Best Saturday Morning Cartoons of All Time, Ranked

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Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. As always, got a great subject for you today. What we are gonna do today is we are gonna do our ultimate Saturday morning lineup as a kid. Obviously, so many of us around our age know how precious that was to get in front of that TV on Saturday morning with your big bowl of cereal and just watch away. First of all, of course, let me introduce the boys. I got Dongo here. He what's happening? Hello, Donald. Brother Mark? Hey, how's it going? Good man, and Kev. Hello! Hello, and I am AJ. So uh what we always like to do right out of the gate, because we do like to get the ball rolling real quickly here at past times at 80s high. But we like to give a shout out. Lots of new listeners coming in, lots of new uh feedback, likes, downloads. Thank you all so much. And Kevin, would you like the honors on that?

Absolutely. I want to do a little different this week, and I want to talk to some people or shout out to some people that are making our socials kind of uh spread out a little bit. So we got Jennifer from right here in our area, a good friend of yours, I believe, yes, who's been liking and and sharing our stuff and it's so helpful, and we want to thank you. Thank you. And uh a young lady named SA Baby Doll online has also been doing the same for us, been very helpful and given us some love online, which helps the word spread and helps us grow. As well as we have new listeners in Seijong, Ennis, Texas, Sunman, Indiana, as well as Erding, Bavaria. Always fun trying to get those names.

What was the first one you said?

Senjong.

Is that in a it sounded like you sukami deep?

Is that like in Spanish something? Where is it?

I didn't have a chance to look it up. It says Seijong, Seijong.

Yeah. Oh, thank you so much, all of you out there for all of this. I mean, it's very exciting to the four of us just to see how this is taking off. We're real proud of it, and we look forward to this every other week. Just awesome. Thank you. And today, Kevin, you have the on hairs, so you want to just get the ball rolling?

Yeah, we are talking about uh Saturday morning lineups, and I couldn't I had to bring in the banana splits. Ah, yeah. It had such a great intro. It was one of those ones that just kind of stuck in your head, but it was also the live-action ones that were just a little bit bizarre, a little weird, not your run-of-the-mill stuff. Uh, you had three musketeers.

You'll never be a musketeer if you can't get the better of a monkey, Tooley.

He won't fight fair.

You had Arabian Knights, the cartoon as well, but the one that always got me was Danger Island. Yes. Um, which was the cliffhanger that just kept going. I mean, it was they were short vignettes, and they just they were over almost before they began, and I don't know if I ever knew the whole story. You know what I mean? You never got it, never finished. Finalized. You just saw these little clips. The the the female lead was rather attractive, and then the young man, Link, was of course Jan Michael Vincent from uh Karate Movie Fame. Also, the director was Richard Donner. Wow, Goonie Superman, lethal weapon, which is kind of crazy to think that you know they did a lot of that like fast zoom and zoom in and zoom out. So there's a lot of stuff going on there that I'm sure he learned not to do later when when he became a uh famous director. But uh that was a cool show.

Incredible show.

It was weird and funny and stuck in my mind. Awesome pick, Kev.

Great pick.

All right, Mark. Okay, well, the way I'm gonna be doing this today is I'm starting like the earliest in the morning until you know, maybe early afternoon, even. And the other thing I need to mention, I'm I'm thinking back to the 70s because I'm getting kind of old. I have to rub my hands and fight an eps and salt. But seriously, yeah. Um, so back in the early 70s, uh, the Highland Globetrotters. Nice, yeah, yeah.

If you'll all be so kind as to stand aside, oh Git will load up things. Hurry.

When I looked it up, I because I remember this when when I was doing my list, and um, there was also in the late 70s Super Trotters. So I I I don't remember that one. But anyway, um, this one had a great coach, her name was Granny, and they always got themselves into trouble, kind of, and they got in with a bad group of other the other team. You know, there was one episode, the uh flatfields, uh they had a big war with the coys, and the only way to end this is for one of the coys to marry one of the flat fields. They played basketball against the Glow Trotters, and uh but they were playing on the flat field rule, which of course they just cheated. They no dribbling, they just would carry the I mean it was just on the shenanigans, the tomfoolery, you know, Valley Who Canary, yeah. And they always got way behind. They always got way behind. But once they figured it out, all of a sudden they would like sink 35 baskets in a row, which you could do. The other team never got the ball. Just all these basketballs just kept going down through the hoop. And it was just really good, clean, fun. And I enjoyed it so much when I was a little boy.

Fun show, man. I loved Curly on that show.

Yeah, Curly was just the the Globetrotters that we all remember and love.

If I that was their heyday, you know, that was their prime.

I think their actual games kind of went the same way, too. They'd get behind by a handful and then come up and wipe everybody out. Yeah.

Well, they actually did lose a game once in the real Globetrotters. It was the early 70s, and they just got going with their chicanery and everything, and they forgot there wasn't much time left, and they couldn't come back. They lost nice. And they looked like everyone was like they shot, had their dog shot, or somebody killed Santa Claus. They just they were heartbroken, sincerely and genuinely heartbroken.

Was that on Gilligan's Island?

I know I'm just uh this is the truth. No, I know, I get it. But just a fun cartoon that I had totally forgotten about until I started thinking about it. So that's my my first show. Great.

All right. So I'm kind of doing the same thing, but this is my order, not necessarily the way it went back then. And I just always remember how in the early morning it was always a little pointed towards the younger crowd, a little more wholesome and whatnot. And this, Mark, you talk about going back in time. A lot of mine are from that era, too. But this started in 1961. Wow. Yep. So obviously in syndication, 15-minute episodes, and it was a show called Davy and Goliath.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

This was uh a claymation, very it was actually a Christian show, I believe. I remember that. They would always have but they always had a mission or something go wrong. Uh the dog could talk, but I don't know if the dog ever talked to anyone but Davy. So Davy. But Davy.

Exactly. He was a dope dog.

Nicolias. Anybody else would have thrown us right out of there.

And made us pay for the donuts, too.

I guess he loves us.

I hope those bees love us, or we'll get stung.

But it was just so much fun. They, you know, they'd get lost in a cave or lost on the water, and they they would just always figure it out together as a team and reach out, and it they would explain it at the end and why why doing this thing would always get you out of trouble if you put your faith into it. And it was great, just very wholesome, and I liked it. I just remember really, you know, sitting down in front of that TV and enjoying the show. Yeah. Got the troth of cereal and lied down on the floor.

See, I must have I must have got up later back then because it ran on Saturdays and Sundays. Yep. But I always thought that that was it was only Sundays. It's not, you're right. But that was always like, so you had all the great cartoons on Saturday, and then Sunday morning there was David Goliath. That was it, you know.

Yeah, it's different when you didn't have the rest to look forward to, I'm sure.

You know, yeah, it was that and it was over, and you're like, oh man.

All right, Dongo, first pick to you. Cool. So I'm going with this as a live action, and this was one that goes back to it was 1974 to 1976, and it was land of the lost. Even being pre-pubescent, if that's the right word, I still had a little crush on Holly. She was probably my first screen crush. Yeah, she was the only screen screen crush, Kathleen Coleman. And that was her only credit, was that Land of the Lost. That was her only show. Um, but yeah, I just loved this. I love the uh you know, the slea stacks, they freaked me out when I was a kid. Yeah, they were looking back at them now. That they're probably like you know, aliens or whatever, you know, frog aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they had the orange one.

Yeah, he was the good guy.

He was the good one, yeah.

Anyway, he's the only one that talked. Incredible pick, Donald. Yeah, what a show.

God.

All right, to you, Kev.

Okay, so my my number six pick is the staple. Um, I had to look up the difference between merry melodies and Looney Tunes. And apparently they they were at the same time, and we're talking back in the 30s up through. The only difference I could see is that Merry Melodies were kind of like they were the first ones that are in color, they were one-shot, um, filmed as opposed to you know multi-edits and whatever else. Um, but then obviously, as you know, the characters became huge, um, they went off and Looney Tunes became the thing, and and Merry Melodies kind of fell by the wayside. But they had such great ones. I mean, obviously, you've got bugs. Um, one of my favorites was uh Shishka Bugs, where uh Yosemite Sam is the is the chef for the king, who definitely looked like an inbred kind of ball, you know. Bring me my haws and feffa.

Your most honorable majestic majesty graciousness. Did you say haws and fever? Yes, hawsenfe.

Which is rabbits, dude if you haven't looked that one up. And then you had Foghorn Leghorn with you know the I say boa. I say boa. I said, I said you a chicken, and I'm a chicken hawk. I'm gonna eat you. I I say boa.

Love the chicken hawk.

But one of my all-time favorites was it actually was done three or four times. Um, I think it was the 45 one that we had all recognized, and that was the blue hillbilly jumping around saying, I know something I won't tell. I know something I won't tell.

Annoying bastard.

Oh, but it was good. Injun Joe is ticklish. And it was just one of those ones that just stuck with you, and you know, Injun Joe was probably they probably don't show it anymore because it was a little bit um uh whatever they'd call it today. Racial ins insensitive insensitive, yes, to the Native Americans. Right.

I know something I won't tell, I won't tell, I won't tell, I know something I won't tell, but you know. Well, it's just that the engine Joe is uh uh Dickley.

The other thing about it is I was always wondered why the Hillbilly character was blue. And then I remembered I had read an article that in the 18 somethings there was in Kentucky, Hazard County, Kentucky, there were the the blue fugates. And I'm guessing it was due to interbreeding or something like that. But these people actually had blue skin, so not only was it racially insensitive to American Indians, it was racially insensitive to an extremely minor group of they were actually blue, which is crazy. But I I just always wondered why why did they make him blue? And and I'm sure that's what it was.

Wow, that's insane.

So anyway, so that was I think that was a staple for us. That was like the centerpiece of all of the all of the cartoons on Saturday morning. Everything around Saturday morning, like you say, started with Davey and Goliath, and then there was Bugs, and then there was everything else. Oh yeah. It was which were I mean, they were great shows, but that was the the fixture.

Incredible. Awesome. All right, Mark.

Number six to you. I'm going. Uh this show was about an absolutely beautiful woman played by Billy Hayes. Her name was Witchy Pooh, and she was always in pursuit of this stupid flute named Freddie who talked. He was solid gold, okay? And you had that wise ass kid played by Jack Wilde named Jimmy and that stupid mayor, puffin' stuff. But uh no, I absolutely adored this show as a very small child.

HR, puffin' stuff, push them when things get rough. HR puffin stuff, can't do anything.

Back as a child, I was afraid of that witch.

You know?

I was afraid of the whole show. You were they were all freaky, yeah. Yeah, but she was such a great witch, and she just she got Freddie. She always got him, but they always got him back.

You knew the second you said beautiful, it was gonna be someone homely.

What are you talking about? You know, something beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and she was gorgeous, so they not quite as pretty as the fabulous Moola, but still pretty, pretty cute.

Now in the eye of the beer holder. Exactly.

Yeah, awesome. It was great fun as a kid, you know. I loved it. I love this the intro song.

It's a little long-winded, but you know, it's kind of a Sid and Marty Croft kind of signature that their intros were I I doubt anybody has Lidsville, but that one the intro's like twice as long as the show.

They're like telling the whole thing before the show. Right, exactly.

You're like, wow, okay, that's now I know this guy's whole life story. Great, let's get to the five seconds of action.

He was a pretty good mayor, though. I mean, yeah, I guess I'll give him his view. All right.

All right, so six to me, and damn it. I thought I was gonna get to this one first, having it at number six, but it is Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition. And speaking of Sid and Marty Croft, produced by them as well, this show to me, and thank you, Donald, for being brief because you left out some of the stuff I wanted to say about it, but just the dinosaurs in it. You know, it was so important to me with Alice and and Chuckka.

Remember Chuck? Oh, yes, I forgot about him.

He was annoying as hell, but you mentioned the slea stacks, and they they creeped the F out of me as well. For sure. But the red dude, I had his name and I lost it. And he was like the kind of the mediator that Marshall would go talk to and they'd figure shit out to keep the peace.

Enoch, the Altrusion. And listen, whoever you are, thanks. Those monsters are My ancestors.

Huh?

I am of the generation to be born to this place. Ten thousand, perhaps a hundred thousand years from now.

You mean you're not alive yet?

Just the dinosaurs of it. Something that this makes me think of is our dear late brother David. Mum would ask him to read to me when I was a little boy, and I was infatuated with dinosaurs. I had like 50 different dinosaur books, and David, being a musician his whole life, would piss me off so bad because I'd be lying in Mom's bed. David would lie down to read to me, and every line he would sing on purpose to irritate me. So the Tyrannosaurus went over here. I'm like, will you just read me the fucking book? And uh he used to laugh so hard, and I would get so mad, I'd run out and tell mom. And uh anyway, it's a great memory for me. But the land of the lost, just incredible show. And I will lose. They were great actors too, I gotta tell you. Well, hence Holly not going on to anything afterwards, right? Right. Her storied career. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Uh all right, Dongo, wrap up number six. All right, so this one's uh G.I. Joe, real American hero. I used to love watching G.I. Joe.

G.I. Joe against Cobra and Descro, fighting to save the day. He never gives up. He's always there, fighting the freedom over land and air.

G.I. Joe! G.I. Joe's dead!

And I still want that damn. If anybody ever wants to get me the aircraft carrier toy, you know, it's like the best toy.

Found it online, I think.

We accept gifts here at Pastimes at Airzar. Right, right. I still want if I got that today, I'd probably be like, oh yeah. Make its own room.

I didn't like his toxic masculinity, though. That really bothered me terribly.

But I liked, you know, when I was young, young, I had the the original G.I. Joe's, which were like, you know, a foot tall, and they had like, you know, real afro hair, and they had like the kung fu grip and all that shit. And then the new the cartoon came out, and it's you know, it's by Hasbro, and you know, they're they're promoting toys and all that kind of stuff. But what I thought was cool about the cartoon and kind of like dumb in the same vein is that. Like no one ever died on the show. Like you would shoot down planes and everyone would always parachute. If a tank got hit, the dudes would run away, you know. So no one ever got killed. It was just like, you know, warfare, but everything's very realistic. So that's that's what I took out of that cartoon. Nice. All right, Kev, uh, this is we're up to five.

All right, starting off number five, we're not the greatest cartoon ever. It wasn't any kind of magic, it didn't run long, but it just stuck with me because it was just so dumb. And of course, it was goofing on the Batman kind of thing. It was Dynamutt the Wonder Dog.

Yes! Stronger than a train with a so-so brain. Uh, you talking about me, Blue Falcon? Good. He's fearless, scareless, a little too careless. Dino! He's a cocoa dog person, the fee dog wondered.

And it was kind of like if you replaced, because Gary Owen did the voice of the Blue Falcon or BF, and he was really doing Batman. He he was he was doing Adam West. And so if you replaced Robin with a goofy robotic dog that could be everything from a vacuum cleaner to, you know, whatever else, and it was just goofy and dumb and and and it was fun, but it was just I think it carried it. It played on our love for Batman, and it kind of carried that over to Saturday morning. And yeah, obviously, uh it was um Welker doing the voice of uh Dino Mutt, uh Frank Welker, who did so many voices, yeah, and just just a great goofy, goofy cartoon, and I loved it.

Awesome. Jimmy Walker should have done that one. Dino Mutt Dino Mutt.

He was busy doing Dino Might at the end.

I always thought he was kind of cool looking.

Dynamutt or the blue falcon?

The blue falcon, yeah. And Dino Mutt was far more skilled than Robin.

Yeah, yeah, he was.

They didn't put him in a sidecar and let him crash into something at 90 miles an hour.

Great pick, Kev. I had him written down as well. Did you? Awesome. Nice. All right, Mark Five.

Okay, I could not leave this off my list because this is the one when I think of Saturday morning cartoons, the first thing that comes to my mind is Scooby-Doo. So I I had to go with that. I'm not gonna talk about it all that much.

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? We got some work to do now. Scooby-Dooy-Doo, where are you? We need some help from you now.

I mean, obviously, I mean, you know the cast. Everyone knows the cast. You had that wonderful, mysterious, what is the name of the van? The mystery van. A mystery van.

What did you do, me dad? Sneak, go off to some chiropractor and get yourself fixed.

Mystery machine. Mystery machine. Whatever. Okay, but mystery machine. But one thing I just wanted to mention about this show that I don't know if you guys know about is Supernatural with Sam and Dean. In one of the episodes, they actually went into a cartoon. And it was just hilarious. And uh you guys could look it up. So the ladies' man, of course, he falls in love with uh is it Daphne? Daphne.

It wasn't Velma.

No, it wasn't you know what? Velma, if I bet if you put a little makeup on her, you know, had her drop 30 pounds.

I don't think she plays for a different team, though. Yeah. That's what I think, too.

All right, well, I'm just I'm trying to stick up for her, you know. That's Saturday morning cartoon.

Scooby-Doo. Yeah. A lot of our minds go, right? Oh, yeah.

And I I had to cut Scooby-Doo, and I'm glad that you brought him up. I know we've talked about him before, but you know what I realized as we're looking at this is how many shows took the exact same plot and were, you know, mystery solving kids or whatever else. Just in the Pussycats, Funky Phantoms, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw. I hope nobody's got any of those. But those were all like, I mean, they were Scooby-Doo. Same thing, yeah.

With different characters, Scooby-Doo with a different cast. Exactly. All right. So my number five is probably gonna be the a surprising one, but I was thinking about, I was like wondering when I was picking it, how old was I? Was I too old to be watching this? But this goes back to 1981. And if anyone out there doesn't like it, they can smurf themselves. Anyway, it's the smurfs. I love this show, and particularly Gargamel and Azriel. Uh, Gargamel the wizard and Azriel the cat that just always want apparently the Smurfs were worth money because he was always trying to catch them and sell them because he thought he was the only one that you know knew they existed, really.

Ooh, I hate the Smurfs. I'll get you. I'll get all of you if it's the last thing I ever do.

He was just an epic failure.

Never catch him. He was just don't know how you can have a species with only one female.

I know, right? Smurf. Smurf apples tire. She's exhausted. But the smurfs, I mean, I had to do it. You know, they were great. It was 81, so really I was nine, I think, when it started. So that's not too crazy, although nine was a lot different back then. Nine is now was the new 14.

Well, you know, it's out there now. Everyone knows you like the Smurfs, AJ. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I'm giving you my two-week notice.

I know what I'm getting you for Christmas.

What's that?

Smurfette t-shirt. Uh I'll wear it.

Brainy Smurf. Jokey, clumsy, grumpy, I said. Uh Hefty. Hefty was one of the main ones. Was he the muscle bound one?

He was the strong one with the smurf or whatever he was.

The heart tattoo, like with the arrow through it on his bicep. Well, fuck y'all. I like the smurfs.

I'm not quitting. I I will not quit.

All right, Dongo, number five.

All right. For my number five, I'm going back to what it was like for Saturday morning cartoons. And I remember getting the TV guide, and they would give like the fall preview. Yeah. You know, because like the new season started like Labor Day. So they would typically send out the TV guide and would show like what's coming up, and you would get excited to see what the Saturday morning lineup was. That was always like an exciting thing for me. Damn, right. And I remember getting psyched when I saw Dungeons and Dragons was coming. And I love that cartoon.

That was Venger, the force of evil. I am Dungeon Master, your guide in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons.

So it was a good cartoon. I loved I love Dungeons and Dragons. It was like a thing that I wanted to do when I was a little kid. And you know, I bought the books and my parents got the books, and I never played because I could never find anybody that played. Because they instantly categorized you as a geek. Right, right. And you need like you need like a group of people and they need to know how to do it. And it's funny because it says on the on the things, it's like for ages six and up or whatever, but it it should say for like ages 35 and up.

I know, yeah. Tough as it's like.

It's not something a six-year-old kid can do. No way.

Yeah, but if you're 35, you've got to be living in the basement at your mother's house if you're playing D D.

But it was it was E.T.

They were playing D D and ET, and then obviously Stranger Things.

The Demogorgon! Well, you're actually- I don't know. Fireball him! They'd have to roll a 13 or higher. You're risky, cast a protection. Don't be a pussy. Fireball him! Cast protection. The Demagorgon is tired of your silly human bickering! It stops towards you. Boom! Fireball him! Stop! Boom! Protect me!

It was the artwork that I really drew me to it, you know. There was like really cool artwork on the books and stuff. Yeah. But then they give you the dice, and if you have, you know, it's really hard to figure out how to play, and you definitely can't. It's not like a family game, like Ma Dad, let's sit down and play kind of thing, you know. You have to find other geeks, and it's really hard to do that.

So that's number four to you, Kev. All right. Here's one you guys have never heard of before ever. It's called Land of the Lost. But it was, I mean, it was a great show, and we enjoyed it, and it was like you were talking about the dinosaurs and the forced perspective, the claymation, and and all that was just like very cool on a Saturday morning and a nice kind of break from all the other cartoons that were happening. Um, the only other thing I can say about it is that there were actually writers from Star Trek.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh DC Fontana, as well as Chekhov, Walter Conan, um, actually wrote on the first couple seasons of Land of the Lost. So little Star Trek uh connection that I thought Dongo would uh Chekov say that like myself, you have fallen through a dimensional doorway.

In my case, however, only time was affected, not location. Those monsters are my antecedents. It is a tool for traveling through the universe.

Cool. Awesome pick. I mean, I thought all of us would have that. I just tried to put it early, damn it. Don't go, you may be.

Not early enough. Right. All right, Mark. All right, well, uh, I'm going with Josie and the Pussycats.

Yes.

Is that okay, Kevin? But uh, no, and and I absolutely get the uh well, you mentioned it when we were talking about Scooby-Doo. Oh, sorry, I get Oh no, that's fine, but it I because I totally get it. That is that's what it reminds me of. I mean, the two guys. But anyway, Josie and the Pussycats had the first African American woman. Her name was Valerie on it. You had Josie and Melody, if it was ever You mean the first black cartoon character ever? That's what I meant. Yep. And Melody is probably the first cartoon that I would ever want to bang. God, is she hot? Did you see her in that friggin' skirt? Okay, there I have, there I go again. But I mean, she in this this show, I mean, they did play on some stereotypes. Not with Valerie, but with uh Melody. Oh my god, was she dumber than a box of rock? You know, the dumb blonde. But she was hotter than hell and just I don't know.

No, I love cartoon women.

Yeah, but but she was yeah, and this is the early 70s. But I just I I was watched this, it was like a good follow-up to Scooby-Doo.

And uh rock and rolling.

Guitars and shops and black, me, sweet goofy songs, you're invited to come along.

Yeah, and of course, they had the band, and I mean, I don't understand why Josie's guitar had no strings, but let that go. And uh they were faking it back then. Yeah, yeah. Alexander, she was the girl with the skunk hair. Although she was kind of cute too, if he got past the skunk hair. But she really she was in love with uh um Josie's boyfriend. And so, you know, she'd always try to impress him, and it just never worked out well for her. Then you had the cat Sebastian that would go, yeah.

Kind of like the Motley cat.

Yes, and I I mean I felt bad cause you know, because girls had cooties back then that I was watching a cartoon with mostly girls, and uh but I I enjoyed it and I picked it and you know, that's what I did. So I I hope I did it justice. It was on CBS. That is my fourth show. We're running through the afternoon, I mean the morning now. We're getting, you know, 10 30, 11-ish, I would say.

Awesome.

So fun fun fact, Melody was voiced by Sherry Moore, who was later known as Cheryl Ladd.

Ooh, no worries.

Nice. No wonder she was so fucking hot. Exactly.

Awesome pick.

All right. So my number four, and this is coming back from the past shows, because I picked this before once before, but I could not leave it off my list. And that's the Super Friends. Just this show was incredible to me. There were several versions of it, and this one's from 1978, and they called this the Challenge of the Super Friends.

Banded together from remote galaxies are 13 of the most sinister villains of all time. The Legion of Doom, dedicated to a single objective, the conquest of the universe. Only one group dares to challenge this intergalactic friend, the super friends, the Dustin League of America versus the Legion of Doom. This is the challenge of the Super Friends.

And it was an hour long, and it kind of broke up into two different parts, which I believe the first was called Super Friends, which was with the Wonder Twins and Gleek, who we discussed once before, that little monkey Gleek, pain in the ass. Um but then the second half was always the Justice League versus the Legion of Doom. You know, all the typical, a lot of the typical villains with some random ones in there as well. But they would do they would base the episodes off of you know famous books and shows. And for example, Frankenstein was an episode, Lord of the Rings, and it was just a lot of fun. I mean, you had Superman, Batman, and Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and many more. Green Lantern was on it, I believe.

And just that was a great show.

It was just so much fun, and I could not leave it off my list, but I kind of Donnie and I both, I think, covered it before in the last cartoon episode, so I will move it to you, Dongo.

Alright, so I'm going with from 1984 to 1987 was the Transformers. Yes. Again, another tra thing to sell toys from Hasbro and Takara's. Kind of Japanese anime in a way. There's a company called uh Toy, if I'm pronouncing that right. It's T-O-E-I, and uh their animation, so Japanese animation kind of I like Japanese animation. A lot of people love that that kind of genre of cartoon. Oh, yeah. Um, but the Transformers were cool, and I don't know who voiced Optimus Prime, probably heard the name or seen the name, but it's got the greatest voice of all time, you know, um, from any cartoon character, and they were just cool.

Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies.

And talk about, like, you know, how we were talking about Star Wars letdown and the Dungeons and Dragons let down. But when Transformers, the movie, came out, just put Megan Fox out there, and everyone's gonna be like, Yeah, this movie's awesome. Because she was a smoke show in that movie.

She still is a smoke show, but Machine Gun Kelly kind of destroyed her for me. But that's just me. Yeah, she's still I would I would let that go.

Everybody, everybody has badge, right? Right.

Little Dennis Rodman Madonna kind of thing happening.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

Yeah, but you let it go, man. You gotta let it go. Uh but yeah. So Transformers was a fun, fun cartoon. Definitely, yeah.

Yeah, Frank Welker did Megatron and Peter Cullen was Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime wasn't Frank Welker also Fred? Yeah, like oh he was done everyone, right? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. He's he like took up where Mel Blank left off as far as cartoons go and voices. He's been, I think, everything.

Awesome. Yeah. Uh I'm wondering if something else is gonna come up, but I will not say it right now after that. Pick Dongo. We shall see. Awesome. So that's three to you, then, Kev. Stimpy, you idiot.

Ren and Stimpy, not originally a Saturday morning show, but it did at one point run on Saturday morning, so I checked to make sure that powdered within the parameters of said cast. Um, absolutely loved those characters. The show was great. Powdered toast man, powdered toast man.

Hello, fellas. What seems to be the trouble?

We are allowed to powdered toast toast.

Leave everything to me. You had the the three-toed shaving yak, yak shaving day, you know, and if you were good, he would come and you let you had to leave out some hot shaving foam for him, and he would shave, and you'd get up in the morning and you would find shaving cream and beard stubble. Uh but it was just it was so I mean, they went so far beyond the one that always stuck in my head was there was a a wrestling one where they were tag teaming this huge brute, and he ended up he couldn't Stimpy couldn't get out of, I'm sorry, Ren couldn't get out of the hold, and he was down by his foot, and there was like a big like a bunion or something on his foot that close up, and Stimpy just opens his mouth. I mean, Ren opens his mouth and just bites down on him and gets out of the hole. It was just such a hilarious, hilarious program, and it totally went beyond anything that we saw prior to that.

Definitely. He he always just Ren, for some reason, disturbed me.

Oh, yes, yes, they they were both very disturbing, but they also brought us great ads like Log.

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It's big, it's ready, it's fine. It's better than every little from Bamo.

I don't know if you remember that.

I don't think you've ever seen the show.

Oh my god, you need to look it up.

Absolutely.

I thought you brought it up in the past. That's what it's fun for a girl and a boy.

Well, maybe I have. I don't know. It's just nothing that rings a bell.

That was the voice of I can't remember Wren or Stippy, like kind of like that classic, like quasi moto type of character, you know what I mean?

Like the Ren with the Stimpy was Billy West was doing pretty much Larry Fine as Stimpy from the Stooges.

Yeah, exactly.

Um, which I always love that.

He was so I thought it was Larry's voice who was long dead, but I when I'm listening to the It popped on YouTube the other night randomly, and I genuinely thought it was Larry, like the voice. I'm like, where do I know that voice from? Right. Yeah. He did it so well.

And then he did, he did, um Billy West ended up doing the voice on Futurama. Um so that's where you also kind of rang because he's got a very distinct voice and and very close to Larry Fine, I think in his normal talking voice.

Yeah. Awesome. Great voice, great show. Around the Beavis and Butthead start, too, right? Like when all kind of they kind of all came out with disturbing, more disturbing stuff.

Yeah.

You know. But anyway. Bad reference, but I'll explain my point later. But anyway, to you, Mark. Shazam! Yes! Do you guys remember that show? Hell yeah. He was I used to have his under roos.

His under roos. I mean, I I o I only watched one episode this week. I mean, because I loved the show as a kid up in Littleton. I watched it and I enjoyed it thoroughly. You know, two bucks on whatever the hell it was, Amazon Prime. But you had Michael Gray playing the boy Billy Batson, just and what I want to say is the acting was really kind of good on this show. You had uh his mentor, whose name was Mentor. Imagine this. Trey Lane or whatever, and then of course Captain Marvel was first played by Jackson Bostick, and then John Davy. There were contract disputes or whatever. But uh so yeah, he I mean uh Billy Batson would talk to the I don't if you want to come the elders or then they were like they were great gods.

Chosen from amongst others by the immortal elders, Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury, Billy Batson and his mentors travel the highways and byways of the land on a never-ending mission to write wrongs, to develop understanding, and to seek justice for all.

Um, one of the lines on that show was even better than a uh a friend that you can trust is a friend that trusts you. Ah, yes. Great. And uh they they always are trying to help set people on the straight and narrow, and and it just was a very wholesome show. I know this is kind of a theme. I'm gonna uh it ties in with a show that came after that I'm not picking, and I I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're you guys aren't picking it, but you know, ISIS was a show.

I did cut that from my list.

You did? Yes, but yeah, yeah, but I mean ISIS the warrior print no warrior princess, or was that gotta be careful nowadays? Yeah, I know ISIS, I get it. But back then we weren't thinking that way. Right. We're on a list now. Thanks. But it there were two. I mean, this was not a this was not a cartoon. It was a I mean, although the Greek gods were cartoons, but I look forward to the show like you wouldn't believe. And uh Captain Marvel, a great superhero.

What a great superhero! I had to stick up for Shazam back in the day. Like I was so into my underoos and putting them on lamb chop, my stuffed lamb, and making him a super lamb. Genuinely, I had to put Superman down for a while because I thought Shazam was cooler.

He was he was that's not serious.

That the bad guy was getting away with the damn car and he stopped it. He went ahead, he threw a boulder in front. So, yes, he was very powerful. He was more powerful than Superman. Give me a break.

Interesting though, that on the show that they had two actors. You know what I mean? Usually if somebody turned in, Clark Kent was the same actor as Superman or whatever else. So I just thought that was I always felt that was interesting on Shazam that they have when he turned into Captain Marvel, right? It was a different actor.

No, the the f oh right. In other words, oh, okay. You're not saying that the two actors that played Captain Marvel. Yeah, it was different, definitely different. Great show, though. It was such a fun show. Yeah, I love that. And it just made me feel good. It made me feel good about humanity, which is hard to do.

I'm gonna go watch it now.

I know, right? Awesome.

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Hey, hey, hey!

It's time!

I'm gonna sing a song for you. And Bill's gonna show you a thing or two. Me and all the gang learning in front of each other.

Well, we can do a thing. 999 gonna have a good time. Hey, hey, hey! 999 gonna have a good time. Woo!

Talk about wholesome uh fat Albert and the Cosby kids to not be forgotten. Just an incredible show that you know. I just loved how the camaraderie of this group, like I always go back to the beginning song where they're all they got their arms crossed and they're all shaking hands together. I just love that. Just every character in it's amazing. They all have their own little parts they play. Uh, we've brought up the brown hornet.

We're Jim Harold. We need you. Will you help us battle the forces of evil?

My pleasure. No!

And that side of it, which I love, the junkyard band incredible we've talked about. But one thing I wanted to bring up is the real life aspect of it and how they dealt with real problems. You know, like it like they dealt with real life problems that you may come across, especially sometimes in the inner city, like where you know, hicks like us in New Hampshire may not have dealt with, but like gangs and shit like that, you know. I've dealt with that, you know that. Um, no more Apthorpe Whitefield gangs. But just the uh one episode I watched too to catch up, and it was ironic because it went right into that with the gangs, and it's when Fernando, their friend, they were opening up a new park, cleaning it up and being a team, and Fat Albert was going around because Fernando's older brother was in a gang trying to get him to join. And fat Albert's like, you can't do that.

This is my brother Tito, Fat Albert. He's got a gang. Not just any gang, the 33rd Street Gang. Hey, we run the neighborhood now. How about joining?

Joining your gang? No thanks. I don't think so.

Better think it over. With the Green Street Gang moving in, either you're with us or you're against us. Take your choice.

You know, and talks to the the rival gangs, like Fat Albert was the fucking best.

Yeah, like he had his boys. He's like a 30-year-old teenager. Yeah, don't do that.

That's not cool. Yes, and he would have everyone's back and he would go do the right thing and talk to the bad guys without fear, and yeah, he was-I bet he was a rugged motherfucker. But anyway, he just anyway, Fernando ends up, you know, going to try to get his brother out of trouble. He jumps out of a cop car who was trying to help him, and and does the old school movie, you know, scene where he dives in front of his brother who's about to get shot, and the little teenager dies on a cartoon. This is on a cartoon in the 70s.

He's dead. I'll kill them! I'll get a gun and kill them!

And then they'll get you. Don't you understand? You've seen what happens when fight and revenge is all you think of. You've seen what happened to Fernando. When does it stop, man? Fernando died trying to save you, and it's all gonna be for nothing, because you're gonna end up dead too. But why did they do it?

Why did they kill my brother? Why didn't they shoot me instead?

We have the one that pulled the trigger, but he's not the only guilty one. You're part of it too.

And they showed death, you know, and it was really I don't know, it uh it was important, I thought, you know, that they did that. And we all we all know Bill Cosby took a different turn, but that doesn't mess with what I thought about this TV show and what an incredible cartoon it was, and I could not leave it off. It's that important to you, Donko.

Um so when you're camping, I'm gonna set this up a little bit. So when you're camping in the woods, and we all know, especially in New Hampshire or you know, anywhere in the United States, that if you leave shit out, like food, someone's gonna take it. And it's not stealing. An animal doesn't steal shit.

Come on, Fred. There's a nice supper in the picnic basket.

Oh boy, at least this noise hasn't affected my appetite. Oh boy, what else can happen?

You see?

The fastest way I know to get a picnic basket.

Oh, it figures.

So Yogi Bear didn't steal picnic. He didn't. But I loved Yogi Bear. Yes. Um, I loved his persona, you know, how he was like a kind of mild-mannered bear. Yeah, you see. But yeah, he liked picnic baskets. And it's not stealing if you leave it out. It's a wild animal. They gotta they gotta eat. That's right.

He was not a thief. Although Yogi was a bit of a troublemaker, you know, he'd always kind of get into it a little, but I don't think he had any malicious plans.

You know, yeah. If you want to get into the the skim, you know, the deep deepness about it. That's Yogi's that's Yogi's turf. That's his land. He should be setting the rules, right? F and A.

So where did he get this clothes? I mean, that must have been quite the scene. Him going into a oh, I don't know, a men's warehouse or whatever, going in to buy a tie. I mean, you know, where did he get that?

Yeah.

Awesome show. Yogi was always a problem when it was Ranger Smith. Somebody was coming to do something. If there was a big to-do, he'd always have to get Yogi out of the out of the scene and not stuff. I need you to behave picnic baskets.

You've caused me nothing but trouble since I've been here. Filching picnic baskets. Yogi, you are a bad bear.

Doz Butler, he also did snaggle push on that show, which is just such a because I use that all the time. Exit stage right even. Right.

Exit stage left.

And Huckleberry Hackers.

Oh, it was. And it was a Saturday morning staple. Yeah. Yeah.

Something that could come up, but I shall not speak of. But yes, Yogi is an incredible choice, Donald. One of my heroes, to be honest.

Fantastic.

Yes. Where does that bring us, boys? To number two?

That's two for me. All right, two for you. And I had to go with the Croft Super Show. Again, Sid and Marty bringing that crazy stuff to us. Captain Cool and the Kongs. I mean, it was it was bizarre. It was wild. I mean, even the intro of it, it looks like the Pied Piper dragging kids off to somewhere they shouldn't be going. I mean, everybody had sparkles and everything was just kind of trippy and whatever else. But I loved all the shows that were on there. Electra Woman and Dinah Girl.

Electra Woman and Dina Girl. It's right for a magazine. How do you like to leave?

It was one of the coolest songs, the intros. And Deirdre Hall and the young lady that played Donna Girl were not hard to look at at all. Um, then you had Wonderbug, which was it just made you wonder why they because when they had something happen, the beat up old buggy they were driving in turned into Wonder Bug, and I'm looking at him like, wouldn't you just drive around with the really nice you know, Dune Buggy version of it around the shitty one and just turn it into the good one?

A Dune buggy that looks like that, but it it would be cool if they someone made one, you know.

Oh, absolutely. I'm sure that had to have been like uh uh what was his name? Barris or one of the you know, the guy that did the Batmobile and the one on Star Trek and whatever else. So I'm sure it was it's somebody like him that had a hand in it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Bells and whistles, yes, absolutely bounced up and down, but they not only did they have the crappy dune buggy that they drove around in, then they had the the live one, but there was also a stuffed animal, a stuffed puppet one as well in different scenes. So it was like it it just again, just very bizarre Sid and Marty stuff. But then you went into um Dr. Shrinker, who was part of that show as well.

So yeah, Dr.

Shrinker and Wonderbug, and Wonderbug, as well as The Lost Saucer, names in there, a lot of sexual induendas there. Yeah, but then you had the lost saucer with Ruth Buzzy and Jim Neighbors. Yeah. So I mean there was some power behind that. That was you know, so the Croft Super Show was was a lot of fun when you were young, just very hard, like all the Sid and Marty Cross stuff. You you grew up a little bit and looked back and went, wow, what the F was that? I don't know if that was kid friendly, but I enjoyed it.

It was then, we'll tell you that. Nowadays, God forbid, but well, nobody was getting shot like on your fat Albert.

Yeah, yeah, true. This is true. I don't know if they were getting, you know, the special Bill Cosby beverages that might have been happening, but oh awesome pick, Kev.

All right, brother, what you got?

Hey, hey, hey, I want mushmouth to announce my pick, Tab. You didn't pick mushmouth.

Hey, hey, hey, my wind's blown away. Come back. Bagman? Yeah. Here is your wind bag. Wind bag!

Well, thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mushmo.

No, I mean, obviously, this is a big pick. I this is the show I watch. We're at 11:30 noon-ish at this point. And also gonna bring up is these they did a Halloween special where uh towards the end is this really creepy looking big house. Looks like a haunted house.

By the cemetery.

Yeah. There's an old woman that lives in there, and she's staring out, paring out. And uh Russell and I think one of the guys, one he wasn't a regular, but his sister was went in. They went in and they're out there shaking like they've been in there for a while, you know, and uh they go in and they're drinking soda pop and you know, by the fire, having treats, just telling stories, laughing it up. And the moral of the story, I mean, she was an absolute sweetheart. And they came in and they realized they were so wrong that just because somebody's old doesn't mean they don't have to, you know, be creepy and keep their mouth shut. They have a reason to live too. And and you know what these wonderful kids did? They came back and did all her yard work the very next week. So a good crew, huh? Yes, they were! It's just another great lesson, you know. Just because you're you know, old woman living in a house that looks like you know, it's 800 years old, you know, and there's ghosts all over the place, doesn't mean that you're gonna go in and get, you know, put in the oven.

That was really great.

Bye-bye. Be sure to hurry back. Bye.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, you've been so nice, us dudes, that we're gonna come back Saturday and do your yard.

Yeah! And we're gonna do it absolutely free for nothing!

So yeah. Awesome.

So that's the moral of that show.

It was a great episode, man. I remember it from years ago because if I'm not mistaken, they wanted to scare all the old people. You know, because they thought old people were mean. Like the the flashlight guy, he had like a name like Flashlight Struthers, who like took them out of the movie theater and so they would all try to scare, scare the old people, and yep. I knew from the beginning she was gonna be a nice old lady.

Yeah, she was a beautiful soul, and just a feel-good show, and uh you know.

Undeniable.

I I had to put this on the list.

I mean as you should have. Well, thank you. Indeed. All right now. I'm going into the like 11-ish, 1130 noon slot here, and I'm getting out of the cartoons, and I'm going with this had uh several different uh uh names, several different types of shows, but the one I'm going with ran from 1971 to 1986, and it was the WWF Championship Wrestling. It was 11 a.m. actually, I believe, and when I watched it, it was on WLVI channel 56, I believe. This is so important to me because of you, Mark, because of dad, even David would get involved and enjoy it with us so often. The the the wrestlers through this period, because I kind of Checked out afterwards. The wrestlers through this period. I mean, I go back to Bob Backlund and all. Yes, exactly. All the way through, you know, the Roddy Piper and later years. It was so much fun because not only did you have the wrestling matches and the title matches on this show, you had so many skits, Piper's Pit being my absolute favorite. Just so fun, so incredible. The acting and the announcing on this. And yes, I'm breaking Kfabe right now. But the management is what made this show for me. The managers that they had managing these wrestlers were so incredible, so much fun and so sarcastic and demeaning and wise asses. It just made for great fucking fun, and I was always a heel, which is the bad guys. The baby faces were the good guys, but I was just a heel. I it was so much more fun to root for the bad guys and be the I don't know, maybe it's a bad sign that I like to be the opposite of some people, but I used to love to go to school with Sean Mellow. Uh Sean, I think you're out there. I think you're a listener once in a while. Good friend of mine. He was always baby face, so it used to be fun to go to school and give him shit and love that Roddy Piper beat someone up or whatever, smashed Snooker with the coconut. And it was just a joy. It wasn't just a Saturday morning thing for me. It carried through the week. And actually, even the play of it, the toys and the actual wrestling and body slamming people. I had a lot of fun with it, and I had to take it. Blah blah blah. Dungo.

All right. So mine's going way back. Uh way back. Obviously, not when I watched it, which it does blur between after school, but it was on Saturday mornings as well. But it started in 1930. The cast that I liked the most was 1936, and it's gonna be our gang or the little rascals.

Yes! I love the little rascals. That was on. Of course it was. Yes.

I love those guys. And you know, it was so cool because it was just a gang of kids doing our gang. Yeah. And uh, you know, I loved it. They had like a firehouse episode where they were at like firefighters and they like got on their little fire engine.

Get out of the way! Hey, you come down on that. We just put off that fire.

You did?

Yeah.

They made like engineering things like you know, bells and door openers and all kinds of stuff, you know. They just created stuff like kids do, you know. You just make it, and I love those guys. And uh, you know, I love the characters. Obviously, that that's been blamed of being, you know, racial in insensitivity or whatever, you know. Buckwheat? Yeah, Buckwheat, you know. What's your first name? Buck. What's your last name? Wheat Eddie Murphy classic, you know, Buckwheat. Um, you know, they had Steiny and Spanky and you know, porky, and you know, like Alpha. Alfalfa, yeah. Alfalfa, and yeah, all the kids, and they just you know, Darla and it was good whole, you know, fun. It was fun stuff. Damn it, great memories of that.

It's funny, Donnie, because you talked about it's a wonderful life recently. Yeah, and alfalfa actually has a small role in that. And the uh when when the pool opens up at the dance, oh yes, he's the guy that's shunned. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, is he a kid at that point still? I think teenager, probably, yeah, you know.

You know, if you flip that lever there, the pool's gonna open up and they're dancing over the split or whatever.

Old George Bailey, yeah, swim. Yeah, absolutely. Great, great show. I forgot about that. So much fun.

Does anyone remember the dog's name? It was the dog Petey. Yes, he had the big watch on his eye, yeah. And he'd always be like the mascot, like you were talking about the fire engine or the yeah, the things they'd create, and they'd always throw Petey in the mix. Great show. I'm I I had a hard time cutting that, and I did. I have it, it's even part of a song that I don't dare sing because I don't want to ruin any other picks, but yeah, I know what you're talking about though, AJ.

You do Man Woman Haters Club.

Yeah, oh god. Well, that but no, I was actually thinking of a song um on TBS that it was afternoon cartoons, but it was I'd get home and right as I'd turn the TV on and drag the recliner up to the TV and get my blanket and my beverage to sit there and in Hinsdale to watch cartoons as an older teen in misery. And it would, I'd turn TBS on and it would start off with Foghorn, Leghorn, and Tweety Pie, The Little Rascals and Popeye. And the song would continue, but The Little Rascals was part of that afternoon lineup that day. God, I used to watch it re religiously. Anyway, but good times. Incredible pick, Donnie, incredible show. And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that brings us to number one.

To number one.

Yes, sir.

And I'm gonna take a little bit of a turn here because this would be a little bit later in the day. And if your dad hadn't made you go out and mow the lawn or something so he could watch candle pin bowling or something else that was on, you know, when the when the kids' shows tended to peter out. American Bandstand.

Wiggle what hoppin'? Wiggle what hoppin' with the puppet, big play, wiggle the puppet, plate on the pants.

All over the world in the magic of the Jacksons will be here.

Ah, nice one. It wasn't again, it was I never got to watch all of it because dad would eventually come home from what he was doing and you know, have a Kabrooski and put on something that I didn't want to watch and tell me to get the hell out. But and I wasn't a big fan of all the dancing and all that, but the music was great, and I loved it if I could at least make it to the part where you got to see the musical guest because you would see they were lip-syncing, but they'd come on and you would see. I mean, I'm talking pre-MGV, you got to see your favorite acts perform, and they weren't all bad ones either. I mean, they had some, it wasn't all ultra pop. There was Scandal was on. You had um Night Ranger was like, Bon Jovi was on, yeah, yeah. They had good, they had good bands on there. And that goes back to I want to say the early 50s in Philadelphia.

Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah, uh the the first host on the original show ended up getting a DWE and accused of being involved with a prostitution ring. So he was he had been a DJ. So once he got the DWI and the rumors started, then they brought Dick Clark in and it kind of skyrocketed from there and became picked up by all of the affiliates except one in Jersey, I think, wanted to do their own show, but it didn't work out. But um just became, I mean, a uh a staple up until 89 when I think MTV finally just put the nail in the coffin. But such a great show for for getting to see your favorite musicians awesome, you know, perform. Yeah, damn right.

Molly Hatchet, I don't believe, was lip syncing.

No, they they definitely did have a few live performances on, but the beauty of it was and it was just so funny because you you know, you weren't it's not like now when you see people playing a track, you knew then they're obviously lip syncing, you know, with people dancing. But what I always found so fucking funny was how they would keep like they wouldn't cut it anywhere, they would still be singing at the fade out of the album, like you can't even hear it, and they're still going, run away, yeah. It's a riot.

He actually uh I I did watch, and one of them, Dick Clark was talking to somebody, and he was like, He made a comment that John Leiden from Sex Pistols um refused to to lip sync. Nice. Um, so I I I think that was pretty much the standard of the day, and and uh the Sex Pistols were kind of a an exception to the rule, and probably not willingly, as far as the producers were concerned, but right?

Did they have like a five-second delay if they decided to say something that shouldn't be aired?

I don't think they did that much back then. I think that came in later because I even although I mean famously there's on British television there's uh the an incident where um the Sex Pistols dropped a couple F bombs and said some inappropriate stuff. So well, maybe they maybe they had them on a short leash.

Right, or yeah, or a big fine if they did. You're getting F if you do this. Nice pick, though, Kev. That didn't cross my mind, but that's awesome.

That is that didn't cross my mind either, but that was a staple on the F.

Absolutely, Robin loved it. All right. Of course she did. We are the number one new mark. And my name is Joe McHugh.

Um, I was gonna go with uh Rock and Wrestling by Hulk Hogan and uh all that stuff, but I couldn't because I listened to our got into it so in-depth that I wouldn't have anything new to say. But this was so like you said, AJ, I'm going with all-star wrestling. You went with championship wrestling, so it is still different. Yeah, sure. And you know, back then it was uh it was taped in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and they had it was mostly squash squash matches, which entails a jobber out there getting his ass kicked most most of the time by a heel. And back then, AJ um in the 70s, I was still a baby face. I don't know what I don't know when I turned heel, I would say. Probably um in the 80s, but during the 70s, even I could tell that the crowd out there out there in Hamburger. You had a gal out there who had w had a dress made out of burlap sacks, and a bunch of men with a neck stack and their necks were like a stack of dang. You know? All these cows without teeth in their heads.

Just do a couple more if you can.

I'm telling you right now. I had I'm the maker of campaigns. A bunch of losers out there, McMahon. But uh, I mean, I loved I I love classy Freddie Blassie. He he's my favorite manager right up there with Bobby the Brain Heenan. You know, Captain Lual Bano. I mean, he had a great diet, as we know. I mean, he absolutely he was probably he had what, but I wouldn't even say 32-inch waist, probably like a 28-inch waist, for God's sake.

Captain Lou, yeah, probably smaller.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh the grand wizard of wrestling. Uh you know, watching the show today with uh superstar Billy Graham. You know, what a specimen. But yeah, it's so he went into the Bob Backlund era, who made a huge mistake. Mr.

Backlin, Mr.

Backlund, when he ascertained Arnold Skolin as his manager. That was the biggest mistake he's ever made, and that's why he's apologizing. He throws in the towel and he had to wait for ten years. Ten years, Arnold. And then that you know, he came back and turned heel. But uh anyway, I get a little excited about this. And back then I was watching a match with uh Superstar Graham today, and he was pretty stiff out there. He was it did not it it looked it looked like it was real. I mean, he was stiff. And uh I guess yeah one of my best memories Don and when we worked at the summit. I was uh it was actually it might have been before you, but it was a Saturday, and you know, I was going through all the uh the units. I slowed down because wrestling was on. It was 86, it was just before they went to whatever it was, superstars. And uh Hulk I mean, Hulk Hogan and Paul Orndorf were wrestling against Bundy and Stud, and this is when uh Orndorf turned on him. I mean, they they had a lot of tension. I mean, Orndorf was getting sick and tired of going in there doing 90% of the work, and then Hogan comes and gets the pinball with a little light drop he does, and gets all the credit. Hulk Hogan, Terry Bulloway, we love you in real life. God bless your beautiful soul. But and uh as we go back to not breaking cave fame, that little he was so full of himself, and Orndorf was getting tired of it. So he he pile drove him at the end, and uh and it was almost like it was all planned because they were all chanting wonderful, wonderful, and it was probably one of the most wonderful moments of professional wrestling. I was firmly a heel at this point. So, what I am telling you, this show is so freaking important to me. So when they broke K-fabe and I don't know, the end of the 90s, the early arts, I just I lost interest because it just even Bobby the Brain Heen and Brother Brain really got pissed off about that, and it just ended to me. And I haven't watched wrestling in 25 years. So but back then it meant so much to me. I know it meant a lot to you too, AJ, and you guys, well, you probably were knew what was going on, but anyway, so that's my last pick of the day.

I I saw a little bit of it, but I I mean obviously I wasn't in as in depth as you guys, so I don't know exactly what incarnation it was, but from the outside, I still feel like the greatest heel ever was Andy Kaufman.

Oh, yeah. I mean, he had a woman or something. Yes, it was the women's champion.

Intergender champion was what he called it. And the great thing was he never broke K Fabe. He went on to Letterman, and Lawler allegedly broke his neck, and they just kept playing that and playing that, and he'd go to these stadiums and like they hated him more than any other uh of your heels. I mean, he I remember seeing clips of like the whole place, the rafters rocking while they were just preaching hatred to this guy, and he'd come in, you're a bunch of hillbillies, I'm from Hollywood, I I do movies and whatever. And he just played the whole, not just the whole crowd, the whole country. He played like a fiddle. He was absolutely amazing.

All of that Hollywood slash MTV stuff was so huge for wrestling and rockin' wrestling, the cartoon that we both left out, brother. But just it was awesome. It was fucking fun as hell.

Yeah, look up the uh they have a little thing where uh Andy Kaufman and uh Kaufman? Kaufman, had Kaufman? So there's a little uh video with Andy Kaufman and uh classy Freddie Blassie, and they're having breakfast and okay.

Thank you. What are you thanking him for? He didn't do anything. He wasn't supposed to do. Yeah, well, you don't have to be that nice, Jesus. Uh this looks like a drawing thing for a little kid. Doesn't look like much for the mini memory. Uh yeah, something here on my bed was a glass of memory use. I just had a glass of water. Uh-huh.

There was a leak in my house, so I couldn't take a shower. I couldn't make it.

It's crazy.

I just went to the shower and there's nothing coming out because I came to my house to change some kind of a water tank and made a mistake, and there's water spreading it all over the street.

I mean uh you're a big celebrity. I mean you don't have to uh live in a rabbit like that. Hello, honey. What do we got here? Looks like we got two people waiting on us, you and someone else. What nationality are you? What nationality are you? I was over in your country, Bangkok, but I've never seen a pregnant eye girl before. Come here. I always like to remember like a Buddha. Good luck. You're welcome. Don't have to tip her so much when we leave now.

And it was just so funny. You guys gotta look it up. It's like I'm a big deal here, I'm an actor, and it's just really funny. So yeah, all-star wrestling, man.

Incredible stuff, awesome, and what a Saturday staple. All right, number one to me now, yes? Yeah, indeed. All right, and this is a three-hour show, people, but it wrapped my Saturday up and also kept me inside for a lot of hours when I should have been outside playing like any normal kid. Uh, 1972 it started on WLVI channel 56, a staple for us northeast people out of Boston. It's Creature Double Feature.

Good afternoon, my good feed, and welcome to the Creature Double Featured. This afternoon, weird and wicked, strange things are happening. First, a scientist is experimenting on transplanting bodies in the brain that wouldn't die. Then at 2 30, the Earth is divided into northern and southern hemispheres, and both are racing to reach the planet Mars in battle. Beyond the Sun.

I loved this show. I was a huge fan of the it was a double feature, obviously, because you know they usually showed, you know, two hour and a half movies within that time limit. The Godzilla episodes for me. Whenever they came on, I was ecstatic. But with that being said, because I think that's what most people think about when we go to that show, there were so many other things like the creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfman, uh, you know, all the monsters, all your typical monsters from the day. But one that sticks out to me, and I don't know if anyone out there in the world remembers this, but I call it this is my own name for the show. I don't know what it was called, but I call it the head. And it was just this severed head, like on a table. Obviously, it was some dude on his knees with a hole cut in a table with his head on top of it.

How do you know that? You don't know that for a fact.

No, I do not, but it was just I mean, as a child watching this, how disturbing and creepy and intriguing it was. Like, this guy would go into like this cabin and this head would like talk to him and tell him what to do. Does anyone of you three remember this? No, was it a movie or was it a uh not gonna say anymore? I will leave it at that. Dongo, number one to you. Oh, you could you could continue.

I am gonna keep you nodded when I said that, so I figured I'd go off to you.

No, so I want to wrap things up. Um, for everyone out there, if you just come new to our cast, um, listen to Cartoon Chaos, which was an episode where we talked. About our favorite cartoons. There's obviously some uh bleed over on this cast with some of those, but there's obviously the Mount Rushmore cartoons of you know the bugs and the and you know the Hannah Barbera, the all the different ones. But um I wanted to do the creature double feature because it was like a staple in New England, you know, it was Boston WLVI, and it was also down in Philadelphia. So I don't know what people in California or you know, other parts of the country, what were they doing on their Saturday afternoons as poor children? They were so neglected. You know, so it was amazing that they learned that, like, hey, you know, we could grab these kids that are watching cartoons and then they're gonna love to watch like Godzilla and stuff. And I loved watching those things, you know, because they were they were mixed from uh you know, they did three hours and they had the the the kaiju stuff, which is uh or kaiju, I believe it's from you know, that's big monster in Japan. So that's you know, from Toho Studios, the the Japanese type type of Pacific Rim, I believe, called the monster kaiju. Yeah, remember that? Yes, yeah, newer things. Uh kaiju means strange beast in Japanese, and then there's uh Tokusatukatsu, which is special effects, so they had special, you know, pretty good special effects for the time back in the day the 40s, 50s, you know. Um, but they also had universal horror movies, classics like The Creature of the Black Lagoon.

The one that's stuck in my brain, and I don't know if it's the same one that you're talking about, but it was called the Screaming Skull, which they just had this like floating skull that was like its impact is so terrifying that it may have an unforeseen effect, it may kill you. Therefore, its producers feel they must assure free burial services to anyone who dies of fright while seeing the screaming skull. Be sure to bring someone with you who can identify you when you see the screaming skull.

It was called the screaming skull. It was totally creepy, but I thought Kevin was going with it because uh, you know, he mentioned the uh candle pin bowling, which was a huge draw. Oh, I loved watching that back then New England area at noontime on Saturdays. So 10 pin bowling was too, yeah. So they moved it at one o'clock time slot, yeah. Because, you know, those New Englanders had to watch the candle pin bowling, you know. As mom called it, candlestick bowling. Yeah, candlestick and uh so eventually creature double feature morphed into the kung fu theater stuff, yeah. Well that damn you fight me.

Kick your ass. Kill my brother. Again, you have to see his face people.

Fight me. But I loved Godzilla, like you said, AJ. When Godzilla came on, that was just you were like, yeah, yeah. I even like the little mini gogzilla who was kind of cheesy. Godzuki. My favorite thing with Godzilla, and I wish people could see this, was how he could just like he just lifted his feet and then he would fly on his tail. He'd be like, I wish you folks could see Dongo leaning back in his chair with his like he didn't get a running start or anything, he'd just lift his feet and then he would fly and kick a building.

And how about the and uh the uh the roar was an iron gate, like an iron gate opening and closing. Oh, I think when you go back to hear Godzilla's you know roar, yeah, you can you know it's obvious, but you would never know that. You know, like fucking so many awesome shows and different characters in the Godzilla franchise, you know? Mothra. Creature double feature was amazing. Rodan and Mothra. Do you remember? Was it Mothra with like the two Japanese late twenty? I love that they were like singing in the tree. Yeah. I do have a little bit of the Asian persuasion.

Yeah. And they always had those like um radar trucks, they were like they shot like lightning, and they did absolutely nothing.

It was a satellite dish.

Yeah, you would think the guy would be like, hey, this is not doing anything. Like, we need different weapons.

They could not defeat those monsters. Like you needed Godzilla.

Yeah, just trampled Tokyo, and then somebody would play a tune and he'd be like boogie for a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Little humor thrown in. Yeah. Incredible show, man. Yeah, awesome. Yeah. All right, boys. That was fun, man. I mean, Saturday mornings just that took to the kids out there today. Obviously, I doubt there's many listening, you know, to us. I'd like to think most of our audience is around our age, some a bit younger. But to be a kid back then and wake up. Yeah. And you know, it's the one day like any other day of the week people our age would fucking be outside playing and digging in the dirt and building a fort and playing shit outside. It's the one day that we actually condoned being inside for a few hours.

It was it was stress-free. You just like you say, you got your bowl of cereal and you sat there and you watched it. And I I think we talked about this recently, but again, I just pined for this. That now that you have every movie, TV show, whatever, streaming at your fingertips, we're all watching different things, and it's not the same because whatever happened on Scooby-Doo, you know your friends saw it because everybody was doing it at the exact same time. So when you went to school, you could talk about what happened on that show. And it was something whereas even the four of us sometimes we watch the same shows, but we're not watching them at the exact same time. Yeah, you know, it's different. There's that gap. It's like I noticed it the other day when I was driving, and I thought I saw somebody singing the song I was listening to, like used to happen, and I realized there's no possible way because I'm streaming it. There's no way he's listening to it the same time as me. Right. But that used to be cool, you know what I mean? We used to, we all listened to the one of three radio stations, and when you pulled up to a stoplight, the guy next to you probably had the same radio station on. You could look over and be like, hey, this is a cool song, or whatever. So it's it's I think that's something that we've lost with all the streaming stuff, is that we don't get to see, or we don't have that commonality of all watching the same show, must see TV on Thursday nights, yes, cartoons on Saturday, that connection that we all had.

And the shared experience.

Absolutely, and something else to be said on that is the fact of something else that I think is missing from now that made it so much more important to us was Dongo, you brought up the TV guide.

You know if we didn't have that?

If we didn't if we didn't see a show that was on Friday night at 9 p.m., you were shit out of luck. Like that was appointment viewing. Like never saw it again. You know what I mean? Yeah, right. You never saw it again until now when it is being broadcast on streaming, and it's just not the fucking same to have to sit there and wait. Like when, you know, I'll use Rudolph, for example. Eight o'clock on Thursday night, you know, two nights before Christmas. I'm fucking home sitting on the couch waiting for that.

Right. And you make sure you get everything done before, and yeah, it's removed all the joy.

Yeah, it's the first week of October, and they've already been shoving the It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie bar up our butts for three weeks. Yeah, and you could have watched it in January.

Yeah, yeah.

You look forward, you used to look forward to it, and it meant something, and now it's like, oh, I'll just put that on now. Moss.

Yeah, exactly. By the way, Rudolph, he should not have been able to play reindeer games. I'm sorry.

He stopped with that nose going into Lowe's now, it's amazing. You see the bumble, and uh, you know, uh like every time I go into Lowe's, I see the Yukon guy.

The name's Yukon Cornelius, the greatest prospector in the north!

Yeah. Don't you agree?

Why should you be able to play games?

They've got the characters that were like on screen for two seconds and they're 50 feet tall. Because somebody likes that one. And it's like, where do you put that shit?

Do you put it in your attic or something? You know, you just throw it in the dumpster when you're done and buy the new one next year.

And you buy it for 500 bucks.

Awesome boys. Well, great friggin' show. We shall wrap it up, I suppose. Thank you, brother Mark.

Oh, you're welcome. That was a lot of fun and uh got a little animated there at times, but that was fun. That's the joy of it, right? Exactly. Kevin.

Did you intend that pun, Mark? I think you did. We were talking about Saturday morning cartoons. Getting a little animated.

I didn't. No, I didn't. But you're right.

But that was good.

Good job. You shouldn't have said anything. No, you're right. Edit that out.

I'm a genius.

Of course I meant that.

Awesome. And Kevin, thank you. Thank you, AJ. Mindy Dungo.

Had a great time. Thanks.

Ah, lots of fun. And everyone out there, thank you so much. Keep listening. Thank you for the downloads. We're having an epic week with that. And uh keep the feedback coming. We love that. Awesome boys. We are out.