# Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, popping pills? Never wonder, Underdog 2007 movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139 "2007-03-16T03:05:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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 16, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/1 "2007-03-16T03:05:43Z")
So I was wondering, how can Disney deal with the fact that Underdog gets his power from Super Energy Vitamin Pills? [http://movies.about.com/od/underdog/a/underdog021607.htm](http://movies.about.com/od/underdog/a/underdog021607.htm) > [@](#): > > After an accident in the mysterious lab of maniacal scientist Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage), an ordinary beagle unexpectedly finds himself with unimaginable powers and the ability to speak. Oh. So much for Sweet Polly Purebred then too. šŸ™‚ Wikipedia reports that: > **[Underdog (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdog_%28TV_series%29)** > > Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show went into syndication starting in 1969. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is be... > [@](#): > > When the series was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, the scenes of him taking his energy pill were edited out. Animation fans lambasted this as a form of political correctness, as they believe the scenes were removed in order to prevent any glorification of drug use. Oh well, ā€œI am a hero who never fails, I canā€™t be bothered with such details!ā€ I donā€™t know what to think about this or the movie. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/2 "2007-03-16T03:08:54Z")
Dunno about the pills, but Iā€™d like to see this because it has Jason Lee, Peter Dinklage, and Patrick Warburton in it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/3 "2007-03-16T05:07:48Z")
I used to love Underdog. But Iā€™m expecting this to suck. ---
**Author:** ![octothorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@octothorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octothorpe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/4 "2007-03-16T13:58:09Z")
I loved this cartoon as a kid, ā€œThereā€™s no need to fear, Underdog is here!ā€ It wasnā€™t until i was much older that i learned that U-Dogā€™s arch-enemy was ā€˜Simon the Bastardā€™. What do you suppose Disney thinks of that? # ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/5 "2007-03-16T14:51:08Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] ā€œI am a hero who never fails, I canā€™t be bothered with such details!ā€ [/QUOTE] Iā€™m not certain the movie Underdog will speak in rhyming couplets, either. Unless all of his dialogue for the first 45 minutes, strung together, is the first line of the couplet, and the word he speaks at the midpoint of the film rhymes with the last word of his last line. :dubious: ---
**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:** [March 16, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/6 "2007-03-16T16:08:57Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Dunno about the pills, but Iā€™d like to see this because it has Jason Lee, Peter Dinklage, and Patrick Warburton in it. [/QUOTE] I agree with you. In particular, Lee and Warburton are incredible voice actors. The prospect of having Kronk and Syndrome playing off each other in the same movie is really exciting. Letā€™s hope the script doesnā€™t suck. Hey, after checking IMDB I see that Jason Lee is also starring as David Seville in Alvin and the Chipmunks ā€¦ . ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/7 "2007-03-16T16:52:58Z")
I had forgotten the energy pill thingā€¦ maybe thatā€™s we we donā€™t see this show in syndication. And I sure miss Wally Cox. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/8 "2007-03-16T18:25:52Z")
I saw the trailer at the theater last weekend. The only resemblance it bears to Underdog is the name. Iā€™ll pass ā€“ but maybe I should get hold of the DVDā€™s of the real Underdog. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-of-lightning-roar-of-thunder-popping-pills-never-wonder-underdog-2007-movie/396139/9 "2007-03-16T18:48:30Z")
Iā€™ve seen the trailer as well. It bears no resemblance to the Underdog of my youth and I will be avoiding it with a passion. \* Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog. Nor anything resembling Underdog.\*