# Tears for Fears Fans! Anyone remember... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843 "2001-07-17T20:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/1 "2001-07-17T20:43:41Z")
The animated cartoon based on the band that came out in the (I’m guessing here) early 80s? Set in the future, had the band members fighting some evil dude for some reason, and it had “Shout” as the theme and segue music. I swear this exists, but I haven’t been able to find anything on either Google, Altavista or Yahoo. My wife’s a big fan, and SHE hasn’t even heard of this. Anyone out there able to englighten me, or shall I just go on thinking it was a hallucination? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/2 "2001-07-17T22:01:42Z")
A cartoon? Based on Tears for Fears? I’m a big fan too, and I’ve never heard of it at all. Sorry, can’t help you there! ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/3 "2001-07-18T00:12:37Z")
um… are you sure it wasn’t set in the 60’s? with this yellow submarine thing? and some blue meany types? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/4 "2001-07-18T00:18:53Z")
Yeah, I remember my first acid trip… Actually I’m just amazed. I’ve never seen so many Tears for Fears fans gathered in the same place at once 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/5 "2001-07-18T01:10:13Z")
Lay off the crack, man. I’ve never heard of this. And I nearly wore through my “The Hurting” cassette… it was my first non-top-forty music purchase. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/6 "2001-07-18T01:24:00Z")
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Kidd Video? ---
**Author:** ![Linear\_Crack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Linear\_Crack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linear_Crack)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/7 "2001-07-18T01:25:53Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* \*\*Lay off the crack, man. I’ve never heard of this. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/8 "2001-07-18T02:14:22Z")
What the heck? I sure haven’t heard of this - I don’t even recall any music videos of theirs that had animation in them, and you’d think they would cross over at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/9 "2001-07-18T07:05:50Z")
I think **False\_God** is referring to an animated show that just **happened** to use the Qu- eh…Tears for Fears song in one episode. ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/10 "2001-07-18T13:45:24Z")
Major, major TfF fan checking in. Coherent and cognizant in the 80’s. Never even heard a rumour about said cartoon. But that can’t stop us from starting it NOW, can it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/11 "2001-07-18T16:45:38Z")
I loved **The Hurting** , but I don’t think any of their later releases came anywhere close that level of quality. I never heard of any cartoon, tho’. I’m with **Guin** , you’re probably thinking of Kidd Video. cheers, Hodge ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/12 "2001-07-18T16:50:06Z")
Don’t remember any cartoon, but I do recall the _People_\* review of _Songs from the Big Chair_ that mused on whether said chair was really Roland Orzabal’s toity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/13 "2001-07-18T16:52:07Z")
Crap. A virtual chocolate mackerel goes to the mod/admin that fixes my preceding mess. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/14 "2001-07-18T17:00:27Z")
::sets the Wayback Machine for 1981:: Hmm… A cartoon involving Shout? I don’t remember this either, and I was into TfF and Human League and Art of Nouse and other “CFNY music” (“alternative” when the term still _meant_ something) at the time too. ---
**Author:** ![MzBella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@MzBella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MzBella)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/15 "2013-02-06T05:42:04Z")
It was Kidd Video ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/16 "2013-02-06T08:49:39Z")
:(Zombie Video. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tears-for-fears-fans-anyone-remember/72843/17 "2013-02-06T15:24:20Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **MzBella**. When a thread has been inactive for a long time, as this has been, and then gets bumped, we call it a zombie – thus **Indian** ’s little joke. There’s nothing wrong with reviving it, but I will move it to our arts forum, Cafe Society, which didn’t exist the last time this thread saw the light of day. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator