No. Which explains why I liked it so much. I was 8 when the series started.
Christ there’s an ad for collectible Masters of the Universe toys on the top of this page (who is the one that looks like He-Man but with brown hair and bluish skin?)
I don’t see the ad, but it’s almost certainly Faker, the android (I think) who was built by Skeletor to take He-Man’s place. Another excuse to sell the exact same toy.
I always thought it was cool that J. Michael Straczynski had an early job as a writer on He-Man.
In the original series, anyway. In the more recent toy-line, Faker’s got himself a (partially, at least) new mold. A new head, at the very least.
Yeah I checked, seems to be him. I just had to look at different pics and bios of various Masters of Uinverse Villains, I think I might have lost a D20 of SAN. Who the hell wrote that shit?
Boobies!
Quoth Bosda:
Isn’t that kind of the whole point of secrets?
But looking back, Teela did seem to have more of a thing for him than the other way around… Poor Teela, her beloved wanted to spend more time with her dad than her.
No discussion of He-Man is complete without this episode ofStupid People’s Court.
For the uninitiated, in the days before the web when Usenet was king, a guy who called himself Judge Moriarity Wapner did several on-line parodies based on The People’s Court. The above episode took on Saturday morning cartoons.
This is the best thread ever. :D:D:D
This thread made me laugh so hard I snorted AND drooled.
Yep, this is me, although as a fully licenced gay I did of course prefer She-Ra.
A 28 year old chiming in here: Yeah, after reading just half of this, I’m GLAD He-man is a smidge before my time. Here I was, thinking I missed out.
And Orko, wth is with that thing. I realize that kids programs have to have a wacky sidekick and all, but he was the worst magician in the universe. Did he ever get one frickin’ spell right? Ever? If I were He-Man, I’d would have kicked Orko into an active volcano long ago. Then again, if I were He-Man I wouldn’t be sporting a page boy haircut either.
I do not believe that I remember this, but as I recall, the reason Orko couldn’t do anything right is that he was from another universe/dimension, so all his powers were backwards. During one story arc, Adam and he went to Orko’s home dimension/universe, and it turned out that Orko was this super powerful wizard whos spells always worked. That was the episode where it took Adam then entire show to figure out that in order to transform to He-Man, he had to say the power phrase backwards. “Grayskull of power the by”!
That’s how they keep you watching… hoping that next time they’ll tackle those subjects, or maybe it will be the elusive rumored episode where… we see orko without his hat!
Any MOTU-scholar know if anyone other than He-Man ever held aloft the sword and said the words? Would be interesting to see what happened…
Goddammit, now my nightmares about Trap-Jaw are gonna come back. that fucker’s scary.
Interesting, I’m 29 but I was full into it back in the day (had all the toys and watched the cartoon all the time). I don’t know exactly how the timing works out, but odd.
I mean, I’m fairly certain I remember it the first time around, it’s just that I didn’t care for it, or couldn’t be bothered to watch it, if and when it was on, and I was in front of a TV that had it on.
Just for me, it feels like it came before my time.
You forgot Jitsu.
I can’t believe I’m the first one to link to this: He-man singing What’s Up? by 4 Non Blondes.