Cartoon Catastrophes - M-U-S-H

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

Apparently, Uncle Crock's Block was self-aware how terrible it was.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Well, the live action segments were anyways, which honestly, were the best part of the show.

[@CarrieBradshawSATC]

These days, it's Family Guy we have as a show that is self aware of how terrible it is.

[@thomaslumpkin7021]

The way this cartoon performed, it's any wonder that Uncle Crocs block was a ratings disaster on ABC. Also, in real life Charles Nelson Reilly Jonathan Harris didn't exactly get along and Reilly actually hated the show in real life.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

I saw this for the first time yesterday and I have to confess, I was pretty amused although I have never actually seen M*A*S*H*. Sure, it's a little ruff (ahaha) around the edges (it IS Filmation) but the drawing style, tongue-in-cheek writing and voices (the male-as-female voices I just found funnier) made up for it for me. Scheimer himself said you weren't supposed to laugh with it but at it and I actually feel it's the strongest of the 3 cartoon segments on the show, but I'd have to see more to be certain. The two 'baddies' and General Upheaval (genius naming) were my favourites. I found Bullseye's ahaha voice gets ahahahya know - kinda - ahahaha annoying after a while though. I'd be curious to see where you got clear copies of this. The only one I could find was on KZbin and had Finnish subtitles. Also I'm pretty certain Frigid Barstool's name is a pun on Bridget Bardot. There was another that had Bob Soap (Bob Hope - obviously) and Darlena Metric (Marlene Deitrich - cleverer). Props for the Top Cat clip ;) - Overall, Bilko as cats is a lot better than M*A*S*H as dogs.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Thanks for the write up, while I may have hated the show, it is cool to see that it has it's fans. Also thank you for being polite about it, too many people get hateful when they disagree with me, so thanks for that again. As for where I got the footage... the sad thing is, I honestly don't remember. I tend to explore a lot of rather questionable areas of the internet in search for stuff and it tends to be on my hard drive for a long time before I review it. So I rarely remember where I get my stuff. Sorry.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios Whenever people enjoy something I can't stand I think to myself 'oh well, that's great - I guess it's me that's missing out!' just as much as vice verca. People are indeed too quick to label someone a 'hater' simply for not being into the same thing. The internet can be a very black and white place, opinions-wise unfortunately. Thanks for the polite response.

[@janebyrne6463]

I seem to remember one segment with box Mohammed Gollee (an obvious riff on Muhammad Ali). It still wasn't that funny.

[@jehobden]

6:46 I can tell Robert Ridgely voiced Trooper John. He pretty much used the same voice to play the UNCLE CROC'S BLOCK character Steve Exhaustion (The $6.95 Man): kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaOvp42JrrCpfJI

[@Rgoid]

12:51 Frigid Barstool. 12:57 Frigid Barstool. 13:00 Frigid Barstool. 13:03 Frigid Barstool. 13:05 Frigid Barstool.

[@CarrieBradshawSATC]

Gidget.

[@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981]

6:58 He also said this and broke the forth wall. addressed me that 70s cartoons omitted violence. Including slapsticks (ala T&J and LT/MM).

[@CartoonTriper]

8:12 is like it predate to the public of every recent Nickelodeon Sitcom, who laugh at anything

[@DaWalk]

This wasn't among the cartoons I watched growing up, but I can see I wasn't missing much.

[@marcacosta7594]

Even as a kid, I knew this was MASH the cartoon. Think as a kid, I just thought the voices were funny sounding. Use to love Fraidy Cat, Wacky and Packy, and Waldo Kitty. Filmations Jerry Lewis cartoon was pretty bad too.

[@mikekomarinski]

Kenneth Mars is also the voice of Grandpa Longneck in The Land Before Time sequels.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

He just happened to be in an episode of Colombo I was watching yesterday.

[@Drixenol86]

Why make a kid-friendly version of M*A*S*H?

[@Rgoid]

Why not?

[@Xiaolin-Loonatic]

Glad to wake up to a Cartoon Catastrophes. Also, love the title card; you make a good Solid Snake.

[@janebyrne6463]

It would be a parody of M * A * S *H, if it wasn't lacking in the two things that make up any good parody, intelligence and humor. It didn't help that Uncle Crock's Block was opposite the second half of The Shazam-Isis Hour (also from Filmation) and Far Out Space Nuts (Sid & Marty Krofft), both on CBS.

[@ZakWolf]

Robert Ridgely was also in many Murakami-Wolf-Swenson productions in the 1970s and 1980s.

[@sajamor0811]

Essential viewing for any children's writer with doubts about themselves - they'd surely be able to do better than this!

[@yournamehere6002]

I was a kid then, and I loved UNCLE CROC'S BLOCK and all the cartoons and remember it to this day with fondness

[@ndragonzgaming1]

This plus Frady cat, Cat Man, and Cat Trek was paired off with the Groovy Goulies in syndication in the late 70's

[@mikekomarinski]

M.A.S.H but with dogs.

[@Roughecho]

I actually really liked this show when I was a kid. But I did prefer the Far Out Space Nuts

[@sajamor0811]

Uncle Croc's Block could actually have been great in the right hands - and very possibly British ones. Kids loved the child hating Grotbags on Emu's World in the 80s and the anarchic humour of people like Rik Mayall and Tony Robinson. If you'd put them together it would have been outrageous satire at its best!

[@janebyrne6463]

Having watched Krofft shows like "H. R. Pufenstuf" and "Lidsville", this show could have been a fun, trippy, show by the Krofft Brothers. Also, by the end of Uncle Croc's run, the people behind the show planned to use retooled segments of "The Groovie Ghoulies" on the show (retitled "The Super Fiends" after rival Hanna Barbera's "The Super Friends") but the show left the air (in February 1976) before that could happen. Ironically, after "Uncle Croc's" cancellation, the time slot was occupied by "Groovie Ghoulies" reruns until the '76 Fall season started.

[@thema1998]

How were you able to find this show?! It's *very* obscure! 👀

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

You can find almost anything on the internet if you search hard enough.

[@ShiftaelV2]

If you were the one who drew him, I like the way you drew the Major, he's one of the saving graces of it (IMO) :)

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

I did indeed draw that. Thanks.

[@ShiftaelV2]

You're welcome, 'cuz I actually like the Major, he's the only thing in the show worth watching, IMO hahaha. I'd rather be wanting to strangle the female character or the one with the ring around his eye, instead, but that's just me, heheh. :D

[@janebyrne6463]

@@ShiftaelV2 Per "Major Mynah (minor)", as a rule (unless it's a Marx Brothers film, a Mel Brooks comedy or a Jay Ward cartoon) punny names aren't really that funny.

[@redgreenproductions6158]

6:55-7:02 I would agree too, they would like violence in cartoons.

[@oskarelyz]

I like how pemmy was solid snake!

[@manuelvasconcelos8982]

you should review disney's forgotten cartoon(and for good reason) named bonkers in your next "cartoon catastrophes" episode, i mean this show must be so bad it made everyone watching it "BONKERS"

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

It's not really bad... like at all. Not perfect, but certainly not bad.

[@manuelvasconcelos8982]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios ok if you say so

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

@@manuelvasconcelos8982 Have you ever seen it?

[@manuelvasconcelos8982]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios i heard about it in cosmodore's video

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

​@@manuelvasconcelos8982 I had a feeling of that... it's generally considered rude for someone to review the same show right after another youtuber does it, and seeing as I've seen Cosmodore's video being advertised everywhere, it would make me look bad to review it so soon. And I asked a few of my friends who've seen the show recently, and they agree with me that it's hardly a bad show. Above averaget at the worst. Hell, some of them were quite fond of the show.

[@jacobturner3059]

They reran this along with _Fraidy Cat_ and _Wacky and Packy_ in their _Groovie Ghoulies_ show.

[@benjaminlannstrom8312]

Startrek has a lioness girl?.... ima download it rn!

[@erainmartinez8175]

Hell yeah it is 19:40!

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Eh I feel you are needlessly angry at this show. Check WHEN it was made. Then compare to other shows at the time. This was actually trying to be funny.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

I actually do that though. I directly talk about that at the end. It's bad compared to other shows made in 1975, including ones made by the same company and it's competitors.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios They you clearly have not seen The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, or MOTU for example... This show barely reuses scenes as much as those did.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

@@SwiftNimblefoot I have and you obviously aren't putting into the equation that both those shows had more episodes than M-U-S-H an ran at a longer timeframe than M-U-S-H, so the additional time and cost of Flash Gordon and MOTU having to reuse more frames of animation would make logical sense. The fact that the M-U-S-H episodes are so short and repeat as much animation as they do, make them worse in comparison.

[@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981]

13:26 That chin is MASSIVE!

[@lsmftymf]

4:06-4:10 Character on the right reminds me of San Francisco's Doggie Diner. So what did you expect from those Filmation loonies Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott and Carroll...er...Dick Rosenbloom?

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

I dunno, this one is even bad for them.

[@lsmftymf]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios Just remembered something. Bullseye and Trooper Yoe were obvious spoofs of Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, but ended up looking like the canine Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

@@lsmftymf Well, if they made them look like Hawkeye and Trapper it would've been too on the nose and would've most likely resulted in a lawsuit.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

I've seen this comment elsewhere.

[@mickeypadilla1752]

M.US.H. more like P.O.S 😂

[@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981]

8:16 Spoilers! The So called "audiences" are pre-recorded and robotic.

[@riderbuzz2606]

great vid

[@thet00nedl00n]

Dumb question, but how did you find the episodes? Only ones I could find were some low quality ones with Finnish subtitles.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Unfortunately I don't remember. I found them somewhere on the internet like 6 or 8 years ago. So even if I remembered, I doubt they'd still be available. Sorry.

[@thet00nedl00n]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios It’s okay. I can understand that.

[@thet00nedl00n]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios Also, you should review Wacky and Packy and the rest of the Fraidy Cat episodes in a part 2. Trust me, They’re actually kinda worse than the 3 you reviewed. Here’s a link to the rest of the episodes: kzbin.info/aero/PLpZSPLUT67oXIgU61u2RPD-igyNKDlkzF

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Wacky and Packy is a definite possibility at some point (did do commentary over a couple episodes). As for revisiting Fraidy Cat, I'm afraid not. Sorry, there's too many other shows I want to do. Though maybe I can do commentary over some of the remaining episodes.

[@thet00nedl00n]

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios Understandable. There’s a lot of potential with a Commentary. Do you post the commentaries on KZbin or another site?

[@DanJChase]

I heard Cajun pasta lol i agree if your going to have a female character in the show you should cast a female Just be thankful They have been remade this show also big fan of mash I'm just offendedhas a fan of the show

[@williamcrowe2576]

I'd rather binge watch After M*A*S*H than M*U*S*H. In fact, I'd rather marathon Trapper John MD.

[@mikekomarinski]

Fidget Presto?🙄

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Frigid Barstool (Bridget Bardot)

[@CarrieBradshawSATC]

Thought they called her Gidget?

[@metalboo8491]

12:57 - "Cajun Barstool?"

[@Emily-Whitfield]

Uncle Crocs Block was terrible! Never got into it!!!

[@stupidragerantroastoftakes2981]

10:45 That Penguin was me. I was the Peng all along. Holding Speech sign that said "I regret watching this cartoon." fallow by "let alone the 70s".

[@DeeTimmyfan]

Actually, I liked this show when I was a kid. And even today, I still think it's OK. ANYTHING is better than this anime crap everyone else seems to like today.

[@BBHood217]

Messy Unwanted Show from Hell

[@mikekomarinski]

Just like the laugh tracks in unfunny Disney sitcoms.😒