Hey, do any of you Great Literature experts see any of the HB archetypes in Beowulf or Homer or the like?
But…what about SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron? It doesn’t seem to fit any mold.
Very cool, though.
Whew! When you said “Hanna-Barbera cartoon formulas” I was taken aback by the plural. I’m still not convinced they made more than one Yogi Bear or Magilla Gorilla.
But The Flintstones went beyond being ‘essentially a prehistoric “Honeymooners”’ by steeling not just plots but large amounts of dialogue from the so-called “lost” episodes that finally surfaced a few years ago. I guess Bill Hanna never expected anybody to find the kinescopes.
doesn’t anyone remember Butch Cassedy and the Sundance Kids?
IIRC it was kind of a rock-band Scooby Doo.
Correct. And they answered to a giant supercomputer called Mr Socrates, who was allergic to dogs. I don’t know what made it a supercomputer, it seemed to just have flashing lights and a moving walkway.
I thought this thread looked familiar!
In Josie, the studious one is Valerie, one of few Black people at the time, along with Bill Cosby in I Spy, and Garrett Morris in Mission Impossible who survives in every adventure/intrigue episode or movie.
Therefore, Josie was a combination of I Spy by way of Mission Impossible.
So, H-B essentially made a few twists to previously well-worn and heavily-adapted movie and TV genres.
Even though the cartoons were formulaic, the writing was for the most part well-done. Hanna-Barbera, I believe, learned to tame the Tex Avery in them by adopting a Bob Newhart style of understated humor.
Must’ve been during one of my sabbaticals.
Or possibly Sylvester Sneekly, alias The hooded Claw
Garrett Morris was not the black actor on Mission Impossible.
Garrett Morris was the black actor on Saturday Night Live, from 1975 to 1980.
Greg Morris was the black actor on Mission Impossible.
He was not, however, as funny as Garrett Morris.
Although it was a near thing.