Teen Wolf

Plot synopsis:
Scott Howard is a seventeen-year-old high school student who is sick of being average. Living in a small town, his only claim to popularity is playing on the Beavers; his school's basketball team (which is very unsuccessful) and fawning after his crush Pamela Wells, who is dating his rival Mick. Mick plays for the Dragons, an opposing team who tends to bully Scott on the court. Completely oblivious to his best friend Boof's affections, he constantly rebuffs her advances due to their history together.
After a series of startling changes such as long hair suddenly sprouting, hands suddenly getting hairy, he decides to quit the team, but his coach changes his mind. Scoring a keg with his friend Stiles for a party, Scott and Boof end up alone in a closet and Scott gets rough when they begin making out, accidentally clawing Boof's back. When he returns home, he undergoes a strange transformation and discovers he is a werewolf. His father Harold confronts him and reveals he too is a werewolf, and that he'd hoped Scott wouldn't inherit the curse because "sometimes it skips a generation".
Scott reveals his secret to Stiles, who agrees to keep it a secret, but when Scott becomes stressed on the court at the next basketball game, he becomes the wolf and helps win their first game in three years. This has an unexpected result of fame and popularity as the high school is overwhelmed with "Wolf Fever", which quickly alienates Scott from Boof and from his teammates as he begins to hog the ball during games.
Stiles merchandises "Teen Wolf" paraphernalia and Pamela finally begins paying attention to Scott. After he gets a role as a 'werewolf cavalryman' in the school play alongside her, she comes onto him in the dressing room and the two have sex. Later, after a date set up to intentionally make Mick jealous, Pamela tells Scott that she's still seeing him and is not interested in Scott as a boyfriend, much to his disappointment. Harold tells Scott he is responsible for vice principal Rusty Thorne breathing down his neck, due to a scare he'd given him when he was in high school, and advises him to be himself and not the wolf.
With the upcoming spring dance, Boof agrees to go with Scott, but only if he goes as himself, not the Wolf. Scott goes by himself as the Wolf and has a great time. Boof, however, isn't impressed. She takes Scott out into the hallway and they kiss, which turns Scott back into himself. When they return to the dance, everyone pays attention to him, including Pamela. Mick gets upset and taunts Scott until the Wolf comes out and attacks him. His fans then turn on him and he runs out right into Thorne, who threatens to expel Scott from school. Harold appears and after sending Scott home, tells Thorne to back off. He then reminds Thorne of what he is capable of by leaning into him and growling, causing the Vice Principal to pee himself.
Scott renounces using the wolf all the time, quitting the play and the basketball team, who have come to expect it. During the championship game, Scott arrives and rallies his teammates to play without the wolf in order to win the game. Despite the odds, the team begins to play together and they make ground against the Dragons. During the final quarter, behind by one point, Scott is fouled by Mick at the buzzer. He makes both shots, winning the game and the championship to everyone's delight. Brushing past Pamela, Scott kisses Boof as his father comes down and hugs the two of them. Mick tells Pamela that they should leave, but she tells him to "drop dead" and storms off while everyone else celebrates the victory.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
A great cartoon classic I loved as a child!.
It is one of the best cartoons based on a movie, right next to The Real Ghostbusters!
I really wish I could find copies of this somewhere.
Or better yet, the series should be released to DVD!
Here is summary and recount of the series and characters.
Okay a young teenager named Scott, lives in a town obsessed with werewolves called Wolverton.
The have everything with wolf and werewolf in the name.
Little do the town's people realize, that Scott and his family ARE real life werewolves.That's because they have keep the family secret under wraps, or be persecuted like witches, or worse; become lab experiments.
However, that doesn't stop them from wolfing out during the full moon, or when they get angry sometimes.Both Scott's girlfriend and his scheming best friend are the only ones who know about their secret.
The grandparents tend to let their wolfish forms hang out all the time in the house, with or without the moon's help.The grandfather always tries to chase the neighbor lady's cats next door, and she is always trying to snoop and spy on them.
She suspects something strange is going, and thinks one day she'll expose the truth.
Lupey, the younger sister in the family is always wanting to become a werewolf, but she is just a child; and she has to wait until she is in her mid-teens.
She makes up for it by wearing a werewolf costume and plastic fangs, and running around howling.Though many fans of the original movie might disagree, I think this is a vast improvement on the movie of the same name, with the addition of these characters.
The show also has the crappy high school bully and his stupid girlfriend, who are always trying to make Scott look bad.
Together, the whole family and friends have exciting adventures, with comedy in tow.
I recommend showing this to your kids, over some of the garbage on CN and Nick Toons are currently showing.
10/10 stars!.
I'm also voting for it to be on DVD because it was personally.
This cartoon presented Scott's wolf outs like a seizure episode, asthma attack..etc because he could feel 'getting different' happening and was concerned he would not fit in at school..etc because of being different.It made me and other people with disabilities feel GREAT to see ourselves represented.
When high school seemed really far away to a first grader, I was reassured things would work out.Okay, maybe the studios just wanted to make a quick buck on a movie, itself made for a quick buck, but I found so much more in the series--and still do.
The VHS tapes I have are wearing out again!.
This show was AWESOME..
I was three when this show was on, but I remember it just fine.
This cartoon was great.
I remember the episode where Scott's family has a family reunion and there are all those werewolves at his house and his Grandpa kept acting like a dog.
This show WAS great, and I never missed an episode when I watched.
I think they used to show taped versions of it at my day care too.
Funny how I don't remember hardly anything about my childhood except for the 80s cartoons that were on at the time.
Oh yes.
That was the greatest decade for Saturday morning cartoons EVER..
Teen Wolf cartoon=Mankinds Finest Hour(half hour actually).
I guess I'm the only one who remembers this show (or watched it for that matter), but Teen Wolf: The Cartoon was an eighties classic.
In fact, if I had to define the eighties with one form of media (film, televsion, music) I would have to say Teen Wolf The Cartoon.
I think in the years to come this show will be heralded as an important step in not only Saturday morning television...but for mankind as well..
I think I remember it being better than it really was..
I remember loving this cartoon series when I was 5 years old.
Every Saturday morning I would get up at the crack of dawn to watch such shows as The Real Ghostbusters, Muppet Babies and Teen Wolf.
I found the old Teen Wolf cartoons on you tube, and as I suspected the series is not as good as I remember it being.
The animation is nowhere near as good as animation is today, and some of the story lines are cheese-tastic, but this was the 80's and I think it was somewhat intentional to keep this show in line with the same level of campiness as the movie.
But I think it probably would still be relatively entertaining to many 5 year old even today, so I give the show a relatively high rating keeping in mind who the audience for the show would be..
Release it on DVD!!!!!!.
This was my favorite cartoon when I was a little girl.
To this day it brings me such great memories.
I would love to see it come out on DVD!!!.
From a bad movie to a boring cartoon..
Teen Wolf (1986) was a Saturday morning cartoon based upon the movie Teen Wolf.
Like the movie, the cartoon was pretty bad and very unnoteworthy.
A lot of cartoons that were based on movies came out during this time period.
To this day I haven't found one that was slightly entertaining.
The cartoon featured a cheesy "Teen Wolf" logo whenever some "action" occurred.
I couldn't take the animated series anymore that I could bear watching the original movie or it's lame sequel.
Why don't these animation creators get some imagination or make another retread of a classic cartoon character.
What is the purpose of remaking a bad movie into a television "animated" series.They'll never learn.Please avoid, it's not worth watching.