Shirt Tales
This
was such a silly and cute show. So what if it made no sense at all. And
so what if it was so sugary it gave me a cavity. I still loved it!
Based on a series of greeting cards
which animals wearing T Shirts that carried a message. The series
followed the adventures of Tyg the Tiger, Pammy Panda, Digger Mole, Rick
Raccoon, and Bogey Orangutan. Later they were joined by a little rabbit
named Kip. They live in Oak Tree Park and tease the park ranger Mr.Dinkle (who I think may have been Ranger Smith's lame cousin). They basically helped people who got into trouble, and I loved watching it.
Popples
Yes.
I admit it, ok? I watched this show. I also had two of these furry
little creatures that turned into sports balls. Yes, I admit it! All
kidding aside, this was a clever 80's product
which was hard to resist. The cartoon series was corny as heck, but it
was cute and as you can tell from my first show I am a sucker for cute.
Yes I like action, we'll get to that. This show was pretty much what
you'd expect, the Popple get into all sorts of wacky situations! I have
two, named PJ and Putter. For some reason this show ran on Sunday's
where I live so I didn't watch it as much as I could have. It was
harmless fun.
Battle of the Planets
For
years I had this opening sequence in my head, but couldn't remember
what it went to. I thought it was Superfriends but realized that was
wrong. Then I pulled up a clip on YouTube of a cartoon called Battle of
the Planets that I watched as a kid. Instant nostalgia rush! This was an
anime long before anime was a regular buzzword, and it was really cool!
Five young people form a group called G Force and it's their job to
protect Earth from attacks from, well, other planets. It was a Star Wars
rip off created by Sandy Frank but it says something that I never
forgot it completely. Battle of the Planets has a long history actually
which I will spare you. The show was awesome! By the way this wasn't the
only amine around at the time, there was also Voltron which was
awesome!!!
Danger Mouse
Sigh.
Whatever happened to classic Nickelodeon? Thanks to Nickelodeon I
watched a lot of Canadian and or British TV growing up. You Can't Do
That on Television, Pinwheel, and this awesome little cartoon. Danger
Mouse was an English mouse who worked as secret agent. His has a secret
underground base that's accessible by a pillar box located outside
Sherlock Holmes' house in Baker Street, London and had a cool car that
could also fly and float like a boat. He has a sidekick named Penfold who
lile most sidekicks is always getting captured. DM, as he was known,
was a secret agent so you can imagine the stories. The main villain was a
toad named Baron Silas Greenback and he even has a boss named Colonel
K. This show would be considered cliche today, but it the 80's it was
cool! Where I lived Nicklodeon would sign off at 8pm, and I used to love
listening to that closing theme just before the channel went off.
Mr.T
We
all know the Saturday morning classics. Muppet Babies, Alvin and the
Chipmunks, even Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. But this one doesn't
get as much attention as it deserved. It was was for three years and
was just awesome! I challenge you to watch the opening intro and not get
pumped up! This show was really good and one of the reasons is because
the premise wasn't so far fetched. Well, for a cartoon anyway. Mr.T is
coach of a gymnastics team (a group of kids) who he travels the world
with solving mysteries. Ok it's farfetched but at least it wasn't the
super lame Pro Stars. This show has a live action Mr.T introducing each
episode, and the stories were pretty good. The big thing with this was
they took the time to give us characters we would like, and several
episodes involved their personal lives. A lot of cartoons forget that
action is all well and good but we have to care about the characters to!
Ah, the good old days of cartoons.
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