“Sufferin’ Succotash!!”
I think a cartoon Cat or Panther used to say that.
He might have been lisping when he spoke. (Messy!)
I thought “Heavens to Murgetroyd!” was one of Snagglepuss’ lines. And that was waaay before the 80’s. He is a Hanna-Barbera creation, though.
Only way that's going to happen is if I can reproduce the original Kraft Mac and Cheese from then. Jonny Quest episodes haven't changed. The Mac and Cheese has changed, not my taste buds.
Yeah, the one eyed electric ghost thing scared the crap outta me in Johnny Quest!
Hanna-Barbera
A trip back? The young adult kids around here always have these on
They know a lot more about scooby doo, scrappy do, Johnny Question, Jade than I ever did.
Snagglepuss: “Thufferin’ Thuckatash!”
I flew on Jet Blue and they had one channel on their individual seat TV devoted to old HB cartoons. I watched a couple of Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw episodes.
It brought back memories of Saturday mornings.
I always loved the Jonny Quest opening credits. The upbeat jazz music, the montage of action sequences. So classic.
I just took a look at the house I grew up in, via satellite view. Somebody cut down half the trees for more parking on the side of the house, but at least the huge old magnolia tree is still there. It was planted in the mid-1950’s, when the house was built, but the plum and crab-apple trees are gone. The willow trees in the back yard are gone, too.
Jonny Quest had the best theme song of any of them.
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Scooby-Doo!
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 was a committed Rocky and Bullwinkle fan.
Hanna Barberra SUCKED!
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.
Johnny Quest was the BEST!! Never got tired of watching reruns.