WHOA there champ…
The Eds are great! You obviously never spent a summer in a neighborhood with a ton of kids. There were always a bunch of us that hung out together and were all of different weirdness. The Ed’s and friends are practically that all over again. The ‘haunted house’ episode aka Canker Sisters capture the Eds still cracks me up.
Love it, Love it!
Usually the cooler cartoons were on in the morning, when you’d get up at 6am and eat cereal on the coffee table. As lunch approached and it was time to get out of the PJs, the cartoons seemed to drop off.
Schmooo (that voice!)
Yuk-Yuk the dog (wore a paper bag and scared villians by taking it off)
Jem and the Holograms
Mr T
Tom & Jerry, when Jerry had the tie and they were friends
Blackstar had my all-time favorite cartoon quote. Some chick is telling the bad guy about “Love, the most powerful force in the universe”, after which the bad guy brandishes his sword and says “Not more powerful than the Power Sword”
I want to say that I LOVE this thread. Most of the cartoon references really brought me back. I even looked up a “Jason of Star Command” site (which I loved, along with Space Academy)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6009/jason.htm
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It was Eugene Levy who did the Lorne Green rendition of “Pow Wow the Indian Boy” during the epic Telethon/Poltergeist episode of SCTV. Until this thread, I’d had no clue where the hell the song came from, but I remember the rest of the characters in the scene being as jaw-droppingly horrified as the posters here seem to be.
All of the references on here to the '60s “Acid Trip” Tom and Jerry episodes are greatly reassuring to me. All these years I had thought I carried the dread knowledge of them alone, like some Lovecraft character. The awful and poorly synched music and sound, the abyssmal animation… all of these, as has been expressed, transcended the merely bad and managed to be truly chilling. The worst thing for me, though, was the characterization. Both Tom and Jerry seemed crazed… sociopathic, even. Not only did Tom never manage to win even a temporary victory, but much of the time Jerry seemed to be the outright agressor, tormenting Tom for his own sadistic amusement. I think these cartoons were the direct inspiration for the Simpson’s Itchy and Scratchy. Imagine an Itchy and Scratchy episode with no actual gore, but just about as much violence, and absolutely no humor.