Talkin’ Turbo Teen w/ Trav | MaxFunDrive 2024

If there’s one thing we love here at the McElroy Family, it’s weird 80’s cartoons that are basically lost media.
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[@kimstheworst]

“I'm part car, part boy, boy-car, the protector and king of Chilladelphia!”

[@clangalang413]

Thank you Trav! My wish to fungalore is that you would maybe make some more of these.

[@jared_biz]

stream starts at 02:28

[@Milkex]

thanks a ton, champ!

[@risxra]

Thanks!

[@jussts]

You have to admire the An American Werewolf in London-style fascination with body horror in this children's show.

[@sharkofjoy]

There was so much more body horror than I imagined there would be

[@JenQuinn94]

I love how many of Trav’s bits are just infodumping on his latest interest. True ND king 👑💕

[@WhiteKnuckleRide512]

I just hate when he talks about being ND like it defines him. As someone who is legitimately ND myself, it’s incredibly embarrassing

[@ladyme1116]

A lesser show would have the main conflict of each episode center around maintaining this secret identity, but Turbo Teen just transforms without a care in the world amd no one ever reacts

[@MuppetRule34]

He is a true adhd king, our Lord of Trav Nation

[@scifibard]

Abnimals was one of my favorite MBMBAM bits for the pure nostalgia and this was a great mindtrip too, even though I have no memories of this wild show. I'm all for Travis' Hyperfixation Update to become a recurring feature of the McElroy family productions.

[@madeofline]

the animators must have been making exclusively tazmanian devil noises after their work week for approx 48 hours

[@MStonewallC]

for the amount of times I've heard about Turbo Teen in my life it is very surprising for me to learn that they only made 13 episodes of it

[@cwalker8578]

yall have NO idea how psyched i was to watch this, thank you travis, blessings upon all of travnation

[@Anna-hb4uy]

Travis they play the entire sailor moon transformation every time, of course they’re gonna show the car-ass-morph-physics every time on this show

[@savagelucy421]

Now I wish I had been in the chat because I was born in 1983 and I definitely watched Turbo Teen on Cartoon Network. The reason is because of DIC! DIC made so many cartoons that they oversold the Saturday Morning timeslot on every channel. They made so many cartoons that the market for them collapsed so in the 90s (When me and the McElboys were kids) Cartoon Network aired Turbo Teen along with a ton of other shows that people born in the 80s really shouldn't remember - Thundar the Barbarian, The Centurions, stuff like that.

[@charmurorayznable]

Ruby Spears made this show, and the others you mentioned, not DIC. DIC made stuff for syndication, so a couple of their shows might have wound up on CN until the rights were bought by Disney. DIC was responsible for the localized version of Sailor Moon on CN in the 90s.

[@bowflexmax]

that was very calming to watch. thanks trav :)

[@aryst0krat]

I think the closest we're going to get to a turbo-teen transformation in our modern era of cowardice is the light cycle dive from Tron: Legacy

[@aquietkerfuffle7343]

The time spent on the transition is a lot like the time spent on the sailor moon transition and special moves 😭

[@chriswest6988]

Is "best friend/mechanic" a euphemism? If not, can we make it one?

[@eldritchzora]

This was one of the funniest things I've ever seen! And also educational! Thanks, Travis!!

[@missaeon]

USA Cartoon Express! As soon as he wondered about it, I knew it had to be that. I’m around the same age and I remember it was a grab bag of HB and R-S factory seconds

[@Scarybug]

Yep same! USA Cartoon Express was like Cartoon Network before Cartoon Network. (Specifically Old CN before they had the money to make their own shows and just showed old Hannah Barbara and MGM stuff)

[@savagelucy421]

How in the heck did Turbo Teen have only 13 episodes but such a cultural impact??

[@sweatergoof3200]

nobody understands my niche obscure old cartoon obsessions like u trav, bless

[@themadwriter]

I was today years old when I found out Boycar wasn't something Griffin made up for the TV show. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Proteovaldez]

I feel those of us who love the infordumps you’d appreciate knowing this helped me stay focused as I had to transfer pharmacies. Honestly could not have done so without Turbo Teen.

[@fnord3125]

Trav should have done a collab with Stuart from The Flop House. we need “Tuboy Talkin’ Turbo Teen Tube with Trav Tonight, That’s Right“

[@whoopswrongbutton3987]

This has been very educational.

[@alpha5099]

When he takes off his glass at 09:28, Travis looks so much like Clint!

[@frankieslittlediary]

this video made me pledge allegiance to trav nation

[@JasonLihani]

I think I walked into the wrong classroom.

[@jefferybushnik3057]

Sent my girlfriend a picture of the screen towards the end and said "This is what ADHD looks like." 🤣

[@zachodellisking]

God this is chill. Thanks for this man

[@leighadawn6783]

No. Trav. 😱 I was today years old when I found out that Turbo Teen is a real animated series and not just something y’all came up with on the fly, like a brotherly mass hysteria. It’s REAL?! WILD. wild. Who was in charge of this? I have so MANY QUESTIONS! Who wrote this?? I just want to know whose brain child this was.

[@Milkex]

aw hell yeah

[@michaellombardi1620]

Turbo teen does not get enough love

[@Scarybug]

I'm a few months older than Justin and I remember watching this show on USA Cartoon Express. They didn't need 100 episodes to syndicate it, they just syndicated a bunch of random Ruby Spears and Hannah Barbara Saturday morning cartoons and showed whatever they had randomly for a few hours in an afterschool programming block. This was before Nickelodeon had their own cartoons, Disney was still a premium cable channel, and Cartoon Network wasn't even a glint in Ted Turner's eye (Though USA Cartoon Express can maybe seen as a precursor to Cartoon Network)

[@ehname1]

I started watching this as background entertainment and got way too invested

[@leighadawn6783]

21:35 OMG it was KIRBY 😱🤯 this is my own person like “Who TF Did I Marry?” unspooling with cameos from folks I didn’t see showing up to this party.

[@colonelstunts4885]

why does youtube never notify meeeee

[@colonelstunts4885]

15:31 counter: every magical girl transformation. but the fact that his body gets stretched like silly putty definitely sets this apart.

[@Slibbo]

Maybe the Real boy car is the friends we made along the way

[@sysnootles5039]

it's a metaphor for puberty

[@eljn0323]

he's 17

[@rwh19921]

Three thoughts no mention how he skipped out on paying hair salon? Second who else thought please no when he mentioned showing merch. Alot better than i thought it would be i was expecting full body horror merch bot go bots with a boys head. And finally no mention of the boy having junk in his trunk?

[@JenQuinn94]

WOOF WOOF

[@ashleyboots3386]

Amazing deep dive! 😄 But just a small suggestion - you may want a second pop filter on your mic, these autistic ears could hear a lot of percussive plosives while watching this with headphones on 😅

[@FUSIONJAZZMAN420]

Why would Travis stream at 8am on a Wednesday?!

[@emmayoung2089]

He didn’t. He streamed at 11 am on a Wednesday. EST

[@LavaHotMan]

It's the DayQuill.

[@8BitsOfFun1323]

Timezones exist

[@FUSIONJAZZMAN420]

@@8BitsOfFun1323 Cool comment!

[@FUSIONJAZZMAN420]

@@emmayoung2089 Still ridiculously early.