A Pup Named Scooby Doo (and other lame 80s cartoons)
September 9, 2006
My daughter loves “A Pup Named Scooby Doo” and almost every other cartoon on Boomerang. As I watch it, I realize how many very aweful cartoons I watched as a kid. I’m not talking about cultural phenoms like transformers, or Thundercats or even G.I. Joe (which is actually pretty bad when I watch it now).
I am talking about the following:
A Pup Named Scooby doo
Mr. T (cartoon)Chuck Noris (cartoon)
M.C. Hammer (cartoon)
Ghost Busters (not to be confused with the “Real Ghost Busters” which was awesome, this one was based on some 70’s CBS show of the same name)
courtesy of tvacres
If you are going to sit there and tell me that these cartoons weren’t that bad, you are a flippin’ LIAR! You’re the worst kind of liar, the kind that lies to themselves!
Dear Liar,
Stop lying to yourself.
Signed, 80sfreak
Many 80’s cartoons are very, very bad. The Smurfs, the Snorks, even classics like My Little Pony, the Carebears and others are horribly, horribly written and repitious enough to make you hang your head in shame.
I’m not saying that the concepts weren’t good. Some really speak for themselves because the merchandizing, remakes and movies are still selling 20 years later. But just look at a cartoon like a Pup Named Scooby Doo and a cartoon like Catscratch. The art on a Pup Named Scooby Doo is THE laziest work I have EVER seen (outside of some of the garbage on Adult Swim which is done that way intentionally). It is almost like it was animated out of contempt for the viewers of such complete stupidity.
Ralph Bakshi pointed out the bad quality in his Ren & Stimpy Adult Party DVD. He mentions that there was such a lack of quality in 80s (North American) animation that animators HATED their jobs and literally burned scripts as a joke.
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