Nominations & Limitations

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Please reply to this post with your nominations for which cartoons should be included in our little marathon (September 3rd 2011). We're looking for SEVEN HOURS of classic 80's Saturday Morning cartoons here, that's 14 half-hours to fill! Only rules for nominations is that it needs to be a cartoon (or children's program) that was on the air some time between 1980 and 1989.

This covers A LOT of territory thanks to the proliferation of syndicated second-run cartoons through most of the 80's! For instance, the animated Star Trek was only on the air from 1973 to 1974, but I didn't discover it till it was broadcast as reruns on Saturday mornings in the 80's. Land of The Lost, H.R. Puffenstuff, Jabberjaw, Grape Ape... a good chunk of the 80's cartoons I remember were actually products of the 1970's.

So what do we do? Limit this to anything you saw in the 1980's, or limit it to stuff that was actually *produced* in the 1980's?

Suggestions and nominations appreciated :)

Comments

[aurora77]

Saturday Supercade
Kidd Video
Superfriends (most was produced in the 70's, but some was from the 80's)
Wildfire

I will beg people not to ask for Rubik the Amazing Cube. And I will smack with a trout the first person to ask for Captain Planet. Everyone after that gets the anvil.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I was going to nominate both of those :( You need SOME time to go to the bathroom and get another box of cereal, right?

[aurora77]

Captain Planet is the 90's show most commonly mistaken for an 80's show. And I'd know. If I had a nickel for every time someone requested it on 80scartoons.net... And Rubik is just painful, but I suppose we could find room for it eventually. Did you know Menudo did the theme song for it? That was before Ricky Martin, so we can't blame him. ;)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

The kids from Menudo also did the voices, didn't they? And the cube itself was voiced by Emanuel "Webster" Lewis?

[aurora77]

I've tried to block it out as much as possible...

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

It took a long time for me to process that Captain Planet was actually a real show. I would see the ads for it, but due to other viewing priorities never actually watched it. The concept just seemed too propagandist-y to be real, something whose existence might more appropriately be limited to low-budget promotional materials received from a community action group doing a presentation at my elementary school or something, a less successful counterpart to Mr. Yuck.

[aurora77]

I totally agree. It felt like a way-too-long PSA.