# Old shows and Cartoons that no one remembers but you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873 "2008-11-29T02:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/81 "2008-11-30T19:00:23Z")
A Saturday morning cartoon called, “The Schmoo.” He was a bowling pin shaped creature with no arms and he could change into anything. He was accompanied by 3 teens, one of whom was Billy Joe, I believe. The theme song went something like, “It’s the new Schmoo, the incredible new Schmoo. He’s gonna please you, this incredible new Schmoo.” He could say very few words that were understandable and spoke in sort of squeaks. It may also be spelled, “Shmoo.” Not sure. I LOVED him. He was so adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/82 "2008-11-30T19:15:26Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > A Saturday morning cartoon called, “The Schmoo.” He was a bowling pin shaped creature with no arms and he could change into anything. He was accompanied by 3 teens, one of whom was Billy Joe, I believe. The theme song went something like, > > “It’s the new Schmoo, > the incredible new Schmoo. > He’s gonna please you, > this incredible new Schmoo.” > > He could say very few words that were understandable and spoke in sort of squeaks. It may also be spelled, “Shmoo.” Not sure. I LOVED him. He was so adorable! [Schmoo, apparently.](http://www.geocities.com/corvenpage_miami2/Scripts/OtherCartoons/Schmoo.html) A character resembling him later appeared in the [“Hail, Squishface”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sealab_2021_episodes#Season_2:_2002-2003) episode of _Sealab 2021_. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/83 "2008-11-30T19:35:05Z")
Gemini Man [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/84 "2008-11-30T21:04:35Z")
> [@deadindays](#): > > I hope I’m not the only one who remembers the Tijuana Toads. I don’t remember them, but I’ve heard of them. Part of the DePatie-Freling corral (along with the Pink Panther and the Ant and the Aardvark), they were later renamed the Texas Toads to be more PC. > [@Hazel Weatherfield](#): > > A Saturday morning cartoon called, “The Schmoo.” He was a bowling pin shaped creature with no arms and he could change into anything. Before he got his own TV show, the Schmoo was a minor character in the _L’il Abner_ comic. Like all of the residents of Dogpatch, the Schmoo was the creation of the legendary Al Capp. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/85 "2008-11-30T21:44:46Z")
I remember “The Mighty Hercules” from way back when I was a kid in the 60’s. I also watched “Snuffy Smith”, “Beetle Bailey” and “Yippy, Yappy and Yahooey” cartoons in the afternoon when I got home from school. What about “The Banana Splits” from the early 70’s? And “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp”! ETA: I was shocked to learn that “My World And Welcome To It” only lasted 14 episodes! Without clicking the link, I remembered that it starred William Windom and Lisa Gerritsen. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/86 "2008-11-30T21:51:30Z")
I remember Lancelot Link. I remember when the [Jackson Five had their own cartoon.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEaBjczgZTU) ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/87 "2008-12-01T02:54:23Z")
_ **Tooter Turtle** _ - Always loved the Wizard’s “Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome; time for zis one to come home.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/88 "2008-12-01T03:31:44Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > _ **Tooter Turtle** _ - Always loved the Wizard’s “Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome; time for zis one to come home.” Paul Westerberg also remembered it. It’s referenced in The Replacement’s [“Hold My Life”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1njQCly2ac) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/89 "2008-12-01T03:33:23Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Also, does anyone remember the 70s-era “crack” sequence on Sesame Street? Nothing to do with drugs, it was an animated short about the cracks in the wall coming to life. Sounds riveting, if you were high. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/90 "2008-12-01T04:38:39Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > Simulpost! > > Colibri, I remember getting up and watching static on the TV, then the National Anthem, and then Colonel Bleep. Dang. That has to be one of the weirder simulposts I’ve ever been involved in. I think the strangest part of Captain Bleep was Squeek. Why a highly advanced space alien would choose a cowboy _puppet_ as a deputy I never really understood. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > One of the weirder ones that no-one talks about these days is [Clutch Cargo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBzkNchB0p0). The only animation was the mouths, everything else was just still drawings. But the mouths were really realistic. Creepy. I also remember Clutch very well. Highly disturbing. > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Going back much further was the Andy Devine kid’s show called Andy’s Gang. The sponsor was Buster Brown Shoes, and the one part I remember most clearly is his sort of catchphrase: > > > > Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy! > > Never did understand quite what that meant. At that point there would be a twanging sound, and Froggy the Gremlin, a rubber frog puppet, would appear in a cloud of smoke. Froggy, who was always pulling pranks, was my absolute favorite part of the show. [Froggy the Gremlin](http://middleburgh.com/FROGGY%209WEB.jpg) ETA: There’s even an FtG [site.](http://www.froggythegremlin.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/91 "2008-12-01T04:56:55Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Actually, something I recently found disturbing was checking out the wiki page of a Canadian 'toon called _The Raccoons_, of which I’d had fond memories and realizing I was sixteen when it first aired. Why they Hell was I watching and enjoying some cheesy cartoon about raccoons when I was sixteen? Because you are Canadian, and the Raccoons favourite activity was playing hockey? 🙂 I remember a number of these–heck, I can even “It’s About Time,” and “Dusty’s Trail.” But how about “Captain Nice,” “Hank,” and (for the cheap-n-cheesy-cartoon lovers) “Rocket Robin Hood”? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/92 "2008-12-01T05:08:41Z")
[Ark II](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_lcQUdxxE) Hippie scientists roam a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a high-tech RV teaching peace and brotherhood. I once spent about a week building a two foot long model of the Ark in Lego … . ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/93 "2008-12-01T05:42:18Z")
I nominated [Barney’s Clubhouse POW!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycLKnLiYsA) in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=483059) a few months back. Note, the youtube link isn’t of the original Barney’s show itself (which aired in 1981 or so), but a retrospective news story aired sometime around 1990. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/94 "2008-12-01T06:15:52Z")
Anyone remember[The Saturday Banana?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPUFHoC2vM) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/95 "2008-12-01T16:14:23Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Also, does anyone remember the 70s-era “crack” sequence on Sesame Street? Nothing to do with drugs, it was an animated short about the cracks in the wall coming to life. > > It would never be aired today because of the unfortunate choice of names (Crack Monkey, Crack Camel and Crack Master), but it scared the shit out of me as a little kid (especially the monkey’s sing-song voice chanting, “At night, behind the door, I think I hear one more”) > > Searching “Sesame Street crack” on Youtube brings up one relevant link, but don’t bother clicking it unless you like Rick Astley. Yeah, I remember that one well. It seems to be one of those “Holy Grail” things that has disappeared without a trace. Too bad, because I’d like to see it again. Like you, I remember it being pretty scary for a kids’ show, although I could’ve sworn it was actually on **The Electric Company** rather than **Sesame Street**. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/96 "2008-12-01T16:28:55Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I adored _Quark_ and was thrilled to see it finally out on DVD, although I’m guessing it won’t seem as funny to me know. Perhaps the most unforgettable dialog, among the two women, Quark, and the plant-man. (In the context of the beautiful, blonde-haired “clones” arguing about which one is the “original.” Each insists that is it she.) Fiecus (spelling?): \<\< It’s simple. The prettier one is the clone. \>\> (Paraphrased) Both gals in unison: “I _ **am not!** _” 😛 - “Jack” ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/97 "2008-12-01T16:47:15Z")
Back in high school, all of my friends thought I was totally making up [The Adventures of T-Rex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_T-Rex), which I watched when I was about seven. They only showed it at like 6am on Saturday mornings. Even in the late 90’s when I tried to convince people that it had existed, there was virtually no information whatsoever about the show on the internet. Almost nobody I talk to remembers Pinwheel, which I used to watch _obsessively_ when I was like 5. I remember my mom absolutely hated it, particularly the green puppet Ebeneezer, though I’m not sure why. The Ladybug Song was still in rotation on Sesame Street when I was watching in the late 80’s. I hadn’t seen it in a hundred years, and as soon as I clicked on the video just now I sang to myself, “1 2 3…4 5 6…7 8 9…10 11 12.” My favorite Sesame Street segment was always Tiny Little Super Guy, which absolutely nobody remembers. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/98 "2008-12-01T16:56:21Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > I nominated [Barney’s Clubhouse POW!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycLKnLiYsA) in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=483059) a few months back. Note, the youtube link isn’t of the original Barney’s show itself (which aired in 1981 or so), but a retrospective news story aired sometime around 1990. This is Green Bay’s usage of the syndicated TV POWWW format, which is just as shown here- usual kiddy show form with a phone-in Intellivision game. On New York’s WPIX, kids said PIX instead of POW. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/99 "2008-12-01T16:58:15Z")
There was a show on Nickelodeon that featured two koalas that traveled through space and time to Koala Land or something. Along for the adventure was a human girl. This show was on around the time when David the Gnome was huge. Fuck, I can’t even remember the name of it. The Foozles? I have to look this up now. Hang on a sec. EDIT: [Noozles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles). God this brings back memories. I must have been out of my damn mind to have found this entertaining. It will always have a spot in my heart, though. God bless the makers of Noozles. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873/100 "2008-12-01T17:12:09Z")
> [@Coup\_Fourre](#): > > \*B.J. and Gigglesnort Hotel \*- This show may have been local to the Chicago area. No, Bill Jackson syndicated it worldwide. BJ and Dirty Dragon was local only. You can still contact BJ at [http://www.dirtydragon.com/](http://www.dirtydragon.com/) – I know this because I felt a need to apologize to him for being a bit of a jerk when he lived around the corner of my junior high. Okay, I just wanted an excuse to email him! His daughter replied, since she’d gone to the same school, but we were about ten years apart. > [@](#): > > _Magic Door_ I loved that show! Just to show how much Jewish culture permiated the US in the 60s, it took me years to figure out it was Jewish, despite the Hebrew lessons. Just seemed normal to me, though I noticed they stuck with Bible stories from the Old Testament. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-shows-and-cartoons-that-no-one-remembers-but-you/474873.md?page=6)