Disney's One Saturday Morning Look Back Part 1 (of who the hell knows)

 

Ahh... One Saturday Morning. These (along with Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z) were the last cartoons I was really into as a kid. (Yes I called Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z cartoons, get over it.) I have a lot of fondness and nostalgia for these shows, even if I was like 17 by the time the block had ended in 2002. To be fair this isn't exactly just a One Saturday Morning thing, I'm also going to talk some shows made after it, and including some newer stuff. Just because the shows interest me and I'd like to watch them. This blog gives me a reason. I remember we'd watch One Saturday Morning for about an hour and a half (like Doug, Pepper Ann and Recess) before we'd usually go out to the Mall. I remember buying NES games around this time too starting up my collection (which is gone now because those games go for too much to keep now) I'm sure I got Adventures of Bayou Billy and Adventures of 3-D World Runner mere hours after watching Pepper Ann. I don't know why I'm mentioning this shit but it's my blog and I can do whatever I want.

This was a cartoon I thought was great as a kid and is still pretty enjoyable these days. It's very wholesome for the most part which is probably from creator Jim Jinkins, you know the Doug guy, and yes I'm sure Portnoyd if he's even reading this will go NO DOUG WAS LAME IM A BIG TURD SNIFFING JERKHOLE. but Doug was good and so was this show. Like all 101 Dalmations material, Cruella De Ville and her henchmen are the best part. Weird how a woman who wants to turn the Dalmatians into a coat is the best part of this show but she's hilarious. Horace and Jasper are voiced by Lenny and Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley! How cool is that?! Recommended.

This might be the best Disney show in the One Saturday Morning set. Period. And not even that it's definitely the funniest one. It's about a bunch of school kids and the adventures they get into at Recess. Literally every character is a gem. My personal favorite is Gus Griswald, but every character, even the adults get in some great jokes and moments. A true masterpiece that will never stop being great. Recommended.

People really seem to love or hate Doug. Like in general, me I thought it was a fine show as a kid. Not one of my favorites but I've seem to come to enjoy it much more as an adult. It's very wholesome and I guess in a world where everyone is yelling and screaming at each other I need that. Disney's Doug was well the sequel to Doug. Most people seem to not like it but I think it's still pretty good honestly. It's definitely wackier and they definitely changed things from the original series (no Honkerburger, Roger being rich, The Beets breaking up) but It's still fun. A little too much reliance on Quailman tho, it was much more fun when those episodes were spaced out.

PEPPER ANN PEPPER ANN MUCH TOO COOL FOR SEVENTH GRADE! PEPPER ANN PEPPER ANN SHE'S ONE IN A MILL-YUN PEPPER ANN PEPPER ANN MUCH TOO COOL FOR SEVENTH GRADE PEPPER ANN PEPPER ANN SHES HER OWN BIGGEST FAN! CATCH HER IF YOU CAN PEPPER ANN!!!!! Yeah, I'm sorry I just had to sing the theme song. Even the worst Disney songs were catchy.  Anyway Pepper Ann was a pretty great little show about a teenage girl and her wild antics. I liked the characters and her friends. It was funny stuff. It even had Don Adams in it. Any show that has Inspector Smart in it is good in my book. It's a shame that this show is kinda lost media as in some episodes are lost and haven't been seen in years. It's also a shame that on the old Jump the Shark website some crazy weirdos were freaking out over Pepper Ann's mom and aunt telling her about feminism. Not even radical feminism or anything. Just women are not trash kinda shit. Very weird. I don't even know why I remember them after seeing 594020429094 people get angry over stuff like that. The internet was a mistake. 

Well wasn't that fun! Well no it wasn't but let's get over that hurdle and talk about some more shows. It seems most of the shows are still pretty good, Disney Afternoon had the better shows but One Saturday Morning had the better ratio of shows being good. If that makes any sense? Of course it doesn't. Nothing I ever say makes sense. Anyway, till next time!

The Final Part of THE DISNEY AFTERNOON LOOKBACK! OH MY!

 

So in 1997 to 1998 the Disney Afternoon had its last gasp of fresh beautiful air before going excitent and by fresh beautiful air I mean the smoggiest shit in existence. Stuff that would make you sick. So like living in Los Angeles OH SNAP SON!  Anyway they cut down to 90 minutes and put on one new show Mighty Ducks and reruns of Quack Pack and Ducktales?!?. This era is refered to as the "Disney-Kellogg's Alliance" because they needed someones help because they didnt want to spend as much money and syndication was losing to Nickoldeon and Cartoon Network.  They were also doing ONE SATURDAY MORNING with well let's face it better cartoons than Quack Pack and the Mighty Ducks. Apparently 101 Dalmations premiered on this block and was shared with One Saturday Morning but I'm gonna talk about that show in THAT set of articles.

 I liked this show a lot more as a kid but if I'm being honest it's still not bad. Just kind of the middle show. The characters act like they did in the Lion King and the comedy comes from them put in wacky situations. It's just I thought it was funnier when I was a kid. I still got a few chuckles outta some stuff so it's not all bad. It's just "Yeah that existed and it was alright" kinda quality for me. Certainly better than the next two shows we are talking about. I'll give this a Kinda-Recommend but a Recommend if you are like super into the Lion King.

Quack Pack: This is the 1990s at its worst. Every dumb thing about the 1990s shoved into one Disney Cartoon. Huey Dewy and Louie are now cynical and lazy teenangers who think they are better than the grownups around them. you know, a 90s teenanger who have no time for those LAME OLD THINGS as seen in the theme song (THE QUACK PACK THEME. ITS BAD.) and they give us bad Donald Duck cartoons, which I personally belive is a sin against God, Nature, and al lliving creatures within the universe no matter where they are. Also another sin is making Huey Duck horny for like human women. I don't like that. Also don't call the place they live Duckberg you don't deserve Duckberg. Not Recommended.

The Mighty Ducks: Can you say generic? If you can good on you! If you can say forced 90s action show that somehow is generic as hell then this is that show. I did not even enjoy this as a 12 year old and I was watching the hell out of One Saturday Morning like the cool dude I was. This was the last gasp for the Disney Afternoon and it didn't work out. This show was just bland as oatmeal without any charm. I think this would probably be the worst of the lot. At least Quack Pack is weirdly interesting in its terribleness, this however is nonsense. They both have weird Duck/human love stuff going on in them. I don't want to come off as some kind of duck racist but I don't think human beings should want to have sex with them. It's weird. (Oh and the guy who was a part of Jefferson Starship and Starship sung the theme song or wrote the lyrics or something. Wild. We Built this City is a great song and haters can suck my taint) The lack of Emilio Estevez is also very bad. Not Recommended.

That's the Disney Afternoon, peeps. It started off great, became good (as in there were a mix of good and less than good shows on it) and ended off poorly. It was a big part of my childhood but I don't even know if I ever saw these shows under the Disney Afternoon banner. I'm glad you joined me to discuss these shows and I will be back with a new set of Disney related stuff for ya. 

The Disney Afternoon Part 5!

 I like the Disney Afternoon. Let's do some more shows! Yeah! I'll get better at intro doing! (no I won't) (Did I ever mention that I like brackets?) (Did I mention how great all the NES and SNES games based around these cartoons were? Well I just did here!)

Aladdin was my favorite Disney movie as a kid. Musta watched that bastard a few thousand times. I'm pretty sure we wore the VHS tape out, just like we wore out the tape to Home Alone 2. Good stuff. I also loved this cartoon and thought it was great fun and Aladdin going on more adventures in and around Agraba worked much better than The Little Mermaid did. Of course one of the guys who worked on this show, Tad Stones, also created Darkwing Duck and Alan Zaslove (which is also a great name) worked on like most of the shows I've already mentioned and about 52 thousand other ones.. I believe Tad Stones would be a great name for an action movie hero, played by Wings Hauser. This show had great new villains like Abis Mal (which is a wonderful pun), Mozenrath and Mechanicles. This show also had a weird ass voice cast with George Costanza playing Abis Mal, Mozenrath being played by the kid from such film classics as The Never Ending Story Part 2 and Ladybugs, Homer Simpson replacing Robin Williams as the Genie (and I think he does a good job), Mr. Tone Loc who was in just about everything in the 1990s  and to top it all off the sweet soothing voice of Gilbert Gottfried.. A show very much worth watching. Higly Recommended

Well here it is, the show I alluded too last time. So in the 1990s, espcially in the early 1990s, a fellow named John K (I'm not typing out his last name because fuck that) was a very popular animator because of the show Ren and Stimpy that he had created with Bob Camp. It was so popular that it made Nickoldean 720,0523509,05943059043, dollars and 32 cents. Disney decided they wanted some of that money so they got some dude I've never heard of to rip him off. Shnookums and Meat is pretty much the Disney Ren and Stimpy except really bad. the main reason is that it's not very funny but also because the way Ren and Stimpy was animated added a lot to its comedy (and I'm going to be honest here and say I don't think that shows that great either) and this show just looks like a Disney cartoon for the most part. It's weirdly off putting honestly. Oh yeah I do like the designs of the characters from all 3 segments I just wish I found the show as funny and entertaining I did when I was a wee child apparently watching this on The Disney Afternoon . For 13 episodes. Apparently little Michael was the only person who liked this. Not Recommended.

This is a great show. Incredible voice cast. Incredible LORE. Incredible everything. I don't know if this is true or not but according to the internet Greg Weisman had this idea in his head since the 1980s when he was a teen and if thats the case, it's great to see an idea gestate over all these years into a great cartoon. I'm not even sure if thats a word or if its spelt wrong because it feels like a word. Apparently it's to carry a fetus to birth. so he carried an idea fetus from a teenager to his time and Disney! Wow that's a terrible sentence but really what can I say that hasn't been said by about 50,000 other people online about this show. The characters were great and voiced by great actors (KEITH DAVID and THAT RIKER GUY from Star Trek also David Xanatos is better than his Riker character but not as good as him on BEYOND BELIEF. Find it in your heart Star Trek people, you know it to be true!) All of the characters were an insane amount of fun to watch and you never quite knew what was gonna happen. A great series that would call back to other stuff full of mystery and wonder.  Highly Recommended

Well, it's finally time for the LAST part of this series! Coming soon you will all get to see the beauty of uh... well the last three shows aren't exactly the greatest so the beauty of nothing really. I really should think out my jokes better but I never do.

Talkin About Disney Animations From 1990 to 1996 Part What the fuck ever

 

I've been reading too many bad Spider-Man clone stories lately, just keeping a nice little word document instead of updating this blog 42 times a day. I think the best story gets a Kinda Recommend and the worst gets Fuck You for Reading This rating. So this is why I have other things to talk about on this blog so I don't get too bogged down when one of them gets into a shithole of garbage. I at least hope the shows today won't be shitholes of garbage...

I have literally the vaguest idea of what Raw Toonage was. The vaguest idea and since most of it is now considered lost media I can't really review it for you. I'm of the opinion that yes you can review a show by seeing an episode or two, but there's like 7 minutes of footage on youtube from different episodes. I don't think that's fair by far. So this CBS Saturday Morning Show that lasted for an whopping 12 episodes (and apparently starred several Duck Tales characters) must just remain a vague memory of childhood. I don't even remember watching this on CBS but in reruns, maybe whatever company got Bonkers got this included because he's in the show. Who really knows but yeah I lived in Canada and I would watch YTV on Saturday because they would get all the best stuff for us Canadian kids. Anyway uh yeah Raw Toonage exists and I'm sure I watched it. 

Which brings us to Bonkers. I think I might be the one person who enjoyed this show. I mean I enjoyed it a lot more as a child as the show feels like it's trying to hard now as an adult but I still got some fun out of the episodes I recently watched. There were a bunch with Lucky Piquel and a bunch with a cop named Miranda. In fact it seems that there was some weird issues behind the scenes that I didn't know about. Some Miranda issues were aired first, then Lucky, then Miranda, then finally Lucky again. So if you are crazy about continuity this show may not be for you. Despite the fact I still laughed at some stuff this is to be honest a cheap imitation of the whole Roger Rabbit thing. I wonder if it was supposed to be his show. Anyway, not terrible but I liked it a lot more when I was 8. Apparently Brer Bear makes an appearance in an episode, I thought Disney would hide away all that tarbaby Song of the South stuff like it was some kind of poison. Anyway, I guess I give this a Kinda Recommend. I dunno. 

Today's final show is Marsupilami and like Raw Toonage it seems that I can't really review this show as I don't think the Sebastian the Crab segments (since when was he a wacky and slapsticky character?) and the Shnookums and Meat segments (yes the Disney Ren and Stimpy first appeared on this show! Tell your friends that trivia and they'll make fun of you for remembering Shnookums and Meat!) are online anywhere to be seen, but I did watch one Marsupilami segment and it was okay. I'm pretty sure I must have watched this show as a kid because I remember the two characters but man I don't remember anything about them. Oh and they were based on a Belgian comic from like 1952. I'd like to read the comic actually. Anyway I can't really talk about the show overall, I'm just reminding you that Shnookums and Meat was a thing.

Well hopefully next time I can actually review more than one show and not have to make a whole paragraph out of "Yeah, this show is lost media and I'm not fucking Merlin or a dude with 10,000 VHS tapes so I can't review it"

The Disney Afternoon or Random Disney Shows Part 3!

 

Boy howdy it's time for the Third Part of this wild adventure known as uh....Discussing the Afternoon of Disney (yes I'm doing a joke that bad. DO you know how hard it is to make a good introduction to a part 3? or even a passable one? I'm asking because I don't) and well this is a pretty interesting set of shows we have here. I guess that's all I can really say so let's get to discussing them!

The first show on the discussion pile today is Darkwing Duck a show I thought was great as a child and still think that to this very day! Tied with Rescue Rangers and Duck Tales for the best Disney Afternoon show! Ever! It showed the adventures of a egotistical superhero duck named Darkwing Duck and all of the great creative spoofs of old superhero villains, like MegaVolt, who's a spoof on Electro from Spider Man. or Quackerjack and his Banana Brain buddy doll. Ahh good stuff. He even has a girlfriend that I'm sure turned some individuals into furries. If I had to find one fault is that some of the jokes don't hold up and I don't think they would have made me laugh as a kid and it wasn't hard to do that as a kid, but that's maybe one joke in like several episodes. I don't know where else to put this but when some weirdo hillbillies thought Darkwing Duck was a potato vampire (because of Bushroot the half duck half plant creating a potato vampire) they literally tried to put a stake in his heart and I went "wtf". Cartoons of the past were hardcore man.

Up at bat is Goof Troop.  A show that I feel should get more discussion based around it, because it really does have it all. Wacky adventures in a sitcom-esque setting. Fun characters. One of the best themes ever! (it's very early 1990s tho) This version brings Goofy and his son Max to the most thrilling and exicting places imaginable.... THE SUBURBS! And living next door to them is Pete (the big bulldog guy who harassed like every Disney hero at least once in the old cartoons... also he predates Mickey Mouse... isn't that wild?) and Pete is the best part of this show, they updated him from the 90s and made him a sleazy car salesman whos always pulling stuff in attempt to get richer. He and Goofy work incredibly well off each other. It also gave us A Goofy Movie  which is a legit great film about a father and his son. Everything Goofy touches is gold!

It's time to end off this part with The Little Mermaid and It's the worst kinda show to comment on. It's not one I can go on and on about what I liked about it, or what made me so fucking angry I shit my pants and broke something. This isn't a bad show par say but it sure isn't a good one either. I don't think these characters have legs outside of the movie and I think the viewing audience mostly agreed with me because it lasted a whopping 31 episodes over 2 seasons. I liked the movie and all but this show never captured me, always making me go "Eh whats on the other channel" or just deciding to turn on the Sega Genesis or Nintendo and play something. Then my sister put cheese in my Nintendo because she thought it was hungry or something. I don't know why I told you all that boring fact, maybe it's because I don't really want to talk about this show. So I'll just ending this rambling nonsense with this, the music from this show is still pretty nice but not something I'd spend watching the rest of the show for.

There you have it, Next time it's a bunch of obscure nonsense that no one remembers or stuff no one likes. And Maybe Gargoyles? I should be more on the ball with this but I'm not and we all have to suffer for it.

The Disney Afternoon / Disney of the 1990s Cartoon Review Thing Part 2.

 I have decided that it's long enough for you guys to wait for my INSANE CONTROVERSIAL DISNEY OPINION that will probably only bother one or two people but still! So It's time for the second part of this series about reviewing the Disney Afternoon shows (and other shows that Disney produced that were around at the same time too)

And the CONTROVERSIAL OPINION COMES OUT! I am about 98% ambiviant towards Winnie the Pooh and his adventures. I do not love or hate these guys. I will even admit that Tigger can be amusing for just a little bit, but I never really set out to ever watch the movies or shows they were in. They were just characters that existed. I doubt this opinion is that controversial except to the 13 really hardcore Winnie the Pooh fans out there that will never read this blog, but if we are talking about hardcore fans of something doesn't that mean any opinion can be controversial? I mean there are people out there who take loving or hating just about everything too seriously and it's really sad. Uh. Yeah, I get no real enjoyment out of Winnie the Pooh but if you do I'm happy because enjoyment is a good thing. The theme song is pretty good though.

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers however I think is one of the best Disney Afternoon shows.....ever! It's definetly in the top 3 and to be fair I'm always wondering which one of those 3 are the best. Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers is great. (Everything with Chip N Dale in it is great. I had a VHS tape of like 3 cartoons from the 1950s on it and I ran that bitch into the ground. The one with Donald Duck's little ship is the greatest Disney cartoon ever and you can eat it if you disagree) This show also had 3 new friends for Chip N Dale. Monterary Jack an Australian mouse who loves cheese and Gadget Hackwrench, a mouse that 1. everyone thinks is cute even if they are a furry or not and 2. has her own cult in russia. (https://medium.com/@thefandome/gadget-hackwrench-religion-or-how-a-fandom-reborn-into-a-cult-c66050342d64) This world of ours is a strange, beautiful and sometimes depressing place isn't it? The bad guys were also incredibly entertaining from the crazy professor (professor is a better word then scientist) Norton Nimnul (a name Stan Lee would be proud of) to Fat Cat and his gang ! This show also gets me to say something I love saying and that is "portnoyd is wrong and stupid" becuase he is indifferent to this show. All in all a great adventure show that was also pretty funny. I recommend it to everyone. Clearly the best show of this part.

I had to go to check that there wasn't a show in between Rescue Rangers and this show. I seriously forgot The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was even a thing and didn't want to go around to try to find some show I didn't know diddly about to talk about and thankfully there was no such show so I could discuss TaleSpin and as a kid I did not really like this show. I think the lady bear and her daughter annoyed me too much as a child. I have no idea but it wasn't as good as DuckTales or Rescue Rangers or shows we will get too in the next part but I did just rewatch an episode and I don't know what Little Claw was on because the show was pretty darn enjoyable, not top 3 or anything but still I would like to watch more. The show revovles around Baloo (from the Jungle Book) having to do jobs for Rebecca and getting in and out of trouble from Don Karnage (I love the way he says his name) and Shere Khan (who is now a ruthless sociopathic CEO which is a perfect job for a Tiger)  and I like Baloo's laid back nature which is straight outta the Jungle Book. A fun show that you should view! Also the NES game is underrated and haters of it suck.

Next time we talk superhero ducks, Goof Troops and The Little Mermaid?!?

The Disney Afternoon Review Showdown Part 1

 

Well It's finally time for me to go on and discuss every Disney Afternoon show. And some other shows that probably weren't techinally Disney Afternoon but were made by Disney made between 1985 and 1997 (The Disney Afternoon itself started in 1990..) and to start I will be rating the shows as either Super Cool and I Like It. Eh, It's Okay I guess, or Fuck Off Wuzzles (I think you can already tell how much I enjoyed that show)

The Wuzzles was the first Disney TV show made in the year of my birth 1985 and It's relativity obscure and only lasted 13 episodes. It's pretty much included in here because I didn't want some pedantic weirdo going "WELL ACKSHULLY" on me and that I've always been somewhat interested in the show because I've always been interested in obscurities (and it's always a crap shoot with them, sometimes it's something that should have been more popular and sometimes it's horse shit) and I'm going to be fair and say if I were born in like 1980 and were alive during the quick Wuzzles craze I have a feeling I'd have had fun playing with the actual toys because to be fair, it's a neat little idea. The actual show just feels lazy. I was going to make a joke about how the show feels like it was voiced by the interns at Disney but actual voice actors who actually do good jobs in other places voiced these characters. Hell one of them was the damn voice of Bullwinkle for crying out loud. I guess even the best can have their off days. This whole show just feels like a proof of product that they made to see if they could actually make animated shows for TV and the two episodes I watched show that off (and yes people on Youtube, you don't have to watch an entire show to know you don't like it) Thankfully A lot of stuff after this is actually good. Sorry Wuzzles but you get the Rating of Fuck Off Wuzzles.

Appearing on the same day as the Wuzzles apparently was The Adventures of the Gummi Bears, which is the better show because well, it clearly is, just from the one episode I watched (and yes I do intend to watch more) it had a better plot, characters and all that good stuff that makes a television show of any kind memorable and had better animation and voice acting which is important for the whole cartoon thing. I actually laughed several times at goofy stuff that was happening in the show which was much better than being bored to tears by the Wuzzles. Even the theme song was better. The overall plot of the show is the Gummi Bears and a boy named Cavin (which is a dumb name) keep the Kingdom of King Gregor from being taken over by the evil Duke Sigmund Igthorn. The medieval kingdom thing is a neat touch for a show such as this and Michael Eisner also was ahead of creating this show but I'm just going to go ahead and give most of the credit to the other two guys who probably fleshed it all out and made something out of it. Rating: Super Cool and I Like It

Now here's the best cartoon of this first part and one of the top Disney TV cartoons ever! Based mostly around the Carl Barks comics of the 1940s to the 1960s except with new character added in (and I'm sure lots of stories not based on his work) comes DuckTales and it's incredibly fun characters, fun adventure stories (and a lot that were more comedic too) and great comedy. This show still cracks me up and I'm 35 dang years old. The only thing I can think of thats negative is that the characters of Webby and her grandma kinda suck and Donald Duck only appears in a few episoes but nothings perfect in this world (I also think the Carl Barks comics are better because they have more Donald Duck but that's just me)  Rating: Super Cool and I Like It

Join me again when I decide to make part two of this thing where I will share some CONTROVERSIAL Disney opinions at you. Holy hell, here's one right now: Disneyland isn't that amazing but I'm not really a theme parks kinda guy. wanting to piss, puke and shit yourself when your on any kind of ride kinda kills most of the fun of a theme park don'tcha know? ANYWAY what are my other controversial opinions about THE HOUSE OF MOUSE... find out next time.....or read anything else on the internet.

Talkin' About the Disney Afternoon

                                  

So I'm crazy and I feel like doing this among many other things because I waste my entire day on the internet and instead I should waste it watching stuff......It's still a waste but at least something maybe sortof was accomplished... more so than just yelling at twits on the internet. I will never stop being angry at how the internet went from a fun thing to a thing thats terrible, but I will at least try to make fun content instead of being angry at everything. like Twitter users.

This is going to be a multi part thing where I talk about every show on the Disney Afternoon. Including the Wuzzles because I want to cut off the one weirdo who might find this and go "AHEM THE WUZZLES WAS NOT ON THE DISNEY AFTERNOON YOU JUST MADE ME SO ANGRY I SHIT MY PANTS" If I actually finish this we might talk about One Saturday Morning and some newer stuff!!

Here's a list of cartoons I will end up discussing like the cool guy I am:

The Wuzzles

Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears

DuckTales

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers

TaleSpin

Darkwing Duck

Goof Troop

The Little Mermaid

Raw Toonage

Bonkers

Marsupoilami

Aladdin

Gargoyles

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

Timon and Pumbaa

Quack Pack

Mighty Ducks The Animated Series

So expect the first part of Reviewing Every Disney TV Cartoon Sorta Kinda Maybe to emerge from my head sometime in the next few days.