saturday morning flashback

Set the wayback machine for the early 80s, Sherman. Any Saturday morning will do . . .

I was such a nerd, I thought Timer was actually kind of cool. He taught us how to be healthy through song!

I was such a nerd, I thought the Dungeons  & Dragons cartoon was really cool.

Except for Uni. I hated that stupid little Scrappy Doo idiot.

Remember how excited you were to see your favorite video games become cartoons? The only thing that could have been better for a kid in 1983 would have been turning your favorite video games into a cereal!

Hmm . . . on second thought, maybe not.

Happy Saturday, everyone.

Comments

[Kristin]

Oh wow! You really brought me back 25 year just then. Especially the "hanker for a hunk of cheese!" PSA. Wow.

Saturday mornings used to be the best, didn't they? I mean, they're still pretty great, but Saturday morning cartoons were the best.

Now I need to dig up Voltron clips (with the lions, not the lame cars, of course). Yes, I too was a total nerd.

[esmerel]

Holy crap, I'm not sure what's more disturbing - that you found that, that I remember the words, or that my 11 month old started dancing to it!

[Michele]

Thanks Wil..now "you can't do it, you can do the Pac Man" will be in my head ALL day. ;)

Thanks for the flashback! The 80s were hilarious.

[Kristin]

Okay, that was way too easy. If anyone wants to watch a really bad mini-episode (5 minutes) of Voltron, it's here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZnu5rDuH8

I'm going to be humming that theme song all day now.

[giromide]

Wil, you are a stirrer of great 80s memories!

I believe Supercade was on CBS. I can't recall if this included the Space Ace/Dragon's Lair pairing. I don't think it did.

I'm amused by how strange Supercade's Mario looks. He looks like some guy in a ridiculous outfit.

I seem to be the only person I know who remembers the Mighty Orbots. If you're not sure what they are, here is a clip to jog your memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLcJXR7twoQ

[lizreay]

Holy crap. Guilty on all counts. :) I'd completely forgotten/blocked out the Saturday Supercade!!!

Thanks for the refresher on my misbegotten childhood. :)

[small sith]

wow. i don't remember that the D&D cartoon was so... cringeworthy! i loved it! i still might Netflix it. :D

[Celtic Mama]

Thank you so much for this post!! I remember all of the shows and commercials very well.

[~*angelle*~]

"I hanker fer a hunka cheese!"

I am so excited to see that again! Yay internet!

[Andrew]

No clips from the Pole Position show? How disappointing.

[TheLoneIguana]

I always remember the Timer cartoon with the ice-cube-tray Popsicles: "fill the tray with orange juice, or lemonade, or pomegranate juice, or whatever turns you on..."

Always hated Louis the Lifeguard, though.

[Kristin]

Oh my! I just found a 30 minute compilation of 80s cartoon openings! (See what you've done to me?)

Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bto7l3cKhvk

[Craig Steffen]

I loved the D&D cartoon. I own the DVD set, which is stylized like the original D&D basic set (the red box). It's pretty cool, and the commentaries are awesome.

I also have fond memories of the cartoons and PSAs that everyone's talking about. When I'm not at work, I'll look through these.

Happy Saturday!

[Coyote Seven]

You know, I think Timer was actually a character in his own movie. I remember seeing it when I was kid, sometime in the late 70's or early 80's.

Something about two kids having an adventure inside... the body of their dad or something, and like he was a smoker or something. Or maybe not. That's all I remember. But anyways, that's where Timer got his debut if I remember that part right!

[giromide]

The D&D clip to links to the Silverhawks intro after it plays. That was a cool show.

[Cinexploits]

I'm a little older than you are, Wil so this is what burned my retinas as a child:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QKhIckp4ccY

[Jack Spencer Jr]

The cartoons I would like to see again were called "Could Be You" which were late 60's/early 70's educational shorts, mostly geared toward self-esteem building, but taught other stuff, too. I can't seem to find them, though.

[Jack Spencer Jr]

Oops. Spoke too soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6oBWYuN1Q&feature=related

[davelog]

Curiously, I do, in fact, hanker for a hunka cheese.

Or 6 bowls of Honeycomb while sitting in front of the Shazam/Isis hour of power.

Either or.

[Random_Tangent]

I've been watching Saturday morning cartoons thanks to Ectoplasmosis.

Eekpocalypse Now wasn't nearly so bizarre the first time I saw it years before I saw the Coppola film.

Oh man.

[Random_Tangent]

I've been watching Saturday morning cartoons thanks to Ectoplasmosis.

Eekpocalypse Now wasn't nearly so bizarre the first time I saw it years before I saw the Coppola film.

Oh man.

[Celtic Mama]

Any fans of Battle of the Planets around? I spent my childhood trying to figure out if Zoltar was a man or a woman. I still don't know! :-)

[pvaras]

Hey Wil
You made the front page of Gawker.Com. As a New Yorker, I read this blog daily. If you can get past the snark, it's great exposure for you and your wife. Nice going!

Patrick

http://gawker.com/5004740/eat-this-at-your-peril

[Chuck]

Ah yes, the memories. I remember some afternoon kids show with a phone-in video game where the caller would say "POW" and the gun would shoot on the TV.

I liked the D&D cartoon fairly well. It seemed like EVERY cartoon had some kind of "cute" animal so I had no pro or anti Uni feelings.

I remember living in England in the mid 80's and hearing complaints from parents that the D&D cartoon was too violent.

Thanks for the flashback!

[eleventeen]

That. Was. Awesome.

Thanks, Wil. You made the task of cleaning the office way more fun that it started out to be.