Welcome to the Gospels friend! How are you doing this week? That’s good. Well anyhow I had week 1 of school, which went pretty well. Anyway what have I been up too? Pete and I have been hard at work on the new Tanglevines album. It is turning out extremely well. Today we were checking levels for a song where during the soundcheck we jamed out on some sort of deal that ended up being a new song that was really good. It’s called “Mayonaise & Snowpants,” which was originally something we wrote a year ago or so…
Speaking of rocking out is it just me or does M.C. Hammer cause everyone to want to start a rock band and play a cover of one of his songs at a show.
Ah for tonite’s editorial we’ll take a look back at one of my favorite decades again. Last week it was 80’s video games this time it’s 80’s cartoons. So buckle up.
Obviously if one is talking 80’s cartoons, The Big Three, namely GI Joe, Transformers, and He-man. While these are all supreme programs, in this editorial I plan on talking about some of the lesser known cartoons of the decade.
Gobots - While Transformers was actually a decent show, The Poor Man’s Transformers, I mean Gobots, was rediculously lame. Basically the thing that made it lame was its humans. As we speak I am perusing two books I owned when I was 4. They are both about Gobots. Now what do we got for humans in this awesome show? There’s some bocce looking white kid with blonde hair and a really funny nose (named Nick no less). There’s some man with a big mustache (a dude named Matt Hunter). And then there’s token minority and token female in one character (token black girl named A.J.). Anyway the other reason I don’t like the Gobots is Scooter. Or maybe I like it because of that. Anyway Scooter is the most retarded looking transforming robot imaginable. I actually feel sorry for it.
Nice enemy you got there Gobots.
Captain N: The Gamemaster - When it came to commercials desguised as children’s television, Capt. N couldn’t be beat (although He-man and TMNT both came close). Basically Capt. N told the story of some dude named Kevin who got sucked into his Nintendo Entertainment System click here if you are confused as to what NES is all about. Anyhow once inside his Nintendo he does all sorts of antics about versing enemies and macking it to a princess. Speaking of Nintendo, do you remember the first time Shawn beat Mario 3 where Princess goes “Sorry Mario, but our princess is in another castle….” where he threw the controler and spit on the tv. And then it goes, “Just kidding!” I beat he felt like an ass.
Kevin The Gamemaster gettin’ his grope on…
Thundercats - Ok here’s the story of Thundercats. Basically I’m like 5 or so. I think Thundercats is the grandest show on television. I owned all the original hit of toys (let’s not get into that period of any toys based on a TV show where they create mad action figures that had nothing to do with the show) except Lion-oh which my younger sister owned for some reason (at least about superhero action figures I got superman and batman, she had green lantern….) Anyhow Thundercats was the shit when I was young. I had a thundercats pencil case for christ’s sake. Anyway fast forward to whatever year I was in 10th or 11th grade. The channel known only as Cartoon Network shows some commerical about having Voltron and Thundercats coming on. HO SHIT! Two excellant shows from my past. I watch Thundercats and for some reason they…talk…like…a…bunch…of…retards. At least Panthro was black in real life.
Lion-oh really does blow…
Voltron - see entry for Thundercats only insert “Fact the the show was boring” for the part about sounding like retards. Also take out the bit about “At least Panthro was black in real life.” Actually leave it in.
Classic giant robot team…don’t believe me even power rangers followed this pattern.
Hammerman - Good god…the M.C. Hammer Cartoon. While this technically is early 90’s and not really 80’s it follows the same rediculous formula. This theme song tells the story so I don’t have to. Anyway…if you like M.C. Hammer and really crappy looking cartoons that play like an afterschool special, then check out Hammerman.
Please hammer don’t hurt me…
Anyway I think that about does it for me. I’m off to take a shower and practice writing kanji. We’ll see you next time.
