Super Globetrotters---eeeccckkk!

I woke up early the other morning, couldn't get back to sleep.
So I got up and turn on the TV and there at 5:30am on the
Cartoon Network was "The Super Globetrotters" !

I didn't remember this epic, it's got to be the worst cartoon ever.
It was mind numbing, I threw in a DVD-R because I knew
my friends would not comprehend just how bad it was.

When we watched it we got a few laughs, but overall we just
sat there slack jawed ,wondering how in the world did this EVER
get on the air.

One of my friends did get something out of the show.
A new user-name for the internet, "Top Secret Mystery Robot".

A few google clicks later and I found out that NBC ran this on in 1979
Saturday Mornings at 10:30, and it only lasted 13 episodes.
I guess kids aren't as dumb as Hanna-Barberra thinks they are.

Anyone else remember this lame bucket of puss?

 

maybe. I remember them being on Scooby Doo and Gilligans Island. What was the deal with all that ****?

 

Did you ever notice when a cartoon series was starting to bomb,
they'd send them into outer space with a monkey?

 

AGH.

I watched them when I was young. Now that Boomerang is showing them, I got a chance to check them out again.

With cartoons such as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, I have no clue as to why would someone show the Super Globetrotters. It's easily one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen....

 

That "Fro" is bad, and I don't mean "bad" as in "good".

 

Awesome pic... I had to stare at it for like 5 minutes until I realised that the giant basketball is actually a person.

And one of them is some sort of slinky... fantastic.

 

I remember this show. I loved it at the time. I was only seven though. I don't know how I'd like it if I saw it today though.

 

want worse? watch Disney Chanel

 

I remember that show. And as someone already mentioned, I recall seeing the Globetrotters on some of those awful 'Scooby Doo And Friends' episodes. You know, the ones where they solved mysteries with 'guests' like the 3 Stooges and stuff? Terrible, just terrible. Yet I watched them since I was 8 or 9 and nothing else better was on. Things eventually got even worse with characters like Scrappy Doo...

The mid 70s to late 80s were the darkest ages in animation, IMHO. Just about any current children's programming is better than all that garbage we grew up with. :thumbsdn:

dan c

 

You just made me remember stuff like "The Gary Coleman Show", or "Gilligan's Planet". I'll be sending you my psychiatrist bill.

 

Here's another one for your psychiatrist...the cartoon version of The Dukes Of Hazzard, cleverly called 'The Dukes'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085010/

:thumbsdn:

Worst...toon...EVER!

dan c

 

Oh! I hate when that happens. (And it happens a lot.) It is such a non-creative, no talent, whorish cliche.

 

Josie and the Pussycats was great until they turned into The Pussycats in outer space and had a pet something.

Melody was hot...

 

http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/code/1000490655.do?promo=toutGTROThome

This series is now available for purchase on DVD for just $24.95!

~Ben

 

I'm guessing you haven't watched any current childrens programming. It hasn't changed much.

 

If you want a contemporary homage/take/spoofing of those 70s-era 'toons, I'd like to direct your attention to the new "Mike Tyson Mysteries."

 

I'm not sure how many globetrotter shows there were. There was Popcorn Machine, but I want to say that was live action. I also remember a cartoon globetrotter a with a character who could find anything they needed inside his huge Afro! He'd pull out a microphone or frying pan or whatever. I was really little and it freaked me out.

Looking at the photo from the OP, perhaps that was Super Globetrotters.

 

Besides this 1979 series, there was the 1970-72 CBS series The Harlem Globetrotters.

NBC, in addition to having re-aired the original CBS Globetrotters cartoon as part of its Go-Go Globetrotters compilation block (which also had reruns of C.B. Bears as well as the original 1960s Space Ghost and Herculoids episodes), and of course this 1979 series, also aired a four-part animated special (kudos again to Hanna-Barbera) in 1980 called The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White. The same network also aired the 1981 live-action telefilm The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.

~Ben

 

The biggest mystery is: "Why was this show ever made?"

 

I think irony is apparently still one of the "hip" fads presently.
The line between what’s “cool” because it’s “cool” and what’s “cool” because it’s ironic has blurred too heavily.
It's a variation on the "sarcastic" teens from that "Hullabalooza" episode of "The Simpsons":



“Are you trying to be ironic?”
“I don’t know anymore.”

 

*looks at pic... has an epiphany*

HB ripped off themselves by ripping off The Impossibles.

 

Haven't seen it yet myself, but Tyson Mysteries has actually got pretty decent reviews so far. It's apparently your typical Adult Swim brand of strangeness, but a better-than-most one, if you like those kind of shows.

 

This cartoon series has even been remastered to DVD-R by Warner Archives.