Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Yeah, I found the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff to be disorienting when I saw it as a kid and not always in a good way.

Compared to space dinosaurs spewing exploding brain pellets and latter day Beatles songs, Sid and Marty Croft were lightweights. No issues here.

 

[CleverNickName]

The TV shows I remember watching in the 1970s are reruns of I Dream of Jeanie, The Brady Bunch, Welcome Back Kotter, and WKRP in Cincinnati.

 

[Saracenus]

My wife thought she had hallucinated H. R. Pufnstuf during her childhood, then when we combined our DVD collections she saw that I had the entire series and she made the following face:

And don't sleep on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and Jason of Star Command.

 

[overgeeked]

is different than "a stalker is going to break the legs of the cast of a cartoon show aimed at elementary schoolers."

Shrug. Some kids like horror. Goosebumps is an evergreen brand. It’s only surprising that it took so long for someone to do it. Well, redo it. Even back in the 30s-50s there were pulps with worse violence and outright horror. To say nothing of horror comics. EC Comics. Tales from the Crypt. Vault of Horror. Haunt of Fear. CrimeSuspense. Etc. All aimed squarely at kids. It’s big business. Always is.

 

[overgeeked]

You missed Birdman, The Herculoids, and Johnny Quest (the '60s).

I was just hitting the gonzo live-action stuff. The list of violent kids cartoons is effectively infinite.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Shrug. Some kids like horror. Goosebumps is an evergreen brand. It’s only surprising that it took so long for someone to do it. Well, redo it. Even back in the 30s-50s there were pulps with worse violence and outright horror. To say nothing of horror comics. EC Comics. Tales from the Crypt. Vault of Horror. Haunt of Fear. CrimeSuspense. Etc. All aimed squarely at kids. It’s big business. Always is.

This Sonic show my kid inexplicably likes isn't horror. It isn't anything, really. It's very much low-effort CGI garbage with no tone, characters or anything. It's just visual wallpaper. It's too old to be AI-generated, but if it were, it would be hard to tell the difference.

The writers -- which is a strong word to use in connection with this show -- were just tossing plots they knew at the show, trusting that no one involved cared that much.

 

[dragoner]

Thundarr was probably the end of cartoon age for me.

 

[Saracenus]

I will say when you get put in the Gifted and Talented Program in middle school in the US all sorts of amazing opportunities abound for the teenager with little sense and way too much book knowledge.

Let's see... Aluminum powder grenades set off near the seismograph sensors, writing basic code on early Apple IIe's with 5.25 floppies for storage instead of tape recorders and cassettes, learning that magnets were a great way to mess with your rivals programs when put near their floppies, and use of a Gammtor to do radiation experiments (yes, I studied the effects of gamma rays on tropical fish as a kid).

Friends doing g-force experiments using model rockets and lab rats, it never ended well. RTFM kids when building your rocket. I don't even want to talk about trying to use a centrifuge as g-force simulator. That was just sick and wrong even for my underdeveloped sense of right and wrong at that age.

That is before you start hammering off the tips of CO2 cartridges to see who could get them deepest into the basement wall or roman candle fights at a remote coastal estuary station at night.

Thank you Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) research lab, it is a miracle I survived my childhood.

 

[prabe]

Oh, look, yet another thing we disagree about.

 

[Gradine]