Ok 80's kids, what are your top 80's animated shows and 80's animated movies? - Page 6

*Guitar_Raph* · 02-05-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Peanut

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* · 02-05-2009, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph

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 · 02-05-2009, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph

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** · 02-05-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Guitar_Raph

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).[/SIZE][/FONT]

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~~ · 02-05-2009, 03:27 PM

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...

*Guitar_Raph* · 02-05-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Peanut

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~~ · 02-05-2009, 03:45 PM

((raises hand)) I got it.

**ThirdMarioBro** · 02-05-2009, 08:12 PM

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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...

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

~~Leo656~~ · 02-06-2009, 06:37 PM

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

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 · 02-15-2009, 01:01 PM

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>

**GK Punk** · 02-15-2009, 01:20 PM

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

Ginny · 02-16-2009, 11:58 AM

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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!

02-15-2009, 01:01 PM	#110
Ginny Hench Mutant Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Steubenville, Ohio Posts: 352	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> __________________ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

02-05-2009, 03:27 PM	#105
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	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 fcked 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 btch 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...

02-05-2009, 03:45 PM	#107
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	((raises hand)) I got it.

02-06-2009, 06:37 PM	#109
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	The Punky Brewster thing was even better since she really did need a reduction procedure when she was a teenager... now we know why... 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.

02-15-2009, 01:20 PM	#111
GK Punk I'm your Devil Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,439	You've only got 6 years on me, that's not so bad.