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exquisite tea posted:It always felt like that show was on all the time but the only episode I remember now is Goo Punch. This has been living rent free in my head for 17 years and is a constant reminder that the internet just doesn't provide the same kind of entertainment today that it used to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lROMbspX10
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Edge & Christian posted:
It was renamed to "The New Adventures of Captain Planet" at some point, so it doesn't even live up to your qualifiers.
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The Moon Monster posted:There were only 13 episodes of My Brother and Me. Shocking stuff. I don't remember a thing about that show except for a line a character says that I still use like thirty years later: "If I'm lyin', I'm flyin', and as you can see I'm still on the ground."
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Edge & Christian posted:It doesn't seem to be remotely true, Captain Planet had 113 episodes, which puts it behind Doug (117), Rugrats (172), the original TMNT (193), Arthur (253), and Spongebob Squarepants (284) off the top of my head. The last two stretch into the 2000s so it's possible those don't 'count' as longest running in the 1990s, and TMNT started in 1987 so that might disqualify it. well...poo poo. i saw it mentioned on the wiki page for captain planet a few months ago and just took it on face value. clearly i was wildly mistaken 
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Captain Planet loving sucked
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there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: 
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oldpainless posted:Captain Planet loving sucked yes but it had a kickin' soundtrack
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Laterite posted:there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: the biggest, thiccest rear end ever a dumptruck so big it seats four
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Laterite posted:there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: like devolved Utena posting
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Laterite posted:there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: It just occurred to me that this was probably a low effort ripoff of Transformers but I just googled it and they both came out in September 1984 and Turbo Teen actually beat Transformers to air by about a week. Apparently it was a low effort ripoff of Knight Rider quote:It was broadcast during the growing popularity of the Knight Rider television series and mirrors much of it. The car that Brett turns into looks like an amalgam of a Third Generation Chevrolet Camaro and its sister car, the Pontiac Trans Am; the later model Knight Rider's KITT is based on.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Apparently it was a low effort ripoff of Knight Rider This might be true, but they've clearly put an enormous amount of effort into that one singular animation.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It just occurred to me that this was probably a low effort ripoff of Transformers but I just googled it and they both came out in September 1984 and Turbo Teen actually beat Transformers to air by about a week. Speaking of "ripoff that came out earlier than Transformers", Challenge of the Gobots. The toys weren't THAT bad, and I remember the cartoon being enjoyably dumb (then again, so was The Transformers), but it did have one thing over The Transformers. More consistent female characters. Well, okay, I mean the psychobitch from Hell, Crasher, but that still counts, right? 
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Was the baroness on GI Joe the expression of someone’s fetish, or just the unintentional origin of a bunch of people’s fetish?
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oldpainless posted:Captain Planet loving sucked Wow someone got the hate ring.
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I'm still mad that the teenagers with RINGS OF ELEMENTAL POWER couldn't ever do poo poo to stop a dude poluting in a river. Like, you can burst a mountain from the ground, Earth dude, just with a wave of your hand. loving DO SOMETHING USEFUL.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Was the baroness on GI Joe the expression of someone’s fetish, or just the unintentional origin of a bunch of people’s fetish? In my experience it's usually both. See also: Slave Leia.
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Randalor posted:Speaking of "ripoff that came out earlier than Transformers", Challenge of the Gobots. The toys weren't THAT bad, and I remember the cartoon being enjoyably dumb (then again, so was The Transformers), but it did have one thing over The Transformers. More consistent female characters. Well, okay, I mean the psychobitch from Hell, Crasher, but that still counts, right? Gobots were the 'we have transformers at home' of cartoons.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Gobots were the 'we have transformers at home' of cartoons. Tonka licensed the designs from a Japanese show called "Machine Robo" and just had a new show animated. https://youtu.be/xl4IqLfzHwg
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Gobots were the 'we have transformers at home' of cartoons. Someone already replied but my guess was going to be a company that was either expecting or angling for a Transformer's toy contract and when they didn't get it said "okay, gently caress you" and just released their product anyway to compete. It's insane because there's so much stuff from that era in the 80s where it exists because of how/why the toys were being made, like the He-Man lion with a saddle was just a repurposed existing toy that sold poorly and then became an iconic part of the show.
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From what I remember, GoBots was first. Gobots came out in 1983 and Transformers was '84.
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Laterite posted:there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: The super creepy sexual fetish thread (RIP) was a goldmine because there were a enough people for whom that animation was a sexual awakening that there is all sorts of hosed up poo poo to laugh at.
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Laterite posted:there was like 12 episodes of turbo teen ever made and yet i think about this at least once a week: So THAT'S where Demver Girl comes from!
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so wait are his clothes part of him then?
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The Battletech cartoon probably belongs here. 13 episodes from the dawn of CGI (1994), and looking at it now it’s so awful that it might actually loop back around to being good again? Either way, various sourcebook writers since have made the cartoon’s existence a part of the setting canon, as a House Steiner propaganda piece about how they convinced House Kurita to run a joint intelligence operation against the invading Clans. e: the intro still makes me think of the smell of a machine shop  https://youtu.be/A-_-8D8R4CU Icon Of Sin has a new favorite as of 09:37 on May 5, 2023 |
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pentyne posted:Someone already replied but my guess was going to be a company that was either expecting or angling for a Transformer's toy contract and when they didn't get it said "okay, gently caress you" and just released their product anyway to compete. Eh, even disregarding that Gobots came out before Transformers, I'm going to doubt that just based on the fact that "robots that transform" was just such a popular concept in Japan that it's not surprising that two different companies would have picked up distribution rights for North America for different toy lines. I mean, Transformers itself was 2 different toy lines in Japan before Transformers took off, amd Tonka scored the Bandai contract. I'm not sure just how big Bandai was compared to Takera at the time, but it's entirely possible that it's the exact opposite, where Hasbro couldn't get the Machine Robo contract, so said "gently caress it" and went with the Takera toys.
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lord funk posted:I'm still mad that the teenagers with RINGS OF ELEMENTAL POWER couldn't ever do poo poo to stop a dude poluting in a river. Like, you can burst a mountain from the ground, Earth dude, just with a wave of your hand. loving DO SOMETHING USEFUL. The power to influence people and animals and they don't use the heart ring to just make them stop polluting Honestly the part of captain planet that aged worse is how those supervillain plots are mostly just a Tuesday in the hellscape of 2023
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I'm honestly surprised Captain Planet hasn't gotten a gritty made-for-Netflix reboot. Five eco-terrorists with different specializations (The Fire guy being a demolitions expert, the Wind type having a lock on airborne pathogens, etc), imply real heavily all throughout the season that Captain Planet is just a mascot for their cell/group until towards the end when they actually do need to summon him for the big  reveal.
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the_steve posted:I'm honestly surprised Captain Planet hasn't gotten a gritty made-for-Netflix reboot. Already a Rick & Morty episode, and a pretty bad one at that
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Len posted:The power to influence people and animals and they don't use the heart ring to just make them stop polluting If Captain Planet wiki is to be believed the villains are so corrupt heart doesn't work on them.
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Mooseontheloose posted:If Captain Planet wiki is to be believed the villains are so corrupt heart doesn't work on them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo
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Asterite34 posted:Already a Rick & Morty episode, and a pretty bad one at that Not really, the power ring bearers in the R&M episode were a bunch of conniving assholes who wanted to sell their mascot to the highest bidder. But it was a bad episode, as most Morty relationship episodes are.
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the_steve posted:I'm honestly surprised Captain Planet hasn't gotten a gritty made-for-Netflix reboot. It hasn't been for lack of trying: quote:Multiple attempts have been made to create a film adaptation of the series. The first occurred in 1996 when Boxer and Pyle wrote a film adaptation of Captain Planet originally titled Planet.Five years later, Michael Reaves revised the concept as Dark Planet or Planet. The storyline was darker than the series, and set in a post-apocalyptic time period. However, the script was lost when Turner and Warner Bros. merged in 1996. The film reached the design stage before it was abandoned. ..... but the people who developed the cartoon really really believe in the message behind it which has been a barrier against people cashing in on it since inception: they insisted that merchandising tie-ins for the show had to be made sustainably, etc etc.. They also founded the Captain Planet Foundation and the Planeteer Movement which are both still active across the globe
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Mooseontheloose posted:If Captain Planet wiki is to be believed the villains are so corrupt heart doesn't work on them. Yeah, that. And while the Heart ring could MAYBE work on regular people to get them to, like, recycle more and carpool or whatever...I think it sort of goes against the ethos of the Heart ring to use it for mass mind-control...
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Mooseontheloose posted:If Captain Planet wiki is to be believed the villains are so corrupt heart doesn't work on them. That's why Dick Cheney is immune. His real heart is in a phylactery somewhere. The one he uses day to day is one ripped from the body of an innocent.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It hasn't been for lack of trying: Off the top of my head there was also Robot Chicken where Captain Planet was Ted Turner in make up killing corporate execs and a Funny or Die where Don Cheadle uses his powers to turn humanity into trees.
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Mooseontheloose posted:If Captain Planet wiki is to be believed the villains are so corrupt heart doesn't work on them. also... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__ztikjTok
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:and a Funny or Die where Don Cheadle uses his powers to turn humanity into trees. They did an entire series  Here's part 2, the rest are all up on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL97QjGEx6s
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pentyne posted:It's insane because there's so much stuff from that era in the 80s where it exists because of how/why the toys were being made, like the He-Man lion with a saddle was just a repurposed existing toy that sold poorly and then became an iconic part of the show. Wait, what?
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Phy posted:I would not want to see the shoe collection of Imelda Macross Because Imelda Marcos was infamous for (among other more important things like grievous misdeeds against the people of the Philippines) her extensive shoe collection, and the SDF-1 Macross spaceship could turn into a robot mode with feet the size of city blocks, so Imelda Macross's shoe collection would have been about the volume of the Pacific ocean, you see Phy has a new favorite as of 17:36 on May 5, 2023 |
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Mad Hamish posted:Wait, what? There's a Netflix doco series called "The Toys That Made Us" and the episode on He-Man revealed that Battle Cat was a repurposed tiger from some other toy line with a repaint. It was way out of scale though, so they slapped a saddle on it
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