What A Cartoon! - Laverne & Shirley In The Army "Invasion of the Booby Hatchers"
Added 2021-09-20 04:00:00 +0000 UTCThe day long promised by our guest (and one of our top Patreon supporters), Devin, has finally arrived! We cover one of the silliest and most banal animated shows of all time, Hanna-Barbera's adaptation of the Gary Marshall classic, Laverne & Shirley. We chart how the success of the Happy Days universe of shows in the 1970s led to this Saturday morning cartoon in 1981, plus some interesting facts about how this odd show came to be. So get ready to enlist alongside a pig in this week's podcast!
Comments
As long as it isn't Stefan Urquelle, who is pretty much just a Fonz clone anyway.
Christopher McDougall
2021-09-25 02:48:51 +0000 UTCI think we missed the real death battle. Who would win? The Fonz vs Steve Urkel. My money's on Urkel but I want the Fonz to win. Fonzie knows how to respect the ladies.
Devin Hoffarth
2021-09-23 05:51:42 +0000 UTCJust... what the hell is this show? Already the premise of "these women from Happy Days who had a spin-off about working at a bottling plant, but now they're in the army" was ridiculous but then immediately there's a talking pig and an attempted alien invasion. You guys perfectly covered how insane and awful this show is, but my god there was a lot of whiplash from putting it on not knowing what to expect.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2021-09-22 23:49:29 +0000 UTCThis show must be the reason Bob and Henry cut back on What A Cartoon.
littleterr0r
2021-09-22 02:40:43 +0000 UTCThere's only one show that I can think of that went from normal to jump the shark crazy like Happy Days did: Family Matters! By season 9 they would have had Steve Urkel clones, a robot, Urkel and Carl Bruce Lees, and other crazy shenanigans. This made me think, "Why didn't Family Matters get a bad cartoon spin off that What a Cartoon can make fun of?" Well, my prayers have been answered reading this on the Wikipedia page: "On September 1, 2021, it was announced an animated Christmas film Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story will air on Cartoon Network as part of the upcoming block ACME Night" Come on guys. You gotta do an episode on this!
Christopher McDougall
2021-09-21 19:27:26 +0000 UTCShoutout to Devin for uploading this on YouTube because if I didn’t see it I wouldn’t believe how trashy it was. (I hit the thumbs up button but no, I did not “like” it)
Diamond Feit
2021-09-21 03:46:54 +0000 UTCWhat a show. I’m very curious to hearing what the deal was with the pig. The plot is something one of my nine-year-old students would have concocted.
Mikey Cox
2021-09-21 03:11:45 +0000 UTCHaha, I mean for their sanity, I like the current Good to Bad cartoon ratio. Exasperated Bob is definitely my favorite Bob though XD
Tashmon Dimps
2021-09-20 19:15:33 +0000 UTCI would legitimately love it if every second What a Cartoon was a What a Bad Cartoon
crystalhearts
2021-09-20 17:59:29 +0000 UTCGod you guys need to talk about trash more often. This was a hilarious episode! Plus, I got a little lesson in TV history, which is always appreciated.
Tashmon Dimps
2021-09-20 16:04:18 +0000 UTCI tried to watch this one before the podcast, I really did, but holy shit, that opening alone is like being beaten over the head with a hammer. The distilled essence of the kind of show you'd catch exactly one rerun of on that one day you woke up really early and turned on Cartoon Network, forever dooming you to conversations where your friends think you're full of it.
SomeBloke
2021-09-20 14:48:45 +0000 UTCNow I desperately want to hear a What A Cartoon episode about Hanna-Barbera’s Pac-Man.
2021-09-20 12:26:06 +0000 UTCHO HO HO!!! *Flies off into the night in a sleigh pulled by 8 moose*
Devin Hoffarth
2021-09-20 04:08:34 +0000 UTCTHANK U DEVIN for bringing this evil to us
crystalhearts
2021-09-20 04:01:45 +0000 UTC
