Saturday, July 24, 2004

Unemployment / Cartoon Chronicles: Teen Sleuth Toons #6

I quit my job. July 17: My manager tells us he's being transferred to a new Cunningham Field Services location in Colorado. Because the assistant manager is also his roommate, he's taking the assistant manager with him. A new manager will come in the following Thursday. July 21: The manager and assistant manager say their goodbyes, leaving Monica and myself as the only employees in the office. July 22: Jennifer, the new manager, comes in. Monica doesn't show up for work. July 23: Monica comes in late, informing me and the new manager that she has quit. I become the only employee at our location. Today: I realize that I cannot personally take on the duties of an entire office. Failure to make our required quotas was inevitable, and chances of me being fired were about 1:1. So I quit. Josie and the Pussycats Long tails and ears for hats. They were the second meddling kids, but the first meddling rock-&-roll band. The band was Josie, Melody, and Valerie. Accompanying them were their managers Alexander and Alexandra, Josie's boyfriend Alan, and a pussycat named Sebastian. And get this: Sebastian didn't talk. Alexander was always trying to find the girls a good gig, Alexandra was trying to steal Alan from Josie, and Alan was just sorta... there. They managed to sneak a few good jokes in there, and I swear Josie almost called Alexandra a bitch in every episode. They even got a spin-off, Josie and the Pussycats in Outerspace. While nowhere near as popular (or good) as the original, this makes it one of the only three cartoons of its kind to get a spin-off series. The others would be Scooby Doo and Fangface (which I never saw). The Pussycats also got a live-action adaptation movie. While I never saw it, I did hear the song "Three Small Words"... a lot. Whether or not it was a good song in general, I think it had a very Pussycat feel to it, while being contemporary at the time. Better than a 60s-style song in the year 2001, but still something you'd expect from a girlband. Despite Sebastian being a cat, he was not the main focus of the show. He didn't talk, which is something we got a little too much from Hanna Barbera on shows starring humans. This show, however, does suffer from Scooby Lookalike Syndrome. Alexander looked like a shorter version of Shaggy, and Alan looked like Fred on steroids. If you ignore the limited artwork of HB's animators, this was a pretty good show. Would I recommend it? Well, it makes my top 3 in terms of Teen Sleuth Toons. So yes, I recommend it. Next Time: Scooby Doo, Where Are You? And the 12,000 spin-offs it spawned. Much Love

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