Swat Kats back on TV

[DrSpengler]

For all you Americans, Swat Kats (Cartoon Network's FIRST original program and one of the best) is now on Boomerang, weekdays at 4pm. They just started rerunning them today beginning in order (today's was the Giant Bacteria episode).

So if any of you miss Swat Kats like me, check it out.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

COOL! I like the Swat Kats! Anyone recognize one of the voices from something else we've all watched?

[Anarky]

I hate you americans... I hate you so much.

They take CN from me, after they switched to that more or less lousy French version of it. And you get the SWAT Kats. Damn you.

[DrSpengler]

And in some cooler news, Toon Disney will be getting The Tick on June 6th as part of their Jetix line-up. Good tv is finally making a come-back!

COOL! I like the Swat Kats! Anyone recognize one of the voices from something else we've all watched?

Yeah, the show was packed with some of the best voice talent in the industry.

Obviousy, you meant that Razor was also voiced by Donatello/Nestlie Quick Bunny.

But Charlie Adler (Buster on Tiny Toons, Cow and Chicken, Ed and Bev Bighead on Rocko) did T-Bone and Hardrive, Commander Feral had the same voice actor as Blue Falcon (from Blue Falcon and Dino-mutt), Tres McNeil (Dot from Animainiacs, consistant extra on Simpsons) was Callie, Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck, 2nd voice of Shredder, Shocker on Spider-Man) was Mayor Manx and Morbulus, and Frank Welker (in too much stuff to list) did Dr. Viper.

Just watching the opening sequence (with footage from The Pastmaster) I had forgotten just how well-animated Swat Kats really was. I need to watch the credits tomorrow and figure out what Japanese studio they used.

[Garou]

The Swat Kats is such a great show. I'm mad at America too, they haven't aired that show in Denmark for years :cry:

[Spitfire]

Wow I always thought Swat Cats was a WB show. I didnt know CN was able to make a TV show that wasnt utter crap....Well I guess back when I was a kid I was all into Dexters Lab and all that Friday night stuff. I used to watch alota TV ...no I watch none! Good news though. Maybe their planning a return....or they need something to fill the time slot

[Ryona]

I have no idea what Swat Kats are... :|

All I know is that there is alot of talk of it in this message board, and I've seen it around as avatars and sigs.



Is it a rip of TMNT like Street Sharks and all those other shows with humanoid animal warriors?

[DrSpengler]

http://www.swatkats.com/

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-10314/Swat_Kats_The_Radical_Squadron/

http://livingangel.topcities.com/swatkats/t-bone.jpg
http://livingangel.topcities.com/swatkats/jake_chance1.jpg

It was nothing like TMNT other than having anthropromorphic animals as the lead characters.

Basically T-Bone and Razor were the Swat Kats; heros who protected Megacat City from various threats using their high-tech jet, the Turbocat.

The premise may sound silly, but the show was pretty dark at times and had a great line-up of memorable villains and supporting characters. It was one of Cartoon Network's best original shows and had some pretty impressive animation (particularly the second season, when they switched studios).

[Ryona]

Thanks, DrSpengler. It looks and sounds pretty interesting. :)

[BartAllen]

did the show ever wrap up? or was it cancelled? i mean, did it have a final episode?

[DrSpengler]

did the show ever wrap up? or was it cancelled? i mean, did it have a final episode?

Well, yes and no. There was no grand finale, but they did kill off most of the villains in the last season and wrap-up a few story arcs and nagging questions.

Dr. Viper got blown to pieces at the beginning of the 2nd season but had his origin releaved in a flash-back episode later that season.

Pastmaster got dunked into a pit of lava and subsequently died.

The Metallikats had some-what of a "happy" ending. Their last episode had them team-up with the Swat Kats to defeat a giant robot called Zed and showed that, despite all their bickering and fighting, Mac and Molly really did love each other. They even managed to escape capture at the end of the episode (while the Swat Kats assumed they had died when Zed blew up).

Hardrive got thrown back into prison. Nothing too special about that.

And I'm not sure whatever became of Dark Kat, I don't think he was ever really defeated in the last season. His last appearance was in "Razor's Edge", apparantly. But I don't think I've seen that episode (or I don't remember it too well).

[Mandi-chan]

SWEET!!!!!!! It's about time! They better keep it on, I'll be so annoyed if they rip it off the air again! The only problem is that it's on when I'm at work....luckily I have tomorrow off! :D

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

And, how about that rockin' theme-music at the beginning?! :D
That's the kind of cool opening the new TMNT show needs instead of the crappy theme-song we got right now.

And, yeah Swat Kats was pretty edgy.

[IceFlash78]

I finally caught an episode today. I enjoyed it, even though it had crappy captioning, i enjoyed it. It was pretty dark.. amazing how much they could pack in one 20-minute episode... Brought back nice memories. I was also impressed with some of the animation.... it was good for its time.

Today's cartoon developers should take alook at this show.. Swat Kats appeals to all ages.... its not condensending, yet its not too "adult"

[IceFlash78]

hey.. sorry for double posting... but I saw another episode today... itwas umm.. "return of the dark kat" or something.. anyways, it showed us how Chance/Jake became teh Swat Kats...

Anyways.. I'm surprised.. I thought I woudl have depised the show (due to me being older now) but I found myself being enternated.. Sure.. the animation/dialogue is kinda childish, but that reflected the technology that they had at the time. I was also pleased to find that the captioning was better ( in the other episode I saw the captioned was delayed or was missing in some places) in this episode... there was fewer missing pieces but there was no "delay" between the time that the characters spoke the lines and the captions showing up on tv.

[DrSpengler]

Watched "The Wrath of Dark Kat" today as well. They got a pretty origin (as opposed to some kid's show, which have NO origin whatsoever), though maybe a montage of them building the Turbocat would've been nice.

Also a pretty good introduction to Dark Kat, himself. And Razor has one of my favorite lines when he's trying to disarm the atom bomb Dark Kat dropped on Megakat City.

"Okay, just cut the red wire...*all the wires are red* Dark Kat, you miserable psycho!!"