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Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1: Aug 31st 2024 at 1:19:30 AM

Rare example of Western one that is serialized without being a full on drama.

And it has a legit distribution on You Tube thanks to Jim Henson's Family Hub: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLifn29u_lcacGQzckLpwpsCrhp5Hr42Wz

Edited by Antiyonder on Sep 1st 2024 at 10:37:49 AM

Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#2: Aug 31st 2024 at 5:28:56 AM

MOST 80s cartoons hold up, it's just the cool kids club thing to say they don't. They all have dedicated and devoted fanbases who extol their virtues and downplay their weaknesses

Edited by Zarius on Aug 31st 2024 at 5:31:31 AM

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#3: Aug 31st 2024 at 10:04:41 AM

OK,what's show about?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#4: Aug 31st 2024 at 12:28:26 PM

A young bear boy and his best friend leave their home to go on an adventure following an ancient map, from what I gather.

Wake me up at your own risk.
Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#5: Aug 31st 2024 at 1:29:44 PM

Based on the animatronic interactive toy that had a cassette-player built into it's back and would, with a tape inserted, tell stories (it's mouth would move, eyes would blink, etc). Featured in an episode of A&E's The Toys That Built America.

Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6: Aug 31st 2024 at 3:57:01 PM

I mean some aspects like MAVO (Monsters and Villain Organization) don't appear in 8 episodes in but it either has arcs like the first five episodes having Teddy and his friend Grubby meeting Newton Gimmick who they remain with the rest of the show, plus some Crystal treasure which were once the source of power for the place they were found in.

Even with say episode 6 being a breather, it introduces for example an invention used for the next episode and story.

MOST 80s cartoons hold up, it's just the cool kids club thing to say they don't. They all have dedicated and devoted fanbases who extol their virtues and downplay their weaknesses.

It can be argued the other way around in our gen trying to appear superior to later gens. That said it's not the exception, just some stuff like Transformers, G.I.Joe for example are iffy.

Some others that come to mind for quality The Raccoons (*), The Real Ghostbusters (Before the Q5 sabotage), Duck Tales (Still like the 2017 version), Gummi Bears, Beginning of Garfield & Friends (On Tubi TV entirely with the old Garfield TV specials).

Flawed but Dungeons & Dragons, also to a point the solo Spider-Man cartoon as well.

(*)Going to check for a thread on The Raccoons and if none, I'll make that with notes of it having YT distribution.

Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#7: Sep 1st 2024 at 8:20:12 PM

I'd say Sturgeon's Law holds true for '80's cartoons, much as with pretty much everything else. For every Dungeons and Dragons (a great cartoon, in my opinion—one of my favorites from childhood) there's Rubik the Amazing Cube, Lady Lovelylocks, Meatballs and Spaghetti, and a host of other cartoons that have been justly forgotten. As Mark Evanier has said, they were frequently up against so many challenges to quality that it's amazing more shows weren't worse garbage more often—Evanier said he often counted it a success if he could make something suck moderately less than it did before he was assigned to it.

The shows we remember as being good tried very hard to be good, and sometimes achieved it. I wouldn't say most 80's cartoons still hold up, but I'd say that the best of them do. The main difference between then and now, in my opinion, is that 80's cartoons, when at their best, were as good as anything today, but the cartoons of today, at their worst, aren't as bad as cartoons of the '80's were at their worst.

Edited by Robbery on Sep 1st 2024 at 8:20:58 AM

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Sep 1st 2024 at 10:16:25 PM

I'm sure we can have a thread about this show without needing to find some other shows to pin it up as being superior to, regardless.

Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#9: Sep 1st 2024 at 10:39:45 PM

At any rate, edited the thread. Yeah just that as an 80s kid who does like animation even up to the present, it's more that it seems like the praise for 80s animation (Same with anyone and animation in their childhood) is more for someone trying to have self worth at the expense of others.

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