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 is “Analog Agent Benjamin” coming at you this week with…. The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda was another hit game that got a cartoon series back in the 80’s, but unlike the others, it only aired on a show that was for another game (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show).

There are two things that I did not like about this cartoon, one was how they changed Link from a hero into a smug, ignorant jerk with an annoying catch phrase, and the other was just they were airing this cartoon on the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. This made no sense to me at the time.

I sometimes think this is why many video game heroes in todays games do not talk, becuase everyone remembers how annoying Link was in this series.

Were any of you as annoyed with this series as I was when it was on?

3 thoughts on “Saturday Morning Cartoon: The Legend of Zelda

  1. Kurdt says:

    This show was pretty cringe worthy but it has kind of an attraction now because of how cheesy it is.
    If you want really terrible Zelda related stuff though, check out the cut scenes from the CD-I Zelda games.

    1. benjamin says:

      I almost forgot about the CD-I Nintendo games, they were really bad. 🙁

  2. Chris Sobieniak says:

    “and the other was just they were airing this cartoon on the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. This made no sense to me at the time.”

    It was like they couldn’t decided if they wanted to do Mario or Zelda at the time so they had to combine both in the same half-hour (throw in Lou Albano while they’re at it too). I never really cared for any of the Nintendo cartoons DiC was doing at the time personally for the inept animation quality and certainly Link’s Steve Martin-ish smugness annoyed me.

    It should be noted this wasn’t a Saturday morning program, as the Zelda cartoons were seen through the weekday syndicated “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show” as a Friday installment that would recycle itself every 13 weeks (the rest of the week you were stuck with Lou and the Super Mario Bros. toonage like usual so having Zelda after school on Friday was a nice break from the usual, even if it was a once-a-week thing.

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