You start to hear the sounds of the morning, the wind rustling the leaves, the chirping of the birds and that’s when you realize what day it is–Saturday! Cartoons! All week long you’ve been starved of cartoons, and now it is your time to feast! You throw off the covers, shove your feet in your slippers and sprint downstairs!

Grab that big bowl of C-3POs, adjust the antennae and plop down on the floor for your weekly dose of animated fun!

This week: Shirt Tales

This is a cartoon about animals that solve crimes and wear t-shirts that have different messages on them–yep, that’s about it.

This show is one of those Hanna Barbera scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel ideas for a show. I used to watch this because it was on, but man, watching it now, it’s tough.

Have you ever heard of this cartoon? Do you wish you had a shirt that can display what you are thinking on it, because are getting closer to that technology…?

10 thoughts on “Saturday Morning Cartoon: Shirt Tales

  1. Kurdt says:

    How would you pitch something like this?
    “There’s these animals, see, and they wear t-shirts and words appear on the t-shirts. And they…I don’t know, solve crimes or something.”
    “Yeah, whatever. Kids will watch anything.”

    1. gabe says:

      Exactly. SOLD!

  2. Savage says:

    Bogey was my favorite even though I knew Tyg was the cool one. Pammy did nothing for me and Kip was annoying.

  3. Savage says:

    Oh and Mr. Dinkle had a funny name.

    1. gabe says:

      You know entirely too much about this cartoon 🙂

  4. Chris Sobieniak says:

    “This is a cartoon about animals that solve crimes and wear t-shirts that have different messages on them–yep, that’s about it.”

    Pretty much the closest America got to something that was the norm in Japanese cartoons like “Dr. Slump”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtJnjZi38Bs (Yes I shamefully plugging this)

    “This show is one of those Hanna Barbera scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel ideas for a show. I used to watch this because it was on, but man, watching it now, it’s tough.”

    It’s always tough looking back at what you saw when you were 5!

    1. gabe says:

      I think Dr. Slump wasn’t the norm, it was an exception. That manga is great.

      1. Chris Sobieniak says:

        It is! I don’t know what came over me about that, but I like thinking of that one a lot.

  5. Manny says:

    I will on occasion watch a bit of the show when I come across it on Boomerang. It’s not good at all but whenever I watch anything from back then I get a little tingle of excitement in the back of my mind. Like Pavlov’s dog we’ve been mentally conditioned to be excited when we see images like this to think it must be Saturday Morning and we have no school and can play all day.

    SMURFS, SPIDER-MAN and his AMAZING FRIENDS, MR. T, SUPER FRIENDS, GALAXY HIGH, MIGHTY ORBOTS, POLE POSITION (which was really good actually), THUNDARR….those were the days!

    1. gabe says:

      Oh yeah! Waking up early, watching EVERYTHING, just because it was on, loved it!

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