Let’s Look At The Cartoonometer!
I am kind of weird fascinated by this 1991, pre-launch presentation for the Cartoon Network, and the mix between aw-shucks, “Everyone loves cartoons!” pitch and business talk:
I don’t watch that much Cartoon Network – or Boomerang, which is basically what this pitch turned into – aside from Venture Bros, Batman: The Brave and The Bold and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (and my work accounts for one of those), but part of that is because the cartoons on there (and Boomerang) don’t really appeal to my sense of nostalgia. If someone created a channel that showed old Transformers, Centurions and things like that (plus things like GI Joe, which I never saw but have nostalgia for because of the comics), I’d be there in a shot. I can imagine the stress TiVo would have already.
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Man, the tingle that goes through me when I hear that fanfare. The anticipation I felt for that cartoon when it first came out was immense. At the time, it was so fresh and exciting, and everyone was in college, and so would I be in just a few short ten years, and man! Firestar. Didn’t make the connection to Mary Jane until the 1990’s Melodramatic Spider-Man cartoon came around.
My favrit bits were the Spidey origin story, Bobby discovering his powers, the first episode with Norman Osborn – remember the comic they did, Graeme! – and the bit – THE BIT – where Spidey and Iceman start having a discussion about how Spidey couldn’t risk breaking up the gang in order to see if Firestar would return his affections. Holy shit, thought young me! You don’t see this in Chorlton and the Wheelies!
(The Witch Fenella being the model for Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, of course)
Man! ANYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE SPIDER-MAN IS A CONSARNED DOODYHEAD. THUS I PROCLAIM.
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We actually have that in Canada, although it encompasses basically all old cartoons – so 60’s Spider-man rather than “…and his Amazing Friends”: http://www.teletoon.com/teletoon3/retro.php?language=En