80s Toons tumbler

Still a scheduled weekly posting of 80s cartoons, I do have a good enough number of cartoon videos to find that will keep the blog occupied for a while. The 80s was a time when cartoons really exploded on television, and the first time large corporations took advantage of impressionable kids and parents with the money to make extended cartoon commercials.

Also a time when cartoons started getting outsourced from the United States to places like Japan and Korea in full effect, to varying degrees of success. Hindsight does show how horrible many of these cartoons were, technically for looking bad and unrealistic, and also just bad stories and characters. Even the ones that were supposed to teach moral lessons really didn't. And do you remember the insane witchhunt to bring down overly 'violent' cartoons for inciting children to violence?

In spite of all this, it was definitely a golden age of cartoons, or maybe silver age, I may have to lookup some animator blog. So many great cartoons and characters came out of all of it, and people and things that did teach you some things. After all, knowing is half the battle.

Archive

Dec
10th

Mon

Jem & the Holograms - Beat This

Yeah, beat that.

OIh yeah, for those who didn’t catch on, the guy and girl are competing to be the Holograms’ drummer. Seriously, what’s he thinking?

On a side note, I’m proud of a certain blog post I made on my Multiply/crossposted to my Blogger, proud enough to put it here. It’s about the Red Horse Super X Series closing leg BMX competition/concert series.

Dec
3rd

Mon

Let the Music Play.

Finally a song from the Holograms.

Pretty good song.

Nov
26th

Mon

The Misfits - It Takes A Lot.

Missed last week, sorry. Is it so obvious I like the Misfits?

Nov
12th

Mon

Jem and the Holograms cover Le Tigre’s Deceptacon! If they were a real band, this would be the kind of song they’d play.

Well, a friend disagreed, but maybe if they remade it they should get the Le Tigre/Bikini Kill girls to do the songs. Although if it actually does happen, it’s more likely we’ll get the songs from Paramore and Avril Lavigne. But hey, if you haven’t ever seen the original video, check it out here.

And no, no Soundwave cameos. In either video. Still too bad.

Nov
4th

Sun

We’re the Misfits in Hawaii!

Oh, those crazy kooky Misfits.

Oct
29th

Mon

She’s Got The Power

Forget He Man.

Oct
22nd

Mon

Gimme A Gimmick, by The Misfits! Jem’s main antagonists got real good music written for them.

Nowadays, Britney and Paris hum this song in their heads, while thinking up of more shameful behavior that would get them attention.

Oct
14th

Sun

Freezepop covers Jem.

Oct
13th

Sat

The Jem Story. This didn’t really happen.

Oct
8th

Mon

Phew! All Apologies for forgetting posts. Guess I’ve been neglecting the blog awhile, and just when I was starting what was gonna be an awesome Jemorama! or something or other. Seems may be having problems getting videos as Hasbro is lazily but definitely defending their copyrights on it, and bit by bit video come up and get removed.

Nothing to worry about, it’s Only The Beginning.

Sep
22nd

Sat

Jem intro !

real life has been getting me down recently, but it’s OK. It’s been OK since the day I found Jem. Because you know, she’s truly, truly outrageous. Expect a lot of Jem (i.e., I’ll try to get everything) in this space soon! Showtime, Synergy!

Sep
16th

Sun

50 Cent and Kanye West can feud all they like, but they ain’t got nothin on my boy Teddy Ruxpin. Represent!

Sep
15th

Sat

The cutieness continues with the Popples! Gawsh!

Sep
14th

Fri

As much as it goes against my better judgment, let’s look at some cartoons for girls! We’ll start with the Wuzzles!

Sep
10th

Mon

C.O.P.S. closing credits/ roll call. Le me add that that Mainframe was so gosh darn cute.