History Trivia / SkyCommanders

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied ''Sky Commanders'' in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA6tQZnv6U skit]]. However, several jokes don't work, like the part where the overweight Sky Commander didn't simply go [[CatchPhrase "Hot Wire!"]] in order to escape his predicament. It does have its moments of hilarity though.

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied ''Sky Commanders'' in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA6tQZnv6U couple of skits]]. However, several jokes don't work, like the part where the overweight Sky Commander didn't simply go [[CatchPhrase "Hot Wire!"]] in order to escape his predicament. It does have its moments of hilarity though.

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied ''Sky Commanders'' in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA6tQZnv6U couple of skits]]. However, several jokes don't work, like the part where the overweight Sky Commander didn't simply go [[CatchPhrase "HOT WIRE!"]] in order to escape his predicament. It does have its moments of hilarity though.

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied ''Sky Commanders'' in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA6tQZnv6U couple of skits]]. However, several jokes don't work, like the part where the overweight Sky Commander didn't simply go "HOT WIRE!" in order to escape his predicament. It does have its moents of hilarity though.

** Most egregiously, the instrumental track of the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-wx_Ui8oVg "Turn on the Night"]] by Steve [=McClintlock=] was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show. The original song would later be further recycled for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'' in 1988.

** Most egregiously, the instrumental track of the song "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show. The original song would later be further recycled for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'' in 1988.

** ''WesternAnimation/SkyCommanders'' was made a year after ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'', was aimed at the same demographic, and was a product of the same toy company, Creator/{{Kenner}}; ''Centurions'' was produced by Creator/RubySpears, while this show was created by their cousins at Creator/HannaBarbera. Therefore, it's not surprising that the two shows' appeals and characters are not that different in the normal sense these companies used formula. Both of which were HB/RS attempts to get into MerchandiseDriven action shows.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=], was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show. The original song would later be further recycled for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'' in 1988.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show. The original song would later be further recycled for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'' in 1988.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] (it would later be further recycled for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'') was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] (it would later be used for the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase]]'') was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] from the soundtrack of ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094973/ Death Chase (1988)]]'' was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show.

** Most egregiously, the instrumentals of the song, "Turn on the Night" by Steve [=McClintlock=] from the soundtrack of Death Chase (1988) was repurposed and slightly remixed as the intro theme of this show.

** The toyline owes plenty to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', another Kenner action figure franchise. Both lines featured tiny figures that were packaged with gimmicky vehicles (a concept that Kenner used yet again for 1990's short-lived ''Shadow Strikers'', and yet again for 1996's ''WesternAnimation/VorTechUndercoverConversionSquad''). This example is separate because the respective cartoons are only similar in the same vein that most 1980s action cartoons were.
* OutOfOrder: The first episode shows Yuri, the Soviet, as a member of the Sky Commanders. However, he isn't introduced as a full member until the third episode.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/{{Kenner}} planned to release more toys in 1988, but they were never made because the line didn't sell.

** The toyline owes plenty to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', another Kenner action figure franchise. Both lines featured tiny figures that were packaged with gimmicky vehicles (a concept that Kenner used yet again for 1990's short-lived ''Shadow Strikers''). This example is separate because the respective cartoons are only similar in the same vein that most 1980s action cartoons were.

** The toyline owes plenty to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', another Kenner action figure franchise. Both lines featured tiny figures that were packaged with gimmicky vehicles (a concept that Kenner used yet again for 1990's ''Shadow Strikers''. This example is separate because the respective cartoons are only similar in the same vein that most 1980s action cartoons were.

** While speaking of the toyline itself which owes plenty to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', another Kenner action figure franchise. Both lines featured tiny figures that were packaged with gimmicky vehicles. This example being separate because the respective cartoons are only similar in the same vein that most 1980s action cartoons were.

** ''WesternAnimation/SkyCommanders'' was made a years after ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'', was aimed at the same demographic, and was a product of the same toy company, Creator/{{Kenner}}; ''Centurions'' was produced by Creator/RubySpears, while this show was created by their cousins at Creator/HannaBarbera. Therefore, it's not surprising that the two shows' appeals and characters are not that different in the normal sense these companies used formula. Both of which were HB/RS attempts to get into MerchandiseDriven action shows.

** ''WesternAnimation/SkyCommanders'' was made a years after ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'', was aimed at the same demographic, and was a product of the same toy company, Creator/{{Kenner}}; ''Centurions'' was produced by Creator/RubySpears, while this show was created by their cousins at Creator/HannaBarbera. Therefore, it's not surprising that the two shows' appeals and characters are not that different in the normal sense these companies used formula.
** In turn some concepts (along with voice actors Creator/CharlieAdler and Creator/PaulEiding) later went into ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. Compare some of the vehicles and the respective traveling underground episodes.
** The toyline itself owes plenty to ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'', another Kenner action figure franchise. Both lines featured tiny figures that were packaged with gimmicky vehicles. This example being separate because the respective cartoons are only similar in the same vein that most 1980s action cartoons were.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Robert Ridgely, Creator/CharlieAdler, Dick Gautier, Bernard Erhard, Creator/BJWard, Creator/PaulEiding, William Windom and some others. In particular, Erhard's voice for General Plague's voice is more or less the same voice he used for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'', just without the electronic filter.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Robert Ridgely, Creator/CharlieAdler, Dick Gautier, Bernard Erhard, Creator/BJWard, Creator/PaulEiding and some others. In particular, Erhard's voice for General Plague's voice is more or less the same voice he used for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'', just without the electronic filter.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/CharlieAdler, Dick Gautier, Bernard Erhard, Creator/BJWard, Creator/PaulEiding and some others. In particular, Erhard's voice for General Plague's voice is more or less the same voice he used for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'', just without the electronic filter.

* HeyItsThatVoice: General Plague's voice is more or less [[WesterAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots Cy-Kill's]], just without the electronic filter. Both were voiced by the late Bernard Erhard.