I only saw maybe two whole episodes on late-night Cartoon Network many years ago, but the theme song is burned into my brain.
Wait till your father gets / Until your father gets / Wait till your father gets home!
I remember one of the most politically incorrect (and hilarious) episodes of any TV shows once. It took on gays, Indians, blacks, Hispanics… all because the Bosley character was accused of racism.
The whole thing seems, in retrospect, kind of tame. The Jack Burns character was the only one that I have a really vivid memory of. When he wanted to travel, he didn’t choose a destination, he’d just find out which flights were showing a John Wayne movie, and get on one of those.
I just finished Netflixing the first season box. (I spread the discs out over a couple of months to make it last). Until now I hadn’t seen it since the first run (which I was surprised to learn was 1972–I thought it was a good year or two earlier than that–I also didn’t realize that it lasted for two seasons). Pretty cheesy, but a major nostalgia rush for me. I do like how the presence of the ridiculously caricatured right-wing lunatic Ralph serves to camouflage the show’s basically conservative viewpoint.
I remember it. It was Hanna-Barbera’s half-assed attempt to do to All in the Family what The Flintstones had done to The Honeymooners. It apparently lasted two seasons, or a season and a half more than I remember.
I think it was their last shot at a prime-time cartoon series, after their successes with Flintstones, The Jetsons and Jonny Quest and their somewhat less-successful Where’s Huddles?
I remember it well. I always thought that Meg Griffin was a homage to the daughter on that show.
Don’t forget Top Cat!
“Where’s Huddles?” Man, that doesn’t ring a bell at all, and the image on Toonopedia doesn’t help.
Hey hajario–maybe this is old news, but since I don’t watch the show I just did a Google image search for Meg Griffin. Nine out of 20 images on the first page were pornographic. Bet that doesn’t happen with Alice Boyle.
:eek:
And we’re turning SafeSearch back on…now.
I used to love that show! Maybe I’ll get it on DVD…
I remember “Where’s Huddles?” although I agree that the image on Toonopedia isn’t very indicative of a show centered around three members of a football team. I have no clear recollection of “Wait Till Your Father Gets Home” although the theme song as quoted by Bosstone is definitely familiar. I may check it out on Netflix.
It’s a real earworm. About the only thing I’ve remembered from the show all these years is “Dad’s not so bad, and he seldom gets mad…”
I remember it and I recall liking it. Saw the aforementioned episodes on Cartoon Network and it really didn’t hold up. I would be interested in seeing it, though.
I’m amazed that this is out on DVD while Max Headroom languishes unreleased…
Yeah, BBC 1 showed this for a while when I was a kid. It always struck me as a cartoon that could have been done live action style, because it didn’t have talking cats and nobody flew. But yeah, that theme song is still stuck in my brain!