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Topic	The 100 Dumbest Events In Children's Television History- Part 2 (The Top 30)
RySenkari 07/07/23 7:32:49 AM #7:	#30: Toons In Space! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/4/AAAG8cAAEotc.jpg I'm pretty sure if someone tried using that font today, Disney would sue. This is another one that actually appeared on the original 100 Dumbest list, ranking #87 overall and thus ranking #2 amongst kids' television events. While I don't quite have "Animation studios (but mostly Hanna-Barbara) go for a quick cash grab by ripping off Star Wars and sending their IPs to space" as high as #2 on my list, it's still pretty remarkable, in a very bad way, just how many cheap Star Wars space knockoff cartoons were launched in the months after the film's release. I've already touched on Jabberjaw and how there were so many Scooby-Doo knockoffs in the 1970s, but this is even more shameless, with cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats and Yogi Bear getting space-themed knockoffs, cartoons like Space Academy and Space Sentinels being hastily thrown together to capitalize on the Star Wars fad, and the failed Partridge Family sci-fi cartoon, Partridge Family 2200 AD (which was canceled in 1975), getting a name change to Partridge Family In Outer Space and having its re-runs thrown back on Fred Flintstone and Friends. The Star Wars ripple effect continued for YEARS thanks to the success of the sequels, with Gilligan's Planet being made in 1982 as an animated remake of the original live-action show, but with space aliens and sci-fi themes. None of these space cartoons were any good, and none of them lasted very long, as kids were smart enough to distinguish between the Star Wars movies that they liked and these hastily thrown together cartoons that they hated. This was TV animation at its absolute nadir, by the late 70s and early 80s studios were just throwing things at the wall to see what stuck, and very few things did. You haven't heard the last from this era either, there are a couple more cartoons that are even worse than the space craze, and they'll be showing up even higher on this list... --- This signature won't change until Chrono Trigger gets a re-release on a modern Nintendo console. <cite>RySenkari posted [p:974680334] in The 100 Du... [t:80501662]...</cite> <quote>#30: Toons In Space!https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/4/AAAG8cAAEotc.jpg I'm pretty sure if someone tried using that font today, Disney would sue.This is another one that actually appeared on the original 100 Dumbest list, ranking #87 overall and thus ranking #2 amongst kids' television events. While I don't quite have "Animation studios (but mostly Hanna-Barbara) go for a quick cash grab by ripping off Star Wars and sending their IPs to space" as high as #2 on my list, it's still pretty remarkable, in a very bad way, just how many cheap Star Wars space knockoff cartoons were launched in the months after the film's release. I've already touched on Jabberjaw and how there were so many Scooby-Doo knockoffs in the 1970s, but this is even more shameless, with cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats and Yogi Bear getting space-themed knockoffs, cartoons like Space Academy and Space Sentinels being hastily thrown together to capitalize on the Star Wars fad, and the failed Partridge Family sci-fi cartoon, Partridge Family 2200 AD (which was canceled in 1975), getting a name change to Partridge Family In Outer Space and having its re-runs thrown back on Fred Flintstone and Friends. The Star Wars ripple effect continued for YEARS thanks to the success of the sequels, with Gilligan's Planet being made in 1982 as an animated remake of the original live-action show, but with space aliens and sci-fi themes. None of these space cartoons were any good, and none of them lasted very long, as kids were smart enough to distinguish between the Star Wars movies that they liked and these hastily thrown together cartoons that they hated. This was TV animation at its absolute nadir, by the late 70s and early 80s studios were just throwing things at the wall to see what stuck, and very few things did. You haven't heard the last from this era either, there are a couple more cartoons that are even worse than the space craze, and they'll be showing up even higher on this list... --- This signature won't change until Chrono Trigger gets a re-release on a modern Nintendo console.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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