08/20/2003 Entry: "New Article: Freddy Krueger Toyzzzz!"

New Article: Meant to have this one in before the movie hit, but one of the items took too long to get here. It was a Nightmare. HHHAHAHH. Today's article takes an in-depth and firsthand and burned-flesh look at three of Freddy Krueger's strangest toys, ranging from head-shaped water guns to naked man dolls with snap-on Freddy accessories. Also, this week's shorter-than-usual Top 11 covers some of the strangest animated spinoffs ever, from Back To The Future to a Gilligan's Island set in outer space. Mmm hmm. By the way, I'm officially sick of summer. I want my dead leaves now.

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 08/20/2003 07:22 PM EST

Great list as usual and it makes me happy to comment after the annoying blackout, got stuck in Boston, then got stuck outside Port Authority for a couple hours until I was informed that they moved bus traffic to that weird place with the dolphins on the wall around the corner. Needless to say the farther I got away from Boston and New York the happier I was and it's good to be back home in Houston! Now let us mature and appreciate some toons.
#11 One of the few shows that I can say that the opening theme song, Queen, was the highlight.
#10 Never saw and to be honest I am far too stupid to comprehend the idea.
#9 Awesome cartoon for the simple fact that they let Piper wear his skirt.
#8 Vaguely remember this but wasn't there a live show that was the exact same concept first?
#7 Makes me grin knowing that George Lucas is both troubled and somewhat of a liar. Does anybody believe he had the whole thing planned back in the 70's? Still love the movies, even the new ones for the sparse reasons of Natalie Portman, Star Wars universe, Anakin's wooden acting, and more Yoda.
#6 Interesting but even at six years old I knew this show was extremely inaccurate with history.
#5 This show was good dammit! What did kill it was the Teen Wolf sequel, may you burn in the ninth circle of Hell Jason Bateman. At least they didn't make a cartoon out "The Hogan Family".
#4 Beetlejuice was a great cartoon, it was quite a change from Burton's movie to this John Water's like animation. Doomie was the coolest living car ever and that includes "My Mother the Car" and "Teen Car". They had to be on something.
#3 I still have my complete set of toys from my Sonic kids meals. I also remember Bill Nye doing his thing on the show, the animation was crappy but my only complaint is that the tuning fork thing never really works on frogs.
#2 This cartoon sucked.
#1 This cartoon was cool, whenever I see it I can't help but think that it would have been great with Buffy.

Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/20/2003 07:43 PM EST

Wow. I remember that cheesey stick up Freddy. I had gotten in one christmas as a stocking stuffer. come to think of it, i asked for alot of twisted shit that christmas... a toy chainsaw, a freddy glove, the talking freddy doll, a hockey mask, and a bunch of other shit that should have made my parents haul my ass out to a shrink. now that i think of it, there was this one freddy toy that i had always wanted, but could never find in stores. they were along the lines of mad balls (i think). they were heads that had slash marks across their faces. parent groups went nuts, and most stores pulled them. of course, this just made me want it more, and my mother went on all kinds of impossible quest to locate those frigging things, but to no avail. christ, my parents went a long way to indulge my sick childhood interests.

Chestnuts roasted by Greg of The Tree People @ 08/20/2003 07:51 PM EST

I've only really seen the last four. I think I've seen a small bit of Gilligan's Planet, like maybe five minutes.

When I saw "Bill Nye, The Science Guy" for the first time (I was just curious, I SWEAR!), it took me a while to recognize the host. Then, once it clicked, I couldn't help but say all day...

"That science guy from Back To The Future has his own show now! No, not Doc, that other guy. No, the cartoon, not the movies! You know, that guy who acts like Beakman? Yeah, him! He's got his own show!"

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/20/2003 07:58 PM EST

Hey matt you forgot my favorite cartoon spinoff Punky Brewster. It's ok you probaly did not like it because you are a boy and had nothing to do with girly cartoons.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/20/2003 08:29 PM EST

You could probably put something else instead of water in that squirting mask thing. For a real quick and real effective practical joke, you could try hydrochloric acid. I mean, you'd have to be pretty quick to prevent it from melting the plastic and your hand, but if you can pull it off and you manage to get a headshot too, you could claim that the spirit of Freddy is trying to make everyone look like him. Maybe that's a little over the top though, I don't know.

And thinking about that Top 11 list, I really miss the days when I would come home from school and watch "Shake, Rattle, n' Roll", "Beetlejuice", "James Bond Junior", and Nick Toons....

Hah! I remember James Bond Junior, I always mocked his accent. I still watched the show though, but then I'd watch just about anything.

Makes me grin knowing that George Lucas is both troubled and somewhat of a liar. Does anybody believe he had the whole thing planned back in the 70's?

Probably not the whole thing, but I think he did have some ideas he still wanted to work out at any rate. The man probably wrote over a dozen different screenplays before he ended up with the final script for A New Hope, and I think quite a few elements in those early drafts return in the prequels. I distinctly remember the name "Mace Windu" at any rate. And even if parts I to III weren't really part of the original plan, he did intend to make a complete trilogy if the first was successful, and presumably the "Episode IV/V/VI" didn't come from nowhere either.

And yes, I am a pretty sad individual.

Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 08/20/2003 08:45 PM EST

Since I don't really have the stomach for slasher horror flicks (I shook for an hour after seeing the bloodless Nicole Kidman spook-fest "The Others" two years ago), I'm going to bypass Freddy Kruger and go straight to the top 11 list.

#11 - Don't remember this one at all, probably because I hated almost all sports with a passion as a kid.
#10 - I missed this one by a year - my earliest Saturday morning memories seem to come from 1984.
#9 - Vaguely remember this one, but I've never really been a fan of wrestling.
#8 - Also missed this one, which may be just as well, because I burnt out on "Gilligan's Island" re-runs fairly early and have never really re-gained interest.
#7a - Since I'm one of two "Star Wars" fans in the universe who isn't too bothered by the Ewoks, you'd think I'd remember this one, but I had no idea it existed until a few episodes were released on video a while back.
#7b - ....And I only knew about the existance of "Droids" because my little brother rented it so much my mom finally gave in and bought him the tape when the video store sold it. The leads are bland, but it's overall not bad, and the droids do what they do best - be funny.
#6 - I loved this show as a kid, even though I knew all too well how innaccurate it was.
#5 - I agree with Happenin' Mojo - this is one of the better shows on the list, and a personal favorite. It was part of the great CBS line-up that included "Muppet Babies," "Pee Wee's Playhouse," "Galaxy High School" (speaking of weird cartoons...), and "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures."
#4 - My kid sister adored both "Beetlejuice" the movie and this cartoon. The movie's a little odd for my taste, though it has its moments. The cartoon wasn't quite as imaginative, but was certainly engaging enough.
#3 - This was one of the last cartoons I watched reguarly until we had our cable (and networks) turned off in 1992. Doc Brown's amusing riffs on science and the 'toons accompianing them were fun and, at the very least, somewhat more accurate with science than "Bill and Ted" were with history.
#2 - I've never been a huge "Alf" fan, either, so I never caught this one.
#1 - A long-standing favorite, and one of the few good cartoons I remember on ABC in the late 80s - early 90s. ("Beetlejuice" was another.) I actually had something of a crush on Egon for a time.

Wes, I remember "Hammerman." Oh, yes, I do. It wasn't plesant. The "New Kids on the Block" cartoon from the same era (late 80s - early 90s) was even worse. Picture "Superstars," but with a bunch of dull teenage boys having the adventures instead of a bunch of adult sports stars. Tell me again why all the girls in school in the early 90s raved and ranted over those guys again?

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/20/2003 08:59 PM EST

How long has FOX Box (or Fox kids, or whatever) been showing the Back to the Future cartoon? I turned the TV on on morning, and I had a serious "WTF?!" moment, and just sat there fixed watching it. And it actually stood up pretty well for it's age too.

Wish they'd put it on DVD though...

Chestnuts roasted by Lim @ 08/20/2003 09:00 PM EST

Hell yeah!!!
Cant get much better than Ghostbusters.

And whats life without Micheal J. Fox. I remeber when the cartoon 1st came out there was a tie-in with McDonald's. Some of the coolest Happy Meal toys ever. Next to Changeables of course.

Alf, I fall asleep thinking about him every night. Need I say more.

Chestnuts roasted by Yankee Clipper @ 08/20/2003 09:29 PM EST

I remember all those cartoons except the alf and teen wolf ones. Which is odd, since I love teen wolf with an amazing passion. Rock n wrestling reminds me of www.codehulkster.com . oops.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 08/20/2003 09:30 PM EST

Don't forget Kid N Play's animated show. They reprised their animated selfs for the Tin Fins episode of Selab 2021.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 08/20/2003 09:44 PM EST

I'm also sick of summer. too many days in a row of 100+ temps. and 90% humidity is just miserable. But i've already got the dead leaves thanks to the no rain in weeks. Yay

Chestnuts roasted by Stacey @ 08/20/2003 10:01 PM EST

I'm guessing Matt had a real good time playing with that stupid Freddy doll (Seeths with envy.)

Chestnuts roasted by Lodin @ 08/20/2003 10:13 PM EST

Hey... this is rather off topic, so I'll start out by saying that the weirdest thing to me about the Beetlejuice cartoon is how people who BJ basically attempted to extort, rape and murder are now his friends and go on wacky adventure with french skeletons and whiny girl spiders...

Anyway... while watching "I Love the 70s" I saw a commercial for "I Love the 80s Strikes Back!" I was reminded of a comment from Matt about being in New York for something on VH1... and lo and behold today Could this be the mysterious reason Matt is in talks with VH1??? They really skimmed over all the cool toys and other things in the first series... Maybe Matt will soon joined the esteemed ranks of Michael Ian Black and Mo Rocca...

Chestnuts roasted by CLMoose @ 08/20/2003 11:10 PM EST

Hey Matt,speaking of Ghostbusters,do you think sometime you could do an article about the Filmation Ghostbusters? They had toys,and a lunchbox,I think.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 08/20/2003 11:46 PM EST

James bond jr. chases Scum.....around the world

that show was soo lame

Chestnuts roasted by satas @ 08/21/2003 02:57 AM EST

Beetlejuice and Real Ghostbusters Owned! Beetlejuice had all the best gross humor(of course ren & stimpy did also) and Ghostbusters had Slimer!! Without him there would be no ECTO COOLER!!!...what more could you want in a cartoon? : )

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 08/21/2003 02:57 AM EST

Haha...me and my cousins would watch the opening of james bond jr and then turn it off because we didnt like the show but we liked to laugh at the stuff in the opening, but i dont remember what was in it..lol

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 08/21/2003 03:00 AM EST

I think I was the only kid that liked James Bond Jr. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Evan Talbott @ 08/21/2003 04:34 AM EST

I'm sick of summer as well.

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 08/21/2003 09:36 AM EST

Yeah, Egon.... His hair is actually a crepe.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 08/21/2003 10:00 AM EST

But my personal favorite spinoff was The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley show. Count Floyd, The Freebuses, Wendell & Roger, Sheldon, the kid that could perfectly imitate other people's voices. And of course, Miss Malone. Ah....Miss Malone. So sexy... So...O'Hara..?

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 08/21/2003 10:08 AM EST

So I visited i-mockery and read the Top 10 Freddy Kills list and decided to surf around since I hadn't visited i-mockery in a while. A lot of people seem to consider F13 VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan the worst film in the series. But, dude, F13 IX: Jason Goes to Hell. The fuck? With the voodoo tables and the short, hairy gnome S&M and suddenly the Vorhees were the nouveau riche with the spacious homes and the antique Queen Anne furniture?

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 08/21/2003 11:00 AM EST

sorry if someone already mentioned this, im in a bit of a rush..

but..

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0823/13.jpg

for the love of god why does he have all those little spots on his crotch?

plastic herpes?

Chestnuts roasted by mannik @ 08/21/2003 11:00 AM EST

for the love of god why does he have all those little spots on his crotch?

Guy missed bikini wax season.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 08/21/2003 11:02 AM EST

i for one was expecting a dick shot.

Chestnuts roasted by julia badtouch @ 08/21/2003 11:17 AM EST

Talk about timing ... I'm currently selling my MIB MAXX FX Freddy Figure on eBay. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out ... thanks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3142543149

Chestnuts roasted by POP CULTURE DEBRIS @ 08/21/2003 11:21 AM EST

Matt,
You say about the Real Ghostbusters cartoon having Garfield's voice in Peter Venkman's body... Does anyone else see the irony in having Bill Murray supply the lead voice in the new Garfield movie?

I laughed for what seemed like 3 seconds when I heard about that one...

Chestnuts roasted by PDT @ 08/21/2003 11:59 AM EST

I'm surprised that the Toxic Avenger spin-off "Toxic Crusaders" didn't make the list. Hearing Lloyd Kaufman talk about his R rated horror film being made into an eco-friendly Saturday morning cartoon was one fo the funniest experiences I've had.

Along the same lines as Toxie, anyone here watch the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon? That was a weird one too (I still get a kick out of the fact that John Astin voiced his character).

Chestnuts roasted by Jimbo @ 08/21/2003 01:05 PM EST

Oh wow, Beakman's World. Holy crap, that would be one of those "Watched on Saturday Mornings as a Kid, Forgot, Remembered, Missed".

So I'll present another:
BRING BACK EEK THE CAT!

*still doesn't have his Unicron yet*

Chestnuts roasted by Ian, Just Ian @ 08/21/2003 01:43 PM EST

Freddy + Mini Me =
http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0823/7.jpg ???

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 08/21/2003 01:53 PM EST

You guys are so young. I had to put up with "Partridge Family 2200AD" which confused my young mind into thinking:
"If the cartoon Partridge family is the Partridges in space then George Jettson in space must be George Jefferson. I wonder why he isn't black."

God that Gilligan's planet was awful. One episode, they discovered a race of aliens where the females worked and the males stayed home and cooked and cleaned and wore aprons. All 80's cartoons had lessons, 70's cartoons were short on lessons even if they sucked.

The WWF show was pretty cool.

That Laverne and Shirley Cartoon was cashing in on the success of "Private Benjamin" not the cold war.

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 08/21/2003 02:02 PM EST

I MET beakman! He was doing an appearance to help fund a kids museum here in Kansas City, or just promoting his show. Who knows?

Chestnuts roasted by spazzamatic @ 08/21/2003 02:33 PM EST

Rock'N Wrestling was the shit! I also hated James Bond Junior with a passion. But I did watch Toxic Crusaders and Ataack of the Killer Tomatoes. By the way, does anyone know where I can find the Toxic Crusaders' theme song?

Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 08/21/2003 03:33 PM EST

Why is everyone hating on James Bond Junior?

I suppose one is inclined to one's own opinion. However I agree that Eek the Cat should return and save the next generation from crap like..um... most everything on Cartoon Network. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes had a pretty cool theme song, as I remember it.

Chestnuts roasted by Silva Krown @ 08/21/2003 03:59 PM EST

EEK the cat!!!! best after-school cartoon ever!!!. anyone else remember EEKsy rider?

Chestnuts roasted by julia badtouch @ 08/21/2003 04:01 PM EST

I have that freddy stick up figure somewhere, now I must go find it. Thanks for ruining my afternoon.

Chestnuts roasted by sweepthelegjohnny @ 08/21/2003 04:56 PM EST

I'm a little surprised you overlooked the toy Freddy glove with the plastic blades. Once you got past the novelty of flipping off your friends, and picking your nose with it, it still had it's charm. Also, no mention of the infamous talking Freddy doll from Matchbox, which was pulled after parent's groups thoughta cuddly talking doll of a child molestor was a bad idea.

Chestnuts roasted by Kool-Aid Man @ 08/21/2003 05:05 PM EST

One of the websites I regularly visit is www.toontracker.com which does an excellent job of presenting rarely seen cartoons. There are a number of Prime Time to Saturday Morning cartoons listed on that site that I missed completly...along with L&S, both "Happy Days" and "Mork & Mindy" had cartoon versions (and apparently all the actors including Robin Williams did their own voices.) Also there was "The Dukes" (Apparently Bo and Luke ripped off Wacky Races as Uncle Jessie stayed at home and held conversations with a raccoon) the afore mentioned "Partrage Family 2200 AD" and "My Favorite Martians" both before my time. And my favorite part of "A Very Brady Sequel" ... "My God, I'm tripping with the Bradys!" Now THOSE are weird cartoons. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 08/21/2003 06:20 PM EST

Oh wow, Beakman's World. Holy crap, that would be one of those "Watched on Saturday Mornings as a Kid, Forgot, Remembered, Missed".

Word up. Back when I still received the Children's Channel I watched that show religiously, up to the point where they got that new girl. She was a lot sexier, but just didn't do the job as well as the other one (or so I thought at the time, anyway).

Eek! is classic, and they're still running the show on Dutch TV (albeit dubbed these days, which is terrible).

Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 08/21/2003 07:42 PM EST

About Gilligan's planet. In one episode they made another rocket to escape the planet and it crashed on an island. So on top of being marooned on a planet, now they were marroned on an island on that planet.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/21/2003 08:33 PM EST

You want scary Toon spinoffs how about the Brady Bunch cartoon.
Still Surprised noone made a M*A*S*H cartoon I guess only so much Jamie Farr is legaly allowed by the Geneva Convention.

Chestnuts roasted by Eurotrash @ 08/22/2003 01:19 AM EST

You know what the greatest part about remembering all these old shows is? I lived in Mexico until i was 9, so it's fun to remember how dumb the spanish versions of shows were. Here are my top 10 Show/Character translations.(in a very non-elaborate order)
1- Ghostbusters= Los Casafantasmas(say THAT three times fast)
2-Cobra Commander was "El Comandante Cobra" No big change there, but he sounds so much more like a Colombian president. ^_^
3- Smurfs AKA "Los Pitufos" .... nuff said.
4- "He-Man, y los Amos del Universo" The best part part was his metamorphosis: "Por el poder de Greyskull... Yo soy HE-MAN!!!!"
5- La Abeja Maya (Maya the Bee). I LOVE that stupid song!
6- Least effort was done on Skelletor "Eskeletor"
7- I always felt odd watchin GI JOE in Mexico. I had no idea they were US soldiers ha!
8- The Spanish word foe whale is "Ballena" Remember that Matt.
9- I said i had ten. I lied. I feel sleepy.
10- I lied about having lied.

*The last two items on the list are true.
**The previous statement is a lie. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Sagir @ 08/22/2003 06:19 AM EST

matt... are u going to give u's u'r take on freddy vs jason? i am curious to hear what u think of it. i loved it! :)

Chestnuts roasted by jessica_76 @ 08/22/2003 07:54 AM EST

i watched NMoES 3Dream Warriors(first time)last night and the scene with the punk chick with her switchblades walking down a dirty alley was like watching live action Double Dragon. I can't believe it was a coincidence considering the time. And the D+D shit was hysterical.

Chestnuts roasted by msa @ 08/22/2003 09:28 AM EST

Garrison I watched that Dukes of Hazzard Cartoon. Oddly it came out right after "Bo and Luke" left the Prime Time show and were replaced by "Coy and Vance". The cartoon featured "Bo and Luke" and the General Lee had a few extra features like it could make tank treads or balloon tires that would allow it to float. If it had come out a year earlier, it probably would have been a much bigger success.

I had forgotten all about the "My Favorite Martian" cartoon. Bill Bixby's character was also an alien in the cartoon and had two antennae while "Mr. Hand's" characher retained the single antenna in the back. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 08/22/2003 12:06 PM EST

hey matt

Wesley willis has died. He was 40 yrs old and had luekemia. please please do some sort of tribute for him.

i am sad.

Chestnuts roasted by Julia Badtouch @ 08/22/2003 02:13 PM EST

"That Laverne and Shirley Cartoon was cashing in on the success of "Private Benjamin" not the cold war."

I also remember Popeye cashing in on it. Remember the cartoon series where Olive Oyl is in boot camp, along with Alice the Goon and guest spots with Geep? I would have loved to have been at the network meeting where they round tabled that one. "So, Bob, what me and the boys down in writing have come up with is Popeye's girlfriend in the army, oh yeah, and we baked one mean sumbeatch batch of hash brownies. Try one, it makes the pitch sound better."

Chestnuts roasted by nate_omega @ 08/22/2003 03:08 PM EST

Actually there was a MASH parody cartoon. I never saw it, but there was an mid 70's show called "Uncle Croc's Block" starring Charles Nelson Reilly in a parody of 50s kids shows. He would show cartoons on his show, one of which was "MUSH" starring the cast of MASH as dogs in Alaska. I'd like to see a tape of the show if anyone knows where it might be gotten.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 08/22/2003 06:57 PM EST

Ghostbusters gets a truly deserved #1 on the chart; that was a really good one. Bitchin' toys.

Droids and Ewoks is kinda wierd though; I loved ROTJ, but never really was sure how to take the cartoon. I do seem to remember some pretty funky toys and action figures being spawned out of it ( Matt, anybody, do you remember cartoon C3PO and R2 action figures?)

Conan the Barbarian had a fairly cool cartoon in the early 90's

Chestnuts roasted by Krappy Kat @ 08/22/2003 11:56 PM EST

can someone please tell me the deal with foxbox? is it a channel?or a lineup and if so tell me what channel I have Dishnetwork so I may just not get it thanx.

Chestnuts roasted by thefatkid @ 08/23/2003 12:10 AM EST

I think foxbox is just the name for the cartoon line-up on Fox tv stations, like KidsWB is the name for the WB cartoon line-up.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 08/23/2003 05:14 AM EST

Prostars...oddly enough, I remember watching this show, although I've never given a rat's ass about sports.

L&S in the Army escaped me for some reason, although I was 4-6 at the time.

Rock 'N' Wrestling was also one I watched, although I never gave a rat's ass about wrestling, either.

I never saw Gilligan's Planet either, which I think is a pity.

I remember Ewoks and Droids...I even have some of the Star comics based on the series...if anyone's interested...

I loved the Bill and Ted cartoon...it wasn't great, but it kept my heroes alive...and it was better than the live action show, by far.

Teen Wolf was odd, just odd.

I remember watching Beetlejuice, but I don't remember much about it...it was alright, just something I watched because it was on, I think.

Back to the Future was the shiznit. Oddly enough, Christopher Lloyd played Doc in the live action bits, but didn't provide the voice for the cartoon...WTF?

I remember liking Alf Tales more than the Alf cartoon, because it was familiar subject matter...I didn't give a rat's ass about Alf's life on Melmac, I was all about seeing Alf and his pals reenact The Wizard of Oz.

The Real Ghostbusters was also the proverbial shiznit...the Sandman creeped me out.

All in all, any of these shows would be prime candidates for X-E reviews...

Matt, so many other spin-offs have been mentioned, I think we need a sequel to the list...

Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 08/23/2003 01:10 PM EST

Garrison, MUSH and a lot of other Filmation shows were released on home video in the eighties and you can still get them on Ebay.

Chestnuts roasted by microfiche @ 08/23/2003 07:58 PM EST

There's also a site called www.wingnuttoons.com

It's a sort of cartoon preservation club, where you can pretty much acquire almost any episode of almost cartoon series. It costs a 'donation' of about 10-20 bucks a tape (there's usually several episodes on one video), and this guy has a whole ton of stuff. I got my (almost) complete collection of the Dungeons&Dragons
through this site; if you're totally obsessed with one of the above or other series and you'd like to get as many episodes as possible, then this is the place to go; very reliable and quick too

Chestnuts roasted by Krappy Kat @ 08/24/2003 03:43 AM EST

I clearly recall a cartoon featuring Laverne and Shirley as half-assed superheroes -- half-assed literally, as they had found a super power suit (in a blunt ripoff from 'The Greatest American Hero') and, unable to agree who should wear it, spilt the costume in half -- one of the girls getting the powers inherent in the suit's top, and the other wearing the super pants. I assume Laverne got the shirt, since that would allow them to carry her monogram schtick into a superheroic design. What I don't recall was whether this was a short-lived cartoon of its own, or just a single episode of 'L&S in the Army', or a backup feature on the Fonz cartoon...

Chestnuts roasted by Jack Hare @ 03/05/2004 07:52 PM EST