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Weird cartoons of yesteryear |
| I don?t know if it?s because I?m getting old and nostalgic, but modern kids cartoons don?t seem to be as trippy as the ones I grew up watching.I know there?s a cartoon about a sponge that wears pants or some weird shit, but the stuff I remember from decades ago was really freakish.Here?s just a few...The Amazing Three.All I remember about this was that it had three aliens who came to Earth and took on the forms of a horse, a duck and a rabbit.They would travel around inside a large tyre.The duck had a haircut (yep this duck had hair) like Moe from The Three Stooges.Nuff said.Clutch Cargo.Now this one wasn?t so much weird as it was disturbing because of the way it was animated.To cut costs, the guys who made this cartoon superimposed real mouths over the faces of the cartoon characters.If you?ve seen the Christopher Walken scene in Pulp Fiction you?ll have seen some of this and you?ll know how freaky and just plain wrong it looks.As a kid I tried to avoid watching it as it scared me. Still creeps me out today.Mighty Man and Yukk.I don?t think this went for very long and even as a kid I understood why.This was the weirdest super-hero team ever seen in cartoons.Mighty Man was a superhero who was only a few inches tall and his partner Yukk was a dog so ugly that it had to wear a doghouse over its face to cover it.When Yukk removed the doghouse, it would cause villains to run away.Super President.Now this one is completely bugshit crazy.The US President gets super powers and ducks out of his presidential duties occasionally to fight crime.I remember he had a secret hideout like the Batcave under the White House.Can you imagine this one being made today?No, I thought not.Rubik, The Amazing Cube.I don?t remember much about this one as it was so utterly shithouse that I couldn?t bring myself to watch more than a few minutes of it....or maybe it was all just a bad dream.Try and imagine a Rubik Cube with a little ET head and arms and legs.Is that a weird enough image for you?Good.Now let?s move on...Here?s a few really awful cartoons based on tv shows...Lost In Space.Nope, not the original 1960s television series....but it did feature Dr Smith (still played by Jonathon Harris) and a Robot that was loosely based on the original.They only made one episode and I was unfortunate enough to see it.It didn?t feature any of the other characters from the original series.Instead it was another Robinson family, which was probably a cost cutting measure to save money on paying all of the original actors.Gilligan?s Planet.Jesus, as if Gilligan?s Island wasn?t bad enough...This cartoons premise was that the Professor creates a rocketship to get the castaways off the island.Of course it overshoots the mark and they end up stuck on another planet.Unlike Lost In Space, all of the original actors except Tina ?Ginger?Louise voiced their characters.I hope there?s a special place in Hell reserved for whoever kept bringing these characters back again and again.You think I?m being too harsh?Try watching The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan?s Island co-starring Oscar winner Martin Landau...on second thoughts, don?t. I?m not that cruel.The Fonz And The Happy Days Gang.The shark had been jumped long before this show appeared.All I remember about this atrocity was that it had something to do with time travel and that Fonzie had a dog called Mr. Cool.I also remember that Henry Winkler, Ron Howard and Donny Most did the voices for their characters.Okay I can believe that Donny needed the work...but Winkler and Howard?I can only imagine that someone at the animation studio had compromising pictures of both of them and blackmailed them into doing it.One day I am sure that the real story shall be told...That?s just the tip of the iceberg...feel free to add your own memories of cartoon strangeness in your comments! |
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