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earthstellar · 3 years

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The Most 80s Cartoon Theme Songs Ever: Guitars, Synth, Emotional Lead Singers, Robot Voices

Now, I know this is on my Transformers blog, and I already made a whole big post about the objectively best Transformers theme songs here.

But if you like the Transformers 80s rock/synth music, I have some classic 80s cartoon series songs that younger people out there might not even know about-- And they are absolutely the most radical 80s songs you will ever hear.

You will either love these, or you will laugh extremely hard. I don’t know how anyone under 30 years old might react to these, but I want Gen Z to experience some of the sick jams I grew up with, so here you go!

1) MASK Theme Song: If GI Joe and Transformers Were The Same Show

If you follow me for Transformers: This show is what would happen if a bunch of bots used their holoforms to do a GI Joe adventure while driving around in a bunch of weird Combiner alt-mode vehicles.

Check that out. It’s a 50s Cadillac painted like a flaming hot rod with triplicate tires and a rotating tank turret. Look at how much ass that kicks.

MASK was about being rad, using cars and trucks that had a bunch of really goofy nonsense like laser beam headlights to fight the Bad Guys, who were mostly B-list GI Joe villains. This show is fondly remembered because it was fun and silly with some pretty cool design ideas and toys, and that’s all it needed to be. MASK was pretty great!

Best Elements of the Song: The song opens with soft synth keyboard, then kicks off into guitar and a heavy synth robot voice accompanied by a super passionate dude absolutely invested in singing about “always riding hard on Venom’s trail” (you can decide if it’s gay or not, personally I remember fanfiction about this series that was actually pretty good), before an excellent guitar solo that melts into a synth duet and a last round of vocals to close out the track.

Worst Elements of the Song: The lyrics are horrendous. You will either love how much of a jam this is anyway, or you’ll laugh at it because it’s so cheesy. Either way, it is still actually a great track, so give it a listen if you’ve never heard it before!

2) Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors: You’ve Probably Never Heard of This Show Because it was Made by French Canadians

If you follow me for Transformers: This show is what happens when Whirl spikes all the drinks in Swerve’s and

There’s a space outlaws themed episode where the above character uses her bisexual mullet and shoulder pads made of steel to defend her title as the space pirate queen. Please watch this show.

This show has everything, from multiple characters with mullets, a character who is a cross between Han Solo and Bender from The Breakfast Club, a space wizard, a magical Captain Planet space magic ring, space pirates, space vehicles of all kinds, surprisingly solid animation, and overall a really fun vibe. The character designs are really interesting, and it’s a shame this show isn’t more widely known. The famous J M Straczynski (look up everything he’s worked on and have your mind blown) worked on this show as well!

Best Elements of the Song: The track opens with the opening narration from the show, and immediately kicks off: “There’s a power that comes from deep inside of you, every day you’re reachin’ towards the light! And you know there’s a long long way ahead of you, but when your wheels get you there-- Things will turn out right! ” Absolutely great vocals accompanied by synth beats and hair metal guitar which goes into a vocal chorus, ending with an emphasis on the solid vocals for impact.

Worst Elements of the Song: It’s hard to find a full length version of the track. The one I linked above is still the TV edit of the theme.

3) The Real Ghostbusters - Hometown Hero: I Really Miss Cartoons With Synth Music

Honestly, the whole album is worth a listen, this is 80s gold.

This show was one of the biggest hits of the 80s. I had an Egon Spengler blue Ghostbusting jumpsuit, and this is the show I remember most fondly.

You knew shit was real when you got the frontal proton-guns-out group pan shot.

Now, you might laugh, younger people, but The Real Ghostbusters actually had some of the best writing of any animated show at the time, and it still holds up today. (I recently re-watched it, and I was impressed at how good it still is.) It was unreal how great and how adult the first two seasons were, especially. Janine was the coolest, most stylish, fiercest lady in cartoons. (I had a crush on her for years as a kid.)

It’s also probably one of the few 80s cartoons that is entirely watchable in the current day. The dialogue is genuinely funny, and the show gets deeply emotional at times, in very effective and real-feeling ways. You will cry when things get serious. You get entirely invested in what’s going on, no matter how wild or bizarre. The creature designs were amazing, and the animation was solid. This show was above and beyond in terms of overall quality, and the music matches.

Best Elements of the Song: I do recommend you listen to the whole album, because each song is very distinct and extremely 80s. The one I linked above, Hometown Hero, was made for a specific episode in which Ray returns to his hometown to bust a ghost that a family friend has requested the Ghostbusters help out with. However, Ray is afraid that people will think his career is silly or that people might be disappointed in him not having a more traditional job, so he’s nervous. However, when they get there (after lots of encouragement from the rest of the team), they successfully deal with the situation, and Ray’s courage is back! Cue the music!

It’s a very uplifting song, and a pretty good episode, too. (There was lots of good episodes, but I recommend the first two seasons in their entirety. They’re all good episodes, no lie.)

Worst Elements of the Song: Unfortunately this track ends eventually, but there is an entire album for this series, including one of the best Halloween themed bops I’ve ever heard, which you can enjoy here.

This post is pretty long already, but if you want to hear more 80s cartoon jams, let me know and I’ll share the objectively best ones!

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tomeandflickcorner · 4 years

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Episode Review- The Real Ghostbusters: Adventures in Slime and Space

Apparently, the guy who wrote this episode, David Gerrold, said that he drew inspiration from the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode More Tribbles, More Troubles. And I can see that.

Egon is apparently at it again, as a sudden explosion occurs in his lab in the upper floor of the Firehouse, resulting in the windows and skylight shattering. Which catches the attention of an elderly couple passing by, with the wife commenting on how she felt safer when the dynamite factory was there. (They had a dynamite factory in New York?) The reason for the explosion turns out to have been caused by Egon trying to build a new invention. One he thinks he’s nearly managed to complete. Now, before you say anything, no, this new invention isn’t that thing we’ve seen him working on since When Halloween Was Forever. That’s something that we’ll get properly introduced to in a later episode. This invention, however, is something he calls a prototype Plasmic Strainer. Egon proceeds to explain to Peter what this Plasmic Strainer is supposed to do. With nobody seeming to show any concern for the fact that Ray seems to be encased in an electrical field like Marvel’s Electro (though that effect seems to dissipate on its own after a few minutes). Basically, this Plasmic Strainer would make it possible for them to simply disintegrate ghosts instantly, thereby eliminating the need to trap and store them in the Containment Unit. (Um, Egon? Are you actually saying that you created a device that can ‘kill’ a ghost?! Because I find that slightly terrifying.)

At this point, Slimer appears on the scene, allowing Ray to reveal that Egon hasn’t been the only one inventing a new toy. Ray’s invention was a computer module called the Banana 9000 (a possible homage to HAL 9000), which had been fitted with a voterizer synthetic speech library. With this computer, Ray announced it would be possible for Slimer to effectively communicate with them (because at this point in the show, Slimer’s language is little more than nonsensical babbling). All Slimer has to do is type something onto the keyboard, and the computer will offer up an English translation. Of course, it does appear that Ray’s translator isn’t quite finished, as the ‘translation’ suddenly shifts into requests for Ray to stop.

Unfortunately, Peter decides to be a bit of a jerk here, stating that he prefers to stick to his own way of communicating with Slimer, and proceeds to threaten to shoot him with his Proton Pack. This results in Slimer to freak out and begin zooming around the room, bouncing from wall to wall. In the process, Slimer ends up flying headlong into Egon’s Plasmic Strainer. Thankfully, the Plasmic Strainer wasn’t quite perfected yet, so Slimer didn’t get disintegrated. However, this does result in Slimer getting physically separated into a bunch of little Slimers, which proceed to wander about the room in a random pattern. In an attempt to round up the Little Slimers, Peter, Egon and Ray start to chase after them with butterfly nets. Which doesn’t strike me as a practical tool to use, considering Slimer is a ghost and can therefore pass through objects at will. Although it appears that things might be more complicated than one would expect. Because every time one of the Little Slimers hit a solid object, they split up even more. Before long, the number of Little Slimers has grown exponentially, with a large number of them heading out the window and flying out into the city.

Once the hundreds of Little Slimers have gotten loose, and Winston and Janine appear on the scene (I’m guessing they heard the commotion upstairs and came to investigate), Egon and Ray explains what just happened. It turns out that when Slimer passed through the Plasmic Strainer, he became molecularly dis-coordinated. In other words, he lost his surface tension, and whenever one of the little Slimers collides with a material object, the Little Slimer will shatter into even more Little Slimers. And if they don’t find a way to reverse this issue, then eventually the entire world will be covered by a thin layer of slime. Of course, things are already bad enough, as the millions of Little Slimers have already caused a number of car crashes on the streets below. As well as caused a lot of people to slip and slide about on the sidewalks. With one hapless woman sliding past who I’m pretty sure was supposed to be Larry, Moe and Curly (which was an incredibly random cameo).

As the issue with the Little Slimers running rampant gets bigger and bigger (or rather smaller and smaller, in this case), the Ghostbusters decide that it might be best to pay a visit to Mayor Lenny to inform him of what’s going on. Because it’s better for him to hear about this from them instead of from someone else, I guess. (But not before Peter tries to run away from the problem by booking a flight to anywhere but there, only to change his mind when he hears the only available flight at the moment is headed for France. I guess Peter has a thing against France.) When they get to Mayor Lenny’s office, Mayor Lenny is not very pleased, especially since it’s apparently an election year. Although, we do get a subtle nod to the events of the movie, as Mayor Lenny mentions the incident with the Terror Dogs and the ‘walking marshmallow.’ Needless to say, the mayor is aghast when Ray casually suggests waiting to resolve the issue until January, when all the slime would be frozen and easy to pick up. He demands that they resolve the issue now, giving them a 24 hour deadline.

After leaving Mayor Lenny’s office, Egon suggests there might be a solution. If they change the polystratisification on the Plasmic Strainer, they could reverse the polarity of the Little Slimers. Ray clarifies this statement by comparing it to magnets. If one of the Little Slimers were to pass through the altered Plasmic Strainer, all the other Little Slimers would be drawn to it, resulting in them reforming into one singular Slimer again. Of course, for this to work, they have to first catch a Little Slimer. A task that’s clearly easier said than done, as evidenced by the next scene of the Ghostbusters and Janine tripping over each other in a vain attempt at catching one of the Little Slimers. Why nobody thought to simply ask one of the Little Slimers to cooperate is beyond me. But in the end, it doesn’t really matter, as one Little Slimer just happens to decide to go back through the altered Plasmic Strainer on his own. When this Little Slimer emerges, we see he has turned from green to blue, which is clearly meant to indicate his polarity has been changed. Like Egon predicted, all the other Little Slimers begin to be drawn towards Blue Slimer, and the merging begins.

Of course, things aren’t wrapped up just like that, which the Ghostbusters learn when they head up to the roof of the Firehouse to get a better look at Slimer reforming. It turns out that, while all the Little Slimers were loose, they were all busy eating whatever they could find throughout the city. So when Blue Slimer has fully absorbed all of the Little Slimers, he’d grown to roughly the size of a two or three story house. And the unexpected excess has caused such a shock to Slimer’s system, it resulted in him turning evil. Fortunately, Egon knows of a way to rectify this. He proposes that controlled blasts from the Proton Streams should be enough to neutralize the excess slimic energy within Giant Blue Slimer and return him to Normal Slimer. But to put that plan into effect, they’ll need to pay another visit to Mayor Lenny, in order to ask him to loan them some helicopters.

Of course, Mayor Lenny is not pleased at the request for helicopters and is all set to throw the Ghostbusters out of his office. But he changes his tune pretty quickly when Giant Blue Slimer appears at his window and proceeds to abduct Janine. So, armed with the loaned helicopters (I’m guessing we’re supposed to have forgotten about the existence of the Ecto-2, considering we haven’t seen it since the first episode), the Ghostbusters track Giant Blue Slimer down to the top of the Empire State Building. Yes, that’s right, folks. We’re officially parodying King Kong at this point. They even have Giant Blue Slimer plummeting towards the streets below after being shot down.

Thankfully, the ordeal did indeed result in Slimer returning to normal. And, upon returning to the Firehouse, he proceeds to express his thanks with the aid of Ray’s Banana 9000 translator, which seems to be working now. The Ghostbusters then tell him that it’s good to have him back, with Peter commenting that one Slimer is more than enough. Which leads to Slimer hugging Peter. And on that note, the episode ends.

This really felt like a filler episode, especially since I really don’t know what else I could say about it. The only other thing that’s probably worth a mention is the running gag of them suggesting simply moving to Pittsburg in order to get away from actually rectifying the issue of the millions of Little Slimers. But that didn’t make a lot of sense, since it was established pretty early on that the problem wouldn’t exactly be contained within the city and it would eventually affect the entire world. Plus, what exactly was so appealing about Pittsburg to begin with? Unless you have a thing for bridges, I admit I don’t quite see the draw.

(Click here for more Ghostbusters reviews)

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cathierrr · 5 years

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How I Met Your Father

I am a mother that was not perfect. Many of my mistakes could have been avoided. Was I too young and immature to be a wife and mother? Did my parents and grandparents try to tell us? Sure they did! No one could convince me otherwise. I’m laying it right out here in the first paragraph. Absolutely flawed the first time around. Not flawed to the extent Todd was in danger or lacking for anything, including love. We were just too young to be married let alone have children. Todd was an only child until he was 14.

However, there’s no way in hell that I’m owning that my marriage or mothering skills lacked the second time around.

Contrary to the podcasts, I was an excellent wife and mother. All the gaslighting you throw at me will not change my feelings on this subject. My story is backed with public records through court documents, police reports, pictures, even a voice mail recording from 1986. Included in my story is a sister that has fabricated a lot of my story to my two younger children. Based on Cindy’s lies she’s also part of this story. I’m not skipping over her shortcomings either. So sis time to make another appointment with your Dr to up your Prozac. Please don’t forget the dentist too because you are going to be grinding your teeth again after this. There are no words worthy of my sister Cindy’s twisted mental contribution to this situation, but I’m sure going to try. A lot of witnesses have passed on, but fortunately many are still living. They have very sharp memories on the matter of what truly happened. Slander is a serious charge and provable in this story. Saving the best for last, I also have very detailed Journals dating from 1984 until 2010. I have condensed my earlier years in order to jump to the story of my final husband, Richard “Rick” Thomas Rockwood. What caused me to relive this drama is my daughter. Danica’s recent podcast (Adapt/Overcome, part 2) stating that she didn’t remember why her parents got divorced. In a way I blame myself because I didn’t want to bad mouth their father. I would love to forget most of it but I’m rehashing it because I feel it’s time to put the story out there. If I didn’t participate in this story I would hesitate to believe it was true. Unfortunately, it happened. I met Todd’s father, Mike the day after I graduated high school on June 6, 1972, my 18th birthday. When I went away to college that fall I was “in love”. I didn’t make it further than the first semester in Quincy, IL. All I wanted to do was get married and be a mother. We were married on January 26, 1974, I was 19. A week before our first anniversary we had Todd Joseph on January 19th, 1975. I was age 20.

Am I sorry for my shortcomings as Todd’s mother? Absolutely, I have expressed that to Todd many times in vain. I love Todd and always will regardless of how he feels about me. Todd has never been a warm or forgiving person towards me. I’m sure he’s nicer to others. I know he loves his siblings. Years later we’re driving to have a family portrait done. Todd’s home for a visit from the seminary where he had been for 5 years. Todd didn’t stop telling me his opinion of me as his mother until we arrived at the Palm Beach Catholic Church. He wanted to go to mass where the Kennedy’s went prior to the family portrait. Once we lit some candles and got back in the car, Todd continued his assessment of me. The family portrait would only have my three children in it. By the time we arrived my eyes were too red and swollen from crying. My shortcomings were that I married his father who he has less respect for than me, but he loves the rest of his fathers family so he overlooks his alcoholic, classless red neck father (his words many times). He was a victim of divorce (we spoiled him more because of it which didn’t help) and I smoked marijuana. He is right on all of my shortcomings. I was young and thought pot would be legal soon. I missed that projected date by about 40 years. In my defense I learned from it and never smoked around my younger children. Now it’s a mute point but I am owning my shortcomings. Todd has accused me of too many other things that never happened.

I always knew that following the teachings of the Bible would not be his final path. A month after the family portrait episode Todd calls me in tears. The seminary in Cheshire, CT is letting him go. Not exactly letting him go. He had some medical problems during his seminary stay and the church wanted Todd to start his work in a church.

They felt missionary work that Todd wanted would require things that might affect his health. He’d already almost died from gallbladder surgery and later back surgery. All of this by the time he was 21. I told him this was a sign from God to do something else. I offered my home at no cost (that changed 3 months before he left). He could go to college and start his life. He also mentioned that his step father showed him that money and power was the best way to make it. Today Todd is an international corporate attorney in London. He hates me and has nothing good to say about me. I’m fine with his feelings until I come across his blatant lies. It’s just my personal opinion, but is this really the expected behavior of a former priest?

October 25, 1985, Friday night Sandy Belcher and I had just left a great rock concert by Heart. It was at the West Palm Beach Auditorium (now known as The Jehovah Witness Center on the corner of North Congress Avenue and Palm Beach Lakes Blvd.). The auditorium was about a mile from my office. It was my favorite place for concerts not just because it was small and close. The building was circular and when there was nothing going on, you could drive up the ramp to the ticket window, purchase future tickets and drive away, no parking necessary. In the future Rick and I would see many concerts there including Eddy Murphy, Rodney Dangerfield. A little over a year later on December 27, 1986, we would take Todd to his first concert there with Cyndi Lauper. Rick and I had gotten engaged two days earlier on Christmas Eve.

Sandy bought the tickets for her and her boyfriend, Johnny Connelly. Johnny backed out at the last minute. Sandy didn’t want to go alone and I was almost done packing at home, so we went. We had front row seats!

After the concert, we hit Big Daddy’s, also just down the street on Okeechobee Blvd. Robin Gufstason and Amy Boehler were going to be there prior to our arrival and would have a table for us. Isn’t it funny how fate takes over? I would have stayed home and finished packing if Johnny had decided to go. In hindsight I kind of wished he had. There were good times too, especially my children. I hold onto those memories when reliving my story.

I remember walking into Big Daddy’s and getting a seat at Robin and Amy’s front row table. At the time, Sandy, Robin, Amy and I all worked together at the West Palm Beach Better Business Bureau. Robin and I were also roommates. I had moved to West Palm Beach a year earlier on April 1, 1984. I remembered the date well for 3 reasons. It was April Fool’s Day, also was my cousin Janine’s birthday. Janine’s brother Bruce was my age and my first encounter with a bully. Trust me when I say, never be around a bully on April Fool’s Day.

Robin’s boyfriend had just got transferred to Daytona which meant we could no longer share the the home we were renting in Palm Beach Gardens. I was moving in with Carmen Parish and her son, Adam on Sunday to Browning St. in West Palm Beach. After the band went on break, my roommate Robin goes outside with the band. Apparently Robin was not thrilled with her boyfriend whose name escapes me. Moving to Dayton was according to Robin “bumming her out” so a little payback with the drummer was her goal. Meanwhile, Amy mentions she has had her eye on one of the guys at the bar since he got there about an hour earlier. She could see he was finally staring at our table, she just knew he was going to ask her to dance after the band got off break. It seemed to me that the guy Amy had her hook for was already with a tall blonde. When I mentioned the blonde to Amy she said that wasn’t a deal breaker!? Amy and I didn’t share the same views at times. When the band break was over I noticed the tall blonde with the guy Amy was pumped up about was coming towards our table. She tells me her name is Lisa and she came over to our table because the guy she is with wanted to meet me. The guy is named Rick and is the brother of Lisa’s boyfriend David. Evidently Lisa and David had recently broke up and Rick took her out to cheer her up. By now Robin is back at our table and tells me to meet him. Knowing that Amy saw him first made me hesitate but Amy agreed I should. Rick came to our table and was very personable and handsome. I had recently broke off with my long term boyfriend and wasn’t looking for another. After dancing for an hour I told Rick I had to go since I had to work in the morning. Rick asked me on a date for the next night. His friend Mark and his girlfriend were having a Halloween party in Wellington. I’m big on Halloween so I accepted. He walked me to my car and I gave him my address. He told me he loved my car. I had just gotten a red VW bug and also loved it. It’s funny how much changes during a courtship. Later he will tell everyone that when he met me I was living out of boxes with a “piece of shit car”. I had no clue that night just how much my life would change. Until next time, Cathie

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