#The Peter Potamus Show

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Your daily reminder that Jellystone implies a pan/bi and/or poly Peter Potamus. ((the way bro talks about his "roommates" [figurines].

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25/?? Childhood TV Shows You Should Watch

Title: Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon

Episodes: 27

Run Time: 22-26 mins

Synopsis:

The main segment featured Peter Potamus and his diminutive sidekick So-So the monkey. Episodes generally consisted of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his hot air balloon, which was capable of time travel at the spin of a dial. When faced with a precarious situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Howler to blow away his opponents.

My Rating: 6/10

My Reasoning:

This is definitely one of the more forgotten Hanna Barbera cartoons. I myself don't remember a whole lot about it. I do remember that it has that classic humor that the cartoons of the time all had. I also remember enjoying it. So, at the very least I think you should check it out for yourself.

[funtasticworld]

I love MeTV Toons so far! they're really breathing new life into some of the lesser-known Hanna-Barbera shows like Peter Potamus.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

So what is (ursine) love exactly?!

That very question being put to our ursine guests, Hair Bear of the Hair Bear Bunch, and Emmy Lou, that rather gracious Southern gal ursine, on a delightfully crisp fall afternoon beside Artificial Lake Delton's legendary waters.

HAIR BEAR: To put it simply ... our mating season will pretty much be late spring into early summer, but when you're a bear, you want to make the most of it, and feel rather good about it! Ohhhh, just to feel that sensation in the loins as the magic of ejaculation releases itself for the good part of an hour with a rather fascinated female in orgy mode! How else could Nature dictate the significance of the sexual act, and how it should feel exactly? EMMY LOU: Just recognising what the feel of the love season must be like among us bears isn't exactly enough, to begin with ... us bears, when you get right down to it, could never feel more delighted than with a male close to us, releasing his Inner Need inside him and me just helping things along in our own distinctive manner, almost like those Polynesians such as one Peter Potamus likes talking about, who can't help but embrace the fun side of the sexual experience without being so unnerved over it!

(This, mind you, over cheese, crackers and sausage.)

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May as well pop this, let's try the Adult Swim cartoons. Favorite character from their initial wave of shows: Space Ghost Coast to Coast (technically started on Cartoon Network first before Adult Swim began in 2001 but it gets lumped in as Adult Swim these days), Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Seelab 2021, The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Home Movies (began on UPN but continued production under Adult Swim). Throwing in Baby Blues, Mission Hill, and The Oblongs as bonuses that began on The WB but also finished on Adult Swim when The WB didn't bother finishing airing them.

Thank you. I may gloss over some later stuff, and you don't seem as into adult animation, so I appricate this. (And correct me if i'm wrong on that). Plus I can see you like doing these. But I grew up on the shows in this block's early days and some of it's middle days, so let's cook.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Moltar. IT's a hard choice as the main trio as a whole are all uniquely great, but I love his awkwardness and hidden monstrosity. And his attempts at knife fights. Coast to Coast is excellent and well worth checking out if you haven't. It's funny, got only funnier with time, and a handful of it's best stuff lives rent free in my head, something common among a lot of adult swim shows. And while this did predate adult swim, Space Ghost feels like why the block happened at all and it's earliest shows that weren't taken from the WB or UPN all kinda ape the formula of taking a classic cartoon and bending it, and joined it as soon as the block formed. Without it we woudln't have all these other great shows... I mean we might but it's a razor thin margin. It had a perfect comedic trio of the egotistical stupid manchild spaceghost, the cooler but blantatly evil and self destructive zorak and the also evil but awkward as hell moltar. A true classic and I badly miss C Martin Croker who played Zorak and Moltar and wrote this classic.

Harvey BIrdman Attorney at Law: WHOSE THAT CAT WITH THE BEAKKKKKKKKKKK? This theme song is dope as hell and is the reason this got made. Okay so faviorite character is Phil. HA HA obvious choice. But Stephen Colbert owns every scene he's in as Phil and the show rolls with it as it goes, letting Phil just getting into weird fucking hyjinks, the highlight being blackwatch plad where he hallucinates several things that never existed being stolen, somehow reads harvey's thoughts and institutes code rush's seminal album moving pictures. This show was a lot of funa nd introduced me to the bulk of hannah barbera's catalogue, finding fun ways to deconstruct the classic libraries from Fred as Tony Soprano to leaning on the fact Shaggy isn't actually a stoner but really, REALLY comes off as one, while getting better as it went by expanding on it's own weird cast, with Peter Potamus in paticular being pretty great. Add in some great Stephen Colbert performances before he had to leave for his own show, a killer soundtrack and one of Gary Cole's best performances as our bumbling hero just kind of ping ponged around by his clients and zany boss, and you have a show I now really want to rewatch. Adult swim would have better and shows I rewatched more, but the power of attorney is still strong to this day.

The Brak Show: Dad. George Lowe is just allowed to go into incredibly weird places with this man and I support it. The show itself is an underated classic these days, and while I try not to be too old man yelling at those them kids, this is a show the younger set who didn't grow up with it shoudl check out as it's absurd goodness. Brak started on space ghost and cartoon planet, but was too big to contain resulting in this lovely bit of nonsense that defined what an adult swims how not riffing on a cartoon could be. I mean it still did a little as it kept brak and zorak from space ghost but recast them as a loveable teen dummy and an agent of chaos.. the same people but in a new scenario that let them go hog wild. The show even got experimental as it went with batshit weirdness like Braklet Prince of Spaceland that puts the cast in hamlet (And dad as hamle'ts dad sans pants) or all I desire is you where the cast is suddenly in a soap opera). It's good stuff with a psycho musical, an election where Dad claims his opponent is killing pets with pet bombs nad fails the instant he actually has to debate, and of course

Sealab 2021: Accidently put this one out of order but it might be my faviorite of this batch, with one other jockeying for the crown. Captain Murphy is my faviorite and while the show had a few classics after his actor Harry Goz's tragic passing, it never felt quite the same. Sealab 2021 is the first abriged series and a damn good one. While the show skidded at times, at it's peak this was just pure comedic chaos under the sea, and the cast bounced off each other amazingly. The show wasn't afraid to experiment either and out of the shows here, while brak dabbled later, seemed to do it the most and made it stand out: as early as the end of season 1 we got a waking life full episode take, an episode following the cast as actors on the show, my personal faviorite tinfins that takes this concept and applies it to the making of a movie, a backwards episode, and one repeating the same running gag with variations over and over. The show had a great ensemble, mostly anchored by goz and later his son, and cemented Adam Reed as a legend in adult comedy.

Home Movies: Coach McGurik. It was John Benjamins brekout: While Dr Katz had welcomed him tot he world, McGurik made him a star and would eventually lead him to bob and archer, and he's still one of his best roles, a sardonic drunk who bonds with kids, yet also should not be around them and once claimed BRENDON SMALL IS ON DRUGS and tried to get a bunch of children to do an intervention.

I could honestly quote McGuirk moments all day and he frankly stole the show half the time, to the point the bulk of later seasons has him in his own weird b-plot, from gambing on a boat with the host of his seminar, to buying a bunch of swords when drunk, to telling a bunch of kids to go upstairs in a hurricane because being in the same rooms mean they'll all bump into each other. The last one isn't a subplot, it's just comedy gold.

The show had an easy dry improved style: While they did put in scripts after the first season, it was still mostly "get to this point" and let Brendon Small, a voice acting and comedy legend in his own right, and co cook. The result is a funny show with detailed charcters: Narccisitc control freak at only the third grade brendon, entirely out of it jason, only sane woman till she isn't melissa and Brendon's mom Paula who alternates between voice of reason to her child and her life being a hurricane. It's one of the best shows Adult Swims ever made and they hit the jackpot pickign it up

Mission Hill: Gus. While the joke could easily be "GET IT THE GUY IS REALLY MANLY BUT HE'S GAYYYY" they let him go beyond that and while his queerness is integral to who he is, he's also funny> We also get that great subplot of a knife just.. jutting out of his shoulder for a whole episode. The show itself is pretty good and worth a revisit from me, a nice hipster's pardise. The odd couple coulld get boring but Andy and Kevin play off each other well: Andy does need to grow the hell up, and I like the reveal both of his friends, while also cooler than thou slackers.. do actually have stable jobs. not saying a 9 to 5 job is growing up, I don't have one, but more that andy needed to change as a person and the series lets him grow, while Kevin bursts out of his shella nd misconceptions. The show was too good to last and i'm sad the spinoff fell apart. It was fantastic.

Baby Blues: Carl. What could easily be just the more grumbly testorone guy to the goofy darryl is a pretty fun slob. The show itself was solid. Is it anything like the comic strip? Honestly not really, having read the strip both early and not: It does deal with the difficulties of having a baby (Something Zoey was for the early years of the strip), but it's more it's own thing and honestly finding baby blues mid, that's a good thing as the show baby blues is pretty solid. Nothing super standout, but still memorable enough to stick in the brain.

The Oblongs: Down in the Valley where the chemical spill. Pickles. it was, unbenownst to me my first experince with jean smart and it's a good one. This is a show i'll give another shot someday as I wasn't a huge fan as a kid but in hindsight. it's really good. not nearly as mean spirited as I thought.

[iheartgod175]

The Celestials’ Guardian Character List (MASTERPOST)

Alright, I’m cracking and I’m gonna make those profiles! Hopefully this will motivate me to finally finish the profiles for both the Einherjar series and the Attero Dominatus series, haha ^^

Now the character list for this is kinda similar to The Einherjar Files in that this is numbered in order of appearance in the story proper. And since this story is gonna be somewhat similar to BT Redux, it’s gonna be broken down into seasons—although this won’t be quite as long as BT Redux! And due to the flow of ideas, a lot more universes are showing up here. Looney Tunes was a given due to Warmonger’s appearance, but I’ve also decided to add Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Disney and even classic characters such as Popeye, Felix the Cat, Betty Boop and (possibly) Woody Woodpecker. Why? Because I wanted to. XD

Now these universes and a few of their elements (ie. The adventures of Scrooge and his family, the Martians’ conquering of the solar system from Duck Dodgers, and even the legend of the Sea Hag) will be present through the first few arcs. The characters will make their proper debut later down the line!

I’m still working on the technical aspects of the story which will show up in a separate post, but yes, I did rename this story from The Cerulean Avenger to The Celestials’ Guardian since while Huck is one of the main characters, I’ve always intended for Droopy to be the center character. And it sounds kinda cool ^^

If I reblog this, it means that A. I've linked the character's art/profile to this page, and B. I've added more characters/info. Just a heads up.

Oh, and for the asterisk (*), it means the character is deceased during the story itself.

In chronological order of appearance:

Droop-a-Long Coyote — Guardian

Betty Coyote

Diane Steelclaw

Huckleberry Hound — Avenger I

Snagglepuss

Ricochet Rabbit — Reaper

Lippy the Lion

Hardy Har Har — Empath

Touché Turtle — Kingslayer

Dum-Dum Dugan — Emperor

Edith Lièvre

Catalina Gutierrez

Drag-a-Long Coyote

Serena Falconeri — Phantom

Denise Falconeri

Alfonso Falconeri, Jr.

Rachel Rabbit

Super Snooper

Blabbermouse

Peter Potamus

So-So

Yippee

Yappee

Yahooey

Dick Dastardly

Muttley

Secret Squirrel

Morocco

Roxanne Falconeri-Rabbit — Liberator I

Salvador Barnes — Savior

Dirk Dugan — The False Ruler

Tabitha Turtle

Hokey Wolf — Instigator

Kalina — Avenger II

Mireya Edwards-Rabbit

Rose Rabbit *

Yogi Bear — Titan (placeholder)

Marvin the Martian

Queen Tyr’ahnee

Porky Pig

Petunia Pig

Boo-Boo Bear

Ranger Smith

Cindy Bear

Daffy Duck — Nightmare

Bugs Bunny — Warmonger

Jessica Rabbit

Roger Rabbit

Lola Bunny — Liberator II

Wile E. Coyote

Foghorn Leghorn

Yosemite Sam

Henery Hawk

Cecil Turtle — Usurper

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Mickey Mouse — Magician II

Donald Duck — Magician III

Scrooge McDuck

Della Duck

Huey Duck

Dewey Duck

Louie Duck

Yen Sid — Magician I*

Popeye — Braveheart (working title?)

Bluto

Olive Oyl

The Sea Hag*

Felix the Cat — Originator

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I find it unlikely any Ninjago characters will appear in the big Jellystone crossover but at the very least I think a reference is possible. I can see Peter Potamus trying to jump up, kick back, whip around, and spin to show off his newly gained ninja skills.

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Daily Comic Journal: March 29, 2022: "I Guess If It Works Once, You Do It Over And Over Again."

For those of you who don’t recognize all these characters and what shows they’re from, here’s the character key: A – Huckleberry Hound,    B – Yakky Duck,     C – Hokey Wolf,     D – Peter Potamus, E – Top Cat,    F – Yogi Bear,    G – Snagglepuss,    H – Quick Draw McGraw, I – Mr. Jinks,    J – Dixie,    K – Pixie,    L – Doggie Daddy, M – Wally Gator,    N – Squiddly Diddly,    O – Ruff,    P…

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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law #38: “Harvey Birdman, Juror in Court” | July 15, 2007 - 11:45PM | S04E06

Well, okay. It’s Birdman. Weirdly Birdman is back for a whopping two more episodes (including this one), and then he’s FUCKING DEAD. 

In this episode: Birdman stalls a trial because he notices a bald guy whose been on literally every trial jury he’s ever done. Judge Mentock points out that it’s taken 38 trials for him to realize this, which is an obvious allusion to how many episodes of the show currently exist up till this point. I wonder if the number of trials actually line up? Aren’t there a few episodes that either have no trial or more than one trial? I wonder but I also don’t care enough to count. Anyway, Birdman successfully stalls the trial, which is for one of the Hair Bear Bunch, by the way.

Birdman is under the mistaken impression that the case was about his ability to wear a hairnet, which he easily proves to the contrary with video evidence. Problem is the trial is actually about his mauling his co-workers, several people outside the restaurant, and, we learn visually, a lot of people attending the court proceedings. Birdman is flummoxed because he assumed the case was over the hair thing, since he considers that to be the most defining characteristic this fella has. This is a bit of a meta joke about a very typical approach to the show’s writing process. 

Birdman fingers the juror in question as a stalling tactic, but it blows up in his face when he winds up getting called in for jury duty to his own case. This causes the Lewis Black guy to come back and create a double of Birdman (like a clone, but magic, just in case you don’t know what a “double” is), who discovers that juries don’t like him, as they openly mock him as a lawyer. He’s sitting in the jury room with them while this happens, but he’s not really who they’re talking about. Because: of the double. Remember. Hopefully I described this correctly and you get what’s going on. 

The B-story is that Peter Potamus finally gets called out for his sexist behavior in the workplace. Phil’s ♪daughter Judy♪ (did they already make that joke? I bet they did) now runs the company, in case you don’t remember. Colbert had a fake show to host at the time, and bowed out a few episodes back, letting his character get fucking DEAD. Peter counter-complains and uses the same resources to fight against what HE perceives to be sexual discrimination against men, satire that reads maybe a little differently now than it did in 2007.

The episode ends with a reveal that all of Birdman’s cases have been found to be mistrials, and now Birdman has to retry all of them. We cut to a prison, where immediately every character he has ever represented is immediately set free. 

I’m a broken record on even calling myself a “broken record” at this point. Sort of the blogging equivalent of the droste effect. But, this show has largely failed to make me laugh. It can be pleasingly amusing if you’re in the mood for it. The show is constantly telegraphing “this is comedy” with mostly meaningless silliness. The animation and characterization can be fun in a lot of scenes, but the humor rarely packs any kind of punch. I didn’t dislike this too much, but nothing made me laugh out loud. Could it be I’m prepared for Birdman to finally pass away? I guess we’ll find out in a few.

[abriefingwithmichael]

“Harvey Birdman” 25 (2005)

The show has crossed over with various Hanna-Barbera productions, but this instalment might be the most impressive as Harvey and Peter Potamus suddenly/inexplicably travel back - using a Hot Tub Time Machine! - to meet characters from Valley of the Dinosaurs!

Love the cliffhanger with Captain Caveman in the background...

8/10

[morlock-holmes]

I kind of agree with this, and I kind of don't.

Pushing back as far as the mid-60s, I'd argue that to the extent shows like, say, Herculoids or Space Ghost are worse than, I don't know, M.A.S.K., that's almost entirely down to budget. If Space Ghost had been made with the resources available in the 1980s, it probably would have been as good, or better, than those shows.

Particularly, direct sales of the Captain Video sort did attract serious criticism; Wikipedia claims that in 1973 the National Association of Broadcasters adopted voluntary rules limiting the length of commercials during childrens' programming and prohibiting children's TV hosts from directly promoting products themselves.

I'm not sure if this is correct; in fact, despite the massive impact TV had on all of us growing up, I don't think anybody has written a good history of how regulations and voluntary rules effected the tenor of kids programming in the US or the world; everything I've read gives me the distinct impression that it's written by scholars who don't quite understand the complex nuances of law.

But nevertheless, I think we can agree that Scooby Doo didn't stop in the middle of the episode to sell you toys like Captain Video used to.

The half hour commercials of the 1980s are, essentially, long advertisements, and this distorts the way they are written in ways which are, to me, fundamentally emotionally dishonest. The movies for My Little Pony and Transformers involve plot beats where toys that are no longer selling well are literally destroyed in order to make way for new characters based on products that the parent company wants to sell.

Something similar happened in the modern My Little Pony cartoon. It starts with two Alicorns, one who raises the sun and one who raises the moon, who appear to be sort of nature goddess figures, and then in, like, season 3 all of a sudden there's just a third one, because Hasbro wants to sell a third alicorn toy. It doesn't matter if Luna and Celestia represent a dramaturgical dyad, this ain't art, it's business.

I think that this kind of... manipulation is fundamentally dishonest and in my opinion kind of reprehensible to push on kids who are too young to understand that it is dishonest.

The thing going the other way is that, particularly as you get into the 1970s, you have more and more stuff for kids which is manipulative in a different direction, what is often called pro-social programming. Which is to say, programming which is aimed at improving kids by showing them things which will make them into better people.

And this is distinct from educating kids. Shows like Sesame Street, or Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, are not what I'm talking about here. Those shows, and many more like them, are responses to and against kids entertainment that only exists to mindlessly satisfy the Id through exploding space aliens, but which also attempt to honestly address the great breadth and depth of modern life. They're attempts, in a certain way, to communicate with children.

I'm thinking more of stuff like a show I recently discovered, called Yogi's Gang, where a whole cast of Hanna Barbera misfits fly around on an ark fighting villains who want to promote bad habits in kids, with plots like,

Yogi and the gang land on the property of Yogi's old friend, Mr. Cheerful, when Magilla runs out of bananas. A villain named Dr. Bigot plans to experiment on them with his Bigot ray and turn Mr. Cheerful and Yogi into bigots, discriminating against everyone else.

and

The gang stops at "Smog City," a city covered in smog by Mr. Smokestack Smog's smog factory where he has convinced everybody that smog is good for them. He encounters Magilla Gorilla, Peter Potamus, and Snagglepuss (who are looking for bananas for the ark) and tries to convince them into his way of thinking.

This kind of thing was rampant during the 1970s, and of course continued through the 80s and into the 90s where we had to deal with Captain Planet and Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, or later on the e/i logo in the corner of the screen announcing that, yes, the next half hour of television was still going to be a cartoon, but it wouldn't be an entertaining one.

A lot of this stuff strikes me as just as much an exercise in behavior manipulation as the advertainment that they supposedly acted in opposition to.

I have an RPG called "Cartoon Action Hour" which is a roleplaying game about 80s cartoons and Flint Dille, a writer on a bunch of them, wrote the forward, and I want to quote some of it (bolding is mine):

Here’s a historical note. In order to understand ‘80s syndicated cartoons (and most on the list [of inspirations for Cartoon Action Hour] were that), you have to understand the network environment that preceded it, because the thrill of working on the syndicated shows was liberation from network rules. A variant of the game [Cartoon Action Hour] would be ‘Network Action Hour’. This would be to reflect the incredibly politically correct anti-violence, pro-social world of the networks in the ‘80s (most of the shows mentioned were syndicated, so they played by slightly looser rules). You assign ‘violence points.’ Somebody slamming a door is one violence point. Somebody raising their voice is one violence point, etc. You only get 40 violence points. That is that nobody can ever intend to harm anybody. A truly violent and heinous thing like shouting, “I’m going to get you” gets 5 violence points. That’s the max. You can’t go beyond 5 violence points for any action. You can’t save up your points for, say, a disembowelling. The ‘pro social’ option is that no one character can do very much. All problems are solved by a group. If you are to solve a mystery, each character has to solve exactly the same amount of the mystery. (See Mr. T.). If you escape from a flooding castle, everybody must have a critical role to play in the escape. All action has to amount to somebody running away in fear but usually without actually being threatened by another human. Though it should seem like they were threatened. Actual threats have to come from neutral sources. I’ll give you an example from Mr. T that took us most of a night to come up with and was almost pure role-playing. At one point, we had to have a character escape from a room. There were rattlesnakes on the floor of the room (I think it was the forbidden monastery). The character could not harm a rattlesnake, but he could throw a rope onto a fly fan, which would spin him out of the room and toss him harmlessly through the window. (I think that’s how it ended up working). The point is that no hand drawn snakes can be harmed in the process. Of course, the villain will be terrified by the snakes and not pursue our heroes any further. The fun of the ‘Network Action Hour’ variant is that it is a great set up for the Cartoon Action Hour game where we had looser rules. Steve Gerber sold me on G.I. Joe by saying, ‘our characters can hit with real fists.’ And forget ‘Yo-Joe’. The real battle cry we marched to: “We can hit with real fists!”

I mean, I'm sure a lot of parents would have been horrified to hear that but, well, sometimes imaginary punching is fun.

That's the kind of thing that the half-hour toy ads were competing with, and, ironically, it meant that in some real sense they felt less manipulative, less focused on sanding the edges off of everything. Yes, they were attempting to manipulate your behavior but the mercenary nature of them meant that as long as the toys were being moved writers had a lot more leeway to follow their muse and address things in the human psyche that the more rigorously policed pro-social programming of the day simply refused to address and actively papered over.

Kids don't like being talked down to, and in a weird way a lot of the brand management programming that really started to take off in the 80s talked down to them less then the stuff it was competing with.

You can complain about the crassness of 80s advert-toons, but what came before wasn't good just because it didn't have a toy company paying the bills.

In fact, that was part of the problem.

(splitting this into its own post)

Pre-80s, your biggest player in TV animation was Hanna Barbera. Post-Cartoon Network kids won't remember, but before they had a network to fill, HB made low-cost dreck exclusively. Race-to-the-bottom, cheap-as-possible, formula driven dreck.

Some of it was dreck with potential and staying power, because you had guys like Alex Toth trying their best to make good stuff despite being given the budget of a Viewmaster disk.

Kidvid in the 80s was the first time, en-masse, someone cared about the quality of kids' entertainment on TV. Not kids' edutainment, PBS existed for awhile, but actual get down and have fun kidvid. Prior to that you had the distressing puppet shows from Sid and Marty Kroft and everything else was 'what will the kids care?' low-end channel filler.

(Channel filler that was, by the way, still selling toys and candy. Just not themed after what the kids were watching)

Then in the 80s, suddenly a lot of people care about the quality of the show. They care because the show is a very expensive ad campaign, but suddenly the avenue to maximized profits drove through a show that was actually engaging and entertaining to kids.

At the same time, your animation industry was flush with new money and a desire to not see that snatched away by another 1960s parent panic that killed the Sugar Bear cartoon. So the studios did everything they could to not make the shows the advertisements they were assumed to be. The goal of elevating the project to avoid feeling like an ad-writer also slipped in. You get stuff like Real Ghostbusters, Spiral Zone, Bravestarr, some very impressively animated and written shows...

And before that, remember, was Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound, and fucking Clutch Cargo.

Yes, that is a pair of human lips projected onto a blank face because they couldn't afford animation.

And everything that wasn't a toy-toon had to have a bigger budget to compete. You don't get Thundarr the Barbarian until HB has He-Man breathing down its neck. There is no Le Mondes Engloitis if they don't have the merch wave washing over France. The Disney Afternoon was only what it was because it was trying to contrast itself from the figure aisle.

There is no BTAS or Gargoyles without the action figures.

New Google makes searching for the quote basically impossible, but one of the leads on G.I.Joe has a quote along the lines of: the fantasy of G.I.Joe was not a war fantasy. The fantasy of G.I.Joe was the idea that when you get in trouble, you have a large group of friends who will be there to help you through it.

And one last dirty little secret. Before they could make cartoons based on toys the toy market was still driven by licensed stuff, it was just stuff based on live action properties:

The 80s are seen as this time in which kids were deeply exploited, and all the money made in the kidvid and toy industries is seen as the evidence of that. The idea that the boom happened, even in part, because kids were actually getting media and toys they wanted never occurs to them.

And what did youtube make into the face of kid's entertainment?

If the YT kidverse had to deal with the regulations and rules of 1980s advertising cartoons none of that would have happened.

No one wants what these guys are selling.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Breezly and Sneezly animation cel (1964)

[funtasticworld]

HAPPY 66TH ANNIVERSARY TO HANNA-BARBERA

Shows 1964-1965

Peter Potamus // Breezly and Sneezly // Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey // Atom Ant // Precious Pupp // The Hillbilly Bears // Secret Squirrel // Squiddly Diddly // Winsome Witch // Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

Two for the price of one (so to speak) this winter!

As if the Hair Bear Bunch inviting yours truly, as much as my compadre Huckleberry Hound, to spend time this winter at the former's Secret Surf and Dive Spot out by Malibu wasn't interesting enough--along came a phone call the other day over dinner of pork loin roast and rice pilaf:

"You'll never guess who this happens to be!"

To which Huckleberry asked, "Are you Peter Potamus? It sounds as if the voice is an obvious giveaway."

"Most correct, Huckleberry! And by the looks of the video on my mobile phone, I take it you're having dinner, and a rather long and leisurely such, at that!"

"Glad you noticed, Peter!", remarked Crazy Claws, explaining the meal essentially as above.

"And would you be surprised," saith I, "where the Hair Bear Bunch invited Huck and yours truly to join them for awhile at their Secret Surf and Dive Spot by Malibu over the winter?"

"Which is what prompted this call," explained Peter. "In fact, I think it would be a wonderful idea to not only spend some time with the Hair Bears, but also with yours truly and our diving community at La Jolla as part of the bargain! Killing the proverbial two birds with one stone, as it were!"

"Would you mind if my cousin Jenny Lee and I came along?" asked Emmy Lou in a sweet-as-sugar Southern inflective.

"That might not be a bad idea!" exclaimed Peter. "Hopefully, they might enjoy some diving time with myself and my merry band of divers as well in as interesting a dive locale as it can get down Southern California way, setting aside Catalina island!"

"Yet," I added, "the pork loin roast actually turned out tasting rather delectable!" Prompting Peter Potamus, mainly in jest, to wonder if he could be saved some, prompting Huckleberry to remark that if he ever came up that way, we'd be glad to do such.

(A footnote, as well: Hair Bear would also extend his invite for the Secret Surf and Dive Spot winter vacay to Emmy Lou and Jenny Lee as much as Huck and myself. Square Bear would remark that the ursine lovebirds might also want to pick up some surfing lessons along with the diving.)

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[disneybuddy]

I've said this before, but Jellystone! isn't actually a "love letter to Hanna-Barbera" as C.H. Greenblatt claims.

It's a show for people who are familiar with the original shows, but don't actually like them. The show's main joke is "LOOK! THESE ICONIC CARTOON CHARACTERS ARE ACTING LIKE DERANGED OUT OF CHARACTER LUNATICS!" - Boo-Boo going "I'm being sued for malpractice!" with a dopey smile on his face, for example, is supposed to be funny because the original Boo-Boo would never say that, with or without the dopey smile. So-So being George Takei is supposed to be funny because in the original Peter Potamus show, he sounded nothing like George Takei nor was he a George Takei-esque character. All the show has to do is throw a bunch of Easter Eggs everywhere and everybody will still gush over how much of a "love letter" it is, when in fact I'm doubtful that C.H. Greenblatt and his crew even watched most of the original shows.

Ages Like Fine Milk

Thanks to Jellystone!, I can barely find any pieces with the REAL Spook. Not that mute poser. It also stinks that Jellystone! has brainwashed people into believing that every piece of Hanna-Barbera media before the show's existence is inferior and, therefore, dated.

C.H. Greenblatt is an awesome guy. But Jellystone! just isn't his best work. In fact, I feel like he could have done more with the show but got held back by cutthroat writers and executives.

If these fans really think that Hanna-Barbera isn't timeless, then let's see how they feel when Jellystone! ends, and only a few people remember it exists.

This is one of the reasons why I'll never write a full rant on the show. People like wudntulik2no already said everything I needed to say. It's unappealing, lazy, soulless, and will become outdated in a year or two.

I found this in a fourm thread a friend shared with me. You can see it for yourself here.

[thes-hitoverlord]

art by Luke ''Thicc Kong'' Schuler