For reasons that are beyond me, when I was a little kid my parents used to give me videotapes of the show Seabert, which was a French (dubbed into English) kid’s cartoon with a very political, pro-environmentalist bent. It was about a little baby seal who accompanies two kids, Tommy and Aura (who was an Eskimo) on various adventures to stop poachers and polluters around the world. It was in the vein of Captain Planet but for a slightly younger audience.
The main things I remember about it were, 1. the very quirky, very 80s, very Moog-heavy soundtrack, and 2. the fact that Aura (a cute little Asian-looking girl who kind of resembled a thinner and older Dora the Explorer) was always getting into situations where she would be tied up by the bad guys. Seriously, like 1 out of every 3 episodes featured Aura being tied up, and I have no doubt whatsoever that this (along with Karate Kid Part II, which I watched all the time) contributed to my excitement at exotic-looking girls. (I was probably too young to appreciate the bondage angle, though I was quite amused by its prevalence when I re-watched some old tapes I’d found, two years ago.)
I have no idea what happened to those tapes; like many things, they were simply lost. I desire to have Seabert tapes again, so I will probably purchase them on Amazon (there are some available) and have a Seabert marathon. But mainly I’m wondering, did anyone else watch this damn show? Because every time I mention it to people my age, they have no idea what I’m talking about.