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Marvel UK's during the 80ies was often a Bong's drug induced fever dream made into comics, so you weren't too far off on the description.
80s cartoons were peak
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That would explain the time Starscream kidnapped Dr. Doom.
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Okay, Boomer.
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I'd love to hear examples. I wasn't there for that era. But what I've seen is very cheap and poorly animated, and often with dumbed-down writing. Many of them were just aping Disney and WB's "funny animal" routines, but worse.
There were a few Hanna-Barbera shows I thought were OK: Flintstones, Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo. SuperFriends didn't get good until Challenge of the SuperFriends.
I didn't really care for the other cartoons studios of that era. Everything from those commie fucks at UPA was trash. I really wanted to love the Filmation Star Trek, but the animation is wonky, voice acting is stilted, and the music is all wrong.
Made-for-TV animation didn't get good until it was outsourced to Japan and that was mostly in the 80s. (Although Rankin/Bass was doing it before that.)
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Please please please, its "Okay, Rotor" now.
I can name a few 60s-70s things I liked. Putting aside the fact that I love classic Scooby (back when the stories actually had an air of mystery and Goosebumps-level horror to them), Jonny Quest is awesome, and I quite like Space Ghost and Dino Boy.
For the 70s. Josie and the Pussycats is shockingly goofy fun even if it is a Scooby clone. I also honestly quite like the animated Star Trek. Filmation also did a series called The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty I found fun.
BTW if you haven't watched "Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Ghoulies" yet.... have some pot ready.
I can't decide if we're counting theatrical animation or not. That probably skews things hard.
That said, I do agree with some of the criticisms. This was an era where you basically could not do a lot of things because of ACT. I recall a blog by Mark Evanier (I think it was part of his "Scrappy Days" series) where he mentioned a time he had a part where a boy scout cut a rope to prevent bad guys from following, and the censors said that was too violent, and forced it to be the rope just snaps on a rock.
The 80s was when things finally loosened up. I mean, you still couldn't have Mortal Kombat levels of gore, but real conflict was allowed, with something resembling action. And the stories got more complex to the point where multi-parters became more common. I also like that they started having moral complexity and complex relationships that went beyond just "good guys and bad guys."
Oh crap I'm practically repeating the OP now so I'll shut up for a moment.
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Never seem them.
Might have seen Josie, but it may have just been a Scooby Doo crossover. I've seen the Star Trek episode of Waldo Kitty. Actually, I thought the scenes with the real cats were better than the actual cartoon. I might like it better if clear copies exist. But last I heard that show was in legal limbo
I watched reruns of a show called "Groovie Ghoulies" when I was really young. But I remember almost nothing about it.
Nah, that had money behind it. I like the animated movies Disney put out in the 60s and 70s.
Here's an example of the shit I can't stand. They got too lazy to even color the characters by this point.
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Exosquad was a 90s cartoon, your thread is invalid.
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I dunno I was just remembering all the cartoons I saw on TV up to I guess 1990? To be honest at the time kids had no idea (I didn't) that half the stuff they were watching was 20-30 years old.
They were all played together.
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That was just the marvel/transformers comics in general around that time frame till like the early-ish 90s. Like not just the UK side of marvel ones.
I was going to bring up snowflame as an example but I remembered he was a DC character. Like every other out there/crazy and cool/funny concept they brought him back a few years ago but severely nerfed him and turned him into a meta joke. It's like modern writers HAVE to mention how unrealistic it is and make it just in his head to try and be "funny" and "meta". It's a lot funnier having a guy who unironically becomes almost god tier levels of powerful when doing cocaine than it is having a guy who just hallucinates being powerful.
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Not even one mention of Robotech...
Isn't the same with everything? like people talk endlessly about the 1999-2005 era in videogames but there were tons of shovelware, specially GTA clones.
60s/70s cartoons were a slideshow...
Fuuuuuck that was real? I thought it was a fever dream...
If you were old enough to watch transformers when it premiered you are in you mid to late 40s now.
That was mid to late 90's tho.
Link or it never happened.
They someone made him look even more gay.
Not surprised, practically all of these woke reboots are made by people who couldn't care less and just managed to convince some idiot exec saying their new version would appeal to new audiences while still being nostalgiabait.
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I actually did mention Robotech in the OP.
Relevant passage, shortened a bit:
Also, I was deliberately avoiding mentioning anime in this post ..... but one thing that's always impressed me was how both Voltron and Robotech kept a lot of the darker aspects of their source. Like, yeah, they toned down the gore and eliminated any nudity, but... a major character in Robotech still kicks the bucket. (Heck, Robotech actually kills off characters who lived in the Japanese version).
The New Adventures of He-Man is... certainly something.
I've known some people who say its better than the 1983 original... but I am also old enough to remember this thing when it first came out, and I remember the reaction being generally "that's not He-Man."
Which goes back to my previous statement--it would have been stronger as an original series vaguely inspired by He-Man rather than an actual sequel. Its good for what it is, though Jetlag's writers were not quite as good as Filmation's, and Jetlag has its own annoying tendencies. Most notably its attempt at "Comedy Relief" characters, in the form of four scientists who are always bickering. People who think Orko and Snarf are annoying have no idea how good they have it.
.... Speaking of He-Man, how many of you here have played that He-Man fangame that was uploaded to Gamejolt? It's made in (I think) the Beats of Rage engine and allows you to play as He-Man, She-Ra, Skeletor, and for some reason, Lion-O even though he's from another series entirely... and the author might have added more characters.
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No mention of Danger Mouse or the 1980s Dennis the Menace cartoon? 
And speaking of Dennis the Menace, there was a special titled "Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother" who was the last production done by DePatie-Freeleng studios.
And speaking of Dennis the Menace, there was a special titled "Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother" who was the last production done by DePatie-Freeleng studios.
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GI Joe predicting the tranny menace
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I think in the original comics, the Smurfs were actually a spinoff of Johann and Peewee. They were the main characters of the original Smurfs theatrical movie, which was dubbed and brought to America in the 80s.
I remember the G.I. Joe movie being my first exposure to Junji Ito level body horror. They were going to kill Duke but wimped out when the death of Optimus Prime in the Transformer Movie was poorly received.
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My bad, sorry.
Actually as a kid, Dennis the Menace was a cartoon I classified as "I don't like the show, but damn is this theme music addictive." To this day its an iconic cartoon theme song for me.
I recall later (in the 1990s I think?) there was a new Dennis the Menace cartoon that had a different opening, and that right there made me not even wanna watch it as the new opening IIRC was boring and not as iconic.
Correct. It was originally Johan and Peewit (the French? spelling of his name). Smurfs debuted in the Magic Flute story (yes, the source for that movie) and became popular.
Incidentally it was recently found out that there was a different Smurfs cartoon in the 1950s-60s (I forget which) in black and white. Some of those are on Youtube but only a few have English subtitles.
And yet hilariously, the movie still kinda-sorta acts like Duke dies.
Question for Thread:
I was thinking of doing a list for this thread, "Unintentionally Funny Moments in Eighties Cartoons."
Keep in mind I said Unintentionally funny. IE a moment that probably was not supposed to read as comedy but makes you laugh.
Unfortunately right now I can only think of two. Both are from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
One of them is in the episode "Evilseed," at the 8:25 mark--how Skeletor casually stands up and shoots a vine you barely get to see and then quickly starts bitching about it like it nearly killed him or something. I'm still looking for the other.
Two questions.
The first is.... what are your favorite "unintentional comedy" moments?
The second is.... umm... how exactly do I make a clip of a moment so I can put it here? This way I can just put up a video instead of having to say "go to so-and-so point in this video."
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you should look into a dude who goes by the name of Death's Head
he's managed to piss off quite the mix of people, The Transformers, The Fantastic Four, The Doctor, one of the Future Iron Mans, forget who else
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So I responded earlier that I had once seen a video that talked about how Toei used money meant for Transformers to fund other anime projects.
Just last night I happened to run across the video I was thinking about:
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This cartoon is goofy, but kind of entertaining.
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I actually found a VHS tape of this years ago. I kinda wonder what's going on with Cy the Snake. Like, Ovide and co. never exclude him or are particularly mean to him but he treats them like enemies anyway.
.......................
So here's one I dug up:
My favorite thing about the eighties is that there's always a part I completely forgot about. A short ways into the video it plays the Comic Strip's intro showcasing the four shows from that block. Of the four, the ones I remember most are Tigersharks and Karate Kat--I don't even know what Street Frogs or Mini Monsters is about (I actually keep getting the latter mixed up with a different cartoon called Little Dracula).
This is another one of those shows that makes me want some form of time travel. There's no way the Comic Strip is going to ever be released as-aired (most likely its gonna be parceled out like other anthology programs were) which is how I'd want to preserve it.
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There was a Captain Pollution, foe of Captain Planet. 
Another of the foes: Duke Nukem (not that Duke, BTW).
Another of the foes: Duke Nukem (not that Duke, BTW).