Neo Yi wrote:Didn't that dude, Marsupilami have some sort of connections to Bonkers? I can't remember, I read it somewhere, but it could have been a mislead.
~neo
I think you are refering to Raw Toonage(a series that showcased Bonkers, Marsupilami, and other shorts) which has already been mentioned here.
If I can recall correctly, Marsupilami was orignally based on a Belgian comic book.
Disney also animated Marsupilami for their Disney Afternoon bumpers.
Marsupaulami is a Belgian comic book character, all right. For a few years, Disney swiped up the rights to him and made some tremendously horrible animated cartoons with him in it. The entire supporting cast from the cartoons was created by Disney, and the tone of the character was totally changed. Basically, they just took a character they thought looked marketable and ditched everything else that had been established about him. It was pretty heartbreaking. :(
Hi; the page with the Fido Dido junk on it is mine. The video and screens are from my own tapes.
In fact, the entire site the page appears on is mine, and I wrote the majority of material on it, so check out more of it. My newest addition this week is covering the U.S. Acres comic strip, but a page entirely about Fido Dido has been a possibility (ever since somebody sent me the rom for that Genesis game--it WAS released and sold in Europe).
I found out Fido Dido is basically a marketing brand; he started out on T-shirts and then the shirts sold well enough that he started appearing on other things. His connection to Angela Anaconda revealed on this thread disturbs me to no end. Thanks for THAT.
Insider tip: there is one Fido bumper in that video download that I only saw once and never again; it's the one where his paddle ball gets so big that it falls on him. It just appeared one day when I was taping Garfield, in place of the usual bumper. Dunno why.
Normally when I see that I've been linked to (my server's webstats page gives site owners that info), I find all these links to message boards....which is annoying, since if I want to see which page of mine is attracting their attention and what they're saying, the link won't lead me to the specific page. That's how it works. I have to search for it and usually I don't find it.
But when I saw a link coming from the Green Hill Zone, I had to find that one. Both the Green Hill Zone and Secrets of Sonic Team rule. Wherever you site guys are in this, thanks for the hard work.
Mars wrote:Insider tip: there is one Fido bumper in that video download that I only saw once and never again; it's the one where his paddle ball gets so big that it falls on him. It just appeared one day when I was taping Garfield, in place of the usual bumper. Dunno why.
Thanks a million for putting those bumpers up for download. Those brought back a lot of nearly forgotten memories.
I'll give you a hug if you make a full Fido page.
Amazing site, by the way.
On the subject of obscure, long forgotten merchandising whores, I shall post the following:
Speaking of obscure childhood media, I was discussing with a friend a while back an advertisement that was on Fox TV around 1994 in the Animaniacs/ Power Rangers/ The Tick era...
Both of us remember the commercial having a classical tune (I could whistle it, but I can't come up with which one it is. Not Ode to Joy, but maybe Beethoven) with words that advertised the cartoon lineup that included "Be sure to open yours eyelids... SaturDAAAAAY morning on Fox Kids!"
Does anyone remember that commercial and any further words to it?
"Batman and Robin top the list" was the lijne right before the two you remember, but I'm drawing a blank beyond that!
I'm also remembering part of the other ad... the one that used the same gimmick but with a different classical song. "...Batman and Robin too, Spider-man knows what to do, don't miss the Tick, X-men are quick, hey Carmen's on the ruuuuuun... Come on in and join in all the fuuuunnn... Saturday on FOX Kids!"
Man, I wonder how much extra useful information I could retain without having things like that cluttering my brain.
I can remember the Reisen Chocolate Chew jingle, if it helps. I know it doesn't, I just wanted to prove that I remember it against all probability and the harsh weathering of plodding years.
I hope they gave multiple promotions to the guy at Nickelodeon who figured out that kids could be entertained by a popsicle stick as easily as by a well-animated, painstakingly-designed, focus group-tested character.
I'll take the H-B/UPA-modeled cartoons(see the ones Light Speed mentioned) over most of the designs of the now defunct K-C. At least, PPG designs didn't make my eyes bleed.
True, the animation was interesting and kinda new. The stories were all pretty much the same.
That said they did regular re-runs of the few episodes apart from the one with the FUCKING WATER FIGHT!
The blue haired Kanker was kinda fit too.
From what I've seen, Powerpuff Girls never actually became bad - just not-as-good-as-the-older-ones. Has the show ended now? If so, I'd say they did it at about the right time and have gone out with dignity.
Dexter's Lab on the other hand went to hell when they brought it back with the ugly-ass animation. The animation was the most notable difference, but the direction, character design, music and voice acting all suffered greatly too.
It's a shame, because before that it was a fucking brilliant cartoon.
I wish more things would just go out with dignity.
Getting back to Klasky Csupo, the first 65 episodes of Rugrats from 1991-1994 were really clever, observant and with a unique charm. Its basic concept itself was very endearing and well executed, imagining the world from the perspective of infants and all the wonder, confusion, delight and sadness it brings. Even the adults, despite being mere supporting characters and the authority figures of the protagonists, were fully fleshed out characters with their own true to life foibles and personality traits - a huge diversion from the tpyical cartoon parents.
All down the drain when they brought the show back in 1997 and it pretty much just became a shallow Cute Baby Adventures kind of show, no longer a humorous take on the realities of day to day life with infants, but more of a generic cartoony-cartoon.
