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You do know that yours is likely to be the only review quoted in the ads from here on out, right?

And I just got home from listening to a friend rant that the film was absolutely terrible (except for Shaggy) and that Velma in particular was completely false to the original. Takes all kinds, evidently.

isn't velma that girl from freaks & geeks?

Ah, Nightmare Ned. To this day, "Vegetables are succulent" and "Man, I am so in the mood to ruin someone's day" remain part of my best loved phrases.... That show had quality=doomed written all over it from Day 1. (How 'Teacher's Pet' stays on is the exception that proves the rule, I guess.)

To me hanna barbara cartoons meant a lot of jokes that weren't funny with a laugh-track to tell you that it somehow must be funny, bad animation, bad art, no whites in the eyes of the characters, more canned laughter, every episode the same as the last, another boring moment as a child with nothing better to do...

I always loved the "Simon in Chalkboard Land" on Capt. Kangaroo. Math puns and a cute Brit boy...ahhhh.

Okay i'll go see Scooby Doo if Cory thinks it's funny. So does Fred come out of the closet with Velma? Do the Globetrotters make a special guest appearance? Please tell me Scrappy dies at the end....

i hear that the next 2 cartoon movies in the works are for "The Wonder Twins" and "Underdog."

I hope to God they leave "Hong Kong Phooey" alone....

The one morning cartoon that I enjoyed was 'Tom Terrific' which was in turn a part of Captain Kangaroo. I have never forgotten Isotope Feeney, whose name has been my paradigm for cool names ever since. At least until my sister began to refer to her supervisor routinely as 'The Evil Alice Alexander'

I guess I was able to sit through Mighty Mouse as a child.

My overall take on cartoons comes from having them drone as background noise in my house as I was raising my own kids. We had a 'two hours of T.V. a week' rule, but the kids always seemed to pick their two hours from the cartoons. Ugh.

Edited by author 06-24-2002 01:05 AM
the only good saturday morning cartoon i can recall is "the new adventures of mighty mouse"

also the 'barba pappas' but nobody remembers them - might have been a PBS thing...

also, yes i remember godzooki (or however that's spelled)

The modelling did look weird in the trailers, but in th emovie it really worked -- far better, I think, than it woulda worked if they'd animated Scooby "flat" like Roger Rabbit.

Edited by author 06-23-2002 11:32 PM
i don't know if this came on saturday mornings, and i didn't like them when i was a kid, but the old popeye cartoons can make me laugh now. they sometimes show them between old movies at 3:00 in the morning. (also - the little rascals...rock!) one of the clubs i go to shows betty boop and felix the cat (sound down) and those look pretty cool.

cory, i decided not to go see the movie because the scooby modeling/animation (whatever you want to call it) in the trailers looked bad/weird and creeped me out. i guess you were able to get past that?

I was going to object to Pat's sweeping condemnation, but I can't right off the top of my head remember any really good Saturday Morning cartoons. ("Memorable" and "nostalgia-genic" doesn't equate to "good.")

Well, to be fair, there were lots of one-season freaks and experiments of note. Anyone remember the raunchy claymation "Mr. Lumpy"? Or "Nightmare Ned," or "Zazu U," which appeared to have been concieved by stoned elementary school art teachers?

Since I haven't seen the movie I won't question Cory's taste, but Scooby Doo the cartoon frustrated and irritated the hell out of me as a kid. I tried watching when I got cable a few years back, and I felt the same way.

I was into "Minority Report" for the first half or so; then it turned into a pretty lame techno-thriller.

Saturday morning cartoons send a thrill of revulsion from the back of my throat to my toes. The notion that a Saturday morning cartoon has been turned into a movie upsets me more. Enjoy it if you like, Cory, but for God's sake wash afterward. I'd hate to think any cartoon cooties were left on you.

Oh, Fred's got an ascot, don't you worry.