Ok 80's kids, what are your top 80's animated shows and 80's animated movies?

[Cropsy]

Animated Series:
Transformers.
He-Man.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
G.I. Joe.
She-Ra. (That's right! i watched it, not only for the awesome badass Hordak fellow whom i had the action figure to and his Horde or the awesome guest starring of He-Man and friends including Skeletor but the sexy toon chicks like Adora whom i had a crush on when i was 3 in 1985).
Ducktales.
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
The Real Ghostbusters.
Gummi Bears.
Voltron.
Bravestarr.
COPS.
Dangermouse.
Count Duckula.
The Raccoons. (Came out here in the U.S. on the Disney Channel in 1986)
Thundercats.
Inspector Gadget.
Superman.
Super Friends.
Bionic Six.
Centurions.
MASK.
Go-Bots.
Filmation's Ghostbusters.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
The Incredible Hulk.
Heathcliff.
Dungeons and Dragons.

Animated movies:
Akira.
Heavy Metal.
Grave of the Fireflies.
Transformers The Movie.
Fire and Ice.
American Pop.
He-Man and She-Ra: Secret of the Sword.
G.I. Joe The Movie.
Pink Floyd The Wall.
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.
Rock and Rule.
Oliver and Company.
Starchaser: Legend of Orin.
The Fox and The Hound.
The Great Mouse Detective.
Vampire Hunter D.
Fist of the North Star.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The Little Mermaid. (Who can resist sexy Ariel?)
An American Tail.
The Land Before Time.
The Secret of NIMH.
The Flight of Dragons.
The Last Unicorn.
Hey Good Lookin.
Nausccia: Valley of the Winds.
My Neighbor Totoro.
The Professional: Golgo 13.
Castle in The Sky.
Kiki's Delivery Service.

What can i say? i'm a major 80's kid.

[Canadian Turtle]

How on earth can anyone add to your list? You covered it ALL!

Hell the only thing you added that I would have said was the raccoons and you respectfully noted the release date in the US as it was a Canadian show! I love it!

[joe-eyeball]

Dude you forgot the DIC show called "The Comic Strip" which included: Street Frogs, Karate Kat, Mini Monsters and I believe they were called the Tiger Sharks. That was AWESOME.

You also forgot Dennis the Menace.

Hey... Who can do hip hop better than a frog can?

[Raph's Girl]

Hmf.. You forgot:
Wuzzles
Care Bears
Popeye and Son
The Popples
Dogtagnion and the Muskehounds
Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling
Alf
Alf Tales
Ewoks
Droids
Pound Puppies
Berenstein Bears
Captain Caveman and Son
Flintstones Kids
Defenders of the Earth
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Dinosaucers
The Dukes
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Gilligan's Planet
Godzilla (and Godzoooooookie....)
Punky Brewster (with that weird creature from beyond the rainbow...)
Jem and the Holograms
The Jetsons
Tom and Jerry Kids
New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
Muppet Babies
Fraggles
The New Archies
Pound Puppies
Rainbow Bright
The Smurfs
The Snorks

[Cropsy]

Well i remember all this stuff since i was a kid and preteen of the 80's and 90's! yes "The Raccoons" is awesome stuff, loved it since it came out here in the US in 1986 as they now have it on Youtube.

Oh i remember "Dennis The Menace" and "Tiger Sharks", what can i say i'm nostalgic.

[Candy Kappa]

seems like pretty much all is covered

[joe-eyeball]

Yeah man the DINOSAUCERS were freakin' AMAZING. I only dream that they release that on DVD someday.

[Cropsy]

Yes Dinosaucers is an awesome show as i watch it on Youtube and i have some of the shows and movies on DVD i mentioned.

So what's everyone's top toon shows and animated movies of the wonderful 80's?

[Sage Ninja]

Most of the Don Bluth movies.

And of coure the last unicorn. Which is where my avatar comes from. :)


No one mentioned Beveryhills Teens or Maxie's World, or that archies cartoon of them as preteens in middle school.

[Raph's Girl]

or that archies cartoon of them as preteens in middle school.

I mentioned that... it was called The New Archies.

[Cropsy]

Nice Avatar BTW, Amalthea is one of my top animated babes! she's so friggin' cute.

Sorry Raph's Girl, i never watched Jem but i did watched She-Ra not only for He-Man appearences including his pals and Skeletor or for Hordak who was such an awesome bad guy but i did had a thing for all the chicks on the show including Adora whom was my first animated love as a kid in the 80's.

[Hannah]

God, you people disgust me.

[Peanut]

What the hell is this huge obsession with people being "80's kids"? I'd really love to know. Especially people who were born in the mid-80's and act like they were actually f*cking conscious during the rest of the decade. I was born in 85, and I remember sh*t about the 80's. All of my memorable experiences of things from the 80's come from the early 90's. I mean, don't you have to actually live through the time-period to be considered a "kid" of it?

Edit: I guess Hannah and I have more in common than I thought.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I think it has more to do with nostalgia than anything. You don't have to actually be born into an era to appreciate it's unique qualities.

[Peanut]

How the f*ck could you be nostalgic about something you weren't aware of? And no one said anything about appreciation, but I'm saying, a kid born 91' wearing a He-Man t-shirt doesn't make sense.

[Hannah]

I was more concerned with how this guy managed to list (with the help of crowd-pleaser Raph's Girl) possibly EVERY cartoon that played during that decade. You're not a "major 80's kid," you just have no f*cking life.

[joe-eyeball]

Well having been born in 1978 and being 30 years old, I lived through the 80's and remember the 80's quite clearly. So if I grew up wathcing 80's cartoons and movies it would probably make sense that I have some degree of fondness for them.

[Peanut]

Well having been born in 1978 and being 30 years old, I lived through the 80's and remember the 80's quite clearly. So if I grew up wathcing 80's cartoons and movies it would probably make sense that I have some degree of fondness for them.

No sh*t. I was talking about this general craze of 80's crap all over the place. I wasn't question people who actually lived through the time period, what sense would that make?

[Mecha Cow]

I don't know man, being born in '87 I can barely remember the '80s, but I love me some '80s movies and music.

[Peanut]

Does anyone know about a little thing called reading comprehension?

[Hannah]

Bleh, I think what he's getting at is that if you refer to yourself as an "80s kid" when you aren't even conscious of the 80s, then you are a tool.

[Mecha Cow]

Does anyone know about a little thing called reading comprehension?
I'm drunk, let me have this.

[GK Punk]

How the f*ck could you be nostalgic about something you weren't aware of? And no one said anything about appreciation, but I'm saying, a kid born 91' wearing a He-Man t-shirt doesn't make sense.

but... but! I was born in 1980 peanut! can't I like the 80's stuff :( I actually remember it! :cry:

[joe-eyeball]

Well then, I guess a proper answer would be that this whole 80's thing is what we call a "trend". Trends are something that becomes a subculture that a large portion or a particular group of people in a given society follow and electively choose to become a part of. Who cares if it makes sense, afterall most trends don't. I mean, go ahead and try to explain the Pokemon phenomenon to someone who walks through life with logic. It wont make sense, will it. So try getting over it there, you ray of sunshine you.

[Mecha Cow]

Well no sh*t, but I think the point was that people who blindly follow trends are tools.

This thread is ruined now, isn't it?

[Hannah]

Shut up! Pokemon is great.

[joe-eyeball]

Again, try getting over it. People who blindly follow trends could be tools. The thing about that is more than likely everyone on this forum at one time or another is probably guilty of following some trend blindly.

So F*cking get over it. Who cares? This thread was ruined by people who felt it necessary to throw out insults rather than just participating politely.

[Mecha Cow]

Just a heads up: the first person to make a 'mudkips' joke has to leave the boards forever.

*E* Insults? Huh? Where?

[joe-eyeball]

Hannah, I like you. You can make me laugh!!!

[Hannah]

I think I was the first person to throw out insults in this thread, bud.

[Peanut]

There's a difference between a phenomenon and a trend. If you're trying to lump Pokemon in with 20-something tools wearing faded t-shirts with pictures of Mr.T on them, you've got no idea what you're talking about.

And where did the insults come from? Hannah says she hates everyone in every thread.

[Hannah]

****, I guess you're right. Wow.

[GK Punk]

That's why we love Hannah.

[joe-eyeball]

Oh man now I like Peanut. Peanut makes me laugh!!!

[Mecha Cow]

A lot of love in this thread all of a sudden. Fission mailed?

[Hannah]

Oh man now I like Mecha Cow. Mecha Cow makes me laugh!!!

[Peanut]

Oh man now I like Peanut. Peanut makes me laugh!!!

Sorry. I'm not into old dudes who cruise Ninja Turtle message boards. Unless they're GK.

[GK Punk]

Back at'cha baby

[Peanut]

Take it easy, pops. You don't want to get too excited. <3

[joe-eyeball]

Its OK peanut. I'm married and my wife isn't into threesomes. Besides "like" doesn't necessarily mean hook up. By the way since when is 30, old.

[Mecha Cow]

Besides "like" doesn't necessarily mean hook up.
On the internet it does.

[joe-eyeball]

Mecha Cow, don't make me say it.

[Mecha Cow]

You can't keep your feelings hidden forever.

[joe-eyeball]

All right, I give in.

I now like Mecha Cow and Meca Cow really makes me laugh.

[Mecha Cow]

You say that to everyone. It's lost all its meaning.

[joe-eyeball]

I know I'm such a bad player with no game. I guess I am old because this crap actually used to work in the 80's.

[Sage Ninja]

this thread can be locked now Krang. :sweatdro:

[Peanut]

It isn't even your thread. Shut up. It's easy enough to get back on track.

[Cropsy]

Oh come on, don't turn this thread into a fighting thread. Can't we all get along, most of us Ninja Turtles fans are born in the 80's such as myself who was born on june 16 1982 and has a great memory of that time including the early 90's since i was 3 in 1985.

I remembered living in St. Louis for three years, Omaha for one year in 1988 to April 1989 then here in Albuquerque in May 1989. I even have memories of seeing movies in theaters from 1985 to 1989 seeing such movies on the big screen like "Godzilla 1985", "Back to the Future", "An American Tail", "Howard The Duck", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Great Mouse Detective", "Poltergeist II", "House", "Transformers The Movie", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Song of the South", "Creepshow 2", "Aliens", "Harry and The Hendersons", "Batteries Not Included", "The Chipmunk Adventure", "Masters of the Universe", "Superman IV", "The Monster Squad", The 1987 re-issue of "Sleeping Beauty", "Spaceballs", "Lady The Tramp" 1986 re-issue, "Star Trek IV The Voyage Home", Cinderella 1987 re-issue, "Snow White" 1987 re-issue, "The Running Man", "Predator", "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" (after christmas in 1987 at a shopping mall), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Beetlejuice", "Rambo III", "Willow", "Die Hard", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4" (My big brother mark took me to see it), "Mac and Me" (Unfortunately), "The Fox and The Hound" 1988 re-issue, "Bambi" 1988 re-issue, "The Blob", "The Land Before Time", "Oliver and Company" (Twice after Thanksgiven and after christmas), "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Ghostbusters 2", "Pet Sematary", "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade", "Batman", "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", "Honey I Shrunk the Kids", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child", "The Wizard", ""Back to the Future II", "The Abyss", and "The Little Mermaid".

Hell i was even old enough in 1990 to remember seeing "Ninja Turtles" the movie 3 times. So there's nothing wrong with being an 80's kid and i have a great memory.

This thread is basically about discussing what is everyones top cartoons and movies from that era of growing up. Hell i even remember watching all the cartoons from that time including the live-action Alf series.

[Hannah]

You are a robot. How can you have seen over 50 movies by the time you were seven and remember them? Bullsh*t.

[Mecha Cow]

How can you have seen over 50 movies by the time you were seven and remember them?
You are a robot.
Occam's razor.

[Guitar_Raph]

Favorite Saturday am shows of the 1980's...

1980: Richie Rich, Heathcliff, Lone Ranger, Frankenstones (part of the Flintstone Funnies)

1981: Goldie Gold & Action Jack (jet motorcycle was cool!), Shazam, Hero High (Kid Super Power Hour)

1982: Pac-Man, Shirt Tales

1983; Rubik, The Amazing Cube, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Saturday Supercade, The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show

1984: Kidd Video, Muppet Babies, Mighty Orbots, Saturday Supercade (Kangaroo & Space Ace), Turbo Teen.

1985: Hulk Hogan's Rock & Wrestling, Gummi Bears (Lorenzo Music as Tummi Gummi)

1986: Lazer Tag Academy, Pee Wee's Playhouse (live action)

1987: Mighty Mouse (with that drug controversey), I'm Telling (live action game show)

1988: Superman, Garfield & Friends

1989: Karate Kid

[Cropsy]

I'm no robot, i just remember. Don't we all have memories of our childhood?

And what about animated features?

[LeoNerdo]

i was an 87' baby so i dont remember any of that crap unless it was on in re-runs in the 90's. muppet babies was some amazing stuff tho.

[Raph's Girl]

Having been born in 1980, Im a child of the 80's.....All the shows I listed are ones I remember....some of the stuff Cropsy listed I remember....there were a couple I've never seen. Namely:

Bravestarr
COPS.
Dangermouse.
Count Duckula.
The Raccoons.
Bionic Six.
Centurions.
MASK
Go-Bots

Now I know alot of you don't know Dogtagnion and the Muskehounds as that never aired in the U.S (which I was majorly surprised about since Cam Clarke was in it) but it was an awesome show.

[Cure]

3 pages in a couple of hours. Awesome. You guys remember when syd made some thread expand to like 11 pages in 30 minutes? That was NUTS.

Just sayin'.

[Sage Ninja]

It isn't even your thread. Shut up. It's easy enough to get back on track.

peanut just STFU already. :roll:

3 pages in a couple of hours. Awesome. You guys remember when syd made some thread expand to like 11 pages in 30 minutes? That was NUTS.

what ever happened to syd? :ohwell:

[Hannah]

peanut just STFU already. :roll:
What the hell is your problem?

[Sage Ninja]

you know what never mind, I should have just ignored it. Peanut sorry for telling you to STFU, it was kind of uncalled for. It's just lately every thread in this section seems to deteriate into others looking down at people and I shouldn't have added to it. :sweatdro:

[Mecha Cow]

F*ck, I feel like I should remember who Syd is, but I don't. We've had way too many weirdos around here.

[Drtooth]

Can I just pop in and say that I don't see how teenagers pretending to care about 1980's cartoons is any different than kids who were teens in the 90's and dressed like they were from the 1970's?

Plus, Inspector Gadget rules. They BETTER had get that new show to air over here.

[GK Punk]

I'll just go ahead and role things back over to the topic at hand here.

My favorite cartoons from the 80s:

He-Man/She-Ra
GI Joe
MASK
TMNT
Transformers
Filmation Ghostbusters
Bravestarr
The real ghostbusters
Jem
Silver Hawks
Thundercats
Alvin and The Chipmunks
COPS (The toys were so awesome.. like big GI Joes with cap gun weapons)
Danger Mouse
Count Duckula
Bionic Six

[Peanut]

Can I just pop in and say that I don't see how teenagers pretending to care about 1980's cartoons is any different than kids who were teens in the 90's and dressed like they were from the 1970's?

That was a fashion trend.

[ZariusTwo]

Was there a party in here that wasnt spelt with my name?

What the hell is this huge obsession with people being "80's kids"? I'd really love to know. Especially people who were born in the mid-80's and act like they were actually f*cking conscious during the rest of the decade. I was born in 85, and I remember sh*t about the 80's. All of my memorable experiences of things from the 80's come from the early 90's.

I was musing to myself how many threads we continsully have on this specific subject. Can't anyone use a bloody search function and just bump one of the dosen or so "favourate 1980s show" threads?

Or, perhaps more refreshingly, broaden their minds to something concurrent.

[Cropsy]

Very good GK, but how about animated movies from that time?

[Leo656]

The usuals, of course...

He-Man and She-Ra
Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters
Thundercats
Voltron
Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling (what a lousy show) :lol:
And of course, TMNT

There were a bunch more shows that I watched, pretty much every animated show there was, but those are the big ones. Animated movies from the 80s, huh... well, I didn't get to see many back then, but I do remember seeing Oliver and Company in the theatre when it first came out. Any animated flicks I saw back then were mosly re-issued Disney flicks that had been out before, so I don't really count 'em.

I also remember staying up late one time when I was 5 to watch Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. And you're all going to shut up about it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Why in the hell hasn't anybody brought up The Super Mario Bros: Super Show? Jesus.

What the hell is this huge obsession with people being "80's kids"? I'd really love to know. Especially people who were born in the mid-80's and act like they were actually f*cking conscious during the rest of the decade. I was born in 85, and I remember sh*t about the 80's.

There really isn't a set rule on when people start to remember things. Depends on your brain chemistry. I was born in 84, but I remember everything past '86. I remember when my cousin brought in his NES at the very end of '86 and we played Rad Racer. I didn't understand it, but it was fun to watch the red car bounce across the screen upon collision. I referred to Mario as "The Fat Man". I could recognizably play Time After Time and Beat It on my toy piano by age 3. I remember watching David Letterman and Johnny Carson with Mom, and I remember when the Ninja Turtles premiered in the mini-series/season 1. I remember pretty much everything from the second half of 86' onward. While I may not have been able to give you exact information/names/dates at that age, later life experiences filled in the gaps in my memory making for a mostly complete experience.

Like I said--depends on the person.

[GK Punk]

I thought the Super Show was from 1990, but I looked it up... It's 1989. So I'll count that.
As for the Animated Films question, I'm still thinking about the answer.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Captain Lou Albano FTW. That show made my childhood. Everything from 1987-1994 was godly.

[GK Punk]

I'll have to disagree there, Most of the filmation stuff I liked, a long with GI Joe, Transformers and Jem are from before 1987. Of course, I'm and old man so meh.

[ZariusTwo]

Why in the hell hasn't anybody brought up The Super Mario Bros: Super Show? Jesus.


bSpUkE5CE2s

[Ryona]

but the sexy toon chicks like Adora whom i had a crush on when i was 3 in 1985).

Are you serious? 3? Is that in dog years? Really, I never heard of a toddler getting a crush on anything. It just doesn't happen.


Now then, for my list...


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Beetlejuice
My Pet Monster
ThunderCats
Jem and the Holograms
Astro Boy
He-Man
She-Ra
Super Mario Brothers Super Show
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Ghostbusters
Muppet Show
Ewoks


This is all that comes to mind for now, as I'm too drowzy to think any more clearly.

I'll do movies later..

[Drtooth]

That was a fashion trend.
But then again, it also does tie in with fashion. I mean, walk into a Hot Topic, you'll see so many Teenagers looking at Transformers and Turtles t-shirts. I don't see how that's any different from kids wearing School House Rock or the overpriced Fubu Fat Albert shirts in the 90's. Even that whole era of teenage girls wearing Looney Tunes T-shirts (and they clearly weren't fans) seems to borrow from the Nostalgia fashion trends.

[Hannah]

Super Show was terrible! Come on!

[ToTheNines]

Are you serious? 3? Is that in dog years? Really, I never heard of a toddler getting a crush on anything. It just doesn't happen.


I was watchin Baywatch at 3 :)

[ZariusTwo]

Super Show was terrible! Come on!

Annoying Troll is Annoying?

C'mon. Don't like the thread? Disgusted with the people posting? By all means leave.

[Sewer Bull]

I was watchin Baywatch at 3 :)

Toddler boners FTW.

[Hannah]

You're a hypocrite, asshole. I'LL STAY FO EVA.

[Peanut]

But then again, it also does tie in with fashion. I mean, walk into a Hot Topic, you'll see so many Teenagers looking at Transformers and Turtles t-shirts. I don't see how that's any different from kids wearing School House Rock or the overpriced Fubu Fat Albert shirts in the 90's. Even that whole era of teenage girls wearing Looney Tunes T-shirts (and they clearly weren't fans) seems to borrow from the Nostalgia fashion trends.

The difference being they weren't pretending they were into the 70's, or else wearing it for nostalgic reasons. I'm not going to go into the difference between "ironic" t-shirts and actual fashion trends, but the difference is there.

[ZariusTwo]

You're a hypocrite, asshole. I'LL STAY FO EVA.

:roll:

Grow up.

[Hannah]

Are you kidding me? You're on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles forum.

[Leo656]

Really, I never heard of a toddler getting a crush on anything...


Pretty much anyone who knows me knows I was more or less born in puberty...:lol:

[Drtooth]

Annoying Troll is Annoying?

Exactly. The one thing I hate about new generation gamers is that they crap all over these fun little Nintendo cartoons of the 80's. They weren't meant to win awards or breakground or anything... they were fun shows used to advertise video game systems.

I think the biggest part of the Super Show's appeal wasn't the cartoon segments, but the fact that they used a live action/cartoon mix... something that hasn't been done since the 60's or 70's. Filmation tried to create a show sort of like that called "Uncle Crock's Block" and it totally failed, since the audience was too young to know or care that it was a parody.

Sure, I think SMB 3 had more developed stories, and they didn't have to make every episode a semi-parody of pop culture... but NO one played Mario and Luigi like Lou Albano and Danny Wells. Not the voice actors in the next cartoon, not the actors in the movie. No one.

[Leo656]

Nice.

I have all the Super Show/Super Mario 3/Captain N and Super Mario World DVDs, and as a kid it was everything good about SMB and Nintendo to me. Yeah, watching it now with my fiancee, we laugh about some of the corny stories, recycled 80s pop music ripoffs (didn't they use that "Beat It" ripoff in like every episode?:lol:) and all that stuff, but it was all fun. I never missed an episode when I was a kid, and never thought anyone would care enough to release 'em on DVD. And I'm sure glad I have 'em now. Because even if, by all technical standards it was a "bad show", it's still better than something done by people who REALLY didn't care would have been, even if they had tons of money to put into the show.

Like Smallville. :lol::lol::lol:

Ok, sorry... but seriously. It don't all gotta be Shakespeare, kids. And those '80s Nintendo shows kicked ass.

...Except for Mega-Man in Captain N. He Mega-sucked. And Kid Icarus was annoying as f*ck-icus. And Simon Belmont was a bigger pansy than... wait, why did we love Captain N, again? ;)

[Jelly Bean]

I was born in the 90's so I'm not an 80's kid. But there was one animated 80's movie I loved and watched to death because I thought it was so awsome. The Hobbit. :D

[Drtooth]

I have all the Super Show/Super Mario 3/Captain N and Super Mario World DVDs, and as a kid it was everything good about SMB and Nintendo to me. Yeah, watching it now with my fiancee, we laugh about some of the corny stories, recycled 80s pop music ripoffs (didn't they use that "Beat It" ripoff in like every episode?:lol:) and all that stuff, but it was all fun.

[In case we all forgot, they used REAL songs fro the first season (and I have the MP3 files of Thriller and Born on the Bayou used on the series to prove it)... but you know... music rights and all that. Which is why SMB3 and SMW also used sound-a-like "parodies." Though, looking at the "Do the Freak" number in the Gameboy episode, it's a wonder there wasn't a massive lawsuit anyway.

...Except for Mega-Man in Captain N. He Mega-sucked. And Kid Icarus was annoying as f*ck-icus. And Simon Belmont was a bigger pansy than... wait, why did we love Captain N, again? ;)

I really disliked how Mega Man was portrayed in there... but I really think that first season episode "MegaTrouble in megaland" was amazingly accurate (except for that titanic plot hole where they fought all the bosses in Cutman's stage, and then said they had to fight the other guys in their own stages anyway). The second season episode with the Mega Man 2 robots? They didn't even try to make them look like the robot masters in that one. Still, a hell of a lot better than that derivative Mega Man.Exe crap.

But Simon? Man, Simon was the star of the show. I actually could give a crap about the serious, action hero Vampire slayer video game version. A big chinned, egotistical Link Hogthrob type character? Those have always been my favorites. I keep looking at the Castlevania action figures and say, wouldn't it be cool if they worked out the crazy copyrights and they made a Toon Simon?

[Leo656]

I *thought* I remembered them using the real songs at one point, but I thought I was nuts. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Drtooth]

I *thought* I remembered them using the real songs at one point, but I thought I was nuts. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

In case you're curious, this site has the sound clips in question- http://cnn.captainn.net/tev_episodeguide.html

[Peanut]

NO one played Mario and Luigi like Lou Albano and Danny Wells. Not the voice actors in the next cartoon, not the actors in the movie. No one.

This is exactly right. Even the official Nintendo voices are less iconic to me.

[Guitar_Raph]

I think the biggest part of the Super Show's appeal wasn't the cartoon segments, but the fact that they used a live action/cartoon mix... something that hasn't been done since the 60's or 70's. Filmation tried to create a show sort of like that called "Uncle Crock's Block" and it totally failed, since the audience was too young to know or care that it was a parody.

Sorry to disagree. Back in 1981, NBC had The Kid Super Power Hour (also by Filmation) where they had a live action segment featuring the Hero High gang. The seven actual voice actors appeared in costume.

There were four live action segments, three were sketches full of corny jokes (more like Laugh In Jr. or Hee Haw Jr.) and one was a song of the week.

Uncle Croc's Block also failed because it was opposite another Filmation show on CBS, Isis (as well as Far Out Space Nuts). When ABC reduced the series to 30 minutes & then yanked it altogether, Filmation never dealed with ABC again, only giving the hits to CBS & one year failures to NBC until 1983 when they went syndicated all the way.

[Drtooth]

Sorry to disagree. Back in 1981, NBC had The Kid Super Power Hour (also by Filmation) where they had a live action segment featuring the Hero High gang. The seven actual voice actors appeared in costume.

Hmmm.. I heard about that too. And let's not forget DIC's Kidd Video, which also had live actors and cartoon versions of themselves.

Filmation did use a lot of live action/cartoon shows, now that I think about it. Considering their cartoon budget, no surprise.

[Cropsy]

Have you seen their animated movies "Secret of the Sword", "Starchaser: Legend of Orin" or "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night"?

[ZariusTwo]

Nice.

I have all the Super Show/Super Mario 3/Captain N and Super Mario World DVDs, and as a kid it was everything good about SMB and Nintendo to me. Yeah, watching it now with my fiancee, we laugh about some of the corny stories, recycled 80s pop music ripoffs (didn't they use that "Beat It" ripoff in like every episode?:lol:) and all that stuff, but it was all fun. I never missed an episode when I was a kid, and never thought anyone would care enough to release 'em on DVD..

I agree. Those series KNEW what they were and didnt pretend to be anything else, that's why I can enjoy them just as they are, without picking out the flaws. I think bashing on these older shows is a fad that's long died out...and actually shows people are spoiled rotten on pretentious "sophistication"#

Captain N could have been better, I loved the first season, but the comic actually made Samus of all people a love interest for Kevin. It's interesting to see Samus in any role that explores her feminine side.

[Drtooth]

I agree. Those series KNEW what they were and didnt pretend to be anything else, that's why I can enjoy them just as they are, without picking out the flaws. I think bashing on these older shows is a fad that's long died out...and actually shows people are spoiled rotten on pretentious "sophistication"#

Not a Mama Luigi fan, I assume?:trazz:

Captain N could have been better, I loved the first season, but the comic actually made Samus of all people a love interest for Kevin. It's interesting to see Samus in any role that explores her feminine side.

Funny thing... I don't know how true it is... but when the creators of the show asked why Samus wasn't in the series (since the villain is from Metroid) they replied by saying "we don't know who Samus is!" I liked the clear jealousy between her and Lana over Kevin in those comics. Too bad that copyright tie ups prevented Simon from being in them.

[ThirdMarioBro]

This is exactly right. Even the official Nintendo voices are less iconic to me.

I'll third that sentiment. Those were the best years to be a Mario fan.

[Leo656]

To me, Mario still sounds like Captain Lou, not that dumb stereotype voice they gave him since the N64 era.

Fun trick: In Super Smash Bros. for Gamecube, when you do Mario's spinning punch move, the one that makes him yell "yahoo" or something like it? If you try you can make it sound in your head like he's yelling "Hey a$$hole!" in a heavy accent. My fiancee started this and now we crack up every time we play that game.

Yes, I know this is pointless.

[TheUltimateShredhead]

Both my favorite series are 80s cartoons:D

Saber Rider and TMNT FTW!

[Drtooth]

To me, Mario still sounds like Captain Lou, not that dumb stereotype voice they gave him since the N64 era.

Exactly. I hate those voices so much. To me, Mario isn't an Italian plumber... he's an Italian American Plumber from Brooklyn. He needs that Brooklyn Italian accent, not some Jar Jar Binks sounding stereotype.

But I must also add, I never liked Luigi's voice in AOSMB3 or SMW. He comes off way too whiny and cowardly, and not the shyer, reluctant hero he is. But at least ol' Koopa kept the same voice throughout. Man, I love Harvey Atkin's voice.

[Peanut]

Have you seen a game with Luigi in it in the last decade? He IS whiny and cowardly!

[Sage Ninja]

does any one remember the live action Mario Bros. movie?

[Guitar_Raph]

Have you seen a game with Luigi in it in the last decade? He IS whiny and cowardly!

Surprised Mario didn't nickname his brother "Weegie", then Luigi would nickname him "George" while they finally get a piece of the pie! Fish don't fry in the kitchen, beans don't burn on the grill! Took a whole lot of trying, just to get up that hill!

Anyway, did anyone like Club Mario (aka Wayne's World Jr.)? I remember the guitarist who didin't talk until one of the dudes came over & had a chat with him. The guitarist is James Abbott (probably likes Elvis Costello-LOL).

[Drtooth]

Anyway, did anyone like Club Mario (aka Wayne's World Jr.)? I remember the guitarist who didin't talk until one of the dudes came over & had a chat with him. The guitarist is James Abbott (probably likes Elvis Costello-LOL).

I HATED that, man. It took all that was fun about the Super Show and twisted it into a clone of every skateboarder/surfer/stoner dude that existed in that era. I mean, seeing Lou Albano or Danny Wells leave the room every single time another character played by them came in... the random guest stars like Kaye Ballard... it was just fun. Not quite campy, but it never tried to be anything it wasn't. Club Mario tried too hard to be what it didn't need to be, and the magic was all lost, I think.

[Peanut]

Surprsed Mario didn't nickname his brother "Weegie", then Luigi would nickname him "George" while they finally get a piece of the pie! Fish don't fry in the kitchen, beans don't burn on the grill! Took a whole lot of trying, just to get up that hill!

Are you trying to molest me? What the f*ck is going on?

[ThirdMarioBro]

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I remember that's when I quit watching because the show made me want to slit my wrists. Its called jumping the shark. The Super Show was about the cheesiest, campiest awesome fest of the era. Back then, Mario wasn't a franchise. He was just a hit game series. Those were good times. Mario was at his Pokemon-esque peak of popularity and Nintendo was a long way off from figuring out how to market and spin-off the franchise to a Mickey Mouse level of irrelevance.

It was the guest stars that made the show though. None of them looked like they wanted to be there. Maurice Lamarche as Inspector Gadget, Cyndi Lauper, Sgt. Slaughter, Nicole Eggbert, Roddy Piper, Elvira, Vanna White, Ernie Hudson. But nobody will ever do Mario & Luigi like Lou Albano and Danny Wells did. I still am of the belief that the show established some elements of the Mario brothers that at that point hadn't been clarified and have since more or less become franchise canon. The fact that the bros were of Italian decent was assumed up to that point based on names. They also established the characters basic personalities that have survived to date, marked Luigi as the coward of the group, gave Toad an identity, and so on.

Now, how a pair of brothers who were delivered by a bunch of Yoshis manage to wind up in New York City and then back again is beyond me, but then again, it's a video game so who gives a sh*t.

[Leo656]

Mary and I started a running joke while watching those old Mario toons. Pretty much every show we watch ends up with me doing impressions of the characters saying horribly f*cked up stuff just b/c I'm apparently good at voices, but anyway. It became a running joke that Mario was verbally abusive to Luigi, and since Luigi was such a b*tch all he would ever say is, "Heeeey!" It's stupid, but doing it repeatedly in the voices of the show made it funny... eventually...

And Roddy Piper is the greatest guest star of anything, ever. Or at least he was until I saw that episode of Robot Chicken where Hulk Hogan led that poor sap to the Raping Tree... :lol:

[Guitar_Raph]

Are you trying to molest me? What the f*ck is going on?

Chill. The Weegie statement is only a pun & reference to "The Jeffersons".

[Leo656]

((raises hand)) I got it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

And Roddy Piper is the greatest guest star of anything, ever. Or at least he was until I saw that episode of Robot Chicken where Hulk Hogan led that poor sap to the Raping Tree... :lol:

WIN! Hunk Hogan, Mark Hamill's Joker, and Punky Brewster in one episode. I about got a hernia laughing.

[Leo656]

The Punky Brewster thing was even better since she really did need a reduction procedure when she was a teenager... now we know why... :o

Hogan was also that crooked cop in the Stephen King skit, which I also find hilarious for reasons I can't explain. His voice just kills me. He was the best Abe Lincoln ever.

[Ginny]

Being a girl, I have to add Kissyfur and Foofer. They were so cute!

I was born in '74 (ok, so I'm an old girl), and reading through the list of these shows really took me back! I totally forgot about Kidd Video!

Thanks for the memories, although it did make me realize how very old I am! <insert loud sigh> :o

[GK Punk]

You've only got 6 years on me, that's not so bad.

[Ginny]

You've only got 6 years on me, that's not so bad.

It seems like there was such a shift from my 20's to my 30's, like it was a lifetime ago and I was a totally different person. I like me better now though.

I still can't believe I turn 35 in November though! :o