Cartoons were everything growing up, I was like Martin Tupper watching those joints (Shoutouts to Dream On) Originally planned for a podcast (eclectik discussion podcast mind you!) I figured I’d do a post instead spotlighting 5 cartoons that I loved watching when I was a lower case e that a lot of people may have forgotten or never seen I didnt include more popular ones like Hong Kong Phooey (Number 1 Super Guy), or Thundarr, or Captian Caveman … or none of the Video Game joints; we all remember those ANYWAY ….
Five Forgotten Cartoons …
Grape Ape
Its a 40 Tall Purple a gorill-ill-ill-ill-la!!!
I dont know what it was about Grape Ape but I never missed an episode, the fact that he was like The Hulk with fur and a baseball cap might’ve had something to do with it …
LOL @ him riding on top of the van and reving it up like a Key-Car
Beegly Beagly was that dude too, my man was a schemer and idea man lol
I remember a comic book back in the day too but I never copped it
Nugget Nose The Galloping Ghost
Next to no one remembers Nugget Nose, he was this 49er that had an invisible horse and his nose would twitch when he was near gold LOL
Hey had two bad chick Wendy and Rita with him and they worked at the Fuddy Dude Ranch
So when the two chicks got in trouble they rub on their gold nugget charm on their necklace, my mans nose would light up then he’d hop on the ghost horse and save them
I have NO idea what they were thinking when they made it but that little old man was hilarious
Shirt Tales
Started as Hallmark card characters (And it’s bull that they aren’t still around)
Alls I know is I use to watch that show religiously
It was Tyg (Tiger), Rick (Raccoon), Pammy (Panda), Digger (Mole), and my Favorite Bogey (Orangutan)
Bogey was a pimp lol
They fought crime from the park in the pimped out STSST (Shirt Tales’ SuperSonic Transport) that joint was a boat, car, plane, some of everything lol
Mr. Dinkle was the park ranger or something that had no idea they were crime fighters lol They tricked him somehow some way every episode
Sometimes Tyg was the leader, other times Rick … I remember some girls I grew up with use to argue over wich was better lol
The show jumped the shark when the Kanagroo showed up, but I still need it back on TV … Boomerang or something
Teen Force:
Straight outta Black Hole X
People either forget or never heard of Teen force, it was always a mainstay on the USA Cartoon Express for me
Kid Comet had the super speed
Moleculad was the black guy that could change his molecuar structure
Elektra had the Telepathy and Teleportation (They werent original with her name nor her powers eh?)
They had these Smurf lookin Astromite dudes with them Glax and Plutem
They would go solo or fight with Space Ghost … this was when there were few Super Hero cartoons on, I liked the space cycles they rode … and the black dude was dope
They fought Uglor … the only guy that could tell when Space Ghost was invisible lol
The best part is when Teen Force, Space Ghost AND THe Herculoids got together to fight at the end
G Force
… or “Battle of the Planets” was my favorite cartoon for a long time when I was younger, I waas one of the few that actually thought it to be BETTER than Voltron (any version)
Princess, Keyop, Tiny, Mark, and my boy Jason protected Earth from Zoltar down with Planet Spectra
Like on Inspector Gadget where you never saw Dr. claw you never saw “Luminous One” where Zoltar got his orders from
… and Zoltar had a mask himself
Zoltar was also creepy because he/she was basically an hermaphrodite, though I didnt know what that was at the time, I knew Zoltar was a little “Tangy” and not always male lol
Then they each had their own vehicles that were inside their ship the Phoenix
Tiny’s wack ass didn’t get one though he had to piolt the plane lol
But the plane was dope because it would turn into flames (Pheonix, get it) and run through everything
Then Princess had the Yo-Yo bombs, Tiny had the guns like Batman that had mad gadgets
Mark had a sonic boomerang Alls I know is this show either needs a reboot, a movie or both!
I’m prolly going to do another one of these as there are TONS of cartoons I could’ve included in here … its fun memory lane’n it
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