My Retro-Cartoon Ramblings, Part 7
STILL MORE ANIMALS!
As a kid who was gettin' up to watch Beast Wars, I got used to getting a dose of the weirdest attempt to sell plastic mecha-cat model kits in human history, repackaged into a work of comedic redubbing art.
I may be overselling it a little, but Samurai Pizza Cats does not give two whits about the original its based on and focuses on being funny, being essentially a series-long What's Up Tiger Lilly with animal-robot-samurai restaurateurs.
The whole thing feels like someone watched another, real show, and was a huge fan of it, and then told someone else all about it over a weekend, and that person went on to make this approximation of that description.
Of all the cartoons I've been accused of having dreamed, this is the one I had pegged. "this cat gets down-down with a mild hangover?"
This isn't a real show.
This is very clearly a fox, but we believed he was a rat! By gawd! The calls are coming from inside the mouse!
Originally requested by @siphersaysstuff, here's the Get-Along-Gang.
See, in the world of battle animals, there's bound to be some narcs. And those narcs are these representatives of the saccharine council.
Going wholly on memory on this, I do not owe these things journalistic integrity. A greeting card company spawned a licensing empire around anodyne vaguely-anthro animal children who learn wholesomely in very easily parodied ways.
What? I just described the Shirt Tales? What?!?
If I had a nickel for every time that happened... well, you know the rest of the meme. I remember these from childhood. They were just not-playing-outside-in-Oklahoma-heat-good enough, but either I was too old or they were to treacle-y.
I recall being rather easily entertained by the Snorks, however, so I wouldn't give either set of overly pro-social anthro-creeps the benefit of the doubt.
I do vaguely remember that an arcade machine tried to eat the Shirt Tales... or was it the Get-Along-Gang? Gah!
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Oh so there was a recent SPC pop-up shop and there’s acrylic stands of almost the entire cast?
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