I almost died today

[LD1984]

Yup.
I'm home sick today. I was eating a bagel dog watching Pinky and the Brain. It was an episode where Brain dreams he's a big movie star. Suddenly, Steve Urkel comes out and yells, "Wacka wacka do!!" and Pinky gives him pamento loaf. I choked while I was laughing and eatting. They should stop making cartoons so funny.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Originally posted by LD1984
They should stop making cartoons so funny.

Actually, I think they have, at least at Warner Bros. :( On a lighter note, I'm glad you didn't die! :D No telling how many times I've laughed at a Pinky and the Brain cartoon enough to spray Mountain Dew out my nose. (ewww)

[Anthonynotes]

What Stray Cat said (re: not making 'em anymore at WB)....

Maybe the old shows can be brought back someday in some cheesy spinoff a la the old Flintstones/Scooby Doo pantheon of different shows back in the 70's/80's....a few possibilities:

THE ROMEY AND SKIPPY SHOW: Starring the offspring of both PatB *and* Slappy Squirrel's nephew, we see the two as groovy, hip youngsters carting around Burbank in a dune buggy, with an assortment of equally groovy friends and occasional appearances by PatB/Slappy (who haven't aged a day despite their relations aging by years). First Episode: Will the two's new rock band win the big contest against Sasha's now-teenaged pigeon-rocker offspring? Guest stars: Metallica, the judges from the "Napster" trials, Maurice the carrot (as our heroes' drummer), and Puff Daddy.

THE BIG CARTOONIE MOVIES: Featuring a mishmash of our favorite characters, we see the gang go on various repetitive mysteries exposing monsters in fake rubber masks, with special guest stars appearing each week. First Episode's Guest Stars: Batman and Robin.

WARNERS COMEDY SHOW: A big 90-minute long mishmash of crudely animated new adventures with our favorite characters (sort of). Segments include such cartoons such as: Dr. Phrankenstein and her until-now-unseen family of ghoulish monsters move in next door to the WB Studio lot, causing lots of wacky hijinks for the A! gang; teenaged-Skippy, Romey, and Runt go on various mysteries around Burbank in "Scooby Doo" tradition; the Warners become cops and team up with a reject from the "Lil' Abner" comic strip; Billie and Dot become reporters for a newspaper run by Ed Asner and don't know one of their coworkers is secretly the Caped Opossum; and finally, a segment featuring the usual A! adventures, only much more crudely animated (spot the # of scenes with recycled stock footage kids! )

And of course, last but not least:
THE WARNER KIDS: In the tradition of such continuity-ignoring shows as "The Flintstone Kids" and "Yo! Yogi!", we see the adventures of the A!/PatB gang when they were all children (or in the Warners' case, younger children) and all knew each other from the get-go and go to the same grade school, natch. They engage in various childhood related hijinks, as we'll see such things as: "Brainy" wanting to engage in plans to take over their school; Pesto, Squit, and Bobby trying to run a schoolyard lunch money racket; and Pinky wondering what they'll be doing once they all grow up. All are watched over/taught at school by a not-changed-in-age Slappy Squirrel. Muddling continuity even further, the show will take place in the present, and in the first episode we'll also see an appearance by juvenile versions of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, who're running from Elmer's pop cork gun,while Brainy tries to figure out how to use the school's dance to raise funds for his latest school domination scheme...

Well, I'd *hope* none of these would be the case, anyway ;-)

-B.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Wow, I'm glad LD1984 didn't die! Although he'd probably be the first to die in that catagory if he did. The honors...And don't worry, the state of cartoons today will make this death case exeedingly rare. ;)

...And I'd like to see these shows in a show ala "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase." That'd be a good fanfic...

[LD1984]

Why not "The Jetson Kids"?

I tried to think of three Hanna Barbara shows that I could put the word "kids" at the end. I COULDN'T THINK OF ANY!

A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Flintstone Kids
Yo Yogi
Tom and Jerry Kids

GAH!!!!


What age are we in now? The stupid pile of crap age? I MISS ANIMANIACS!
:(

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

SAID BY LD1984: What age are we in now? The stupid pile of crap age? I MISS ANIMANIACS!


You can still catch them on Nick....just beware of the new opening they've given it...
....at least SOME Silver Age shows are still around. That's always a good sign.

[Anthonynotes]

>>>Why not "The Jetson Kids"?

Probably because the Flintstones is Hanna-Barbara's biggest hit, while the "Jetsons" never rose to that level of prominence (on the air originally for one or two seasons, then stayed in reruns until those new ones were made in the 80's/that early 90's movie). Plus, more supporting characters in the "Flintstones"...factoring in the spinoffs, they seem to have a pretty sizeable range of characters/situations for the characters (everything from Fred, Barney, Betty & Wilma as kids to Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm getting married and having kids). Plus, IMO, the Flintstones are funnier (maybe from liking the "Honeymooners" [the Flintstone's inspiration] more than "Blondie" [the Jetsons' inspiration, and a comic strip I hate]). Still liked the "Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" movie though...

>>>I tried to think of three Hanna Barbara shows that I could put the word "kids" at the end. I COULDN'T THINK OF ANY!

A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Flintstone Kids
Yo Yogi
Tom and Jerry Kids

GAH!!!!


What age are we in now? The stupid pile of crap age? I MISS ANIMANIACS!
:( <<<

Well, we could take other shows and stick "Kids"/"Babies" on the end of 'em....say, "Superman Kids" (not just "Superboy", but the whole freakin' JLA as kids/teens, fightin' rival classmates like Lex and the Joker while they all go to two seperate schools at once and are hearded over by a guy in a souped-up wheelchair...oh, and of course, everyone's living on a diet of rice cakes [incl. Darkseid]. ;-)

Seriously, I think you named most of the major "kiddified" cartoons that were made; the others would be "Muppet Babies" (the one that started it all, and the best one of course), "The New Archies" (Archie, Jughead, and co. as junior high students...animated by DIC in the 80's), and "Tiny Toon Adventures" (though unlike the others, Buster & co. aren't Bugs & co.'s childhood selves, but seperate characters of course).

Re: the "Flintstone Kids": When I first heard of this as a kid, I was wondering/hoping it'd be about Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm as grade-schoolers (or the *kids* of Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm); was slightly disappointed to see it was Fred as kids. Watched the show regularly/semi-regularly (enjoying the Capt. Caveman bits the most), including the "just say no to drugs" special they made. Of course, this whole series kind of went against the tone of the original show's run---Mr. Slate the same age as Fred? I figured he'd be older than Fred. Plus, the thought of kid-Fred (or "Freddy" as he was called in this series)/Barney & co. having cable-TV/satellite dishes, personal computers, and Walkmen (80's-equivalent-technology) as kids seemed a bit weird [whereas seeing a 10-year-old Pebbles/Bamm-Bamm with said stuff wouldn't have seemed as much of a stretch to me, I guess]. Also recall noting how weird it was when Freddy's voice changed part-way through the series' run---probably the first time I noticed animated character's voicing (still wonder why the change took place...the actor demanded too much money? Died? Just wanted to leave the show?).

And of course, there's the big thing I"ve seen mentioned by others, the original series ep where they show the boys meeting the girls for the first time as teeangers/young adults while working at a hotel (which that lame movie "Viva Rock Vegas" based itself loosely off of). Wonder what the "official" answer would be to the trivia question "when/where did Fred and Barney meet Betty and Wilma?". If it were a comic book, the comic-book-writer (I know, "writer"? ;-) would probably claim that they met as kids (with comic writers valuing a whole series of stories about one concept over a one-shot story from ages ago that's contradictory) and either ignore the hotel thing or come up with some convoluted reason to make the original show and "Flintstone Kids" coincide (like, say, Wilma and Betty moved away as 10-year-olds and they didn't meet up again until they were older, having forgotten about their childhood romps somehow...). Either that, or they'd write off "Kids" as some alternate universe (like Mr. LaMarche did for PEatB :-) or treat it like the status of "Star Trek: The Animated Series" has (non-canonical, save for information about the characters [like their parents' names/siblings/etc.]).

I know, I know, "it's just a cartoon"/"continuity isn't important here"/"get a life"/etc., I'm just stating my two cents on all this....

-B.

[Craig Marinaro]

Other possibilities:

"Batman Even Further Beyond"
An aging Terry McGinnis, no longer able to fight crime due to heart complications caused by his run-in with the supervillain Cholestero, decides to throw in the cowl. He attempts to spend his latter years in isolated brooding and self-pity, locked up alone in his house, but quickly realizes that this isn't possible, since he's still living with his perky mother and brother Matt, as well as Matt's wife and nine children. So, he takes on a protegee--young Floyd Q. Roxen. Floyd's dog was maliciously run over by the Joker (he's baaack! --again), and Floyd wants revenge! But will the experienced, stoic Terry be able to tame this wild youth? Tune in, and find out!

"Where the Hell is Hello Nurse?"
Hello Nurse gone bad?! Oh, my! Everyone's favorite curvaceous medical assistant has actually been running an underground artifact-stealing ring all these years, and is now traveling around the world to avoid capture! The only ones who can stop her are the dimension-altering, laws-of-time-and-space-ignoring Warner Brothers (and their sister Dot!). They are sent after her by Plotz, equipped with all the latest detectiving technology. But can the Brothers bring themselves to turn Hello Nurse in? Will they just drool over her exceedingly for thirteen episodes straight? Will Dot quickly get sick of the whole thing and leave to get a low-cal shake? Will she get chocolate or strawberry? How much will she pay for the shake? Could the money possibly be better-spent? What type of straw should she use? Might the shake be too thick to fit through certain types of straws? To find the answers to these questions, and possibly one or two others, you'll have to watch the show!

"Lord Bravery's Place"
Lord Bravery's mother-in-law finally took his advice and died. In addition, his wife is dead. And everyone else who ever appeared in a Lord Bravery segment is dead too--the guy who was stuck in the sewer, Mr. Snarzetti, Helen, Rudy, Hank, Bill, the kid who was stuck in a tree, the kid's mother, and the guy who asks for a scone. All dead. So, Lord Bravery sells his apartment and opens a bar. This provides a whole new atmosphere in which he can show off his delightfully condescending manner and charmingly spiteful attitude. Other cast members include Lord Bravery's hispanic niece Maria, his black housemaid Mammie, his Irish live-in cook T. J. O'Malley, his Polish landlord Wjhpgflwgd, and the Italian-Hebrew co-owner of the bar, Menachem LiGatta.

"Colin"
After years of observing the trials and tribulations of his friend Randy Beaman, Colin moves to Seattle and gets his own radio show. There, he exercises his lifelong love of listening to tales of other people's miserable lives, and then exposing their stories to a mass audience. He also has a father, a brother, four sisters, eight dogs and two cats, three goldfish, and a host of wacky cousins thrown in for good measure.

[Sharklady]

My thanks, Craig, for giving me a good laugh just when I really needed it!

[Craig Marinaro]

My thanks, Craig, for giving me a good laugh just when I really needed it!

Welcome. =)

[sun]

I am glad that LD1984 made it...Just wanted to add my name to the list of those that miss Pinky and the Brain...Some great eps, and wonderful laughts. :D

[The Mad Hatter]

This is the funniest thread I've seen in a while...

[sun]

Originally posted by BourgeoisBuffoon


You can still catch them on Nick....just beware of the new opening they've given it...
....at least SOME Silver Age shows are still around. That's always a good sign.

I miss Animaniacs too. I am not sure we will see the likes of them again.....Well, I don't know? Are they still being played on the cartoon channel? I really don't know, since I don't have it...

[Jack]

I think the hotel episode of "The Flinstones" should be the official "how they met" story. Then again, I'm sort of biased since I thought "The Flintstone Kids" stank like old watermellon rotting in a limburger cheese factory... Not that I don't think it's okay, I just never found anything really enjoyable in the series. It lacks the personalty, charm, and appeal of the original Flinstone series.

Anybody ever think of making a TV show go the other way? Instead of the "Flinstone Kids," you have the "Flinstone Seniors." Yes! laugh your you-know-what off to the antics of Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty as they become senile at the Bedrock nursing home, which is run the Mr. Slate (who hasn't aged a day)! They get regular visits from Bamm Bamm and Pebbles, who are now middle-aged with grandkids of their own!


Jack:D

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

SAID BY OLDTOONGUY: Are they still being played on the cartoon channel?

No...which is sucky, since they never (to my knowledge) slandered it there.

Hoo Boy....the Flintstone Seinors. Another good fanfic idea:

...
Fred: WILMA! GET ME MY VITAMINS! And here, Barn, take my fruity pebbles. My stomach can't handle 'em anymore.

Barney: Neither can mine! Get them away! (wheeze)
...

Then again, maybe it's not such a hot idea...:p

[Dante Bunny]

LD1984 I glad you're okay. You had Plank worried there, too! What's that Plank? You have laugh at that part when Lucky Bob said that he got a chewing gum that look like Yoda? And you choke on the splinter? I glad you ok too!

[Danielle]

Comedians, comedians everywhere! Geesh, you'd think Craig and BourgeoisBuffoon and G.I. D'oh and so on so on would WANT us to end up like LD1984 almost was.....



.....or, is that their intention?


BUM BUM BUM!!!


I know! They want to make us laugh so hard we shoot milk out of our noses! The milk will short-circuit the computers, leaving our little comedians the only people with access to the web, leaving them to TAKE OVER TOONZONE! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!


Sorry, I couldn't help myself. ;) I also agree, though I don't know why you're complaining about them being too funny, LD. (Can I call you LD?) With all the cartoons they're making today (YuGioh? What the...), I'd be begging for even just one episode of A! and PatB a week!


O/T (not so much, but...): On Nick.com, there's a section, 'Write to Nick', where the questions are posted online & answered. Who wants to ask why the heck they're hacking Animaniacs? And Pinky and the Brain, while you're at it. If you do, I'll..........uh........do your homework for a week! (or write your term paper. Or hand in a report for the office. Whatever.)

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Are you SURE you wanna tackle on MY homework, Danielle? I have too much, and it could make you go CRAZY doing it for a week...

....and I'll write and complain about A! Complaining's what I do best! :)

And how did you guess our plan on taking over Toon Zone? (realizes he gave out the plan) Oops...

[Danielle]

Originally posted by BourgeoisBuffoon
Are you SURE you wanna tackle on MY homework, Danielle? I have too much, and it could make you go CRAZY doing it for a week...


You do *not* know my school...



....and I'll write and complain about A! Complaining's what I do best!

I'll vouch for that! ;) Just kidding. Maybe we should all joint-write it and sign it Toonzone...



And how did you guess our plan on taking over Toon Zone? (realizes he gave out the plan) Oops...


AHA!!!! Someone call the FBI......or the LAPD......or better yet, the MIB...

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Sigh...it can't be as bad as mine...and I'm stupid enough to say that! :)

[QUOTE]Maybe we should all joint-write it and sign it Toonzone...

I dunno....to me, it'd be more effective to do many signatures...




AHA!!!! Someone call the FBI......or the LAPD......or better yet, the MIB...

Heh heh heh....(B.B. holds up a broken phone cord) Try a call now! :D

[Narfpinky]

LD1984, glad to hear you're okay.


This listing of TV shows by Brainatra, Craig and Jack (I hope I didn't forget anyone, poit) seems more promissing than the current fall schedule, NARF!

[Danielle]

Originally posted by BourgeoisBuffoon


Sigh...it can't be as bad as mine...and I'm stupid enough to say that! :)

Wanna bet?





I dunno....to me, it'd be more effective to do many signatures...


True, though I don't know if there's enough room.


Heh heh heh....(B.B. holds up a broken phone cord) Try a call now! :D [/B]

Hah! I have a CELLPHONE!!!

[Anthonynotes]

Re: the "Flintstone Seniors": Well, there was the made-for-TV movie they made called "Hollyrock-a-bye Baby", where we see Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (who got married in the previous TV-movie, "I Yabba Dabba Do!") move to Hollyrock and have kids of their own, and Fred & co. handling becoming grandparents (all while seemingly not having aged a day since the original show, despite having to be at least in their 50's for Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm to have kids of their own [they look to be in their mid-20's or so]; my guess: they're all using "modern Stone Age" hair dye. Alternate guess: they're allowed to keep their usual hair color [like Wilma's mother did on the original series] until they're truly elderly [Wilma's mother shows up in this TV-movie as well, with grey hair])...

As for *more* possible new TV show spinoffs:

THE PINKY AND THE BRAIN MYSTERIES: The mice, on the run from an escaped-from-prison Wally Faust, are forced to move in with Granny (of "Looney Tunes" fame), and together they (along with Sylvester, Tweety, and Hector) travel the world and meet various old, unseen-in-a-gazillion-years LT/MM characters and are forced to solve various mysteries, all while the mice try to take over the world and put up with seeing Sylvester getting beaten up by Hector enough times per episode to require scientific notation to keep track...

BATMOUSE BEYOND: On the heels of "Batman Beyond" (and its fanfic version "BatWarners Beyond"), it's Brain's turn to team up with Terry, as he tries to take over the world by becoming the mysterious creature of the night called the *Batmouse*. Armed with rilly kewl futuristic technology in his suit, he takes on such vile and terrifying foes such as guys in playing card suits, a guy with swirls all over his suit pulling part of the Mad Hatter's schtick, and a giant starfish (who's *NOT*, and never *WILL* be, one of those freakin' Poke-characters) bent on world domination. This last one, of course, makes Brain more annoyed/grimmer-faced than even Bruce.

THE JETSIBS MEET THE FLINTWARNERS: Through the miracle of recycled stock footage animation and the loathsome "two places at once" bit, this TV-movie presents the two "seperate" characters meeting each other for the first time, for no good reason other than because it sounded like a really kewl idea that came up during the writer's office party last week. Featuring: two paychecks for each of the sibs, since they play dual roles (ca-ching!).

PINKY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?: Brain (with a yellow wig and groovy 70's-ish threads on), Billie (wearing a red wig and an all-purple 70's-ish outfit) and Pinky (wearing a dog collar, a brown wig, and a groovy green T-shirt/bell bottoms) go around in a psychedelic-looking van with no discernable incomes, and solve mysteries even a two-year-old wouldn't be stumped by, in the hopes of attracting enough of a cult following via constantly-repeated reruns on Cartoon Network in order to use nostalgic Gen-X-ers to take over the world.

Finally, my imagining how "The Warner Kids" might go, for one scene:

[Cue the theme music, a parody of the "Flintstone Kids" theme....]

SINGING: Narfy-narf...narfy-narf....narfy-narf-poit-zort....the Burbank Warner *Kiiiids*...B-U-R-B-A-N-K....the Burbank *Warner Kids*! (Theme ends)

[Cut to the "Warner Kids", all playing together in a schoolyard. All are drawn in a "cuter" style, with the "Kids" having larger eyes, shorter statures, and kiddified-versions of their usual wardrobes (Brain's wearing a cap and t-shirt). We see, walking in as a cameo guest role, none other than Axel Foley himself...however, Axel's still an adult.]

AXEL: I was told I had to talk to some rugrats about "just sayin' no ta drugs", before I go hang out with the other cops at the bar knockin' back a few brewskis, and---(sees the "Kids"; a silent moment passes, as Axel surveys the kiddified A! gang; we see the "baby" Randy Beanman kid, dressed like Maggie, walk in and suck a pacifier, before falling over)(In shock) Who-ho-hoooa....what the (bleep) is goin' on here?!? How'd you (bleep)s get to lookin' like the rejects from "Romper Room"?! Last time I checked, that big-headed mouse over there was worryin' about middle-age, not bein' *Teen-aged*! Remember "Animaniacs"?!

YAKKO: (Half-sarcastically/half-tauntingly) Why, whatever do you mean, Mr. Foley? We're not "Animaniacs", whatever that is....we're the "Warner Kids"... (The theme-music starts up again, but Axel quickly grows annoyed, whips out his pistol, and aims it off-screen; we hear the sound of a record player breaking....)

"BRAINY": Thank you...wonder if we'll ever hear such an annoying theme song ever again once we're all grown up...

AXEL: (Annoyed) You (bleep)s *ARE* grown up!!!

"BRAINY": Noooo....not for another (calculates it on the ground with a stick in the dirt) 7 years, two months, and 13 days until we're of legal age... now if you'll excuse me, Pinky, Billie and I have to take over *THE SCHOOL*!

AXEL: (Has a deeply disturbed look on his face by all this; his mouth hangs open...).

YAKKO: (Whispers) Psst! Try to stay in character....remember: continuity, respect for the original show's past, and all sense of history go out the window in these types of shows...

AXEL: (Sighs, slapping his face) I'm gonna need a big serving of (bleep)in' Bud Lite once this is all through....

:-)

-B.

[DR. BELCH]

So I'm not the only fanboy that grumbled about continuity errors in shows like The Flintstone Kids and Tom and Jerry Kids. Now presuming Fred was in his late thirties or early forties in the original series, Dino would have to be about 30 years old for Fred to have owned him since puppyhood. Though maybe snorkasauruses live much longer than the modern dog (on avg., 12 years). Noting also that in T&JK Tyke spoke very well though in the early shorts he simply barked, I always presumed the "kids" were the next generation rather than the cat and mouse as children themselves--call it denial if you wish. I always thought there was too much chatter in the new shorts as compared to the early ones, where minimal dialogue served to advance a plot, although I must admit I always got a hoot out of the late Phil Hartman as Calaboose Cal of the Calaboose Cal Mouse-Rousting Company of Costa Mesa California. As for Dripple, I always presumed he was an older version of the baby seen in Tex Avery's "Droopy the Homesteader" and that Mrs. Droopy had left/passed on.
Don't even get me started on Muppet Babies and its innumerable pop-culture references ("Skeetlejuice" comes to mind) which left one wondering how stars "born" in the fifties who had a hit series in the 70's could be in diapers in the '80s/'90s...or the addition of a baby Bean Bunny (from the short-lived Muppets Tonight series) and those old geezers Statler and Waldorf as the Babies' uncles. Personally I always wanted to see a baby Zoot, or a baby Swedish Chef (a couple of my old favorites from the original Muppet Show)....

[Jack]

I stink at this, but I don't care, here's another one.

The New Roadrunner Show
They decided it would be too hard, as well as too expensive to make new Roadrunner cartoons the way Jones made them, so they adapted the comic book version instead! The Roadrunner is now married with three children, and they all talk in ryme! However, they were shooting for a more "mature":p audience, so all the humor is like South Park! Watch the Roadrunner as he rymes four letter words, and says "Oh my God, they killed Coyote!"

Here's one I actually read about a while back: They were planning on making a cartoon about the MGM lion. You know, the one who roars at the beginning of every MGM movie and cartoon. He's married with a family, and every day he comes to work so he can......roar in the MGM logo. I guess they never made it, thank goodness.



Jack:D

[Anthonynotes]

>>>So I'm not the only fanboy that grumbled about continuity errors in shows like The Flintstone Kids and Tom and Jerry Kids.<<<

Well, I guess I could just write it all off as (in Mr. LaMarche's term), some "alternate universe" and (a la the status of Star Trek:TAS) use only their siblings/parents' names and such info to count towards any other incarnation of theirs.... ;-) Which seems to be the case for all the latter specials made post-"Kids": we've seen Philo Quartz (as an adult policeman) show up in the "Flintstones Christmas Carol" special, and IIRC in the Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm film where they get married, we see Betty's mother helping sew her dress (with her mother's drawing design like an older version of how she looked on the "Flintstone Kids"....though writers the two TV-movies they made seemed to have fun throwing in references to various other old incarnations of the "Flintstones"---some of the wedding guests are various original series celebrities ("Cary Granite", etc.), while Pebbles' coworkers were [more or less] her two female friends from the teenaged P&BB spinoff series...).

>> Now presuming Fred was in his late thirties or early forties in the original series, Dino would have to be about 30 years old for Fred to have owned him since puppyhood. Though maybe snorkasauruses live much longer than the modern dog (on avg., 12 years).<<

Probably so---we see Dino show up in the two TV-movies mentioned, where P&BB look to be in their mid-20's or so (of course, the original series implied that they'd only had Dino for a few years IIRC...).

(Stuff about T&JK snipped---never liked Tom and Jerry much to begin with...)

>>>Don't even get me started on Muppet Babies and inumerable the pop-culture references ("Skeetlejuice" comes to mind) which left one wondering how stars "bprn" in the fifties who had a hit series in the 70's could be in diapers in the '80s'90s...or the addition of a baby Bean Bunny (from the short-lived Muppets Tonight]/i] series) and those old geezers Statler and Waldorf as the Babies' uncles. Personally I always wanted to see a baby Zoot, or a baby Swedish Chef (a couple of my old favorites from the original [i]Muppet Show).... <<<


Well, this is the original "babies"/"kids" show, which Hanna-Barbara seemed to be the main person ripping it off for its shows....plus, it was actually funny (liked the bit with Piggy taking her basket of goodies as Red Riding Hood to the planet Yoda lived on in "Star Wars" [taking one of those x-wing fighter things to get there], and finding out that "Grandma" is the plant from "Little Shop of Horrors" ["Piggy! Feeeed me!"] :-)

I'd say that "Muppet Babies" (and "Yo Yogi"/etc.) are all just "stuff the characters made for TV" for money (with no actual bearing on the characters' pasts). Remember Piggy's fantasy sequence in "Muppets Take Manhattan"?

I'd say, though, that "Muppet Babies" went downhill when baby-Beany was added...

-B.

[Nftnat]

Originally posted by Jack
Here's one I actually read about a while back: They were planning on making a cartoon about the MGM lion. You know, the one who roars at the beginning of every MGM movie and cartoon. He's married with a family, and every day he comes to work so he can......roar in the MGM logo. I guess they never made it, thank goodness.



Jack:D

But they did do that, I think. There was a cartoon awhile back titled "The Lionhearts". I never saw any of it but the promos.

[DR. BELCH]

Jack:
Here's one I actually read about a while back: They were planning on making a cartoon about the MGM lion. You know, the one who roars at the beginning of every MGM movie and cartoon. He's married with a family, and every day he comes to work so he can......roar in the MGM logo. I guess they never made it, thank goodness.
Unfortunately they did make it. It aired a few years ago on the WB right after that abyssmal Wacky World of Tex Avery at 6:30 AM. Watched one or two episodes, but never cared for it. I recall one in which Leo's elderly father, the original MGM lion, appeared--some feat for a cat who's been dead and buried on the lot some 20 or 30 years or so....

[Anthonynotes]

I've seen a few seconds of this cartoon as well...at least his kids actually *had* a mother---the bane of cartoon "father and son" teams, where we never see who the kid's mother was, or what happened to her (the kid just suddenly shows up sans explanation)...divorce? Dead? Left the father? The mind boggles... :-)

(SPOILERS FOR BELOW?)





In the second made-for-TV Flintstones movie, we see Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm have kids, twins named Chip and Roxy (Chip has red hair, while Roxy has white hair and her father's super-strength). Unlike the original series' episode w/Pebbles' birth, here they're allowed to show here being pregnant (and, well, using words like "pregnant" and "contractions"....); changing times and all. Though for the case of the "Flintstones", they seem to have between the Flintstones and Rubbles a pretty extended family-type of setup (we've seen uncles, grandparents, mother-in-laws, etc. show up over the various series...). But at least Pebbles presumably didn't split on Bamm-Bamm/"mysteriously" vanish after the kiddies were born (the adult-P&BB&kids make one more appearance, in a new Christmas special) ;-)



-B.

[Sharklady]

> Unlike the original series' episode w/Pebbles' birth, here they're allowed to show her being pregnant... <

Acually, I recall at least one episode in the original series that did show Wilma pregnant. It was the one where Fred hired a series of unsuitable maids, to do the housekeeping as Wilma neared her delivery date. Throughout that ep, Wilma wore a loose-fitting frock over an obvious, if somewhat undersized, abdominal bulge.

[LD1984]

What are you kids still doing here? Go home!

I have a great idea for a cartoon show! Pinky and the Brain kids! Watch as Little Pinky and Baby Brain try to escape the horror of their parents (Seeing how most parent mice like to eat their babies). It's like a reality show too! You never know what will happen to the little rascals.

Steve Urkel can play the little boy who owns them (how old is he now. 39???). He can say some catch phrase and trip over his own feet!

I suck at that kind of stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know I'm making a steady recovery. I might even be able to walk again.

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by Sharklady
> Unlike the original series' episode w/Pebbles' birth, here they're allowed to show her being pregnant... <

Acually, I recall at least one episode in the original series that did show Wilma pregnant. It was the one where Fred hired a series of unsuitable maids, to do the housekeeping as Wilma neared her delivery date. Throughout that ep, Wilma wore a loose-fitting frock over an obvious, if somewhat undersized, abdominal bulge.

Oops...forgot about that. Meant also to say that this TV-movie was allowed to actually *use* the word "pregnant" (IIRC, that episode you mentioned had Betty refer to Wilma's "condition"). Though from what I've read, the "Flintstones" is credited with being one of the first series to show a married couple sharing the same bed (vs. the 50's-style seperate beds thing)...

-B.

[sun]

Originally posted by BourgeoisBuffoon


No...which is sucky, since they never (to my knowledge) slandered it there.

Hoo Boy....the Flintstone Seinors. Another good fanfic idea:

...
Fred: WILMA! GET ME MY VITAMINS! And here, Barn, take my fruity pebbles. My stomach can't handle 'em anymore.

Barney: Neither can mine! Get them away! (wheeze)
...

Then again, maybe it's not such a hot idea...:p

Sorry, I didn't get it straight, you had made it clear they were on the Nick, not Cartoon Network. I was thinking, as I often do, in two or three places at once, and did catch that note on Nicolodeon.. Thanks for added info..oldtoonguy,,,ps this is a funny thread, as stated before, and we all need that..

[Jeff Harris]

How come nobody thought of a micro-version of Freakazoid?

L'il Freak would RULE!

[Danielle]

Originally posted by nemalki
How come nobody thought of a micro-version of Freakazoid?

L'il Freak would RULE!

Hmmmm........


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..........


*HMMMMMMMM--Okay, you get the point! That's a pretty neat idea. The only thing is that it clashes with the show. Dexter Douglas became Freakazoid as a teenager.

But heck, they won't care about that!

Little Cosgrove.......hee hee........

[Anthonynotes]

Of course they dont' care about that----like I said above, continuity/respect for the original show go out the window with most of these things :-) Thus, we'd see "Little Cosgrove" as a young kid to go with kiddie-Freak...


Other ideas:
"THE SIMPSONS KIDS": Despite such episodes as "The Way We Was" and whatnot showing that Homer and Marge didn't meet until high school, why not toss all that out the window to make---a cheesy Sat. morning spinoff! In this series, meet the 10-year-old "Simpson Kids": "Homey" Simpson, "Margie" Bouvier, Barney Gumble, "Neddy" Flanders, and "Spanky" Skinner, as all these guys and more attend Springfield Elementary under the watchful eye of middle-aged Principal Agnes Skinner. Episodes feature such delights as "Margie's Wedding", a flash-forward episode where little Margie learns of how she marries Homer in the far-off future! We'll also see such episodes as Homey, Neddy, and Spanky buying the first issue of "Radioactive Man" from their geeky classmate the Comic Book Kid, try to help out their friend Apu open their neighborhood's first convenience-lemonade-stand (where the lemonade's $10 a pop), and of course, the usual wacky antics of Homer yelling randomly at his parents/friends and celebrity cameos (first episode features: Tom Jones, NSync, Britney Spears, and whatever other lame-o guys who haven't used up their 15 minutes of fame yet....). And of course, everyone wonders what they'll be like when they grow up!

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BATBOY: Sure, we could've made a new Superboy series, but the writers and execs thought this would be a *bold new move*! In this series, we'll see the never-before-revealed adventures of Bruce Wayne as the 12-year-old *Batboy*! Episodes include: a teamup with his favorite TV character, the Grey Ghost, fighting against the junior high's worst menace, Lil' Jokey (and his sidekick, Lil' Harley), a teamup with his amazing sidekick, Robin, the Infant Wonder (don't knock it until you've seen it---you *will* believe a one-year-old can be a great hero!), and of course, the inevitable meetings with younger versions of Aquaman (Aquaboy), Green Lantern (Lil' Lantern), Lil' Wondy (Wonder Woman), Lil' Flash (*not* the former sidekick "Kid Flash", but the original Flash himself when he was a kid), and of course, the biggest character of them all we're missing----that's right: THE MARTIAN KIDHUNTER! (Don't think we forgot anyone...[throws away a picture of a spit-curled teenager in spandex with the words "Smallville, Kansas" printed on the bottom of it...]). Oh, and everyone wonders what they'll be like when they grow up.

THE FAMILY GUY KIDS: If you think this wasn't great, wait'll you see *this*! This series features Peter, Lois, and their adult friends as 10-year-olds, in hilarious adventures! Guaranteed a minimum of 5-7 tacky ethnic jokes per 10-minute segments! And of course, to completely mess with your minds, we'll ignore all sense of reality even moreso than usual and introduce 1-year-old "Stevie", Lois' younger brother who talks eloquently and wants to kill her! Along with, of course, Peter's dog "Lil' Brian", Brian when he was a mere pup, who enjoys imbibing in too much ginger ale and eating candy cigarettes! Loads of fun! FIRST EPISODE: Peter takes sex education classes; "Stevie" wonders what they'll all be like when they grow up (as do the rest of the cast) as he tries to kill Lois.

:-)

-B.

[DR. BELCH]

Actually, if The Lobe acquired genetic data from both Freakazoid and Freakazette, and spliced it together, he could create a little 'zoid of his own, rather like Brain and Pinky did Romey. Now why he'd want to create a mini version of his worst nemesis is beyond me...if he took after his "father" he'd be as unstable as a baby bottle of nitroglycerine. Still, Freak with a "son"--picture that, if you will. :eek:

[RockItShipper]

Any of you see TV Funhouse's Fetal Scooby Doo? Anyway...

RE: Batboy... Is that really wise to share the name with a tabloid character?

[Anthonynotes]

>>Any of you see TV Funhouse's Fetal Scooby Doo? Anyway...

No, I haven't....since it'd have to involve actually sitting through "Saturday Night Live" :-)

>>>RE: Batboy... Is that really wise to share the name with a tabloid character?

Of course! This isn't a tabloid character---this is the adventures of Bruce Wayne when he was a *boy*! All legitimate! I mean, you accept that "Freddy" Flintstone, Barney, Wilma, Betty all knew each other as 10-year-olds, would pal around with their same-age-as-they-are friend Mr. Slate, and have 80's-level technology as kids (despite only having 60's-level tech as adults), instead of that silly "met at the hotel as young adults" thing, don't you?! *DON'T YOU*?! Besides, it's cartoons---continuity doesn't matter, since they're, uh, CARTOONS! (Pauses) *CARTOONS*! (Another pause) Aw, come on....we've got to push that warehouse of "Flintstone Kids" merchandise! Videos! Greeting cards! Dolls of the kid-Wilma that *don't* look like Pebbles dolls with her dress painted white and the bone yanked out of her hair!

-B.

[RockItShipper]

Originally posted by Brainatra
>>Of course! This isn't a tabloid character---this is the adventures of Bruce Wayne when he was a *boy*!

I know, I know... I was talking about this one, though. http://www.batboy-themusical.com/story/batboy.jpg