History WesternAnimation / Hammerman

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: MC Hammer introduced every episode and called special attention to its [[AnAesop lesson]] (don't make fun of short people; don't paint all over the wall unless an adult says it's okay; and so on). Seems the show was directed at ''very'' young children. (Maybe it was for the parents, so they know what their kid is about to watch.) A lot of parent websites say for the parent to watch a show or movie before their kids. The show telling them what is going to happen skips that part for parents/guardians.

* LimitedAnimation: It goes off the wall for a DIC cartoon, ranging to just plain cheap to downright erratic at points. Strangely enough, [[ActionHoggingOpening the animation in the intro is very fluid]].

* InvincibleHero: As noted below, Hammerman could do basically anything the writer could think of connecting with dancing and music. Accordingly, a lot of episodes weren't actually about Hammerman trying to defeat a villain so much as they were about [[DramaPreservingHandicap Stanley trying to overcome the problem of being unable to transform into Hammerman]]. Once he did, [[CurbStompBattle all opposition folded up like a cheap card table]].

* CluelessAesop: The show's attempt to use the superhero formula to capture an audience sometimes resulted in morals that seemed confused, or hard to apply to real life. For example, WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti", the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience were generally too young to be graffiti artists. The taggers above that age range probably not only never saw the show and didn't hear the message, they weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to do it.

* LimitedAnimation: It goes off the wall for a DIC cartoon, looking downright cheap to just looking erratic at points. Strangely enough, [[ActionHoggingOpening the animation in the intro is very fluid]].

* CluelessAesop: As WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti", the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience were generally too young to be graffiti artists. The taggers above that age range probably not only never saw the show and didn't hear the message, they weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to do it.

%%* OffModel: Painfully so; even [=DiC=]'s ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons were better-animated in comparison, and those were animated by the same company who worked on this![[note]]Sans the intro[[/note]]

''Hammerman'' was also a cartoon produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment where MC Hammer was a superhero. He used rap music, dancing, and a pair of magical shoes that he had inherited from another musical superhero who had just recently retired. Ah, the CelebrityToons of [[TheNineties the early 90s]]. This one debuted in 1991, lasting for 13 episodes.

* InvincibleHero: As noted below, Hammerman could do basically anything. Accordingly, a lot of episodes weren't actually about Hammerman trying to defeat a villain so much as they were about [[DramaPreservingHandicap Stanley trying to overcome the problem of being unable to transform into Hammerman]]. Once he did, [[CurbStompBattle all opposition folded up like a cheap card table]].

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: MC Hammer introduced every episode and called special attention to its [[AnAesop lesson]] (don't make fun of short people; don't paint all over the wall unless an adult says it's okay; and so on). Seems the show was directed at ''very'' young children. (Maybe it was for the parents, so they know what they kid is about to watch.)A lot of parent websites say for the parent to watch a show or movie before they kids. The show telling them what is going to happen skips that part for parents/guardians.

* CluelessAesop: As WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti", the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience were generally too young to be graffiti artist. The taggers above that age range probably not only never saw the show and didn't hear the message, they weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to do it.

* CluelessAesop: As WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti", the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience were generally too young to be graffiti artists; the ones above that age range weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to do it.

* ClarkKenting: Somehow, Jody doesn't realize Stanley is Hammerman despite not only knowing him in both identities, him wearing glasses in ''both'' identities, '''and''' her knowing all about the magic shoes and how her grandfather was the previous hero who used them. It's also unclear why, given her knowledge on the subject, Stanley feels the need to hide it from her.

* LimitedAnimation: It goes past looking downright cheap to just looking spastic. Strangely enough, [[ActionHoggingOpening the animation in the intro is very fluid]].

* CityInABottle: Rapoleon does this to Oaktown, Brainiac style, after he shrinks it.

I know when I kid in my was a second grader there was a kid (I remember the kid’s name but not say it for the kid’s private) The kid skipped a year, so the kid was the age of a first grader. He vandalised on the desks. I think even the principal had to be involved. When I saw that hammerman were doing a special on vandalisation (I found the show as a suggestion on YouTube from watching Little shop cartoon), I was so happy, as it is a rarely touched up subject. (It is a subject that affects that demographic. (and I have heard stories of kids painting on the walls.)

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: MC Hammer introduced every episode and called special attention to its [[AnAesop lesson]] (don't make fun of short people; don't paint all over the wall unless an adult says it's okay; and so on). Seems the show was directed at ''very'' young children. (Maybe it was for the parents, so they know what they kid is about to watch.)

I know when I kid in my was a second grader there was a kid (I remer the kid’s name but not say it for the kid’s private) The kid skipped a year, so the kid was the age of a first grader. He vandalised on the desks. I think even the principal had to be involved. When I saw that hammerman were doing a special on vandalisation (I found the show as a suggestion on YouTube from watching Little shop cartoon), I was so happy, as it is a rarely touched up subject. (It is a subject that affects that demographic. (and I have heard stories of kids painting on the walls.)