Nostalgia Moment: Big Guy and Rusty

[TacoHunter]

So while I was looking up stuff that Tim Curry was in, I remembered he was in a short lived cartoon on Fox like a million billion years ago WAY back in 1999, when the world was suppose to end. So I spend a few minutes looking through Tim Curry's filmography and found out that show was called Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. And I was like, huh, I wonder if I can find some clips of that series on youtube or something, then BAM, I found full episodes. It was kind of odd. But I guess they're doing that now n' days.

Anyway, it just made me really nostalgic, so I thought I'd make a post about it.

The series was just so good. The animation was really well done, and the writing was so top notch. It had such a wonderful interplay between Dwayne and Rusty. Just because Dwayne doesn't really like Rusty, because he's putting him out of a job, and at the same time Rusty idolizes Dwayne's alter ego Big Guy. Its such a ingenious concept for a show. I really wish the series had taken off.

Oh well, thanks to the power of the internet at least I'll be able to finally see how the series ended...I'm ready to for a disappointing ending that doesn't tie up all the lose ends. Just wish I had more time to watch the whole thing in one sitting.

[zimbach]

I loved that show. It deserves to be seen again, at least in a season pack DVD release.

It was based on a 1996 comic book by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow. The title characters were a tribute to famous anime robots like Gigantor and Astro Boy.

[TacoHunter]

I loved that show. It deserves to be seen again, at least in a season pack DVD release.

It was based on a 1996 comic book by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow. The title characters were a tribute to famous anime robots like Gigantor and Astro Boy.

I totally picked up on Rusty being a tribute to Astro Boy, but I didn't even think about Big Guy being Gigantor, but it totally makes sense.

[dexter]

i had only ever heard of astro boy but i did realize the tribute. i never saw gigantor till a while ago so that never entered my mind, neat.

i loved the show as well, it was really good.

[zimbach]

Well, Big Guy may not have literally been an analogue of Gigantor. Certainly he's a tribute to all mobile-suit type piloted robots. Gigantor was one of the earliest examples of those (remote-controlled in that case, but still piloted one way or another). Functionally, Big Guy seems modeled on Mazinger Z, though the physical resemblance is closer to Boss Borot.

[D.Shaffer]

I think Big Guy was based more around Iron Man actually. It was a bit of a play on east meets west, what with the giant reptilian monster and all. That said, the comic was a LOT darker then the actual cartoon.