. Bender’s invention. Together, they became the Toxic Crusaders, often aided by Toxie’s tone-deaf girlfriend, Yvonne (Kath Soucie), and his mother (Susan Silo). Toxie was also given a pet in the form of Blobbie; a little blob of goo that came to the toxic waste dump that served as the primary base for the Crusaders.
Their primary foes were the Smogulans; aliens from the planet Smogula who wanted to pollute the Earth in order to make it habitable for their people and conquer it. The primary ruler of the planet was Czar Zosta (Patric Zimmerman), whose forces on Earth were led by Dr. Killemoff (Bumpass). Psycho (Michael J. Pollard) was an obese bio-mechanical being that worked for Killemoff and had the uncanny ability to predict the future-usually the failure of Killemoff’s plans, that often went unheeded. Hazmat-suited minions known as Radiation Rangers served as Killemoff’s foot soldiers and cannon fodder. Bonehead (Hal Rayle) was the lead health club bully (replacing Bozo from the first movie) that led to Toxie’s creation who himself was changed into a monster when Toxie threw him into a barrel of acid rain. Bonehead joined forces with Killemoff, but wasn’t much of an asset as he was brainless and incompetent. Also working with the Smogulans was the corrupt mayor of Tromaville, Max Grody (based on the mayor from the first movie, voiced by Chuck McCann).
The Toxic Crusaders (so named because Avengers was deemed too violent sounding) premiered in syndication on March 1st, 1991. Even though they couldn’t go to the lengths of brutal, dark, gross-out humor that the films it was based on did, the series had its fair share of adult-oriented jokes, toilet humor, and often broke the fourth wall by being self-referential. The series was written by a combination of MWS and Troma alum, including Jack Mendelsohn, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, D.J. MacHale, Ned Candle. Walt Kubiak, Jeffrey W. Sass and Andrew Wolk, along with Chuck Lorre and Herz. Lorre, who had written the Turtles theme, co-wrote this series’ theme with Dennis C. Brown. Brown and Larry Brown handled the rest of the series’ music.
Although the Avenger films were popular enough to inspire enough networks to put decent orders for the series, they weren’t sufficient enough to guarantee a second season. The show ended after its 13-episode run. During the show’s run, Marvel Comics released an 8-issue comic series that ended up cancelled along with their other TV-based projects. In the UK, Fleetway Publications published their own series that run two issues longer. Playmates, who produced the toys for Ninja Turtles, made a line of figures in a similar style. Bandai and Sega released side-scrolling platform beat ‘em up video games in for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and Sega Genesis developed by TOSE, Realtime Associates and Infogrames, respectively. A SNES version was also planned by Bandai at the same time with the NES and Game Boy, but never released. Other merchandise included trading cards by Topps, coloring/activity books and puzzles published by Golden Books, junior novels by Boxtree, a card and board game by International Games, a Colorforms playset, lunchboxes by Thermos, costumes by Collegeville and costume patterns by McCall’s Patterns.
Omg tmi
You are a shining light in the world of RUclips comments.
I loved the toxic avenger cartoons when I was a kid watching TNMT every week I even love the movie I wish Nickelodeon or cartoon network could bring this guy back in action toxie the toxic avenger is the BEST independent scifi superhero ever
And now in 2023, Toxic Crusaders is getting their own beat-em-up game.
a cool fact is that they honored him in teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 , where they made an episode called the noxious avenger which is a tribute to the movie and the cartoon , starring the mutant muckman which is a tribute to both toxies since he had an origin grotesque and violent like the Toxic Avenger, but became a hero loved by New York City like the Toxic Crusader for Tromaville, he also had a mutant friend named Joe Eyeball who makes reference to Toxie's friend Blobbie
It's one of the coolest kid cartoons based on the R-rated movies! 😄
This was a great cartoon. The Conan one was good too.
I can testify that I played with Junkyard with my TMNT and he made the perfect ally!! 🐶🐢🐢🐢🐢👍🏾
The movies are terrible
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders
I had no friends. No girls would hug me til I got radioactive ugly!
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders
I live in a dump cause the rent's real low! Got a little pet blobblie and he loves me so!
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders
Now me and the boys fight against wrong! Though we're hideously deformed!
(Guitar solo)
Hey, I'm sitting on top of the world!
With my mop, tutu, and girl!
Wow!
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic!
And baby them. And it’s bye-bye, bug! Each sold separately! ALIENS!!!!!
This was so awesome. The action figures made for the perfect TMNT crossover, too.
You should know that I was thinking of that same thing as well.
TMNT been crossing over with everyone lately, Street Fighter, Stranger Things, Master of the Universe, there's a Transformer due out later this year... We need a TMNT x Toxic Crusaders collab
"Dang, this cartoon is awesome!"
"Wow, there's a movie?! Let's watch it."
"HOLY SHIT!"
"...This is also fuckin' awesome!"
😂😂😂 imagine my mothers face😂😂😂
EXACTLY XD
@@Channel9001agreed
For a while this was my favourite cartoon. I remember my aunt and grandma buying me the action figures.
Man, Saturday morning kids tv was absolutely golden here in the uk.
Captain planet
@@Eggnoodlesandketchup3 I loved that too. I'm guessing that must've aired around the same time, early 90s.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage yeah. Another one from the time was captain N the gamesmaster. Did you watch that? The real ghost busters is prob my fave tho of the time.
@@Eggnoodlesandketchup3 I loved captain N. I was always a fan of the mega man and castlevania games so I was all over that cartoon.
And yeah, the real Ghostbusters was fantastic too.
It was awesome to see great cartoons still being made in the 90s after all the sublime ones we had in the 80s, like he-man, thundercats, centurions, bravestarr, the raccoons, transformers, mask, dungeons and dragons, duck tails, teenage mutant ninja turtles.
Man, the list goes on and on. Great time to be a kid for sure. It's better than the absolute rhubarb they make for kids in the 21st century.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage the early 90s I suppose was still kind of like the 80s...films, music, cartoons, comic books, games, toys not a patch now on what they were. Would rather go back in time and straight to the source.
Honestly I'm surprised that this even exist.
Me too
Same here they also made Sgt Kabukiman NYPD into a animated series
@@kyleshiflet9952 A shared universe may work now? Have they already done that?
That was a pretty kick ass intro
So glad I grew up in the 90s!
Same! It was the BEST 😎
The crusaders are BACK.
The new ‘Toxic Crusaders’ game trailer brought me here.
Back in the 90s they made cartoons about anything ANYTHING even Rambo had a cartoon.
AU where JoJo Part 3's theme song is this with "Toxic" replaced with "Stardust"
“I had no friends,
in jail for hours,
Till I got psycho-phantasmic powers!”
Man, I used watch the HELL out of this show as a kid. I had an action figure of Toxie, and it had a glow in the dark eyeball if I'm not mistaken.
Wish I still had that damn thing...
I'm not too sure about the glow in the dark eyeball. Then again, I might not have had a Toxie figure. I know I had the big nose guy and the dog man. I think I settled on the latter because Toxie was sold out.
I was also like 5 when this was a thing, so...
Sold out? And i thought that this show ran onl for 13 episodes cause it didn´t sell enough figures, the main reason: Kids were afraid of Toxie.
I had both toys eye ball And the toxie 👍
@@AzureSenel it was pretty big here in the uk. I remember having all the action figures. Obviously it wasn't on the level of mask, he-man, tmnt, or thundercats. But it was still really big over here.
I had Junkyard and one of my all time Playmates figures too (beating quite a few of my TMNT ones too!)
Hope people are aware of the Toxic Crusaders game coming!
How did we EVER get a kids' show based on a Troma property?
HAHAHA
Wish they turn this into a movie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toxic_Avenger_(film)
Brant Frans LOL
That was probably a little joke. Someone got wooshed
I feel like someone should let this guy in on it
they did, sadly
Makes me feel proud to be a maintenance associate.
The Toxic Crusaders is a G rated cartoon series based on Lloyd Kaufmans R rated The Toxic Avenger films created by Troma movies.
I remember watching this cartoon not knowing about the movie, I just recently watched the movie for the first time and how the hell did they make a cartoon from it? Good job Troma and Lloyd Kaufman :D
AVGN brought me here. Theres only 3 comments and i have two of them wow and this was upload 10 years ago, thats wild
man i LOVE these old cartoon clips...closest thing to a time machine there is.
I can not thank you enough for putting up such a high-quality version of this intro. The toyline for this show was my WORLD during my kindergarden years.
Thanks to hot ones and Elijah Wood for making me remember this. Cant wait for the toxic avenger remake
Ngl, this theme song really slaps.
I cannot believe I used to watch this.
I cannot believe you watched this.
VETRIS84
I cannot believe you cannnot believe he watched this.
Krattoffail VETRIS84 jfliguy
Have Faith In Each Other, Children. Those Toxic Minds Of Disbelief Need To Be Crusaded.
Krattoffail
I cannot believe you cannot believe he cannot believe he watched this.
This game for sega was so cool
This should have not only lasted longer but should've also had a crossover with the tmnt cartoon
You're not the only person who had that idea.
Marvel Comics released an eight-issue comic book series for 7 months, from May to December 1992. It had no regular writer. Each issue was written by such notables as Steve Gerber (issues #3 and #5), Ann Nocenti (issue #7), David Leach and Jeremy Banx (lead strip script and artwork) and David Michelinie (back up strip) (issue #8), Hilary Barta (issue #2), and Simon Furman (issues #1, 4, and 6). A four book mini series was written and drawn by David Leach & Jeremy Banx. The series was solicited and the first issue written and drawn before being canceled along with all of Marvel TV tie-in titles. One issue was a direct parody of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Issue #8 was the only mainstream US comic book ever published to carry an 'Approved by the Comic Code Authority' stamp while at the same time featuring a man sat on a toilet defecating. It ran at the same time as Barbie, Barbie Fashion, Captain Planet, NFL SuperPro, Pirates of Dark Water, the Bill & Ted's series, Kid 'n Play, Defenders of Dynatron City, WCW: World Championship Wrestling, and Ren & Stimpy.
Awesome how R-rated movies back then had animated series and toylines aimed at kids. I fondly remember this show and the toyline.
I actually like the cartoon way better than the movies.
@@marthagilbert3459 The cartoon was surprisingly really good and despite being toned down for kids still had a lot of adult humor. I'd love to see Toxic Crusaders done as a movie but with the ultra-gory violence of the movies.
It is like if Poor Things 2023 got family animated series.
Sounds like a frank zappa and the mothers a bit
Gotta love that old school art style.
I love the intro theme music should be a full song
it even has a fucking solo lol
I was obsessed with this show when I was a kid. I had a bunch of those toys. I am an odd duck.
My cousins and i had the toxie action figure! Between that and the cap planet toys which we would colour over with red marker to show blood, we had a blast haha
Me to. I loved this show when I was a kid and had some toys from the show to
Aww snap!!! I was all giddy happy waiting for the episode after the intro 😩😩
Someone looked at Toxic Avenger, a film that was essentially a splatter fest, and thought it was a good concept for a kids show.
Remember it from when I was little!
Takes me back to 1991
I found a picture of me dressed up as the toxic avenger and wasn’t sure why I looked so cartoony. It was from this cartoon and I completely forgot it existed
For a Saturday Morning Cartoon based off a R-rated movie, this is one extremely catchy theme song.
I guess that would make these guys the logical enemies of Captain Planet.
Not really. They got their powers because of pollution, but they are environmentalists as well. They'd probably team-up with Captain Planet.
Man, I loved captain planet too as a kid.
"Captain planet he's our hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero" 😂
In retrospect, I am very surprised that they made a kid's cartoon based on the R-rated Toxic Avenger movies.
But it wasn't anything like the films, kids wouldn't have known about them anyway. so why not make a kids version
They made kids' versions out of a lot of stuff from adult-oriented media. The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was based off a character from Saturday Night Live and its Canadian counterpart, SCTV. Pee-Wee's Playhouse is from Paul Reubens' HBO special "The Pee Wee Herman Show." Robocop and Rambo (two very violent R-rated movies of their day) had their own SatAM series. Hell, even Police Academy (which had a lot of comic violence and inappropriate humor) had their own kids' cartoon. I wish "Airplane!" did too, but that will always be a lost dream.
Well Rambo in 1985/1986 had merchandise aimed at kids even PJS to Halloween costumes to cards to toys and all before a cartoon and in 1988 Robocop had toys even some merchandise for kids and all.
Terminator 2 had merchandise aimed at kids even Demolition man and Aliens and Predator
@@MephProduction it's funny u say that. Saw the cartoon when I was little, sort of like and had action figures. When I was in my older teens i discovered the R rated movie and thought someone made an adaptation of the cartoon series. To my horror and somewhat amusement I learned that was NOT the case 😳😂
@@Crimsonlee2XX Kinda like having Robocop toys (i did) and then watching the movie..
Can't believe Troma actually had a cartoon... And it was awesome! Back when even kid's tv had balls
How could a great show, end up coming to an end due to some idiot.
Lol oh my gosh my kid days lol.....I remember the cartoon AND the movie!
As Seen on WGN-TV’s Bozo Show
What does the clown have to do with this show
Underrated classic cartoon
I liked Toxic Crusaders and James Bond Jr but they never lived up to Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. Watching these, after school or on a Saturday morning while playing Nintendo with friends.. miss the early 90s
so Irma from tmnt put on a blonde wig and took off her glasses to become Yvonne. Vernon Fenwick became a punk and then mutated into Bonehead. Then rocksteady became a dog called scrapyard? Then they just mutated the secretary Janine from the real ghost busters. My friend had a toy or two of these but watching this intro for the first time i can see the reused characters in some ways.
The toxic crusaders are BACK BABY new game for 2023
I immediately remembered this song. If only my memory worked on everything this way.
Announcement of the new game brought me here. Right in the nostalgia 😂
there will be a game?
Videos been up for 10 years, suddenly everyone commenting in the last 3 weeks XD
An old episode of Um, Actually brought me here.
Why is everyone else suddenly here?
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. trailer lead me here.
Lol the song has been stuck in my head the last few days for some reason so I had to look it up.
Well this is a blast from the past! I grew up watching this, and I remember when they came out with lil plastic character heads filled with candy.
ha! I had like 7 action figures of this without ever knowing there was a cartoon. Splendid.
It’s crazy that this was made by the same studio that made TMNT in 1987
I miss the show. Oh the nostalgia.
Hell the song is awesome!
great stuff, brings back many memories. i miss the 90's. wish they come back
love the guitar solo
I loved this show so much
I always liked Psycho it was clear they had the voice actor reading from the future script like when killemoff disposed of the toxic waste(or whatever it was) Psycho said "but what if some nerd gets turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength"lo and behold some nerd got turned into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength :P
Mad cartoon watched as kid in aus now 38 have on dvd and still watch today the toys were cool have some still somewhere I think I brought dvd from jbhifi had it for years
Loved this show. Loved the toys. Love all things Troma. Definitely warped me hahaha. Oh and this songs rips!
I remember it saying "Toxic crusaders, toxic crusaders - they're gross but they still get the girls!"
Was it part of a promo or was it a different version that may or may not still exist? Cuz, I kinda remember that too.
Yep those were toy ads
@@Hulk2k6 Yup. Playmates 1991.
Gonna tell my kids this was a Fallout spin off cartoon.
I always wanted to see the Toxic Avenger fight the Killer Tomatoes.
This was perfect tv
Dudes voiced by squidward
Loved this show back then.
Toxic Crusaders first aired in 1991 for Fox. The series ran for 13 episodes, before Fox decided that it was a no go and pulled the plug, but it did show briefly on USA's Cartoon Express.
i can so relate to this show
"it's just like my life!... in a way.."- Stanley Pines, 2012
Used to love this cartoon
“When I growed up I’m gonna be there. Up & over.”
Looool the lil bop they do at the end!!! 🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️👍🏽
I find it hilarious that an r rated movie got a Saturday Morning Cartoon
You hit the nail right on the head, man. Tim Burton's characters all have a great deal of depth and development to them, something that I'm sensing the Toxic Avenger himself doesn't have. I don't know that for sure because I never saw the movie.
I never saw "Eraser Head" either. I've heard about it but I never knew what it was about.
Now when you strip "Toxie" himself down to his bare essentials, he's a SUPERHERO. Kids LOVE superheroes, so I think that explains "Toxic Crusaders."
I just remembered this being on VHS when I was a kid
They should bring Toxic Crusaders for a sequel to a reboot.
Me : I want X-Men VHS!
Mom : We have X-Men tapes at home!
X-Men tapes :
How the hell did this show not catch on?! TMNT and X-Men were damn good I'll admit, but at least THIS show showed what MUTANTS really mean by definition of the word.
Best intro song ever!
I loved the intro when I was a kid even if I wasn't a big fan of the show itself.
Same haha it was cool 😎
Cleaning up toxic waste and bad guys, these are the heroes i wanna hang out with!
geez, when I think of all the sickness and XXX stuff that went on in these movies and troma.....its a wonder how this got made into a cartoon for a saturday morning line up....so much nostalgia, thanx for posting
Here are some cartoons that will add up to this:
* Attack of the killer tomatoes
* Creepy Crawlers
* Pro Stars
* Mr. Bogus
Keep it coming
This show had some of the best jokes written into it's scripts.
it was basically just Freakazoid! minus the 4th wall breaks
I researched if Ireland ever had the 'Toxic Crusaders' on TV and by what I found it seems they first aired the show on the 'Children's Channel' by satellite on 18th November 1992.
Toxic Crusaders came out in 1991, not '92.
💮Who is here after the announcement of the new game?
Omg I remember watching this on a VHS video tape old cartoons are the best
I was 9 when this show aired and dug it! i had a t-shirt, a few of the toys even Toxie, i had a coloring book and i had some comics and cards! then i rented the movie at that age to see where it all began and OMG it shocked the hell out of me especially when that kid gets his skull crushed in detail by a car which made me sick and after that i was like "they made a kids show out of this?" yet was an awesome movie despite that horrific scene.
I had no problem with watching R-rated movies as a kid in video, cable, TV or theaters since i was 4 starting with Alien and First Blood on TV with Fright Night, Commando, Rambo 2, Elm Street 1 and 2 etc on HBO to seeing Aliens and Cobra in theaters at that age and i had cool family and parents.
I also remembered having a Rambo toy gun, action figure and tricycle of Rambo when i was 4 plus i remembered they did a weekday morning cartoon and all and remembered seeing Rambo III in theaters when i was 6 on my last month of living in St Louis before moving to Omaha. They did merchandise for kids based on Rambo First Blood II even a luncbox.
I also remembered seeing Robocop in theaters when i was 5 with my dad, my 12 year old big brother and my 15 year old bigger brother and thought it was an awesome movie and had a couple of Robocop toys and watched the cartoon on sunday mornings plus they did merchandise for kids and a lunchbox as one of my friends in second grade had a Robocop lunchbox.
I had a few Aliens toys when i was 10 as i did saw Alien on TV when i was 4 even saw Aliens in theaters along with Cobra being the first r-rated films i saw in theaters at that age. I also saw Terminator when i was 4 on HBO and T2 in theaters when i was 9 as i had some T2 merchandise even t-shirt to toys and a lunchbox.
To-xic Cru-saders
I like this show despite how short lived it was
And now there's a new game
Funniest part of the intro is when the fat lady that looks similar to Irma from Ninja Turtles is dancing to the theme at 1:08
Holy shit, this has brought back memories!
I've realized that the cartoon intros in the past are so much more longer than today's ones.