Saturday, October 23, 2004

Cartoon Chronicles: Super Madness #8

Right, so... new embedded song! This one is by a new, up-and-coming jazz musician named Jamie Cullum. Like Norah Jones, he's one of those new people in their mid-20s who play music listened to by people like me, and anyone in their mid-50s. I first heard of the guy when he remade "Frontin' ", a song originally recorded by Pharrell from The Neptunes/NERD. This song, however, is a number titled "Twenty-Something." Click the play button to take a listen. I'd also like to start plugging my personal, animation-based, humor website. It's titled A href="http://dmoon.animationhq.net/" target="_blank">D.Moon. It's basically a bunch of parodies I've (not so) secretly written over the years, involving characters from different animated series. It's not open yet, but you can view the full website in all its glory on October 27th. It's less than a week away! You can read a preview of one of my parodies here or here. Because I encourage voting, but not uninformed voting, I want to direct everyone to SmartVoter.org. Vote or Die: It's a threat! Let's get to today's Cartoon Chronicle... and fast! Superfriends Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, a bunch of heroes with useless powers, a couple defenseless sidekicks, some minority heroes tossed in because of affirmative action form a super group. During this show's 11 year run (I'm serious. 11 years) on television, they've had quite a fe adventures. During the show's first few seasons, the 4 big heroes (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Aquaman), two teen sidekicks with no powers and training (Marvin and Wendy), and their mascott (Wonder Dog) had less than spectacular adventures. At first, some misunderstood environmentalist usually launched an attack against some big corporate mogul that ended up endangering the lives of innocent people. The Superfriends were called onto the scene, where they'd have to wrap their pretty little brains around the mystery and teach the misunderstood villain the error of his ways. Somehow, 4 of Earth's most powerful/popular heroes thought it was a good idea for 2 untrained, unpowered teenagers (Marv and Wendy) to go on recon missions, which they'd always end up having to save them from. Suddenly, Marvin and Wendy left, and were replaced with the Wonder Twins. You remember them, right? One could turn into animals, and the other turned into water-based objects? Usually, they'd turn into something useless, like an eagle carrying a bucket of water. Soon, affirmative action caught up to the Superfriends, and they had to add a handful of minority superfriends. This included Black Vulcan, who, despite the name, wasn't related to Mr. Spock. He was, however, black. Then there's Apache Chief, a modern day Native American who somehow spoke broken English as a second language. El Dorado, who was Mexican. That's about all he did-- be Mexican. Then there's Samurai, who neither carried a sword, nor spoke Japanese. All-in-all, it was a very wacky series. Oftentimes, the writers completely forgot about the laws of physics, and had the heroes do something stupid, like push a planet out of the way of an asteroid. Would I recommend it? Yes, but only for a good laugh. I can't possibly squeeze everything about the show into this entry, but if you're already familiar with the show, I recommend reading the articles at Seanbaby's page. It's funny stuff, and it makes you realize just how stupid/funny that show really was. Next time: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Heroes on a half-shell... turtle power! Much Love

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