The History of the Robocop Cartoon: Rated R & Sold to Kids

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  • @SecretGalaxyTV
    @SecretGalaxyTV  ปีที่แล้ว +35

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    • @banonKING
      @banonKING ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are correct.... "Pryde of the X-men" is an absolutely stellar X-Men episode. The best!

    • @darkhall8227
      @darkhall8227 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robocop the animated complete series was released on dvd in the early 2000s in the uk by Maximum entertainment with the Jetix logo on it to. I have the boxset to

    • @johnnygoodman2003
      @johnnygoodman2003 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fried chicken Robocop is my hero.

  • @WillKeaton
    @WillKeaton ปีที่แล้ว +171

    Always a pleasure to watch the "What the Hell Fried Chicken" commercial starring Robocop and featuring the soundtrack to the third _Back to the Future_ movie.

    • @Pwj579
      @Pwj579 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I was thinking the same thing!

    • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
      @JohnDoe-wq5eu ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I have to admit I was so distracted by the visuals I totally missed the old west-style music in the background. Yep, that does sound like back to the future 3 alright.

    • @disposablepal
      @disposablepal ปีที่แล้ว +7

      To this day I still say “yo I’m about to eat” before every meal

    • @timothylewis2527
      @timothylewis2527 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you haven't already, check out his appearance in pro wrestling! 😂😂😂

    • @JohnDoe-wq5eu
      @JohnDoe-wq5eu ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@timothylewis2527
      Yeah but that was also during the time when they had an in character Leslie Nielsen as his character from naked gun searching for the undertaker. WWF in the 90s was wild.

  • @Bride_of_Medusa
    @Bride_of_Medusa ปีที่แล้ว +205

    I did not realize there were two distinct Robocop cartoon series until now. It's wild to me that such a dark and violent movie would get the cartoon treatment not just once but twice.

    • @NoelComiX
      @NoelComiX ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It’s part of the mass culture. Kids get their own age appropriate version of the phenomenon.

    • @thecunninlynguist
      @thecunninlynguist ปีที่แล้ว +19

      ​@@NoelComiXyeah. Throw in Rambo. Or how r rated movies got toys, video games.

    • @orinanime
      @orinanime ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Oh and the 2nd cartoon is an ABSOLUTELY amazing trainwreck of a mess. RoboCop is basically turned into a sassy sarcastic superhero who basically functions like Inspector Gadget. Tons of gadgets including a glue cannon, inflatable balloons, extendable arms, and retractable rocket powered roller blades.
      I wish I was making this up.

    • @caucasoidape8838
      @caucasoidape8838 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You would think Aliens would work well, since they could get away with showing violence towards the creatures.

    • @xelaander8429
      @xelaander8429 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ha ha, in that case Ninja Turtles says high. The original comics were never as kid friendly as the animated series would end up portraying them but alas, here we are

  • @DarMar106
    @DarMar106 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    I’ve always been fascinated by companies taking a Rated R product making a cartoon or toylike aimed at kids

    • @Chud_Bud_Supreme
      @Chud_Bud_Supreme ปีที่แล้ว +72

      There was a line of toys based off of Aliens back in the day. They knew parents were letting Millennials (like me) watch those movies

    • @ecritdelajaponographie8565
      @ecritdelajaponographie8565 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Don't you mean you've always been "facinated"?😂

    • @FallenGemini
      @FallenGemini ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I feel that the best known, yet overlooked R-rated product that was tuned into a family friendly cartoon is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    • @kle2217
      @kle2217 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Rambo The Force Of Freedom!

    • @SuperShinobi95
      @SuperShinobi95 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Technically, all you have to do is just cut the blood, cursing, and sex and you have a kid friendly production😂

  • @NoTimeAllTime
    @NoTimeAllTime ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Amazon owns Robocop now? Damn real life OCP won.

    • @DennisTamayo
      @DennisTamayo ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well, Amazon is the current parent company of MGM since one year ago.

  • @stepheneddington1667
    @stepheneddington1667 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Several years ago I bought the Robocop (2014) bluray at a Dollartree store. It wasn't until I got home that I realized the irony and laughed my ass off.

    • @jbalien20
      @jbalien20 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why didn't you like it. It had the original theme music in the very beginning of it. The storyline made better sense than the original. And the original suits were displayed as prototypes. It had everything that a good remake should have. Why was it laughable?

    • @Superstarseven
      @Superstarseven ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jbalien20 My dude, read that comment 3 or 4 more times.

    • @frankdavf4599
      @frankdavf4599 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @dredgewalker
      @dredgewalker ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@jbalien20he bought itfor a dollar......

    • @misterhappy5462
      @misterhappy5462 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jbalien20

  • @patrickangelobalasa
    @patrickangelobalasa ปีที่แล้ว +172

    That era of Rated R properties getting kids toys is still so fascinating to me. Robocop, Aliens, Terminator, all getting kids' toys is wild.

    • @mjwbulich
      @mjwbulich ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Rambo. At least the three you mentioned involved monsters or robots. Kills will always be drawn to weird sci-fi stuff. Rambo is a Vietnam vet with PTSD that kills dozens and dozens of people. How in the world is that a childrens property?

    • @JohnJacksonJohnson
      @JohnJacksonJohnson ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep, and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" got a board game, which I got from KB Toys (pretty much Toys R Us, but smaller)

    • @andrewfsheffield
      @andrewfsheffield ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Those aliens toys were so cool tho.

    • @chancepaladin
      @chancepaladin ปีที่แล้ว +8

      aliens / predator toyline was the main reason for going to KB, let me tell you, good grief.

    • @Gamesta100
      @Gamesta100 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was amazing lol

  • @MichaelMartin-qe5ye
    @MichaelMartin-qe5ye ปีที่แล้ว +330

    The 80s were so weird for kids. We watched cartoons like He-Man and GI Joe - where nobody was killed, while watching movies like Robocop and Gremlins.

    • @michaelshort4339
      @michaelshort4339 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      No one died in Robocop or Gremlins. My mom says they were just sleeping. You're not saying my MOM is wrong, are you?

    • @MichaelMartin-qe5ye
      @MichaelMartin-qe5ye ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@michaelshort4339, she's right, and the gremlin in the microwave was just cold from being outside, so he was warmed up a little bit.

    • @caucasoidape8838
      @caucasoidape8838 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The only difference is that kids watch PG-13 movies now, where the deaths aren't as graphic. If anything, it makes life look even more cheap.

    • @toddjones1480
      @toddjones1480 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@caucasoidape8838 Yeah, PG-13 movies are like '50s movies where people getting shot just throw their hands up and bloodlessly fall down. It's all so clean and overly pleasant.
      The only difference is that they cut away a lot faster in PG-13, lol.

    • @inarar5334
      @inarar5334 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Can't forget to mention where we watched two years of the TV cartoon Transformers where nobody got more than slightly hurt and then the animated movie where there's sooooo many deaths of all the characters we spent two years getting to know.

  • @Berengier817
    @Berengier817 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    First grade. I got in trouble by a classmate for walking like I was Robocop and scaring her. I was making weird noises trying to sound like him
    I still remember to this day.

  • @grimdaggz
    @grimdaggz ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Kids were sneaking in to watch the original in '87 & we LOVED it. I know cause I was one of them. By the time Robocop 2 came out, the execs KNEW they had a young audience, & sadly geared both Robocop 3 & the series to kids.

    • @christophermontoya5526
      @christophermontoya5526 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I remember going to the theater to see Robocop when I was 12. The lady wouldn't sell tickets to myself and my friend, so I asked her for tickets to Masters of The Universe. She sold us tickets to that and we went into the theater showing Robocop. We were young. I remember my friend exclaiming: " they showed tits", when they showed a woman's breasts during the locker room scene.

    • @BurnDoubt
      @BurnDoubt ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kinda the same thing what happened to the Sony PlayStation. It was originally marketed towards The Gamers who grew up with the NES, that all changed when people's little brothers became interested in having the PlayStation. And Spyro was born.

  • @RockNerdRadio
    @RockNerdRadio ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Man, I love how the idea to shorten the episode count lead to Pryde of the X-Men being made. I still have my VHS of that pilot!

    • @NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy
      @NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Wolverine's voice......that is all.

    • @Shin_Lona
      @Shin_Lona ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy When their time comes, whoever made that call will be judged accordingly.

    • @hezekiahramirez6965
      @hezekiahramirez6965 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      X-Men! X-Men! Yesterday! Yesterday!
      I guess the lyric is "X-Men! X-Men! Save the day! Save the day!" but it just doesn't sound like that to me. It sounds like "yesterday." I just cannot hear "save the day"
      I really like the pilot. It's beautifully animated, it's decently written for what it was, and it was very cool to see an X-Men cartoon. We didn't have all the cartoons, movies, etc. yet. This would have been amazing back then. It worked out of course, and I am very happy with the show we got, but I would have also liked to have this. If we could have had both it would have been so dope

    • @chancepaladin
      @chancepaladin ปีที่แล้ว +3

      crikey, I'ma wolverine!

    • @bjpalm1994
      @bjpalm1994 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too😄

  • @snukastyle
    @snukastyle ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Pryde of the X-Men has such gorgeous animation. The voice acting was fun save for old lady White Queen. Plus it got that amazing arcade game, unlike the other X-Men shows. But to think that quaity came from the budget of an episode of RoboCop is something else!

    • @Baalek1
      @Baalek1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Wolverine being Australian was kind of weird too (though strangely prescient, as it turns out).

    • @RedWizard0
      @RedWizard0 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I always preferred Cal Dodd's Wolverine. Pretty sure they used him in all those Marvel vs Capcom games.
      Also, that X-Men arcade game is certified chef's kiss.

    • @ninjapirate47
      @ninjapirate47 ปีที่แล้ว

      welcome.... to die!!!!!!

    • @daviddalrymple2284
      @daviddalrymple2284 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RedWizard0 Yeah. The X-men arcade game pretty much made every other beat-em-up obsolete. It had two really great innovations: (1) you could damage enemies that had fallen on the ground; you didn't to wait for them to stand up again and (2) special moves were huge screen-clearing effects rather than minor power attacks.

    • @Jshaw71
      @Jshaw71 ปีที่แล้ว

      and I would argue that the theme is almost as good as X-men (1992)

  • @anthonyplanzo1082
    @anthonyplanzo1082 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    80's were such a better time for cartoons, toys and movies. U could get away with so much and as a child it was an amazing time

  • @TimSedai
    @TimSedai ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Now more than ever, our kids need the lessons taught by robocop

    • @jaxxbohol6475
      @jaxxbohol6475 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Cops needs lessons taught by Robocop.

    • @BonusEggs4Sale
      @BonusEggs4Sale ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That capitalism commodifies human life? Yes.

    • @BonusEggs4Sale
      @BonusEggs4Sale ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaxxbohol6475 Cops will never admit that they exist to serve and protect the ruling class.

    • @alessandroguarrera2203
      @alessandroguarrera2203 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BonusEggs4Sale Right on, Robocop isn't the 'redpill' movie people think it is...

    • @micheljavert5923
      @micheljavert5923 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Think that ship has sailed, gone 'round the world, and returned with a load of exotic spices, chief. Besides, last thing I need is a property with historically anti-corporate messaging being revived only to read complaints that the franchise has become "woke."

  • @funktimusrhyme
    @funktimusrhyme ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember the action figures came with cap-gun caps included, they even branded them as "Robocaps"

  • @adrian_veidt
    @adrian_veidt ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Alex Murphy *VOLUNTEERS* to be the first in series of human cyborg relations"
    I remember he didn't have a choice on that one considering he's half dead lol

  • @Summertimeblues28
    @Summertimeblues28 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I dug the Kenner action figures. Played with them a ton & the vehicles. It was the first time we got any figures that had anything to do with the Robocop movie.

  • @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control
    @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control ปีที่แล้ว +27

    In the 80s we kids loved hijacking adult franchises and making the sequels dumbed down to our level lol. But I will stand by 'Ghostbusters 2 is great'.
    But if you were a kid in the 80s it's hard not to feel a little spoiled by how hard we were pandered to. Those Reaganomics boom times before the bust were a childhood extravaganza of entertainment choices.

    • @gambit77
      @gambit77 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Agreed! The 80s 30 min toy commercials certainly did their job on us, as evident of all of us collectors. But having a family and my only vice is collecting I think we had it great!
      Kids now don't have anything that keep their attention and get into adult things WAY TOO FAST.

    • @mattyt1961
      @mattyt1961 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ghostbusters 2 was good until the line:
      On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood!
      Then it was awesome :D

    • @lukasketner
      @lukasketner ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mattyt1961 Viggo was like a rad Conan villain who wandered into the wrong movie.

    • @michaelfarquhar9355
      @michaelfarquhar9355 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lukasketner the guy that played him done a really good role in ‘In the mouth of madness’ the guy was a underrated actor

    • @lukasketner
      @lukasketner ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@michaelfarquhar9355 There's a few mini TH-cam documentaries about him: Wilhelm Von Homburg.

  • @ogrokun
    @ogrokun ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Not just Robocop cartoon, here in Brazil I watched Robocop MOVIE several times on TV during afternoons. We had no Parental guidelines or finding appropriate times for violent shows at all.

    • @Mithrandir69
      @Mithrandir69 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm just picturing some mugger running into an off-duty robocop now.

    • @cassandracastro2759
      @cassandracastro2759 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here in Mexico they used to put the Robocop trilogy on the kids channel at the same hour they would other days put Back to the Future or Home Alone.

    • @A_YouTube_Commenter
      @A_YouTube_Commenter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Xuxa used to show her goodies.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They used to play Robocop on TV here in America. It was edited a lot though.

    • @Mario_Angel_Medina
      @Mario_Angel_Medina ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here in Argentina cable channels show the Robocop movies all the time in the afternoom, their only edit is to cut the scenes with the topless prostitutes, but they leave all the shootouts uncut. Murphy getting his hand blown, the guy melting, all of it.

  • @DasNordlicht91
    @DasNordlicht91 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Not enough people talk about that time Robocop teamed up wtih Sting to fight the Four Horsemen.

    • @btr3k
      @btr3k ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You wouldn't think Robocop would be a great wrestler... and well you'd be right. He did rescue Sting from that cage, though.

    • @DasNordlicht91
      @DasNordlicht91 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Apparently the Robocop suit WCW had on hand wasn’t to the same quality as the movie costume, hence why Robo only did the cage thing.

  • @Dynaman21
    @Dynaman21 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    You gotta love (hate) just how badly people missed the point of the original. They have the Nukem commercial that makes fun of this!

    • @omega1985
      @omega1985 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That just hit me too. The movie critiqued this EXACT kind of thing. Kinda hilarious in a sad way

    • @RobCamp-rmc_0
      @RobCamp-rmc_0 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dan nailed it, we collectively do not get subtext. Ya gotta laugh.

    • @enisra_bowman
      @enisra_bowman ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ye, Same with Starship Troopers or Full Metal Jacket, loved by those that are beeing made fun off because they can't see past the very graphical violence

    • @behindthescenesphotos5133
      @behindthescenesphotos5133 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      People can understand the message AND enjoy the explosions and one-liners.
      "Can you fly, Bobby?"

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@omega1985 Like the Lorax Mazda commercials.

  • @TrueMithrandir
    @TrueMithrandir ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Robocop is one of those movies that just gets better with age...

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    "I'LL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!"

  • @RealElMaximo
    @RealElMaximo ปีที่แล้ว +30

    THANK YOU for pointing out the quality of Pryde of the X-Men! The animation still holds up today IMO.

    • @CB-ke7eq
      @CB-ke7eq ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That pilot has better animation than any episode of the later Fox series.

    • @oldirish6163
      @oldirish6163 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Still have it on VHS.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว +36

    There certainly needs to be a push for Saturday Morning Cartoons to come back.
    There is an incredible amount of support from people who loved the tradition (like myself).

    • @StevenRohrer523
      @StevenRohrer523 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I felt exactly the same way, and then I realized Saturday Morning Cartoons can exist. You just need to wake up on Saturday morning and play cartoons on the streaming service of your choice.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@StevenRohrer523 That isn't similar to the tradition that was established in the past. It needs to be a more social experience or won't ever be established again.

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@StevenRohrer523 I realize that I am probably at least 20 years older than you, but in the 80s and 90s, watching commercials and waiting for your favorite show to come on was normal.

    • @fireflare260
      @fireflare260 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, fucking Bush. Killing them for "Education."

    • @robdigital1383
      @robdigital1383 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The problem with that is most kids don’t even watch tv anymore , it’s all streaming and TH-cam now

  • @beng6149
    @beng6149 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This generation of cartoons was so cool. Just random stuff was thrown at the wall hoping it would stick.

  • @SaturmornCarvilli
    @SaturmornCarvilli ปีที่แล้ว +48

    The scene in the Robocop re-make where it is just the remaining biological parts of Alex Murphy has always stuck with me. So much so that it retroactively changed my perception of the original Robocop and just how little of the man remains and how much is machine.

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In Robocop 2 they show the insides of a cyborg with cain, wicked rad and gruesome :D

    • @kingcaesar3693
      @kingcaesar3693 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@krono5el You mean the one that kills itself cause it's in pain?

    • @lukasketner
      @lukasketner ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kingcaesar3693 I think that's a different one (that screams and pulls of the headpiece?) With Cain, they just show his brain and eyeballs floating in a jar.

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I still haven't seen the whole movie, and I suspect it's mostly crap, but I do come back and watch that scene every once in a while when I need a dose of hardcore squick.

    • @Fallin1
      @Fallin1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In the original robocop there's barely anything biological left of Murphy. It can even be argued that the humanity he regains is just a faulty computer program that thinks it is human.

  • @S.E.Walker
    @S.E.Walker ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I saw Robocop in 1987 at age 7 and was utterly traumatized for life by the toxic waste man. (I was also very confused as to why Bob Morton was sniffing sugar off that one girl’s chest 😂) I knew 100% that was a movie for adults that I probably shouldn’t have watched. Nightmares aside, I still loved the character of Robocop and bought all the toys. Yet hilariously, since I knew the movie was such an ultra violent adult thing, even at age 8 or 9 I thought it was stupid they made a cartoon out of it. I knew the cartoon would not be anything like the movie, so I never watched it! I’m not saying that I was sophisticated as a child, but I am saying that I was more aware than toy company executives gave me credit for!

    • @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control
      @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lol I'm 43. My mom took me to see it in the theater when I was 7. Also scarred me for life. The board room ED 209 kill, Murphy's murder, and the Emil scene all absolutely wrecked me.
      But somehow it became one of my all time favorite films.

    • @Grimhart89
      @Grimhart89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Welcome to another episode of "Things that never happened"

    • @chiquita683
      @chiquita683 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They have an awesome FPS game coming for Robocop soon.

    • @xandercruz900
      @xandercruz900 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was meh to me. Didnt like it, didnt not like it.
      RoboCop was bad arse, but the plot really was a bit boring.

    • @MichaelMartin-qe5ye
      @MichaelMartin-qe5ye ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@HitchensImmortal , I agree with you about the boardroom scene with ED209. The rest of the movie features cops and crooks killing each other so that conflict makes sense. The guy in the boardroom didn't do anything wrong and was still killed due to technology malfunctioning, and that was pretty traumatic.

  • @AutovoltGTS
    @AutovoltGTS ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I met the voice actor of Robocop in this cartoon, Robert Bockstael at a con last summer and he told me that he got to do a movie with Peter Weller and he told him he voiced Robocop in the cartoon adaptation, Peter and Robert hit it off really well and Peter invited Robert to hang out with him in his trailer and have a smoke.

  • @phillipjohnson8903
    @phillipjohnson8903 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I never thought about it as a kid but it IS insane that so many hyper violent 80's movies got made into kids properties.

    • @watamutha
      @watamutha ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I did, I was just commenting to my kid about it the other day about how horror icons were being sold in the kids section in toy stores and she said 'wtf??' hahaha.

  • @S.E.Walker
    @S.E.Walker ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Your devotion to Pryde of the X-Men is special. Did Wolverine have an Australian accent in that, or am I memory-hallucinating?

    • @orinanime
      @orinanime ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He did. And in his other 80s appearance in the Spider-Man cartoon.
      Decades predating Hugh Jackman LOL

    • @maxordman4100
      @maxordman4100 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah it totally stands out when he calls Toad “Dingo” in that one scene!

    • @RoboP
      @RoboP ปีที่แล้ว

      The Aussie accent attempted by Neil Ross didn't come out right.
      I think it was trying to mimic something in the vein of Crocodile Dundee badly.

  • @BluntmanEXE
    @BluntmanEXE ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a trend that NEEDS to come back. Could you imagine a John Wick cartoon or a Fast and Furious cartoon made by Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network?

  • @rkvc
    @rkvc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Been a longtime watcher and so pleasantly surprised and stoked to hear my tune in your epic vi0lence montage! 😀❤️

  • @johnmiddleton4291
    @johnmiddleton4291 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nobody missed the subtext of Robocop at the time, it's just that most people didn't care. It's the same subtext that punk, industrial, and countless other genres of music beat into the ground at the time and not at all original.

  • @NatetheNerdy
    @NatetheNerdy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love ending the montage of violence with that classic "I warned you" clip.

  • @JoeNayDoh
    @JoeNayDoh ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a time to be a kid. Getting R rated properties turned into kid shows like Robocop, Rambo, Conan and Highlander. That would be like if they turned John Wick into a cartoon today. Which let's be honest, we would all end up watching.

    • @jaxxbohol6475
      @jaxxbohol6475 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is nothing unique about John Wick.
      A guy in a suit and tie shoots up people in a movie. Ho hum….. it’s basically Jackie Chan and James Bond amalgamated.

  • @otakubullfrog1665
    @otakubullfrog1665 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think the kid-targeted merchandising of a lot of non-G movies from the 1980s was inevitable because so many of those movies had premises that kids were going to find cool.

    • @thrash208
      @thrash208 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As somebody who grew up in this time i can say this. The vast majority of us never watched the movies themselces but wed see the comercials and would often act them out during recess or at a friends house. The whole "you be a robo cop and ill be a robber" sort of thing. Companies probably picked up on kids doing this and how they would make cool action figures and went with it.

  • @GranMaese
    @GranMaese ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Companies taking an almost R rated movie to make toys for children is the most Robocop's script point ever.

  • @Z1gguratVert1go
    @Z1gguratVert1go ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The conventional police were the side that was positively portrayed in Robocop. Replacing them with machines and/or corporate mercenaries was what was being frowned upon. Robocop himself worked out because the man they used was a cop to begin with - they as much as blatantly state this in the second one when they say that Murphy's sense of honor and duty probably kept him sane when all subsequent test subjects (which were losers in live) went mad.

  • @scotchnichols
    @scotchnichols ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Bigfoot AND the Muscle Machines" can you imagine... oh that's legitimately a combo cartoon?!

  • @montywh
    @montywh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i remember watching Alpha Commando a lot, and making the obvious comparisons that he became like a counterpart to Inspector Gadget with all the fancy gear coming out of his body for that series. kinda made me want to see a crossover between the 2 of them

  • @joeblankenship377
    @joeblankenship377 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Dude I LOVED Robocop as a kid. I had no business watching that movie as many times as I did. But, back in the good ol' days, every movie we rented from the video store, my dad would make copies of them with a 2nd VCR. So we had everything. Robocop 1 and 2 on a single tape. It was great. You could even put 3 movies on 1 tape if you didn't mind the picture being shit. And we didn't back then. Wasn't til DVD showed up that we realized how ugly VHS was.... but the Robocop cartoon? Never got into it. I feel like it was below my kid standards for animation quality.

    • @ArkhamsAngel13
      @ArkhamsAngel13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My step-dad did the same thing,rent the movies,record off the 2nd vcr,by the time I moved out at 18 in 1998 he had WELL over 20,000 movies!I spent the 1st half of my life watching movies that way!

    • @737215
      @737215 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I miss my copy which had all the commercial breaks for ABC Home Movie

    • @joeblankenship377
      @joeblankenship377 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ArkhamsAngel13 Yeah, we had several crates full of tapes. I still remember the last movie I tried to copy--Dogma--but it had that copy-protection on it so the picture would go back and forth from normal to almost too dark.

    • @ArkhamsAngel13
      @ArkhamsAngel13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joeblankenship377 funny,because now it's even harder to acquire a copy of "dogma",I recently watched some list that mentioned it.

  • @Toy_Tomb
    @Toy_Tomb หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you hadn’t literally just recapped the plot I would have thought you were crazy for saying the movie has a storybook ending, that’s a really interesting way to put it

  • @loumarquez76
    @loumarquez76 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man do I miss the 80's

  • @alucard624
    @alucard624 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That was such a strange time where you could see R rated movies being turned into animated shows and having a toy line to go with it no less.

  • @TheRayblade
    @TheRayblade ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i'm just going to assume that korean fried chicken commercial was written for the movie

  • @WEAPONX4S
    @WEAPONX4S ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved robocop as a parody of 80s vigilante violence like Bronson death wish, Dirty Harry, Rambo and all the knockoffs tough guy like Steven Seagal. Mocking corporate overreach, media and policing was apparent to me because I read comic books. My mom actually thought it was a kids movie. Robot cop. Gotta be positive. When the kids started repeating Clarance saying, ‘just give me my Effing phone call.’ I told her it’s Robocop…. LMAO. Great video.

  • @AaronDC83
    @AaronDC83 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'll always remember the scene in 2014 Robocop where their removing all the plating from his body to show him how little of himself was left. All I could think was "Its got a bush? What the hellll"

  • @inthetoyroom4life
    @inthetoyroom4life ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nobody:
    Kenner, when given the slightest chance to make another toy line based on an R rated movie: yes

  • @zombiejlt1
    @zombiejlt1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my favorite cartoons from that era of R-rated movies being turned into kids products. Loved watching the Marvel Action Hour, this was my favorite cartoon in the lineup. Still love the intro and how they used Robo's movement sounds form the film in it.

  • @BaconMcShig
    @BaconMcShig ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Quality commercial break. Robocop saying "What the Hell Fried Chicken" has been living rent-free in my head since I saw that ad years and years ago.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember watching this show as a kid. I even had the Robocop action figure that shot caps.

    • @chiquita683
      @chiquita683 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had that one too. Was the best

    • @michaelfarquhar9355
      @michaelfarquhar9355 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same man I had the ed209 that had the caps I still have it😂

  • @mittensfastpaw
    @mittensfastpaw ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn’t even know there was a second series at all. Never fails coming here and learning more about a show I liked.

  • @TheStarTrekApologist
    @TheStarTrekApologist ปีที่แล้ว +155

    As an 80's kid I can tell you, RoboCop was about a cool robotic cop with a really cool gun. No kid ever saw RoboCop as anything else.

    • @kbar3612
      @kbar3612 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes we did.

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@kbar3612 Only after you grew up, and some snotty liberal arts major pointed it out to you.

    • @brettpritchard265
      @brettpritchard265 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm with you, but hey maybe overtly we didn't but subliminally we did?

    • @Ominus434
      @Ominus434 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Not to mention it was Anti corporate and against fascism.... I mean wasn't the entire story about him fighting the corporation that made him and fighting with the people against them and the politicians wanting to gentrify parts of the city ? this cartoon was just polished up in order to sell toys

    • @TheStarTrekApologist
      @TheStarTrekApologist ปีที่แล้ว +4

      either @kbar3612 had an unusual childhood, or his memory has been corrupted by growing up. But for most kids, we did not pick up on the messaging.

  • @ayufever1978
    @ayufever1978 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i was 8 years old in 1987 when robocop came out.
    i am the youngest of 4 cousins and my mom took all of us to see robocop.
    all of us thought it was cool to see a big robot cop shoot up bad guys, but none of us- especially my mom- had noooooo idea this movie was gonna be as graphic as it was!
    it never scared any of us or freaked us out. we all had the time of our lives and LOVED the movie!

  • @radwolf76
    @radwolf76 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The reoccurring gags were on point in this episode. Hats off to you, good sir.

  • @jonus04
    @jonus04 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:35 😂 That's got to be the best version of this bit.

  • @AzureWiler
    @AzureWiler ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Robocop is a treasure,we need more robocop less cartoonnetwork bs
    If it wasn't for these adult power fantasies we wouldn't ever had the KILLDOZER day, the IRL success the stablishment hates you to know about

  • @swiftfox7725
    @swiftfox7725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This takes me back. I remember catching a few episodes of the 1998 series on UPN while waiting for Pokemon to come on.

  • @thesaltyweeb
    @thesaltyweeb ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I dont remember seeing this on TV... But for some reason it was recommended here on TH-cam and its complete!
    Honestly I was enjoying the series! The violence is pretty good for a kids show hehe

  • @TheWretchedOwl
    @TheWretchedOwl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This makes me want to see a modern satirical take on the 80’s cartoon based on violent movie trend. Like imagine a Saturday morning cartoon based on Saw? Every episode the cops have to solve Jigsaw’s wacky traps and rescue somebody form his hijinks. Fifty shades of grey as some sort of teen romance drama? Deadpool and his amazing friends? 🤔

  • @M2Mil7er
    @M2Mil7er ปีที่แล้ว +13

    we're still in Ronald's world really. No meaningful change to the economic and political systems since the '80s. A shift of power from workers and voters to corporations, with seemingly no end in sight. It was a great time for pop culture, but ultimately it's led us here; much closer to having actual robot cops, and the social decline satirized in the movie.

    • @Keverything99
      @Keverything99 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Reagan was great

    • @xelaander8429
      @xelaander8429 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was going to come here to type this!!!

    • @toddjones1480
      @toddjones1480 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Keverything99 If your goal was to eliminate the middle class then he was definitely your guy.

    • @deadweight2049
      @deadweight2049 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@toddjones1480 To be fair, that was already in motion in the early 70's. Nixon, Ford, and Carter really got the ball rolling on the shrinking middle class.

    • @adrianjuarez1162
      @adrianjuarez1162 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree with the last part but where not in the Reagan era anymore corporations and the government are in bed together and with the current administration too. Where also loving in a very satirized time that we made fun of back then and stuff back in the 80s or 90s we’re a far better time for the country and the world.

  • @ChristopherMB87
    @ChristopherMB87 ปีที่แล้ว

    You keep finding all these obscure nuggets from my childhood and I appreciate that so much

  • @AliceBowie
    @AliceBowie ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The craziest shit was Frank Miller's Robocop vs Terminator. It gets so bizarre. Anyway, I was a big fan of ED209. I think on the show they renamed it ED260. I had one of the toys, it was awesome. I wanted a pet ED209.

    • @caucasoidape8838
      @caucasoidape8838 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wish the streets of Albuquerque had ED209s patrolling.

    • @MisterCasket
      @MisterCasket ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was Frank Miller? Didn't know that! I only knew it as the Mega Drive (Genesis) game.

  • @BixRibene
    @BixRibene ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back To The Future III theme during that Korean commercial...

  • @ramgladore
    @ramgladore ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cartoons in the 90's may have been made kid-friendly from their more violent movie counterparts but they're still better than anything coming out today.

  • @EricGranata
    @EricGranata ปีที่แล้ว

    ⭐️ This is for getting that first line out so flawlessly.

  • @CrowTRobot
    @CrowTRobot ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Paul Verhoven’s explicitly antifascist movies are so often misunderstood by both fans and even their own sequels. Well idk about Showgirls. What was that one about again?

  • @BurnDoubt
    @BurnDoubt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This should work in reverse. I want to see a nearly R-rated Darkwing Duck come to the big screen.
    "Let's Get Dangerous!"

  • @deralfenderson
    @deralfenderson ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Awesome episode! Was starting to feel let down by a lack of footage of the nuclear waste guy getting liquidated by that car, but then Japanese Robocop picked up a refrigerator and made me forget all about it.

    • @SwiftTrooper5
      @SwiftTrooper5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd buy that for a dollar!!

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the writing is in korean

  • @Kewrock
    @Kewrock ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in a movie, was when they go in the corporate office and there's an aquarium with a guy's brain, eyes and nervous system being preserved. He's looking around not knowing what's going on.

  • @timothybrandriff6499
    @timothybrandriff6499 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ah, classic '80's. When R rated franchises were openly marketed to children and nobody batted an eye.

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thanks reagan

    • @ReverendMeat51
      @ReverendMeat51 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was pretty controversial even back then, I definitely remember parents complaining about it (parents hate everything cool)

    • @damageinc.5458
      @damageinc.5458 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those were the good ole' days. Now a days, entertainment is nothing but smug arrogant characters, lecturing people with propaganda messaging, which is even more harmful for society as a whole.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That 1988 Robocop Arcade game is THE BOMB.

  • @benparker1822
    @benparker1822 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think that of all the variant stories of RoboCop, my favorite was the Marvel Comics. They got interesting mid run. Liked the art in a lot of them, too.

    • @hezekiahramirez6965
      @hezekiahramirez6965 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've always loved those too! A few years ago my ex-girlfriend secretly found and collected all the issues and gave them to me on my birthday. It was one of the sweetest things anybody has ever done for me

    • @DasNordlicht91
      @DasNordlicht91 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those Robocop Marvel comics got really fun once they just started telling their own stories independent of the movie universe.

  • @djmicnifacent
    @djmicnifacent ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Secret Galaxy THANK YOU for informing and preserving historical animations and toy lines from the past, your doing GREAT NOSTALGIC WORK FOR US! One Love...
    I Really Enjoy your Content...

  • @m1activealesis551
    @m1activealesis551 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Robocop the cartoon made me the man I am today. 💪

  • @BeeTeeGee
    @BeeTeeGee ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:39 "Oh, what the hell, fried chicken"
    5:45 "Can I get a dessert?"
    5:54 "Yo, I'm about to eat!"

  • @SonicMoon1
    @SonicMoon1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’d buy that for a dollar!

  • @charleshammel8541
    @charleshammel8541 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this little nugget about robocop: for Alex Murphy, being a Catholic was a factor in his selection for the operation. He would be extremely unlikely to end himself. I can't recall if it's outright stated or if it's pulled from the meta or Easter eggs

    • @kevo23630
      @kevo23630 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The bad guys basically crucified him, and just like Jesus he rose from the dead which is how Verhoeven explains it.

  • @seanrichardgreen
    @seanrichardgreen ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I loved this movie from the first time I saw it at age 9, in the theater.
    I didn’t care for the childish cartoon, or the sequels or the tv shows or the failed reboot.

  • @MantisRapture
    @MantisRapture ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd seen the '87 RoboCop multiple times already by the time I randomly saw this show as a kid.
    My Nan (aka my Grandmother...) sat me down to watch the movie one weekend night while babysitting me and my sister. She'd rented it on VHS and had already introduced me to - shit - The Terminator, Bloodsport, The Running Man... THE FLY (seriously), Big Trouble in Little China... so six year old me ABSOLUTELY fell in love with it.
    I was obsessed with RoboCop (and am now at one with the fact it's my favourite movie of all time... it's beautiful how my appreciation of that joint increased the older I got).
    Somehow she ended up bringing back pirated VHS's of this RoboCop cartoon from some girls-holiday she was on, out in Benidorm or Tenirife or some other shitty tourist destination us Brits end up in...
    Anyway... six year old me thought it was the worst thing he'd ever seen. It wasn't like it was any shittier than any other cartoon I watched back then, but young me just couldn't get his head around how tame and nothing-like-the-movie it was.
    I still had the toys, though. I've still got the RoboCop figure (with the removable helmet and Auto-9 that clipped into his leg) knocking around somewhere.

  • @StillABigKid
    @StillABigKid ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think part of the reason all these R-rated properties were adapted to kids shows was the rise of home video. A 7 year old could never see Robocop at the cinema, but a parent or older sibling can rent it and let them see it that way.

    • @briansmith48
      @briansmith48 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I didn't see it in the movie theater. I saw it on HBO.
      They would play the current movies six or so months after the premier.
      So l must have watched that film and others ten times over the summer. 😆

  • @brandonandcharlene9527
    @brandonandcharlene9527 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    9:17 I know that was sarcasm, but honestly, the animation for that single X-Men pilot is amazing. Also the only animated version that has Colossus as a member of the main team. Not a side character, or written out for *reasons*

  • @Ny-kelCameron
    @Ny-kelCameron ปีที่แล้ว +4

    04:02-04:43.....why 80's kids are so messed up basically.

  • @robinengstrom4549
    @robinengstrom4549 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol, he used the Swedish coverart in this video. Very nice :)

  • @nathancook1404
    @nathancook1404 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd like the 1980's Robocop Movies over the 2014 Robocop Reboot, Because I'd like the Original Robocop Movie better, because it had not only the funny tv commercials that were in the Movie but also the F-Bombs that 1980's Robocop was best known for.

  • @castironchaos
    @castironchaos ปีที่แล้ว

    That Robocop chicken TV commercial may be the most...well, one of the most...mind-blowing commercials you've shown so far.

  • @jonathanwright8025
    @jonathanwright8025 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The thing about Robocop is that its central message in the first movie is a broken aesop - its supposed to be an indictment of corporations, but a corporation created a product that protected innocent citizens, arrested criminals and kept people safe better than the already existing police. The argument that corporations should not take over public duties is not helped by this.

  • @lilshabaz1862
    @lilshabaz1862 ปีที่แล้ว

    I kinda love that the score to Back to the Future III was used in foreign Robocop commercials.

  • @TheGamerZapocalypse
    @TheGamerZapocalypse ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes...Thank God we've moved on from that antiquated notion of someone doing the best they can with what they have and fighting back...
    You sound spiteful, envious and jealous. ROBOCOP (The Movie) is a great story. Sorry for your loss.

  • @multitudeofidols
    @multitudeofidols ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact: for some odd legal reason, the live action shows were filmed in Toronto with the animated shows also having a largely Canadian cast. In fact, Blu Mankuma starred in both the original live action series and _Alpha Commando_ with his characters being analogous to one another.

  • @sdelmonte
    @sdelmonte ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Robocop franchise consists of one really great movie and nothing else. Prove me wrong.

  • @jasongraham3873
    @jasongraham3873 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video as always, guys! Thorough research, tight scripting, objective observations sprinkled with plenty of clever levity to keep arguably problematic subject matter from becoming deleteriously heavy. I do have to admit though that the thumbnail title is way more clickbaity than you usually go for.

  • @maxordman4100
    @maxordman4100 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow terrific episode here! So many great gags. I also noticed that you said “Robert Cop” at the end. Was that a gag or not? You know that’s a Bootleg toy right? It’s a really famous Bootleg toy even! It looks so weird it totally does! Your jokes had me laughing a whole lot as usual!

  • @shadown5757
    @shadown5757 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always found ED 209 to be one of the coolest machines in the whole series. The samurai cyborg was pretty cool as well 😎🤙

  • @XghostXfaceX2
    @XghostXfaceX2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeah, these days cartoons just espouse the hard opposite of these things. And try to get kids into other bad things. Very rare when you get something that is just purely entertainment for kid with ZERO malicious subtext

    • @freakyzed8467
      @freakyzed8467 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nothing wrong teaching kids to hate on right wing ideology. Fascism is always a terrible idea!

    • @XghostXfaceX2
      @XghostXfaceX2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@freakyzed8467 Maybe teaching kids that going too far one way or the other is a BAD THING. Because the left especially hasn’t had a great track record lately either.

    • @freakyzed8467
      @freakyzed8467 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@XghostXfaceX2how so? How has this nebulous 'left' not had a good track record? What left exists in America? We have the broad center, which just seems to go thru their day and wants to be left alone, and a radicalized right which wants to take rights away from everyone who isn't them. Some of the broad center pushes back against that. If you wanna bring up 'liberal cities' then I will gladly counter with actual data showing cities are STILL safer to live in compared to rural America, which all the crime and violence data we have supports. If you wanna bring up BLM I will point to the fact that the VAST majority of all those protests were complete peaceful and those that weren't always had Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer elements there causing grief and violence themselves. You know, the guys who are actually being tried and convicted? Like in the real world and not on Fox News, which recently got smacked with a MASSIVE round of lawsuits. Those lawsuits where it was exposed how they knowingly lied OVER AND OVER to their sheep like audience. Yeah, the USA has all the issues you can expect from late stage capitalism, but Republicans are the ones aggravating everything, while Dems are just trying to manage the decline.

  • @Whiteglovetoys
    @Whiteglovetoys ปีที่แล้ว

    That Japanese commercial with Back to the Future III music. Amazing.

  • @jameskelly3502
    @jameskelly3502 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If Amazon does move forward with a Robocop movie and/or series. I'll be very disappointed if it doesn't have meta commentary on big corporations eating smaller companies.

    • @GohTakeshita
      @GohTakeshita ปีที่แล้ว +2

      With the villain being a thinly veiled Jeff Bezos, who makes his employees pee in bottles...

    • @jameskelly3502
      @jameskelly3502 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Goh Takeshita Obviously, the "main" evil company should be called OCP.
      But I would like to see an equally evil rival called "Rain Forest".
      LOL!

  • @bazanime
    @bazanime ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes! Interesting cartoon. Yes! Amazing it led to the X-Men cartoon series. Yes! I used to enjoy that Marvel Productions logo intro with the Spiderman landing and posing on it. Yes! I didn't mind the 2014 movie too, except for the one human hand thing... Yes, Yes, Yes.....
    but what I wanna know is.....
    Why the heck was he taking the fridge from that single-mom family?

  • @Chud_Bud_Supreme
    @Chud_Bud_Supreme ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think you spelled "fascism" wrong in the thumbnail

    • @Chud_Bud_Supreme
      @Chud_Bud_Supreme ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@priestvallon4654 I'm already subbed to this guy though. Besides, it's since been corrected