YMMV / Lucky Luke (1983)

• Adaptation Displacement: For quite many people outside of the core markets of Franco-Belgian Comics, this series was their first introduction to the series, before they realized that it was based on a comic book series.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Despite being co-produced by Hanna-Barbera (which produced another series adapted from Franco-Belgian Comics, The Smurfs, to great success in the USA), the 1983-1984 season of the series was a huge failure in the USA. The Western genre having faded out in popularity in the US since about the late '60s both on film and on television as well as English language translations of the comic books being fairly rare and obscure at the time probably didn't help.
• Awesome Music:
  • The 1983 opening, which starts with an electric guitar, has become almost as iconic as "I'm a Poor Lonesome Cowboy" and it sounds awesome to every language it has been translated to.
  • The manic 1991 opening with banjo, harmonica and honkytonk piano is no slouch either.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • It was a big hit in Europe and helped skyrocket the comics' popularity.
  • It was also popular in Turkey and it's the main reason why Lucky Luke is known in this country.

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