Cartoon-watching is a strange thing.
Heck, TV watching was strange. It has been absolutely peculiar for me to watch comedies and cartoons and such and then decades later watch a drama or a movie and see a comedic actor in a serious role, nearly two or three years before the comedy or sitcom.
This is about the same way cartoon-watching goes.
Grew up on Scooby Doo. Watched Jetsons in reruns. Never really did connect that Astro and Scooby have nearly the same speech mannerisms.
The Super Globetrotters are definitely not the 1970s animated Globetrotters, those same Globetrotters who appeared in 3 Scooby movies.
What makes the Super G's peculiar is hardly Sweet Lou Dunbar hiding anything and everything in his afro.
Many people seem to remember this cartoon bit and rather fondly.
It's hardly racist. Captain Caveman would do this with his fur and nobody deduced that was because he had a caucasian white nose and arms.
Curly Neal turning into a basketball was a given. Seemed to fit.
The strange aspect is definitely the recycling of the Impossibles powers into the remaining three. Why was this done? The Impossibles was a mid-1960s, completely forgotten cartoon. The Impossibles were a beatnik teen band, Flintstones-drawn. No connection whatsoever to the Super Globetrotters.
What makes the Super Globetrotters even STRANGER is the Scatman Crothers contribution.
Crothers would do Meadowlark Lemon's voice in the 1970 cartoon and the Scooby movies, but here, he is doing Geese Ausbie's voice.
I never watched the Super Globetrotters when they first aired (near 30 years ago now, my, my), but I have seen some episodes on Cartoon Network since then.
The most irritating part for me, was then and still is now, is that little crimeglobe with its wretched robotic voice 'oop-oop'ing all over the place. Just turns up entirely too often for me.
No, they weren't the Scooby movies Globetrotters. By this time, I think only two, Curly and Geese, remained, cartoon-wise, anyway.
But I'm fairly certain anyone who grew up watching Super Globetrotters had nary a recollection of the 1970 hipsters Globetrotters, the Scooby movie ones.
No harm was done.
By the way, Dynomutt would have been a mid-1970s cartoon, Birdman, Space Ghost, The Three Musketeers and Johnny Quest were all 1960s cartoons, tho Space Ghost and JQ managed to stay in reruns in some capacity, but the Super Globetrotters were a 1979 cartoon.
That time difference made a big deal to a kid.
Just examine the Krofft shows and notice how they change from Pufnstuf to Kaptain Kool to Pryor's Place.
In all liklihood, Dynomutt was long gone from the airwaves by the time Super Globetrotters began.
Heck, TV watching was strange. It has been absolutely peculiar for me to watch comedies and cartoons and such and then decades later watch a drama or a movie and see a comedic actor in a serious role, nearly two or three years before the comedy or sitcom.
This is about the same way cartoon-watching goes.
Grew up on Scooby Doo. Watched Jetsons in reruns. Never really did connect that Astro and Scooby have nearly the same speech mannerisms.
The Super Globetrotters are definitely not the 1970s animated Globetrotters, those same Globetrotters who appeared in 3 Scooby movies.
What makes the Super G's peculiar is hardly Sweet Lou Dunbar hiding anything and everything in his afro.
Many people seem to remember this cartoon bit and rather fondly.
It's hardly racist. Captain Caveman would do this with his fur and nobody deduced that was because he had a caucasian white nose and arms.
Curly Neal turning into a basketball was a given. Seemed to fit.
The strange aspect is definitely the recycling of the Impossibles powers into the remaining three. Why was this done? The Impossibles was a mid-1960s, completely forgotten cartoon. The Impossibles were a beatnik teen band, Flintstones-drawn. No connection whatsoever to the Super Globetrotters.
What makes the Super Globetrotters even STRANGER is the Scatman Crothers contribution.
Crothers would do Meadowlark Lemon's voice in the 1970 cartoon and the Scooby movies, but here, he is doing Geese Ausbie's voice.
I never watched the Super Globetrotters when they first aired (near 30 years ago now, my, my), but I have seen some episodes on Cartoon Network since then.
The most irritating part for me, was then and still is now, is that little crimeglobe with its wretched robotic voice 'oop-oop'ing all over the place. Just turns up entirely too often for me.
No, they weren't the Scooby movies Globetrotters. By this time, I think only two, Curly and Geese, remained, cartoon-wise, anyway.
But I'm fairly certain anyone who grew up watching Super Globetrotters had nary a recollection of the 1970 hipsters Globetrotters, the Scooby movie ones.
No harm was done.
By the way, Dynomutt would have been a mid-1970s cartoon, Birdman, Space Ghost, The Three Musketeers and Johnny Quest were all 1960s cartoons, tho Space Ghost and JQ managed to stay in reruns in some capacity, but the Super Globetrotters were a 1979 cartoon.
That time difference made a big deal to a kid.
Just examine the Krofft shows and notice how they change from Pufnstuf to Kaptain Kool to Pryor's Place.
In all liklihood, Dynomutt was long gone from the airwaves by the time Super Globetrotters began.
