From: mwdenney@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Michael W. Denney)
Subject: Re: Saturday morning (Was :Galaxy Trio/BirdMan)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:48:18 GMT

In article <seyncSC00VopMXpVUv@andrew.cmu.edu> "Kevin J. Chen" <kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>In article <40430@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
>> So I'm watching it, and there's this amazingly wretched thing called
>> "The Galaxy Trio" (which consists of Meteor Man, Vapor Man, and
>> Gravity Girl), interspersed with "BirdMan". These things are the
>> absolute lowest common denominator. Bad animation, absurd plots,
>> horrible voicework ("Yes. But you reckoned without my Thermal
>> Ray."), just awful.

I think that might be Galaxy Girl BTW. A minor detail, I know. :)
Good old Birdman worked along side Birdboy (snicker) and his eagle compainion
Avenger under the command of Falcon 7.

>Space Ghost

played first with Dino Boy and than with Frankenstein Jr.

>The Herculoids

The trouble with this show is Gloop and Gleep looked two much like the shmoo.
(Or if you want to be kinder they looked like Barbapapas)

>Frankenstein, Jr.
>
>There was also one series that I remember that involved two kids with
>two halves of a magic ring; when they were joined together, they
>summoned a genie (sort of a precursor to the Wondertwins, I guess). 
>Anyone remember what this one was?

Ha! Shazzan! As always a Hanna-Barbera cartoon must have some zany animal and
hence we have (are you ready folks) Kaboobie the flying camel. (snicker)

>Other ones that I can remember that may or may not be HB:
>
>Thundarr the Barbarian (my personal favorite)
A Ruby-Spears Production.  This is the one with the cool (and somewhat morbid)
beggining where the moon cracks down the middle and Earth is practically 
destroyed right? (I've been trying to think of this.)

>The Impossibles (? -- I think this was their name; they were a rock band

Yep. And definitely HB (they were shown with Frankenstein Jr. for a while)

>with superpowers.  One of them could turn into a spring, one could turn
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Coil Man (snicker)

>into liquid, 
  ^^^^^^^^^Fluid Man (snicker, snicker)

>and the other could split into duplicates)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Multi Man (no stop please!)

>Schmoo (I'm sorry I remember this one)

The only thing worse than the Schmoo is "Fred and Barney Meet the Schmoo"

>The Harlem Globetrotters (the one where they were superheroes)
 
Two shows: The Harlem Globetrotters and The Super Globetrotters (when they
have super powers) both by HB
The Globetrotters had super powers and were able to become:
  Multi-Man, Sphere-Man, Gismo-Man, Spaghetti-Man and Fluid-Man
>
>Erg.  Thinking of this fills me with waves of warm, fuzzy nostalgia.

Ah memories!  Does anybody remember "The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam"?
It was by Filmation and had Shazam (a.k.a. Captain Marvel) and Captain
Marvel Jr. but the real attention grabber of the show was "Hero High".
Kind of like Acme Looniversity students went here to become super heros.
The animation looked kink of Archie-ish and the kid/superheros had names like
Captain California, Rex Ruthless, Weatherman, Punk Rock, Misty Magic, Dirty
Trixie, and Glorious Gal.  The funniest part was seeing the actual people
they got to dress up as these characters in order to introduce each cartoon. :)

Michael
 a.k.a. The Phantom Scribbler

 - I don't ask questions, I just have fun!

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