# Underdog Movie Announced

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 17, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458 "2002-06-17T03:37:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458/21 "2002-06-18T05:06:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fenris \*  
> \*\*Actually, in the Eighties, the idea of a live-action Jetsons was bandied about. I woulda though “It’ll suck” but the proposed cast!!!
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> Chevy Chase as George Jetson and Goldie Hawn as Jane.
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> It would have been _perfect_.
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> The script would probably have sucked, though.
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> Fenris \*\*

You can’t be serious, **Fenris**. I’m sorry but Chevy hasn’t done a decent movie in _years_, and Goldie has been a career killer for about the same length of time. (I think that the only to escape her grasp is Mel Gibson.)

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458/22 "2002-06-18T05:17:17Z")

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There was a _Banana Splits_ - why wasn’t I told? That show rocked.

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**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458/23 "2002-06-18T05:26:45Z")

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I don’t care what anyone says… I’m seeing Garfield.

I can’t wait! It’s going to kick donkey.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458/24 "2002-06-18T16:49:51Z")

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“The secret compartment of my ring I fill,  
With an Underdog, Super-Energy pill.”

How I learned about amphetamines.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underdog-movie-announced/114458/25 "2002-06-18T18:14:04Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NDP \*  
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> Actually, they already did an “H.R. Puf’n’stuff” movie around 1970. \*\*

Yeah, but I don’t count that one because IIRC it actually was the basis of the series.

There was a Munsters movie with the original cast back in the 60’s too, so I don’t count that one either.

How about Yogi Bear? Is a live action/CGI Yogi in the works yet? I imagine a normal bear accidentally eating a mutagen hidden in a picnic basket which causes him to gain intelligence, as well as imprinting picnic baskets as a food source in his mind, and foiling the spy ring that was planning to slip the mutagen into the water supply to create a race of super intelligent coyotes that would finally catch all those road runners.

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