YouTube Goodness

[EricJ]

OTOH, Doug Walker's ending Nostalgia Critic reaction to the so-called "Neverending Story III" RICHLY encapsulates my feeling about the bastardized "sequels":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJ5rg-xwIg

[Ben]

I heard the song not very long ago (actually added to the American release, the original German is *very* different!) and it zapped me back in an instant to our VHS-lovin' 1984 living room in that amazing way that only certain music can do.

[EricJ]

FINALLY--After a long struggle, and for the first time in twenty years...
One YT critic objectively analyzes the first season of Scooby-Doo on its own fan merits, WITHOUT anger, irony, personal animator grudges, or passive-hostile Warnerism, and absolutely no very little hipsterism:

(That's "twenty years" since the Movie, not the series--It's possible to pop-culture bully an easy target for so long, until an underground fan backlash starts looking at it and saying "Y'know, it's...not too bad, really."
And personally, I would have picked the Evil Clown episode, but the Space Kook has its diehards.)

[Ben]

I only lightly skimmed it, but that was a pretty well observed video. Funny, but even as a kid I always did plug into Scoob's more supernatural side than the comedy anyway: it always felt more like an animated Twilight Zone with a bit of comedy relief, rather than the later "spooky comedy show" it became in more recent iterations.

[Daniel]

Will have to give a watch later on with that length. Looks interesting, though. Fourth time's the charm!

[EricJ]

You don’t know the HALF of it, buster.
Some of us just have to fight the Good Fight.

And what the video didn’t touch on (but future ones from the columnist this month probably will) was how difficult it was for H-B TO get a, quote, “scary” kids’ show on the air in 1969:
That’s why a hipster generation made fun of the “rubber mask” trope for decades, as the network originally wanted kids, and vocal parents, to understand there were no actual supernatural elements on the show.
Something the kids could clearly handle by the time we got the 00’s direct-video movies.

[GeffreyDrogon]

Thank God that censorship isn't as bad for animation as it was back then!

[EricJ]

Hence Zombie Island’s new monsters-are-real “franchise reboot”, as CN and direct-video weren’t subject to Saturday morning network standards.
(If…original network Saturday morning was still around by then.)

[ShyViolet]

Disney villains sing in their actual languages!

https://youtu.be/gFtvWMD-u7M

[Daniel]

Disappointed Scar wasn't just roaring like a lion.

[Ben]

Ya big silly!

[EricJ]

And now, for your 70's easy-listening pleasure...Richard Carpenter sings "Close to You":

[Ben]

Somewhere at home, a teenage Alfred Matthew Yankovic was watching this.

[ShyViolet]

Jon Lovitz has a great voice!


https://youtu.be/F0IX0srz0w8

[Ben]

It stinks!