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It's not as common now as it used to be, but it seems like there was an animated version of everything, even if it makes no sense. The TV Funhouse cartoons aren't that far from the truth (before the SNL parody I didn't know that The Harlem Globetrotters cartoon was real). The Real Ghostbusters kicked rear end, and Star Trek, Back to the Future, and the Star Wars shows were fun. Animating a movie or comic makes sense. Other things... not so much. A few days ago I found out about an early-80s cartoon called The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. The Fonz, Richie, Ralph, a new anthropomorphic dog, and a future girl named "Cupcake" travel through time in a time machine! Yeah. On top of this, Laverne and Shirley Join the Army and Mork and Mindy were also cartoons.   Even The Beatles had a goofy animated series. The idea is really bizarre when you think about it, because they're caricatures of real people. The New Kids on the Block had a cartoon decades later, but I don't recall them ever doing anything amusing. Some of you might also remember The Robonic Stooges. It's The 3 Stooges, but now they're secret agents with bionic superpowers! That makes lots of sense, right? All of these are ridiculous. I'm not saying that's bad; sometimes it's great. But it's still ridiculous. What weird animated spinoffs do you remember existing? What cartoon spinoffs do you wish existed? ("Dr.House's Laboratory," please).
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Clerks the Animated Series was pure gold and any other opinion is completely wrong.
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Locutus Of Bored posted:Clerks the Animated Series was pure gold and any other opinion is completely wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ReoBPl4mM I picked up the DVD of the entire series for 50 cents at a yard sale. Best 50 cents spent ever.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 06:14 |
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The Mask cartoon was pretty bad. There was a goofy Battletech series where they went step by step, dice-rolling style, through every fight. Someone on SA recommended Wizards, a 1977 low-budget cartoon about fairies and elves fighting post-apocalypse Hitler wizard, it's weird how gory and suggestive it is considering the animation style. Enjoy the thrilling adventures of cartoon Mr. Bean trying to find something good to watch on TV. Clever self-aware wink to the viewers or eerily accurate portrayal of Mr. Bean? You decide.
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Ema Nymton posted:A few days ago I found out about an early-80s cartoon called The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. The Fonz, Richie, Ralph, a new anthropomorphic dog, and a future girl named "Cupcake" travel through time in a time machine! Yeah. On top of this, Laverne and Shirley Join the Army and Mork and Mindy were also cartoons. It didn't stop there. There was also Gilligan's Planet in which Gilligan and the castaways become stranded on an alien planet, and The Dukes, in which the heros from The Dukes of Hazzard are in a race around the world against Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco. I'm sure there were others.
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MC Hammer's animated series, had him dancing on music. He also had talking shoes. There was also Little Shop of Horrors. Which wasn't so good, but it was half an hour of Audrey 2. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes the series was fun! Toxic Avengers the series. Not so good, but it didn't have the dick monsters that Troma is known for! But there was a severe lack of Sgt. Kabuki-man NYPD.
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Ace Ventura: The Animated Series. I remember liking this enough as a kid. Until my brother bought the Ace Ventura movie set on dvd (including "select" episodes of the animated series on a separate disc. ONLY THREE EPISODES). It's like they took everything about Ace that wasn't normal and ramped it up to eleven, and substituted that for any humour. Holy gently caress, was it ever excruciating. Instead of talking out of his rear end just to get a rise out of Aguado, he does it ALL THE loving TIME.
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beaten by this guy ^^^^^  I remember Ace Ventura became an animated series in the mid 90s. I liked it at first but I lost interest in the show after a while. I think the only reason I started watching was because, I realy liked the Ace Ventura movies but the show didin't quite live up to my expectations. AtomiK fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 07:00 |
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Also, let us not forget Back To The Future: The Animated Series, the cartoon which gave Bill Nye: The Science Guy his name.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 07:06 |
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Mr. Jive posted:The Mask cartoon was pretty bad. mojo1701a posted:Ace Ventura: The Animated Series. I watched the poo poo out of both of these shows AND the Dumb and Dumber animated series. As a kid they're pretty drat entertaining. I miss the simpler times when every hit movie became a cartoon 
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CaptainHollywood posted:I watched the poo poo out of both of these shows AND the Dumb and Dumber animated series. As a kid they're pretty drat entertaining. I miss the simpler times when every hit movie became a cartoon The worst though was the inevitable crossover episode between The Mask and Ace Ventura. If you guess that the Mask ended up on Ace's rear end, yeah. Although it had one good line to it with a little fourth wall breakage. Stanley Ipkiss! Are you following me or something??
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There was a Jumanji animated series I used to watch. As I recall, it wasn't bad. The art-style was heavily influenced by Everett Peck of Duckman fame - though apparently, he just did the character designs, and wasn't very involved with the show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji_(TV_series) I never cared about the show enough to rewatch it, but I remember that the idea worked pretty well in a TV series format. Though they changed the rules a bit for the sake of the show - now, the players would get sucked into the game on every turn, and would have to figure out the clue before they could leave. The guy stuck in the game was stuck because he never read his clue - so they kept playing to try and figure it out. What I remember is that Van Pelt (The Hunter who came out of the game) is actually an immortal force that must exist, and anyone who kills him is doomed to transform into him - that the game has an avatar that looks like a cloaked skeleton in a fancy hat that comes out when things start going very wrong - and that they got rid of the girl who played Jumanji years ago and saw the kid get stuck, and the "stuffy, uptight aunt" character became the wild-man's chief romantic interest as a result (though it didn't come up too much).
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It seems a lot of the blank: The Animated Series shows died off when the broadcast networks basically stopped doing their own cartoons. CN and Nick would rather do their own properties that they own (Clone Wars notwithstanding) while the networks just seem to buy prepackaged shows from production companies like 4kids.
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I used to love the Men In Black animated series as a kid. It had a really cool opening sequence as well.
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quote:Some of you might also remember The Robonic Stooges. It's The 3 Stooges, but now they're secret agents with bionic superpowers! That makes lots of sense, right? This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title, just because of how remarkably terrible in a "Who even thinks this poo poo up" kind of way it is. In absences of that, I'll throw out Hammerman, the animated series about MC Hammer and his magical talking shoes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8WYh8uz3pQ edit: Goddamnit, beaten again. At least I had the youtube link. How about the animated Beetlejuice, then? I hated that show even when I was a kid because all the "humor" stemmed from "Beetlejuice farts/burps/pulls off his socks to reveal moldy feet with stink lines emanating from them, followed by a foghorn sound effect." As an offshoot of the "________: The Animated Series" set, there was the always terrible "_________: Kids" shows. The only one I can think of at the moment is "Tom and Jerry Kids" which had Tom and Jerry as "kids", that is, they wore baseball caps and were smaller than their normal equivalents. Also, they sucked. raditts fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 11:02 |
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Give me The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog or The Supermario Brothers Super Show any day over what they are passing as cartoons these days.
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Wasn't there a cartoon based on the American Godzilla movie? lovely design and all.
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Locutus Of Bored posted:Clerks the Animated Series was pure gold and any other opinion is completely wrong. I watched a bunch of clips of that show on youtube the other day, and loved every one. Especially the ones with Charles Barkley Dissapointed Owl posted:Wasn't there a cartoon based on the American Godzilla movie? lovely design and all.
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I was looking through Hulu one day, and I discovered that someone had made an animated series based very loosely on Problem Child: http://www.hulu.com/problem-child?c...on-and-Cartoons It's roughly what you'd expect for a half-assed cash-in. I hadn't heard anything about it when it originally aired, and after watching an episode I can understand why. And speaking of Star Wars and half-assed cash-ins, does anyone else remember the series starring the Ewoks? The one with no other link to the Star Wars universe, or anything else that might make it worth watching?
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Cockmaster posted:And speaking of Star Wars and half-assed cash-ins, does anyone else remember the series starring the Ewoks? The one with no other link to the Star Wars universe, or anything else that might make it worth watching? This premiered in the mid-'80s at the same time as Droids, another Star Wars cartoon featuring C-3PO and R2-D2 in their adventures predating A New Hope. Kenner made short-lived action figure lines based on both cartoons. The '80s also brought several cartoons based on R-rated movies, including Rambo and "Robocop and the Ultra Police" (which also had toy lines as well). But none of the movie-based cartoons were better than The Real Ghostbusters, which had J. Michael Straczynski as the writer of most of the episodes.
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AntiFistamine posted:I used to love the Men In Black animated series as a kid. It had a really cool opening sequence as well. There was a Crypt Keeper cartoon in the mid-90s that I remember being pretty good. It had a similar structure to the live-action series, just the content was more kiddy.
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PicklePants posted:Attack of the Killer Tomatoes the series was fun! Haha, yes it was. I remember all of the inevitable Disney cartoons based on movies. The Aladdin cartoon (which was actually decent), little mermaid, lilo and stitch, Buzz Lightyear space adventures (really awesome), etc.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Wasn't there a cartoon based on the American Godzilla movie? lovely design and all. Yeah there was, except Godzilla was a good guy. I remember there was also a cartoon based on that sci-fi comedy with David Duchovny, Evolution. I think it was called Alienators: Evolution Continues.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Wasn't there a cartoon based on the American Godzilla movie? lovely design and all. Wasn't there a stupid baby Godzilla named Godzookie or something retarded like that?
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Thornes posted:Wasn't there a stupid baby Godzilla named Godzookie or something retarded like that? That was the Hanna Barbara (At least I think it was Hanna Barbara) cartoon based on the original Godzilla. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTItRfN-LO8 The cartoon based on the American Godzilla was more serious in tone and picked up right after the movie.
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OptimusShr posted:That was the Hanna Barbara (At least I think it was Hanna Barbara) cartoon based on the original Godzilla. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTItRfN-LO8 That's good to know. I was scared people actually liked that show. To contribute: Creepy Crawlers cashed in on the toy. I actually remember it being pretty good.
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YARR Beaten. I think that was the lovely hannah barbara mid-80s Godzilla cartoon. And Godzooookieeeee Mr. T even had his own loving cartoon. I only saw it on boomerang once, and it had a great moment where Mr. T was chasing one of those baby strollers that started rolling down a hill! And it's approaching an intersection! Oh no! What do you do? If you're Mr. T, you yell at the traffic light to "Change NOW!" Then the traffic light, likely making GBS threads its pants [if traffic lights wore pants,] quickly changes from green to red, deftly bypassing yellow, so that Mr. T could save the day! Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mDQ-Yg6AME Mr. T Show Intro HOLY poo poo, Mr. T flips out and tosses a goddamn crocodile right out of the water! I forgot all about his dumb ginger side-kick, and Lovable Scamp Dog Sidekick With A Mohawk. y˛kleinke fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 18:19 |
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raditts posted:As an offshoot of the "________: The Animated Series" set, there was the always terrible "_________: Kids" shows. The only one I can think of at the moment is "Tom and Jerry Kids" which had Tom and Jerry as "kids", that is, they wore baseball caps and were smaller than their normal equivalents. Also, they sucked. In all fairness Muppet Babies was pretty drat good back in the day.
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Of all the celebrities to get their own show, I'd wager that Gary Coleman is probably not one you would ever expect. I always think that the best cartoons based on movies are ones where the writers can pretty much make whatever they want. Ghostbusters was a great cartoon because they could make whatever monster they wanted and just say "It's a ghost.". Same with MIB and "Aliens" and Muppet Babies with "Imagination".
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I found some episodes of Mr. T! http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/c...4014092n7zGJT9Q
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Squid Hat posted:Of all the celebrities to get their own show, I'd wager that Gary Coleman is probably not one you would ever expect. I don't know, I really didn't see Michel Jordan, Wayne Gretsky, and Bo Jackson fighting crime with various high tech sports related gadgets. Yet here we are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px5njG8ikvo
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Squid Hat posted:Of all the celebrities to get their own show, I'd wager that Gary Coleman is probably not one you would ever expect. I probably saw every episode of that show, haha.
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RedNeptune posted:In all fairness Muppet Babies was pretty drat good back in the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dFl4ay_uc Inevitable extension of Muppet Babies...
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cams posted:A few years ago Cartoon Network was showing these late at night, I think at like 3 AM after Toonami/Adult Swim ended. Along with Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos, and I think the Mr. T cartoon. It was glorious.
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Here's one that I couldn't ever really figure out: Police Academy: The Animated Series. I don't really remember terribly much of this show, other than that it had some cop that loved guns and tended to blow poo poo up, and another cop that would eat ANYTHING, and during the episodes they would use their 'unique talents' to win the day. What is so bizarre about it is that it's a cartoon show based on a movie that (in many countries) has an adult rating and is filled with sex-related jokes, and it's not even very good. Yet somewhere, somehow, a TV show executive decided it was just the thing to base a kid's TV show on.
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I remember there was a sports star animated series in the early ninetees, "staring" Micheal Jordan, (representing Basketball) Bo Jackson (representing Football) and Wayne Gretzky (representing Hockey). I guess Jordan represented Baseball too, but, badly. The only other thing I remember about it is Gretzky loved to eat. Which is the wierdest part because The Great One is one skinny tiny motherfucker.
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I remember knowing about the adult movies from their trailers. They would show all the cutesy stuff in them, and you'd see them on tv all the time. I'd wonder why I couldn't see them because the most naughty thing in them would be "don't move Dirt bag!" and such. Later you'd see them and no understand the prostitute under the podium was giving the guy a blow job. But yea, I remember as a kid, every movie had a toy line, even ones that it was clear that no kid should ever see. Robocop had one. I can only imagin some kid having the Clarance figure and going 'Bitches leave' to his sisters Barbies.
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Shows like MIB, I can understand. Basically it was a hit movie, and rather then filming another movie with its huge cost, they can just make a animated show for a fraction of a price. Makes sense (plus it was a pretty kickass cartoon too) But then you get stuff like "Laverne and Shirley Join the Army". What thought process is going through an executives head to take two independent women living in the city (with required wacky neighbors) with crazy "realistic" stories and decided that they need to join the army, have a commanding officer, who is a literal pig, and go on adventures in space or fighting giant apes.
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bunnyofdoom posted:I remember there was a sports star animated series in the early ninetees, "staring" Micheal Jordan, (representing Basketball) Bo Jackson (representing Football) and Wayne Gretzky (representing Hockey). I guess Jordan represented Baseball too, but, badly. The only other thing I remember about it is Gretzky loved to eat. Which is the wierdest part because The Great One is one skinny tiny motherfucker. That would be the Prostars. I watched that crap. You can find it on Netflix: On Demand, at least that's where I found it last time.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 19:59 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I remember there was a sports star animated series in the early ninetees, "staring" Micheal Jordan, (representing Basketball) Bo Jackson (representing Football) and Wayne Gretzky (representing Hockey). I guess Jordan represented Baseball too, but, badly. The only other thing I remember about it is Gretzky loved to eat. Which is the wierdest part because The Great One is one skinny tiny motherfucker.
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