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cbrubaker
11-23-2006, 10:28 AM
Here's a funny parody of those cheaply-produced Saturday Morning shows seen through out the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5SD2UU_XYU
Marty26
11-23-2006, 12:39 PM
LOL. The way Cheap-O cartoon man was running through that "long hallway" was hilarious.
Studio Toledo
11-23-2006, 10:24 PM
LOL. The way Cheap-O cartoon man was running through that "long hallway" was hilarious.
I think we all needed that. This was what catoons of my childhood all had to be like. If it wasn't just that, they'd mix it up with sticking a celebrity into a role or do a spin-off of some live-action show like "Fonz and the Happy Days Gang".

Speaking of which, some of the TV Funhouse shorts that were aired on SNL have finally got released on DVD a few weeks back, though it's basically the TV special that was aired back in May, albeit, a little longer as I think they left the shorts uncut this time, and some extra material like commentary tracks. I really love those for emulating that period when TV animation was in the toilet.
nickramer
11-23-2006, 10:59 PM
That was pretty funny, but what was End of Part One?
Studio Toledo
11-24-2006, 12:37 AM
That was pretty funny, but what was End of Part One?
Judging by what little infomation I could dig up, it was some comedy program produced by LWT (London Weekend Television, a former ITV channel serving London on the weekends, as Thames had the rest of the week), between 1979 and 1980. Here's one page (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1194539/index.html) that details much of the show's short two seasons on the air. Would be neat to see what a typical episode was like.

The fact though they were able to pull off such a clever joke about the state of American TV animation of the time just impresses me (as opposed to the way we can joke about it 20 years later).