Thursday, August 10, 2006

1980's Cartoons - Not Dangermouse or Thundercats!

As it's apparently all kicking off at the moment (I've been considering doing a James May and applying for a pilots licence. No bombs on my light aircraft bitch!) and to kind of apologise for last nights fairly drunken entry, I'm going to talk about 80's cartoons.

They say there are two ways to know what a man's like. Look at his porn collection, and look at what cartoons he liked when he was a kid. Now, suprisingly, I never jumped onto the Dangermouse/Thundercats/Transformers franchises, as they were too popular (yes, I was an alternative kid). I was never really one for guns and swords in a fantasy world, I prefered more serene cartoons.

My absolute favourite was Stoppit and Tidyup. I loved their japes with characters such as Comb Your Hair, Eat Your Greens, Clean Your Teeth and the Big Bad I Said No. Narrated by Terry Wogan, no episode was more than 10 minutes long - catering to my short attention span, bordering on ADD levels. You can now buy the whole schebang on DVD. Anybody want to be nice and buy that for me? Fuck it, it's only £3!

I hate Disney, but for some reason I loved Chip 'n' Dale. Something about the bastard child of Walt Disney that were named after strippers made it watchable. Something has played on my memory the whole time, and I'm not sure if this is true, but did they kill off a number of the Rescue Rangers in the last ever episode? Wikipedia has not come up with any answers. Any ideas guys?

It's amazing cartoons like Dangermouse and Thundercats have quite a rabid cult following. Some don't. I wondered why Teddy Ruxpin doesn't have one, partly because I used to love it as a kid. Looking at the intro, I can see why - it is kind of gay. Nevertheless, it must be fairly popular, as it's also on DVD as well.

Onto more manly matters is The Hurricanes - the global "Soccer" Team owned by the oldest looking 12 year old girl I've ever seen. These band of football superstars made Chelsea look like Halifax Town. This cartoon was introduced to get Americans into football after the 1994 World Cup, and failed miserably. As such, nobody remembers it except for me and Guy.

I also enjoyed Captain N - The Game Master, primarily because I loved playing Castlevania as a child, and the hero from that was in this program.

Finally, although I never watched it, Power Rangers had a fairly big influence on me through my brothers. As such, we stared a football team called Queens Park Power Rangers. Now, remembering this winning name for a football team, I attempted to change my Fantasy Football team name to that, but unfortunately they said it was "too long".

Heh. Story of my life really.

So, dear readers, what cartoons did you enjoy as kids?

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