# Early '70s cartoon with a super hero baby and birdman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519 "2014-08-26T00:02:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/1 "2014-08-26T00:02:48Z")
I was very young when I watched it so that’s why I think it’s early '70s. The the baby beat people with his bottle, the chicken man was a doofus and a Thor-like guy with long, flowing hair. It was played for laughs. Not serious like The Justice League. Does anyone know what I’m half-remembering? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/2 "2014-08-26T00:15:19Z")
[The Mighty Heroes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Heroes) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/3 "2014-08-26T02:22:30Z")
I’m not Diaperman! I’m thirty years old! I’m “Plastic Training Pants Man!” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/4 "2014-08-26T06:25:03Z")
That was my favorite cartoon when it aired. Not available on DVD or BR AFAIK. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/5 "2014-08-26T06:31:10Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/72rYHuWidSM/hqdefault.jpg "The Mighty Heroes - theme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72rYHuWidSM) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/6 "2014-08-26T09:43:05Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > That was my favorite cartoon when it aired. Not available on DVD or BR AFAIK. ☹ Mine too. I have some episodes on VHS tape, but no VHS tape player. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/7 "2014-08-26T10:48:33Z")
Thanks guys. I was wrong about when it was made. I must have saw re-runs of the show. I remember liking it a whole lot better than Captain Caveman and the Genie cartoon with Genie and her side-kick Abu Dhabi. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/8 "2014-08-26T11:05:42Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I remember liking it a whole lot better than Captain Caveman and the Genie cartoon with Genie and her side-kick Abu Dhabi. [“Yapple Dapple!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKvFe8c5btE) Starring Mark Hamill! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/9 "2014-08-26T15:38:50Z")
Strong Man! Tornado Man! Rope Man! Cuckoo Man! And the mightiest of them all… DIAPER MAN! ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/10 "2014-08-27T13:23:09Z")
Can’t seem to find it on Youtube, but in one episode of Ralph Bakshi’s reboot of “Mighty Mouse” in the 80s, the Heroes come out of retirement (they’re aged, balding accountants now) to help out. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/11 "2014-08-27T21:24:17Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > Can’t seem to find it on Youtube, but in one episode of Ralph Bakshi’s reboot of “Mighty Mouse” in the 80s, the Heroes come out of retirement (they’re aged, balding accountants now) to help out. That’s it! Thank you! That was the one I quoted from, about “Plastic Training Pants Man,” but I’d completely forgotten that this was where it came from. Zoom zoom zoom zoom! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/12 "2014-08-27T23:00:30Z")
Hey, I finally got a look at them and, yes, these are the guys I was talking about except. . . I again confabulated two different cartoons in my head. There was another cartoon played for laughs too, I believe, but the strong guy was Thor-like with a pointy Viking helmet and long, flowing hair. He also wasn’t too bright. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/13 "2014-08-28T00:29:15Z")
[quote=“PlainJain, post:5, topic:696519”] [/QUOTE] This may well have been the cartoon I saw many years ago in a cartoon machine at a Sears store in Chicago. Never heard about it before or since. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/14 "2014-08-28T03:50:56Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Hey, I finally got a look at them and, yes, these are the guys I was talking about except. . . I again confabulated two different cartoons in my head. There was another cartoon played for laughs too, I believe, but the strong guy was Thor-like with a pointy Viking helmet and long, flowing hair. He also wasn’t too bright. [“The Justice Friends,” a “Dexter’s Laboratory” segment.](http://dexterslab.wikia.com/wiki/The_Justice_Friends) The “Thor” character was “Van Halen.” The Incredible Hulk clone was The Infraggable Krunk, and Captain America turned into Major Glory. Cardboardy and shallow and weak, alas. Cute, but less even than two-dimensional. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-70s-cartoon-with-a-super-hero-baby-and-birdman/696519/15 "2014-08-28T10:30:13Z")
That’s it! Man, you guys know _everything!_