Rain Delay

Sorry, folks. I've been traveling and making wedding plans the last couple of days, so I'll be posting the Superman Sunday post tomorrow. In the meantime, check out this British Superman Documentary that's been making the rounds on Twitter. I've only had time to watch a little bit, but it seems quite interesting.

Cereal Ramblings

This commercial, for a cereal I never ate, shows up on a huge number of my cartoon videos from the '80s.

I reference it on a fairly regular basis.

I don't know anyone else who has seen it, least of all the people around when I growl "I don't know" in that voice.

I'm trying to correct that last bit.



Bonus! Enjoy this moderately racist commercial, also from my childhood.

I can't post this enough

In light of my last post, I wanted to give an example of the real Fantastic Four, someone who really gets the team's personality and dynamics. Nothing fits the bill quite like this:

"And the Thing just loves to fight!" Why, it's like they've leapt off the page and onto the screen!

The Brave and the Blue

Okay, so this looks awesome, and I bet it'll be tons of fun.

But, um...isn't that the theme song from The Tick?

Except, you know, done with instruments.

Partly Real

You know, every other damn '80s cartoon has a huge cult following. ThunderCats is out on (horrendously overpriced) DVD sets, the He-Man (and friends) boxes have set a new standard for cartoon releases on DVD, Transformers keeps on truckin' with a new movie and oodles of new toys (though I wish someone would get around to re-releasing the box sets, I only managed to get the first two), even Captain N: The Game Master managed to get the neo-laserdisk treatment.

So where the heck are the SilverHawks?
Yeah, it was "ThunderCats in space," with even the same voice cast. Yeah, the physics were all sorts of nutty. But it was a fun show with a killer theme song, and every episode would take time out at the end--not for a cheesy moral--but to teach science. And I can't argue with that.

Incidentally, I can think of only one cartoon of that era with a better theme song...
Ah YouTube. Thank you for providing me easy content.