Make it a shared-universe epic with Space Ghost and crew = money.
Posted on 08/23/2025 6:23:45 PM PDT by know.your.why
Just thot I share to brighten someones weekend. Johnny Quest is awesome! Cheers...
Scooby-Doo!
There’s a story I read on the internet that Hoyt Curtain had to come up with the theme song pretty quickly. And the trombone section in the opening is supposedly very tough to play.
There’s a youtube video of the opening sequence—shot for shot—as a claymation video with the theme playing over it.
I think it was!
He didn’t do a lot of talking, but his ‘nemesis’ Tweety Bird always had lots to say.
I watched a lot of Hanna-Barbara from their “churn ‘m out” period in the late ‘60s early ‘70s:
Top Cat, Secret Squirrel, Pixie and Dixie, Yakky Doodle, Magilla Gorilla, Lippy the Lion, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, Flintstones, Jetsons, Touche Turtle, Yogi Bear, Peter Potamus, Augie Doggie, etc.
They were uniformly mediocre. The next generation went down a half-notch: Hong Kong Phooey, Speed Buggy, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, Yogi’s Ark (environmentalist crap). (Never watched Scooby-Doo)
Even though the animation was of lower quality, I found Speed Racer, The Mighty Heroes more entertaining.
But the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes, Fleischer’s Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker were standouts.
"I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat."
The very same. Yes indeed, a lisping cat, a stuttering pig and a wise cracking rabbit with a Bronx accent and all the voice of one man- Mel Blanc.
“Johnny Quest’’ was late ‘60’s I believe.
I was a committed Rocky and Bullwinkle fan.
Make it a shared-universe epic with Space Ghost and crew = money.
Hanna Barberra SUCKED!
“They were uniformly mediocre.”
Warner Brothers and Jay Ward were way bwtter.
The strange thing is, they were team behind the old MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons. Those are still treasures of animation and entertainment. MGM showed they could do worse when Tom & Jerry was farmed out to a Czech studio in the mid-60s.
When Hanna-Barbara worked for MGM they turned out some GREAT old cartoons.
When they went off on their own they ditched true animation for semi-static cartoons. A big city Entertainment editor, in 1970, once wrote of them as “The Hanna-Barbara garbage factory.”
respect for the animators of yesteryear as well... to physically draw each frame one by one took a talent that definitely separated the men from the boys!!
I never liked the Hanna-Barbera style of animation, even when I was a kid. Warner Brothers animation was much better before they cheaped out in the 60s. Roger Ramjet cartoons had even worse animation but they were funny enough to make up for it.
Thanks!
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Johnny Quest was the BEST!! Never got tired of watching reruns.
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