In the Hanna-Barbera version, The Thing is a wise-cracking alter ego summoned when the nebbish hero Benjy Grimm slams together his two magical Thing Rings, while saying, “Thing Ring, do your thing!” It’s not clear if this is a magical incantation required by the rings, or if Benjy is just an asshole. Even someone who had no idea who The Thing was, who had never read a Fantastic Four comic, couldn’t possibly look at this premise and think anything about it made sense. The Thing cartoon isn’t nearly as bad as anything else on this list, but it’s such a baffling thing to do with the character that the cartoons are impossible to enjoy. As a bonus, the show ran back-to-back with a merely lame Flintstones short, so its opening footage depicts the Thing dancing around with the Flintstones cast. So instead of battling super-villains, The Thing tends to end up punching sharks and destroying the motorcycles that belong to the mildly irritating recurring villains, the Yancy Street Gang. This cartoon basically took the Marvel Comics’ character, drew him exceedingly poorly, and then dumped him into a surreal mish-mash of Hanna-Barbera comedy stock tropes. Stuff like Hanna-Barbera’s The Thing cartoon is exactly why.
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There was a point in time when fans of superhero comics greeted the announcement of new cartoons, TV shows, and movies with little more than a resigned sigh. If you’ve grown up on modern cartoons, you’ve probably never seen anything even a fraction as bad as these shows. Regardless, the cartoons on this list exist as relics of the terrible period from the late ’60s to the late ’80s, when HB began to produce some of the worst cartoons ever to air on television. Maybe it was the inevitable excess brought by a solid decade of steady success or maybe the studio just took on too much work.
Hanna-Barbera kept up this standard of quality, or at least a basic sense of watchability, right up until the end of the sixties.Īt that point, something went terribly wrong with Hanna-Barbera’s output. They’re pretty slow compared to more frenetically-paced modern comedy cartoons like Phineas and Ferb, but you can still enjoy a lot of strong cartooning and interesting background work. At one point in time, well over half the cartoons airing on TV on any given day were likely to be made by Hanna-Barbera.Įarly Hanna-Barbera cartoons like the original Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound shorts hold up surprisingly well today, too. Hanna-Barbera produced Saturday morning cartoons, weekday cartoons, prime-time cartoons, and plenty of one-shot TV movies and specials.
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While Jay Ward initially cracked the problem of how to create original animated programming on a TV budget with Crusader Rabbit, Hanna-Barbera figured out how to turn TV cartoons into a true mass-production industry. ?If you like watching cartoons on TV, then you owe a huge debt to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
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