Umm… I saw this program for the first time this morning at 10:00 AM on FOX. It consists of a group of mangaesque super powered wrestlers fighting to save the earth and one wrestler in particular called “Ultimate Muscle” who is the star of the show and whose greatest weapon is …wait for it… farting. That’s right he’s a master tooter able to play a classical symphony of various farts out of his anus and use his finishing move of a gas attack to disable his enemies with the incredible stench of his “weapon” while spitting out an unremitting stream of puns and flatulence!
The show is cleverly written but… a farting hero? Come on, even for the standards of kids morning TV isn’t this a bit much, when did this level of bathroom humor become acceptable kids fare for Saturday morning?
Well, it’s nothing new. Remember Powdered Toast Man from “Ren and Stimpy?” He would let loose with a powerful anal blast everytime he took off into the air.
Ren and Stimpy, yeah-- and Ripping Friends upped the ante by mixing high levels of bathroom humour with a lot of implied homosexuality. He-Mom? Whaa? I love Jimmy the Idiot Boy, though.
I think the short answer to “What happened to Saturday morning cartoons?” is “John Kricfalusi.”
Yet another escalation in the Canadian conspiracy to subvert and confuse the American populace. When we complete our takeover of your television programming, we go to phase to-- making a large supply of legally-obtainable marijuana available right next door. You poor suckers don’t stand a chance.
This show, along with “Fighting Foodons”, I consider an explanation for what’s wrong with the youth of America today. If we don’t bring back Thundercats and GI Joe, then the Terrorists Have Already Won™:D
I don’t know anything about the show (I’ve caught snippets of it from time to time), but the characters are based on toys that were sold in the US in the mid-80’s.
Keep in mind Ultimate Muscle is a Japanese show. They have a different sort of humor than us.
If you want to see a really bad American cartoon, try DIC’s Super Duper Sumos, which airs Sundays on Nickelodeon. John Kricfalusi was able to make gross humor, but also make it clever. Sumos just seems to be an excuse to see how many butt jokes they can cram into a half-hour.
Hey, I started watching that one pretty recently.(Fox has been showing a bunch of Japanese cartoons with some insane dialog that’s made me laugh like crazy.) I guess you missed it a few weeks ago where he escaped from his opponent by urinating. (Don’t worry, his opponent was made out of running water, yeah that’s the ticket.)
I accidently caught some of this show, and the damndest feeling of deja-vu crept over me as I watched it. These things looked so familiar - but I don’t like anime!
Aha! Out of the depths of my '80s childhood emerge… the Muscle figures! I had a bunch of these guys. What the hell happened in some studio to dredge these up and make a cartoon? I predict we’ll be seeing Strawberry Shortcake again if this keeps up.
