I have been chastised so much as an adult for saying I didn’t like it, I guess I have shamed and guilted into being embarrassed for hating Nice Guy Fred Rogers, lol! But yes, the whole show was lame as a busted-leg horse.
Ah, yes. I didn’t HATE it, but it clearly waassn’t good. I admit I watchied it. Newton was the Jimmy Two Times of the mythological world.
some other awful cartoons you might recall:
**Dodo, the Kid from Outer Space
Clutch Cargo
Space Angel**
Those last two were the 'almost no movement" kind of cartoons where they decided not to animate mouth motions, so you either had a microphone or something blocking a view of their mouth, or else they used that creepy Syntha-Vox technique, where the superimposed footage of someone’s actual lips moving over the drawing. You can see it in the movie Pulp Fiction where Clutch Cargo is playing on the TV as Christopher Walken gives the kid playing a young Bruce Willis his dad’s watch. Or you can google it on YouTube.
The Beagles – it was supposed to be a parody of The Beatles. For that matter:
The Beatles – a TV cartoon using Beatles songs and voice actors imitating the Beatles. This cartoon is the reason that the real Beatles refused to perform the spoken lines in the movie yellow Submarine – they thought it would be just like the TV show. It wasn’t until they saw the finished product, with its Peter Max-like graphics, that they agreed to appear in that final filmed portion.
The Lone Ranger – as a cartoon. He faced wild.wild West-ish science fictiony enemies
Of course, there were some weord and bright spots. I recommend thes, if you can find them:
Crusader Rabbit – the earliest CR cartoons were by Jay Ward, and are sort of a practice run for Rocky and Bullwinkle, with the diminutive boyish hero and his tall, strong, and dumb companion (Ragland T. Tiger). They also had a villain in frock coat, cape, top hat, and handlebar moustache – Dudley Nightshade – who was basically a taller version of Snidely Whiplash. the later cartoons – which includes most of the ones I watched – were actually made by a successor company, with no Jay Ward input, although they managed to maintain his wacky sensibility and sense of humor.
Colonel Bleep – the adventures of a alien space officer, with his sidekicks Scratch (a caveman) and Squeak (a marionette). I kid you not. One of the weirdest kid’s cartoons ever. It gets points from me for having an alien as not only a good guy, but the central character. The show used just about every SF trope in the book. And every single cliche.
The Adventures of Felix the Cat – “From Trans-Lux” , as the closing credits said. This was my childhood intro to Felix. I had no idea that he had a long prioer history in comic strips and cartoons (and televisdion – he was arguably the first TV star, being roadcast in the 1920s!!). So to me, Felix the Cat was a character who had a Magic Bag of Tricks and said “Right-ee-o!” His opponents included The Professor and his bulldog-headed henchman, Rock Bottom, and also the evil robot The Master Cylinder.
“I’ll hover here in the helicopter while Jim approaches the jaquar with the dart gun.
Hmmm, Jim seems to have missed. Jaguars can run at 45 miles an hour…Jim seems to be doing about 44.
You can get the best life insurance from Mutual of Omaha.”
Geritol! It was brought to you by Geritol. And lots of Polygrip ads. 
In our area it aired on Sunday evenings and my Grandmother would watch it and for some reason I would walk over to her house on those night and watch it with her. She loved that Champagne Lady older woman singer.
It didn’t seem like an out-of-place show to me since it was the era of the variety show.
Sometimes at night I wake up in a cold sweat and I can still hear it…
“My Three Sons…da da da daaaaaa…”
:eek::eek::eek::eek:
:p:p:p:p This a prime example of what I was talking about in this
thread (see post 22)Thanks, whitetho; you have me cracking up!
Thank you for this. I remember hating Hee Haw. But I couldn’t remember why the hell I was watching it if I hated it so much.
Now I remember, I was waiting for the Muppets! 
I feel your pain I hated that show as well and I hate country music to this day.
When I was a kid, there was a local religious show called “Rock of Ages” that would come on before the cartooning hour on the weekend. Being both bored and brainy, if not worldly or wise, I would assume that “Rock of Ages” must be about geology – maybe even dinosaurs! – and attempt to watch it and then become increasingly frustrated and resentful with whatever the hell was going on. I’m ashamed to admit it probably took me 5-7 attempts to finally conclude that this just wasn’t going to happen.
I came here to mention this show.
It always was the only “cartoon” on, on Sunday mornings. If you wanted to watch TV, you had to watch this.
I ought to appreciate it, really - for getting me to play outdoors rather than TV watching!
Ha! I love how he explains who the Beatles are.
If only I could have seen the humor when I was a kid. I mean, I knew it was boring and dorky but obviously you need the element of time to really bring out the drecky quality.
When I think of the LW show, I think of loneliness. IIRC , it was on Sundays, which were depressing for me anyway, and if was in a situation where I was forced to watch Lawrence Welk, then obviously there was no one around to play with and nothing else on TV.
It’s absolutely necessary to watch a few episodes of this to really appreciate Moral Orel.
I logged in just to say the same thing!
As a country born girl this show should of fascinated me… I hated it.
When I was a teen and it was in repeats the commercial was Mary and Laura going thru a blizzard to or from a christmas party and Laura yelling “Mary my present!” That is one of my screen names from years ago and to this day every time it snows I will scream it.
Hated 8 is enough too.
As a kid, I loved everything. I loved actioners, westerns, sitcoms, variety shows (except for Lawrence Welk. Even as a kid. That one I share with you), game shows, and Packers football games. I loved the halftime show. Even cartoons that I found as an adult to be incredibly stupid, as a kid I loved them. I loved Star Trek and the Monkees even before I could see them (we didn’t get NBC in the 60s).
I loved Davey and Goliath, Pink Panther, most of the ones specifically mentioned in this thread as being hated.
I even loved the farm report, but for only one reason - at the midpoint, some (but not all) episodes would feature ads for farm machinery, and seeing the IH tractor ads was awesome. Those days where the report had no tractor ads were wasted.
Small Wonder: One of the worst pieces of shit to ever get green-lighted, starring 5 of the worst actors to ever get cast in anything. Completely unsurprising none of these peoples’ acting careers lasted very long past the end of this unbelievably awful show.
ETA: Yes, I realize this is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit, but even as a kid it was obvious that every single person involved with this show in any capacity was an idiot.
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I adored LHoTP, but my father didn’t like it at all. I remember he came in the room once when I was watching and changed the channel and said, “Everybody is always crying on this show! Turn the damn thing off!!” :rolleyes: We started calling it the Crying Show. I think mainly my father was uncomfortable that the men were often the ones doing the crying.
Syncro-Vox, and it’s the only reason those cartoons are remembered these days. It’s still used in a comedic fashion (or, well, a fashion intended to be comedic) in some modern works, such as the pseudo-1960s cartoons which were special features in The Incredibles DVD and on Conan O’Brien.
I’ve seen these cartoons, and I agree they’re good. They don’t match the silent cartoons in sheer weirdness, but as strange little adventure-comedy pieces they’re good.
Agreed, I could find no redeeming value in that show, the characters seemed nice enough but the plots were mind-numbing.
To me, it did. Even though it was categorized as one, calling Lawrence Welk a variety show was a stretch. Variety shows had things like guest comics doing stand-up routines, sketches, occasional miscellaneous acts like magicians or acrobats, and musical numbers. Lawrence Welk was pretty much all musical numbers. Even Hee Haw, which also bored me to tears, at least sometimes had quick cartoons, cornpone comedy skits, and recurring funny musical bits (“Gloom, despair, and agony on me!”) to break up the monotony.