Worst. Cartoon. Ever.
Posted on September 1, 2006 @ 10:09 am
Considering the Fonz inspired the phrase “jump the shark,” you’d think that whole incident must have been the lowest point in the character’s history, right? Wrong. Set the wayback machine to 1980 and the Saturday-morning debut of Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.
I’m sure we all recognize Fonzie, Richie, and Ralph Malph, but what’s the dealio with Sally McPigtails and the anthropomorphic dog? I think Wikipedia sums it up best:
The cartoon added a dog, Mr. Cool (voiced by Frank Welker), and a girl from the future, Cupcake (voiced by Didi Conn) to the cast as they travel through history in a time machine, trying, as narrator Wolfman Jack put it, “…to get back to 1957 Milwaukee.”
Wow. Just wow. Hanna-Barbera created a Happy Days cartoon, added a proto-Poochie named Mr. Cool and a chick from the future voiced by Frenchy from Grease, and gave them a freakin’ time machine?! Oh, hell — the opening sequence tells you everything you need to know.
Suddenly, The Three Robonic Stooges doesn’t seem like such a silly concept after all. I mean, Fonz and the Happy Days Gang is so bad that it makes The Partridge Family, 2200 A.D. look like Thundarr the Barbarian.
Yeah, I’m not sure what that meant either.
Anyway, the cartoon’s foulest transgression can be summed up in two simple words: no Potsie. I’m sorry, but it ain’t Happy Days if there’s no Potsie. Anson Williams represent!
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I couldn’t get it to play
No matter, I just spent the last 10 minutes watching the intros to all of my favorite 80s cartoons.
Thundercats, HO!
Sadly, it worked fine for me in Firefox. AAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!
Obviously, that dog is what inspired the “Poochie” character on The Simpsons.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Poochie.gif/180px-Poochie.gif
Hi, stopped by via BE. I too remember this cartoon and it was awful. Even at 5 years old it didn’t convince me when it was on. There were other cartoons like this. They took a great TV show and destroyed them in the form of an animated series like Gilligan’s Island set in space. I believe they also did it with the Partridge family as well. Why? I know of one worse than this. It was called, “Would the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.” I could tell you more but it’s too painful.
Hanna Barbera had some real stinkers when I was a kid, too.
Three of the worst I remember:
Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
The Harlem Globetrotters
The Hair Bear Bunch
Here’s a funny story:
When I was in elementary school, the school hired a woman to perform for our class. She said her name was Hannah Barbera and that she was the one who drew the Hanna Barbera cartoons. She got on stage, took out a sketch pad, and started drawing Fred Flintstone.
My twin brother and I told everyone that she was a liar and that we knew for a fact that Hanna Barbera were two men — William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
No one believed us. We couldn’t believe they were all so gullible. We were only about 10 years old.
i love old cartoons, they dont make them like they use to. i just love the 80s period. i ‘m looking for nikki swasey she played lisa on the diffrent strokes sitcom lol lol
The fact that they put something stupid on TV when you were a kid is not what worries me. What worries me is that as an adult, you still aren’t over it and have spent all this time tracking it back down just so you could bitch about it some more. These things were made for ten year olds for crying out loud! Get a life already!
your all douche bags get a life