The Obvious Child

Hong Kong Phooey, number one super guy
Hong Kong Phooey, quicker than the human eye
Hong Kong Phooey - fannn-riffic!

Ummm...I'll have to get back to you in about 20 years, when i finally get it to load.

Damn. I do not remember Hong Kong Phooey being that ripped. I have no image at hand to compare it with but I don't think he grew two feet and a hundred pounds after a cycle through the file cabinet.

Hong Kong Phooey meets Bloody Roar meets Tekken meets lots and lots of drugs.

Oddly, there's as much if not more movement in that Flash animation as there normally was in a 70s Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Cheap bastards.

Hadn't thought about that but you're totally right. The original cartoon would fall in the mid 70's slightly-better-than-stop-motion animation school.

A bunch of us were talking about the competing Ghostbusters cartoons the other night. This Google mission should you choose to accept it...

Dude, I can't even spell Straczynski.

Someone found an article in a magazine about how "professional child psychologists" were having a deleterious effect on cartoons, and mentioned how The Real Ghostbusters had an unsolicited audit done on it, and ended up recommending a number of changes, ranging from the offensive (make Janine more of a "comforting, maternal figure") to the really--offensive (make the one black character a handyman-gopher type) to the flat-out-insane (remove Egon's glasses because such "sharp-angled objects can frighten children").

Yes, the events as described in the article you describe (it was in "Penthouse") are correct, and happened as written. (I should know, I wrote it.)

When I sent the article in to Penthouse (knowing full it would forever firebomb any chance of ever working in animation again), they
asked why on *earth* I sent an article on kid's TV to *PENTHOUSE* for chrissakes.

"Because I want the creeps at Broadcast Standards and Practices, who turn white at the slightest hint of anything improper, to have to
flip through Penthouse to get to the article about them." The woman at the other end of the phone just about croaked laughing. -- jms

Why is this stuff in my head? It just is.

Ahhh The Real Ghostbusters vs. Ghostbusters...cartoons are fun.

I was going to say that that Hong Kong Phooey short was the best cartoon I'd seen in awhile but I'm watching aqua teen hungerforce right now and I watched a rerun of the really good Justice League episode centered on The Trial of Green Lantern.

Because really its a buddy cop movie with Flash playing Mel Gibson.

And I loves me some Mel Gibson.

"If the ring doesn't fit. . ."

Remember being shocked that line made it past Standards & Practices, then laughing my fool head off.

Green Lantern is voiced by the same guy who does Static and Samurai Jack, so you'd think I'd remember his name. . .

Phil La Marr.

*sigh* We gave up cable for the well-being of budget and small person. Rarely miss it, except when cartoons of any stripe or *Iron Chef* come up in conversation.

Thanks for the name, VASpider. Did you look that up, or do you have Needless Trivia Retention, too?

garrity, I pulled the Justice League episodes off gnutella. Which really isn't an option if you're on a dialup, I know. Um. Is there a convenient university nearby, with unmonitored computers that have built-in cd burners?