# Dungeons and Dragons cartoon--back!! (?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458 "2000-04-25T05:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/1 "2000-04-25T05:47:00Z")
My husband works for the local Fox station and last weekend they started showing previews for the _Dungeons and Dragons_ cartoon that will be starting this Saturday (29th) at 11am (eastern time)! It does not say, “all new”, and it looks exactly like the old one! So far as we are able to tell, it is going to be reruns of the old D&D cartoons! I, for one, am very excited about this! The commercials were being run from Fox national, so it is not just a local station thing. Anyone else seen these commercials? * * * Those who are dancing look insane to those who cannot hear the music. * * * One-of-a-kind, custom-designed Wally sig available on request. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/2 "2000-04-25T12:02:00Z")
Neat! This might be reason enough to both get up on a Saturday _morning_, and for me to start watching tv again. * * * Letting my inner child run loose and break things. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/3 "2000-04-25T23:40:00Z")
Here is what I got from [fox.com](http://fox.com) : Show: Dungeons and Dragons Episode: PRESTO Spells Disaster Description: Series Premiere! Presto bungles yet another spell, and he and Uni must face enormous danger to rescue both their friends and the last of the Golden Dragons from the infamous Giant With the Brooklyn Accent (and his slimebeast, Willy). Does anyone remember if this is the plot to an old episode? Rose ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/4 "2000-04-25T23:48:00Z")
Although this is rather off-topic, [here’s](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp) a funny Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/5 "2000-04-26T07:40:00Z")
I guess I’ll have to watch it on Saturday morning and if the plot doesn’t seem familiar when I watch it (not ringing any bells right now), I’ll check the “cast” in the credits. No way they could get these people back together to do voices for a cartoon! (Not because I expect any of them are too busy or anything…) Cast Hank Willie Aames Eric Donny Most Presto Adam Rich Sheila Katie Leigh Diana Tony Gale Smith Bobby Ted Field III Dungeon Master Sidney Miller Venger Peter Cullen Uni Frank Welker * * * Those who are dancing look insane to those who cannot hear the music. * * * One-of-a-kind, custom-designed Wally sig available on request. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/6 "2000-04-26T09:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by evilbeth: > **(Not because I expect any of them are too busy or anything…)** Just a note: [Peter Cullen](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cullen,+Peter) and [Frank Welker](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Welker,+Frank) both have movies out this year. [Don Most](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Most,+Don)’s most recent credit on IMDB is last year’s EdTV. [Katie Leigh](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Leigh,+Katie)’s most recent is Babe: Pig in the City. So, their careers aren’t all dead. However, the only ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ IMDB lists any later than the D&D cartoon is a movie apparently set for release this year. So, I’m guessing this is the original 'toon (unless a new one slipped through IMDB’s radar.) * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/7 "2000-04-26T14:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by waterj2: > **Although this is rather off-topic, [here’s](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp) a funny Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.** Wow! How creepy! It’s this kind of crap that make it hard to defend being Christian… Sweet Basil * * * [SRB](http://www.selfrighteousbrothers.com) will get you girls!! ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/8 "2000-04-26T14:38:00Z")
Geez Louise, the state of animation today… Like New Voltron and the New Johnny Quest and GI Joe Extreme and GhostBusters Extreme this is another example of some company saying “Well hell, we’ve still got the licence, lets see if theres a buck to be made”. It pisses me off that big companies have no problem cranking this crap out, while Savage Steve Holland (Eek the cat) is reduced to grinding out Sabrina the Teenaged Witch and John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy) is doing Old Navy commercials. Expect worse stuff ahead. As I recall Nelvana (big animation distributer) made pilot episodes for a New Fat Albert and a New Inspector Gadget, and theres going to be a New Scooby Doo to coincide with a live action movie. Groan… ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/9 "2000-04-26T23:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Inky-: > \*\*…and theres going to be a New Scooby Doo to coincide with a live action movie. > > \*\* Could be this is something similar. There is a live action D&D moving coming out later this year. Big names (if you want to call them that) in the cast: Jeremy Irons Thora Birch (American Beauty) Marlon Wayans Justin Whalin (Jimmy on “Lois and Clark”, masturbator in Serial Mom) I don’t see any sign of a new D&D cartoon at IMDb but perhaps it hasn’t shown up there as of yet. * * * -Obfus ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/10 "2000-04-27T00:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by obfusciatrist: > **Could be this is something similar. There is a live action D&D moving coming out later this year.** [Here](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0190374)’s the imdb [entry](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0190374) for it, which neither of us posted before. > [@](#): > > Big names (if you want to call them that) in the cast: > > Jeremy Irons\*\* You’d consider not calling Jeremy Irons a big name?? You also skipped Tom Baker - who would be a Big Name as far as the movie’s (geeky) demographic (like me) is concerned. (He’s one of the more popular (and longest lasting) Doctors from Doctor Who.) Man, that’s a lot of parentheses… * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/11 "2000-04-27T07:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by obfusciatrist: > **Could be this is something similar. There is a live action D&D moving coming out later this year.** [Here](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0190374)’s the imdb [entry](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0190374) for it, which neither of us posted before. > [@](#): > > Big names (if you want to call them that) in the cast: > > Jeremy Irons\*\* You’d consider not calling Jeremy Irons a big name?? You also skipped Tom Baker - who would be a Big Name as far as the movie’s (geeky) demographic (like me) is concerned. (He’s one of the more popular (and longest lasting) Doctors from Doctor Who.) Man, that’s a lot of parentheses… * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![swisemankcmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@swisemankcmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swisemankcmo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/12 "2000-04-27T14:31:00Z")
\>\> No way they could get these people back together to do voices for a cartoon! (Not because I expect any of them are too busy or anything…) Cast Hank Willie Aames \>\> As a Recovering (Soon-to-be) Ex-Spouse of a fundamentalist, I need to tell y’all about something. Willie lives here in the Kansas City area now, he’s gone Fundie, and he has a production company that produces a Xian kids video series called “Bible Man”. This series has acting, special effects, dialogue and production values that make the average MST3K movie look like “The Empire Strikes Back”! Bible Man goes around and defeats foes by (as far as I can remember) quoting Bible verses to them with all the subtlety of the Nagasaki blast. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/13 "2000-04-27T15:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Inky-: > \*\*Geez Louise, the state of animation today… > > Like New Voltron and the New Johnny Quest and GI Joe Extreme and GhostBusters Extreme this is another example of some company saying “Well hell, we’ve still got the licence, lets see if theres a buck to be made”. > > \*\* There was something that I wondered about the New Voltron thing. They had all new episodes for a while, but with the same voices I remember from childhood. Were they really able to get all the old actors back to do another run of the series? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/14 "2000-04-27T15:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Tengu: > \*\* You’d consider not calling Jeremy Irons a big name?? \*\* Looking at his filmography, I would say that he isn’t that big of a big name. Maybe a lesser big name. Or perhaps a bigger small name. \*\* > [@](#): > > You also skipped Tom Baker - who would be a Big Name as far as the movie’s (geeky) demographic (like me) is concerned. (He’s one of the more popular (and longest lasting) Doctors from Doctor Who.) > > \*\* Try as I might have I never understood the appeal of Doctor Who so I hadn’t realized the august nature of the man. * * * -Obfus ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/15 "2000-04-27T22:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Atrael: > \*\* There was something that I wondered about the New Voltron thing. They had all new episodes for a while, but with the same voices I remember from childhood. Were they really able to get all the old actors back to do another run of the series?\*\* Not all of them (F’rinstance, Tim Curry is doing Lotor this time around), but a few of them. [Here](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0086824) is the entry for Defender of the Universe. [Here](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0164303) is the one for 3rd Dimention. * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/16 "2000-04-30T05:40:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > \>\> > Hank Willie Aames > \>\> > > As a Recovering (Soon-to-be) Ex-Spouse of a fundamentalist, I need to tell y’all about something. Willie lives here in the Kansas City area now, he’s gone Fundie, and he has a production company that produces a Xian kids video series called “Bible Man”. This series has acting, special effects, dialogue and production values that make the average MST3K movie look like “The Empire Strikes Back”! Bible Man goes around and defeats foes by (as far as I can remember) quoting Bible verses to them with all the subtlety of the Nagasaki blast. > > \*\* I know. My community was lucky enough to have a visit from Bibleman not too long ago! ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/17 "2000-05-01T17:51:58Z")
I watched the D&D show and it certainly appears to be the original, although the opening audio is different. I remember Dungeon Master saying each of their titles, (barbarian, magician and it ended with acrobat, I believe) Anyhoo, it wasn’t a particularly great episode, but I’m glad it’s back. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Malph, er, uh Eric, the Cavelier(?). r ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/18 "2000-05-01T18:01:04Z")
I wonder if a live action D&D would be any worse than that live-action _Masters of the Universe_? Y’know, the one with Dolph Lundgren as He-Man? The one that TBS keeps showing? Boy, was THAT a waste of celluloid! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dungeons-and-dragons-cartoon-back/16458/19 "2000-05-01T22:43:36Z")
Umm…Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 1990’s _Reversal Of Fortune_, in which he played Klaus Von Bulow. That makes him a big name in my book.