Cartoons based on Movies!

Small Screen Specials, Series and Direct-To-Video
User avatar
AV Founder
AV Founder
Posts: 25294
Joined: October 22nd, 2004
Location: London, UK

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Ben » March 31st, 2023, 5:22 pm

Cut to… The Blue Oyster bar!

Ba-PAH-da-da-da-daaaahhhhh… ;) :lol:

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 9996
Joined: September 1st, 2006

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Daniel » March 31st, 2023, 6:54 pm

I love when they play "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" by The Shirelles. Funny moment and one of my favorite songs!

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » March 31st, 2023, 8:18 pm

Except in the simpsons homer than follows up with "except the voice sounds guy! He was great!" than starts making sound effects like jones!

Also, how about a cartoon from a film series George Clooney was in?


AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 9044
Joined: October 25th, 2004
Location: Binghamton, NY

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by ShyViolet » March 31st, 2023, 11:45 pm

Daniel wrote:
March 31st, 2023, 2:32 pm
You left off the "Did you?" part. Boo-urns! ;)
“I was saying ‘Boo-urns.’ ” :-(
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 9996
Joined: September 1st, 2006

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Daniel » April 1st, 2023, 1:31 am

And that's why you got hit with a football!

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 5192
Joined: September 27th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by EricJ » April 1st, 2023, 1:34 am

And now...let's move deeper into the rabbit hole of declining 80s-90s Saturday morning:


(I'm willing to bet money nobody remembers ANYTHING about the Karate Kid cartoon except for the shrinking episode.)

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » April 1st, 2023, 10:37 pm

They remember the episode they go back home and the movie one characters show up! The girlfriend from movie 1 is back with the bully who acts even worse to her! It was neat having more of the movie characters show up and all the magic stuff happing at their home this time.
Last edited by gaastra on April 1st, 2023, 10:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » April 1st, 2023, 10:46 pm

Here is one no one thinks of. It's based on a show--that's a spin-off of a movie! So, it's both!

The moonrunners cartoon!






AV Founder
AV Founder
Posts: 7261
Joined: October 23rd, 2004
Location: SaskaTOON, Canada

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Randall » April 2nd, 2023, 2:10 am

Wow, I never knew about Moonrunners!

User avatar
AV Founder
AV Founder
Posts: 25294
Joined: October 22nd, 2004
Location: London, UK

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Ben » April 2nd, 2023, 3:51 am

I still have my Moonrunners taped off TV VHS! And don’t forget Thunder Road from the late 50s, I think, a late noir-ish thriller which Moonrunners is kinda sorta a remake-ish of, or at least based on the same idea (and also with James Mitchum). I remember seeing Moonrunners long after Dukes started and it not being "as good" because it wasn’t Dukes and felt like a drier, less fun version. And I think by then we had also seen Smokey And The Bandit, which wasn’t far off either!

There were lots of TV series in the late 60s and all through the 70s that were either straight small screen translations with different casts, or shows "inspired" by movies that they couldn’t get right to or were too expensive to continue, so they slimmed them down and changed some names in thinly-veiled reversions…a completely fun alternate topic!

Wow…haven’t thought about Moonrunners in a very looooooooooong time! :)

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » April 2nd, 2023, 8:55 am

Neat thing is like the buffy series made the movie canon so did dukes. First episode talks about the events of moonrunners, the main characters of the film are in jail (why you never see them) and the changes to roscoe and uncle jessie are addressed and explained in the first episode!

They even had follow up plots from the film during season one with the old moonshine factory that uncle jessie abandoned.

User avatar
AV Founder
AV Founder
Posts: 25294
Joined: October 22nd, 2004
Location: London, UK

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by Ben » April 2nd, 2023, 5:08 pm

I donut remember those details in the series, but it makes sense given that so many characters continued into it. They often played them out of order here, so it’s quite likely the first episode wasn’t the first shown here, plus we probably missed some back in the day, *and* that day was a very long time ago! ;)

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » April 2nd, 2023, 8:25 pm


AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 5192
Joined: September 27th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by EricJ » April 2nd, 2023, 11:34 pm

Don't know if you could count as based on the movie, but:

(I mean, there were two series, a sequel franchise and any number of spinoff MacLeod relatives, but there can only be one.)

AV Forum Member
AV Forum Member
Posts: 2393
Joined: October 18th, 2007

Re: Cartoons based on Movies!

Post by gaastra » April 11th, 2023, 11:31 am

Yup it counts.


Post Reply