The Saturday Morning Memorial Animated Series Poll: nominations

ah sorry, skipped messages yknow

xp

I think "like" and "have enduring nostalgic fascination with" might be hard to separate in this case

I am not nominating Laverne and Shirley in the Army, or the Robonic Stooges. If shakes is feeling particularly nihilistic, he's free to do so himself. Also definitely not nomming the Jordan/Jackson/Gretzky vehicle ProStars. Definitely not.

I will only vote for things for which I feel genuine affection. I can't guarantee that some of those things aren't hot trash. Because I'm still me.

Sport Billy

Mighty Orbots

Whoa, I just had to remind myself to breathe. I haven't thought about this since fall of 1984 or so, but I was a glum little tyke when they took it off the air.

Pole Position
The Littles
Goin Bananas
The Biskitts
Star Wars: Ewoks
Star Wars: Droids
The Wuzzles
It's Punky Brewster
The Super-Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

No Groovie Goolies OR Drak Pak itt, what is this world coming to

now i have the pole position theme stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbDiitXN6I8
pole positshUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUnnn

oh man there was def a period where i was watching after-school Littles reruns on USA or the Family Channel. another one where i remember no specific characters or plotlines.

Fangface
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
Plastic Man and Baby Plas

HFS:

https://monzo12782.tumblr.com/post/43396779615/gil-kane-jack-kirby-and-doug-wildey-were-all/amp

Captain Pugwash: looks like the 1957 B+W and 1974 color series were both live-action puppetry, hence DQ.

that would be why nobody else nominated it then! that was my nom, happy for it to be expunged, sorry

uh-oh, I didn't think of online series. luckily it turns out on rewatching a bunch of approximately episodic 00s Flash stuff I remember vaguely liking it was all some hot garbage, so, never mind

Monchhichis

oh man there was def a period where i was watching after-school Littles reruns on USA or the Family Channel. another one where i remember no specific characters or plotlines.

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I'm not convinced that most Saturday morning cartoons had plotlines per se.

HFS:

Check out Jim Woodring's TCJ interview for details on working with Kirby &al. on terrible Saturday morning cartoons, and also generally some of the most entertaining talking ever transcribed

I wish someone would wise up and just give Woodring complete creative control on an animated series. I can barely fathom a world that wonderful.

that explains why i liked centurions
here's that great woodring interview btw: http://www.tcj.com/the-jim-woodring-interview/

OL, I trust you've seen visions of frank?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHZ69DsfQI

I forgot about Pole Position, the other Ghostbusters (but I totally remember safari shirt dude), and Silverhawks! Tbh there were so many low-budget cartoons always going on and off the air. You really had to have a move or toy tie-in to secure your spot in the market and children's attention spans.

*movie

Oh yeah, I've for sure seen Visions of Frank. I want more! More!

Since we're in garbage time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProStars

Does anyone remember this probably early '90s afterschool action series with an X-Men-like team except they had bug eyes?

you, my friend, are referring to SECTAURS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-MlMZgneA

sectaurs cartoon sucked but the action figures and the design were pretty great iirc

otm

See also: Visionaries, Inhumanoids

nb that Woodring had zero creative control over Visions Of Frank btw

Hmm, may have been Sectaurs but that looks more He-Man than I remember. Like they had gray tactical suits?

xpost Yeah I know but those shorts are still pretty sweet.

yah

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

re TV Funhouse: it was entirely animated, it was aired on a semi-regular basis (not every week, but usually at least once a month), and it had a single creator and vision. A reason you might not include it is that it was a portion of SNL which was considered the main show. I have never seen the Comedy Central show of the same name and I am not nomming it.

here's another garbage cartoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOljPoMWy2o

Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
The New Shmoo
The Super Globetrotters
Spider-Woman
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Yogi's Space Race

Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo

I'm pretty sure I've been consistent on this but show packages with non-intersecting show-length segments should nominate the segments individually not the packages.

I really have to end noms tonight otherwise Shakey's just going to punish me for my insolence with even more unlovable dreck from the gummed-up corners of his brainpan

curses foiled again

would've gotten away with it too etc

but let's not forget

The Wuzzles
Galaxy High School
Kissyfur
Wildfire
Foofur
Lazer Tag Academy
Pound Puppies
Teen Wolf

galaxy high school has been mentioned at least 4 times so far stop wasting my energy

just wanted to make sure this classic of the genre was not overlooked

if you don't close it by tomorrow i will nominate 20 more trashy moe anime shows

the other night I realized i'd forgotten to mention DNA^2, Slayers and Record of Lodoss War when waxing nostalgic abt middling anime for 90s teen boys. can't say any deserve nomination, tho all were leaps and bounds above the likes of Captain Caveman, The Hair Bear Bunch, Wheelie and rhe Chopper Bunch, Thundarr the Barbarian, Teddy Ruxpin, Dennis the Menace, The Glow-Worms, the Paw Paws, and nearly everything else upon which I similarly wasted my attention as an 80s preteen boy.

Has anyone nominated Barbar the elephant?!

Lest we forget: Strawberry Shortcake, and Care Bears

Not that I watched those

Many thanks to those who nominated The Snorks, Shirt Tales, The Littles, Bananaman, Monchichis, M.A.S.K, Captain Caveman, and The Maxx. Huge lost chunks of my childhood are coming back to me...

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(Not nominations btw, just shitting up the thread with reminders of terrible shows as we near the end.)

The Boondocks
Tom & Jerry
The Yogi Bear Show