I am curious if anybody remembers the following 80’s saturday morning cartoon. I do not remember a whole lot about it and everyone that I have ever mentioned it to has thought I was making it up.
I believe that it may have been a short cartoon between full length cartoons. It featured 4 “superhero’s”. There was baby man (whipped his baby bottle around his head), cuckoo man (just a weirdo), Rope Man (superhero made of rope), and there was 1 other that I cannot remember but I want to say that he was a strongman?
If anyone has any info on this cartoon I would love to hear it. It was a really funny cartoon. Right up there with the Menudo spots between the cartoons and school house rock. Well I’m off to make some wagon wheels (two crackers with a hunka hunka hunka cheese in the middle).
Yeah yeah yeah, I couldn’t remember his cry. I was close, though!
Strong Man was a construction worker.
Diaper Man was just a baby.
Rope Man was a sailor.
Tornado Man was a weather reporter.
Cuckoo Man was a pet store owner.
Wow! Thank you for your responses. My sanity is intact. Well maybe… Im 26, born in 1974. Perhaps my memories are from the late seventies and not the 80’s. Still though according to all the pages about mighty heroes it didn’t run then. Hmmmmmm…strange. It must have replayed occasionally because I remember it pretty vividly.
Also MannSlaughter. That site ROCKS! I forgot all about the burgertime arcade game! Thanks.
The “Cartoonopedia” site Olentzero linked to said it was shown in syndication into the 1980s. That’s probably how pezpunk and I saw it. I double-checked, and I was indeed born in 1969, so I couldn’t have caught it when it was first aired. But I too have vague memories of this show. Not yer typical superhero cartoon…
I cannot for the life of me remember any specific episodes of this show, but I rememember the opening very clearly, where all the characters were introduced.
What a great show.
Oh, and I didn’t know Bakshi did Spiderman as well. Another fabulous cartoon I saw in reruns. Great great theme song.
Hell, I’ve only been around since the late seventies, but I certainly remember this show. Musta seen it in Reagan’s first term, cuz the memories are foggy.
Yeah, well, I was born in 1960, so I’m just the right age to remember this. Vaguely.
Like pricciar, I recall the opening sequence, where they would hear a call for help and transform into superheroes. I remember Rope Man as a sailor, tying knots in rigging.
Man, what WAS it with the Saturday morning superhero parodies in the mid-'60s? There were dozens of 'em! Was it the MAD magazine influence? The reefers?
Full disclosure - born in 1969, well after the original run. I saw it in syndication during the early to mid-80s, although it showed up on the weekday afternoon cartoon fest on WLVI-56, Boston.
Heh… I love it when the board dredges up long lost electrochemical patterns in the noggin.
I think I caught the show on the same channel Olentzero did (born the same year, lived in CT). Didn’t it get played on that horrid clouns show? Willie ‘my-voice-will-make-you-want-to-climb-up-a-bellt-ower-with-a-22’ Whistle. Or was he on channel 38. Or do I just hate clouwns? Whatever. Thanks for the Mighty Heros memory
Olentzero, that is sooo cool – we had a simulpost, and it reads like I was correcting your post. In fact, I posted mine before reading yours, and I was simply noting my favorite memory of the cartoon.
As it happened, it made me look bright, so I don’t mind.
Yeah, Rhythmdvl, Willie Whistle was on channel 38, WSBK. I’m proud to say that, even as a pre-schooler, I had enough taste to loathe the squeaky little freak.
