Adult Swim JOY!
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captain_slinkyThey've replaced Gigantor on Sunday Mornings with back-to-back "The Gary Coleman Show" and "The Super Globetrotters"!
Gigantor was an 1960's anime (one of the first I'd wager) about a giant robot. Or as I like ot call it, EVERY ANIME EVER. Okay, we get it... you Asian folk like your Giant Robots! Let's move on already!
The replacement shows, however, are some of the finest and most original programming concepts ever to have graced the small screen!
THE GARY COLEMAN SHOW - Remember Highway to Heaven? Two years before the Michael Landon-produced series went to air, and 12 years before the similar Touched by an Angel, Hanna-Barbera produced its animated series about an earthly angel solving problems. Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman (at the height of his popularity) served as the voice of apprentice guardian angel Andy LeBeau in his eponymously-named Saturday morning cartoon. Andy - because of constant blunders in angel training - is placed on probation in Heaven and is sent to Earth to solve people's problems. Episodes centered on his assignments, mistakes he made along the way, and attempts by chief villian Hornswoggle to exasperate the situation. His superior, Angelica, helps Andy work through and correct his mistakes, and ultimately foil Hornswoggle.
THE SUPER GLOBETROTTERS - This on was so brilliant I can hardly believe it took us till the late 70's to get it on the air! After having helped Gilligan and crew against the robotic basketball team in the legendary "The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's Island", what else was left for them to do? Same thing I hope to do when I retire - get super powers loosely based upon my physical appearance and take orders from an electronic basketball so I can fight crime twice a week using my clown-like basketball skills!
I gladly welcome the addition of both these cartoons to my DVR weekly recordings :)
Gigantor was an 1960's anime (one of the first I'd wager) about a giant robot. Or as I like ot call it, EVERY ANIME EVER. Okay, we get it... you Asian folk like your Giant Robots! Let's move on already!
The replacement shows, however, are some of the finest and most original programming concepts ever to have graced the small screen!
THE GARY COLEMAN SHOW - Remember Highway to Heaven? Two years before the Michael Landon-produced series went to air, and 12 years before the similar Touched by an Angel, Hanna-Barbera produced its animated series about an earthly angel solving problems. Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman (at the height of his popularity) served as the voice of apprentice guardian angel Andy LeBeau in his eponymously-named Saturday morning cartoon. Andy - because of constant blunders in angel training - is placed on probation in Heaven and is sent to Earth to solve people's problems. Episodes centered on his assignments, mistakes he made along the way, and attempts by chief villian Hornswoggle to exasperate the situation. His superior, Angelica, helps Andy work through and correct his mistakes, and ultimately foil Hornswoggle.
THE SUPER GLOBETROTTERS - This on was so brilliant I can hardly believe it took us till the late 70's to get it on the air! After having helped Gilligan and crew against the robotic basketball team in the legendary "The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's Island", what else was left for them to do? Same thing I hope to do when I retire - get super powers loosely based upon my physical appearance and take orders from an electronic basketball so I can fight crime twice a week using my clown-like basketball skills!
I gladly welcome the addition of both these cartoons to my DVR weekly recordings :)
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