# How many cartoon shows can you remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268 "2003-10-19T00:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/81 "2003-10-22T08:04:21Z")
What, nobody’s mentioned **Chuck Norris’ Karate Kommandos** or **Mr. T and the T-Force**? 😉 (I didn’t watch 'em, I just remember hearing about 'em) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/82 "2003-10-22T08:54:41Z")
Roobarb and Custard - wobbly green dog and purple cat Captain Pugwash - the naughty names are a UL (not Mr Ben that was sooo dull) Maybe they didn’t travel well? Anyone mention Roger Ramjet? Or was that a sub-prog of Rocky and Bullwinkle? I suppose stop motion animation doesn’t count as a cartoon? ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/83 "2003-10-22T13:40:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Suburban Plankton \* > \*_I’ve had a running debate with my wife for years about a show called \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* and Goliath_. She remembers the claymation show _ **Davey** and Goliath_; I’ve never seen it. But I **do** remember an animated show with a little boy and his pet cat who would turn into a Hercules-type hero and a lion; I seem to remember it being called _ **Samson** and Goliath_. > > Nobody else I know remembers this show, but I have a vivid memoty of the coloring book I had as a child. Can someone help me, or am I finally losing what’s left of my sanity? \*\* I’ll [verify](http://yesterdayland.elsewhere.org/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1192.php) that for you. I loved that show so much that when it popped up on Cartoon Express back in the 80’s I tried to tape a bunch, but what was on Cartoon Express on any given day was anybody’s guess. “Mighty Samson” rode around on a scooter with his pet dog. When transformed the dog became a lion who could shoot beams out of his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/84 "2003-10-22T13:56:10Z")
Fearless Fly Alvin and the Chipmunks Clyde Crashcup and Leonardo Obscure Terrytoons characters: Gaston le Crayon (“Aaaah, Gaston, you’ve done it again! You are a genius!”) Hashimoto Mouse Sydney the Elephant Clint Clobber Sarge and Gandy Goose Heckle and Jeckle Herman and Katnip Li’l Audrey ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/85 "2003-10-22T14:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Askia \* > > **The Mighty Heroes** With Strong Man! Coo-Coo Man! Tornado Man! Rope Man! Aaaaannnd… Diaper Man! That’s the show I was thinking of when I wrote _The Super Heroes_ Go figure. There were fiveof them – right? And they were on with Mighty Mouse – I actually remember having bought a comic book with them in it (I loved funny superheroics Not Brand Ecchs, The Inferior Five and the Mighty Heroes - Yayy!) Strong Man Diaper Man Rope Man Tornado Man (who was a weatherman in his Secret ID) Cuckoo Man ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/86 "2003-10-22T22:42:17Z")
Thanks **Doc**! But what does OTTOMH stand for? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/87 "2003-10-23T04:37:52Z")
Off The Top Of My Head. Laser Tag- Villainous Draxon Dreel and his monkey like Skug minions flee imprisonment in the future by coming to the present. Jamie Jaren follows him. Together with the help of her ancestors, she fights Dreel. ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/88 "2003-10-23T05:32:14Z")
Super Mario’s Super Show It was about Mario… if you hadn’t figured that out yet. It had some live action too. I was the biggest Mario fan at that age. I was a little too old for the show when it aired, but that didn’t stop me from seeing it every day. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/89 "2003-10-23T05:41:13Z")
Monday through thursady were the adventures of the Mario brothers. But fridays were Legend Of Zelda day. Captain Lou Albano played Mario. Later, they got rid of the live action Mario, Luigi, and Ratigator sequences. They replaced them with a pair of slackers at “Club Mario”. I quit watching the show. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/90 "2003-10-23T06:20:16Z")
Nobody’s mentioned the adventures of the Blue Falcon and Dynomutt?? “Rubik, the Amazing Cube”… this featured Rubik the Cube as a sort of magical genie, who could do anything as long as he didn’t have his colors all scrambled. He hung out with a bunch of siblings, one of whom could solve a cube in five seconds while plummeting to his doom. I don’t have a title for it, but does anybody else remember a late-70’s show about a cat (live-action) whose thoughts were done in voice-over. When he got in trouble, he would daydream animated adventures which vaguely related to his problem, helping him to solve it. I remember that some of his daydreams were Star Trek rip-offs. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/91 "2003-10-23T16:54:16Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RJKUgly:_ > Funny, half the time when I try to say “disk space” it comes out as “dick space”. Highly amusing when I’m in a customer’s office. Which begs the question, “What, pray tell, is your business?” (Alas, the answer probably won’t live up to the potential of the straight line, butcha can’t blame a moose for tryin’.) Frankly, I’m rather tickled that my age guess was so close. What skewed it low was the inclusion of _The Jackson Five_ on your list. I remember the show but don’t really recall watching it, probably because it came along about the same time the testosterone kicked in and I discovered matters of greater interest than 'toons. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/92 "2003-10-23T17:33:14Z")
Did _Shmoo_ have it’s own cartoon, or was that a character on another HB cartoon? Did anyone mention _Captain Caveman_ yet? And how could we forget _Inspector Gadget_? I think it came on right before or right after _DangerMouse_ ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/93 "2003-10-23T19:50:30Z")
IIRC, Schmoo was originally on **The Herculoids,** and got his own show later. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/94 "2003-10-23T21:11:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*IIRC, Schmoo was originally on **The Herculoids,** and got his own show later. \*\* That was NOT Shmoo. The blob and bloblet on Herculoids did resemble Shmoo to a degree. But they were differences. Shmoo is chalk white. The Herculoids blobs were green, with a darker green cell membrane around the edges. Shmoo has whiskers. The Herculoids blobs did not. Shmoo typically extrudes to pseudopods from its base to use as legs. The blobs on Herculoids typically bounced around like hippity hops. I do recall a Shmoo cartoon. IIRC it first appeared as a feature in another Hanna Barberra cartoon. You’d get 20 minutes of the main show. and 3 minutes of a seperate Shmoo cartoon (the remaining 7 minutes was left for commercials). The Shmoo cartoon proved popular enough to be given it’s own program. For more Shmoo, read Lil Abner. I hate Al Capp (and considering his extreme political leanings and general hatred of everybody, I’m sure he’d hate me) but I love the strip he created. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/95 "2003-10-24T03:17:34Z")
**DocCathode** teaches Shmoo 101. 🙂 Thanks, **Doc** [partial hijack??/] I would like to point out an untapped resource of cartoon shows to this thread: _ **The Holiday Special.** _ Personally, my Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are not complete without them. With the particular examples of _any_ Peanuts special and the perrenial favorite (although maybe not considered “animation”) Rudolph. I think maybe the reason Charlie Brown / Peanuts is cool for me is because of the Vince Guaraldi. I love the music and it does go so well with the cartoon. Rudolph. I mean, it’s Rudolph, people. How many of us here have NOT grown up with it. [partial hijack/] ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/96 "2003-10-24T05:38:43Z")
Ziggy AFAIK never had a series. He did have an animated Christmas Special. The Wacky Wallwalkers also never had a series. But these sticky cephalopods did have an animated special in which they come to earth to discover the true meaning of Christmas. The Berenstein bears had no Christmas special. This is because they were Jewish. It was still to early for networks to show a Hannukah special (the Rugrats finally did that). So, the bears have a Thanksgiving special. It was a musical. Some lyrics “You can have your sasquatch, your abominable snowman. My name is BigPaw. I supercede 'em all.” “He could be a prince! He could be a schmoe! He could be just, a regular joe!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/97 "2003-10-24T06:24:08Z")
I have the feeling the answers to these are going to come from **DocCathode**. I have a vague memory of occasionally seeing a cartoon on _Captain Kangaroo_ called _Q.T. Hush_, about a short private eye who wore a trenchcoat and a deerstalker’s cap, and had a dog (similarly attired, IIRC) for a sidekick. In the only memory I have of the show, the good guys were sitting down to a turkey dinner, not realizing that the turkey was stuffed with high explosives. I still remember the dog asking for white meat. Also, what was the cartoon about the elephant that could magically change his trunk into all manner of just-what-we-needed-type appliances and implements (such as a vacuum cleaner when there were too many fallen leaves around, or a water hose when a fire needed extinguishing). Was he called Twinkles? Speaking of Terrytoons, the actor who voiced Tom Terrific’s arch-nemesis, Crabby Appleton, Lionel Wilson passed away a couple of weeks ago. Most recently he had created the role of Eustace Bagg on the _Courage The Cowardly Dog_ show (currently being voiced by Arthur Anderson, and may I say it’s good to know the man had a fallback career to turn to when the whole accounting thing went sour). ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/98 "2003-10-24T13:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vlad Dracul \* > > I don’t have a title for it, but does anybody else remember a late-70’s show about a cat (live-action) whose thoughts were done in voice-over. When he got in trouble, he would daydream animated adventures which vaguely related to his problem, helping him to solve it. I remember that some of his daydreams were Star Trek rip-offs. \*\* I believe that was: _The adventures of Walter Kitty_ ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/99 "2003-10-24T13:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DocCathode \* > \*\*That was NOT Shmoo. The blob and bloblet on Herculoids did resemble Shmoo to a degree. But they were differences. > > Shmoo is chalk white. The Herculoids blobs were green, with a darker green cell membrane around the edges. > > Shmoo has whiskers. The Herculoids blobs did not. > > Shmoo typically extrudes to pseudopods from its base to use as legs. The blobs on Herculoids typically bounced around like hippity hops. > > I do recall a Shmoo cartoon. IIRC it first appeared as a feature in another Hanna Barberra cartoon. You’d get 20 minutes of the main show. and 3 minutes of a seperate Shmoo cartoon (the remaining 7 minutes was left for commercials). The Shmoo cartoon proved popular enough to be given it’s own program. > > For more Shmoo, read Lil Abner. I hate Al Capp (and considering his extreme political leanings and general hatred of everybody, I’m sure he’d hate me) but I love the strip he created. \*\* Apart from the humans on The Herculoids, the animals were: Gloop and Gleep (the two bloblike creatures) Igoo the Rock Ape Tundra (the ten legged triceratops that shot exploding rocks out of his horn) Zok the flying lizardmacalit thing that shot electric beams out of its eyes and tail I remember the boys name was Dorno, but can’t remember the parents name – and am reminded again not to work with children or animals. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268/100 "2003-10-27T03:29:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\*For us incredibly ancient specimens > > Crusader Rabbit with Rags the Tiger, I believe one of the very first made-for-TV cartoons and, IIRC, was the product of some of the folks who later made Rocky & Bullwinkle.\*\* You’re correct about Crusader Rabbit being the first made-for-TV cartoon, and also about it being a product of Jay Ward, who went on to Rocky & Bullwinkle fame (though with a different animator). Now, trivia time. Who were the arch villains in Crusader Rabbit? Two of the best names in all of cartoondome: Dudley Nightshade and his dimwitted sidekick, Bilious Green. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-cartoon-shows-can-you-remember/208268.md?page=4)