Sure, I remember the “brute-like servant Torg” - “Guru, Master of Strange Ways,” and “Keyop, who can only speak in clicks and whirrs”
Chumley: “uhh Tennessee how we gonna get outta here???”
TN’esse Tuxedo replies:
“We will build a catapult !!”
The Merrie Melodies!
“I’m wearin’ my green fedora, fedora, fedora,
Not for Alice or for Annie but for Dora…”
“It’s as easy as falling off a log…”
“I wanna singa about the moon-a, and the June-a, and the…”
When I was a teenager, I watched Starblazers and my all-time favorite, M.A.S.K.
But when I was younger, mostly H-B, including Banana Splits, which wasn’t a cartoon.
I was recently talking to my husband, and he had never seen Captain Caveman, even though he’s just 2 years older than me.
Loved Dastardly and Muttley, Flintstones, Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, Quick Draw McGraw, Scooby-Doo, Secret Squirrel and Yogi Bear. And Captain Caveman, of course.
The Banana Splits was the first TV show that was my “favorite,” when I was 3 or 4 years old. I even had my parents mail away for a membership for me in the Banana Splits Fan Club.
And, then, decades later, I watched an episode or two of the show as an adult. Ohhh, my, it was so very bad. ![]()
Have you seen the new Banana Splits movie? It’s pretty terrible, but I liked how they updated the Splits to make them into a kind of Five Nights at Freddy’s horrorshow. The movie is surprisingly gory.
Nope. Once I heard that it was a horror movie, I had no interest in watching it.
I second this review.
Hanna-Barbera made many of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. As a young adult I found a book in the library with all their cartoons through the years and quickly saw a whole bunch of their shows had the repeated formula of a group of boys/girls with an animal mascot who solved crimes. Found this interesting YT that touches on it:
Trivia: Don Adams modeled Tennessee Tuxedo’s voice on William Powell (a detail that may intrude the next time you watch a Thin Man movie), and Howard Stern’s father was the show’s sound engineer.
Cuckoo Man from The Mighty Heroes.