Top 100 Animated Series Nominees – 1980s!

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Hi, this is Tom Ruger and you are listening to

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the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

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back to the Geekcast Radio Network’s Top 100

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Animated Series Nominees episodes. This is part

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two. I am, of course, TFG and Mike. Joining me

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is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir. Yo. Yo. And Optimus

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Solo. Hello, sir. Ho. Not the Thundercats. No

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rum. No rum. Steve always sets me up, though.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ho, ho, ho, and a bottle of

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rum. How’s everybody doing tonight? Wonderful.

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Super. Thank you for asking. That’s right. Alright,

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continuing on from the last episode, we enter

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the decade of the 1980s. Take it away, Optimus

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Solo, and remind us what’s in store for the listeners

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as we go through this new format. Yes, we will

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be revealing the nominees that are eligible to

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be voted on for the Top 100 Animated Series of

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All Time. This time we’re looking at just the

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decade of the 80s, so like you heard last episode

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where we did 50 eligible nominees from the pre

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-1980s, today will be 50, 50, 5 -0 eligible shows

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from the 1980s. Then we’ll have a few more in

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store for the 90s, the 2000s, and the 2010 to

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present. So these are unlike the last time we

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did the top 100 countdown where any show was

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eligible in the history of animation, which means

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people were picking from thousands. This time

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you only get to pick from the 250 nominees. So

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this is like the special unveiling of those 250

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this time. The 50 from the 1980s. Scooby’s like

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chicken and out. He won’t budge. I bet I could

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change his mind with a Scooby snack. Scooby snack?

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Catch. Give him two Scooby snacks and he like

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orbits the Earth. Doctor, it’s an honor to meet

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you. I’ve listened to all your radio programs,

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read all your books. I bet you’ll want to write

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a whole chapter on me. Mr. Seville, I am not

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Dr. Weisenheimer. You’re not? No, I’m the doctor’s

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secretary, Milton Schwartz. If you’ll just sit

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and wait, the doctor will be with you in a moment.

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Alexander, why aren’t you practicing with your

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team? What’s the use? We’re in last place. Besides,

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I’m captain of the team. I can take an afternoon

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off once in a while. We can work on my model

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airplane, father. I would love to play too, Alexander.

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But I have a speech to give to the people of

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Celestville. But you’re the king, father. You

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can take an afternoon off. Yeah. I’m going to

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get all this uniform before I choke. Because

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I’m king, I must do many things that I would

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sometimes rather not do, children. Yeah, and

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for dessert, punk in pie. Oh, yeah. Save that

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guy for later. Beetlejuice, I thought you were

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coming as Betty. And I thought Betty was coming

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as a beetle. On a whim, I decided to come as

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a caterer. Right, Beetlejuice. You talked my

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parents into hiring you as the caterer, huh?

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Hey! You wanted a freaky Halloween party, didn’t

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you? What’s this? A lovely lady dining alone?

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May I join you for lunch, Ms. Bear? Be my guest.

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The cubs aren’t interested. Oh? Where are they?

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Eating in front of that television. It used to

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be a treat. Now they do it every day. Give it

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to me! No way! It’s my turn to choose! We’re

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not… Watching bear wrestling. There’s no way

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I’m watching Little Treehouse on the Prairie.

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Okay, that’s it. No more TV for a week. So let’s

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start it off with our first group of five. These

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are revealed in alphabetical order. So the order

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that we reveal these has nothing to do with what

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may or may not appear eventually on the top 100.

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It is just alphabetical order. So the first group

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of five, we will name five, and then we’ll get

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Steve, Mike, and my own reactions to them, and

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then we’ll just keep going until all 50 have

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been revealed. You react first this time compared

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to the last podcast, compared to part one. You

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react first this time, even though you’re revealing

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them to us. You react first because you got to

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react last, last time. Something let a Tasmanian

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devil out of its cage. All right, so the first

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group of five is… A Pup Named Scooby -Doo from

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1988, Alvin and the Chipmunks from 1983 that

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had over 100 episodes, Babar the Elephant, I

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believe is what Babar is, if I’m remembering

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correctly. I didn’t watch Babar as a child, but

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that came out in 1989. Then we have, joining

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Babar, we have the Beetlejuice animated series,

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which also came out in 1989, and then the Berenstain

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Bears cartoon, which also… came out in, or

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not in 89, that one came out in 1985. So a little

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bit of a weird flavor here, I guess. We got Babar

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and Berenstain Bears from the more young demographic

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that those were aimed at. And then we have the

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classic Alvin and the Chipmunks, a variation

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of Scooby -Doo with a pup named Scooby -Doo.

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And there’s obviously a hundred variations on

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Scooby -Doo. And then Beetlejuice, which is obviously

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aimed a little bit older than like the likes

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of Babar and Berenstain Bears. I… believe in

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my opinion that the only one i think that i would

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consider out of this group of five would be alvin

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and the chipmunks not saying anything bad about

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those other shows at all it’s just in my opinion

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those would be probably the or that would be

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the only one that me personally i think warrants

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In the discussion for Top 100, Steve, what do

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you think? I personally like the pup named Scooby

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-Doo and Elvin and the Chipmunks. I remember

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Beetlejuice. I remember Berenstain Bears mostly

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from the book. And then Vavar, I was familiar

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with it, but it’s not something I would have

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cared about watching. Beetlejuice is definitely

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a piece of that time. Pup named Scooby -Doo and

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Elvin and the Chipmunks, I think, are the only

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strong contenders in this block. I could see

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that. Mike, do you agree or disagree? And then

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also, do you think the resurgence of the recent

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Beetlejuice movie will play into a factor of

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getting more people to consider the cartoon?

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Or do you think it’s lost to the 80s? I think

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with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Yeah,

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I did it. I think with the sequel being out now,

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people might be searching out the animated series.

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And seeing what it was all about, I think they

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might be going back and watching the original

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movie as well. That animated series was so good.

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It really was for what it was at the time. Like

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you both have said with Berenstain Bears, we

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all remember the books. I remember both because

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I remember trying to match up the episodes of

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the show with the books I had. I had so many

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Berenstain Bear books as a kid in the 80s. Had

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so many of those. Alvin and the Chipmunks is

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classic. Can’t go wrong with that. And like Steve

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said, out of all the versions that they’ve done,

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and we all know in the late 80s, because it was

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1988 when this happened, but in the late 80s,

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the let’s do the kid version of the adult version

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of the thing was the thing to do because we had

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flintstones kids and we had this kid and that

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kid and every other kid cartoon tom and jerry

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kid oh man if we were doing don’t even don’t

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even start don’t even you’re gonna don’t even

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you’re it’s it’s gonna be an earworm all night

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don’t even start because that’s a theme song

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oh man That just the theme song alone that Tom

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and Jerry kids show. Oh, my God. But a pup named

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Scooby Doo. Literally, I kid you not. I have

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both seasons on my Fandango account. And literally,

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I was just watching a bicycle built for boo the

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other day. I love a pup named Scooby Doo. We

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got to interview Tom Ruger, who was one of the

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executive producers, I believe, head writer.

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I could be wrong in the head writer credit, but

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he was one of the executive producers on that

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show. Absolutely love a pup named Scooby -Doo.

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Yeah, like Steve said, Babar is the only outlier

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in this five because I know he’s an elephant.

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That’s about it, I think. Like, I know the name.

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And I know he’s an elephant. That’s about it

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on this set of five. But everything else, I think

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the other four have some sort of contention rights.

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The four besides Berenstain Bears, the other

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four were all nominated for awards. The only

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ones that appeared on the nine list that we looked

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at when we were compiling these groups of 50

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was a pup named Scooby -Doo. Babar actually showed

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up there, and Alvin and the Chipmunk showed up

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on five of those. Beetlejuice did not show up

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anywhere, which really shocked me, but we’ll

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see how the voters think now that maybe the movie

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brings it back into the consciousness of the

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voters. We’ll see. He was my commander at the

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Marshal’s Academy, the best in the galaxy. He

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was my idol, my hero. We called him Jingles because

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of those spurs he wore. I remember he was a tough

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trainer, but a good one. Get to the point, Mayor

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Davis. Unless the doctors give you a new electronic

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body covered by a computerized metal shell. The

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operation’s not without risks. But if it’s successful,

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you’ll be the country’s most unique crime fighter.

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I can’t give up now. It would be like sending

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a signal to the big boss. Saying it’s okay for

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him to commit crimes and ruin the city with his

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evil schemes. I’m going to need help. A select

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group of the best police officers gathered from

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around the country. And together, we will overcome

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the threat posed by the Big Boss. Gentlemen,

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you have my permission to begin the cybernetic

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replacement. Hurry, Kevin! The interdimensional

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warp only opens every 1 ,000 video years. And

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it’s almost time. This is hurrying, Princess.

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Video games are my specialty, remember? If I

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didn’t know better, I’d say you’ve lost your

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cheer. I’m afraid you’re right. What? I’m very

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intrigued on this next set of five, guys. Uh

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-oh. the next set of five. And one thing I’m

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going to preface this one before we list the

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shows is our original Top 100 obviously had a

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healthy amount of both 80s and 90s cartoons based

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on the age of all of us and things that we grew

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up on and et cetera, et cetera. There may have

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been some biases involved. One thing that’s going

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to be curious to me is when you add the 15 years,

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we kind of talked about this last episode, but

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when you add 15 more years of cartoons, and it’s

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really not just adding 15 years of cartoons.

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You also probably have to say considering almost

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20 years because there were some that had come

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out right before we did that list that really

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hadn’t been around long enough for anybody to

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know if they were going to last or how good they

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were going to be. So it’s really considering

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15 plus years because it’s some right around

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that mark that have had more time to grow on

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people for sure. But when you consider all of

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those extra cartoons, to me, that’s where you

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run into… Do some of these 80s and 90s shows

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that were maybe ranked anywhere from, let’s say,

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70 to 100 on the original list, do they become

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in jeopardy of not making the list is something

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that I’m going to be intrigued to see as this

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whole thing unfolds. And I feel like the set

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that I’m about to reveal could be in that grouping

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of stuff that is it still going to be able to

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make our top 100 or is it going to fall off because

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all five of these shows were on our original

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top 100. So the next set of five is Brave Star

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from 1987, Cops from 1988, Captain N and the

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Game Master from 1989. So we did 87, 88, and

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89. We got that going for us. And then we have

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Care Bears from 1985. and Chippendale Rescue

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Rangers from 1989. Chippendale Rescue Rangers

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was on the most lists that we looked at. It was

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on four of the nine. Care Bears was on two. The

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rest were all on our list for sure. The only

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one that got an award nomination was Rescue Rangers,

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but all five of these were on our original list.

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I would consider all five of them again. I don’t

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know which ones will ultimately make the cut

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on my list because it’s going to be like a bloodbath

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when it comes to the final 10 shows on my list,

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I’m sure. Trying to decide which ones make it

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and which ones are left on the chopping room

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floor. This is going to be one of the more intriguing.

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Every time we do the Top 100, we talk about the

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ones that just missed it. Whether it’s 10 or

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we reveal 15 or 20 or however many we reveal

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that just didn’t quite make it. This is going

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to be a very intriguing set of those cartoons

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when all is said and done. I think the one that

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I would make the most case for is… probably

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rescue Rangers and maybe a little bit for care

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bears only because of what it represented for

00:15:22.299 –> 00:15:24.779
a different demographic. And it’s been redone

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like 700 times. Whereas I feel like for some

00:15:27.899 –> 00:15:30.960
reason, cops and brave star have never gotten

00:15:30.960 –> 00:15:33.419
the reboot. They’ve never gotten this, you know,

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anything else besides that original incarnation,

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which is weird because so many of the other ones

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have been rebooted in some way, shape or form,

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but cops and brave star have not. I would probably

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put brave star a tick ahead of cops. captain

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n it really depends on how you rate all of the

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video game cartoon video game based cartoons

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and which ones you like do you have room for

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all of them do you have room for just one mike

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what do you think of this group of five chippendales

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rescue rangers easily top 25 if not top 30 care

00:16:07.120 –> 00:16:13.870
bears When I was, okay, look, when I was six,

00:16:13.990 –> 00:16:18.429
seven, eight, yeah, for me personally, it’s that

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age range. So for me, it would probably be in

00:16:23.230 –> 00:16:29.830
the top 50 somewhere, maybe. Maybe just under

00:16:29.830 –> 00:16:33.850
the top 50, maybe 52, 53, 54, something like

00:16:33.850 –> 00:16:35.850
that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Brave Star.

00:16:36.549 –> 00:16:40.659
I might have seen the intro. We need to do some

00:16:40.659 –> 00:16:45.399
work on that, sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I own the

00:16:45.399 –> 00:16:47.200
complete series. We can do this. Yeah, yeah,

00:16:47.220 –> 00:16:50.139
yeah. That’s for a whole other podcast series.

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We’ll work on that. Cops. I love Cops. Cops is

00:16:58.279 –> 00:17:01.120
basically the Rodney Dangerfield of 80s cartoons.

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It gets no respect. It really doesn’t. At least

00:17:04.609 –> 00:17:07.509
not in any of the circles. You and I respect

00:17:07.509 –> 00:17:10.470
it. I don’t think Steve even… I’m sure he knows

00:17:10.470 –> 00:17:13.230
of it. I don’t know how many episodes of it he’s

00:17:13.230 –> 00:17:17.849
seen. He probably might have only… Do you even

00:17:17.849 –> 00:17:21.910
know cops? I’ve seen a little bit of it. Nothing

00:17:21.910 –> 00:17:24.630
I would care about. Yeah, it’s fine. It’s fine.

00:17:24.890 –> 00:17:30.059
I figured as much. captain n though i mean we

00:17:30.059 –> 00:17:32.579
had a debate during the first top 100 between

00:17:32.579 –> 00:17:35.259
captain n and the super mario brothers super

00:17:35.259 –> 00:17:37.339
show i think it was that we kind of yeah back

00:17:37.339 –> 00:17:38.619
and forth and i think we were somewhat split

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two people were for one and two people were for

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the other right but here’s the thing with captain

00:17:43.339 –> 00:17:46.400
n in the game captain in the game master you

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would think that after you said 89 right correct

00:17:50.579 –> 00:17:54.839
yeah yeah so almost Well, we’re not quite to

00:17:54.839 –> 00:18:00.819
40 years for Captain N yet, but almost 40 years

00:18:00.819 –> 00:18:04.519
for that show? 35, 40 years? You would think

00:18:04.519 –> 00:18:07.819
that would be the show? That would be the character?

00:18:08.480 –> 00:18:12.839
That they could do so many reincarnations of

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series for? Okay, regardless of Captain N, Captain

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Nintendo, and it being a Nintendo character,

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but the type of character that could champion

00:18:26.279 –> 00:18:31.099
a video game team of multiple characters from

00:18:31.099 –> 00:18:34.740
multiple systems going in multiple… He’s basically

00:18:34.740 –> 00:18:37.259
the Wreck -It Ralph of the 80s. He’s not Wreck

00:18:37.259 –> 00:18:38.900
-It Ralph. I’m not saying he’s Wreck -It Ralph,

00:18:39.000 –> 00:18:43.650
but you get my point. Captain N was the guy that

00:18:43.650 –> 00:18:47.029
could go into multiple video game levels and

00:18:47.029 –> 00:18:49.970
worlds and things and whatever. And he fought

00:18:49.970 –> 00:18:52.589
Mother Brain and Eggplant Wizard and everything

00:18:52.589 –> 00:18:55.910
else. And you would think with how far video

00:18:55.910 –> 00:18:59.049
games has come in the last 40 years since his,

00:18:59.089 –> 00:19:03.089
almost 40 years since his cartoon, that you would

00:19:03.089 –> 00:19:06.309
have so many reboots of that series in different

00:19:06.309 –> 00:19:09.519
versions of it. especially since Matt Hill is

00:19:09.519 –> 00:19:13.940
still, you know, going like we, uh, was it, who

00:19:13.940 –> 00:19:17.779
did it? It was at me and TV’s Mr. Neil, I think,

00:19:17.779 –> 00:19:19.740
or I forget who did the interview with me. We

00:19:19.740 –> 00:19:23.740
interviewed Matt Hill voice of captain N and

00:19:23.740 –> 00:19:27.480
man, just, you would think that that would, that

00:19:27.480 –> 00:19:31.700
cartoon series or something similar to it would

00:19:31.700 –> 00:19:35.519
have multiple and it doesn’t. And I, you know,

00:19:39.490 –> 00:19:41.349
Out of all of these, Care Bears was the only

00:19:41.349 –> 00:19:43.349
one that has been redone until just recently

00:19:43.349 –> 00:19:48.690
with Rescue Rangers. It had the movie a year

00:19:48.690 –> 00:19:50.369
or two ago. Otherwise, Care Bears has been the

00:19:50.369 –> 00:19:51.829
only one that’s been redone and that one’s been

00:19:51.829 –> 00:19:56.730
done every other year, it feels like. Steve,

00:19:56.789 –> 00:19:59.210
what do you think of this set of five and which

00:19:59.210 –> 00:20:00.730
ones do you think have the best shot of making

00:20:00.730 –> 00:20:04.809
the top 100? Honestly, out of these, I think

00:20:05.240 –> 00:20:07.240
Care Bears and Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers.

00:20:07.940 –> 00:20:11.900
Rescue Rangers had the live action hybrid movie

00:20:11.900 –> 00:20:14.539
that came out a few years ago on Netflix or not

00:20:14.539 –> 00:20:17.960
Netflix, Disney Plus. And then Care Bears has

00:20:17.960 –> 00:20:21.140
been rebooted multiple times. And Chip and Dale

00:20:21.140 –> 00:20:22.740
has also been used in a lot of Disney Channel

00:20:22.740 –> 00:20:26.759
content. So I feel like those two are the strongest

00:20:26.759 –> 00:20:35.490
contenders. For instance, My kids wouldn’t have

00:20:35.490 –> 00:20:38.289
any clue what Bravestar cops or Captain N are.

00:20:38.450 –> 00:20:43.170
I do. Bravestar, I really don’t know anything

00:20:43.170 –> 00:20:45.329
about, really. Cops, I know enough about. And

00:20:45.329 –> 00:20:49.589
then Captain N, I’ve actually watched. But I

00:20:49.589 –> 00:20:51.710
think the two strongest contenders here are Care

00:20:51.710 –> 00:20:54.849
Bears and Chippendale Rescue Rangers. I agree.

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And I have a feeling, too, I voted for all of

00:20:57.930 –> 00:21:00.210
these except for Captain N on the original. But

00:21:00.210 –> 00:21:02.569
this is where I’m thinking something like Bravestar

00:21:02.569 –> 00:21:05.930
or cops. could get edged out if there’s not enough

00:21:05.930 –> 00:21:09.470
room for me because I will have… Another thing

00:21:09.470 –> 00:21:11.089
that we sometimes consider when we’re doing these

00:21:11.089 –> 00:21:14.329
top 100 lists is whether it’s a decade, whether

00:21:14.329 –> 00:21:17.450
it’s a genre, whether it’s a franchise, at least

00:21:17.450 –> 00:21:21.089
myself, I try to limit how many of a certain

00:21:21.089 –> 00:21:23.809
thing are coming in. So for this example, I would

00:21:23.809 –> 00:21:25.970
say what we’re talking about today with the 80s,

00:21:25.970 –> 00:21:30.730
there’s a ton of 80s action, boy -centered…

00:21:31.339 –> 00:21:33.940
or boy like we’re the main demographic but like

00:21:33.940 –> 00:21:37.619
those 80 action 80s action uh cartoons and i

00:21:37.619 –> 00:21:40.799
don’t know if how much room i have for 20 of

00:21:40.799 –> 00:21:42.619
them you know what i mean like i gotta you can

00:21:42.619 –> 00:21:44.599
choose the best of the best that’s going to represent

00:21:44.599 –> 00:21:46.319
that and we know that there’s some big heavy

00:21:46.319 –> 00:21:48.920
hitters in that group so then it comes to me

00:21:48.920 –> 00:21:50.759
like is there really room in the hundred for

00:21:50.759 –> 00:21:52.880
a brave star for a cops or for some of the other

00:21:52.880 –> 00:21:54.700
ones that we may talk about and i just don’t

00:21:54.700 –> 00:21:57.579
know if there’s going to be yeah i mean and before

00:21:57.579 –> 00:22:01.119
you go on like i I actually had Captain N, Care

00:22:01.119 –> 00:22:03.480
Bears, and Chip and Dale on my original list

00:22:03.480 –> 00:22:06.920
out of these five. And looking at my original

00:22:06.920 –> 00:22:09.160
list, there’s a bunch of other shows from the

00:22:09.160 –> 00:22:13.480
80s and 90s, too, that are looking back at them.

00:22:13.599 –> 00:22:15.579
I mean, they were more fresh then than they are

00:22:15.579 –> 00:22:20.240
now, but they’re so far removed from pop culture

00:22:20.240 –> 00:22:21.779
now at this point. Nobody would know what they

00:22:21.779 –> 00:22:24.779
are, kind of like Bravestar and Cops. Yeah, and

00:22:24.779 –> 00:22:26.000
that’s something interesting, too, because I’ve

00:22:26.000 –> 00:22:28.140
been re -listening to the original Top 100 list.

00:22:29.079 –> 00:22:31.859
it’s interesting the effect that time has on

00:22:31.859 –> 00:22:34.259
some of these that nothing else is really playing

00:22:34.259 –> 00:22:36.359
a factor, right? Like it’s not like something

00:22:36.359 –> 00:22:39.359
came out that made it worse. It’s not like, and

00:22:39.359 –> 00:22:40.920
it’s not, I’m not just talking about the fact

00:22:40.920 –> 00:22:42.299
that there’s been more cartoons, so there’s less

00:22:42.299 –> 00:22:44.519
space, but some of these have just literally

00:22:44.519 –> 00:22:48.539
over time faded more like they, they just don’t

00:22:48.539 –> 00:22:51.079
have the same staying power, I guess, as some

00:22:51.079 –> 00:22:53.400
other ones that have remained in the kind of

00:22:53.400 –> 00:22:57.440
the consciousness of society or of pop culture.

00:22:57.980 –> 00:23:00.299
Definitely interesting to track. Come on, Igor.

00:23:00.460 –> 00:23:02.880
You’re supposed to be looking for the castle.

00:23:03.119 –> 00:23:08.500
Any sign of it yet? No, sir. Nothing but icebergs,

00:23:08.500 –> 00:23:15.099
sir. And the sea going up and down, up and down,

00:23:15.099 –> 00:23:19.279
and up and down. I know a top agent should always

00:23:19.279 –> 00:23:21.940
keep fit, Danger Mouse, and ready to leap into

00:23:21.940 –> 00:23:24.539
action at the moment’s notice. Back to Hulk!

00:23:24.809 –> 00:23:27.809
How can having a muscle -bound finger help? Really,

00:23:27.849 –> 00:23:30.829
Penfold, it can help in lots of ways. Like what?

00:23:31.089 –> 00:23:37.569
Well, like… Like… Uh… Uh… Whoa! That’ll

00:23:37.569 –> 00:23:40.990
be Colonel K. Ah, Danger Mouse, I wonder if you

00:23:40.990 –> 00:23:43.690
mind saving the world again? Certainly, Colonel.

00:23:44.009 –> 00:23:45.829
Now, pay attention while I show you how to do

00:23:45.829 –> 00:23:49.230
this. Now, Dennis, a climber’s rope is his best

00:23:49.230 –> 00:23:52.230
friend. But remember, you must always tie it

00:23:52.230 –> 00:23:55.400
to something. Okay, whatever you say. Watch closely

00:23:55.400 –> 00:24:04.839
now. Here it goes. Uh -oh. That was a close call.

00:24:05.720 –> 00:24:08.240
It’s a good thing I tied that rope to something,

00:24:08.420 –> 00:24:11.579
just like you said. Good for you, Dennis. What

00:24:11.579 –> 00:24:14.079
did you tie it to? To you. Well, Dennis, that

00:24:14.079 –> 00:24:18.359
was a very clever… Tommy, what is that? Gummy

00:24:18.359 –> 00:24:31.589
berry juice. No, Tommy, stop! I’ll be the greatest,

00:24:31.630 –> 00:24:34.710
most famous knight that ever was. And Princess

00:24:34.710 –> 00:24:37.930
Calla will notice me. Look, please, don’t be

00:24:37.930 –> 00:24:41.049
scared of me. I wouldn’t hurt you. You’re my

00:24:41.049 –> 00:24:43.609
heroes, don’t you understand that? I want us

00:24:43.609 –> 00:24:47.809
to be friends. The juice wore off, didn’t it?

00:24:47.890 –> 00:24:50.789
So, now the shoe’s on the other paw. I’m going

00:24:50.789 –> 00:24:53.769
to get me some more rope. Leave the boy alone,

00:24:53.970 –> 00:24:57.289
Gruppy Gummy. He’s proved that he’s trustworthy.

00:24:57.849 –> 00:25:00.559
Thank you, ma ‘am. My name’s Kevin, by the way.

00:25:00.680 –> 00:25:04.640
Well, what a polite young man. What’s that noise?

00:25:14.539 –> 00:25:21.880
Yikes, is he dead? What the? Well, you’re alive.

00:25:22.440 –> 00:25:25.059
So you thought you finished me off? Well, you’re

00:25:25.059 –> 00:25:27.480
not going to get my fish that easy, you big monster.

00:25:29.159 –> 00:25:33.640
Stop it! What are you doing? This is for hitting

00:25:33.640 –> 00:25:40.099
me! So, let’s go ahead and reveal the next set

00:25:40.099 –> 00:25:42.279
of five. Only two of these were actually on our

00:25:42.279 –> 00:25:44.200
original list, which is somewhat shocking that

00:25:44.200 –> 00:25:46.380
one of the other ones wasn’t. I’ll let you guys

00:25:46.380 –> 00:25:48.099
decide which one that is, but we’re going to

00:25:48.099 –> 00:25:52.579
go with Count Duckula from 1988. That did appear

00:25:52.579 –> 00:25:54.079
on one of the lists we looked at, but it was

00:25:54.079 –> 00:25:57.680
not on our original top 100. We have Danger Mouse.

00:25:57.779 –> 00:26:00.299
That one was from 1981. That was definitely on

00:26:00.299 –> 00:26:03.920
our top 100. Very huge presence when it comes

00:26:03.920 –> 00:26:08.380
to the UK and viewers from that across the pond,

00:26:08.460 –> 00:26:10.819
you could say. Then we have Dennis the Menace

00:26:10.819 –> 00:26:14.960
from 1986. We have Disney’s Adventures of the

00:26:14.960 –> 00:26:18.119
Gummy Bears from 1985. Got a couple nominations

00:26:18.119 –> 00:26:22.200
for awards and was on our original list. And

00:26:22.200 –> 00:26:24.829
then the… First incarnation that we received

00:26:24.829 –> 00:26:27.529
here in America, I believe, the original Dragon

00:26:27.529 –> 00:26:31.210
Ball from 1986, not to be confused with one that

00:26:31.210 –> 00:26:34.269
will come up shortly, but Count Ducula, Danger

00:26:34.269 –> 00:26:36.250
Mouse, Dennis the Menace, Disney’s Adventures

00:26:36.250 –> 00:26:38.289
of the Gummy Bears, and Dragon Ball. The interesting

00:26:38.289 –> 00:26:40.150
thing for me here is the combination of Count

00:26:40.150 –> 00:26:41.769
Ducula and Danger Mouse because those were the

00:26:41.769 –> 00:26:45.230
two very much heavy hitters. Those are like,

00:26:45.349 –> 00:26:48.609
I don’t want to say the Simpsons, but for the

00:26:48.609 –> 00:26:53.599
UK, those are huge. They’re like… Two of the

00:26:53.599 –> 00:26:56.480
biggest shows that they would know and that was

00:26:56.480 –> 00:27:00.660
just kind of like woven into the society there,

00:27:00.700 –> 00:27:02.660
I guess, for people that grew up in the same

00:27:02.660 –> 00:27:04.980
era that we did. We did get these in America.

00:27:05.119 –> 00:27:07.119
I don’t think as many people saw them. They sometimes

00:27:07.119 –> 00:27:09.619
fly under the radar and go a little unnoticed.

00:27:09.660 –> 00:27:11.880
But what I will say from a quality standpoint

00:27:11.880 –> 00:27:16.119
when it comes to the writing and a lot of the

00:27:16.119 –> 00:27:18.200
things that go into making a cartoon, I do believe

00:27:18.200 –> 00:27:20.359
they’re pretty top notch. I don’t know if it’ll

00:27:20.359 –> 00:27:23.119
have enough widespread appeal to make the top

00:27:23.119 –> 00:27:25.200
100, but I do think from a quality standpoint

00:27:25.200 –> 00:27:29.079
and from an impact in the UK that they are deserving.

00:27:29.240 –> 00:27:32.700
But I guess my biggest vote here outside of those

00:27:32.700 –> 00:27:34.539
two would be for the gummy bears. I just think

00:27:34.539 –> 00:27:38.420
that was critical to the Disney afternoon and

00:27:38.420 –> 00:27:41.380
the success that led to a lot of the other shows.

00:27:41.420 –> 00:27:43.160
Like we just talked about rescue Rangers, like

00:27:43.160 –> 00:27:45.319
rescue Rangers may not have happened if gummy

00:27:45.319 –> 00:27:48.950
bears was not as successful as it was. And we’ll

00:27:48.950 –> 00:27:50.809
talk about some more Disney shows probably as

00:27:50.809 –> 00:27:54.390
we reveal more shows. And then I think the Dragon

00:27:54.390 –> 00:27:56.049
Ball one becomes interesting because then you

00:27:56.049 –> 00:27:58.609
kind of have to determine, are people going to

00:27:58.609 –> 00:28:01.650
split the vote between the different incarnations

00:28:01.650 –> 00:28:03.309
or the different series within the Dragon Ball

00:28:03.309 –> 00:28:05.230
franchise? That’s always something we consider.

00:28:05.349 –> 00:28:07.529
We talked about that a lot when we did our last

00:28:07.529 –> 00:28:10.069
Top 100 with the different superhero franchises.

00:28:10.250 –> 00:28:12.170
And like we said just a second ago, do you only

00:28:12.170 –> 00:28:15.250
have room for so many Spider -Man cartoons, for

00:28:15.250 –> 00:28:17.299
example? Do you only have room for so many Dragon

00:28:17.299 –> 00:28:18.859
Ball cartoons? Do you only have room for so many

00:28:18.859 –> 00:28:21.460
whatever? So that sometimes plays into the voters’

00:28:21.619 –> 00:28:24.079
rationale. So Steve, what do you think about

00:28:24.079 –> 00:28:26.700
this set of five with Count Duckula, Danger Mouse,

00:28:26.880 –> 00:28:29.220
Dennis the Menace, Gummy Bears, and Dragon Ball?

00:28:29.700 –> 00:28:34.079
So obviously there was quite a few that voted

00:28:34.079 –> 00:28:38.640
on Danger Mouse last time. I’m not really surprised

00:28:38.640 –> 00:28:43.099
at Dennis the Menace just because, yeah, it probably

00:28:43.099 –> 00:28:46.420
faded out as well. Count Dacula. I’ve seen a

00:28:46.420 –> 00:28:47.859
little bit of that. I’ve seen a little bit of,

00:28:47.859 –> 00:28:49.839
I’ve really seen a little bit of every one of

00:28:49.839 –> 00:28:53.380
these, but the only one I find that I can actually

00:28:53.380 –> 00:28:55.440
rewatch is the one with the most episodes and

00:28:55.440 –> 00:28:58.859
that’s Dragon Ball. And the, the thing about,

00:28:58.940 –> 00:29:02.140
and this is something I’m learning as I’m, I’ve

00:29:02.140 –> 00:29:03.759
been watching a lot of anime over the last like

00:29:03.759 –> 00:29:06.680
two years just because I’ve kind of exhausted

00:29:06.680 –> 00:29:11.640
American, you know, Western animation that I

00:29:11.640 –> 00:29:14.660
feel like actually watching, uh, outside of,

00:29:14.910 –> 00:29:20.170
rerun material. And there’s a very strong base

00:29:20.170 –> 00:29:24.289
for Dragon Ball over all of the other ones. And

00:29:24.289 –> 00:29:27.809
then pretty much if they liked Dragon Ball, they

00:29:27.809 –> 00:29:30.210
may not care for Dragon Ball Z, may care for

00:29:30.210 –> 00:29:33.950
a different version. It’s very splintered where

00:29:33.950 –> 00:29:36.029
they’ll, they don’t really lump them in together

00:29:36.029 –> 00:29:38.710
because they’re almost different. Dragon Ball

00:29:38.710 –> 00:29:42.309
Z does pick up several years after Dragon Ball

00:29:42.309 –> 00:29:45.609
ends. But it’s a totally different dynamic going

00:29:45.609 –> 00:29:47.970
into it all the way on through till it ends.

00:29:48.150 –> 00:29:56.410
And some people may also, again, like it would

00:29:56.410 –> 00:29:59.950
depend on what version they like to better. There’s

00:29:59.950 –> 00:30:03.890
so many different dubs of these two. You can

00:30:03.890 –> 00:30:05.849
either get the subs of them, which are, you know,

00:30:05.869 –> 00:30:09.190
direct port, or you get the dubs in America,

00:30:09.289 –> 00:30:13.190
which were mostly done in the 90s here. There

00:30:13.190 –> 00:30:15.809
have been three or four versions to the point

00:30:15.809 –> 00:30:19.269
where they’ve redubbed Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball

00:30:19.269 –> 00:30:24.829
Z and GT multiple times in the US to the point

00:30:24.829 –> 00:30:29.269
that now they have a dub out. It was either Funimation

00:30:29.269 –> 00:30:32.890
or Crunchyroll, which kind of they bought Funimation.

00:30:34.259 –> 00:30:37.359
They now have a unified front where all of the

00:30:37.359 –> 00:30:39.859
voice actors are the same from Dragon Ball, Dragon

00:30:39.859 –> 00:30:43.859
Ball Z, GT, Super, Daima, all the way on through.

00:30:44.559 –> 00:30:47.000
It could again get splintered just because of

00:30:47.000 –> 00:30:49.720
that. I know on the original Top 100, we did

00:30:49.720 –> 00:30:54.079
have one contributor that voted for the original

00:30:54.079 –> 00:30:56.279
Dragon Ball that did not vote for Dragon Ball

00:30:56.279 –> 00:30:59.059
Z, which may have cost Dragon Ball Z a few placements

00:30:59.059 –> 00:31:00.740
and stuff like that because it seemed like they

00:31:00.740 –> 00:31:02.319
only had room for one of them and they voted

00:31:02.319 –> 00:31:04.680
for the original. The intriguing thing when it

00:31:04.680 –> 00:31:06.859
comes to franchises as to how that splits in

00:31:06.859 –> 00:31:10.660
the more years we consider, the more incarnations

00:31:10.660 –> 00:31:14.000
there are for certain franchises. We’ll talk

00:31:14.000 –> 00:31:16.160
about a bunch of them today, but some franchises

00:31:16.160 –> 00:31:18.619
just keep coming back and coming back. So it’s

00:31:18.619 –> 00:31:20.819
interesting to see how that would play a part.

00:31:20.980 –> 00:31:23.039
Mike, any reactions from that set of five? Hey,

00:31:23.059 –> 00:31:27.359
Mr. Wilson. The other thing that’s interesting

00:31:27.359 –> 00:31:29.680
with that one is kind of similar to what we talked

00:31:29.680 –> 00:31:32.539
about with Berenstain Bears. yeah sometimes people

00:31:32.539 –> 00:31:34.460
are more familiar with the property based on

00:31:34.460 –> 00:31:37.259
a different medium so like barons and bears it

00:31:37.259 –> 00:31:38.819
might be the books dennis the menace it might

00:31:38.819 –> 00:31:40.640
be the movies or it could be the comic strip

00:31:40.640 –> 00:31:43.440
do people remember the animated series but i’ll

00:31:43.440 –> 00:31:45.579
let you continue there was only one dennis the

00:31:45.579 –> 00:31:48.779
menace movie right i can’t remember i’ve lost

00:31:48.779 –> 00:31:51.299
track i’m not doing any research right now folks

00:31:51.299 –> 00:31:55.089
because i’m trying to keep my hands still But

00:31:55.089 –> 00:31:57.650
the only Dennis the Menace movie I remember is

00:31:57.650 –> 00:31:59.849
the one where Christopher Lloyd played the villain

00:31:59.849 –> 00:32:02.309
in the 90s. Because the only animated series

00:32:02.309 –> 00:32:06.269
for Dennis I remember is the one from the 80s

00:32:06.269 –> 00:32:10.470
where he was like, hey, Mr. Wilson. Like, that’s

00:32:10.470 –> 00:32:15.950
all I remember. Gummy bears. I did the research

00:32:15.950 –> 00:32:17.970
for you. So there was a direct video standalone

00:32:17.970 –> 00:32:19.849
sequel called Dennis the Menace Strikes Again,

00:32:19.930 –> 00:32:23.529
released in 1998. That’s right. A second sequel,

00:32:23.769 –> 00:32:25.569
A Dennis the Menace Christmas, was released in

00:32:25.569 –> 00:32:32.470
2007. Oh, wow. Okay. Gummy Bears. Gummy Bears

00:32:32.470 –> 00:32:37.269
is always classic. Love the Gummy Bears. Some

00:32:37.269 –> 00:32:40.970
days I wish I had me some Gummy Berry juice.

00:32:41.869 –> 00:32:44.250
Well, my kids, when they saw that name, they

00:32:44.250 –> 00:32:46.609
thought it was that modern song that’s really

00:32:46.609 –> 00:32:51.619
annoying. no and i was like no it’s it’s totally

00:32:51.619 –> 00:32:53.140
different they’re like what the heck is this

00:32:53.140 –> 00:32:56.220
because i’ll go through tv show theme songs with

00:32:56.220 –> 00:32:58.339
them sometimes i’ve been doing that actually

00:32:58.339 –> 00:33:00.819
my daughter has watched like a half a dozen episodes

00:33:00.819 –> 00:33:03.319
of the gummy bears and i don’t she wasn’t like

00:33:03.319 –> 00:33:05.319
magnetized to it but she did enjoy it enough

00:33:05.319 –> 00:33:07.660
to watch you know more than one episode very

00:33:07.660 –> 00:33:11.019
cool very cool and then danger mouse danger mouse

00:33:11.019 –> 00:33:16.319
is just classic it’s it’s amazing so yeah uh

00:33:17.180 –> 00:33:20.339
Good selection. You’re gonna make it, Goku. You

00:33:20.339 –> 00:33:24.779
can pull through. No, Krillin. He can. Can’t

00:33:24.779 –> 00:33:29.140
you, Goku? Nope. Not this time, friend. This

00:33:29.140 –> 00:33:33.539
time, I can’t. I’ll wish you back, Goku. We already

00:33:33.539 –> 00:33:43.960
have three Dragon Balls. Or, Uncle Scrooge, you

00:33:43.960 –> 00:33:46.460
can do it in a movie business. I loaned them

00:33:46.460 –> 00:33:49.680
some money, and it’s due this morning. Darn show

00:33:49.680 –> 00:33:52.339
folk. Act like they’ve got all the time in the…

00:33:52.339 –> 00:33:56.319
Time? What time is it? Almost four. Yike, two.

00:33:56.619 –> 00:33:58.960
And now, it’s time for another astronomical adventure

00:33:58.960 –> 00:34:04.339
with Courage of the Cosmos! Yay! In our last

00:34:04.339 –> 00:34:07.559
episode, Major Courage and his crew… Yay! Right.

00:34:07.920 –> 00:34:17.019
Let’s see how you scumazoids like this. What

00:34:17.019 –> 00:34:20.340
stay tuned courage of the cosmos we’ll be right

00:34:20.340 –> 00:34:25.400
back Keep going from up here. We may be able

00:34:25.400 –> 00:34:41.179
to see which way to go to get home What an echo.

00:34:42.019 –> 00:34:50.119
Let me try. Hello? Sheila, can’t you do something

00:34:50.119 –> 00:34:52.699
about your little brother? He’s not bothering

00:34:52.699 –> 00:34:56.320
anyone. He’s bothering me. I’m trying to think

00:34:56.320 –> 00:34:58.460
of a way to get us out of this freaky place and

00:34:58.460 –> 00:35:01.900
back home. If there is a way home. Don’t worry.

00:35:02.079 –> 00:35:05.579
There is, and we’ll find it. I hope. Come on,

00:35:05.579 –> 00:35:12.829
Uni. You try. We’re with you, Lady Jane! Let’s

00:35:12.829 –> 00:35:18.429
cut cable! They must not free the shuttle! Cobra!

00:35:20.070 –> 00:35:24.050
Attack, Bastro! Destroy the G .I. Joe marauders

00:35:24.050 –> 00:35:27.150
before they breach the canopy! The delegates

00:35:27.150 –> 00:35:30.329
are terrified, Duke. I’m calling off the conference

00:35:30.329 –> 00:35:33.809
before more people get hurt. Please, give us

00:35:33.809 –> 00:35:36.630
two hours. Just two hours before you make your

00:35:36.630 –> 00:35:40.489
announcement. Okay, two hours. But that’s it.

00:35:42.570 –> 00:35:45.050
Cutting it kind of tight, aren’t you? Can’t be

00:35:45.050 –> 00:35:47.130
helped. Come on, we’re paying Mercer a visit.

00:35:47.429 –> 00:35:49.869
He’s the only one who might know how to stop

00:35:49.869 –> 00:35:51.869
this thing. Well, let’s look at the next five.

00:35:52.030 –> 00:35:54.710
We had three out of the next five also made our

00:35:54.710 –> 00:35:57.449
original top 100. So that would be, I’m sure

00:35:57.449 –> 00:35:58.949
this doesn’t come as a surprise since we’re doing

00:35:58.949 –> 00:36:01.869
this alphabetical order. Dragon Ball Z from 1989

00:36:01.869 –> 00:36:05.630
is the first one in this group. It was on six

00:36:05.630 –> 00:36:07.820
of the nine lists that we looked at. We have

00:36:07.820 –> 00:36:10.639
the classic DuckTales, which came a few years

00:36:10.639 –> 00:36:14.679
after Gummy Bears. It had 100 episodes, at least

00:36:14.679 –> 00:36:16.579
four different nominations or awards. It’s on

00:36:16.579 –> 00:36:18.719
seven of the nine lists that we looked at. We

00:36:18.719 –> 00:36:21.400
have Dungeons & Dragons from 1983. It appeared

00:36:21.400 –> 00:36:23.059
on four of the nine lists that we looked at.

00:36:23.320 –> 00:36:26.039
And then we have both of the G .I. Joe Deke series

00:36:26.039 –> 00:36:28.340
and the G .I. Joe A Real American Hero series,

00:36:28.579 –> 00:36:31.079
one from 85, one from 89. We did split them up

00:36:31.079 –> 00:36:33.519
because there’s enough distinguishing between

00:36:33.519 –> 00:36:35.940
the two that I don’t ever consider them the same

00:36:35.940 –> 00:36:39.159
series. So we have Dragon Ball Z, DuckTales,

00:36:39.199 –> 00:36:41.480
Dungeons & Dragons, and both G .I. Joe series.

00:36:41.840 –> 00:36:48.159
For me, I believe I voted on four out of, I had

00:36:48.159 –> 00:36:51.719
four of these five on my original top 100. So

00:36:51.719 –> 00:36:54.940
again, it just comes down to, I believe something

00:36:54.940 –> 00:36:57.800
like Dungeons & Dragons may be in that same realm

00:36:57.800 –> 00:36:59.699
that we talked about with Cops and Bravestar,

00:36:59.780 –> 00:37:02.099
where is there really enough room to include

00:37:02.099 –> 00:37:05.139
that? DuckTales, for me, is 100 % going to be

00:37:05.139 –> 00:37:07.099
something that should appear somewhere. Dragon

00:37:07.099 –> 00:37:11.039
Ball Z should 100 % appear. At least G .I. Joe,

00:37:11.119 –> 00:37:13.860
a real American hero, should appear. Then with

00:37:13.860 –> 00:37:16.500
the Deke series, I can see some people, depending

00:37:16.500 –> 00:37:20.260
on which versions are their favorites, some will

00:37:20.260 –> 00:37:22.119
like that, some might like Renegade, some might

00:37:22.119 –> 00:37:25.699
like Resolute. But it’s hard to not vote for

00:37:25.699 –> 00:37:27.820
the original one when it comes to G .I. Joe.

00:37:27.900 –> 00:37:30.880
So that would be my thought process. Maybe Dungeons

00:37:30.880 –> 00:37:33.420
and Dragons gets left off. Maybe G .I. Joe, the

00:37:33.420 –> 00:37:35.719
Deke series. But I think Dragon Ball Z, DuckTales,

00:37:35.739 –> 00:37:37.719
and A Real American Hero are locks. What do you

00:37:37.719 –> 00:37:41.659
think, Steve? I concur with your opinion there.

00:37:43.619 –> 00:37:47.519
I did have four of these five on my list the

00:37:47.519 –> 00:37:52.440
first time. Just looking at them, I had the Deke

00:37:52.440 –> 00:37:57.360
series as well. Purely because I enjoyed that

00:37:57.360 –> 00:38:02.590
90s version of it. Uh, it was badass. Cobra commander

00:38:02.590 –> 00:38:04.550
was awesome in that. Like he wasn’t hindered

00:38:04.550 –> 00:38:08.449
by Serpentor or Destro. He was just, he did his

00:38:08.449 –> 00:38:10.130
own thing and they were, and it was more like,

00:38:10.250 –> 00:38:16.250
it was very much more nefarious and dangerous

00:38:16.250 –> 00:38:18.469
in, in a lot of the stuff. Cause they were doing

00:38:18.469 –> 00:38:21.889
a lot of mutation stuff and you got them wearing

00:38:21.889 –> 00:38:24.469
his mask. You know, the, he had the metal suit

00:38:24.469 –> 00:38:27.210
for awhile and then he, he went to the, the blue,

00:38:27.369 –> 00:38:31.929
uh, The blue face mask thing that, you know,

00:38:31.929 –> 00:38:35.349
plastic bag that he wore over his head. But no,

00:38:35.429 –> 00:38:39.469
I mean, Dragon Ball Z, for one, was one that

00:38:39.469 –> 00:38:43.590
I. I knew a crap ton about in high school and

00:38:43.590 –> 00:38:45.710
in middle school, so I was kind of the go to

00:38:45.710 –> 00:38:47.829
for that. Plus, I was watching I’d seen a couple

00:38:47.829 –> 00:38:49.889
different dubs of it. There was there was the

00:38:49.889 –> 00:38:54.750
dub with Ian James Corlett as as Goku. Yep. Which

00:38:54.750 –> 00:38:57.090
only made it through the first saga. And then

00:38:57.090 –> 00:38:59.929
they recast. Uh, and it started doing a different

00:38:59.929 –> 00:39:04.030
dub and they did Peter Columbus for Goku up through

00:39:04.030 –> 00:39:09.050
the cell saga. And then they rebooted again.

00:39:09.530 –> 00:39:13.309
And, uh, they actually picked up from there with

00:39:13.309 –> 00:39:16.050
Sean Schemmel to take over from Peter Columbus.

00:39:16.170 –> 00:39:20.650
And then they kind of recast everybody. Um, And

00:39:20.650 –> 00:39:22.769
then they went back and did all of it all over

00:39:22.769 –> 00:39:27.090
again. I do think Dragon Ball Z was an entry

00:39:27.090 –> 00:39:30.070
point into anime for an entire generation. And

00:39:30.070 –> 00:39:32.730
it was. That was how I got introduced to it was

00:39:32.730 –> 00:39:34.869
watching it. I think it was on Cartoon Network

00:39:34.869 –> 00:39:38.929
and then it was on Toonami. And then Dragon Ball

00:39:38.929 –> 00:39:40.929
just kind of lived on Toonami after that. And

00:39:40.929 –> 00:39:44.190
so that was a ritual for me going home and watching

00:39:44.190 –> 00:39:47.369
it every day and taping it around work and everything

00:39:47.369 –> 00:39:50.980
else. That was my… my go -to show when beast

00:39:50.980 –> 00:39:55.500
wars wasn’t available and um real american hero

00:39:55.500 –> 00:39:58.260
gi joe mostly what i knew of it was i had the

00:39:58.260 –> 00:40:03.139
animated film and i had it on vhs watched the

00:40:03.139 –> 00:40:05.420
crap out of it and then i watched whatever was

00:40:05.420 –> 00:40:08.039
available at like the blockbuster or hollywood

00:40:08.039 –> 00:40:11.539
video and things like that um and then the deke

00:40:11.539 –> 00:40:13.840
series i i don’t know where i caught it i think

00:40:14.440 –> 00:40:16.739
I think some of that also was on the, the sci

00:40:16.739 –> 00:40:19.639
-fi channel, you know, tune express thing that

00:40:19.639 –> 00:40:21.880
they had going on and it kind of was paired with

00:40:21.880 –> 00:40:24.260
transformers generation one. So that was how

00:40:24.260 –> 00:40:26.139
I was introduced to both of those and duck tails.

00:40:26.260 –> 00:40:29.400
I was a regular watcher. Um, the theme song,

00:40:29.519 –> 00:40:32.360
I, I still love the theme song and I love the,

00:40:32.460 –> 00:40:35.599
the dragon balls. You rock the dragon theme song.

00:40:35.679 –> 00:40:39.380
And then the, the GI Joe Deke series, uh, you

00:40:39.380 –> 00:40:44.550
know, got to get Joe. Yeah. Uh, So I love those

00:40:44.550 –> 00:40:48.449
intro songs alone, even without the series, but

00:40:48.449 –> 00:40:50.570
they’re all great. I think they’re all going

00:40:50.570 –> 00:40:52.449
to end up on there. I think one thing that’s

00:40:52.449 –> 00:40:54.289
going to help the likes of Dragon Ball Z, DuckTales,

00:40:54.309 –> 00:40:56.769
and G .I. Joe is that, like we’ve talked about

00:40:56.769 –> 00:40:57.989
with a couple of the other ones, they have not

00:40:57.989 –> 00:41:01.269
necessarily faded away. They’ve been redone.

00:41:01.349 –> 00:41:02.789
There’s been G .I. Joe movies, other cartoon

00:41:02.789 –> 00:41:04.769
series. There was just a recent reboot of DuckTales.

00:41:05.210 –> 00:41:07.369
Obviously, there’s been new series for Dragon

00:41:07.369 –> 00:41:09.269
Ball, so I don’t think those have necessarily…

00:41:09.760 –> 00:41:12.159
faded away from people’s you know top of mind

00:41:12.159 –> 00:41:13.980
so i think that’s going to help it help those

00:41:13.980 –> 00:41:16.039
and probably hurt dungeons and dragons because

00:41:16.039 –> 00:41:17.900
most people don’t know that that was even a cartoon

00:41:17.900 –> 00:41:20.519
show they probably just are familiar with the

00:41:20.519 –> 00:41:25.909
dnd you know campaigns and that side of dungeons

00:41:25.909 –> 00:41:27.449
dragons which really has nothing to do with the

00:41:27.449 –> 00:41:29.230
1980s cartoon mike what are your thoughts on

00:41:29.230 –> 00:41:32.989
these five when people show me the 83 dungeons

00:41:32.989 –> 00:41:36.590
and dragons cartoon i’m like what the hell acid

00:41:36.590 –> 00:41:39.769
trip were these people on where’s jeremy irons

00:41:39.769 –> 00:41:45.730
like no no because seriously look my first and

00:41:45.730 –> 00:41:50.969
only x my first and only exposure to dungeons

00:41:50.969 –> 00:41:55.579
and dragons was the 2000s movie because I saw

00:41:55.579 –> 00:41:59.119
it in 2000 when it debuted in theaters with Jeremy

00:41:59.119 –> 00:42:03.260
Irons as the voice, or he was in that movie somewhere

00:42:03.260 –> 00:42:07.719
as one of the characters. But yeah, no, that

00:42:07.719 –> 00:42:12.539
would be left off my personal list, because as

00:42:12.539 –> 00:42:16.039
you guys have all already said, DuckTales, simply

00:42:16.039 –> 00:42:20.199
amazing. Absolutely love that. I have, I don’t

00:42:20.199 –> 00:42:22.659
know if I have the Deke series, but I do know

00:42:22.659 –> 00:42:27.619
I have the… complete series of G .I. Joe for

00:42:27.619 –> 00:42:30.920
Real American Hero on DVD. It’s in my DVD case.

00:42:31.659 –> 00:42:35.380
There have been plans for at least the last…

00:42:35.380 –> 00:42:38.460
Well, there have been plans for decades, but

00:42:38.460 –> 00:42:41.539
at least the last four or five years since I’ve

00:42:41.539 –> 00:42:45.059
had the DVDs, there have been plans over on ToonCast

00:42:45.059 –> 00:42:49.940
for us to review the series. I remember watching…

00:42:49.940 –> 00:42:54.590
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, Mariah Carey. So, The

00:42:54.590 –> 00:42:58.170
funny thing is, is that what I remember of G

00:42:58.170 –> 00:43:02.590
.I. Joe is Real American Hero going up against

00:43:02.590 –> 00:43:06.210
Transformers a couple of times in the 80s, and

00:43:06.210 –> 00:43:09.150
I made a choice, and I chose the robots. No disrespect

00:43:09.150 –> 00:43:13.510
to G .I. Joe at all, because, you know, Old Snake

00:43:13.510 –> 00:43:16.610
came in a few times and did a few things in Transformers,

00:43:16.610 –> 00:43:19.389
a couple episodes, and Only Human and all that,

00:43:19.469 –> 00:43:24.000
whatever. And I liked G .I. Joe for what I saw

00:43:24.000 –> 00:43:27.239
of it. I just have never watched a lot of it.

00:43:27.280 –> 00:43:30.659
But I’ve watched enough of Real American Hero.

00:43:31.239 –> 00:43:40.179
And I gotta say, I gotta disagree. I don’t know

00:43:40.179 –> 00:43:43.739
how you find just a blue hood over somebody’s

00:43:43.739 –> 00:43:48.460
face more menacing than a giant metal face. Come

00:43:48.460 –> 00:43:52.739
on now, Steve. I didn’t say anything bad about

00:43:52.739 –> 00:43:57.000
that. I know you did. No, I liked it, but you

00:43:57.000 –> 00:43:59.599
got to also remember too, like in the Christmas

00:43:59.599 –> 00:44:04.119
time of the nineties, I got the 12 inch Cobra

00:44:04.119 –> 00:44:07.260
commander and he had, he didn’t have that metal

00:44:07.260 –> 00:44:10.519
face plate. He had the blue mask. And to me,

00:44:10.559 –> 00:44:13.519
that character just looked awesome. And I was,

00:44:13.559 –> 00:44:16.079
that was my bad guy of choice, you know, at that

00:44:16.079 –> 00:44:20.480
time. And then I, I saw the, the metal, you know,

00:44:20.480 –> 00:44:23.619
the armored suit that he got in the beginning

00:44:23.619 –> 00:44:26.019
of the Deke series and kind of fluctuated between

00:44:26.019 –> 00:44:29.059
the two. And then I saw a real American hero

00:44:29.059 –> 00:44:32.340
and had the basic face plate. And I think what

00:44:32.340 –> 00:44:34.500
took me out of it was there was no eyes, there

00:44:34.500 –> 00:44:36.360
was no mouth, there was no, there was nothing,

00:44:36.400 –> 00:44:40.860
nothing for like that facial reaction for Cobra

00:44:40.860 –> 00:44:43.599
commander. And so that’s why I gravitated towards

00:44:43.599 –> 00:44:46.079
the Deke series. Plus the theme song I felt like

00:44:46.079 –> 00:44:50.500
was better. And so not that, you know, I dislike

00:44:50.500 –> 00:44:53.079
a real American hero because I like them both.

00:44:53.119 –> 00:44:55.340
I’m just giving you crap, dude. Yeah, I know.

00:44:55.539 –> 00:44:57.780
But I mean, the rest of the characters kind of

00:44:57.780 –> 00:45:01.199
got a crap shoot overhaul. I mean, Duke got shafted

00:45:01.199 –> 00:45:03.679
and Destro looks stupid. And, you know, well,

00:45:03.780 –> 00:45:06.420
I mean, Duke should have just stayed dead instead

00:45:06.420 –> 00:45:09.920
of having a heart attack coma. He went into a

00:45:09.920 –> 00:45:12.340
coma. And it’s funny because the way it’s dubbed,

00:45:12.420 –> 00:45:15.070
it looks stupid. Yeah, I know, right? I actually

00:45:15.070 –> 00:45:17.909
do own all of both the G .I. Joe series on DVD,

00:45:18.030 –> 00:45:19.809
as well as all of the Dungeons & Dragons and

00:45:19.809 –> 00:45:22.050
a season of DuckTales. Only one on this group

00:45:22.050 –> 00:45:23.909
that I don’t own in physical media is Dragon

00:45:23.909 –> 00:45:26.510
Ball Z. And I will say, I forgot that they did

00:45:26.510 –> 00:45:28.929
have a reboot of the Dungeons & Dragons toys

00:45:28.929 –> 00:45:31.809
recently. You could buy all of the main characters

00:45:31.809 –> 00:45:34.829
about a year, two years ago at Target, Walmart.

00:45:35.070 –> 00:45:39.500
So it was a weird… Reboot of the toys. Alright,

00:45:39.760 –> 00:45:41.460
let’s move on to the next. Wait, wait, wait.

00:45:41.619 –> 00:45:44.440
Really quick. One last question. One last GI

00:45:44.440 –> 00:45:47.199
Joe question. Are you guys reading the Skybound

00:45:47.199 –> 00:45:51.460
Joe comics? You know I can’t read, Mike. Okay,

00:45:51.480 –> 00:45:55.340
good. Moving on. I should be. I probably would

00:45:55.340 –> 00:45:57.980
enjoy them. I don’t have time for that. I’ll

00:45:57.980 –> 00:46:00.000
figure it out later for you. I’ll make time at

00:46:00.000 –> 00:46:02.449
some point. All right, the next set of five,

00:46:02.550 –> 00:46:03.969
we’re going to call this like the cat group,

00:46:04.030 –> 00:46:05.510
and I’m going to make that work for all of them.

00:46:05.650 –> 00:46:08.530
Don’t try any of this at home, kids. We’re professionals.

00:46:09.409 –> 00:46:12.889
Guess there’s just no accounting for taste. I

00:46:12.889 –> 00:46:16.869
think we need a little help. By the power of

00:46:16.869 –> 00:46:36.010
Greyskull. Is this the lake where the monster

00:46:36.010 –> 00:46:43.030
is supposed to live? Maybe that’s why Chief Krimby

00:46:43.030 –> 00:46:45.369
sent you up here. Don’t be ridiculous. There

00:46:45.369 –> 00:46:48.329
are no such thing as monsters. You can take my

00:46:48.329 –> 00:46:51.170
word for that. There is absolutely nothing in

00:46:51.170 –> 00:46:56.510
that lake. Thank you. I’m Jem. And these are

00:46:56.510 –> 00:47:01.389
the holograms. You can’t play here. This is my

00:47:01.389 –> 00:47:06.340
invitation only. She invited us. Showtime synergy.

00:47:07.320 –> 00:47:11.579
So in our next set of… Oh, God. All five of

00:47:11.579 –> 00:47:13.960
these shows were on my original list. Four out

00:47:13.960 –> 00:47:16.699
of the five made our original top 100. We’re

00:47:16.699 –> 00:47:18.179
going to start off with Garfield and Friends

00:47:18.179 –> 00:47:21.860
from 1988, 121 episodes, a bunch of awards, made

00:47:21.860 –> 00:47:24.400
three of the nine lists that we looked at. Then

00:47:24.400 –> 00:47:28.619
we go to the usually forgotten other cat from

00:47:28.619 –> 00:47:31.320
the 80s, the orange cat, which… I, at the time,

00:47:31.320 –> 00:47:33.019
actually liked better. We’re talking about Heathcliff

00:47:33.019 –> 00:47:37.800
and the Cadillac Cats from 1984, which was awesome

00:47:37.800 –> 00:47:41.960
with Don Messick and the like involved. 86 episodes

00:47:41.960 –> 00:47:46.139
of that. It did appear on our, not our list,

00:47:46.199 –> 00:47:48.219
but it appeared on one of the lists we looked

00:47:48.219 –> 00:47:51.619
at. And then we have, of course, He -Man and

00:47:51.619 –> 00:47:53.099
the Masters of the Universe, which we’ll call

00:47:53.099 –> 00:47:55.619
Battle Cat the cat in that one. So that was from

00:47:55.619 –> 00:47:58.440
1983, 130 episodes. It was on seven of the nine

00:47:58.440 –> 00:48:01.750
lists that we looked at. It only took us a decade,

00:48:01.929 –> 00:48:04.969
folks. It only took us a decade. We can say Mad

00:48:04.969 –> 00:48:07.869
Cat from Inspector Gadget also fits the cat theme.

00:48:07.989 –> 00:48:10.409
So we got Inspector Gadget also from 1983, just

00:48:10.409 –> 00:48:13.789
like He -Man. 86 episodes, some award nomination,

00:48:14.030 –> 00:48:16.030
and it was on six of the nine lists that we looked

00:48:16.030 –> 00:48:17.670
at. So a lot of acclaim from this set of five,

00:48:17.710 –> 00:48:19.389
and the last one that rounds it up, and I have

00:48:19.389 –> 00:48:21.349
no cat connection unless Mike can provide it

00:48:21.349 –> 00:48:25.039
for me, we’re talking about Gem from 1985. That

00:48:25.039 –> 00:48:29.099
appeared on three of the nine lists. Was there

00:48:29.099 –> 00:48:37.320
a cat in Gem? Was one of them a cat name? I believe

00:48:37.320 –> 00:48:39.960
Pizazz had a cat, but I don’t remember what the

00:48:39.960 –> 00:48:42.840
cat’s name was. All right. Well, the cat came

00:48:42.840 –> 00:48:44.340
back. All right. So we got Garfield and Friends,

00:48:44.539 –> 00:48:47.360
Heathcliff, He -Man, Inspector Gadget, and Gem.

00:48:47.420 –> 00:48:50.340
I would say this is a pretty heavy hitting set

00:48:50.340 –> 00:48:53.789
of five. I would make the case that… Our list

00:48:53.789 –> 00:48:56.610
would be garbage if it didn’t include He -Man.

00:48:56.769 –> 00:49:00.789
Like, it 100 % needs to be on there. The others,

00:49:00.929 –> 00:49:04.250
I can see a case being made for, and I can see

00:49:04.250 –> 00:49:06.469
them not making it. So it’s really going to depend

00:49:06.469 –> 00:49:08.750
on who’s doing the voting. But Garfield and Friends

00:49:08.750 –> 00:49:10.710
definitely had some staying power. Like I said,

00:49:10.750 –> 00:49:12.929
at the time, I liked Heathcliff better. I think

00:49:12.929 –> 00:49:18.309
Garfield probably was more widely received. And

00:49:18.309 –> 00:49:21.030
then Inspector Gadget. i believe should make

00:49:21.030 –> 00:49:23.190
it but again i don’t know there’s only so many

00:49:23.190 –> 00:49:26.789
spots gem it’s pretty good cartoon for the female

00:49:26.789 –> 00:49:29.150
audience of that generation that she were probably

00:49:29.150 –> 00:49:31.349
the big two so i could see that making it but

00:49:31.349 –> 00:49:34.130
i can also see it not making it so i don’t know

00:49:34.130 –> 00:49:35.969
mike what do you think of this set of five oh

00:49:35.969 –> 00:49:39.150
boy i think they all should make it honestly

00:49:39.150 –> 00:49:44.409
because the reasons why are the fact that garfield

00:49:44.409 –> 00:49:49.469
and friends offered so much because you have

00:49:49.469 –> 00:49:51.369
so many different personalities in that. You’ve

00:49:51.369 –> 00:49:54.690
got Garfield and Odie, plus John’s neuroses,

00:49:54.789 –> 00:49:58.510
having to be the owner of those two pets. And

00:49:58.510 –> 00:50:00.610
then you have the friends side of it. You have

00:50:00.610 –> 00:50:03.909
the barnyard friends with all of those characters.

00:50:04.309 –> 00:50:07.389
And that’s so many different things. You have

00:50:07.389 –> 00:50:10.570
so many different adventures you can go on. Heathcliff

00:50:10.570 –> 00:50:13.929
and the Cadillac Cats, right? Yes, that was the

00:50:13.929 –> 00:50:16.409
most successful version. Before you keep going,

00:50:16.550 –> 00:50:18.659
I’ve got to correct myself. I misspoke. I said

00:50:18.659 –> 00:50:22.739
Don Messick. I meant Mel Blanc. Okay. So with

00:50:22.739 –> 00:50:26.500
Heathcliff and all of his shenanigans and all

00:50:26.500 –> 00:50:31.059
his pals like Benny and all them, again, it’s

00:50:31.059 –> 00:50:34.699
a whole thing of, oh, my God, this is so cool.

00:50:34.719 –> 00:50:38.519
This is so fun. And it’s a great cartoon. It’s

00:50:38.519 –> 00:50:41.440
a cartoon that. Offered you so many different

00:50:41.440 –> 00:50:44.320
personalities. This is why half the people that

00:50:44.320 –> 00:50:47.139
we grew up with, us included, was why we all

00:50:47.139 –> 00:50:49.699
have multiple personalities watching Garfield

00:50:49.699 –> 00:50:52.039
and Heathcliff. Because of all the varying personalities

00:50:52.039 –> 00:50:55.139
that are in these two cartoons alone. And then

00:50:55.139 –> 00:50:56.780
you have He -Man and the Masters of the Universe.

00:50:57.179 –> 00:51:00.800
And just listen to the Powers of Greyskull series,

00:51:00.940 –> 00:51:04.880
folks. We spent nine and a half, ten years covering

00:51:04.880 –> 00:51:10.090
He -Man and She -Ra. I mean, you know, it’s just…

00:51:10.090 –> 00:51:14.250
It came out a year before Transformers. It is

00:51:14.250 –> 00:51:18.210
still, to this day, one of, if not the only,

00:51:18.349 –> 00:51:23.110
sword and sorcery fantasy. Things I absolutely

00:51:23.110 –> 00:51:27.650
love. Outside of Sword in the Stone. From 1964.

00:51:28.489 –> 00:51:33.889
From Disney. Inspector Gadget? Yeah, okay, it

00:51:33.889 –> 00:51:38.719
works. It’s… basically get smart animated with

00:51:38.719 –> 00:51:42.460
a niece sure cool great and then there’s jim

00:51:42.460 –> 00:51:45.739
and the hologram yeah okay thank you next time

00:51:45.739 –> 00:51:51.780
gadget thank you uh -huh jim and the holograms

00:51:51.780 –> 00:51:54.639
continue Yeah, yeah. Go drink some battery acid

00:51:54.639 –> 00:51:59.559
so you can continue that. And then there’s Jim

00:51:59.559 –> 00:52:03.059
and the Holograms. And I am one of the biggest

00:52:03.059 –> 00:52:06.199
proponents for Jim and the Holograms being a

00:52:06.199 –> 00:52:11.099
show for… Yes, it is a show for girls and for

00:52:11.099 –> 00:52:14.260
female empowerment of the 80s. But I also look

00:52:14.260 –> 00:52:18.380
at that cartoon as a show for everyone because

00:52:18.380 –> 00:52:22.690
they… Wrote it as, and I know this because

00:52:22.690 –> 00:52:26.110
I’ve interviewed Christy Marks several times.

00:52:26.289 –> 00:52:28.610
We did a whole Gem Showtime Synergy. We did a

00:52:28.610 –> 00:52:32.130
whole Gem podcast. And this is the 40th anniversary

00:52:32.130 –> 00:52:35.130
of Gem this year. I looked at that show as a

00:52:35.130 –> 00:52:38.769
kid and now as an adult as a show for everybody.

00:52:39.349 –> 00:52:42.610
Empowerment for everybody. Because it showed

00:52:42.610 –> 00:52:46.030
you that you could literally do anything and

00:52:46.030 –> 00:52:48.570
everything that you could do once you put your

00:52:48.570 –> 00:52:51.710
mind to it. You know, kind of thing. The weird

00:52:51.710 –> 00:52:54.329
thing that I just thought of to completely interrupt

00:52:54.329 –> 00:52:56.869
you. If you take Keith Cliff and the Cadillac

00:52:56.869 –> 00:53:00.670
Cats out of the mix, Garfield, He -Man, Inspector

00:53:00.670 –> 00:53:03.849
Gadget, and Jem have all had a live action movie

00:53:03.849 –> 00:53:07.409
based off of them. Yes, yes, they have. And they’re

00:53:07.409 –> 00:53:11.300
actually making another He -Man movie. It will

00:53:11.300 –> 00:53:13.539
release just in time for this list, probably.

00:53:14.539 –> 00:53:17.599
Supposedly. No, they’re doing it. This is actually

00:53:17.599 –> 00:53:20.019
happening this time. I’ve seen footage and stuff.

00:53:20.539 –> 00:53:23.719
You’ve seen footage? It’s literally going to

00:53:23.719 –> 00:53:28.860
be released next year. Leaked shots. I will believe

00:53:28.860 –> 00:53:33.000
it. Mike, they’ve already wrapped filming. I

00:53:33.000 –> 00:53:37.300
will believe it when I see a trailer. Their main

00:53:37.300 –> 00:53:40.699
two actors of Tila and He -Man even posted on

00:53:40.699 –> 00:53:42.179
their social media that they had wrapped filming

00:53:42.179 –> 00:53:45.059
like it’s in the can. I will believe it when

00:53:45.059 –> 00:53:48.360
they release a damn trailer. All right. Anyway,

00:53:48.420 –> 00:53:50.880
continue. So see if you can give us. No, no,

00:53:50.880 –> 00:53:55.739
no bet. But yeah, no, I think each one of these,

00:53:55.840 –> 00:54:00.019
I don’t know where they belong on our list, but

00:54:00.019 –> 00:54:04.210
I do think they all do belong. At least I agree.

00:54:04.829 –> 00:54:08.369
Or disagree, Steve. I could make a good case

00:54:08.369 –> 00:54:10.869
for all of these being on the list. I did have

00:54:10.869 –> 00:54:15.650
all but Jem on my original list. But Mike made

00:54:15.650 –> 00:54:17.269
up for that because it was in Mike’s top ten

00:54:17.269 –> 00:54:20.210
last time. It’ll be in the top ten this time,

00:54:20.250 –> 00:54:24.829
too. Spoilers. Which one? Jem? Yeah. Good thing

00:54:24.829 –> 00:54:27.809
I’m not putting it on. He’s trying to carry the

00:54:27.809 –> 00:54:31.820
sword for that one. Yeah. I had Heathcliff. At

00:54:31.820 –> 00:54:38.099
55, I had Garfield. At 54, on my last list, I

00:54:38.099 –> 00:54:41.940
had 61 for He -Man. And then Inspector Gadget,

00:54:41.940 –> 00:54:47.239
I had at 23. And what’s funny is, out of these

00:54:47.239 –> 00:54:53.739
shows, two of which have had… Well, actually,

00:54:53.800 –> 00:54:56.239
three of which have had modern iterations on

00:54:56.239 –> 00:54:58.440
animation, and that would be He -Man, Inspector

00:54:58.440 –> 00:55:01.960
Gadget, and Garfield. and in various degrees

00:55:01.960 –> 00:55:06.179
but the version that like my kids have even seen

00:55:06.179 –> 00:55:09.340
is the inspector gadget the old one yeah and

00:55:09.340 –> 00:55:12.539
the garfield and friends and they both love both

00:55:12.539 –> 00:55:16.539
those shows timeless somewhat timeless and again

00:55:16.539 –> 00:55:19.940
like you know if if i were going to list these

00:55:19.940 –> 00:55:22.639
it it’s kind of a hard toss up here because they’re

00:55:22.639 –> 00:55:26.969
all pretty solid contenders right i probably

00:55:26.969 –> 00:55:29.610
won’t have room for jim but i could see where

00:55:29.610 –> 00:55:31.429
the other ones would be solid contenders for

00:55:31.429 –> 00:55:34.329
me just still like i i can still pick them up

00:55:34.329 –> 00:55:37.690
and enjoy them today right i think that one’s

00:55:37.690 –> 00:55:39.610
this grouping is outside of maybe he -man for

00:55:39.610 –> 00:55:41.210
me i think the other four really are going to

00:55:41.210 –> 00:55:44.630
represent a numbers game at like is there enough

00:55:44.630 –> 00:55:47.409
spots and and how does it all work out when you

00:55:47.409 –> 00:55:49.789
try to crunch it all together so it’d be interesting

00:55:49.789 –> 00:55:52.070
to see how how that plays out with everybody

00:55:52.070 –> 00:55:55.050
for sure so that’s the first set of 25 we’ll

00:55:55.050 –> 00:55:58.760
try to speed along here for the final 25 as much

00:55:58.760 –> 00:56:01.139
as we can i know we’re it’s the 80s guys we’re

00:56:01.139 –> 00:56:02.920
going to talk a little bit about these yeah we’re

00:56:02.920 –> 00:56:05.300
going to talk a little bit we knew we knew going

00:56:05.300 –> 00:56:07.380
going into this one that this one was going to

00:56:07.380 –> 00:56:19.960
be a long session but that’s okay about time

00:56:19.960 –> 00:56:23.219
to get back through the mirror while I get the

00:56:23.219 –> 00:56:27.800
Triforce. Illusion is the ultimate weapon. No

00:56:27.800 –> 00:56:31.320
way, Fozzie. We don’t accept imaginary money

00:56:31.320 –> 00:56:36.000
on this flight. Huh? Excuse me, stewardess, but

00:56:36.000 –> 00:56:38.800
is there a movie on this flight? Why, certainly.

00:56:42.400 –> 00:56:47.380
Um, that’s not quite what I had in mind. Look

00:56:47.380 –> 00:56:51.309
at that rainbow go. Uh -huh. Just a couple more

00:56:51.309 –> 00:56:53.269
clouds and we can start picking the cherries

00:56:53.269 –> 00:56:59.550
for Cherries Jubilee. Woo -hoo! Nice job! It

00:56:59.550 –> 00:57:02.550
sure was. Okay, rainbow of light, back where

00:57:02.550 –> 00:57:06.510
you belong. Aw, come on, Megan. Cut loose. Have

00:57:06.510 –> 00:57:09.489
some fun with this thing. The city of gold they

00:57:09.489 –> 00:57:11.489
were talking about, do you think it really exists?

00:57:12.349 –> 00:57:15.010
Oh, yes, it exists. Well, then you must know

00:57:15.010 –> 00:57:18.329
where it is. If only I could be sure. The trouble

00:57:18.329 –> 00:57:22.289
is that no one has ever succeeded in. Hmm. Alright,

00:57:22.449 –> 00:57:24.809
the next set of five is as follows. We talked

00:57:24.809 –> 00:57:27.670
about the cartoons based on video games. We’ll

00:57:27.670 –> 00:57:29.369
start with one of those, The Legend of Zelda

00:57:29.369 –> 00:57:33.570
from 1989. Another action cartoon. Does it have

00:57:33.570 –> 00:57:36.309
the staying power to outlast the other ones?

00:57:36.389 –> 00:57:39.650
We’ll find out. That is MASK, Mobile Armored

00:57:39.650 –> 00:57:41.690
Strike Command. Is that what it stands for? Yes.

00:57:42.050 –> 00:57:47.219
Okay. The Muppet Babies from 1984, all 107 episodes,

00:57:47.440 –> 00:57:50.000
20 -plus award nominations and wins. It was on

00:57:50.000 –> 00:57:52.480
five of the nine lists. I forgot to say Mask

00:57:52.480 –> 00:57:54.780
was on three of the nine lists. The original

00:57:54.780 –> 00:57:57.780
My Little Pony or My Little Pony and Friends,

00:57:57.940 –> 00:57:59.320
whichever version you want to talk about, it’s

00:57:59.320 –> 00:58:00.559
all kind of the same thing. They ran together,

00:58:00.719 –> 00:58:03.300
but this one is from 1986, and then I know this

00:58:03.300 –> 00:58:05.239
one will fly under the radar for most folks.

00:58:05.739 –> 00:58:09.599
Mike doesn’t like it. I have a special spot for

00:58:09.599 –> 00:58:12.099
this one in my heart. I don’t even have to hear

00:58:12.099 –> 00:58:14.300
you say what the name of it is. I’m just writing

00:58:14.300 –> 00:58:16.920
it now. We could talk about Danger Mouse and

00:58:16.920 –> 00:58:19.099
Count Duckula being a huge series for the UK.

00:58:19.179 –> 00:58:21.260
This one was a huge series for our neighbors

00:58:21.260 –> 00:58:23.920
to the south and also an entry point for a lot

00:58:23.920 –> 00:58:26.019
of Americans into the world of anime, but I know

00:58:26.019 –> 00:58:30.900
it’s for the most part a hidden gem, I would

00:58:30.900 –> 00:58:33.460
say, that’s Mysterious Cities of Gold from 19.

00:58:34.170 –> 00:58:37.489
82 so we have legend of zelda mask muppet babies

00:58:37.489 –> 00:58:40.570
my little pony mysterious cities of gold for

00:58:40.570 –> 00:58:43.210
me muppet babies is the one that would be a lock

00:58:43.210 –> 00:58:46.730
i don’t know if i have room for the rest of them

00:58:46.730 –> 00:58:48.750
i would love to put mysterious cities of gold

00:58:48.750 –> 00:58:51.449
on there but i know it’ll be a futile vote and

00:58:51.449 –> 00:58:53.949
then i think my little pony or my little pony

00:58:53.949 –> 00:58:56.829
and friends probably gets squeezed out by a later

00:58:56.829 –> 00:58:59.989
incarnation of my little pony that went bananas

00:58:59.989 –> 00:59:02.449
as far as popularity goes so we’ll talk about

00:59:02.449 –> 00:59:04.150
that in a few episodes so i don’t know if people

00:59:04.150 –> 00:59:05.869
will have room for any of the original my little

00:59:05.869 –> 00:59:08.570
ponies to to join the list so uh muppet babies

00:59:08.570 –> 00:59:10.610
is probably the strongest contender for me mike

00:59:10.610 –> 00:59:13.929
what do you think muppet babies and zelda zelda

00:59:13.929 –> 00:59:18.530
was oh god again it’s video games coming to life

00:59:18.530 –> 00:59:21.969
in animation and the craziest thing about zelda

00:59:21.969 –> 00:59:26.280
is It was only once a week on Fridays, you bastards.

00:59:26.739 –> 00:59:29.900
So is Mask going from your top 10 to not on your

00:59:29.900 –> 00:59:32.219
list this time? If it makes my list, it’s going

00:59:32.219 –> 00:59:34.300
to make it much lower. It’s probably not going

00:59:34.300 –> 00:59:37.340
to get number eight. Because again, like I said

00:59:37.340 –> 00:59:39.780
in the last episode, in the pre -80s episode,

00:59:39.860 –> 00:59:43.679
my list this time around, it’s going to be much

00:59:43.679 –> 00:59:46.800
different. I may still have some of the same

00:59:46.800 –> 00:59:51.420
things that I had. on my list from 2011 but they’re

00:59:51.420 –> 00:59:54.239
not going to be in the same order right the legend

00:59:54.239 –> 00:59:57.079
of zelda the coolest thing super mario brothers

00:59:57.079 –> 00:59:59.780
show was 89 right or 90 super mario brothers

00:59:59.780 –> 01:00:02.519
was 89 they both were yeah that’s what i thought

01:00:02.519 –> 01:00:04.079
that’s what i thought so when the super mario

01:00:04.079 –> 01:00:07.199
brothers super show debuted in 1989 it was four

01:00:07.199 –> 01:00:10.159
days a week monday through thursday well technically

01:00:10.159 –> 01:00:13.239
it was monday through friday but the mario cartoon

01:00:13.239 –> 01:00:16.519
was monday through thursday and on fridays we

01:00:16.519 –> 01:00:20.889
got zelda And it was like, wait, what? This is

01:00:20.889 –> 01:00:23.869
the coolest thing ever. We get Zelda on Fridays,

01:00:23.929 –> 01:00:27.829
but crap, we got to wait a week for Friday for

01:00:27.829 –> 01:00:33.530
Zelda? Steve, any thoughts on this set of five?

01:00:33.670 –> 01:00:37.530
I only listed one out of these five on my original

01:00:37.530 –> 01:00:40.869
list. Was that Papa Baby’s? Yep, that was the

01:00:40.869 –> 01:00:43.469
only one. And it’s the original one. I know they’ve

01:00:43.469 –> 01:00:46.639
rebooted this particular one. as well as like

01:00:46.639 –> 01:00:49.900
my little pony. And, uh, I know that they’re

01:00:49.900 –> 01:00:54.280
doing a legend of Zelda, uh, either film or animated

01:00:54.280 –> 01:00:56.099
thing, kind of like the super Mario brothers,

01:00:56.219 –> 01:01:00.900
but I’m, I don’t know. I’m, I’m cautiously optimistic

01:01:00.900 –> 01:01:04.539
on that front. But as far as these shows, I,

01:01:04.699 –> 01:01:08.920
I feel like any of these five could easily be

01:01:08.920 –> 01:01:11.420
either forgotten or left off, just people not

01:01:11.420 –> 01:01:14.519
knowing about them or. right associating with

01:01:14.519 –> 01:01:17.019
the latest rendition of it especially being that

01:01:17.019 –> 01:01:19.820
we’re doing this list 15 years after the original

01:01:19.820 –> 01:01:23.059
and people might be more familiar with you know

01:01:23.059 –> 01:01:25.900
the new my little pony or the the new muppet

01:01:25.900 –> 01:01:28.360
babies as opposed to the originals from the 80s

01:01:28.360 –> 01:01:31.340
yeah very well could play a factor sometimes

01:01:31.340 –> 01:01:33.079
that can hurt and sometimes it can help it’s

01:01:33.079 –> 01:01:35.960
it’s always hard to say but it’ll be interesting

01:01:35.960 –> 01:01:37.940
to see how this set of five plays out i think

01:01:37.940 –> 01:01:40.579
the next set of five is Potentially going to

01:01:40.579 –> 01:01:43.099
have an uphill battle to try to make a dent in

01:01:43.099 –> 01:01:44.639
our list. We’ll see if you guys agree or not.

01:01:44.780 –> 01:01:47.280
If you hadn’t forced me to compete, Ben, and

01:01:47.280 –> 01:01:50.400
I would never have crashed. I was found and rebuilt.

01:01:50.559 –> 01:01:53.360
They turned me into something half man, half

01:01:53.360 –> 01:02:01.599
machine. A cyborg. So I now work for the foreign

01:02:01.599 –> 01:02:04.599
government that saved me. Now my nightmares make

01:02:04.599 –> 01:02:08.340
sense. Well, this is no dream, fly guy. I got

01:02:08.340 –> 01:02:23.440
your computer and I got you. Come on. This way.

01:02:27.079 –> 01:02:47.090
Come along, piglet. Oh, dear. If only such very

01:02:47.090 –> 01:02:50.150
small animals didn’t have such very short legs.

01:02:52.449 –> 01:03:00.090
Hurry, Piglet. No time to be brave. Oh, no. Where

01:03:00.090 –> 01:03:03.989
can we go? What can we do? How can we hide? Terrifying,

01:03:04.090 –> 01:03:10.210
isn’t it? Quick. Under here. At first glance,

01:03:10.250 –> 01:03:12.909
the evergreen forest appears peaceful and calm.

01:03:13.639 –> 01:03:16.820
But beneath the placid exterior, the inhabitants

01:03:16.820 –> 01:03:19.980
have been quietly preparing to give Cyril Sneer

01:03:19.980 –> 01:03:23.460
a shocking surprise he won’t soon forget. I’d

01:03:23.460 –> 01:03:25.920
be very surprised if we catch anything today.

01:03:26.760 –> 01:03:29.579
Maybe we should give up on the fishing and go

01:03:29.579 –> 01:03:32.159
back to working on the plan. Do you think it

01:03:32.159 –> 01:03:35.900
will really teach Cyril a lesson? Once and for

01:03:35.900 –> 01:03:43.260
all. That’s for sure. Did you hear? You never…

01:03:43.500 –> 01:03:46.559
I hit him. I knew those meddling raccoons were

01:03:46.559 –> 01:03:52.039
up to no good. You still want to save this world,

01:03:52.139 –> 01:03:56.980
little wiz? Yes. It’s even worse close up. Find

01:03:56.980 –> 01:04:00.099
the light and the color of this land and set

01:04:00.099 –> 01:04:04.039
it free. And the darkness will disappear. Where

01:04:04.039 –> 01:04:08.880
do I start? Look for the sphere of light. Are

01:04:08.880 –> 01:04:14.340
you still there? Yo, Shampoo. Okay, there’s this

01:04:14.340 –> 01:04:16.719
really funny story I’ve been wanting to tell

01:04:16.719 –> 01:04:19.360
you. It goes like this. The next set of five

01:04:19.360 –> 01:04:21.679
includes The New Adventures of Johnny Quest from

01:04:21.679 –> 01:04:25.139
1986, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from

01:04:25.139 –> 01:04:28.280
1988. Did have some award love and did make one

01:04:28.280 –> 01:04:31.000
of the lists that we looked at. I think just

01:04:31.000 –> 01:04:33.119
like we talked about with Danger Mouse for the

01:04:33.119 –> 01:04:35.539
UK, maybe Mysterious Cities of Gold for Mexico,

01:04:35.719 –> 01:04:38.440
you could definitely make a case for The Raccoons

01:04:38.440 –> 01:04:41.960
for Canada. being one of the huge shows up there.

01:04:42.139 –> 01:04:46.079
This one debuted in 1985. Rainbow Bright, 1984,

01:04:46.480 –> 01:04:48.380
another one of the female -centric cartoons we

01:04:48.380 –> 01:04:50.840
got during the 80s. And then this one I am still

01:04:50.840 –> 01:04:52.679
somewhat ignorant on. I haven’t caught up with

01:04:52.679 –> 01:04:55.340
it in the 15 years that we’ve had to catch up

01:04:55.340 –> 01:04:57.219
on some of the anime, but this is, I’m going

01:04:57.219 –> 01:05:00.679
to probably even say it wrong, Ranma 1 .5? Yes.

01:05:01.289 –> 01:05:03.969
okay so that is the five that we’re looking at

01:05:03.969 –> 01:05:06.750
here i would say just based on my exposure i

01:05:06.750 –> 01:05:08.070
know there’s a lot of love for winning the poo

01:05:08.070 –> 01:05:10.389
i don’t think rainbow bright has stayed in the

01:05:10.389 –> 01:05:13.650
self you know in the consciousness of pop culture

01:05:13.650 –> 01:05:16.349
enough i think raccoons probably gets forgotten

01:05:16.349 –> 01:05:18.449
because it was more canadian centric even though

01:05:18.449 –> 01:05:21.389
i think it is a worthy cartoon but i don’t know

01:05:21.389 –> 01:05:24.329
if i could make a strong case for any of these

01:05:24.329 –> 01:05:27.369
being in my top 100 steve what do you think so

01:05:28.570 –> 01:05:32.449
New Adventures of Johnny Quest, I intermittently

01:05:32.449 –> 01:05:35.309
watch more so if there was nothing better for

01:05:35.309 –> 01:05:37.949
me to watch, that’s what would get turned on.

01:05:39.719 –> 01:05:41.940
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is probably

01:05:41.940 –> 01:05:44.039
the one I’m the most familiar with, just having

01:05:44.039 –> 01:05:46.619
grown up with it and had like all the VHS tapes

01:05:46.619 –> 01:05:48.760
because that’s what my mom bought. My kids grew

01:05:48.760 –> 01:05:51.019
up with it, too. So that’s that’s something else

01:05:51.019 –> 01:05:53.360
that that we had in common. Voice acting was

01:05:53.360 –> 01:05:55.619
great in it. Animation was better than the old

01:05:55.619 –> 01:05:57.559
stuff. So it was just it was just a lot of fun

01:05:57.559 –> 01:06:00.840
to watch. The Raccoons and Rainbow Bright. I

01:06:00.840 –> 01:06:04.099
am not familiar with either of these. So they

01:06:04.099 –> 01:06:06.280
wouldn’t be on my personal list just for that

01:06:06.280 –> 01:06:10.000
alone. Like I. yeah i i think you know rainbow

01:06:10.000 –> 01:06:11.840
bright i think of like the light bright like

01:06:11.840 –> 01:06:15.320
that’s that’s where my mind goes and then and

01:06:15.320 –> 01:06:17.400
then of course like the ranma one and one half

01:06:17.400 –> 01:06:20.619
i recently just because i’ve been watching like

01:06:20.619 –> 01:06:22.460
when i ran out of dragon ball super i just started

01:06:22.460 –> 01:06:25.320
watching random animes on some anime sites and

01:06:25.320 –> 01:06:27.239
uh this was one of them i’d watched i’d heard

01:06:27.239 –> 01:06:29.679
about it before and it’s it’s basically about

01:06:29.679 –> 01:06:34.440
a martial artist like dad and son that are uh

01:06:34.440 –> 01:06:37.579
there’s like a cursed pool like water pool type

01:06:37.579 –> 01:06:40.300
thing and somewhere in china and the the dad

01:06:40.300 –> 01:06:42.079
accidentally knocks the sun in and it’s like

01:06:42.079 –> 01:06:45.139
the most absurd like different pools so like

01:06:45.139 –> 01:06:48.219
there’s a curse of you know drowned pig or you

01:06:48.219 –> 01:06:51.280
know drowned girl or you know something panda

01:06:51.280 –> 01:06:54.059
or you know and so like the dad you know knocks

01:06:54.059 –> 01:06:57.059
the sun in and he falls in the one that is the

01:06:57.059 –> 01:06:59.789
drowned girl and so like when he gets you know

01:06:59.789 –> 01:07:01.510
cold water or hot water i can’t remember which

01:07:01.510 –> 01:07:03.329
one one of the two it turns him into a girl and

01:07:03.329 –> 01:07:05.010
the other one turns him into a boy and then and

01:07:05.010 –> 01:07:07.130
then his dad turns into a panda like a giant

01:07:07.130 –> 01:07:09.590
like giant fat panda and then like he’s supposed

01:07:09.590 –> 01:07:13.670
to be betrothed to like some girl and some family

01:07:13.670 –> 01:07:17.750
and shows up and he’s a girl and so it creates

01:07:17.750 –> 01:07:20.409
this weird dynamic throughout the entire series

01:07:20.409 –> 01:07:23.670
of all these other people that are trying to

01:07:23.670 –> 01:07:26.269
get the the girl that he’s supposed to be betrothed

01:07:26.269 –> 01:07:28.269
to. And so it’s, it’s, it’s an interesting and

01:07:28.269 –> 01:07:30.409
funny, like cop comedic series just because the

01:07:30.409 –> 01:07:32.130
dynamic that he’s just kind of forced to deal

01:07:32.130 –> 01:07:35.630
with the situation. And I know by the end, Jack

01:07:35.630 –> 01:07:38.889
Blackwood star in, you know, you never know,

01:07:38.989 –> 01:07:42.670
but they, I know that there was a dub of it and

01:07:42.670 –> 01:07:46.130
it’s on to be for free, but the, they redubbed

01:07:46.130 –> 01:07:49.570
it. And the first season is on Netflix. oh gotcha

01:07:49.570 –> 01:07:51.349
gotcha i like that the fact that you’re gonna

01:07:51.349 –> 01:07:53.710
have i feel like you already have way more knowledge

01:07:53.710 –> 01:07:56.550
on anime than we did 15 years ago so i’ve been

01:07:56.550 –> 01:07:58.670
trying about that i feel good about that mike

01:07:58.670 –> 01:08:00.550
what did you think about this set of five i was

01:08:00.550 –> 01:08:07.929
never like johnny was just i don’t know it was

01:08:07.929 –> 01:08:11.929
okay it was good it deserves a place i don’t

01:08:11.929 –> 01:08:14.750
know if i’m gonna vote for it new adventures

01:08:14.750 –> 01:08:17.850
of winning the poo was awesome It’s probably

01:08:17.850 –> 01:08:23.430
the only one in this set. I’ve never seen the

01:08:23.430 –> 01:08:26.550
raccoons. Hell, the only person besides you that

01:08:26.550 –> 01:08:30.369
even mentioned the raccoons to us was David Dennis

01:08:30.369 –> 01:08:34.430
back in the day. The crazy thing about raccoons

01:08:34.430 –> 01:08:40.630
is the main villain was always smoking. It would

01:08:40.630 –> 01:08:42.949
never be made like that today. Well, that’s what

01:08:42.949 –> 01:08:46.810
anime is for. Exactly. Uh, rainbow bright. I

01:08:46.810 –> 01:08:49.329
had seen like maybe two episodes when I was a

01:08:49.329 –> 01:08:52.149
kid. It is what it is. And I’ve never seen this

01:08:52.149 –> 01:08:55.770
anime. So there we go. It’s a nice little section,

01:08:55.909 –> 01:08:58.550
but yeah, Winnie the Pooh is probably the only

01:08:58.550 –> 01:09:01.149
one that I would vote for. All right. I think

01:09:01.149 –> 01:09:03.029
you guys will have a little bit more to say about

01:09:03.029 –> 01:09:06.310
potential list makers in this next set of five.

01:09:06.409 –> 01:09:09.649
So let’s take a look at that. I’m sure we brought

01:09:09.649 –> 01:09:16.270
you a little surprise. Uh, guys, how sweet. You’re

01:09:16.270 –> 01:09:21.590
right. I am surprised. What is it? Guess she’s

01:09:21.590 –> 01:09:25.689
allergic to chocolate. No, they’re empty. Empty?

01:09:25.949 –> 01:09:46.609
Except one. Slime! I’ve been slimed. Yuck. The

01:09:46.609 –> 01:09:49.529
countdown has begun. On board the giant spaceship,

01:09:49.729 –> 01:09:52.390
the crew of raw recruits freshly graduated from

01:09:52.390 –> 01:09:54.909
the Robotech Academy is busy with the pre -launch

01:09:54.909 –> 01:09:59.029
checklist. All manual systems are green light.

01:09:59.149 –> 01:10:02.470
The ceremony starts in 15 minutes. I hope the

01:10:02.470 –> 01:10:04.750
captain gets here in time. I hear he didn’t get

01:10:04.750 –> 01:10:07.569
much sleep last night. Yeah, the other officers

01:10:07.569 –> 01:10:09.810
threw a farewell party for him. They probably

01:10:09.810 –> 01:10:12.369
sat up all night telling each other war stories.

01:10:12.470 –> 01:10:15.579
You know how they are. And where were you, Claudia?

01:10:15.819 –> 01:10:18.840
What are you talking about, Lisa? You didn’t

01:10:18.840 –> 01:10:21.220
come in until four this morning. You must have

01:10:21.220 –> 01:10:24.859
been partying, too. You jealous? I had a late

01:10:24.859 –> 01:10:27.399
dinner with Commander Foker. Claudia! What? You

01:10:27.399 –> 01:10:29.600
stayed out all night knowing you both had flight

01:10:29.600 –> 01:10:32.640
duty today. So? What’s the big fuss about, Lisa?

01:10:32.699 –> 01:10:34.720
We won’t let it affect the performance of our

01:10:34.720 –> 01:10:37.279
duty. After all, we’re not children and you’re

01:10:37.279 –> 01:10:39.680
not our mother. Your responsibilities to the

01:10:39.680 –> 01:10:42.159
ship come first, Claudia. But my private life

01:10:42.159 –> 01:10:45.399
is my business. Nobody else’s. Now then, let’s

01:10:45.399 –> 01:10:48.140
get to work, all right? I think it’s time for

01:10:48.140 –> 01:11:13.899
She -Ra. Wind approaching. Wing it. You listen

01:11:13.899 –> 01:11:16.520
to me, son. You’ve just started school, and the

01:11:16.520 –> 01:11:18.560
path you choose now may be the one you follow

01:11:18.560 –> 01:11:22.539
for the rest of your life. Now, what do you say?

01:11:29.199 –> 01:11:33.000
Eat my shorts. All right, I’ll eat your shorts.

01:11:33.220 –> 01:11:38.979
Yeah, eat my shorts. Butt man. Butt man. Butt

01:11:38.979 –> 01:11:44.569
man. We have, starting off with the 1986 show,

01:11:44.729 –> 01:11:48.670
The Real Ghostbusters, 147 episodes, a couple

01:11:48.670 –> 01:11:50.369
awards. It was on four of the nine lists that

01:11:50.369 –> 01:11:54.630
we looked at. We have Robotech from 1985, 85

01:11:54.630 –> 01:11:56.609
episodes. It was on three of the nine lists that

01:11:56.609 –> 01:11:59.149
we looked at. We have She -Ra, Princess of Power

01:11:59.149 –> 01:12:02.630
from 1985 as well on a couple of the lists we

01:12:02.630 –> 01:12:05.789
looked at. And we have Silverhawks from 1986.

01:12:06.109 –> 01:12:07.989
It appeared on two of the nine lists we looked

01:12:07.989 –> 01:12:10.770
at. And then I don’t really know if there’s any

01:12:10.770 –> 01:12:13.170
point of conversing on the fifth one, but that

01:12:13.170 –> 01:12:16.989
would be the 1989 debut of the Simpsons, which

01:12:16.989 –> 01:12:23.369
may or may not have 170 or some awards. And it

01:12:23.369 –> 01:12:25.109
was on all nine lists that we looked at. And

01:12:25.109 –> 01:12:26.909
obviously it’s going to make our top 100. So

01:12:26.909 –> 01:12:29.350
we have the real Ghostbusters, Robotech, She

01:12:29.350 –> 01:12:32.510
-Ra, Silverhawks, and the Simpsons. Steve, what

01:12:32.510 –> 01:12:34.550
do you think about this set? I think for sure.

01:12:35.229 –> 01:12:36.909
At least half of these are going to show up in

01:12:36.909 –> 01:12:39.270
the list. I imagine real Ghostbusters will show

01:12:39.270 –> 01:12:43.489
up. I imagine that for some of the anime people,

01:12:43.710 –> 01:12:47.270
Robotech will show up depending on their flavor

01:12:47.270 –> 01:12:51.250
of mechs and anime. She -Ra will probably show

01:12:51.250 –> 01:12:53.510
up in some of the lists just because it was kind

01:12:53.510 –> 01:12:56.890
of a different alternative to He -Man back in

01:12:56.890 –> 01:12:59.789
the day. Silverhawks is the one that I think

01:12:59.789 –> 01:13:03.840
is the wild card here of will it, won’t it? Yeah.

01:13:04.180 –> 01:13:07.199
Simpsons, everybody’s going to have that. Except

01:13:07.199 –> 01:13:12.600
for those that have not seen it. Makes sense.

01:13:12.720 –> 01:13:14.319
All five of these were on our original list.

01:13:14.779 –> 01:13:16.760
I think it comes down to a numbers game with

01:13:16.760 –> 01:13:18.539
a couple of them, especially Silverhawks. Like

01:13:18.539 –> 01:13:20.560
you said, I think that might be the one at risk

01:13:20.560 –> 01:13:22.760
the most, unless there’s just not enough anime

01:13:22.760 –> 01:13:25.800
fans to vote Robotech in. But I feel like Real

01:13:25.800 –> 01:13:29.319
Ghostbusters and Simpsons probably locked. Simpsons

01:13:29.319 –> 01:13:31.220
for sure. Real Ghostbusters probably. And I think

01:13:31.220 –> 01:13:34.880
She -Ra, because of the females, skew to it may

01:13:34.880 –> 01:13:36.819
be able to elevate over a couple of the other

01:13:36.819 –> 01:13:38.560
boys action cartoons that we’ve looked at it

01:13:38.560 –> 01:13:41.520
might be able to edge out the likes of cops brave

01:13:41.520 –> 01:13:43.739
star silver hawks things of that nature so we’ll

01:13:43.739 –> 01:13:44.979
have to wait and see mike what do you think of

01:13:44.979 –> 01:13:47.680
this set of five yeah i agree it’s did you just

01:13:47.680 –> 01:13:51.640
agree with me yes i do that sometimes you know

01:13:51.640 –> 01:13:56.800
again it we we we’ve been saying this for a week

01:13:56.800 –> 01:13:59.079
and a half since we recorded the last episode

01:13:59.079 –> 01:14:02.020
we knew going into the planning of this whole

01:14:02.670 –> 01:14:05.970
five episode podcast series that we knew episode

01:14:05.970 –> 01:14:10.130
two, the 1980s was going to be a bloodbath. And

01:14:10.130 –> 01:14:14.109
this is, is part of it. Here’s my question about

01:14:14.109 –> 01:14:18.670
the Simpsons. The Simpsons has had in almost

01:14:18.670 –> 01:14:24.250
40 years. What are they, over 700, 800 episodes

01:14:24.250 –> 01:14:26.170
now? I know they’re over 700. Last I counted,

01:14:26.229 –> 01:14:28.430
it was like 764 or something like that. Okay,

01:14:28.430 –> 01:14:32.430
fine. They’re close. But they’re over 700. They’re

01:14:32.430 –> 01:14:36.350
almost 800, let’s say. In all of those episodes,

01:14:36.609 –> 01:14:40.010
in all of these years, I don’t think I can consciously

01:14:40.010 –> 01:14:47.350
rate it in the top 10 anymore. On my personal

01:14:47.350 –> 01:14:51.479
list, I can rate it within the top 25. But I

01:14:51.479 –> 01:14:53.239
don’t think I can consciously rate it in the

01:14:53.239 –> 01:14:56.779
top ten anymore because I’ve checked in with

01:14:56.779 –> 01:14:59.600
the show here and there, but I haven’t consciously

01:14:59.600 –> 01:15:03.819
watched the show since probably season seven

01:15:03.819 –> 01:15:08.279
or maybe season eight. Like, I’ve caught episodes

01:15:08.279 –> 01:15:12.520
here or there, but it hasn’t been something that

01:15:12.520 –> 01:15:17.899
I’ve watched religiously like it was in the mid

01:15:17.899 –> 01:15:23.510
-90s. 94, 95 was the last time, 96, last time

01:15:23.510 –> 01:15:27.310
I actively was sitting in front of my TV every

01:15:27.310 –> 01:15:32.909
Sunday at 8 p .m. Eastern. There you go. I haven’t

01:15:32.909 –> 01:15:36.609
even, like, I just haven’t even really, like,

01:15:36.689 –> 01:15:40.729
so that’s my question with The Simpsons. Are

01:15:40.729 –> 01:15:45.710
we rating, are we going to see Versa, because…

01:15:45.920 –> 01:15:47.579
If I remember correctly, Batman the Animated

01:15:47.579 –> 01:15:49.340
Series was number two and Simpsons was number

01:15:49.340 –> 01:15:54.420
one on the original list, right? Batman the Animated

01:15:54.420 –> 01:15:57.420
Series was number one. Really? Simpsons was our

01:15:57.420 –> 01:15:59.760
number two. What you just said was what IGN had.

01:15:59.859 –> 01:16:02.300
IGN had Simpsons 1 and Batman 2. Okay, okay,

01:16:02.300 –> 01:16:08.659
okay. Okay, but either way, point is, is Simpsons

01:16:08.659 –> 01:16:16.029
still that good of a show? to have it be after

01:16:16.029 –> 01:16:20.430
all these years the number one best animated

01:16:20.430 –> 01:16:25.069
series ever i think some would make the argument

01:16:25.069 –> 01:16:27.850
that it doesn’t have to be anymore because even

01:16:27.850 –> 01:16:31.069
if you just took the first 20 seasons it’s gonna

01:16:31.069 –> 01:16:33.489
be warranting enough just based off of that i

01:16:33.489 –> 01:16:35.369
don’t know like i i can’t speak for simpsons

01:16:35.369 –> 01:16:37.250
because i’ve never seen an episode right well

01:16:37.250 –> 01:16:44.069
okay well fine steve i me personally i I don’t

01:16:44.069 –> 01:16:46.670
know if I would list it in the top 10 anymore.

01:16:47.090 –> 01:16:51.170
I, I, and I do think the first like 20 or so

01:16:51.170 –> 01:16:56.989
seasons was, you know, worth it as far as that.

01:16:57.489 –> 01:17:01.050
However, anymore, like I, I just don’t, I don’t,

01:17:01.050 –> 01:17:02.789
I don’t think, I think it’s definitely top 20

01:17:02.789 –> 01:17:05.960
worthy. I don’t think it’s top 10 worthy. Here’s

01:17:05.960 –> 01:17:09.119
what I’m going to do. We have a roadmap of when

01:17:09.119 –> 01:17:11.859
we are doing the top 100 animated series next

01:17:11.859 –> 01:17:14.319
year, of when the production for that’s going

01:17:14.319 –> 01:17:15.859
to happen. I’m not going to say anything more

01:17:15.859 –> 01:17:19.739
than that, but we have a roadmap, folks. I am

01:17:19.739 –> 01:17:22.699
going to take the rest of 2025. I’m going to

01:17:22.699 –> 01:17:25.180
go on Disney +, and I’m going to start from the

01:17:25.180 –> 01:17:27.319
beginning, and I’m going to watch as much Simpsons

01:17:27.319 –> 01:17:29.619
as I possibly can to make my own determination.

01:17:30.909 –> 01:17:34.369
Of whether I think it personally belongs within

01:17:34.369 –> 01:17:37.409
even a top 20. There we go. I like it. And I

01:17:37.409 –> 01:17:41.310
hope to get as far as I can get between now and

01:17:41.310 –> 01:17:45.689
the time we start. Because, like I said, when

01:17:45.689 –> 01:17:50.470
I was a kid, 1989, I’ve told this story before.

01:17:52.229 –> 01:17:55.699
I was at my… With my dad and my then stepmother.

01:17:55.760 –> 01:17:58.119
Thank God she’s not my stepmother now. But we

01:17:58.119 –> 01:18:00.819
were at her brother’s house or we were at her

01:18:00.819 –> 01:18:03.819
friend’s house. We were somewhere. And it was

01:18:03.819 –> 01:18:07.399
like, I think it was the debut. I think it was

01:18:07.399 –> 01:18:11.640
Santa’s Little Helper, the debut episode. Why

01:18:11.640 –> 01:18:14.100
don’t you watch it? I don’t know. It’s the Simpsons.

01:18:14.260 –> 01:18:17.279
And Homer said something or Homer grunted or

01:18:17.279 –> 01:18:20.479
Homer did something. Oh, my God. You’re watching

01:18:20.479 –> 01:18:24.790
junk on television. This happened twice. Quite

01:18:24.790 –> 01:18:28.289
literally, number one and number two. I got banned

01:18:28.289 –> 01:18:31.689
from watching from my stepmother, The Simpsons

01:18:31.689 –> 01:18:34.350
and Batman the Animated Series, because she didn’t

01:18:34.350 –> 01:18:37.069
like it. She thought it was too violent. And

01:18:37.069 –> 01:18:39.689
I’m sitting here thinking, are you kidding me,

01:18:39.750 –> 01:18:42.869
lady? I sat through Transformers. I sat through

01:18:42.869 –> 01:18:47.130
He -Man. I sat through G .I. Joe when I was three,

01:18:47.210 –> 01:18:50.489
four, five, and six. Simpsons at nine years old?

01:18:50.569 –> 01:18:54.500
Batman at 12 years old? Get off my fucking lawn,

01:18:54.739 –> 01:18:59.720
people. Like, come on. I think if you watch four

01:18:59.720 –> 01:19:01.359
episodes a day, you may be able to get through

01:19:01.359 –> 01:19:04.220
the whole thing. All right, so let’s go ahead

01:19:04.220 –> 01:19:06.920
and reveal the next set of five. Yes, next set

01:19:06.920 –> 01:19:25.199
of five. Jokey smurf. One of these days, you’re

01:19:25.199 –> 01:19:30.439
gonna get it. All -Star, Sam Waters is here and

01:19:30.439 –> 01:19:33.279
wants to meet you. Sam, I’ll let you two get

01:19:33.279 –> 01:19:41.640
acquainted. Hi, All -Star, honey. You’re Sam?

01:19:42.060 –> 01:19:45.579
But I thought you… Oh, the name’s Sam. But

01:19:45.579 –> 01:19:52.760
you’re… really a girl my name confuses lots

01:19:52.760 –> 01:19:57.819
of folks it’s short for samantha oh oh This is

01:19:57.819 –> 01:20:04.739
my pet octopus, Aki. Aki? We’ve been getting

01:20:04.739 –> 01:20:06.920
your room into shape. Just let me know if there’s

01:20:06.920 –> 01:20:10.000
anything else I can do. Well, there is one teeny

01:20:10.000 –> 01:20:13.039
tiny favor you could do for a visiting country

01:20:13.039 –> 01:20:16.819
girl. Just say the word. Well, I was hoping to

01:20:16.819 –> 01:20:19.460
see the premiere of the Snorkbusters movie Saturday

01:20:19.460 –> 01:20:23.180
night. Would you mind taking me? Mind? Of course

01:20:23.180 –> 01:20:27.920
not. I’d be glad to. If you can make it to the

01:20:27.920 –> 01:20:30.699
tunnel, it’s a clean getaway. Yeah, but I can

01:20:30.699 –> 01:20:34.180
hardly see. Can I do your windshield? The wall

01:20:34.180 –> 01:20:37.560
crawler. The webhead. Just your friendly neighborhood

01:20:37.560 –> 01:20:51.119
Spider -Man. Turn there. Just your friendly neighborhood

01:20:51.119 –> 01:20:56.060
dummy. Mario. Mario, come here. We have a guest.

01:20:56.539 –> 01:21:00.000
This is my brother Mario. Mario, this is Patty,

01:21:00.119 –> 01:21:02.680
the sad -eyed orphan. Nice to meet you, Patty,

01:21:02.880 –> 01:21:06.439
the sad -eyed orphan. Where are you from? Well,

01:21:06.479 –> 01:21:09.180
I’ve been drifting for about six months, you

01:21:09.180 –> 01:21:12.939
know, living off the land. Life is tough when

01:21:12.939 –> 01:21:15.260
you don’t have any parents to love and take care

01:21:15.260 –> 01:21:22.020
of you. Nobody even cares that today is my birthday.

01:21:27.100 –> 01:21:30.500
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Wipe away those

01:21:30.500 –> 01:21:34.939
tears, little one. For you’re the best birthday

01:21:34.939 –> 01:21:38.399
party you’ve ever seen. You mean it? With a birthday

01:21:38.399 –> 01:21:40.720
cake and party hats and noisemakers and a VCR

01:21:40.720 –> 01:21:42.899
and a high -definition color TV monitor? Hey,

01:21:42.920 –> 01:21:44.800
that’s asking a lot, kid. I mean, we’re just

01:21:44.800 –> 01:21:48.079
plumbers. Whoever pulls out that plunger will

01:21:48.079 –> 01:21:50.460
be crowned our real king and become powerful

01:21:50.460 –> 01:21:54.319
enough to drive Koopa away. Murphy, old pal,

01:21:54.560 –> 01:21:57.239
your problems are solved. I’ve been unclogging

01:21:57.239 –> 01:22:02.920
sinks since I was knee -high to a Togolini. Stand

01:22:02.920 –> 01:22:06.420
back, gang. The sink hasn’t been built that Mario

01:22:06.420 –> 01:22:21.960
can’t unclog. Hey! Nice plumbing here, old guy.

01:22:22.539 –> 01:22:26.220
Dust off the crown and call out the town. Camelot

01:22:26.220 –> 01:22:32.000
has a new king. You’re not human. Bingo. We’re

01:22:32.000 –> 01:22:35.319
dealing with a real mind here. Tonight I dine

01:22:35.319 –> 01:22:39.560
on turtle soup. Uh, April? What? We’re here.

01:22:39.739 –> 01:22:43.680
Oh. Ninja dry cleaners? Ninja shoe repairs? Ninja

01:22:43.680 –> 01:22:48.039
video rentals? Ninja dentist? Ow! I can’t put

01:22:48.039 –> 01:22:50.420
my finger on it, but there’s something suspicious

01:22:50.420 –> 01:22:58.579
about this neighborhood. Hi -yah! Hey, come on.

01:22:58.600 –> 01:23:03.819
I’m starving, guys. Don’t you guys think about

01:23:03.819 –> 01:23:07.220
anything but pizza? Not unless we have to. Welcome

01:23:07.220 –> 01:23:14.560
to Ninja Pizza, home of the nice slice. This

01:23:14.560 –> 01:23:15.920
will be an interesting group to get your guys’

01:23:16.039 –> 01:23:19.659
reaction. We have the 1981 series Smurfs, aired

01:23:19.659 –> 01:23:22.760
256 episodes, seven different awards. It was

01:23:22.760 –> 01:23:26.739
on six of the nine lists. We have the often imitated

01:23:26.739 –> 01:23:29.039
but never duplicated, I guess. We have the Snorks

01:23:29.039 –> 01:23:32.159
from 1984, right next to that. We have Spider

01:23:32.159 –> 01:23:34.699
-Man and His Amazing Friends from 1981, which

01:23:34.699 –> 01:23:37.180
made our original list, as did the Smurfs. We

01:23:37.180 –> 01:23:38.659
have the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which

01:23:38.659 –> 01:23:40.500
made our original list. That’s from the 1989,

01:23:40.800 –> 01:23:42.909
just like we talked about with Zelda. And then

01:23:42.909 –> 01:23:45.670
we have the 1987 series that was on eight of

01:23:45.670 –> 01:23:47.989
the nine lists that we looked at, the Teenage

01:23:47.989 –> 01:23:51.390
Mutant Ninja Turtles. So Smurfs, Snorks, Spider

01:23:51.390 –> 01:23:54.989
-Man, Mario Brothers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja

01:23:54.989 –> 01:23:57.649
Turtles. Mike, we’ll start with you. What do

01:23:57.649 –> 01:24:03.600
you think about those five? Oh, boy. Snorks over

01:24:03.600 –> 01:24:07.979
Smurfs, Spider -Man in last place, SMB somewhere

01:24:07.979 –> 01:24:12.000
in the middle, and TMNT at least the top 20,

01:24:12.039 –> 01:24:14.460
if not the top 15. Did you say you’re voting

01:24:14.460 –> 01:24:17.840
for Snorks ahead of Smurfs? Oh, hell yes. Any

01:24:17.840 –> 01:24:22.579
day. You know this. We’ve talked about this for

01:24:22.579 –> 01:24:26.680
the 17, 18 years we’ve known each other. I’ve

01:24:26.680 –> 01:24:30.460
always liked Snorks over Smurfs. I like Snorks

01:24:30.460 –> 01:24:33.289
too. I’m not putting it over Smurfs. Oh, yeah.

01:24:33.390 –> 01:24:36.210
I will put it over Smurfs any day. You will be

01:24:36.210 –> 01:24:40.149
the only one that does that. That’s fine. So

01:24:40.149 –> 01:24:42.130
you think, how many of these five do you think

01:24:42.130 –> 01:24:45.689
have a chance? I think they all have a chance,

01:24:45.710 –> 01:24:49.850
except maybe Super Show. I don’t know if Super

01:24:49.850 –> 01:24:54.350
Show can make it. I think if we get older fans,

01:24:54.810 –> 01:25:00.029
Spider -Man 81 is going to make it. Again, I

01:25:00.029 –> 01:25:03.609
don’t know because we get Spider -Man 67, we

01:25:03.609 –> 01:25:05.810
get Spider -Man 81. I know next time we’re going

01:25:05.810 –> 01:25:07.430
to have Spider -Man. If we don’t have Spider

01:25:07.430 –> 01:25:11.930
-Man 94, we’re going to be… Spider -Man was

01:25:11.930 –> 01:25:14.510
the most frequent franchise that appeared on

01:25:14.510 –> 01:25:16.109
our original Top of the Mountain. We had four

01:25:16.109 –> 01:25:19.090
different Spider -Mans. Steve, with the 15 more

01:25:19.090 –> 01:25:23.180
extra years of comic book… especially superhero

01:25:23.180 –> 01:25:25.500
cartoons that we’ve got from both marvel and

01:25:25.500 –> 01:25:28.300
dc does it start to become harder for a show

01:25:28.300 –> 01:25:30.640
like the 81 spider -man to make the list ultimately

01:25:30.640 –> 01:25:37.260
yes i in particular with this show like i’m not

01:25:37.260 –> 01:25:39.840
even considering anything before the 1980s for

01:25:39.840 –> 01:25:44.359
uh superhero shows because there’s so much of

01:25:44.359 –> 01:25:48.619
a gold mine in the 90s And some of it in the

01:25:48.619 –> 01:25:53.439
early 2000s and 2010s, there’s other stuff that’s

01:25:53.439 –> 01:25:57.760
been produced in that time span. And I feel like

01:25:57.760 –> 01:26:02.420
90s was peak superhero animation. And there have

01:26:02.420 –> 01:26:04.279
been other things that have peaked after that

01:26:04.279 –> 01:26:08.300
point. But I feel like that was the peak of the

01:26:08.300 –> 01:26:11.229
superhero animation in the middle of this. uh

01:26:11.229 –> 01:26:14.869
this list here the this show in particular i

01:26:14.869 –> 01:26:18.710
don’t see many knowing what it is or uh having

01:26:18.710 –> 01:26:20.909
heard of it especially the younger that they

01:26:20.909 –> 01:26:24.090
are uh those of us that are older will remember

01:26:24.090 –> 01:26:27.229
these type of shows but i i think that the earliest

01:26:27.229 –> 01:26:30.250
far back that they’re going to go is the 90s

01:26:30.250 –> 01:26:33.250
in terms of that as far as the other shows i

01:26:33.250 –> 01:26:37.430
had in the original top 100 because i have i

01:26:37.430 –> 01:26:41.390
don’t i don’t love smurfs Or Snorks. But I listed

01:26:41.390 –> 01:26:44.050
in the original, I think I listed Snorks above

01:26:44.050 –> 01:26:47.069
Smurfs because I did not like either as much.

01:26:47.189 –> 01:26:50.130
But I knew that I had to represent one of them.

01:26:50.170 –> 01:26:53.590
And I honestly preferred the Snorks. And then

01:26:53.590 –> 01:26:58.010
looking back at it and comparing the two and

01:26:58.010 –> 01:27:02.510
the theme song, the Snorks is annoying. no it

01:27:02.510 –> 01:27:06.029
wasn’t it is no and smurfs is too like with the

01:27:06.029 –> 01:27:09.090
modern live action films but i feel like that

01:27:09.090 –> 01:27:14.050
is going to carry that show onto a lot of people’s

01:27:14.050 –> 01:27:16.229
lists because they’ll have gone back and watched

01:27:16.229 –> 01:27:19.130
it because of the live action films right i think

01:27:19.130 –> 01:27:21.470
someone could make the argument that they enjoyed

01:27:21.470 –> 01:27:23.329
snorts better i think someone could even make

01:27:23.329 –> 01:27:24.989
the argument maybe i don’t know i’d have to really

01:27:24.989 –> 01:27:27.210
dissect them that snorts could have been even

01:27:27.210 –> 01:27:30.670
more quality at times of a show Maybe, maybe

01:27:30.670 –> 01:27:33.229
not. I don’t know. I think the thing that Smurfs

01:27:33.229 –> 01:27:35.829
has going for it is the staying power. It was

01:27:35.829 –> 01:27:38.710
on for a decade. It’s had multiple movies come

01:27:38.710 –> 01:27:41.250
out since then. I think it’s had the bigger impact

01:27:41.250 –> 01:27:43.430
as far as that goes, where I think Snorks has

01:27:43.430 –> 01:27:45.529
somewhat been forgotten, kind of like Brave Star

01:27:45.529 –> 01:27:48.090
has or like Cops has. So I think that’s one thing

01:27:48.090 –> 01:27:50.270
that it may have going against it. Steve, what

01:27:50.270 –> 01:27:52.890
are your thoughts on Mario Brothers and Turtles?

01:27:54.109 –> 01:27:56.609
Super Mario Brothers, I feel like if it’s going

01:27:56.609 –> 01:27:59.050
to get noticed, it’ll be because again, the recent

01:27:59.050 –> 01:28:02.989
CG movie that came out, people might search this

01:28:02.989 –> 01:28:07.489
out. This one was honestly, in my opinion, better

01:28:07.489 –> 01:28:12.970
than the one where they had Yoshi and Super Mario

01:28:12.970 –> 01:28:17.789
Brothers World. Super Mario World. I don’t know.

01:28:17.789 –> 01:28:20.529
I enjoyed it. I showed the intro to my kids with

01:28:20.529 –> 01:28:23.489
the… uh the live action portion and they’re

01:28:23.489 –> 01:28:27.449
like what the heck is this and and i was like

01:28:27.449 –> 01:28:29.310
this is just this is what they did back then

01:28:29.310 –> 01:28:31.850
i was like you know it gets into it and they

01:28:31.850 –> 01:28:33.810
they enjoyed it for what it is and then like

01:28:33.810 –> 01:28:36.609
ninja turtles like who doesn’t love that between

01:28:36.609 –> 01:28:39.050
the theme song alone and then like the animation

01:28:39.050 –> 01:28:42.510
the fun of it like the goofiness i’ve shown like

01:28:42.510 –> 01:28:46.140
turtles forever where you know they get to mixed

01:28:46.140 –> 01:28:48.539
with the 2003 turtles. And then of course the

01:28:48.539 –> 01:28:52.680
2012 turtles where these turtles are in, in a

01:28:52.680 –> 01:28:54.840
couple episodes with, you know, crying and shredder

01:28:54.840 –> 01:29:00.500
and you know, the 87 verse in, in that. And they

01:29:00.500 –> 01:29:03.140
just, they eat it up. They love the 87 stuff.

01:29:03.239 –> 01:29:05.789
And, and I do too. Like I had every of the. the

01:29:05.789 –> 01:29:08.149
figure and it has the staying power. It’s what

01:29:08.149 –> 01:29:10.329
gave the longevity of the franchise and all the

01:29:10.329 –> 01:29:12.789
various reboots that it’s gone through. And yeah,

01:29:12.869 –> 01:29:16.869
I just, I, this one over any of the others, I

01:29:16.869 –> 01:29:18.989
feel like is going to make the list. Oh yeah,

01:29:19.010 –> 01:29:24.010
absolutely. Yeah. Turtles 87. It was everything.

01:29:24.270 –> 01:29:27.449
Then it’s everything. Now I remember every single

01:29:27.449 –> 01:29:34.319
BK VHS I got. Like nobody, man, like every, oh

01:29:34.319 –> 01:29:38.880
God, the Burger King Kids Club VHSs. And I remember

01:29:38.880 –> 01:29:41.500
you could go to every single toy store and buy

01:29:41.500 –> 01:29:45.880
those figures back then for $5. You can’t buy

01:29:45.880 –> 01:29:50.079
action figures for $5 today. But Playmates Toy

01:29:50.079 –> 01:29:53.760
still sells the Turtles figures for $9 .97 at

01:29:53.760 –> 01:29:56.460
Walmart. Okay, fine. Much better than Super 7.

01:29:57.270 –> 01:30:00.109
Yes, it’s better than Super 7. Anything is better

01:30:00.109 –> 01:30:04.090
than Super 7. Plus, they’re coming out with new

01:30:04.090 –> 01:30:06.989
versions of… They’re re -releasing all the

01:30:06.989 –> 01:30:10.010
old stuff, but it’s cool to see them come out

01:30:10.010 –> 01:30:12.090
with it. It’s the same price point, same boxes,

01:30:12.149 –> 01:30:15.149
same everything. They’re just rehashing it, which

01:30:15.149 –> 01:30:17.289
is great if you missed out on it. And then, of

01:30:17.289 –> 01:30:20.289
course, there’s the higher quality. Not the Super

01:30:20.289 –> 01:30:22.789
7, but there’s another brand that does… They’re

01:30:22.789 –> 01:30:26.039
kind of like the mid… But they do a better

01:30:26.039 –> 01:30:28.479
job at making them look like the animation models

01:30:28.479 –> 01:30:32.520
and stuff like that. But no, I think that Turtles

01:30:32.520 –> 01:30:36.140
87 is going to definitely play a part. Absolutely,

01:30:36.380 –> 01:30:38.699
it better. All right, that means it’s only time.

01:30:38.779 –> 01:30:41.600
There’s only room for five more nominees that

01:30:41.600 –> 01:30:44.460
you could vote on for your list from the 80s,

01:30:44.460 –> 01:30:46.699
and those five shows are as follows. The Fat

01:30:46.699 –> 01:30:52.619
Controller was waiting anxiously for them. Well,

01:30:52.779 –> 01:30:55.100
Thomas, he said, I’ve heard all about it and

01:30:55.100 –> 01:30:58.260
I’m very pleased with you. You’re a really useful

01:30:58.260 –> 01:31:02.079
engine. Now, trucks are silly and noisy. They

01:31:02.079 –> 01:31:04.319
talk a lot and don’t attend to what they are

01:31:04.319 –> 01:31:07.000
doing. And I’m sorry to say they play tricks

01:31:07.000 –> 01:31:11.779
on an engine who is not used to them. Edward

01:31:11.779 –> 01:31:14.300
knew all about trucks. He warned Thomas to be

01:31:14.300 –> 01:31:16.760
careful, but Thomas was too excited to listen.

01:31:23.449 –> 01:31:26.630
The shunter fastened the coupling, and when the

01:31:26.630 –> 01:31:29.310
signal dropped, Thomas was ready. The guard blew

01:31:29.310 –> 01:31:31.789
his whistle. Peep, peep, answered Thomas, and

01:31:31.789 –> 01:31:41.390
started off. What? Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!

01:31:42.590 –> 01:31:50.890
Thundercats! Ha! Come on, Optimus, tell me, why

01:31:50.890 –> 01:31:53.989
do you want this metal? How will it be used?

01:31:54.409 –> 01:31:58.149
Why is it so precious? I’ve explained it to you.

01:31:58.289 –> 01:32:00.770
You told me it was important, but you didn’t

01:32:00.770 –> 01:32:04.350
tell me why. That’s because I know you too well,

01:32:04.470 –> 01:32:17.739
Galvatron. They had taken control of all their

01:32:17.739 –> 01:32:20.539
sources of energy and enjoyed a life of comfort

01:32:20.539 –> 01:32:24.479
and ease for 7 ,000 years. But this was not to

01:32:24.479 –> 01:32:27.939
last. For the realignment of the three blazing

01:32:27.939 –> 01:32:30.979
suns of Prismos signaled the end of the age of

01:32:30.979 –> 01:32:34.279
science and technology. Ready to form Voltron.

01:32:35.640 –> 01:32:40.199
Activate interlock. Dynatherms connected. Infracells

01:32:40.199 –> 01:32:44.859
up. Megathrusters are go. Let’s go, Voltron!

01:32:45.450 –> 01:32:48.109
First one might sound weird, but outside of Simpsons,

01:32:48.109 –> 01:32:49.930
there’s no other show that we talked about today

01:32:49.930 –> 01:32:51.909
that aired more episodes than this one. That’s

01:32:51.909 –> 01:32:55.569
the 1984 series Thomas and Friends. Almost 600

01:32:55.569 –> 01:32:58.789
episodes of that has aired. We have the classic

01:32:58.789 –> 01:33:02.550
Thundercats from 1985. It was on six of the nine

01:33:02.550 –> 01:33:05.289
lists we looked at. We have the classic Transformers

01:33:05.289 –> 01:33:08.050
G1 from 1984, which was on six of the nine lists

01:33:08.050 –> 01:33:11.500
that we looked at. We have the… Hidden Gem,

01:33:11.659 –> 01:33:14.020
I would say, that often gets forgotten. The Visionaries,

01:33:14.100 –> 01:33:17.399
Knights of the Magical Light from 1987. Short

01:33:17.399 –> 01:33:19.539
-lived show, but it was pretty decent quality.

01:33:19.920 –> 01:33:23.000
And then we have another anime entry with the

01:33:23.000 –> 01:33:27.539
1984 series Voltron, which appeared on four of

01:33:27.539 –> 01:33:29.779
the nine lists that we looked at. So Thomas and

01:33:29.779 –> 01:33:32.579
Friends, Thundercats, Transformers, Visionaries,

01:33:32.720 –> 01:33:35.899
and Voltron. I will start if we were making a

01:33:35.899 –> 01:33:40.550
top 180s show. or a top 50s 80s show countdown

01:33:40.550 –> 01:33:42.409
of some sort visionaries would definitely make

01:33:42.409 –> 01:33:45.229
my list i would say it has no shot in hell of

01:33:45.229 –> 01:33:48.109
making the top 100 i think a lot of people discount

01:33:48.109 –> 01:33:50.369
some of the more educational shows so thomas

01:33:50.369 –> 01:33:53.869
and friend is probably in an uphill battle unintended

01:33:53.869 –> 01:33:57.989
and then we have thundercats transformers and

01:33:57.989 –> 01:34:02.149
voltron to me this again i think these three

01:34:02.149 –> 01:34:04.310
might be able to elevate themselves over the

01:34:04.310 –> 01:34:08.220
likes of cops brave star Some of these other

01:34:08.220 –> 01:34:12.119
ones that there may not be enough room for this

01:34:12.119 –> 01:34:15.159
many 80s action shows. So I think Transformers

01:34:15.159 –> 01:34:18.079
is a lock. I think Thundercats has a pretty decent

01:34:18.079 –> 01:34:20.220
chance and Voltron has a pretty decent chance.

01:34:20.380 –> 01:34:22.140
So those would probably be the three that I would

01:34:22.140 –> 01:34:25.680
consider. Mike, what do you think? Yeah, I agree.

01:34:26.300 –> 01:34:28.619
I absolutely agree. Short and sweet. I like it.

01:34:28.819 –> 01:34:34.050
Even with… I’m not done yet. Okay. even with

01:34:34.050 –> 01:34:38.529
like Transformers specifically 98 episodes, even

01:34:38.529 –> 01:34:42.470
with some of the filler episodes that are in

01:34:42.470 –> 01:34:44.810
it, some of the one -off episodes that are in

01:34:44.810 –> 01:34:50.210
it, some of the episodes that are in it, it still

01:34:50.210 –> 01:34:54.289
has really good things in that cartoon. Thundercats.

01:34:54.840 –> 01:34:57.899
Same thing, the epic stories that Thundercats

01:34:57.899 –> 01:35:00.859
told, the multi -part. I think Thundercats has

01:35:00.859 –> 01:35:07.199
a lot more four -part arcs than some of the other

01:35:07.199 –> 01:35:10.939
ones. Maybe I’m wrong in that, but I remember

01:35:10.939 –> 01:35:14.939
at least three four -part arcs in Thundercats

01:35:14.939 –> 01:35:20.560
out of their episodes, and Voltron is just Voltron.

01:35:20.800 –> 01:35:22.680
I think the only thing with Voltron that some

01:35:22.680 –> 01:35:25.289
people will have to decide is, Maybe they only

01:35:25.289 –> 01:35:27.010
have room for one Voltron, and there’s been like

01:35:27.010 –> 01:35:29.989
four or five different iterations of Voltrons.

01:35:30.010 –> 01:35:31.890
I could see that splitting the vote a little

01:35:31.890 –> 01:35:36.489
bit, but it is like the main original one, so

01:35:36.489 –> 01:35:38.609
it’s hard to say. But Transformers has some of

01:35:38.609 –> 01:35:40.569
the same going against, you know, there’s been

01:35:40.569 –> 01:35:42.050
a lot of different versions of Transformers.

01:35:42.409 –> 01:35:44.489
I think it still has enough staying power that

01:35:44.489 –> 01:35:46.069
we don’t have to worry about it not making the

01:35:46.069 –> 01:35:48.649
countdown. Thundercats has had more iterations

01:35:48.649 –> 01:35:50.630
than stuff like Silverhawk, so I can see that

01:35:50.630 –> 01:35:53.289
being more in the presence of people’s mind,

01:35:53.329 –> 01:35:56.729
maybe. Yeah. Well, and again, well, Silverhawks

01:35:56.729 –> 01:35:59.729
has never had a reboot animation wise. Mind boggling.

01:35:59.989 –> 01:36:02.670
It’s got a comic book currently. And they say

01:36:02.670 –> 01:36:04.149
there’s a live action movie eventually going

01:36:04.149 –> 01:36:07.170
to happen. Yeah. Again, show me a trailer and

01:36:07.170 –> 01:36:11.310
I’ll believe you. It hasn’t wrapped. No. Funny.

01:36:12.689 –> 01:36:15.050
Again, show me a trailer and I’ll believe you.

01:36:15.630 –> 01:36:19.659
But it’s one of those things where. I mean, Thundercats

01:36:19.659 –> 01:36:24.119
right now has a comic. Thundercats and Silverhawks

01:36:24.119 –> 01:36:27.039
both have comics currently based on, I believe,

01:36:27.100 –> 01:36:31.439
their classic series. Transformers, yes, it has

01:36:31.439 –> 01:36:37.239
multiple animated series throughout its 41 -year,

01:36:37.319 –> 01:36:41.500
42 -year history, but specifically these nominations

01:36:41.500 –> 01:36:45.340
are for the 80s versions of it. So when we get

01:36:45.340 –> 01:36:48.220
to the episode for the nominations of the 2010s

01:36:48.220 –> 01:36:51.100
to present, we’re going to have a whole bunch

01:36:51.100 –> 01:36:56.819
of other things going on. And I still think that

01:36:56.819 –> 01:37:03.800
the Generation 1 cartoon, in a lot of people’s

01:37:03.800 –> 01:37:09.840
minds that we reach out to, might still be there,

01:37:10.000 –> 01:37:13.220
even though… people are going to vote Beast

01:37:13.220 –> 01:37:17.039
Wars or Beast Machines or Transformers Animated.

01:37:17.640 –> 01:37:22.920
I think that those are going to be the main ones

01:37:22.920 –> 01:37:25.420
that people are going to choose. I don’t think

01:37:25.420 –> 01:37:28.539
they’re going to choose much past Animated. Maybe

01:37:28.539 –> 01:37:31.319
Prime. I would put Prime leagues ahead of Animated.

01:37:31.359 –> 01:37:34.680
Steve, go ahead with your thoughts on these five.

01:37:34.979 –> 01:37:40.109
Past that, though. Go ahead, Steve. I could see

01:37:40.109 –> 01:37:45.149
the case for Thomas and Friends. However, one,

01:37:46.729 –> 01:37:49.529
I haven’t cared about that show since George

01:37:49.529 –> 01:37:53.289
Carlin was gone off of it. That’s when I watched

01:37:53.289 –> 01:37:58.689
it. Two, I think it’s going to hit an uphill

01:37:58.689 –> 01:38:04.489
battle with educational shows in general just

01:38:04.489 –> 01:38:06.930
not showing up. And then I think Visionaries.

01:38:07.630 –> 01:38:09.430
Unless you grew up with it, I don’t feel like

01:38:09.430 –> 01:38:10.989
you’re going to know what it is, plus being one

01:38:10.989 –> 01:38:15.590
season. I feel like the least amount of episodes

01:38:15.590 –> 01:38:18.109
it is, the harder it’s going to be to show up

01:38:18.109 –> 01:38:20.569
on the list. And the more episodes it is, the

01:38:20.569 –> 01:38:23.350
more likely you’re going to see it. And in this

01:38:23.350 –> 01:38:25.630
case, I know Thomas and Friends has the highest

01:38:25.630 –> 01:38:29.489
hit count here, but Thundercats, Transformers,

01:38:29.489 –> 01:38:33.449
and Voltron are the only ones that are… pretty

01:38:33.449 –> 01:38:35.430
high on the list with Transformers trailing at

01:38:35.430 –> 01:38:39.689
the bottom of those three. And I feel like Transformers,

01:38:39.689 –> 01:38:42.050
just because it’s had so many iterations, so

01:38:42.050 –> 01:38:43.970
many reboots, the live action stuff, everything,

01:38:44.109 –> 01:38:46.329
that one’s going to be the one that beats out

01:38:46.329 –> 01:38:48.310
of these three. And then it’s going to be kind

01:38:48.310 –> 01:38:50.729
of neck and neck with Thundercats and Voltron,

01:38:50.829 –> 01:38:53.229
just because there’s been variations of Voltron.

01:38:53.310 –> 01:38:56.250
There’s been, you know, a variation of Thundercats

01:38:56.250 –> 01:39:00.430
in the more recent years. And I think Transformers

01:39:00.430 –> 01:39:02.869
is, I mean, there’s definitely going to be, a

01:39:02.869 –> 01:39:08.130
bias from from us us three at least on the transformers

01:39:08.130 –> 01:39:09.829
front and i’m pretty sure most people are going

01:39:09.829 –> 01:39:12.630
to list transformers it’ll just be a toss of

01:39:12.630 –> 01:39:18.970
which one yeah see that for sure so steve a question

01:39:18.970 –> 01:39:20.829
for you as we kind of reflect on this set of

01:39:20.829 –> 01:39:22.449
50 that people are going to be able to vote on

01:39:22.449 –> 01:39:25.989
from this time period as part of their 100 in

01:39:25.989 –> 01:39:28.510
the original top 100 if my count is right and

01:39:28.510 –> 01:39:30.390
don’t quote me on this because it’s somewhat

01:39:30.729 –> 01:39:32.970
quickly put together i believe in our original

01:39:32.970 –> 01:39:38.930
top 100 we had 29 shows from the 1980s do you

01:39:38.930 –> 01:39:41.829
think that number stays the same goes up or goes

01:39:41.829 –> 01:39:44.529
down in this new iteration i think it’ll go down

01:39:44.529 –> 01:39:46.989
how much do you think it’ll go down i think if

01:39:46.989 –> 01:39:50.149
it’s at 29 i think we’re gonna hit like 20 21

01:39:50.149 –> 01:39:56.310
okay um at at most i i think there’ll be a pretty

01:39:56.310 –> 01:40:02.380
heavy bias to the 90s and the 2000s with possibly

01:40:02.380 –> 01:40:06.119
some stuff in the 2010s, I feel like those three

01:40:06.119 –> 01:40:10.100
decades are going to dominate this go around

01:40:10.100 –> 01:40:14.380
just because of, you know, people’s change in

01:40:14.380 –> 01:40:17.979
tastes and, you know, better quality of some

01:40:17.979 –> 01:40:22.319
shows coming out or new renditions or some of

01:40:22.319 –> 01:40:25.399
the older shows just being forgotten. So I think

01:40:25.399 –> 01:40:28.779
we’re going to end up with a pretty 90s, 2000s,

01:40:28.779 –> 01:40:32.460
and 2010s dominated list here on this updated

01:40:32.460 –> 01:40:35.300
version. Mike, what do you think? Yeah, I kind

01:40:35.300 –> 01:40:37.819
of agree. I think it is going to go down maybe

01:40:37.819 –> 01:40:44.520
to about, like Steve said, 2021. If it was even

01:40:44.520 –> 01:40:46.279
across all five time periods, which it won’t

01:40:46.279 –> 01:40:47.779
be, but if it was the exact same thing, then

01:40:47.779 –> 01:40:49.520
we would have 20 from each time period, right?

01:40:49.949 –> 01:40:52.170
So that would be like the base level, and then

01:40:52.170 –> 01:40:54.229
we’ll have to see which ones fall below that,

01:40:54.289 –> 01:40:56.050
which ones go above that. But continue your thoughts.

01:40:56.829 –> 01:41:01.250
I was going to say my comedy prediction, it’s

01:41:01.250 –> 01:41:03.729
the 13 ghosts of Scooby -Doo, don’t you know?

01:41:03.850 –> 01:41:08.250
So I guess I could predict 13 again. The 13 ghosts

01:41:08.250 –> 01:41:11.710
of Scooby -Doo. I don’t think it’ll go that low.

01:41:11.829 –> 01:41:14.029
Your list single -handedly will do everything

01:41:14.029 –> 01:41:16.029
in its power to make sure that it’s not all the

01:41:16.029 –> 01:41:21.510
way down to 13. We’ll have to wait and see how

01:41:21.510 –> 01:41:24.869
it all plays out, but that is your 50 nominated

01:41:24.869 –> 01:41:30.109
shows from the 1980s. Mike, get us out of here.

01:41:30.590 –> 01:41:32.970
Yeah, we got to pay some bills first, so we’re

01:41:32.970 –> 01:41:35.310
going to do that. You’re not doing any AI junk

01:41:35.310 –> 01:41:38.369
this time around? No, we’ll save that for ones

01:41:38.369 –> 01:41:40.609
that we’re not going to be able to fill two hours

01:41:40.609 –> 01:41:43.430
of conversation with. Okay, well, there you go.

01:41:43.510 –> 01:41:45.840
See? There you go, folks. We need two -hour podcasts

01:41:45.840 –> 01:41:48.239
every time. We don’t need AI when we’re experts

01:41:48.239 –> 01:41:52.840
on this topic. There you go. Exactly. We’re experts

01:41:52.840 –> 01:41:55.520
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01:41:55.699 –> 01:41:57.960
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Network is here. So join TFG1 Mike, Nicole Halestorm,

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and myself, Lady Rek, as we will be reviewing

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all 65 episodes of Joe and the Holograms in a

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25 -episode long podcast. You can find Showtime

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Synergy on iTunes and geekcastradio .com. We

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are the truly outrageous podcast that you want

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to be listening to. To Cybertron. Thank you,

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Soundwave. I am TFG1 Mike, and you should be

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listening to my very first podcast, the TFG1

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Podcast. 24 episodes covering the entire US run

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of the 1984 Transformers cartoon. Also a few

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supplemental episodes and an interview with Stan

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Bush. So check out the TFG1 Podcast. You can

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find it on iTunes and the web at www .geekcastradio

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.com. Transform and roll out. Oh, hey, I got

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something. Since 2009, we… have been the premier

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cartoon podcast here at the geek cast radio network

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we are toon cast from taking you beyond the cartoons

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we grew up with to seasonal saucy toon talk and

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now we get the origins of toonsters everywhere

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as we ask guests 30 questions about their cartoon

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watching experiences plus so much more toon cast

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is back join me tf2 and mike and the rest of

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the gcr and crew as we give you all the toon

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talk you will ever And wherever you consume your

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podcasts, we are beyond good, beyond evil, beyond

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your wildest imagination. We are all toons all

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the time here on ToonCast. Hello, geeks and geekettes!

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The Cinema Geek. Hosted by Amanda, Kevin, Matt,

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and Dan. Each week we dive head first in the

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landscape of movies as we discuss movie news,

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play movie games, go in -depth on reviews, and

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even have a top ten countdown or two. Also, don’t

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we review noted directors’ movies film by film.

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So let’s say you’re looking for a podcast of

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your favorite 80s comic books, G .I. Joe, Transformers,

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Ninja Turtles, He -Man, etc. Where are you going

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to go to find us? Welcome to Star Joe’s Podcast.

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I’m your host, Ryan. And I’m Chuck. That’s right,

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everybody. We’re the Star Joes. We host a podcast

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called Star Joe’s Podcast. where we talk about

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your favorite comic books, your favorite toys

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of all the 80s properties. Star Wars, G .I. Joe,

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Transformers, Mask, Thundercats, Voltron, you

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name it, we cover it. If it’s in the 80s, we

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will cover it at some point. Yes, so what you

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want to do to find us, you can go to iTunes,

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you can go to www .starjoes .com. And remember,

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the Force will be with you, because knowing us

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is half the battle. Do you like the Transformers?

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Yes. Do you like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

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Cowabunga! Do you like IDW Comics? And comic

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book podcasts? Then come check out Ninjas and

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Bots. Each week we look at an issue of Transformers.

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Or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from their IDW

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Comics incarnation. We drop episodes every Saturday

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morning. Just like the cartoons we loved as a

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kid. The show can be found on your favorite podcatcher

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and at johnreadscomics .com. See you then. On

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the Simplistic Reviews podcast, we talk movies.

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We talk TV. We talk. Hello, Julie, what the heck

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are you doing? Trying to make our spot sound

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more exciting by adding explosions. Yeah, I’m

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pretty sure you could have got the point across

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with sound effects, not the real thing. Car,

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car. Download the show on iTunes or at simplisticreviews

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.blogspot .com. I’m sure your insurance company

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will cover that. No, they won’t. No, they probably

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won’t. Show’s over, Synergy. We now return to

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the Transformers. All right, folks, we are back

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here on part two of the Top 100 Animated Series

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nominees. Any final thoughts, Optimus Solo? I

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just am intrigued to see if it goes up or down

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from the last time I’m with Steve. I think it’ll

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go down. I don’t know if it’ll go down from 29

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to 20, but I could see it somewhere maybe in

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the middle or close to 20, I guess. But I’m intrigued.

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I’m intrigued to see because I think some of

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these are definitely going to. feel the crunch

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the number crunch when it comes down to people

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is trying to make their last they’re going to

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get to like the 90th spot in their countdown

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and there’s only going to be 10 spots left and

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it’s going to be like what i did the original

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time where i have like 30 i’m trying to crunch

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into 10 spots and math just doesn’t work that

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way so it’ll be interesting to see which ones

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get booted out and which ones make the cut for

01:47:44.300 –> 01:47:47.800
people yep yep you said number crunch all i heard

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in my head was nestle crunch i need chocolate

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damn it all right steve any final thoughts I’d

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just be interested to see how people enjoy what

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this list is and to see what actually shows up

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on the new top 100 animated series countdown.

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2026 edition coming soon. 15 year edition. Well,

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yes, that too. All right, folks. As always, we

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want to thank you for joining us here on Geekcast

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part three. The top 100 animated series 1990s

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nominees will be revealed. For now, I am TF2

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and Mike with Steve Megatron and Optimus Solo.

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Thank you for listening. Until next time. Oh,

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yeah. Unleash the geek in you. Hey, excuse me,

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princess. It’s a pity you Autobots die so easily,

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or I might have a sense of satisfaction now.

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You got the touch! You got the… Arise, Rodimus

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Prime. Optimus. Yeah! No. You’ve just heard…

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