I worked on the final season of this show designing guns and hardware, so glad you gave it a good review! It was one of the funner productions I worked on in my early days. Thanks guys fun stuff.
What else have you worked on out of interest? I didn't watch this cartoon but if you've had any role to play in any of the cartoons from my childhood I must thank you 😁
@Lil Yeet took me 10 seconds to find his LinkedIn and the Men in Black job history. Maybe you won't be such a dickhead in the future to people you don't know. " Prop & Background Designer -Full Time Staff Sony Pictures TV Animation Jun 1998 - Jan 2001 2 years 8 months Culver City, CA Created designs for various animated television series: Men In Black, Starship Troopers, Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot, Godzilla, and Max Steel."
@@adoniscreed4031 he's worked on an incredible amount of projects. His LinkedIn is ridiculous and it looks like he has had his hands in almost every major animated tv show since the 90s lol
It was everything those Hollywood hacks whom directed the many sequels after the first should’ve followed. All that precious material gone to waste, and what did they give us instead? Just one shameless cash grab after another leading up to that Get Woke rendition with Valkyrie and Thor! Congratulations, posers. 🙄😑
It was everything those Hollywood hacks whom directed the many sequels after the first should’ve followed. All that precious material gone to waste, and what did they give us instead? Just one shameless cash grab after another leading up to that Get Woke rendition with Valkyrie and Thor!
Dont know if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. Been binge watching with my gf these days =)
Silverhawks, thunder cats, and Japanese X-Men intro are up there too I think 🤔😅 Seriously check out the Japanese version of the 90s anime cartoon ... It's awesome 🤘
That series actually got me interested in Jackie Chan as a kid. I ended up asking my da if we could rent a DVD (remember when that was a thing) of a couple different Jackie Chan movies like The Tuxedo and The Medallion and I think we also watched Rush Hour together when I was a kid too.
11:46, this is actually false. In MIB 3 after K had been erased from history, J's new partners designation is AA. So basically they just start again with the extra A at the beginning. An example being AA, AB, AC, AD and so on.
Which in of itself is also very strange because there were definitely enough agents by the time J was recruited to have gone through the entire alphabet. Why was he designated J and not something further down the chain, had the previous J died? Are the A.Agents transfers from other MIB installations given a prefix as an identifier? Was this simply a movie that was meant to be a one-off originally that didn’t really intend to delve deep into the administration workings of the MIB in subsequent media?!
I loved the fact that it had a deeper and more climatic continuity and conclusion than any MIB movies. They knew how to escalate the tone into a more serious one and get the stakes higher, while the movies always stayed in a dumb-fun-american-forced territory.
Adelaide Productions also did one of my favourites - Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. Big Guy, Men in Black, Godzilla all had very similar design aesthetic
Big Guy and Rusty was the fire my dude! I loved that series as well. Richard Raynis definitely knew how to make cartoons that kids and adults could enjoy.
One series they made that you didn’t mention was the Roughnecks: Starship Troopers series which was always my favourite, along with the Marvel cartoons
Man, they made all my favorite late 90's/ early 2000's cartoons. They definitely had material that we adults could appreciate. Roughnecks was better than all of the live action sequels combined.
Men in Black: The Series was made by Adelaide Productions, the same studio that made Jumanji: The Series, Project G.e.e.K.e.R., Extreme Ghostbusters, Channel Umptee-3, Godzilla: The Series, Dilbert, Bog Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Jackie Chan Adventures, The Boondocks, among others.
When I was like 10 years old, this and Godzilla: The Animated Series would air back to back as the two shows that closed up for Saturday morning cartoons in the late 90's and I was hooked on them. My brother and me owned the TV every Saturday morning. Loved this show. Still do. I have it on DVD, as well as Godzilla: The Animated Series and several others. Those were good times.
Yes glad you touched on Alpha, I remember in the series he physically became less and less human. One time when he was working with Jeebs's brother, he obtained the morphing ability by joining bodies with him, but they shared a body & it was really interesting! Im probably getting some details wrong but yes! Good show, I enjoyed it. And the Quick Clones!
Great episode, guys! A bit of trivia: the excellent character design was created by the amazing Spanish comics artist Miguelanxo Prado. And it shows. The characters faces are very reminiscent of his own.
I was really young when this and Godzilla: The Series were on Fox Box in the late 1990s. I was so young at that time that I have vague memories of these shows yet they stay with me. It's weird.
The first season of MiB: The Series was on DVD awhile ago as a Target exclusive. There are some rumors they may be putting more DVDs out. Also I love that it was David Warner as Alpha. His voice was immediately recognizable to me. Still shocked Tony Shalhoub was back as Jeebs. I think you guys were right that he was really busy and couldn’t return to play the role in the series.
Seriously? There was a lot of great episodes of MIB. That time Kay shared a psychic link with a psychopathic alien; when Frank was being hunted b/c he turned stoolie on his pyromanic prison-mate; everytime Alpha appeared in an episode was genuinely unnerving, especially the episode when he stole Zed's brain.
MIB the series was fan-fukn-tastic. It had a great intro, and the theme song is bomb. I can't believe you don't like this amazingly artistic style. And the still hold up.👍😀🥰
I never watched this series regularly -even when cartoons aired for free- but one of my fondest cartoon memories is a scene where the disguised Worms collectively try to figure out how to to explain the weird behavior of their disguised emperor to a human, until they hit a eureka.....and they all say, "He's from Jersey!"
One good story they did was their take on the Roswell incident sheds light on origins of Alpha and K. Also they introduce agent L who’s the female side character.
I like how this was in the same continuity as the film and continue the story with J and K and even agent L. They even had the villain of the 1st movie twin brother come to settle the score after his brother's death.
Quick correction: All the things that happened in the first MIB movie actually happened in the animated series universe too. A comic called Men in Black Retribution bridges the first film to the animated series and explains how K got his memory back in the animated series universe
3:10 The Real Ghostbusters cartoon did this first. In that series, the live action movie is based on the events that happened in the cartoon. there was even an episode where the cartoon Ghostbusters were watching real footage from the 1984 Ghostbusters movie.
I used to love this show growing up. Back then, most cartoons were just dumbass shooter, strongman in tights fighting a bad guy, brainless adventure. I liked the subterfuge of expectation, the wacky alien sub cultures etc. Which isn't much of intellectual narrative but was better than almost any of the trash on tv that treated you like a mentally handicapped shrew just because I was a kid. Kids aren't idiots, they want plot and intrigue as much as any adult. Really pissed me off back then and now I totally understand kids that want that now.
To me, the best part of the MIB cartoon was the theme song. The rest of the show was just endless riffs on the first movie: exploding head guy, tiny alien in human robot, J shoots tiny gun that blows him backwards, the car transforms, the aliens that drink coffee, etc. Those things happened almost every episode.
What little I remember of this series, I remember fondly. This series also had a tie-in video game on PlayStation 2! Now THAT deserves a Caravan of Garbage. Or the MIB PC game based loosely on the first movie.
Have never watched the show. I remember seeing the theme song over 10 years ago on tv. The monsters and the music creeped me out and to be honest I still find this theme song to be very unsettling
I LOVED this show growing up! The storyline with Alpha turning bad and attaching alien parts then later cybernetic parts to his body was great. Would make a decent movie plot.
Continuing the success of Columbia Pictures' blockbuster film Men in Black, the animated series sees the return of Agents Kay and Jay. Distinguished by their dark black suits and sunglasses, the agents continue to guard earth protecting the scum of the universe. I remember watching this series back when it premiered in 1997 during Kids WB's infancy and I've watched it progressively become worse and ran for 4 years. The show began decently enough - re-establishing the partnership between Agent J and Agent K that made the movie so memorable. The voice actors, particularly Keith Diamond as Agent J deliver their lines admirably. The writing was and still is relatively top-notch, with a healthy dose of humor. I used to watch it after "Superman: The Animated Series" and before "The New Batman/Superman Adventures" (later preceed by Pinky and the Brain and later Batman Beyond) on Kids WB Saturday mornings. I am HUGE fan of the Men In Black movies and I think "Men in Black: The Series" was a good continuation to the movies. In the cartoon version, Agent Kay (the Tommy Lee Jones character in the film) was back as a member of MiB, still partnered with Agent Jay (the Will Smith character). The rest of the series is extremely flawed. While the character designs are okay, the colors are extremely drab and lifeless, VERY characteristic of Sony animation. The soundtrack just drones on, particularly the monotone theme. Danny Elfman's movie score is WAY better. Heck, they even brought over an instrumental version of Will Smith's catchy but forgettable rap song "Men in Black" that played during the closing credits. Why couldn't they use the original movie theme? But the soundtrack is the least of the series' problems. While the series does right to bring back Agents J, K and Elle as well as Zed, some of other character additions are questionable. The Worms? They were mildly funny break room puppets in the arcade, but their squeaky voices and obsession with coffee in the series is definitely pushing it. It wouldn't be half as annoying if they didn't build ENTIRE EPISODES around them. Jeeves? Maybe, but if he keeps selling contraband to alien terrorists, why doesn't he get arrested? The head-shrinking thing was funny just once. Frank the Pug? Why? The show fails to be fully faithful to the movie - it seems like the MIB shoot first and ask questions later in the animated series. As a result, the slick image of the MIB from the movie is totally lost. Sometimes it's a wonder that they blow so many things up and get into firefights and are never noticed. The new characters are just plain bad. Agent Elle's partner Agent X is just terribly annoying. Elle was way better as a lab technician. And what's up with her personality shift? She's gone from the cool personality in the movie and up until season five to a crazy hothead. Even more annoying is the over-happy new alien lab technician. Someone should blast that moron with a noisy cricket. Men in Black: The series may be decent enough for little kids, but for older viewers, it's certainly a far cry from Batman: The Animated Series. While is does try to add some coherent continuity and decent storylines, it's extremely disappointing for fans of the movie like me and cartoon enthusiasts. This was a pretty awesome show think it had the same artist and writers of The Real Ghostbusters (season 3), Alf: The Animated Series/Alf Tales, Starcom: The U.S. Space Force, Dennis the Menace (season 2), C.O.P.S., Alvin and the Chipmunnks (seasons 6 & 7), The Simpsons (seasons 3-31), The Critic, Jumanji: The Series, King of the Hill, Extreme Ghostbusters, Men in Black: The Series, Godzilla: The Series, Futurama, Heavy Gear: The Animated Series, and Dragon Tales series. This show is a.k.a. MIB: The Series, MIB: The Animated Series, and Men in Black: The Animated Series. This show is based on both the early 90s Malibu Comic (which itself was bought out by Marvel Comics) by Lowell Cunningham and the hit 1997 Sci-Fi comedy blockbuster starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
That clip of the motion capture with Jackie Chan was for the video game "Jackie Chan Stunt Master" a very underrated game, that I loved. The cartoon series was great too but certainly did not use any motion capture for the animation.
The series’ theme was composed by series composer Jim Latham. An instrumental version of Smith’s “Men in Black”, written by Smith, Patrice Rushen, Terri McFadden and Freddie Washington that served as the movie’s theme, was used as the show’s closing theme over the credits and mug shots of various aliens. The series ran for four seasons (1997 to 2001), expanding to also include reruns on weekdays. The fourth season (2000 to 2001) received a slightly modified intro to incorporate the new characters introduced.
There’s an episode where K gets neuralized accidentally, back to mentally being a teenager. He knows he’s in the future when he sees that the tallest buildings in New York are the World Trade Center, just like J said.
4:08 "Aaron flux" omg editors gonna make a egoraptor reference. Did not disappoint. SUZY WE GOT A JINGLE JANGLE PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS. SANTAS GOING NUTS.
I kind of half believed that I was the only one who remembered this series. Like you guys, I remembered it vaguely but fondly. My favorite part is the really great theme song.
My 2 cents on the movie being real in the show is that it actually helps their cover because imagine two dudes just walked up on you on a random Tuesday and said yeah we’re from the men in Black you laugh in their fucking face
Also in the first men in black when they show Michael Jackson kind of shows that celebrities or at least Michael Jackson to some extent knows of the men in Black‘s existence But who knows Michael Jackson might just be an alien like black dynamite says
Season 1 got a limited DVD release at Target stores in the U.S. Not sure about the rest of the world. I was an adult when it came out, but this show along with Godzilla from 1998 and Extreme Ghostbusters all have a very similar style I thought was fun and different for animation at the time
I worked on the final season of this show designing guns and hardware, so glad you gave it a good review! It was one of the funner productions I worked on in my early days. Thanks guys fun stuff.
What else have you worked on out of interest? I didn't watch this cartoon but if you've had any role to play in any of the cartoons from my childhood I must thank you 😁
Nikolas Melo just want to say I really enjoyed the show a lot as a kid so thanks for your hand in giving me good memories
@Lil Yeet took me 10 seconds to find his LinkedIn and the Men in Black job history. Maybe you won't be such a dickhead in the future to people you don't know.
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Prop & Background Designer -Full Time Staff
Sony Pictures TV Animation
Jun 1998 - Jan 2001
2 years 8 months
Culver City, CA
Created designs for various animated television series: Men In Black, Starship Troopers, Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot, Godzilla, and Max Steel."
@@adoniscreed4031 he's worked on an incredible amount of projects. His LinkedIn is ridiculous and it looks like he has had his hands in almost every major animated tv show since the 90s lol
@Lil Yeet ahaha why u so worried about it Ooo jealous
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crcoghill *it’s rewind time*
son, you've found yourself in a roofie circle.
@@ryanhatcher7098 that sounds like a short term memory version of 'pass the parcel'
This is...Requiem
the MIB series was freaking amazing, it had really great writing and humor appropriate for adults.
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Did a robot write this comment
Totally agree. I enjoyed it more than the movies.
It was everything those Hollywood hacks whom directed the many sequels after the first should’ve followed. All that precious material gone to waste, and what did they give us instead? Just one shameless cash grab after another leading up to that Get Woke rendition with Valkyrie and Thor!
Congratulations, posers. 🙄😑
I enjoyed it, even if they changed the animation style it was still great to watch!
Yes.
Never seen the show, but I know the theme song is an absolute banger.
It's the only 90s animated series fire enough to challenge the original X-men the animated series opening theme.
One of the main characters gets pregnant in the show. A dude. Lol
Tony H MIB gave men and women the same opportunities.
@@Paul94096 come on what about 90s Spider-Man too?
@@MrCaptainRoscoe I dunno, did he get pregnant? If not I'm not interested.
Men in Black had a great cartoon. The show had cool alien designs.
I know the designs were so cool, and unique that's what I loved about this show.
It was everything those Hollywood hacks whom directed the many sequels after the first should’ve followed. All that precious material gone to waste, and what did they give us instead? Just one shameless cash grab after another leading up to that Get Woke rendition with Valkyrie and Thor!
I used to watch the cartoon, but never realized it last 4 years
Dont know if you guys gives a damn but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. Been binge watching with my gf these days =)
@Brody Cade Yea, have been watching on InstaFlixxer for years myself :D
Like each episode? I didn't know cartoon episodes could last for 4 years that's crazy
Men in Black series: Best animated intro ever.
The intro is all I remember about this show, and it was an amazing intro.
Silverhawks, thunder cats, and Japanese X-Men intro are up there too I think 🤔😅
Seriously check out the Japanese version of the 90s anime cartoon ... It's awesome 🤘
That theme song rules!
Well you clearly haven't watched Static Shock 😎
@@code470926 thurdercars and silverhawks have God tier openings for sure!
Somehow kid's cartoons based on movies in the late 90s (niche category) were actually pretty good
The late '90s were somehow the dark ages of Hollywood movies, while also being kind of a golden age for kids' TV.
Godzilla: The Series is actually worlds better than the 98 movie it follows.
@@ShinGallon 100%
Yeah, they were. We hadn't had good movie based cartoons since The Real Ghostbusters.
I wondered how cool be The Batman cartoon with that bleak and "greyish" style of animation. Imagine how adult and serious can this cartoon can be !
Jackie Chan adventures is so underrated lol,
anthony cheesman my favorite Saturday morning cartoon! I was pissed when they took it off of Netflix some years ago
ONE MORE THING! The mummy the animated series based off the brendan Fraser movies.
@@MrAwesomebassplayer they did that never saw it lol
@@gregholmes-brown5628 O wow it was on Netflix wish I saw it when it was on
anthony cheesman yup they had the entire series up for streaming. Took it down in 2014
Jackie Chan adventures is criminally underrated
One of the best cartoons ever..
That series actually got me interested in Jackie Chan as a kid. I ended up asking my da if we could rent a DVD (remember when that was a thing) of a couple different Jackie Chan movies like The Tuxedo and The Medallion and I think we also watched Rush Hour together when I was a kid too.
OH MY GOSH its Michael Joseph Jackson
I gave this three likes, one for each name.
@@FutureDeep that's funny because your comment has 3 likes
@@hammadgill1333 Nobody else like my first comment. It's perfect as it is.
Muuuaahahahaha
Yeah he is pretty cool. However he aint no William December Williams.
11:46, this is actually false. In MIB 3 after K had been erased from history, J's new partners designation is AA. So basically they just start again with the extra A at the beginning. An example being AA, AB, AC, AD and so on.
Which in of itself is also very strange because there were definitely enough agents by the time J was recruited to have gone through the entire alphabet. Why was he designated J and not something further down the chain, had the previous J died? Are the A.Agents transfers from other MIB installations given a prefix as an identifier? Was this simply a movie that was meant to be a one-off originally that didn’t really intend to delve deep into the administration workings of the MIB in subsequent media?!
Do they skip the funny one's like "Agent four I's"
Agent ac dc
Man in Black series are awesome beside the animation is perfect
I used to love this show and when i tell people about it they deny it ever existed
David Delvalle they got the neuralizer lol
I loved the fact that it had a deeper and more climatic continuity and conclusion than any MIB movies. They knew how to escalate the tone into a more serious one and get the stakes higher, while the movies always stayed in a dumb-fun-american-forced territory.
Adelaide Productions also did one of my favourites - Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.
Big Guy, Men in Black, Godzilla all had very similar design aesthetic
Didn't Frank Miller create The Big Guy & Rusty?
Big Guy and Rusty was the fire my dude! I loved that series as well. Richard Raynis definitely knew how to make cartoons that kids and adults could enjoy.
One series they made that you didn’t mention was the Roughnecks: Starship Troopers series which was always my favourite, along with the Marvel cartoons
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OMG! Roughnecks: Starship Troopers is a must watch for anyone. You deserve one of the three like I gave this video.
That show was dark as hell for a kids' cartoon. Very bleak. I loved it.
Man, they made all my favorite late 90's/ early 2000's cartoons. They definitely had material that we adults could appreciate.
Roughnecks was better than all of the live action sequels combined.
I wondered how cool be The Batman cartoon with that bleak and "greyish" style of animation. Imagine how adult and serious can this cartoon can be !
Men in Black: The Series was made by Adelaide Productions, the same studio that made Jumanji: The Series, Project G.e.e.K.e.R., Extreme Ghostbusters, Channel Umptee-3, Godzilla: The Series, Dilbert, Bog Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Jackie Chan Adventures, The Boondocks, among others.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to find out which studio was responsible for this art style!
When I was like 10 years old, this and Godzilla: The Animated Series would air back to back as the two shows that closed up for Saturday morning cartoons in the late 90's and I was hooked on them. My brother and me owned the TV every Saturday morning. Loved this show. Still do. I have it on DVD, as well as Godzilla: The Animated Series and several others. Those were good times.
Do you have the whole MIB Series on DVD Because my understanding only the first season s available
Yes glad you touched on Alpha, I remember in the series he physically became less and less human. One time when he was working with Jeebs's brother, he obtained the morphing ability by joining bodies with him, but they shared a body & it was really interesting! Im probably getting some details wrong but yes! Good show, I enjoyed it. And the Quick Clones!
Great episode, guys! A bit of trivia: the excellent character design was created by the amazing Spanish comics artist Miguelanxo Prado. And it shows. The characters faces are very reminiscent of his own.
His own face or his own work?
This show was my jam back in the day!
I was really young when this and Godzilla: The Series were on Fox Box in the late 1990s. I was so young at that time that I have vague memories of these shows yet they stay with me.
It's weird.
It did get a DVD release, I got it for my son for his birthday, he loves it
This show was always on when I came home from school. I have a pretty fond memory of it but I mostly only remember the opening sequence to be honest.
A look at the Godzilla 98 Animated series or The Roswell Conspiracies cartoon could be worth looking at after thing
VisComGuy they did the Godzilla series :3
Rosswell conspiracies was the best at the time. Sad it got canceled
Don't forget Big Guy and Rusty 😀
@@1han6939 I was able to see the show when it came to streaming. I think it was on Hulu.
David Warner is the quintessential Ra's Al Ghul, and you go with Billy Zane's bodyguard. This is why I love you.
He played Bandar in The Phantom? He sure is versatile.
What about his dual role in Quest of the Delta Knights?
@@doctorhandsome "David Warner, you are under arrest by order of David Warner!"
I just saw him in a first-season Babylon 5 episode, playing a guy who was questing for the Holy Grail... IN SPAAAACE.
I met David Warner a few years ago. He was brilliant and came over to me and my mates and started talking about his films.
HOW DARE YOU, GOOD SIR!! THIS SHOW WAS GREAT!!
Damn straight!
How fucking DARE HE? Caravan of PERFECTION, maybe.
@@boundaryscience If you watch the whole video, they actually like most of the series.
😂😂😂 watch the fuckin video, then comment
SS Robs I agree this dude is bugging
Can I suggest TRON: Uprising? I think you’ll be surprised!
The dead-eyed CG was disappointing, but much better story than the films.
I think the same studios did MIB, Jackie Chan, Godzilla and Ghost Busters! All great animated series...now I have to go watch them BINGE!!!
The first season of MiB: The Series was on DVD awhile ago as a Target exclusive. There are some rumors they may be putting more DVDs out.
Also I love that it was David Warner as Alpha. His voice was immediately recognizable to me. Still shocked Tony Shalhoub was back as Jeebs. I think you guys were right that he was really busy and couldn’t return to play the role in the series.
0:04 is that Eamon Sandwith
I remember only one thing from the series. And that is this one guy who stole body parts from aliens and added it to himself.
If only the sequel movies had followed the cartoon.
That would kind of be a nightmare for the screenwriters
Seriously? There was a lot of great episodes of MIB. That time Kay shared a psychic link with a psychopathic alien; when Frank was being hunted b/c he turned stoolie on his pyromanic prison-mate; everytime Alpha appeared in an episode was genuinely unnerving, especially the episode when he stole Zed's brain.
MIB the series was fan-fukn-tastic. It had a great intro, and the theme song is bomb. I can't believe you don't like this amazingly artistic style. And the still hold up.👍😀🥰
The Men In Black Series was actually pretty good
I never watched this series regularly -even when cartoons aired for free- but one of my fondest cartoon memories is a scene where the disguised Worms collectively try to figure out how to to explain the weird behavior of their disguised emperor to a human, until they hit a eureka.....and they all say, "He's from Jersey!"
Some creature designs have some nice John Carpenter-esque body horror flavor to them, which is crazy considering that this was aimed for kids.
One good story they did was their take on the Roswell incident sheds light on origins of Alpha and K. Also they introduce agent L who’s the female side character.
The intros are always the best part of any cartoon
I like how this was in the same continuity as the film and continue the story with J and K and even agent L. They even had the villain of the 1st movie twin brother come to settle the score after his brother's death.
Binged this last year! Fantastic story wise with overall plots along with monster of the week. Hugely expanded the MIB universe.
I still listen to this theme song.
And I loved the show. A lot. -_-
PLEASE cover Extreme Ghostbusters. It was my fave.
Tv show was mature and good, the opening music was insane
Quick correction: All the things that happened in the first MIB movie actually happened in the animated series universe too. A comic called Men in Black Retribution bridges the first film to the animated series and explains how K got his memory back in the animated series universe
Similar animation to "Jackie Chan Adventures"and "Godzilla:The Series", I felt(both great, btw.) Didn't know they also did "Jumanji"the series too.
This cartoon had one of the best intros to any cartoons ever made
3:10 The Real Ghostbusters cartoon did this first. In that series, the live action movie is based on the events that happened in the cartoon. there was even an episode where the cartoon Ghostbusters were watching real footage from the 1984 Ghostbusters movie.
I hate to break it to you mister but this is better
These keep getting better and better. This MIB show was one of my favorites back in the day.
5:40 "Let's assume that everybody who took part in Galaxy Quest is dead or has gone crazy."
I used to love this show growing up. Back then, most cartoons were just dumbass shooter, strongman in tights fighting a bad guy, brainless adventure. I liked the subterfuge of expectation, the wacky alien sub cultures etc. Which isn't much of intellectual narrative but was better than almost any of the trash on tv that treated you like a mentally handicapped shrew just because I was a kid. Kids aren't idiots, they want plot and intrigue as much as any adult. Really pissed me off back then and now I totally understand kids that want that now.
Time to bring back the toons. Who is with me????
To me, the best part of the MIB cartoon was the theme song. The rest of the show was just endless riffs on the first movie: exploding head guy, tiny alien in human robot, J shoots tiny gun that blows him backwards, the car transforms, the aliens that drink coffee, etc. Those things happened almost every episode.
David Warner? That wizard that throws his pee at people? Yeah. I've heard of him.
What little I remember of this series, I remember fondly. This series also had a tie-in video game on PlayStation 2! Now THAT deserves a Caravan of Garbage.
Or the MIB PC game based loosely on the first movie.
Loved this show....childhood memories right there. Up there with the first movie
This is another of many parallels between MIB and Ghostbusters: both had above average cartoon series that could very well stand on their own.
I loved the cartoon. Just like the Jackie Chan cartoon🤷🏾♂️
Dead serious, Godzilla: The Series and Jackie Chan Adventures are on my top 10 best, non comic book based, animated series for children.
Have never watched the show. I remember seeing the theme song over 10 years ago on tv. The monsters and the music creeped me out and to be honest I still find this theme song to be very unsettling
I LOVED this show growing up! The storyline with Alpha turning bad and attaching alien parts then later cybernetic parts to his body was great. Would make a decent movie plot.
This show is so underrated. I remember Alpha giving me nightmares as a kid
Dude. Ditto
Loved Jackie Chan adventures as a kid.
Continuing the success of Columbia Pictures' blockbuster film Men in Black, the animated series sees the return of Agents Kay and Jay. Distinguished by their dark black suits and sunglasses, the agents continue to guard earth protecting the scum of the universe.
I remember watching this series back when it premiered in 1997 during Kids WB's infancy and I've watched it progressively become worse and ran for 4 years. The show began decently enough - re-establishing the partnership between Agent J and Agent K that made the movie so memorable. The voice actors, particularly Keith Diamond as Agent J deliver their lines admirably. The writing was and still is relatively top-notch, with a healthy dose of humor. I used to watch it after "Superman: The Animated Series" and before "The New Batman/Superman Adventures" (later preceed by Pinky and the Brain and later Batman Beyond) on Kids WB Saturday mornings. I am HUGE fan of the Men In Black movies and I think "Men in Black: The Series" was a good continuation to the movies. In the cartoon version, Agent Kay (the Tommy Lee Jones character in the film) was back as a member of MiB, still partnered with Agent Jay (the Will Smith character).
The rest of the series is extremely flawed. While the character designs are okay, the colors are extremely drab and lifeless,
VERY characteristic of Sony animation. The soundtrack just drones on, particularly the monotone theme. Danny Elfman's movie score is WAY better. Heck, they even brought over an instrumental version of Will Smith's catchy but forgettable rap song "Men in Black" that played during the closing credits. Why couldn't they use the original movie theme? But the soundtrack is the least of the series' problems.
While the series does right to bring back Agents J, K and Elle as well as Zed, some of other character additions are questionable. The Worms? They were mildly funny break room puppets in the arcade, but their squeaky voices and
obsession with coffee in the series is definitely pushing it. It wouldn't be half as annoying if they didn't build ENTIRE EPISODES around them. Jeeves? Maybe, but if he keeps selling contraband to alien terrorists, why doesn't he get arrested? The head-shrinking thing was funny just once. Frank the Pug? Why?
The show fails to be fully faithful to the movie - it seems like the MIB shoot first and ask questions later in the animated series. As a result, the slick image of the MIB from the movie is totally lost. Sometimes it's a wonder that they blow so many things up and get into firefights and are never noticed.
The new characters are just plain bad. Agent Elle's partner Agent X is just terribly annoying. Elle was way better as a lab
technician. And what's up with her personality shift? She's gone from the cool personality in the movie and up until season five to a crazy hothead. Even more annoying is the over-happy new alien lab technician. Someone should blast that moron with a noisy cricket.
Men in Black: The series may be decent enough for little kids, but for older viewers, it's certainly a far cry from Batman: The Animated Series. While is does try to add some coherent continuity and decent storylines, it's extremely disappointing for fans of the movie like me and cartoon enthusiasts.
This was a pretty awesome show think it had the same artist and writers of The Real Ghostbusters (season 3), Alf: The Animated Series/Alf Tales, Starcom: The U.S. Space Force, Dennis the Menace (season 2), C.O.P.S., Alvin and the Chipmunnks (seasons 6 & 7), The Simpsons (seasons 3-31), The Critic, Jumanji: The Series, King of the Hill, Extreme Ghostbusters, Men in Black: The Series, Godzilla: The Series, Futurama, Heavy Gear: The Animated Series, and Dragon Tales series.
This show is a.k.a. MIB: The Series, MIB: The Animated Series, and Men in Black: The Animated Series.
This show is based on both the early 90s Malibu Comic (which itself was bought out by Marvel Comics) by Lowell Cunningham and the hit 1997 Sci-Fi comedy blockbuster starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
That clip of the motion capture with Jackie Chan was for the video game "Jackie Chan Stunt Master" a very underrated game, that I loved. The cartoon series was great too but certainly did not use any motion capture for the animation.
grown to love Caravan of Garbage. Its my favorite series
The series’ theme was composed by series composer Jim Latham. An instrumental version of Smith’s “Men in Black”, written by Smith, Patrice Rushen, Terri McFadden and Freddie Washington that served as the movie’s theme, was used as the show’s closing theme over the credits and mug shots of various aliens. The series ran for four seasons (1997 to 2001), expanding to also include reruns on weekdays. The fourth season (2000 to 2001) received a slightly modified intro to incorporate the new characters introduced.
The show had one of the best intros of any cartoon at the time
The music from the intro was awesome
There’s an episode where K gets neuralized accidentally, back to mentally being a teenager. He knows he’s in the future when he sees that the tallest buildings in New York are the World Trade Center, just like J said.
11:53 Probably one agent per HQ, now that we've seen MIB International.
Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys was also a brilliant show. I loved it
It's actually a 1987 Ford Crown-Victoria!
7:21 The Boondocks was such a banger
Had this show on VHS good times
MTV Spider-Man and Jackie Chan Adventures were two of my favourites as a kid
3:32 Wow, I forgot how much non-grey hair James used to have. Haha eyyy bloody gottem.
Aw come on mate!
@@mrsundaymovies Don't worry mate you're good as a Silver Fox and or Goat
Did anyone else catch, how much like last week's video, this week's is ALSO a video? Very clever.
4:08 "Aaron flux" omg editors gonna make a egoraptor reference. Did not disappoint.
SUZY WE GOT A JINGLE JANGLE PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS. SANTAS GOING NUTS.
this show was amazing!!
super underrated
The Intro has f&@** amazing
I kind of half believed that I was the only one who remembered this series. Like you guys, I remembered it vaguely but fondly. My favorite part is the really great theme song.
Galaxy Quest *did* get a sequel...in comic form.
You did not trick me into liking this video. You did NOT earn 3 likes from me, Mr Sunday and Boy Sunday the duo. Don't think I'll give up
2003 TMNT has a pretty complex storyline for a kids show. It’s pretty great
I loved this show as a kid, they need to bring it back somehow
I loved the MIB animated series, one of the shows that makes me nostalgic for 90's animation. What a golden age.
Watched this when it was on TV and it was great! Tony Shalhoub is also great!
In the early 2010s they use to show reruns of this show and Batman Beyond on this channel called the Hub.
"It's bloody, Mission Impo- wha- Men In Black" kills me every time
This looked like a Saturday morning body horror cartoon
I used to love this show as a kid
My 2 cents on the movie being real in the show is that it actually helps their cover because imagine two dudes just walked up on you on a random Tuesday and said yeah we’re from the men in Black you laugh in their fucking face
Also in the first men in black when they show Michael Jackson kind of shows that celebrities or at least Michael Jackson to some extent knows of the men in Black‘s existence But who knows Michael Jackson might just be an alien like black dynamite says
Season 1 got a limited DVD release at Target stores in the U.S. Not sure about the rest of the world. I was an adult when it came out, but this show along with Godzilla from 1998 and Extreme Ghostbusters all have a very similar style I thought was fun and different for animation at the time
I literally clicked the like button three times
Namilhcse Nivek I hit it 4 times.
4:11 thats a man who looks like he's got a jingle jangle problem
I think Men in Black 3 is the best of the trilogy.
I loved this series! I actually showed it to my nieces and nephews. Great cartoon.