“I may not be the best guy, but I sure ain’t no bad guy!” — Coop In 2004, the Cartoon Cartoon block on Cartoon Network was being phased out. Hanna-Barbera cartoons were no longer such an essential part of the … Continue reading Because you dig giant robots… Megas XLR

There are many things in life that makes me want to stop writing articles. The fear of being accidentally insensitive, for example. Or the fear of being cruelly exposed as not being quite as well versed in forgotten cartoons as … Continue reading Please, Hammerman, don’t hurt ‘em

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More like associates from heaven! … No, wait. Continue reading This reminds me of the time there were Neighbors from Hell

It was a dark and stormy afternoon. A Disney Afternoon. Life comes at you like a hurricane. This was long after the time when rotund bears guzzling down this liquid they called Gummi juice and when a tiny rodent would … Continue reading The Mysterious Affair of Bonkers D. Bobcat

In one way, children’s entertainment has come a long way from the dawn of television. In another way, we lost the ability to create art where the barrier to entry was a lot lower, and all a person needed was … Continue reading Beany and Cecil fights over a couple of puppets

“Wizards are dangerous!” – Needle “Not as dangerous as BARBARIANS.” – Conan Know, Avocado readers, that between the years when Unicron battled Rodimus Prime and GI Joe: The Rise of COBRA, there was an age undreamed of… The early 90’s. … Continue reading Conan trades barbarism and destruction for adventure

When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon hit it big in the late 80’s, the overnight sensation had an effect on Saturday morning cartoons that was similar to what we had seen with the original black and white comic. Suddenly … Continue reading The COWboys of Moo Mesa are riding across that uncanny valley

Nothing quite says that you’re not you’re daddy’s superhero than by making one of your main villains a child murderer. Post-Batman movie, superheroes were back. There was a catch, though. Brooding superheroes and psychotic villains were the new hotness. Bright, … Continue reading Spawn brings violence, swears, and nudity to superhero cartoons

Can the Western work in animation? It never seemed that popular of a genre to tackle, even during its heyday in film. The limitless possibility of animation seems more suited to the fanciful flights of science fiction than the grounded, … Continue reading Calamity Jane meets her kryptonite