# Saturday Morning Watchmen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301 "2009-03-22T00:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/1 "2009-03-22T00:10:36Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YDDHHrt6l4w/hqdefault.jpg "Saturday Morning Watchmen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w) This one’s for all the kids of the 80s who recognize the style of cartoon being parodied, and of course all the Watchmen fans. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/2 "2009-03-22T00:14:21Z")
Definitely cringeworthy. Was it _Scooby Doo_? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/3 "2009-03-22T00:24:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Definitely cringeworthy. Was it _Scooby Doo_? Either you’ve been whooshed, or I have. To answer your question, it was Watchmen. More specifically, a parody of Watchmen, made for Internet consumption. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/4 "2009-03-22T00:45:57Z")
At least a few of the jokes are based on 80s cartoons. Ozymandias and Bubastis sleuthing and being spooked by a mummy is clearly a Scooby Doo parody (and the mummy is a callout to Ozymandias’s namesake), Bubastis’s voice is remarkably similar to that of Snarf from Thundercats, and Laurie’s band is a parody of either Josie and the Pussycats or Gem and the Holograms (or maybe both). ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/5 "2009-03-22T01:08:11Z")
I hated it the first few times I saw it, though I think I finally get it. Particulary after noticing Ozymandias saving the comedian from falling out the window…instead of throwing him. That and the ticking clock at the very end. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/6 "2009-03-22T01:11:18Z")
Owl’s partying and the Pizza are references to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 80’s cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/7 "2009-03-22T01:19:45Z")
Rorshach and the doggies. That’s disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/8 "2009-03-22T02:09:22Z")
Was this the first Saturday morning cartoon to deal with incest? That’s the creppiest part right there. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/9 "2009-03-22T04:22:59Z")
. o O (Watchmen Babies in: V for Vacation.) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-morning-watchmen/490301/10 "2009-03-22T04:52:40Z")
Pretty clever. Nite-Owl dispatches the thug the same way Ozymandius does him toward the end of the book. Likewise, Rorshach poses with the dogs he murders. And of course, Dr. Manhttan’s transformation is a reference to the great Turbo Teen.