ToonHeads - The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever (Unaired 2003 Cartoon Network Special)

ToonHeads - The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever.
A special centered around the worst Hanna Barbera, Ruby Spears, and Filmation cartoons ever made. Features clips from the various Scooby-Doo Knockoffs, failed 70's H-B cartoon series, and the Filmation Tom and Jerry series. It also features the full episode of "Disco Droopy" as ToonHeads top pick of "The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever".
It was supposed to air in Mid 2003 but got cancelled due to the Cartoon Network Executives being uncomfortable with a show poking fun at H-B cartoons.
Note this is a post production version of the episode "The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever" before it was cancelled and never aired on Cartoon Network
Written by: Jerry Beck and George A. Klein
Produced by: George A. Klein
Narrated by: George A. Klein (Scratch Track)
Runtime: 40:00
Special shout out to Animation Historian Jerry Beck for letting me transfer these two episodes on a media loan and for preserving these tapes all these years.
Also a Special Thanks to George A. Klein for giving a bit of information on these two unaired ToonHeads Episodes
These ToonHeads uploads are part of a project to find all the missing ToonHeads episodes not available to the fans of the show.
What is ToonHeads you may be asking. ToonHeads is an American animation anthology series consisting of Hanna-Barbera, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., and Popeye cartoon shorts, with background information and trivia, prominently about animators and voice actors of the shorts
Over the past few weeks we've been able to find many of these missing episodes but need your help to complete this preservation project. We are missing most of the episodes from Season 1 and Season 2 and need help locating them.
If anyone recorded Cartoon Network from October 1992 to December 1996 and happens to have these missing ToonHeads episodes please contact me and we can get them transferred and preserved.
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[@robbridges5020]

Frank Welker has got to be the most overworked and underappreciated voice actor ever.

[@joeybaseball7352]

The dude is a freaking multi-millionaire, living in Calabasas, where the cheapest 1 bedroom house $1.2 million.

[@Shido19]

Based

[@OdaSwifteye]

@@joeybaseball7352 So what you're telling me is that his hard work paid off financially? That's nice. That wasn't really his point though. In terms of appreciation a lot of Frank Welker's work goes unnoticed and forgotten.

[@joeybaseball7352]

@@OdaSwifteye Living in a mansion is proof that your work does not go unnoticed.

[@BombermanGold]

@@joeybaseball7352 I think what Oda and others mean is that, yeah, he's well off and everything he does pays off, but there's no public adoration compared to live-action television and film stars. Being a professional voice actor through the years to get that kind of dough is one thing, but think of how many get the same level of acclaim for the amount of work they put in compared to someone like say, Danial Day Lewis?

[@pegasusactua2985]

This feels exactly like a modern day video essay some youtuber would make but it was intended for cartoon network in 2003. Talk about ahead of your time.

[@angah82]

I think a lot of it has to do with the narrator used for the scratch track. He sounds like your run-of-the-mill cartoon community KZbinr.

[@willissudweeks1050]

Or it’s that modern day KZbinrs are just doing what others have already been doing. You think KZbinrs made up this style but this old video happens to have it? That’s dumb.

[@willissudweeks1050]

@@angah82 No the run of the mill “cartoon community” KZbinr is doing what is being done in this.

[@hiddenflare6169]

@@willissudweeks1050 So basically, the youtube community was just inspired by it?

[@angah82]

@@willissudweeks1050 It's a retroactive comparison. I didn't want to sound pedantic.

[@HyperSonicXtreme]

Even as a kid, I knew Hanna-Barbera was ripping off its own cartoons.

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

I don't think they had much of a choice, honestly

[@anicetorodriguez8862]

@@Shadamyfan-rs8xc Hanna barbera got lazy and resorted to rehashing it’s own material

[@BlazeMaster]

Well animating was extremely more expensive than it is now.

[@frankdenardo8684]

@@BlazeMaster That is why you don't see Saturday Morning cartoons anymore.

[@GarudaBoy]

@@anicetorodriguez8862 wasn’t that they got lazy. They had to make what the networks wanted to buy, and generally they were underfunded and understaffed compared to how many shows they had in production.

[@PaulSebert]

Zoomer: Oh man this one episode of Teen Titans Go is like the worst thing ever. Gen Xer: You know nothing of nightmares child...

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Exactly

[@ricardomiles2957]

Honestly anyone who still think TTGO is "bad" probably never who watched or still thinks that it's somehow a continuation from the old show

[@megamix5403]

I think us millennials have a say in that as well. I'd rather watch some Scooby-Doo rip-off over a show that's a empty hollow shell of it's former self.

[@megamix5403]

@@ricardomiles2957 Eh, the movie was alright-ish. Barely. The rest of the series still sucks though.

[@EWisAmazing]

If animation was cheaper and all digital cartoons like these wouldn’t exist in the same capacity

[@plicky6016]

that car transformation animation was the scariest thing i've ever seen that's definitely a fetish thing for someone

[@cindydott452]

Brundlecar! Seriously though. If that was from a secret government experiment he literally crashed, do you think they would let him leave alive?

[@josephdurandproductions]

Oh it is, I found the episode of My Strange Addiction that I can’t unsee : kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zmeld6aHlJdredE

[@pearmainstudios3942]

Yup

[@pearmainstudios3942]

Then he was chained up. Wtf

[@FormIsContent]

It's super similar to the transformation scene in American Werewolf in London, a movie that came out just a few years earlier.

[@jowski808]

10:42 The kid turning into the car is very cursed.

[@JC20XX]

I've seen it parodied a few times and never knew the source.

[@HyperSonicXtreme]

Watch the dark Robot chicken version.

[@ronaldbrush4373]

Turbo Teen!

[@connor48880]

WHY IS THRILLER AT 10:27???!?

[@leprechaunfarmer4081]

Teen Titans Go did a spoof on it

[@VelSparko]

31:05 "If Casper wasn't already dead, this series would have killed him for sure." Wow, that's savage. If the cartoon didn't kill him then that remark definitely would have.

[@roberthaworth8991]

FUN FACT: Per the 1995 film, Casper died as a boy of about 8 at Christmastime, when his father gave him a long-coveted sled. He played outside with it all day in super-cold weather, contracted pneumonia, and soon passed away.

[@HyperSonicXtreme]

His soul wouldn’t be wandering around in haunted houses or anywhere else. He would be in heaven.

[@jacobaobert]

more like "the worst cartoons we have the rights to show"

[@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheEvolver311]

Not mutually exclusive

[@seanjenkins4459]

Kind of goes without saying back then

[@clayzulah]

You're not wrong but if I was tasked with finding the worst cartoons ever, the Hanna-Barbera archives is probably where I'd start

[@daldladla]

@@clayzulah nailed it

[@joanhill4666]

Seems to me that 2022 is a GREAT year for finding lost media! 😊

[@GreenPhoenix91]

I hope the pilot to doozy bots gets released.

[@CoolBeanSoup]

Indeed! So many lost media has been found and uploaded for the world to see. 🙂

[@Lengineer360]

Also a bad year for Warner bros

[@elmarakovideo]

@@Lengineer360 A great year if you don't want Woke crap like Batman: Caped Crusader!

[@RootVegetabIe]

@@elmarakovideo You don't have an original thought in your head. All you do is regurgitate nonsense. Just pathetic.

[@BiggerJohnTheSnorlaxGod]

I feel like Rickety Rocket got pulled for a VERY specific reason. 😂😂😂

[@areguapiri]

It was obviously created by white people.

[@crazydog4626]

what is it?

[@malleuscalgary]

racism?

[@christopherknowles]

Sheeeit

[@sajamor0811]

I can't understand how it got to air with such caricatured looking characters and a brown, big lipped vehicle to match. A shame as the characters themselves were far less of a Scooby knock off than gangs in other cartoons. They'd much more personality and originality with the honourable exception being the Harlem Globetrotters - HB were ahead of their time creating an African American cartoon that made no mention or offensive depiction of race!

[@Morgil27]

I'll admit, I let out a deep, hearty laugh when George Washington said he got stoned.

[@tranzco1173]

Get Lost Creep

[@thomasmittelwerk410]

Considering that many cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera were featured on that special, and considering that Cartoon Network was in part built from the ashes of Hanna-Barbera, it becomes clear why this special was never aired: Hanna-Barbera looked at themselves in the mirror, and they didn't like what they saw.

[@itsjayden8002]

Later Cartoon Network shows would poke fun at Hanna-Barbera, so that’s kind of a silly reason.

[@thomasmittelwerk410]

@@itsjayden8002 Well yeah, but I think whoever made that special flew too close to the sun this time

[@119ca]

@@thomasmittelwerk410yeah! It’s like the “Media-Opoly” skit on SNL making fun of the fact, General Electric owned NBC, therefore NBC at the time (they don’t anymore), and how they can get them to not talk about certain things that General Electric does that isn’t exactly “good for press” and it was only aired once but cut from reairings and streaming. The only way is from to really watch it is on KZbin or if you had one of the “funhouse TV” dvd It’s crazy it was aired ever!!!

[@119ca]

The guy who created the cartoon segment (Robert Smigel, who is known for being Triumph The insult comic dog) talked about it recently on Instagram. According to him, to their credit they had a lot of willingness to not censor the bit, BUT had went through a lot of standards and practices and even beyond to some of higher ups! For example, he was requested by them to add “voices in my head line” so the narrator just seems crazy. They even pushed it as one of the later skits of that night to time it when the president of NBC usually goes to sleep. But he happened to come home late that night… He found out, and was furious!

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

To give Pac-Man credit, its success did lead to the creation of the side-scrolling platform game, Pac-Land. Fun fact: This was a game that inspired Shigeru Miyamoto when creating Super Mario Bros.

[@MegaMet98]

Without this the pets introduced in the cartoon, Chomp-Chomp and Sourpass wouldn't appear in start showing up in games like Pac-Man World. This was the first cartoon to be based on a video game, made after HB got out of those budget cuts of the 70's.

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

@@MegaMet98 As well as introducing elements such as power pellet trees, which were later seen in Pac-Man 2 and Mario Kart Arcade GP.

[@MegaMet98]

Speaking of Mario Kart Arcade GP, its sequel sampled the stage clear theme from Pac-Land (the one based off the jingle used in the cartoon) for the tracks in Pac-Man Cup and it had stage representation in Super Smash Bros. I think the excutives were somehow in the right regrading the special that poked some fun on HB.

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@SoshiTheYoshi I'm not sure how Pac-Land inspired SMB1, but I guess the blue sky has to account for something. And while the TV series "made virtually no sense", Pac-Man wouldn't be the same if Yoshihiro Kishimoto didn't attempt to adapt the TV Series back to the Game series, to make Pac-Man more than just a cynical glutton stereotype that he did become in Ghostly Adventures; and yes, I know I keep harping on it, but sometimes you gotta think to your self: if the only games at the time were Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr., Professor Pac-Man, and Super Pac-Man, how do you adapt the Game Series into a Cartoon? The Answer: Make Pac-Man into a family man because of the Ms. Pac-Man Cutscenes, and place all these characters into a world that expands on the ideas of games. I remember that in "Pac Van Winkle", Pac-Man dreams of a future where Mezmeron took control of Pac-Land after Pac-Man was nowhere to be found. What caught my interest in the episode is what affected the Power Pellets. Without proper care, and that Mezmeron had control of the forest, the Power Pellets ended up being stale, and unable to grant "Pac Power". Whoever wrote that episode must've had time on his/her hands to see how long the effects of the Power Pellets last in each level, as the power starts to wane the further you go. I love that episode for that reason, it goes to show that adapting unfamiliar mechanics into a cartoon plotline could make for an interesting concept. And it's a Mechanic that not even Ghostly Adventures would tackle (as far as I know). Anyways, I'm happy to hear that Marty Ingels' favorite character to voice is Pac-Man, I wouldn't want it any other way.

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

@@robbiewalker2831 Miyamoto claims it was Pac-Land's colorful background that inspired him

[@noir66146]

toonheads was such a chill show. back in the the late 90's and early 2000's they'd show the series at 9PM... it was the perfect night time viewing before bed.

[@SodorRailwaysProductions]

Take a shot every time he says "But it was cancelled after 13 episodes"

[@Ability-King-KK]

I enjoy having a liver, thank you very much.

[@WillShakes423]

I don't want the alcohol poisoning.

[@DJMelloEll]

Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure 13 episodes was equivalent to a whole season, hence “The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo”.

[@marvinjones4415]

13 to 16 episodes a season was the usual. Most Saturday morning shows didn't make it to a second season.

[@haileyshannon7548]

Most animated shows, that aired on Saturday morning aired once a week, so that's 13 weeks worth of episodes and than reruns until the next season started.

[@HeilRay]

40:54 "Althought Disco Dog gets our vote for worst cartoon ever, it proves that something good could come from something so bad. " *Pans to background waifus* 🤣 "It was in this cartoon that Jon K the creator of Ren and Stimpy got one of his 1st breaks in animation." How can something not age well, but at the same time aged like a fine wine??

[@MegaMet98]

We're all lucky the special didn't make it to air.

[@rabiroden]

This was also the year Adult Party Cartoon started. 🙂

[@Glitch-Gremlin]

Well, his art has to be divorced from his personal life.

[@dustinprewitt]

jOhN k BaD mAn :( :( :(

[@BrinIoca]

@@dustinprewitt just because you type it like that doesn’t make it untrue.

[@splatstick]

if this had been completed, casey kasem would've been a great choice for the narrator. he had a very distinctive voice and he played shaggy. hearing him rip on all these scooby doo ripoffs would've been great

[@AMVpurgatory]

I miss the age of shows like ToonHeads, back when Cartoon Network seemed to actually like and respect cartoons instead of just splitting itself into "cartoons are just something stupid for kids" during the day and "something raunchy for adults" in the evening.

[@sugarblunt]

Cartoon Network cartoons aren’t all stupid. You’re being incredibly judgmental and single minded about a network with tons of different shows. Also, just because something isn’t a super serious learning experience doesn’t mean it’s disrespectful or stupid. things don’t have to be super advanced for them to get respect. Just because a show is for babies and covers basic stuff that doesn’t mean it’s stupid. Maybe the problem is you as an adult watching a child show and expecting it to have a thesis? kids are ignorant and naiive, but that doesn’t mean they are stupid. Metalocalypse was amazing, steven universe, adventure time, harvey birdman which was literally a Hanna-Barbera tribute cartoon. Space ghost Coast to Coast. I could go on and on just because there’s an uncle grandpa in the pile doesn’t mean that everything else in the pile is uncle grandpa.

[@notcardlinsytaccount1355]

@@sugarblunt >Cartoon Network cartoons aren’t all stupid Yes they are.

[@klaatuNaatu]

@@notcardlinsytaccount1355 No, every once in a while they strike gold. You're welcome to keep your preconceived notions though!

[@mongoose1billion]

Might Man and Yukk seems like the type of show that could've very easily been made into a low budget Adult Swim parody, ala Harvey Birdman or Sealab. It's just got that vibe to it.

[@scottjeune154]

Just rewatched Mighty Man n Yukk recently. It. Is. Hilarious. From a dilletante superhero whose boopboopadoo is his rallying cry, to villains right outta Robot Chicken, I think it was parody from the jump

[@CeeJayThe13th]

Yeah it's got that same energy. And like Scott says, it kinda feels like it's meant to be a parody from the jump. I bet if you could get the right people talking and they actually remembered, they were going for a joke on the whole genre but executives would only let them get away with so much.

[@queencancerous5332]

I can see it being revived as a weird Adult Swim show, the premise is certainly out there

[@kevinwood5317]

I remember as a young kid stumbling upon this show, and puzzling over "just how horrific must Yuk's face be to cause these reactions?" I imagined it looking like some kind of severely damaged mess, like he'd survived a terrible accident.

[@kenlieck7756]

That's the thing about this stuff, it's all like a big pile of chaos spat out from a demented corporate ass-brain...

[@elc1960]

Paul Winchell was a legendary cartoon voice actor, but even he didn't give two ass squirts about Goober & the Ghost Chasers...the voice he gave Goober was nothing but an imitation of Daws Butler's Snagglepuss.

[@MicBain]

As an illustrator who occasionally does some animation I can definitely say that dog house head on Yukk would have been much harder to animate than his regular head.. plus you *can* still see his mouth move!

[@cr3ative_name]

To be honest, JokeBook doesn't actually look that bad. The jokes aren't the greatest, sure, but the animation is REALLY nice and fluid for 70s Hanna-Barbera.

[@Tinyironfist]

It's from the early 1980s.

[@natethefighter]

Agreed - love the animation, it does a great job selling jokes that would otherwise fall flat

Honestly surprised JokeBook was added here after seeing it for myself. It's really dry, but it's not as bad as it seems to be considered one of the worst cartoons ever

[@Tinyironfist]

@ I guess the title The Best of the Mediocre Cartoons didn't have the same ring to it.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

New Adventures of Huck Finn also looked better than it got credit for here. Definitely ahead of its time.

[@redwaytoo]

Wow, I'm actually really interested in what was considered historically the worst in the field of animation, to my best knowledge it was like Sam Singer or Czechoslovakian Tom & Jerry

[@hydra7427]

Much like bad movies, the worst of the worst isn't actually entertaining to watch. It's unprofessional, it's got bad sound and art design, and worst of all it is just boring. So the actual "worst of the worst" is forgotten, and forgotten for a reason.

[@JustinCoasters]

@@hydra7427 Tokyo Jokio is pretty tough.

[@jedd.0322]

Nah bruh TerryToons gotta be the worst or like Clutch Cargo

[@JustinCoasters]

@@jedd.0322 Have you seen Tokio Jokio?

[@jedd.0322]

@@JustinCoasters That racist Looney Tunes Cartune

[@davisstreetstudios8681]

"It was supposed to air in Mid 2003 but got cancelled due to the Cartoon Network Executives being uncomfortable with a show poking fun at H-B cartoons." I think they actually held it back because CN was having a few changes at the time, Almost everything related to Hanna-Barbera, WB and MGM were thrown out of the usual schedule thanks to new shows constantly coming out (Originals like Foster's, Billy and Mandy, Camp Lazlo etc. and Acquired stuff like Totally Spies and Mucha Lucha), in turn making these classics air strictly on Boomerang. (LT, T&J and SD stuck around on CN in some shapes and forms though)

[@RamonesFan201]

which is funny cause as a 9 year old, i remember seeing the advert for Toonheads back in 99/00? Now I'm watching the special 22 years later. shits crazy dude lol

[@johnbockelie3899]

When they made Tom and Jerry friends, I quit watching. Worst off " Tom and Jerry kids."

[@OM19_MO79]

I think they realize this was the rant of a millennial that didn’t like the lineup at the time or maybe around 96~98 and that knew very little of the history and context of what he was criticizing. Richie Rich and the Great Grape Ape were programmed a lot and the only similarity between GGA and Magilla is that they were both gorillas. No Kwicky Koala, no Fraidy Cat, no Pandamonium, no Heathcliff and Dingbat, what kind of a research was this?!

[@BlazeMaster]

I liked most of these Cartoons as a kid, but I gotta agree outside of few classics most in house Cartoon Network stuff that came in late 1990's was actually far better in quality than some of the shows and weird shit Cartoon Network started with also I remember watching the original Transformers G1 cartoons but did Cartoon Network ever broadcast those or did I watch them from a different network via Satellite?

[@cynthiapickett7403]

This was also during the period when the Warner Bros. retail stores were shut down worldwide; the classic characters (Hanna-Barbera's own retail stores were apparently absorbed into the WB chain several years before) were replaced by the new set of homegrown series.

[@clurkroberts2650]

These studios were very important. Although they were painful to watch, they provided animators, writers and artist steady work, most came from the all the major studios of the 40s and 50s.

[@suparufflZ64]

10:40 Someone sat down with a vision in their head and gave it to an animator who actually sat down to animate this…and then someone else said “YESSS! PUT THAT ON TELEVISION FOR CHILDREN” and then someone left their kid unsupervised to witness the most horrificly impressionable thing a child can attempt, and that kid died trying to stretch himself into Sports Pontiac Trans AM

[@chemergency]

This is a truly great episode of Toonheads. Declining to air this just for criticizing cartoons they owned was a mistake, I'm willing to bet half the cartoons featured here would be lucrative cult classics by now if they did.

[@MixMasterLar]

Hindsight's 20/20; before the internet proved that people would be willing to consume poor quality media in exchange for unique media experiences, no one would have ever figured any of these would get a cult following no matter what you did. The sentiment was that because cake exist, no one wants to snack on potato chips.

[@BokanProductions]

Before the narrator this show used to creep me out.

[@joecab1]

I love how Liquid Man still is wearing Fluid Man's F! I'll bet the name change was a late decision.

[@jefferyquick3280]

Dude! Even as a dumb 10-year-old I realized that! I knew HB was cheap, but damn.

[@Engineer_Who]

"Although 'Disco Dog' gets our vote as the worst cartoon ever, it proves that something good can come from something so bad. It was in this cartoon that John K, the creator of _Ren & Stimpy_ , got one of his first breaks in animation." That didn't age well.

[@jacksonteller3973]

it still did i'd argue, regardless of John K's creepy habits he was still pretty talented.

[@PinClockFuntime]

You've gotta seperate the art from the artist in these things, Ren and Stimpy is the spark of the 90s golden age of children's TV animation that got us out of the toy commercial era of the 80s. Doug existed, but Ren and Stimpy stole the show.

[@ZebboGeesucks]

@@PinClockFuntime I don't think it's really fair to give Ren & Stimpy sole credit for that, unless you're also defining stuff like Ducktales, Batman TAS, and Animaniacs as "toy commercials."

[@keshiaanders6452]

What about that GIF of Droopy dancing? I've seen it on almost every early Cartoon Network bumper.

[@itsjayden8002]

@@PinClockFuntimeNot to forget Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures from 1987 which was kind of a “prequel” to the 90s spark. John K, Bruce Timm, and Andrew Stanton among a lot of others got their start on that show.

[@entityontheinternet]

The positive Mention of John Kricfalusi is how you know that this was made before Adult Party Cartoon

[@SpongeSebastian]

Looks like Mighty Man and Yukk was ahead of its time in terms of surreal animated humor.

[@SurrealKangaroo12]

I think it would fit in with shows like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life.

[@trustno173]

Looking up the show I was surprised to learn that Mighty Man was voiced by Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) and Yukk is voiced by Frank Welker (Megatron)! Those two have even more history than we thought.

[@maurogajardo620]

Excelente show! The Best from this video! I loved it and My Friends and cousins todo! Greetings from Chile!

[@SpamEggSausage]

@@trustno173 Frank Welker has been in about a zillion cartoons

[@queencancerous5332]

I can see the idea actually working as an Adult Swim parody, it was pretty out there for the 1970s

[@FerdinandCesarano]

19:42 - "... they actually found a trio to play Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher..." The narrator means *Tom Sawyer*, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher.

[@uemochi9316]

okay........Rickety Rocket, looks EXTREMELY questionable

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Yeah it does

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Why?

[@HyperSonicXtreme]

@@MrRyan-wu4jx It’s a Scooby Doo clone, but with black people with a black talking humorous rocket.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

@@HyperSonicXtreme there’s like two dozen scooby doo clones, and the voice actors for the show were all black, so yeah, the talking rocket voiced by a black guy sounds black.

[@greenmushroom2587]

@@MrRyan-wu4jx may be just me, but that rocket looks like it's just one step away from straight up being a blackface

[@Morgil27]

I remember ToonHeads was a really damn good show. They had this one special that only aired one which _I wish_ I had recorded about cartoons from WWII.

[@phillipmanzon5166]

its online, internet archive

[@SoundwaveX7]

I remember recording the cartoons from WWII on a VHS tape, a lot of cool history about the WWII cartoons including a Bugs Bunny short where he took on the Nazis.

[@MixMasterLar]

If it had the Dr Seuss war shorts, then I actually got to see it air as a kid. Loose Lips Sink Ships!

[@thEannoyingE]

Same here.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

That Turbo Teen car transformation looked painful as hell

[@HiPHOPx87]

🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅

[@pearmainstudios3942]

Ouch

[@zophar01]

The Robot Chicken parody made it more painful

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Turbo Teen” was a ripoff of the “Transformers”.

[@freakfoxvevo7915]

Ngl, the Huck Finn cartoon and its' integration of Live Action actors in an animated world had potential.

[@hiddenflare6169]

It is something interesting to see, I’ll give it that.

[@marvinjones4415]

That had to have been expensive giving all the bluescreen shots for the live action

[@bostonrailfan2427]

it’s not the first time it was done either, there’s at least three previous ones including the first Walt Disney animations

[@davidthomas3826]

A teenage boy turning into a car is nightmare fuel. The animators must have questioned what they were doing with their talent when they animated a kid's rear end turning into a car's rear end. The phrase "cancelled after just thirteen episodes" is used a lot in this video

[@jeffharrisTXB]

Great find. One minor quibble. The Filmation Tom and Jerry came after the HB-produced one. Filmation's The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show premiered on CBS on September 6, 1980 while Hanna-Barbera's The Tom and Jerry Show premiered on ABC on September 6, 1975, the exact same day five years earlier.

[@Musicradio77Network]

So that’s why WB ignores the Filmation version of “Tom & Jerry”. The Filmation version lasted from 1980 through 1981 after only one season, and it was later in syndication in reruns, especially overseas in foreign language dubs until the mid to late 1980’s, and it never got a home video release at all.

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

WRONG

[@COMPFUNK2]

I was just about to say that. Also, the Hanna-Barbera version also featured a segment called the Mumbly Cartoon Show. The detective Mumbly was pretty much a takeoff of Muttley; yet years later on Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, Mumbly somehow turned into a bad guy (as the team captain of Really Rottens). And then in the final season of Laff-A-Lympics, they started calling him Muttley but he was still animated to look like Mumbly.

[@davidlopez2276]

This thing was badly made.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the writers of this show got a lot wrong

[@derekcarrow174]

Disco Droopy the worst cartoon ever? HAH! It may be lame and poorly animated , but for sheer hideousness, it comes nowhere close to “Daffy Duck Meets the Groovie Ghoulies”. Indeed, a flaw in this program is that it only considers shows owned by Warners for showing. Where’s Clutch Cargo? The Abbott and Costello cartoon? Whoever did those “Honey Halfwitch” and “Swifty and Shorty” cartoons that Weinerville used to air? Total TV (“Underdog”, “Go Go Gophers “, “Klondike Kat”)? Terrytoons? Filmation is only represented by a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Where’s Wacky and Packy, Fraidy Cat and the Brady Kids?

[@mightyfilm]

That's probably why this didn't make it to air. It's clearly just cartoons they own the rights to for copyright and licensing purposes. Though I'd say they hit the mark with the bad Scooby-Doo knockoffs and Filmation Droopy, there's a LOT of bad in the 70's that was ripe for the picking that they just couldn't license. The "Insert here" Title Cards for the Happy Days clip basically proves they were waiting for approval for just mentioning some of these. I'm surprised nothing public domain appeared, though. You think they'd be able to get some bad PD stuff. I'm guessing Clutch Cargo was still under copyright, even though they did get PB DVD releases at some point.

[@donkeykong6426]

it was canceled from cartoon network executives feeling uncomfortable bowling down H-B shows of the 70s and suspected a tense lawsuit if it happened

[@cabbusses]

@@mightyfilm Q-Bert was probably also just a title card for the same reason, now that you mention it. Did Sony have the rights to it back then?

[@mightyfilm]

@@donkeykong6426 So basically someone at WB said "We don't want to pay for the licensing rights to any other cartoon studio's product BUT we don't want you to disparage ours." Wait. Why am I pointing that out? That DOES sound like something Warner Bros would do.

[@OM19_MO79]

@@cabbusses Q-Bert and the mylstar Games were folded into Columbia Pictures after the crash. When Sony bought Columbia, they also got Q-Bert.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

It's ironically hilarious that Cartoon Network supposedly had cold feet over poking fun at older cartoons that *were* it's entire foundation thus this episode of ToonHeads was never aired, YET various Cartoon Network shows that were produced and aired at the time had various references to older Hanna-Barbera properties - and some of these were shows that HB produced for CN such as _Powerpuff Girls,_ _Dexter's Lab,_ and _Johnny Bravo_ among others.

[@toomanyaccounts]

Lets not forget Harvey Birdman attorney at law used a number of HB cartoon characters as punch lines.

[@OdaSwifteye]

They had cold feet this one time but never again and certainly none of their future artists and writers held their punches and took advantage of the bland landscape that was Barbara cartoons.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

I just don't buy that excuse at all. They had already made both Harvey Birdman Season 1 and The Scooby Doo Project.

[@carolyns4519]

Those are affectionate parodies, though. Even when they're making jokes about the old shows, you can tell the creators were fans. Here, though, they're outright calling shows terrible and questioning why people though they were a good idea. That's different, and why the network had a problem. (I liked this special btw)

[@itsjayden8002]

@AndrewsMagicandMore Hanna-Barbera didn’t actually make any shows for Cartoon Network, the logo and brand was just placed there for marketing.

[@Mr.Smiley_J]

The intro to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids kinda slaps.

[@thEannoyingE]

The show was so ahead of it’s time, I remember seeing the show when it aired. It’s a shame so much were never saved. It’s so amazing this and the Twelve Missing Hares specials, can finally be seen.

[@KenoshiAkai]

A very interesting special. Having watched a lot of these when they aired, I'd call them more painfully mediocre rather than outright bad. But then much of what came out on Saturday Mornings in the Seventies was filler until the good stuff from the Sixties (like Johnny Quest and Scooby Doo) or from the Golden Age of animation, like the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show, came on.

[@dennisbowen452]

I respect that. I think they're bad because I grew up on early 2000s nick and cartoon network which had a bit of a higher standard. I saw some of these on boomerang but it was mostly the better of these shows

[@KenoshiAkai]

@@dennisbowen452 You are very fortunate to have grown up in a time when the cartoons that you watched had been made by a generation that watched the crap that I grew up with and decided to do better.

[@cabbusses]

I would expect that the folks at Cartoon Network had to at least put on the appearance of having a high standard, where even their "worst" cartoon would be something better than what you could churn out in your basement. Otherwise some outright horrible programs would have been more likely to show up here.

[@KenoshiAkai]

@@cabbusses This is true. But "Disco Droopy" is a place where joy lays down to die. It's hard to find worse than that.

[@clurkroberts2650]

Producing traditional cell animation was extremely expensive. Resulting in animation short cuts to the extreme. The budgets were minimal, and the expected rebroadcast was limited. For 6-10 year olds, this was an acceptable time killer. Instantly forgettable. It was a bleak time for the animation and the industry.

[@thedarkboidankmatter6263]

I sorta like the tone Mighty Man and Yukk has. It feels like a parody

[@jesselockhart1230]

Filmation's Tom and Jerry aired in 1980. The H-B T&J aired 5 years prior. H-B T&J fell victim to stringent standards and practices of the mid 70s where the slightest instance of cartoon violence was frowned upon leaving T&J to be awkwardly buddy buddy the entire series.

[@rubysuncle]

I would like to add though, as someone born in the late 70s and the child of the 80s, I actually am grateful for syndicated shows like The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show & USA‘s Cartoon Express for exposing myself and a whole young generation to all these series I never would have known about. Were many of these awful and repetitive, derivative clones of the formula that worked with Scooby Doo? Abso-fucking-lutley. But it’s kind of fun to have gotten to have experienced all the shameless awfulness of that era from before my time.

[@haileyshannon7548]

Another person who remembers Cartoon Express, that was kind of a primordial version of early Cartoon Network!

[@OdaSwifteye]

Hold on. This didn't even air. So despite me watching every Toonhead episode at the time I never saw this one? This is an incredible find.

[@jacksonteller3973]

there's also another unaired special that surfaced called The Twelve Missing Hares which is about the 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons that did not air in the 2001 June Bugs marathon due to racial stereotypes.

[@mainstreetsaint36]

@@jacksonteller3973 yeah, and it's right hare (here). kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnmxhalppLaie5o

[@RazorBeamz]

It looks like it's not even finished.

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@RazorBeamz well it wasn't

[@RazorBeamz]

@@jacksonteller3973 What we have here in this upload is incomplete. There's a lot of missing title cards, missing music, and a lot of the music that is there is placeholder music.

[@MissAshley42]

Toon Heads was a heck of a show, but I see why this episode sat on the shelf. I imagine HB higher-ups weren’t happy about spending an hour of airtime reminding everyone how cheap and creatively bankrupt they were (especially with CN’s new original stuff taking off).

[@Luschan]

Mighty Man and Yuk is unbelievable. It’s not even bad, it’s just so impressively weird. I can’t believe it’s real.

[@Musicradio77Network]

It was part of the “Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show” on both ABC and syndication with the live action bits.

[@meechmushrooms]

I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to archive and upload this to the Internet. I honestly got more enjoyment watching a 43-minute rough-cut of a scrapped Cartoon Network special than I have watching anything in a long time. You made me feel like a kid again. Cartoon/television history (and lost media) have always been so fascinating to me -- I would have _loved_ seeing something like this on TV as a kid. Despite how horrible some of these shows might seem in retrospect, there's something so... charming about that 1970's cartoon animation. It's honestly nostalgic to think about just how different entertainment was back then. I mean, look at the cartoons back then, and look at where we are now! This is history! There are a few parts, however, that certainly made me raise my eyebrows, with regard to racial stereotypes. But this has raised some honest questions for me: did the network executives / animation studios really care about creating more diverse cartoons (i.e. black and Asian versions of Scooby-Doo) to appeal to a broader audience? Or was it simply a corporate marketing cash-grab? And was that really even necessary? Because every kid loves Scooby-Doo, regardless of their race, because it's just that iconic. But it makes me wonder if some of these spin-offs were done as part of the 1970s progressive movement? Of course, this was still the 70's, so it wasn't exactly a post-racial America (yet). And they certainly didn't do any favors by including those hurtful stereotypes. But what do you think could've/should've been done different? This also ties into something that happens nowadays -- TV studios retroactively changing the race or gender of any given character for the sake of meeting a diversity quota. I feel like certain shows or movie franchises are fine just the way they are. I feel like rewriting an already established character for the sake of diversity is just textbook pandering. Because at that point, if you want a show/character that meets X Y Z quota, then just create a new show. I've seen this so many times in recent years that it starts to get exhausting. I am all for more diverse entertainment, just please don't mess with the classics. If a show's good enough, people are gonna enjoy it, regardless of the immutable characteristics of the characters. I know it's uncomfortable to talk about this sometimes, but I believe it's relevant given the context of the video and these cartoons. I'm genuinely curious to know, what are everyone's thoughts?

[@jacksonteller3973]

no it's not "pandering' and it's real easy for straight white dude like you with loads of representation in fictional media already to say that alt-right garbage,no it's not "pandering" at all, it's equalizing things and this notion that only straight white people are allowed to be in "the classics"(whatever those are) is a horribly regressive attitude, I say fuck that noise, I liked the 2016 Ghostbusters better than the original, there I said it and even Norman Lear will tell you the Latino 2017 remake of One Life to Live was far superior to the original show and the new characters in Star Wars were much needed. You don't get to speak for everyone, we still don't live in a "post-racial society" FAR from it as we've seen with George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. No not everyone is going to enjoy watching shows featuring nothing but white people as the main characters, utter nonsense.

[@Oecobius33]

Given all the social change of the '70s, I'm sure those were attempts at being progressive. But one man's idea of representation is another man's stereotype. Just look at how many people today sadly think black culture doesn't mean intellectuals, philosophers or social leaders (the things that traditionally define culture), but instead they think it must mean ghetto stereotype, because that's what pop culture profits from. It's often hard to tell the difference between well-intentioned ignorance or greedy exploitation. But when it's a corporate product, it's always reductive & flawed one way or the other. Edit: As for changing a character's race, it's only a problem if they treat the race as a gimmick/stereotype. Race is only skin deep, and I wouldn't call changing the character's appearance "messing with the classics." Shakespeare has been played by great actors of all ethnicities, as it should be! I get what you mean though; when studios are preachy about it, they're clearly being exploitative (like a rich white guy who brags "some of my friends are black" as if they should be so grateful he approves of them). But when it isn't played as a gimmick that way, then changing a character's race is perfectly fair. Like any recasting, the only thing that should matter is the actor's talent.

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@Oecobius33 no being "preachy" does not automatically being "exploitative", it's easy to say talent is the only thing that matters for white dudes who have had loads of representation in everything, and fact is a lot of mediocre white dudes often got promoted ahead of perfectly qualified minorities in many professions including acting.

[@leprechaunfarmer4081]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I thought I was the only one who thought this! It’s nice to see that even people of different races agree that forced diversity is never a good thing! Whenever we speak out against race-swapping or gender-swapping classic characters, most people will say we’re just being racist or sexist but is it really so wrong to just want to stick with tradition and see our favorite characters portrayed properly? (Looking at you, MCU, with your “Michelle Jones-Watson”!)

[@WHATISUTUBE]

I feel that Whites are too scared of being White. And what I mean is that these shows are perfectly fine. The chan clan wasnt all chopsticks and gongs and "me so sowwy". Black Scooby was just black kids in space. Some of them had a bit of a dialect but it wasnt as if it was an uncommon dialect or a racist fabrication. Of course now we have to scrutinize it and call it racist. Unless the Black character is an ultra succesful and morally upright and almost parody of an upstanding citizen people will moan. How dare you make a black character a criminal (why do you think criminals in tv ads are ALWAYS white). Why is this black character speaking like black kids in the city thats racist. This character wasnt vetted by a panel of 20 blacks and voiced, written, and produced by Blacks? Racism. Any other time and this ridiculousness would be laughed at. But to my central point: whites are scared of bsing white so we have to humpr this foolishness. Its why I generally didnt get too friendly with whites in college. They are so insanely sensitive about every topic that you could never joke with them. Everything becomes an "I have a dream" speech with them learn to take a joke fuck

[@SagaSagaVGM]

Well... Disco Droopy is no Flashbeagle, that's for damn sure. Really wouldn't consider any of these to be "worst ever", but this was still a fun special to watch, thanks for the upload.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

The *actual* worst cartoons ever would be downright unwatchable garbage, this is more like "the goofiest things HB is willing to cop to"

[@SpongeSebastian]

@@jonothanthrace1530 that's probably why. They were looking more for the "So bad it's good" and not so much "the unwatchable."

[@OM19_MO79]

Compared to the whole show, Disco Droopy is the best episode of the series. The Tom and Jerry shorts repeated the same visual jokes over and over, I remember it was almost mandatory for every episode to have the rake bit that could last almost a minute and turned Tom into a robot hitting himself back and forth in an endless loop.

[@queencancerous5332]

Rickety Rocket was pretty fucking bad from the clip they showed

[@jamesbevan9939]

Thank you for uploading this. I've been eager to see it for decades. ... though that John Kricfalusi comment certainly didn't age well.

[@jacksonteller3973]

I disagree, John K being a creep does not make Ren and Stimpy any less of a great show.

[@plapin3538]

i find it funny that it's a disco cartoon made after the disco fad ended.. yep.. definetly a John k think to do taking his sweet time on a project! The man takes so long with his stuff, his projects becomes "of age" by the time he finishes with them

[@beatles123]

Am I in the minority to think Jokebook actually seemed decent? I actually liked the gag with the Duck in the pond.

[@DonkeyBoyVids]

It reminds me of the segments between shorts in the MAD cartoon from the early 2010s. Very deadpan but it was amusing to watch

[@mistertagomago7974]

It looks like the segments would work individually just not packed into a full show.

[@edryba4867]

You must remember that ANYTHING that came out of Filmation was inherently bad. It’s almost a lie to call their stuff “animation”, because almost NOTHING moves! I don’t believe they ever made a good show, despite the fact that they hired some of the all-time best animation professionals (who were still alive). The problem was that they didn’t spend any money on the animation. They HAD to pay the voice “talent” Union money, but that didn’t make most of them any good, either. What cartoon producers don’t understand TO THIS DAY is that Voice Acting is very little like on-camera acting. A Voice Actor has to use their entire body in order to squeeze a fully formed character through those little holes in the microphone. I’ve watched many famous on-camera actors try to do convincing cartoon voices, but they sort of just stood there in front of a microphone. But when you watched someone like the great Bill Scott as Bullwinkle Moose, he moved around in some really silly-looking ways, but what came through the mic is the lovable moose with the wonderful personality. The same is true of June Foray as Rocky The Flying Squirrel, or Daws Butler as literally DOZENS of characters for Hanna-Barbera, Jay Ward Productions (makers of Rocky and Bullwinkle - again, doing dozens of voices for the Fractured Fairy Tales segments, among others, along with the voices he did for Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. I could name LOTS more of this kind of cartoon professionals, but you get the idea. The people named here were strictly VOICE Actors. And a professional animator with no budget might as well be a rank amateur.

[@Patrickmayonaiseinstrument]

10:33 Im sorry......WHAT?!?!?!? Jeez I never realized how many fever dream cartoons existed

[@HulkieD]

I was *visibly wincing* during Rickety Rocket, holy hell. How did that make air?

[@KenoshiAkai]

Because Fat Albert was popular. So how about Speedbuggy in blackface?

[@RockNRollHorrorshow]

It...it was a different time

[@mightyfilm]

They shoved it in another series as a backup cartoon, The Plastic Man Comedy Hour. When they released the series to DVD, it was ONLY the Plastic Man segments, and it's hard not to see why.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@@mightyfilm oh man, I had that Plastic Man DVD. Really glad it didn't come with Rickety Rocket (please, let that one be lost and *stay* lost).

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@@RockNRollHorrorshow so, drugs?

[@MasterArchfiend]

Okay, the “Slipped Disco” pun was actually funny.

[@cindydott452]

I thought a lot of the female characters in the Droopy cartoon looked like "Fritz the Cat" characters. I liked Slick's dance partner! 😎

[@DJMelloEll]

Seeing that the majority of those cartoons reran on CN back then, I can see why this episode was unfinished. This smells like a “I’m trying to get fired” kind of thing.

[@curewhipandnaenae]

Shame CN doesn't do a show like this anymore. I think it would be pretty popular. Especially if they did a lost media episode or something

[@maddymud]

Bring George back!

[@marvelstarwarsfan8410]

Ironic because most of these episodes are still lost.

[@autumnignatia]

Thank you SO much for uploading the full VHS, (as well as the other one in your uploads); they are nostalgic internet *gold* 🙏

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I can think of half a dozen insanely racist cartoons from the 1930s that are far worse than anything shown here (like the terrible, terrible Amos and Andy adaptions), but they wouldn't have dared shown any of them in this special. O.K., Rickety Rocket is close.

[@COMPFUNK2]

I’m an 80s baby but I remember watching classic 50s, 60s and 70s cartoons on Cartoon Network all through the mid-90s; still, I had never heard of Rickety Rocket.

[@PinClockFuntime]

If we were going there then the whole episode would be about race which would be risky for the episode especially since the one about the instances of racism in Bugs cartoons also got the plug pulled, so they wanted to stick to just "bad" rather than "morally repulsive"

[@persona9709]

@@COMPFUNK2 90's kid myself (born 1990) I remember seeing a lot of these on cartoon network back in the day

[@haileyshannon7548]

They banned/edited tons of classic Looney Tunes because of racist and ethnic stereotypes, violence, drinking, sexism, etc.

[@marvelstarwarsfan8410]

Funny because I saw that Missing Hares episode so it tells me toonheads wasn’t afraid to tackle those issues,but sadly that episode was never aired.

[@midnightpandax]

I find it so interesting to see how mostly finished this episode was. Besides some placeholder graphics and lack of background music, it looks pretty much ready to air. Absolutely insane find.

[@Anthony_Marquis]

Turbo Teen makes me uncomfortable...

[@LBSOfficialBear]

Note for those who follow Tom & Jerry's history: HB's The Tom & Jerry Show premiered in 1975 and Filmation's Tom & Jerry Comedy Show premiered in 1980, not in the 60s as ToonHeads incorrectly dated. Either way both weren't at all well received. At least the latter from Filmation kept the slapstick in there, but neither could hold a candle to the classic MGM shorts that Hanna and Barbera had during those years.

[@Christian-yh6bs]

40:58 - 41:11 Wow, that aged incredibly badly

[@2_sp00ky_4_u]

Sick project, I remember watching toonheads as a kid. Especially cool since it's the 30th anniversary of @cartoonnetwork & they refuse to acknowledge the shows they aired that helped them get their start.

[@PubeStache]

On days I was home from school, I'd turn on Cartoon Network at 6am and have it on all day. One time I even started making a list of times each show was on. This was in the mid-90s

[@Radicalweegee]

Man theses early RLM episodes are alittle calmer but damn these are great!

[@bupdaddy1]

At 19:46, the narrator says "*Mark Twain*, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher" when he means "*Tom Sawyer*, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher."

[@foreverfuturebound]

this special was way ahead of it's time

[@busted_keys]

This was really great, thanks for uploading! As a musician and sound engineer I've always loved the classic pallet of Hanna Barbera sound effects and the endless mileage these and other cartoons got out of them. All made the old fashioned way (tape) with lots of creativity. I liked the tunes in Disco Droopy - they had fun on that session for sure! 🔥

any footage of toon heads is precious. thank you for sharing !!!

[@PawPawKellum]

I was thinking ‘Rickity Rocket’🚀 was my personal Mandela Effect. No one I have talked to about it, over decades, ever remembered it. This video is full of Toons I liked.😃

[@bobnross8971]

When you realize cartoon network made an essay video 💀💀💀

[@OdaSwifteye]

What's what Toon heads is.

[@DJMelloEll]

I’m guessing because it was unfinished and didn’t hit the post-production phase. Otherwise, I would swear a tenth-grader made this for his honors class.

[@PinClockFuntime]

Toon Heads is the pioneer of essay videos on cartoons

[@thematt523]

I find it fascinating that many of the cartoons are of rather poor quality, like they only caught them off of TV…even though they should have access to the master tapes. As if they had no more access to this stuff than modern KZbin essayists.

[@redcomet_622]

Thats cause these are from the master tapes. Its just that this was copied to a standard VHS Tape. And its a rough cut

[@kylel7761]

I've been wanting a full collection of these for years! I'm happy to hear someone with high interest is also in search for them to preserve.

[@SommersetStriker]

I will admit that the animation for Turbo-Teen's transformation is well done. But my God what a horrifying sequence. The audio lacks the visceral sounds of bones and organs being repurposed, along with the agonized screams of pain, but I can easily fill it in. I think we've also found the progenitor of several fetishes. So many questions: Where does the mass come from? Is Brett a half-ton teen? Apparently the car-form can feel cold, as Brett changes back when a drink is spilled on him. So does rain/snow turn him back? Does he feel the texture of the pavement? The implications are disturbing. Do they fill him with gasoline? Or does he eat? Can the tires pop/deflate? What would that do to his limbs? (If he loses a headlight is he eyeless?) What if Brett gains weight? What if the car gets bodywork done? What about haircuts? What is the legal consideration if you get frisky in the backseat? Turbo-Teen: A masterpiece of body horror.

[@cindydott452]

Whenever he sees a French sports car, does his tailpipe grow?

[@PosthumanHeresy]

I can see why it's something the dark recesses of Justin Roiland's brain think of when he's drunk.

[@crs290]

I hear Cronenberg bought the rights for a live-action remake.

[@cindydott452]

@@crs290 I buy that for a dollar!

[@MrChevrolet94]

Very interesting, yet insane theory. I’ll definitely admit a human turning into a metal car just looks (and must feel) very creepy, disturbing, and painful. Reminds me of the Codename Kids Next Door episode, Operation G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S, when all Kids Next Door operatives got turned into animals. That really traumatized me and gave me nightmares and panic attacks

[@Noticus]

I’d watch a whole series on bad cartoons, this is amazing

[@Tramond_Wolfe474]

15:45 They even use the same damn sound effects, this shows that they weren't too subtle about it being a ripoff of an earlier cartoon. This is definitely a piece of Lost Media I'm glad was found.

[@mejokallamthanam1348]

Amazing! Can’t believe you found it!

[@KawaiiStars]

loved the grandma crossing the road joke, actually laughed at that one

[@kyleshiflet9952]

I know it's just a cartoon but Jesus christ Turbo Teen's transformation looks extremely painful and honestly how is he not screaming in agony during turning in and out of his car form on a side note I'd like a Adult Swim reboot of Mighty and Yukk in the vein of Harvey Birdman or Space Ghost cause I actually love how passive aggressive Mighty Man is about Yukk's ugliness

[@Saltedroastedcaramel]

I only knew of Turbo Teen because of Robot Chicken. It's hard to get past the idea now that I know the show was real

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@Saltedroastedcaramel that's were I leaned of the show to

[@Laribhaven]

There is somenthing oddly apealing on Mighty Man and Yukk's relationship. I can definitely see it as Adult Swin thing. Like might man being both the straight man and the asshole towards Yukk its just hilarious.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@Lari B Haven sometimes I actually wonder if maybe it was supposed to be a more adult but then they changed their mind

[@gergenthequietmetalhead4226]

"But something good did come out of this show, this is John K's first animation credit." naw dude that just made it worse.

[@mint_marigold1229]

The narration scratch track is actually really nice to listen to. Just watched "The Twelve Missing Hares" and really enjoyed the commentary. :)

[@redcomet_622]

10:28 Why the hell is that brassy Thriller cover playing here?

[@knuclear200x]

I'm honestly offended too, kind of. I didn't enjoy these cartoons neither, but HB, RS and Filmation were still part of our childhoods, and they were pretty much indistinguishable in the writing dept anyway so it was just something we were used to. Luckily, Jerry Beck found even worse cartoons and would show them at a special SDCC panel every year and only rarely showing something from HB

[@dumbumbumbum8649]

Disco had not been “long dead” in 1980. Funky town, the last disco hit, at least during disco’s original popularity, was released that year.

[@sajamor0811]

That's what I thought - to name but a few you also had disco music from Kool And The Gang, Earth, Wind And Fire, Odyssey and Ottowan who sang D.I.S.C.O. I would say 1980 is my favourite musical year because it had so many genres including disco which I've always been a fan of!

[@professorplum3858]

Message to Turbo Teen: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[@Ravenscroft82]

Man, Turbo Teen's transformation is really kind of horrifying.

[@primepm8861]

Okay I gotta admit, the New Adventures of Huck Finn while unquestionably and objectively a bad show feels pretty Goddamn innovative.

[@haileyshannon7548]

It's a good concept, but I think the limits they had with special effects was the problem.

[@chiefbucknell]

Now I know where Sealab 2021 got some of its non-Sealab footage! 😊

[@whyloechoedome8122]

So grateful to see this. I wish i appreciated this more a small one

[@PicardManeuver]

"I think we should play in a band, just to be safe." - Adolescent crime-solving Homestar Runner

[@itsjayden8002]

The *Pixie & Dixie* shorts from *The Huckleberry Hound Show* were basically a Tom & Jerry rip-off/bootleg.

[@thomasoldenburg2085]

I appreciate your efforts in this anthology. I was born in 71, and I remembered most of these. Well done, sir.

[@numba2bvi]

Idk, some of those late 90s early 00s Cartoon Network shows were truly unwatchable! Great video I enjoyed this!

[@johnbrierton1921]

The Droopy Dog at the end of this looks like it's animation was done by John K of Ren and Stimpy. You can see his sleaze drip from the characters!

[@ethansloan]

I miss Toonheads so much. This is a really cool special that you can tell had a lot of thought put into it. It's a damn shame it never aired.

[@ininja32]

This is very educational. I live for stuff like this.

[@Patrickmayonaiseinstrument]

As someone who watched a bit of the pacman cartoon as a kid (I was a pretty big fan of pacman as a kid), It was weird yeah, but no where near the worst cartoon lol.

[@areguapiri]

I watched it every Saturday.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Poor Warner Bros., can't take a joke and laugh at themselves.

[@jonathanwilson5011]

Sounds like a lot of companies we know... Though it's amusing that most of these are Hanna-Barbera. Basically telling the viewers that half their library is awful.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@jonathanwilson5011 True.

[@DennisTamayo]

@@jonathanwilson5011 The Hanna-Barbera series that I remembered was The All New Popeye Show on Cartoon Network, & it also had limited animation.

[@elijahblechman8633]

@@jonathanwilson5011 more then half ngl. HB probably has among the biggest libraries In animation history.

[@bluebaron6858]

@@jonathanwilson5011 most?