Ranking and Reviewing Every 1980s Cartoon Because I have Nothing Else Better To Do, Part 3: Hanna Barbera Productions

 

Well you knew it had to happen. I just had to talk about them. I mean I’m going to try to talk about every 80s cartoon that I can find an episode of two to watch. Hanna Barbera was all over the decade. It was all over every single decade of animation in the 20th damn century, for the most part. They started their partnership in 1939. They made Tom and Jerry for like twenty years until in 1957 they created their own TV Production for cartoons. They made tons upon tons of cartoons and well people either seem to love them or hate them. Personally I love them. Just something charming about the cartoons. I mean not all of them, they did after all make like 139403243029420492049230492041.6 cartoons between 1957 and like 2001.

The first cartoon I planned on watching was The Little Rascals, but I could not find a complete episode to even watch. Yes, Hanna Barbera was that out of date that they decided to make a Little Rascals cartoon in 1981 or thereabouts. It lasted longer than I thought but still that’s uh some out of date stuff right there. Hanna Barbera never had their finger on the PULSE OF THE NATION’S YOUTH. I then decided on a different cartoon but I realized that I could put that and a few others together in a “wtf is this shit?” starring actual real people just as uh cartoons thing. You can guess what cartoon I thought of right here. Anyway this cartoon had Top Cat (yes despite being called Yogi’s Treasure Hunt, Top Cat apparently leads the gang. I don’t get it either) So the origin of this is Ronald Reagan that horrible monster who was president in the 1980s (You’d think with them thinking Little Rascals was still popular they would have made the president in this Calvin Coolidge or something) talks about how America’s treasure is missing and the gang of Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Auggie Doggie and Huckleberry Hound (among others including the leader Top Cat) all have to find out that the treasure is actually Brotherhood. Yeah, this makes no fucking sense even for a goofy cartoon. Anyway this also has Dick Dastardly in it and I laughed at some of the very very corny dad jokes in this cartoon. I liked the comedy but uh they need to work on the actual stories a bit harder. I mean I know this is 1980s cartoons where most episodes were just THE COOLEST YET DUMBEST SHIT YOU EVER SAW jammed into some kind of plot but yeah. Portnoyd will have a field day with this cartoon. He really will. I do want to watch the several episodes done by Tom Reugger I thus far cannot give this cartoon more than Bad. It’s probably at the bottom of the list thus far.

I feel bad for the Go Bots. They remind me of Heathcliff. Heathcliff, alongside Go Bots actually premiered first however another thing very similar to them came out and just beat them in popularity, in this case being Garfield and Transformers. This is another one of me just going on memories because I’m lazy and I’m doing this just to kill time, but I did see a good few GoBots episodes and yes it’s not as good as the Transformers but it’s still quite a bit of fun to watch. I mean I do plan to go back and watch the other episodes of the show which is more than I can say for some other shows. So I’ll rate this show GOOD.

The Smurfs! This was THE most popular thing Hanna Barbera had anything to do with in the 1980s. It lasted pretty much the ENTIRE decade. It had two hundred and fifty six fucking episodes. That was four hundred and seventeen segements of smurfy goodness! Anyway I like the Smurfs, they are just charming little guys. Gargamel is a great villain (and Hank Azaria playing him in the live action movies were the only good part of them and yes I watched them because I’m that sad.) and tons of fun. The Smurfs started in 1958 as a comic from Belgium (I really should read said comic) and is still going today. I mean yet another really really really bad Smurfs live action movie coming out soon is not a good thing really but still it’s popular enough that the CORPORATIONS want to squeeze more money out of it. However that doesn’t really mean anything when THE CORPORATIONS tried to make a sequel series to Head of the Class, without Howard Hesseman! How can you do that to the Hesseman!!!!! Anyway the Smurfs is pretty GOOD and I like them. Portnoyd will probably be a jerk about them.

THE LIST:

1. Inspector Gadget
2. Spider Man and His Amazing Friends
3. The Incredible Hulk
4. The Smurfs
5. Go Bots
6. Spider-Man
7. Care Bears
8. Pac Man
9. Yogi’s Treasure Hunt