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Post by castletonsnob on Nov 17, 2018 16:49:40 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on Hanna-Barbera? On one hand, they did make Tom and Jerry, which was genuinely good, they essentially created the animated sitcom with Flintstones and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and Butch Hartman and Seth MacFarlane came from HB. On the other hand, they made a lot of cheaply animated cartoons and recycled a lot of their own premises. I mean, how many times did they copy the Scooby-Doo formula?
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Post by Paul on Nov 17, 2018 17:04:55 GMT -5
Their output ranges from great, to terrible, cheap crap depending on the budget, and era the material was produced.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Nov 17, 2018 22:34:48 GMT -5
the banana splits top cat yogi wacky races / perils of / dastardly and muttley the MOTHERCAVING HAIR BEAR BUNCH  WTYFGH speed buggy THE PHOOEY the teen angels ..... and some hairball  the new shmoo the fonz and the happy days gang THATS RIGHT pac-man dexters lad johnny bravo powerpuff girls ironically wasn't a huge fan of that dog or stone age man but watched them nonetheless |
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Nov 17, 2018 23:35:50 GMT -5
Yeah, hard to hate on Hanna-Barbera here....they had a great run. Shit, that was My childhood, between watching the new series in the early/mid 80's to watching the older shows on USA's CARTOON EXPRESS. Yes, they had a tendency to rip off SCOOBY DOO after that show hit big, but I don't care. Loved those shows too.
Here's my favorite HB, though....
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 17, 2018 23:47:42 GMT -5
Most of their 60s work holds up better than you'd think (especially the action cartoons). The 70s, well, I like Superfriends but even I know that show was an extremely watered down depiction of DC characters, nothing else much notable from that decade, ditto the 80s (though the 80s Superfriends episodes are MUCH better than the 70s ones, and I liked the Jetsons continuation). The 90s (their last decade) had some really good stuff like Swat Kats, 2 Stupid Dogs, and of course, the first wave of Cartoon Cartoons.
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Post by captaincool on Nov 18, 2018 1:37:00 GMT -5
I`ve always enjoyed Hanna-Barbera`s work from the 60s to the 90s.SWAT Kats was easily one of the greatest cartoons of the 90`s.I also loved their 1987 animated Ultraman movie.Damn shame that never got picked up as a series
Plus,H-B also gave us this...
Those Hanna-Barbera/WWE movies should have had a revised version of this logo with Vince McMahon`s face plastered over the star.Same music,same animation,but with Vince`s face
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Post by The Barber on Nov 18, 2018 13:43:56 GMT -5
If a tv show from the past was made into a cartoon, they were involved.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 18, 2018 14:30:33 GMT -5
They didn't just make cartoons, they revolutionized how toons were made... I remember a video from MovieBob that talked about the process they came up with and how it made animation financially viable.
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Post by Stu on Nov 18, 2018 14:34:09 GMT -5
I still want a battle royal with Hanna-Barbara, Disney and Warner Bros. characters.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Nov 18, 2018 14:41:18 GMT -5
Their output ranges from great, to terrible, cheap crap depending on the budget, and era the material was produced. Yep. While HB is generally thought of as a low-budget company that made good through cranking out tons of stuff for TV, they really built up a huge catalog of varying quality. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_produced_by_Hanna-Barbera_ProductionsThat is a very impressive list, and you can almost see the eras where they soared and sank. I love that run of '60s action cartoons. Herculoids, Mighty Mightor, Space Ghost... |
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Nov 18, 2018 14:54:55 GMT -5
I always had a soft spot for Josie and the Pussycats (I think the live action films is pretty great too)
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 18, 2018 16:41:54 GMT -5
Great stable of characters. Decent bronze to Warner Bros&Disney gold and silver (however you wanna place those two)
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Post by Lupin the Third on Nov 18, 2018 18:20:58 GMT -5
Top Cat
Wacky Races
Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Just to name a few.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Nov 18, 2018 18:22:50 GMT -5
Jonny Quest and Space Ghost are awesome.
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Post by The Barber on Nov 19, 2018 4:46:13 GMT -5
I still want a battle royal with Hanna-Barbara, Disney and Warner Bros. characters. WB owns HB, so they would team up against Disney. However, Doom would bring out a huge batch of his dip to eliminate both, so the winner, as in life, is Disney. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 14:40:46 GMT -5
Some of the first cartoons I can recall watching were Hanna-Barbera - the World of Super Adventure, though oddly I can only remember Herculoids - but I didn't watch much outside that and beyond.
For some very odd reason I avoided Tom & Jerry like the plague - very brand specific with some things; in this case I guess I was a Looney Tunes slapstick cartoon guy and nothing else. And heck even hearing they're H-B seems foreign, since I recall the MGM branding more than Hanna-Barbera. Flintstones was an occasional watch. Yogi too. The Jetsons was a bit rarer (I always assumed the '80s cartoon was old stuff, never knew it was actually made in the '80s). Never really bothered much with Scooby-Doo...
Got into their stuff as the 2000's dawned. Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and thanks to Harvey Birdman I got a bizarre education on a bunch else. Much of their catalog is still kind of unfamiliar to me, though, and at this age I guess I'm just due a long slow rollout for those properties.
Damn, I was really a toy commercial cartoon kid. I guess actual animated shows took a big back seat to the '80s toy fluff.
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