Comments on: What Was the Weirdest Kids Cartoon Based on a Live Action TV Show?

By: My Two Cents

My Two Cents — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:30:43 +0000

Wow, there’s lots of options here. One not mentioned above is the WWF (now WWE) had some weird cartoon called Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling that featured Hulk Hogan and company going on wacky adventures.

By: Ghi Kopera

Ghi Kopera — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:42:24 +0000

The Mr.T cartoon from the 80s, where he was the coach of a traveling kids gymnastic team that solved mysteries on the side. Longest half-hour wait to see the Spider-man and his amazing friends/Hulk hour.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:19:15 +0000

Rambo: The Force of Freedom was a G.I. Joe knockoff with Rambo and his sidekicks fighting against General Warhawk and the forces of SCAR. It’s interesting in that SCAR is such a grab-bag of America’s bogeymen from the last century: Nazis, Arab terrorists, ninjas, and street punks with Mohawks.
l completely missed this Tabitha cartoon, though I’ve often wondered why Bewitched didn’t get a cartoon takeoff when so many other paranormal sitcoms did. As for being off the air, so were My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie when My Favorite Martians and Jeannie became cartoons. Then again, like Gilligan they were in syndication so plenty of kids would have known them.

By: Scott Fry

Scott Fry — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:31:14 +0000

definitely the time-travelling Fonz and Happy Days one for me.

It was weird Rambo and Robocop got kids cartoons, but I never saw them and don’t know how weird they were compared to the source movies, but that one I mentioned is up there for the sheer bizarreness compared to the source.

By: Chuck Sutton

Chuck Sutton — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:27:03 +0000

Partridge family 2200 A.D.

Partridge crossed with Jetsons weird.

By: PauloAP

PauloAP — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:12:33 +0000

The live action Tabitha spin-off was not significantly less weird than this.

By: TheTickMS

TheTickMS — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:35 +0000

it always struck me as of today there was a cartoon of Rambo.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:13:13 +0000

The Brady Kids got very strange, what with a magical mynah bird and twin pandas. Also had Superman and the first screen appearance of Wonder Woman.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:43:53 +0000

The time travel cartoon Fonz and the Happy Days Gang was weird enough, but its companion series, Laverne and Shirley Join the Army, featured a drill sergeant who was a talking pig voiced by Ron “Horshak” Palillo. One episode ended with the pig becoming a werewolf. I was very disturbed that the next episode ignored these events.

I also watched segments of The Partridges in Outer Space in the series Fred Flintstone and Friends. The seventies and early eighties were a weird time.

By: Minyon

Minyon — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:39:46 +0000

Gilligan’s Planet was pretty damned odd. They shot the castaways into space. The article mentions that Bewitched was off the air when they spun off Tabitha and Adam, well Gilligan’s Island had been off the air (not counting syndication) for 15 years when Gilligan’s Planet aired.