1980's Saturday Morning Preservation & Recreation Society FRIDAY POLL #1 - ABC 1980

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Time to instigate a tradition around here - THE FRIDAY POLL! Here we have, complete with hot links (in case you forgot what each cartoon was about) a poll to determine once and for all which was the BESTEST CARTOON IN THE 1980 ABC LINE-UP!

If you've never seen them, you could vote for the one you think might be cool to watch :)


[Poll #1916682]

Comments

[eicnan.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong to want to automatically veto anything with Scrappy?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Poor Scrappy... he's much easier to swallow as a character if you assume that he's a terminal "Special Needs" kid getting his Make-A-Wish Foundation dream of teaming up with Scooby-Doo. "Tah-tah-tah-TAAAAH! PUPPY POWER!" That's right, little guy...*sniffle*... you go get 'em *sob*... poor kid only has a month left according to the Doc :(

The fact that he made it all the way to the late-80's before he... left us *sniffle*... it's kind of inspirational!

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Lots of good choices here! But by the Lords of Light, Thundarr must win!

-The Gneech

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I was really torn on this one, but I had to vote for the time-traveling 1950's greaser :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

On a related note, I always get Dingbat mixed up in my head with the dog who was so ugly he wore a doghouse over his head and would show his face to criminals to scare them into turning themselves in.

-TG

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Ahhh :) That was "Yukk", of "Mighty Man & Yukk" fame (part of the Plastic Man & Baby Plas Comedy Adventure Show) :)

[aurora77]

Augh!

If it wasn't for being combined with Scrappy, I'd vote for Richie Rich. ABC Weekend Specials were pretty hit and miss, and they showed a lot of stuff from earlier seasons, too. Superfriends was rather cheesy at this point. I didn't watch enough Thundarr to have any memory of it, other than that it existed, so I can't vote for it. Fonz...eegh. Um, no. Sorry. Not too big on the Plastic Man one. So I guess it's Heathcliff.

I don't think ABC had a great lineup that year.

[volare.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH-YI!

[volare.livejournal.com]

Double bonus if the crossover episode with Thundarr vs The Herculoids is out there somewhere. I know there's a DVD set of all (?) of the Thundarr episodes, albeit cheaply made.

[janusfiles.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons I love the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie -- they gave Scrappy the treatment he so richly deserved. Best of all was Velma's observation: "He wasn't even a puppy; he had a gland condition."

[demonicgerbil.livejournal.com]

H-how do I vote? I only saw these things in syndication!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

From syndication, I have no idea... didn't even know we were syndicated ^-^

Try following this link http://saturday-am-80s.livejournal.com/64627.html

Good luck!

[mspette.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch many of these. I have a vague recollection of watching Heathcliff (minus Dingbat) when I was very, very young, and loving it.

Didn't get the Richie Rich/Scooby double, but I also disqualify that due to the Scrappy factor.

As for watching cartoons at a very early age, I still remember this cartoon of a group fighting another (?) on some sort of disco, multi-coloured platform, possibly a floating one. And one of the heroines used her long platted hair or ponytail as her weapon. If you have any idea what I'm talking about, you will have my undying affection forever and ever..

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Thanks to THIS community, I actually remembered the name of the Dingbat show...It had been plaguing me for years

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Episode 4 of th 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon has Medusa, a character who uses her hair as a weapon... but that's far too obvious and even though it's 1978 thr's no Disco Platform that I can remember...

Hmmm...