I wouldn’t say Jabberjaw was the worst. Just a mediocre combination of Scooby Doo and Josie and the Pussycats.
That’s sad, because I loved it as a kid. It was paired with Frankenstein Jr, a giant robot Frankenstein monster. I loved the both.
I was six.
There was a series of cartoons from 1963 made of King Features Syndicate comic strips that was gawdawful. It was called Beetle Bailey and His Friends, who were Snuffy Smith and Krazy Kat.
I think pretty much everything from the 70s and 80s sucked. It wasn’t until the 90s cartoon renaissance that cartoons started to get good again. Tiny Toons, Batman TAS, Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs changed the face of animation.
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I nominate Colonel Bleep, the first color cartoon made for TV.
[/QUOTE]I’ll see your Colonel Bleep and raise you Crusader Rabbit, the first cartoon produced for TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo
You’ve been warned.
What level of Scavullo Hell have we descended into that Beany and Cecil and Johhny Quest are considered bad!? Beckdawrek, you and I can no longer be friends. 
Popeye died to me after Fleischer quit making them until the rarely seen these days Popeye shorts were made
I think they made them in the 60s-70s for tv (I cant remember who made them tho all I remember they had someone riding a winged horse and it had an animated feather intro and outro) but they were based more on the actual strip characterizations (although sweetpea was such a smartass ) and more slice of life stories … Bluto and Popeye fought sometimes but ti wasn’t the main story …my favorite one was the automated supermarket…
I think you’re confusing it with The Venture Bros episode with Steve Summers (the Bionic Man) and his Sasquatch bride.
Jot
Oh the Triumvirate of mediocrity that was my childhood: The Amazing Spiderman, who apparently only hired one voice actor for every role, Rocket Robin Hood whose theme song would be stuck in my head for days which is tied with Mighty Hercules (Daedulus,Danger! Daedulus! Whiinny!) Kill Newton, PLease! Finally, the abomination that was Space Angel. Worst animation and storylines ever. I’ve included links to back my claim up…
If you like one note being played on a piano all the time.
I think you’re thinking of the later King Features ones - the ones where Bluto is named Brutus for some legal reason. These were hit and miss; what I assume were the older ones (the animation was not as sharp as the other episodes) had much better writing. I remember one where Olive asks if Popeye needs anything, and he responds, “Yeah - a good writer to write me spinach into the script!”
I was getting up there in years when I saw Ed, Edd, and Eddie. I thought they kicked ass. There were some really bad cartoons out out by Hanna-Barbera inn the seventies. Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch was pretty terrible.
Squirrel and Hedgehog
I was also 11 in '62. My smartass friends and I would make fun of The Mighty Hercules, saying “Great Zeus!” and “That’s me! That’s me!” Even by the low-budget cheapo animation standards of the day TMH was moronic.
Disclaimer- We’d get stuck having to watch TMH because it was on the same afternoon cartoons show that featured the Fleischer Popeye cartoons.
And I mildly curse you for reviving memories of Herc and Newt, Newt, which I’d mercifully forgotten about.
With me and my friends, it was “Grape juice!” and “Fire in every fart.”
Sufferin’ Psyche, Herc! Whatyougonna do? Whatyougonna do?
Two pages and still no mention of Diver Dan. I’m gobsmacked.
Heresy! B&C was a classic! How can you not love a theme song with “Your obedient serpent” in the lyrics? How can you not love a gang that travels to the “No Bikini Atoll”? Great show by the legendary Bob Clampett.
The art on Space Angel – by comic book legend Alex Toth – is considered some of the best in the history of Saturday morning cartoons.
And Beany and Cecil as well as its puppet version Time for Beany are among the best ever. It was up there with Rocky and Bullwinkle for cleverness, and was designed for adults (or rather, Bob Clampett) instead of kids.
I guess you have to like puns to really enjoy Crusader Rabbit. Not the greatest cartoon, but I found it enjoyable.
[Krusty] What the hell was that? [/Krusty]
“The Mighty Hercules” did have that great theme song, written and sung by Johnny Nash before he went rock steady.
The Mighty Hercules was ruined for me by a flash of insight during the first episode.
Evildoers are attacking. TMH whips out his magic ring and dons it, thereby giving him magic strength. Why the heck does he ever take it off? It might make every episode two minutes long, but I’m not seeing a downside to that.
Regards,
Shodan