What A Cartoon - Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends "Video-Man" With Matt McMuscles

Your off-hand comment that Kathy Garver was a voice on JoJo (I could not confirm that btw) sent me down a google hole that revealed Kathy Garver is on Twitter, has hardly any followers given her status, and is a right-wing lunatic. 😢

Diamond Feit

JJJ stomping on the desk and wishing for a world without women was a direct Springy ripoff #NoSprings

Ron Sterling

Pac-Man actually released in the West in October of 1980, so I'm pretty sure they were aware of it. I think I actually heard a Pac-Man sound during the episode.

Bennett Billard

Cool mention of the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. Will you ever do an episode of it?

JR Ralls

Woolie was on the Jojo Part 4 episode!

SilkiePJ

Now all we need is Talking Simpsons to do a podcast on Reboot and then invite Woolie to talk.

Ahh, RoboCop; the cartoon that infamously had its season order cut short by one episode so the money allocated for it could be used to create "Pryde of the X-Men." Marvel Productions was so desperate to get an X-Men cartoon up and running that they took money from another show plus made the multiple backdoor pilots for this series. It's just funny how no network wanted a show featuring the X-Men, and by 1993 it would be Fox's number one kids' show (until the Power Rangers came to town).

Joe Hodgson

Always great to hear Matt here. His enthusiasm makes him a top tier guest. That scene in the crime lab rumpus room seems like it was originally animated to be about Peter changing a light bulb before they decided, "No, maybe we should have them talk about the actual plot of the episode instead."

Ryan Kertai

Great episode, guys. It's hard to be mad at cartoons as harmless and wonderfully goofy as these and it sounded like you had a blast talking about it. Matt's such a great guest for this type of thing too. ^_^ By the way, I'm so glad you mentioned "The Menace of Magneto". I took a chance and showed the episode to my LEGO game boss and this was the result: <a href="https://youtu.be/qz3meYQKQWA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qz3meYQKQWA</a> Anyway, keep up the great work. Looking forward to more Spidey talk in the Spider-Verse review. ^_^

To Boldy Joe... Moore

Great episode! I absolutely worshiped this show as a small child. It was definitely the beginning of my Spider-Man fandom that I still have to a certain degree. While I have to admit that it's not very good by today's standards (or even the time) I appreciate it's innocence and complete lack of irony. It's just so fucking cute.

James Eldred

I'm also disappointed at the lack of reference to Dick "The Robot" Tufeld, who did the opening-credits spiel for this, Shazam and a billion other cartoons in the late 70s and early 80s.

Zachary Adams

This show was so bad and I loved it so much. (I also kind of resent the "Pryde of the X-Men" teases.) I re-watched it a couple years back when it was briefly on Netflix, and was simultaneously struck by how awful it is and by how much better it was than other shows of the era. I think it's interesting that they clearly came up with Videoman very early in the process, but different writers used him differently: there's this episode, one where a random gamer kid becomes Videoman and tries to be a superhero, and the one where JJJ and Iceman get stuck in an old disused game machine. My other strong memory is the Red Skull episode, where a Native American college professor has a manji in his home and the Nazis mistake it for a swastika, because the writers did enough research to know that it was originally an Indian symbol but not enough to know that it meant actual people from India.

Zachary Adams

It was actually relatively long-lived: it ran from 81-83 on NBC, then got re-run on various syndication packages. My main memories of it come from the 1988-90 MARVEL ACTION UNIVERSE syndication bloc, which re-ran both the DePatie/Freling Spidey shows alongside Dino Riders and Robocop (a gloriously insane attempt to bring the character into kid-friendliness after only the first movie had been made).

Zachary Adams

You know Bob, for somebody who complains about disliking the "Isn't it funny that ___ is Disney" style of jokes, I have now heard you do that twice in episodes ever since you first said you didn't like it, once saying Doug could be in KH4 and now with this saying Chud is a Disney movie. Might need to rethink what you dislike XD.

ShyRanger

I'd love to know how long this show actually aired. I saw it as a kid and liked it, because I was a kid and I was stupid. Mostly, I remembered the transformation animation of Bobby Drake to Iceman. Since that was basically all I remembered I wondered if my memory was lying to me until the show started seeing release on VHS in the early 90s to capitalize on Spidey and X-Men popularity. And I fell for those VHS releases and I think I tried to tell myself they were good and watched them a bunch, but deep down I knew they were awful, but what could I do? I probably spent 20 bucks a piece on those things which was a lot of money for a kid. I didn't understand the concept of a sunk cost. It's the same reason why I spent many hours playing Spider-Man and the X-Men on SNES despite likely never enjoying it for a minute. Christy Marx always stood out to me because she wrote several episodes of a cartoon I've had an affinity for: Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars. That was a Sunbow/Marvel Productions shows so a lot of people who worked on this show also worked on Bucky. That show featured two female characters, First Mate Jenny and Captain Mimi LaFloo, that are actually pretty well-written females for the era. With one exception: they're catty towards each other. I've always wondered if that was Marx's choice to make the only two prominent females basically hate each other and view each other as a threat, or if some male forced that in there (Jenny is a cat, so maybe that was the joke).

Joe Hodgson

Definitely one of the best episodes in ages, not that the others are sub-par! The combination of Matt and Henry’s Spider-smarts with the endlessly entertaining flummoxed reactions of Bob makes for podcast gold. Also helps that the cartoon is ripe for observational asides about the inanity of it all - Electro’s speech about killing Flash made me burst out laughing on its own (it JUST KEEPS GOING) and the discussion about the heat seeking missile was hilarious. I always love when you guys pick on badly animated superhero dreck - do the Iron Man series one day ;). For Spidey ‘67, the ur-Sinister Six episode with the awful Dr. Noah Body (you know they came up with him so they could cheap out on animating the villain) would probably cause Bob’s head to explode.