Every Superfriends episode is relevant today from addressing global warning to taking the law into your own hands even if you have the best intentions, this episode speaks to why autonomous car and auto pilot on a car should be abandoned. In 1973 whoever created this new it was a bad idea. Network driven devices,... what happens when the network goes down,.... The original Superfriends episodes should be watched by all children from age 5 to 11 and RE Watched by all adults including but not limited to CEOs and Congress. Yeah, it's that important of a series.
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Inventive Invention Tale -- With Life Lessons for Youths
jgs19357 September 2008
One of the better Season 1 episodes of Super Friends. With an hour of programming on Saturday mornings, the idea was to offer lessons to the young viewers through each story, often centering on an environmental theme. This time out, Professor Goodfellow's invention allows for people to become extremely lazy; all of their former responsibilities are taken over by the machine. The invention's far-reaching abilities are effectively revealed through a good script.
The moral arises as to the value of human industriousness, along with the potential danger of unchecked reliance on technology. The youth-identification characters of Wendy and Marvin offer the writers the use of a continuing, non-superhero cast whose ordinary lives are integrated into the story. The viewer is drawn into the conflict of sorts between the G.E.E.C.'s seeming perfection versus the superheroes' cautious guard.
As a bonus, Plastic Man guest stars. Most likely the character had never been animated before, despite having been around for over 30 years at the time (though not published for several periods). Plas was a Quality Comics hero, acquired by National (DC) Comics years earlier. For this episode, DC had both Plas and their creation, Elongated Man in their stable, either of which had the necessary ability to meet the needs of the story. For comics fans of the era, the guest appearances of Plastic Man, Green Arrow, and The Flash in the early Super Friends period sparked excitement.
The moral arises as to the value of human industriousness, along with the potential danger of unchecked reliance on technology. The youth-identification characters of Wendy and Marvin offer the writers the use of a continuing, non-superhero cast whose ordinary lives are integrated into the story. The viewer is drawn into the conflict of sorts between the G.E.E.C.'s seeming perfection versus the superheroes' cautious guard.
As a bonus, Plastic Man guest stars. Most likely the character had never been animated before, despite having been around for over 30 years at the time (though not published for several periods). Plas was a Quality Comics hero, acquired by National (DC) Comics years earlier. For this episode, DC had both Plas and their creation, Elongated Man in their stable, either of which had the necessary ability to meet the needs of the story. For comics fans of the era, the guest appearances of Plastic Man, Green Arrow, and The Flash in the early Super Friends period sparked excitement.
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ednstrong9 April 2020
So Everyone is unemployed living off Govt handouts, Bored out of their collective minds.
To ease their boredom they listen to computer generated Sports like Major league base ball and NASCAR (no one is actually playing it is all done by computer algorithms).
needless to say it doesn't end well and the world needs super hero's to straighten things out.
needless to say it doesn't end well and the world needs super hero's to straighten things out.
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