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Is any other Firefox user having problems with YouTube? None of the videos on the site load for me. (Although they do in Explorer.)
ETA: Nevermind ... that's weird. Oh well. I guess I'll just post about Underdog.
I think when I was younger I'd seen every episode of Underdog, except for the last two parts of "The Witch of Pickyoon", which is ... you guessed it ... on YouTube! You can watch it here.
This is rather significant because well ... Sweet Polly actually got some. I'd always wondered how Underdog would wake her up, given that whenever Sweet Polly tried to kiss him he'd back up all scared-like and mutter something about goodness and honor. This makes me wonder if Underdog has been to a Purity Ball ... or maybe he's fixed and trying to hide it.
But I like watching the episode overall. Creepy whispering villagers, the witch whispering her laugh, Sweet Polly being able to FLY A FREAKIN' PLANE! Lois Lane could do that in the Fleischer cartoons, too. Why didn't I get to learn to fly a plane? Was I out that day?
Anyway, I think I'll take the time out to talk about the Underdog episodes that enthralled me the most when I was younger.
1.) The episode where the cloud people were stealing silver from the human world, because "every cloud must have a silver lining" and unluckily they were on a planet with only gold. After the battle, day was saved when Sweet Polly told them they should trade their gold with the humans. This is not very different from how countries expect to win real wars, I think.
2.) The episode where aliens who looked like flying saucers stole Sweet Polly (before stopping at the other former villains' homelands ... evil aliens was kind of a stock plot) because ... get this ... the aliens could not make cake and needed an extraterrestrial being to make cake for them. But what I really remember is how the aliens stopped Underdog by turning him into a ball ... which SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME on an odd, primal level. I later found people have fetishes over inflation ... and I haven't felt clean ever since.
3.) In another alien plot, the Princess of Zot (a very ugly race of cyclops) wanted a strong husband so she ended up picking Underdog. They capture Sweet Polly and threaten her, thus roping Underdog into doing that but ... the Princess changes her mind ... somehow. And marries a wimpy Zotian (who I think later appeared in the Flying Saucers episode) and allowed Underdog to go home. I kinda liked how Underdog was always pretty nice to the Princess. (His response when seeing her, "She's very striking, I agree/But marriage cannot be for me!")
4.) Episode where Simon Bar Sinister ("Bar"? I guess he's Jewish although wiki has some other convoluted explanation) replaced all of the phone booths with "Phony Booths" that would turn people into his slaves ... who nobody noticed now had lightbulbs on their heads. Of course, since Underdog changes in phone booths (and makes them explode) it happens to him. I don't feel I need to talk about this anymore because ... LIGHT BULBS ON THEIR HEADS.
5.) Episode where Simon Bar Sinister makes a net that gives people amnesia (until they hear their own name). Fun parts of this episode include the prototype "hit them over the head" machine ... but then they realize it won't work on Underdog because his head is hard (it doesn't work on Simon's sidekick Cad). The Forget-Me-Net works, but they dress up Underdog to make him think he's a little old lady and then Cad has to follow him so nobody says "Underdog" around him. Meanwhile, when other people figure out who he is (Sweet Polly is the first to figure it out, I think), they try a myriad of ways to hit him over the head to get him back to normal, but it doesn't work.
6.) Simon Bar Sinister decides to get power through elected office ... but since no one will vote for him he makes a laughing gas gun so everyone laughs through election day and elects himself king. Everyone kowtows to his demands until Underdog shows up and tells everyone that Simon and Cad weren't registered to vote and the day is saved.
No, I'm not making that up.
7.) The episode with the Sea People. I just remember this because I had a coloring book to match this episode. Their city was called "Mal de Mer" ("seasick" in French) and it had the immortal line from the narrator. "This kingdom was ruled by an emperor, who was in turn ruled by the empress."
Some people might ask me why I would watch a show with such an annoying female lead. I only say, look above and also, on the female characters scale she's less annoying than Olive Oyl and Minnie Mouse.
I don't really feel a need to watch the other shows that played with Underdog again, BTW. Even though Tennessee Tuxedo probably gave the show its only educational content via Mr. Whoopee, the man with all the answers. (I still remember the nine simple machines because of that show.) And Klondike Kat was fun because sometimes he would win and sometimes the French(-Canadian?) mouse whose name I can't spell would win. Oh, and Go-Go Gophers had a show where the American Indian characters would win ... despite their obvious stereotypes.
BTW, wiki says they've been taking out the energy pill in syndication, but I watched it in the 90s and it was always there on Nickelodeon. Oh well ...
ETA: Nevermind ... that's weird. Oh well. I guess I'll just post about Underdog.
I think when I was younger I'd seen every episode of Underdog, except for the last two parts of "The Witch of Pickyoon", which is ... you guessed it ... on YouTube! You can watch it here.
This is rather significant because well ... Sweet Polly actually got some. I'd always wondered how Underdog would wake her up, given that whenever Sweet Polly tried to kiss him he'd back up all scared-like and mutter something about goodness and honor. This makes me wonder if Underdog has been to a Purity Ball ... or maybe he's fixed and trying to hide it.
But I like watching the episode overall. Creepy whispering villagers, the witch whispering her laugh, Sweet Polly being able to FLY A FREAKIN' PLANE! Lois Lane could do that in the Fleischer cartoons, too. Why didn't I get to learn to fly a plane? Was I out that day?
Anyway, I think I'll take the time out to talk about the Underdog episodes that enthralled me the most when I was younger.
1.) The episode where the cloud people were stealing silver from the human world, because "every cloud must have a silver lining" and unluckily they were on a planet with only gold. After the battle, day was saved when Sweet Polly told them they should trade their gold with the humans. This is not very different from how countries expect to win real wars, I think.
2.) The episode where aliens who looked like flying saucers stole Sweet Polly (before stopping at the other former villains' homelands ... evil aliens was kind of a stock plot) because ... get this ... the aliens could not make cake and needed an extraterrestrial being to make cake for them. But what I really remember is how the aliens stopped Underdog by turning him into a ball ... which SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME on an odd, primal level. I later found people have fetishes over inflation ... and I haven't felt clean ever since.
3.) In another alien plot, the Princess of Zot (a very ugly race of cyclops) wanted a strong husband so she ended up picking Underdog. They capture Sweet Polly and threaten her, thus roping Underdog into doing that but ... the Princess changes her mind ... somehow. And marries a wimpy Zotian (who I think later appeared in the Flying Saucers episode) and allowed Underdog to go home. I kinda liked how Underdog was always pretty nice to the Princess. (His response when seeing her, "She's very striking, I agree/But marriage cannot be for me!")
4.) Episode where Simon Bar Sinister ("Bar"? I guess he's Jewish although wiki has some other convoluted explanation) replaced all of the phone booths with "Phony Booths" that would turn people into his slaves ... who nobody noticed now had lightbulbs on their heads. Of course, since Underdog changes in phone booths (and makes them explode) it happens to him. I don't feel I need to talk about this anymore because ... LIGHT BULBS ON THEIR HEADS.
5.) Episode where Simon Bar Sinister makes a net that gives people amnesia (until they hear their own name). Fun parts of this episode include the prototype "hit them over the head" machine ... but then they realize it won't work on Underdog because his head is hard (it doesn't work on Simon's sidekick Cad). The Forget-Me-Net works, but they dress up Underdog to make him think he's a little old lady and then Cad has to follow him so nobody says "Underdog" around him. Meanwhile, when other people figure out who he is (Sweet Polly is the first to figure it out, I think), they try a myriad of ways to hit him over the head to get him back to normal, but it doesn't work.
6.) Simon Bar Sinister decides to get power through elected office ... but since no one will vote for him he makes a laughing gas gun so everyone laughs through election day and elects himself king. Everyone kowtows to his demands until Underdog shows up and tells everyone that Simon and Cad weren't registered to vote and the day is saved.
No, I'm not making that up.
7.) The episode with the Sea People. I just remember this because I had a coloring book to match this episode. Their city was called "Mal de Mer" ("seasick" in French) and it had the immortal line from the narrator. "This kingdom was ruled by an emperor, who was in turn ruled by the empress."
Some people might ask me why I would watch a show with such an annoying female lead. I only say, look above and also, on the female characters scale she's less annoying than Olive Oyl and Minnie Mouse.
I don't really feel a need to watch the other shows that played with Underdog again, BTW. Even though Tennessee Tuxedo probably gave the show its only educational content via Mr. Whoopee, the man with all the answers. (I still remember the nine simple machines because of that show.) And Klondike Kat was fun because sometimes he would win and sometimes the French(-Canadian?) mouse whose name I can't spell would win. Oh, and Go-Go Gophers had a show where the American Indian characters would win ... despite their obvious stereotypes.
BTW, wiki says they've been taking out the energy pill in syndication, but I watched it in the 90s and it was always there on Nickelodeon. Oh well ...
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