In the 70’s 80’s and 90’s it seemed like just about any entertainment property could get it’s own cartoon series. If you were a movie you could be a cartoon and if you were a cartoon you could be on a cereal box etc. From this sort of cartoon/cereal military/industrial complex we got some strange cartoons. here is a list of ten of them because this is what the internet really needs.. it needs more lists.
10.
Free Willy: This was a Saturday morning cartoon based on the movie about a kid who wanted to make a whale named willy free or something. In the cartoon the whale who is free by this point still chooses to hang out with this kid for some reason (maybe he never wanted to be free) And the music is really bad “oh willy as long as you are free willy”. Another factor in strangeness of this choice is it is called “Free Willy” yet willy is clearly free it would be like if people followed Nelson Mandela around after he was let out of jail and sung “Free Nelson Mandela”
9.
It’s Punky Brewster. Punky Brewster was the story of a young homeless girl who liked to dress in purple and moved in with the old guy from the Police Academy movies. Kids’s loved the show so one day God (or maybe someone else) ordered that a cartoon version should be made. On the cartoon Punky had some sort of magic animal thing named glomer. A lot of “sitcom to cartoon”
shows like this had random magic animal things like they are thinking “okay so let’s have a… Threes Company cartoon …… with a turtle that can go to the future when he dances.”
I remember once getting into a fight with one of my cousins because I wanted to watch Punky Brewster instead of playing with GI Joes.
ReplyDeleteI once got into a physical altercation with my cousin over the Punky Brewster cartoon when I was 4, because I wanted to watch it instead of playing with GI Joes.
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