This video is still getting traffic so I just wanted to update on something! I made a handful of mistakes in the video. For example, I call the 'Ruff and Reddy Show' the 'Ruff and TEDDY Show' by mistake. I try my best to make sure that my sources are accurate for my videos but the occasional error happens. Just wanted to address that! Thanks for watching the video and for the support!
I was just watching this when you posted your note. I noticed the Ruff and Teddy comment, but that didn't take away from the overall clip. Very enjoyable. I grew up with HB in the 1960's and they were an important part of my childhood. I even had dreams of getting into animation. Then as the quality of the shows began to waiver I began thinking I had missed my chance. There are still animated shows I like a lot, but there is nothing like the first decades of HB on television. Thanks.
Would you do a real look at Where the Dead Go to Die? it is so sick messed up unwatchable most have to turn it off at uneasy it makes one feel. This is way little to no one has done a real look at it. I think you would be able to give it a true review or maybe only the 2nd part where it wants to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
You also used a lazy, unanimated cartoon to represent yourself. Apart from that, I am really enjoying this production. Lots of fun shows I grew up with.
I had an unexpected detour in my career as a comic book artist and wound up working at Hanna-Barbera, storyboarding 'Swat Kats'. A fantastic experience walking down those famous hallways. Felt like a dream! Thanks Bill and Joe! For everything.
I still fondly remember Swat Kats, despite it being killed off way too soon. Thank you for your contribution to the nostalgia of so many 90s and 80s kids.
The Spanish version of Boomerang was reduced to only airing baby shows in its later years, before it was terminated. They replaced the Pink Panther, Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes, with Backyardigans, Caillou and Pocoyó
They still air The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry and Flinstones they only air the 90s and early 2000s cartoon network shows like Dexter's Labrotory, Kids Next Door, Courage The Cowardly Dog and Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends late at night in America.
I remembered those times in the 2000s when Boomerang's schedule is at least 70% H&B and the rest goes to Looney Tunes and others. It was a wild ride back then and I enjoyed Scooby Doo the most among all of their shows. Never knew how much of an impact they made in my life until now.
Boomerang still exists and is basically like that still. I think it runs on a schedule where some newer shows will be during the day like new looney tunes and the Tom and Jerry show while at night will be classics like the jetsons and Popeye. But throughout that there’s a bunch of Bugs bunny and other shows.
Same with The Jetsons, can you believe the original run of The Jetsons only consisted of 24 episodes? And yet it's still one of the most iconic cartoons of all time, BEHOLD the ultimate power of reruns.
I wouldn’t say ruined. Time just changed. Their run was amazing and made millions of us have awesome cartoon filled childhoods. I have almost all their shows downloaded to a massive hard drive
I am happy to report that the old Hannah Barbera studio building does still exist. I worked for the property management company that managed it along with the residential apartments that were built behind it. It was truly a joy to work around the historic site for the three years I worked there.
i remember my maternal Grandpa telling me that Hanna died. He would keep up to date with everything i was interested in, and that included trying to read Harry Potter when the craze started. Just for me. And Barbera died around the time my Grandpa passed away. These cartoons and my Grandpa's love for me, is what kept me alive tbh. i miss the old days. i just miss my Grandpa.
This post broke my heart but also put a smile on my face. It's obvious that your grandfather loved you unconditionally, and that he loved to be involved in your life. Just know that love like that doesn't die. He is still with you, and he will always be with you. 🙏
If feel like it should be mentioned that the Smurfs were adapted by Hanna Barbera, not created, the original concept and stories are from Belgian comic artist Peyo and started in 1958
Exactly! Smurfs are always presented as cartoon characters in American videos whereas where I live (France) everyone knows them for their comics and not necessarily for the Hanna Barbera cartoons
I feel like this would go well with the "Roll Safe" meme: "Your audience won't be confused by ripoffs made by other companies If you make your own ripoffs first"
@@MrWhatdafuBOOM I legit don't understand any of these comparisons other than their role on the team (unless your talking comics Guardians, because I ain't ever read that)
@@ronaldomendoza7578 Their role on the team is precicely what I'm talking about: Cap/Star-Lord: Leader from another time period Black Widow/Gamora: No-nonsense assassine lady Thor/Drax: The buff guy that is very strong, although at times a little stupid, occassionally doesn't understand our human customs Iron Man/Rocket: Wise-cracking tech-genius that drinks alot Hulk/Groot: Giant monster that rarely talks and usually shows the most impressive physical feats in the movie
Thank you Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera for making children all over the world happy for a long long time. Growing up, I was one of those children that loved your cartoons, thank you for that piece of joy you gave us in your cartoon stories, may your souls Rest In Peace.
This must be a case of christian vs atheist, while i left the church to save on money. they seriously wrote into the letter that they are allowed to estimate how much i owe them.
As a kid I never paid attention to credits before and after cartoons but the name "Hanna Barbera" sticked into my mind since my grandma's name was Anna and I used to watch cartoons at her home, wondering who this Anna Barbera was (I thought it was the name of a lady, and the H in Hanna was a typo). Now whenever I see the Hanna Barbera credits my mind goes back to those times. Thank you William and Joe for the memories and the laughs, you really had a huge influence on my childhood and Tom & Jerry will always be my favourite cartoon ever
They did some really, really cool adventure type cartoons in the 60s (not comedy). Johnny Quest was mentioned, which was great, and there were a number of others too
I remember that when Fred and Wilma were going to have a baby,there was a nationwide contest to name the baby. Some creative viewer came up with Pebbles and won. What fun!
And sadly, after Warner bought and formed Hannah Barbara into the company, William Hannah Died in 2001. And I remember going on the Cartoon Network website to hear about Joseph Barbara who died in December 2006. So I think after many years of Hannah-Barbara working together, it was time they go and rest in peace. R.I.P. Bill Hannah (1910 - 2001) Joseph Barbara (1911 - 2006)
Hanna-Barbera was very much part of my formative years during the 70's. Flintstones, Banana Splits, Tom and Jerry.... I was expecting the thing to have bought them down to be the use of digital tech to create cartoons rather than politics. Brilliant video; thank you for putting it together. Riveting! :)
I feel the same. I think what surprised me was finding out that the cartoons I loved the most were made at least 10 years before I was born (1968)! Then when my son was born in 94, I got to watch cartoons with him and my favorites were Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, and Two Stupid Dogs. I'm 51 now and this video brought back some great memories. ❤😄
As a kid my best friend was called Barbara, and my name is Hanna, so I took it as a sign when I first saw the company name, we were really close actually. Long story short, we fell out immediatly after entering high school. Never saw her again, never even remotly talked to her once after that. Everything has an ending I guess
This is such a melancholic post. I have been in similar situations. It's sad that people drift apart, no matter how close they can be at one point. But, that's life.
Paraplegic octopus, all the mayor animation studios back then (WB, Disney, MGM..) have won Oscars in the "Animated Short Film" category. Even sometimes they would show in the opening credits that the cartoon won the Oscar for the previous year...
Five years later, I found this! As someone who loves old shorts, this was a great bit of historical documentation, so thank you. As a side note, I worked for the company that took over the main HR production building. We moved in the summer of 2007, and I was there for two years, at 3400 Cahuenga. It was such a fun, funky place. As the company is marketing research, with a sort of fun vibe, they decorated the space in mid-century style, with a color palette based on the HB cartoons. All our conference rooms were named for the different HB shows and characters (which could be confusing when scheduling.) I think someone got fiberglass statues from somewhere of a couple of the characters to have in different nooks just for fun. It was a quirky, great space, and I loved working there. Considering the old, drab offices in Eagle Rock we used to have, we loved the new space. I miss it a lot, as it was the best, most fun workspace I have ever been in.
Another thing that was incredible during the Hanna Barbera golden age was the music. Hoyt Curtin wrote some of the most iconic themes of all time (Flinstones, Jetsons, Jonny Quest, lots more). and even his incidental music cues were top-notch. His music is a major reason many of those older shows are so memorable. As the industry kept trying to save costs, there was less of that fully orchestrated music.
@@bojack40 The cheap cash-ins/clones were the worst but others were pretty inventive and they didn't cut costs in a manner that cut entertainment value. The animation, writing, and music varied by cartoon show, even for the more recent ones. SWAT Kats was amazing! Courage the Cowardly Dog was fucking creepy as hell... The old Powerpuff Girls was excellent.
In the 90s, Hanna-Barbera went back to fully orchestrated music in most cases, often matching with every movement or action ala the Warner Bros. cartoons (i.e. "Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights.")
I was at NYCC in 2019 and met a former animator from Hanna-Barbera that worked on Scooby Doo (1960s) as a background artist, he was amazing and funny too, he talked about the studio in Florida that he worked at while working on Scooby Doo and talked about the intro and the effects they used for the lightning sound at the beginning of the cartoon , I also grew up watching Hannna-Barbera and got hooked on Jonny Quest (1964, 1989,1995) the art work was made by a comic artist Doug Wildey that is why it was a unique style of animation, and was the cartoon with a unique intto, to this day I love Hanna-Barbera, also fun fact the ideas of the tech used in the Jonny Quest show were from various future tech magazines that came out in 1960s which influenced the designs of the various tech used in the show
I've worked with a few animators who worked at "H&B". They would complain about working on cartoons I grew up on. "If I had to draw another damned Smurf!!..." and I would be starstruck.
Idk if it’s just me, but it feels like Hannah Barbera wasn’t ruined like CN, Nickelodeon or Disney, but just ran out of steam at the end and wasn’t willing to change. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s how I feel
Well, by the early 90s, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had been in the business for over half a century and the cartoon landscape was changing rapidly. It was only natural they'd sell to Turner (which would eventually be absorbed by WB).
Manuel David Rendon Acevedo Well Cn’s main issue is they keep using a formula that no longer works. Back in the day it made sense to play your most popular show more than anything else. However this only works if you have multiple popular shows because otherwise you just end up spamming one or two cartoons. Today thanks to kids using the internet more than watching tv, there are less cartoons being produced. But Cartoon Network is still using the same formula I mentioned which leads to the sad result of it being the Teen Titans go channel. If they just balanced their programming a little bit it would be ten times better as they do have some great shows in Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Snow and We Bare Bears. Although two of those ended and are now only reruns and one is very clearly ending soon. In addition their release schedule for new episodes is a lot more all over the place than it used to be. It’s just whenever they feel it will get the most views which can make it hard to keep up with new episodes and lead to very big periods of dead space. Long and short, a little bit of reformatting would do them well but they just don’t feel like it for some reason.
@@Soufriere84 Technically H-B still exists as Cartoon Network Studios. They rebranded after Hannah died. Early Powerpuff girls episodes still have the HB card.
I was born in Mexico, in the early 80’s. In those days, while Hanna-Barbera was already straggling, their old shows were actually really popular. I remember watching shows like “The Flintstones” “The Smurfs” and “The Jetsons” (and many more) all in Spanish. “The Flintstones” were called “Los Picapiedras.” “The Smurfs” were called “Los pitufos.” And “The Jetsons” were called “Los Supersónicos.” While the newer shows mentioned here were also VERY POPULAR, Hanna-Barbera was still relevant (at least to Mexican children). In Mexico, there was actually a balance between the new stuff and the old stuff. Hanna-Barbera was so popular. I had no idea they were having problems. It’s sad how things can change. But to this day, I remember those wonderful characters. This video brings back so many memories. 💁🏻♂️🐸
@@kazzuo32 Recuerdo a Mazinger Z, y a “Voltron (y muchas otras). Las series animadas Japonesas también tuvieron su popularidad en nuestros países, es verdad. 💁🏻♂️💁🏽
En mi país, aquellos que nacimos después del 85, tenemos muy muy sembrados en nuestros recuerdos todos los personajes de hanna barbera, recuerdo muy bien que como hasta el 2001 (que emepzamos a ser adolecestentes y cambiar de gustos e intereses) las cómicas (cómo le decimos en mi país a los dibujos animados) eran super populares a la par de las cómicas japonesas del momento (Gokú, Caballeros del Zodiaco, etc).
The creator of the Smurfs was the Belgian cartoonist Peyo. He insisted, to allow them running on TV, that only classical music would be used except for the Smurfs theme on the very first season, as far as I remember.
Well with all the problems they had during the 80’s , 90’s , and 2000’s they did manage to hang in their especially with all the movies 🍿 that they made like Flinstones , Scooby Doo, and the Smurfs
Thanks for the video! I was lucky enough to meet Bill and his wife Violet who had a second home in Irvine Cove that was partially damaged during the 1993 Laguna fire. We were there to fix the damage, and he brought me thru the house where there were “Cells” of all the cartoons he and Joe made lining the hallways. I stood there in awe. I also did work for Violet’s twin sister Vera, who I told about being in their home, and she asked which was my favorite cartoon. I told her Yogi n BooBoo. Soon after, there was a signed framed Cell from Bill to me featuring Yogi n BooBoo waiting for me at the job. Still have it up on a wall. He also told me he was working on a new cartoon called “ Hard Luck Duck” about a duck living inside the head of an alligator. Thanks again for great video
I feel so sorry for my kids. I remember waiting for the fall lineup up. We would get so excited. We got up Saturday morning fixed a bowl of cereal grabbed our pillows and vegged in front of TV and watched cartoons. Letting our poor parents who had worked hard all week sleep in. Now parents hit the floor running driving here and driving there for all the stuff they have signed kids up for. Kids just need to be kids.
Same!! I'm 44, I have fond memories of waking up around 6am grabbing a bowl of cereal and watching Saturday morning cartoons until what was it 9am? Maybe 10am, Sunday morning had some good ones too!!
@@kentyler3962 I remember that, too. Tom Baker was the Doctor when I watched it on Sundays, WGBH out of Boston carried it. And on Saturdays between 1 and 4 in the afternoon, one of the local stations out of Manchester NH carried Creature Double Feature, a double header of old horror and monster movies from Toho Studios in Tokyo and Hammer Studios in London. No other girls my age watched any of those things, but I loved it. I still watch them on streaming services, at almost 60.
Get up early to watch cartoons, go outside and play all day, and stay up late to watch movies, Saturdays were the best. Glad I got to grow up through the 60's and 70's. Then repeated it with my kids in the 80's and 90's, real bonding time!
Honestly, most of their popular cartoons had a similar vibe to me when I watched them which made it feel all the better to watch these cartoons. Like, being in a happy space or so.
@@8-ball350 I was only about 7 years old when I thought they were women and my mother hollared and told me how stupid I was not to know that only men did things like this and women stayed at home and did housework and took care of the children.
I was born in the early 1980s, but I did watch a LOT of Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the 1960s and '70s as well as the '80s. My favorite HB cartoon ever is SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.
well the 50s 60s were awesome times to be a child i would imagine. funny how even kids from the 80s and 90s could also say "i grew up on Hannah barbera
@Angelsgirl1621 : Yeah, I'm aware of the DVD releases. What I want is some new SWAT Kats material, though. The franchise could be revived as a comic book series through DC Comics, either a kids or adult cartoon via Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and/or a 3D action movie for kids from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. From what I understand, Christian and Yvon Tremblay, the creators of SK, had an SK-based Kickstarter a few years back that met its goal, so I'm still holding out for hope that SK gets revived in some fashion.
Growing up in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, the majority of animated cartoons shown on national TV were Hanna-Barbera produced. They were dubbed in Macedonian or Serbian language. My favorite were: The Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Atom Ant, Laurel and Hardy, Tom & Jerry, The Smurfs, Wally Gator, Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, The Hillbilly Bears, Precious Pupp, The Mumbly Cartoon Show, The Flintstones.
We're back with another "What RUINED" video! Been working on this one for quite a while so I hope that you all enjoy it. A big thanks to Jim Gisriel for his help with researching this topic! Support me on Patreon : www.patreon.com/saberspark Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/Saberspark
Saberspark I know you don’t take requests but it would be awesome if you do a video centered on Blue Sky Studios, be it a “What Ruined” or a “The History of...” video now that the animation studio is now owned by Disney following its acquisition on Fox.
You know it's time like these I'm reminded how much i really miss watching Hannah Barbera cartoons on Boomerang before it went down the toilet, anyone else?😟
IMHO Looney Tunes by Warner Bros. was number 1 or The Wonderful World of Disney. But outside of that I loved Hanna Barbera too. My earliest childhood memories of t.v. animation were of: The Flintstones, Mighty Mouse, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker. I looooved the Flintstones, and then probably Scooby-Doo, we even watched it everyday after school in the '80s along with Heckle and Jeckel, Woody the Woodpecker, and Casper the Friendly Ghost, maybe Inspector Gadget, but mostly Scooby and Little House. Weekday mornings were Happy Days and/or Different Strokes, Mork and Mindy, I Dream of Jeannie, Eight is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, stuff like that. Saturday mornings were Bugs, The Smurfs, and maybe Yogi-Bear, and Tom and Jerry (loved that one too!!)? or the Laff-a-Lympics, and maybe Gumby and non-animated shows, some terrible show like Flipper, or Grizzly Adams, Sigmund and the Sea monsters or Land of the Lost (good actually); and years before that HR PufnStuf (Buggaloos?), or Partridge Family or The Monkees, later in the morning to afternoon Chips and Dukes, afternoon tv movie for kids, in the evening, possibly Saturday Movie of the Week, and The Incredible Hulk. Sundays: Wonderful World of Disney--Ohhh yeah, AMAZING for a kid. Other kids were into Transformers, GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, on Saturdays or whatever flavor of the moment. Man, I didn't even cover all of the sitcom re-runs from the 60s and 70s still being shown in the '80s (and current ones at the time). Television programming was pretty incredible back then I have to admit.
I agree. The worst part was when adults started to confuse this with real life - that made people just boycott all the animators, starting with Hanna Barbara.
The second live action Scooby Doo was amazing imo, as well as Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, and Top Cat: The Movie from 2012 as well. And with the success of SCOOB! (i’m not saying it’s good, as i haven’t had the chance to watch it yet) not only will there be another Scooby Doo comeback but there’s even a chance of other Hanna Barbera reboots.
4. Political correctness. 5. parental and societal intolerance for anything even "slightly" offensive !!! This is what banished cartoons like the He-Man, She-Ra, ThunderCats, the original Teen Titans and just about ALL of the old Loony Tunes and Tex Avery cartoons, as well.
@@EddieSparxx The narrator glossed over Hanna-Barbera losing a lot of their veteran animators back in the early 80s. They broke off over labor issues and created their own studio, Ruby-Spears. Hanna-Barbera found itself competing against a higher quality version of themselves.
Pickle Master so true. I spent almost a whole afternoon the other day watching collections of the bumpers and music videos they made the other day. I have to applaud them for those. What other channels can you say you really enjoyed the bumpers for? lol
Bob Savage notice how everyone started sleeping in when the good cartoons started leaving? I guarantee a lack of great cartoons is a big reason many people sleep in now
Poison Griffin - Mystery Incorporated was pretty good because it had an interesting storyline as opposed to the original show's random quirky adventures. But in my opinion, nothing will ever beat the original.
It's like any other industry, they revolutionized a market, and saturated the market without making any changes, and by the time they realize that industry had changed, it was too late. The same reason blockbuster is no longer around.
Actually "The Smurfs" was an animated series of the Belgian comics by Peyo. Peyo's Smurf comics was also a spin-off to his older comic series "Johan and Peewit" (Johan and Pirlouit). The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) themselves made their debut in a Johan and Peewit comic "The Flute With Six Holes" in 1958 while Smurfette debuted in 1967. The Hannah-Barbera series decided to make Smurfette a main character which resulted in Peyo making Smurfette become more prominent in the comics since she was originally a minor character. Plus the Hannah-Barbera series is the second animated series starring The Smurfs. The first was made between 1961-1965 as called "Les Schtroumpfs" that only aired in Belgium, West Germany, and other countries in Europe. It eventually got overshadowed by the Hannah-Barbera series and faded into obscurity. But some of the cartoons can be found at the Belgian Comic Strip Museum in Brussels, Belgium.
@@Thewritingelf Currently, the first 1960s Smurfs series has never gotten a home video release. But I will link these four videos showing the first Smurfs animated series. This video is from a German TH-cam channel that contained the German dub from one episode but doesn't contain the entire episode. th-cam.com/video/ud2GEnOVmwg/w-d-xo.html These three videos show footage from the Belgian Comic Museum that showed some of the episodes with Dutch subtitles. th-cam.com/video/6XrGRcE5kYQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/PDBE_J3STVc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/rSmRWisrBM8/w-d-xo.html
I remember Johan and Peewee in the smurfs cartoon. For some reason, whenever I talk to other people that watched the smurfs, nobody else remembers them
Thanks for posting. My dad was a background artist and worked with Hanna-Barbera several times between 1964-85. So, these shows are near and dear to my heart. I was in LA a few years ago and went by the old studios; it's just not the same.
Dude nothing's the same anymore. I'm glad your dad had the privilege of being a part of that. Hanna Barbera still holds a place in my heart though I'm refreshed Warner Brothers still keep their work going though I'm not fond of Jellystone on HBO MAX
Even as a kid in the 70's I knew the animation was repetitive & sometimes pretty crappy, but I didn't care because the content was so much fun; Scooby still rocks my world.
The flintstones was a good example of this. It seemed like they drew about 5 minutes of footage and stretched it into a half hour episode by repetition. They couldn't fool me as a kid either and like you I still was an avid watcher. Makes me yearn for those simpler times.
@Oakley Sierney I don't think any of us 70's kids we're fooled by production line animation, but because they were "simpler times", we didn't care so much if the content was great. I think maybe that's one of the reasons we embraced "South Park" 20 years later. Perhaps comedy works better if it isn't beautiful.
@@gameblor Strange thing is Flintstones still seems to hold up today. So perhaps your theory " Perhaps comedy works better if it isn't beautiful." is correct. I wonder why that would be :)
To my simple-minded brain as a child, it was noticeable that Hanna Barbera's cartoons were just inferior to warner brothers. HB always ruined their toons by adding sidekicks to their main characters. In my mind back then, the shows were never as good after sidekicks were added. Kazoo, bleep, wonder twins... drove me nuts. Now, I don't mind the sidekicks.
Johnny Quest was my Saturday morning fix . A bowl of cereal , a flickering , staticky TV screen , and adventure aplenty . The theme song can still get me to smile . The original ... not that later one .
Why my dad didn't apply him becoming Dr. Quest and I could spend my teenage years fighting frogmen and flying jets instead of pulling dents out of Fords.
sad story sir; my childhood consisted of cartoons during the mid to late 90's.. staying @ my grandmas house house while my mom worked.. GOLDEN memories.. miss u GMA
I grew up in the '60s and 70s on Hanna-Barbera cartoons on Saturdays and after school.. they will always be a treasured part of my life and memories.. thank you Mr Hannah and Mr Barbera ❤️RIP
told my parents to leave me alone on Saturday Mornings. I I went to school 5 days a week, Church and Sunday school on Sunday,s had to go to all the other stuff during the week, but to leave me alone on Saturday Mornings, I ate breakfast and maybe a peanut butter sandwich later on, Then after 12 when the cartoons went off the monster movies came on like King Kong Godzilla
There was no ruin or collapse. Simply a matter of everything having its time and place. Most do not stay around that long. Your video should be called what made Hanna Barbera so successful.
@@Micfri300 Times Change. Kids change. Just like kids from your era wouldn’t have related to Betty Boop, kids today aren’t going to relate to the Smurfs. It’s really no one’s fault.
@@dewilew2137 i was born in 1995 and scooby doo and the flintstones are definitely top 5 cartoons for me which I watched in the uk. Times don't change. Kids don't relate? I would suggest otherwise. Ever heard of overwatch?
@@josevalentin3990 it was a little sad when noon came along, but I worked out a great system. Wake up, start cartoons, eat cereal for breakfast, then around 11-11:30 I had lunch and then go outside to play. Funny that when you're a kid you can't wait to get older and once you're older you wish you could go back and relive times when you were young. Then again, maybe reflecting on your early youth is enough LOL.
Loved the Laff-A-Lympics when I was a kid! The first real "meta" cartoon concept: bringing characters outside their own show, and treating them as celebrity athletes. What a world. Saturday mornings rocked, and the commercial interstitials were just as good with the content, with Schoolhouse Rocks.
Yessss I was going to comment something similar about their wacky races they would have; the only other thing I remember with a similar vibe was one of the Animaniacs movies where everyone was racing to get to the fallen star. But those wacky races were so fun!
H-B cartoons were an importan part of my happy infancy. I am infinitely thankful to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and to each and every members of their stuff. Long live their memories
I’ll never forget; In the 70s they could’ve almost transitioned to mostly computer based animation. There is a short with the Scooby gang and the Harlem globetrotters, except that it was made entirely using Scanimate/“CAESAR”. That’s the computer responsible for all the analog wavy animation of the 70s that I love so much. To think they would start ANIMATING THEIR SHOWS WITH IT!?
Giving away my age, but I remember being pissed that my Saturday morning cartoons were interrupted by sports and the occasional Apollo moon landing report.
Nov 23, 1963, I was watching cartoons when the whole program was interrupted with some kind of special announcement BS. I was so mad my tunes were off the air.
Lmbo!!!! Omg you are so right......It was called Game Time....I think...and it was NBA...histed by Summer Sanders and Ahmad Rashad...on NBC....lol....I could not stand that... .but that is when you would have to turn to Nickelodeon to wa5ch He man or She Ra..or USA network for the cartoon express...to see Pac Man...or whatever else they were showing
The three words bypassed the current political climate of HongKong and transported me directly to 2001, coming back from school, praying mother was not angry and watching TV. What now adults say about phones, I was quoted the same non-sense about TV.
It's a shame that whoever owns the rights to all these cartoons haven't realized that with every new generation, it's an opportunity to make new fans of ALL of their material. I was introduced to the vast array of Hanna - Barbera cartoons during the mid 70s, when I first arrived in the USA. By then, I was absorbing all generations of animation and other genres of children's programs, including The Little Rascals and Our Gang series. When I was 10 years old, these programs were already 15 to 40yrs old. Yet they were immensely popular with my peers. So if we were able to embrace all the " old " stuff dating back to the early 30s, there's no reason why a child of today can't find any amusement in the classic cartoons and programs of yesteryears gone by!
I agree as well. I'm 18 and I loved watching these shows on Boomerang. My mom even introduced me to the original 'The Little Rascals' because she enjoyed the show as a kid.
Columbia Pictures would have been an ideal fit for anything that was billed as *A Screen Gems Presentation.* (Partridge Family 2200 A.D. had the CPT Pretzel.) Since they released the animated "Man Called Flintstone," that would also have included all their Flintstones stuff.
Warner Bros Discovery owns the rights to 85% of the Hanna-Barbera library. And the real travesty is that they have a myriad of characters to work with and several great ideas they could be doing (like a sequel series to Pirates of Dark Water (since that NEVER got a proper ending), or even a reboot of The Herculoids that could follow in the same vein as the 2002 He-Man or the 2011 Thundercats). What are they doing instead? Shit nobody asked for (Like that Tom and Jerry Meets Willy Wonka movie (that came out one year after Gene Wilder died) those weird Hanna-Barbera WWE movies, that Banana Splits Horror Film nobody asked for, and that Velma cartoon that tries way too hard to be funny) WB Discovery don't care! Just so long as they can make a quick buck off taking a shit on Bill and Joe's legacies.
Will N you’re absolutely right about the what the network wanted during that era. I once read an interview with Joe Barbera regarding why there wasn’t enough African American Characters. Joe stated they fought to keep Valerie for Josie and The Pussycats because the networks felt she was “ too intelligent “ and there was the one time that a family was created called The Blackstones opposite The Flintstones. They were supposed to be The Jeffersons to The Flintstones Bunkers. Network squashed it and Joe gave them that Gruesome Family.
that and all the redundant casts of characters. you can only put a porkpie hat on an anthropomorphic animal so many times before everyone gets collectively bored with it.
@Will N I agree with this. As someone who grew up during this era, the networks were too afraid to try something different. I would have watched the Batman spinoff they were working on from Galactic Guardians (plus, considering it was the first time we saw Bruce's parents' deaths on TV, and his dealing with his personal fears we could have had something closer to BTAS years earlier). I definitely would have watched a TT series too! Perhaps they even could have encouraged viewership from the key demo's older siblings had the networks allowed them to go forward. All we saw were more animated versions of live action network shows (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy), Scooby & Scrappy Doo (which had changed formats and alienated earlier fans) and unfunny comedies (in part due to Peggy Charren's crusading against violence on TV, which negatively affected Saturday AM TV for about 15 years) when we should have had more shows like Johnny Quest (the '64 version), Space Ghost, etc. Network executives are generally not the brightest bulbs on the proverbial tree, and are almost never prescient about what would make good TV.
@@Bigreid92 I had heard about trying to keep Valerie (who was very likable), but I didn't hear about The Blackstones. If true then I can guess part of the reason was the networks didn't want to alienate southern affiliates and viewers (it didn't help that race riots and the civil rights marches were on TV nightly). The Gruesomes were essentially a knock off of the Addams Family/Munsters so that was as close as that show was going to get to having a mixed neighborhood.
@@levitation25 It's not a saying because the phrase "Don't do a cousin Oliver" already exists, referring to when The Brady Bunch tried adding a "cute kid character" named cousin Oliver. Kid was annoying. Scappy fits the Cousin Oliver bill. So it's already covered. Scrappy was almost as destructive to Scooby Doo as Shaggy is to food tho
I remember seeing a cartoon of the Hollywood mansion tours. While on the tours there was an illusion of mansions but behind them were beat up shacks. Idk if HB did this cartoon but I can find it anywhere. Does anyone else remember this episode?
Thanks for this video! Having been born in 1956, I literally grew up watching all of the original H&B shows and I loved them all, and I still do. Fred and Wilma, George and Jane, Johnny and Hadji, Huckleberry, QuickDraw, Magilla, Scooby and Shaggy, and all the rest literally helped shape my early years, for good or for bad. And looking back, I think it was good. I knew the name "Hanna-Barbera" when I was a kid. And you left out one essential and important thing. You called their work "low quality," and it was low quality animation, but it was top quality entertainment. As any decent filmmaker knows, the special effects don't make a good film (and animation is essentially an effect); the story development and character development make a good film. Thanks again. Great tribute to Hanna-Barbera!
I'll Tell You What Ruined Hanna-Barbera.... The Moxy Show, What A Cartoon, Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and PPG ! These 7 Cartoon Network Originals Are The Reason Why Hanna-Barbera Is Dead !
HANNA BARBERA CARTOONS AND TOIE ANIMES WERE OUTSOURCED IN THE PHILIPPINES BACK IN THE DAY (LEGIT/GOOGLE IT). JOHNNY BRAVO WAS CREATED BY A FILIPINO ARTIST AND HE PATTERNED JOHNNY AFTER EX FILIPINO PRESIDENT JOSEPH ESTRADA- DJ JIKKO FLIPINO
@@alexzander4426 I disagree... I feel it was good, a parody of the original show, the artwork put off some people, but eh, I liked it so well. I knew it wasn't gonna last so I enjoyed it while I could.
@@EkoBahamut I don't mind parodies, but the comedy was very off for me. I mean one "joke" is them saying the word Rick for a minute straight. It was boring and had poor taste I feel. However, to each their own. Glad you could enjoy it.
We used to watch Tom & Jerry before going to school that used to air for one episode every morning... i miss those old days when i was a kid in the late 80s & early 90s :(
This video is still getting traffic so I just wanted to update on something! I made a handful of mistakes in the video. For example, I call the 'Ruff and Reddy Show' the 'Ruff and TEDDY Show' by mistake. I try my best to make sure that my sources are accurate for my videos but the occasional error happens. Just wanted to address that! Thanks for watching the video and for the support!
I was just watching this when you posted your note. I noticed the Ruff and Teddy comment, but that didn't take away from the overall clip. Very enjoyable. I grew up with HB in the 1960's and they were an important part of my childhood. I even had dreams of getting into animation. Then as the quality of the shows began to waiver I began thinking I had missed my chance. There are still animated shows I like a lot, but there is nothing like the first decades of HB on television. Thanks.
Thanks! FYI when I was a kid I named my dog Ruff after this cartoon.
Would you do a real look at Where the Dead Go to Die? it is so sick messed up unwatchable most have to turn it off at uneasy it makes one feel. This is way little to no one has done a real look at it. I think you would be able to give it a true review or maybe only the 2nd part where it wants to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
You also used a lazy, unanimated cartoon to represent yourself. Apart from that, I am really enjoying this production. Lots of fun shows I grew up with.
So was this near and dear to your heart? Your avatar looks like Shaggy and Velma had a baby lol
goo.gl/3ntQpX (you will lol too)
I grew up watching the original Boomerang, shame that channel went downhill. It’s not the same
I know right? I remember bingewatching their shows as a kid.
Me too.
Ikr. Its a bigger shame that kids today don't know shit about it.
Same here
It used to be a lot more variety, now......
I had an unexpected detour in my career as a comic book artist and wound up working at Hanna-Barbera, storyboarding 'Swat Kats'. A fantastic experience walking down those famous hallways. Felt like a dream! Thanks Bill and Joe! For everything.
I still fondly remember Swat Kats, despite it being killed off way too soon. Thank you for your contribution to the nostalgia of so many 90s and 80s kids.
Fascinating!
Swat katz was amazing I watched it along with pirates of dark water. Its a shame western animation has taken such a nose five.
Thank you so much. 💚
I loved Swat Katz when I was a kid! Thank you!
Too bad boomerang hardly ever airs the old stuff nowadays.
@SkyStormSong Animations - Brawl Stars at what time though
They do here in Germany...at 2am
The Spanish version of Boomerang was reduced to only airing baby shows in its later years, before it was terminated. They replaced the Pink Panther, Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes, with Backyardigans, Caillou and Pocoyó
They still air The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry and Flinstones they only air the 90s and early 2000s cartoon network shows like Dexter's Labrotory, Kids Next Door, Courage The Cowardly Dog and Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends late at night in America.
@@baranguirus Why Backyardagains is even owned by Nickelodeon which is owner by Viacom why would that or on Boomerang which is owned by Time Warner?
I remembered those times in the 2000s when Boomerang's schedule is at least 70% H&B and the rest goes to Looney Tunes and others. It was a wild ride back then and I enjoyed Scooby Doo the most among all of their shows. Never knew how much of an impact they made in my life until now.
That was Cartoon Network in the 90's along with some Tom and Jerry, Droopy and the Cartoon Cartoons.
Yeah, Boomerang was the TV channel of choice whenever I was home sick.
@@thecatladytm7172 boomerang had all the hits scobby doo,looney tunes, tom and Jerry, codename kids next door,pink panther. They had everything
Boomerang still exists and is basically like that still. I think it runs on a schedule where some newer shows will be during the day like new looney tunes and the Tom and Jerry show while at night will be classics like the jetsons and Popeye. But throughout that there’s a bunch of Bugs bunny and other shows.
@@georgie5053 Wait Boomerang still exists?
For how influencial Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was, it's interesting that the original run only ran for a year (1969-1970).
Tbh the one after that looked so Identical that it be impossible to tell that it was a different series
All Scooby Doo taught me was that all the evil in the world was just humans in suits. LET ME AT'EM. I'LL SPLATT'EM.
Well you can't have a series on ghost chasing really for 2 or 3 years before you begin to repeat plots and maybe even characters.
Same with The Jetsons, can you believe the original run of The Jetsons only consisted of 24 episodes?
And yet it's still one of the most iconic cartoons of all time, BEHOLD the ultimate power of reruns.
it had 3 seasons, the year was its original run
What truly hurt them was not just missed opportunities or other failures. When Hanna died in 2001 and Barbera in 2006, that was truly the end.
(T-T)
Plus Cedar Fair not renewing the use of theme park rights when they bought out Paramount Parks.
...until Jellystone makes a brand new look and gained so many fans new and old.
@@AsteriskDatBoi If u mean Yogi Bear 2010, I loved it!
@@aliangelettie5075 No. It mean Jellystone on HBO Max
I wouldn’t say ruined. Time just changed. Their run was amazing and made millions of us have awesome cartoon filled childhoods. I have almost all their shows downloaded to a massive hard drive
Same here
Show to your kids someday. Don't show they what TH-cam is till later :P.
Yeah I know
Absolutely correct ❤️
dont be shy ,make big repository hahahah
I am happy to report that the old Hannah Barbera studio building does still exist. I worked for the property management company that managed it along with the residential apartments that were built behind it. It was truly a joy to work around the historic site for the three years I worked there.
"Goober and the Ghost Chasers" I'm literally rolling on the floor rn. It looks like a satirical parody of Scooby Doo.
There's also this Hanna-Barbera show using this Scooby-Doo formula... but with a _shark_
_And_ they had a band!
Why make a rip off of your own show
Why?!
Why? Because they needed more shows and the formula was both easy and successful.
@@ArendAlphaEagleJabber Jaw. Holy shit I almost forgot about that show.
They made Goober look straight up like a hardcore stoner. It had me dying lol
now i realized that 75% of my childhood is made by Hanna barbera
Same
So there is the sporks
I mean sporks
First I thought it's Cartoon network but now I know-
@@ihatemyoldcringecomments1018 Yup, Cartoon Network is more or less the modern incarnation of Hanna Barbera.
i remember my maternal Grandpa telling me that Hanna died. He would keep up to date with everything i was interested in, and that included trying to read Harry Potter when the craze started. Just for me. And Barbera died around the time my Grandpa passed away. These cartoons and my Grandpa's love for me, is what kept me alive tbh. i miss the old days. i just miss my Grandpa.
This post broke my heart but also put a smile on my face. It's obvious that your grandfather loved you unconditionally, and that he loved to be involved in your life. Just know that love like that doesn't die. He is still with you, and he will always be with you. 🙏
May your Grandpa rest in Heaven :)
I want to be your grandpa to someone
I bet your Grandpa is having fun with Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera right now 😢
Sad he was gone
I was born in 81 and didnt realize most of the cartoons I loved were already 30+ years old when i was watching them!. Crazy
I gotta agree with these other comments that HB wasn't "ruined" they just sorta faded out and it's hard to deny their impact and legacy.
This was a history of HB video, but Saberspark has to use his "What Ruined" brand to be consistent. Or maybe clickbait?
I am also not pleased with those who make degrading comments about Scooby-Doo and the slew of cartoons that used his formula as a blueprint.
Yeah
Scooby Doo was such a big part of my childhood...
(edit) thank you, everyone, for over a thousand likes! I'm glad we all had the same childhood, lol!
@Henrystrikesback Same.
Sierra T. Mine too! I loved buying Scooby Doo VHS videos!
Same here until Scrappy Doo was introduced in the late 70s.
Scooby-Doo mystery incorporated is the best Scooby-Doo cartoon.
I lived for the Jestsons
If feel like it should be mentioned that the Smurfs were adapted by Hanna Barbera, not created, the original concept and stories are from Belgian comic artist Peyo and started in 1958
Exactly.
Wait whaaaat?!?
How is it different every time I reload, then when I reply it fixes itself?!?
I'm surprised he didn't mention that since a lot people don't seem to know that The Smurfs and The Snorks are both adaptations of Belgian comics
Exactly! Smurfs are always presented as cartoon characters in American videos whereas where I live (France) everyone knows them for their comics and not necessarily for the Hanna Barbera cartoons
One thing I would like to say: if there is no Hanna-Barbera, there is no Cartoon Network.
Straight up dude, your avatar looks like the child of Velma and Shaggy
That's a compliment.
@@edwardgaines6561 Ok, you're here too lmao
Bruh he looks like Velma got a sex change. Tbh if I were him I'd change it to avoid more comments like this.
@@IhatenaldsMcDo Nah. If he likes his avatar, who cares?
If you want a Shaggy lookalike, look no further than Peanutbutter Gamer!
6:11 Broke: rip off another company's cartoon to make profit of its popularity
Woke: rip off your own stuff without even trying to hide it
I feel like this would go well with the "Roll Safe" meme:
"Your audience won't be confused by ripoffs made by other companies
If you make your own ripoffs first"
@@tacoman422 Kinda like Marvel:
Captain America - Star Lord
Black Widow - Gamora
Thor - Drax
Iron Man - Rocket Raccoon
Hulk - Groot
@@MrWhatdafuBOOM I legit don't understand any of these comparisons other than their role on the team (unless your talking comics Guardians, because I ain't ever read that)
@@ronaldomendoza7578 Their role on the team is precicely what I'm talking about:
Cap/Star-Lord: Leader from another time period
Black Widow/Gamora: No-nonsense assassine lady
Thor/Drax: The buff guy that is very strong, although at times a little stupid, occassionally doesn't understand our human customs
Iron Man/Rocket: Wise-cracking tech-genius that drinks alot
Hulk/Groot: Giant monster that rarely talks and usually shows the most impressive physical feats in the movie
And most of the Scooby Doo ripoffs were bad.
Thank you Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera for making children all over the world happy for a long long time. Growing up, I was one of those children that loved your cartoons, thank you for that piece of joy you gave us in your cartoon stories, may your souls Rest In Peace.
They are dead
@@nzriot I think he's aware that they are hence him saying, "Rest In Peace".
Amen.
This must be a case of christian vs atheist, while i left the church to save on money. they seriously wrote into the letter that they are allowed to estimate how much i owe them.
@@nagash303 what are you even talking about
As a kid I never paid attention to credits before and after cartoons but the name "Hanna Barbera" sticked into my mind since my grandma's name was Anna and I used to watch cartoons at her home, wondering who this Anna Barbera was (I thought it was the name of a lady, and the H in Hanna was a typo). Now whenever I see the Hanna Barbera credits my mind goes back to those times. Thank you William and Joe for the memories and the laughs, you really had a huge influence on my childhood and Tom & Jerry will always be my favourite cartoon ever
Funny how kids' minds make up stories and fill in the spaces like that. I remember logic like that.
Being a kid in the seventies, watching Saturday morning cartoons was special. I love cartoons!!
Uwu
South Park alludes to it, with the parents watching "Wacky Races" on saturday morning.
🤯
Boomer
@T C but if you are 40 you are a boomer. The oldest a millennial can get is 39 years old
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Oh, he's making more movies...
That's nice to know
Hurray more cringe
Wot
Nothing beats the original.
spidey central You are more cringe!
* hes training with shaggy currently using 0.001992% power
They did some really, really cool adventure type cartoons in the 60s (not comedy). Johnny Quest was mentioned, which was great, and there were a number of others too
Hold up...HANNAH BARBARA MADE THE 1973 CHARLOTTE'S WEB?! *WTF?!*
*I THOUGHT IT WAS PARAMOUNT*
VanillaFlare Productions paramount distributed it and I believe they have the rights to the film today
Yep. You can tell from the designs of the people -- classic Iwao Takamoto (just checked; he co-directed it).
where have you been lol
Nate Carter unlike gulliver travels and mr bug goes to town
I remember that when Fred and Wilma were going to have a baby,there was a nationwide contest to name the baby. Some creative viewer came up with Pebbles and won. What fun!
Wow.
And Bam Bam ?pretty creative names for both babies.
Did pebbles become fruity?
😏
@@justampeg4fileI believe she's more into cocoa if you know what I mean😏
What was the prize?
Old Hanna-Barbera: And that's how you totally control, dominate and monopolize an entire industry... understand?
Young Disney: I think so...
I wish I could ❤ this!!
They saw an opportunity and ran with it. Disney makes Crap to sell more Crap.
I mean have you seen what they did to Star Wars?
Buy it all out i tells ye, it really is that simple
WB: THE BANANA SPLITS MOVIE
@@leekronforst4589 so youre just gonna ignore the success and the wonderful movies they made because they 'ruined' your boring space show? lmao
Imagine if Hannah Barbera had a streaming service back then, how amazing the world would have been.
It's Hanna.
Their cartoons did go to alot of countries
@@helenbailey8419 What's an alot?
REALLY.....😂😂😂😂😂
Hanna and Barbara were animation giants. They will be missed so much.
Like Stan Lee.
I'm going to go cry now...
+neonrenamon
I'm not a big Hanna/Barbera fan.
Excelsior
Bone apple tea
Right😟😥
And stefan karl
They made childhood happy and magical. Nothing like Saturday morning cartoons and cereal. RIP Joe and Bill
Pink Cashmere my dads like second cousin or something was joe
Tell me about it...
And sadly, after Warner bought and formed Hannah Barbara into the company, William Hannah Died in 2001.
And I remember going on the Cartoon Network website to hear about Joseph Barbara who died in December 2006.
So I think after many years of Hannah-Barbara working together, it was time they go and rest in peace.
R.I.P. Bill Hannah (1910 - 2001)
Joseph Barbara (1911 - 2006)
TimeWarner acquired Turner in 1996, five years before William Hanna died
@@CarbyGuuGuu that's what he said...
"...after Warner bought...Hannah [sic] died."
What the hell, both lived over 90 years.
And people still say heroes die young.
They were 100 years old, it was time to go.
they died old. they built tom and jerry & flintstones.
Ok
Hanna-Barbera was very much part of my formative years during the 70's. Flintstones, Banana Splits, Tom and Jerry.... I was expecting the thing to have bought them down to be the use of digital tech to create cartoons rather than politics.
Brilliant video; thank you for putting it together. Riveting! :)
I grew up with Hanna-Barbera, and I feel very blessed to have done so.
Very
Absolutely!! These cartoons raised me. ☺️
I feel the same. I think what surprised me was finding out that the cartoons I loved the most were made at least 10 years before I was born (1968)! Then when my son was born in 94, I got to watch cartoons with him and my favorites were Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, and Two Stupid Dogs. I'm 51 now and this video brought back some great memories. ❤😄
Me too although they were reruns
Me too and we have hope beyond.
As a kid my best friend was called Barbara, and my name is Hanna, so I took it as a sign when I first saw the company name, we were really close actually. Long story short, we fell out immediatly after entering high school. Never saw her again, never even remotly talked to her once after that.
Everything has an ending I guess
Yeah, know the feeling.
This is such a melancholic post. I have been in similar situations. It's sad that people drift apart, no matter how close they can be at one point. But, that's life.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
There's still time.
Aw
These guys won 7 Oscars for Tom & Jerry??! Yowzers! I did not know this, damn!!
Paraplegic octopus, all the mayor animation studios back then (WB, Disney, MGM..) have won Oscars in the "Animated Short Film" category. Even sometimes they would show in the opening credits that the cartoon won the Oscar for the previous year...
@GreenHillBro Like, wow!
And they deserved it! The animation on those shorts are masteful (and often taken for granted)
Five years later, I found this! As someone who loves old shorts, this was a great bit of historical documentation, so thank you. As a side note, I worked for the company that took over the main HR production building. We moved in the summer of 2007, and I was there for two years, at 3400 Cahuenga. It was such a fun, funky place. As the company is marketing research, with a sort of fun vibe, they decorated the space in mid-century style, with a color palette based on the HB cartoons. All our conference rooms were named for the different HB shows and characters (which could be confusing when scheduling.) I think someone got fiberglass statues from somewhere of a couple of the characters to have in different nooks just for fun. It was a quirky, great space, and I loved working there. Considering the old, drab offices in Eagle Rock we used to have, we loved the new space. I miss it a lot, as it was the best, most fun workspace I have ever been in.
I used to marvel at how huge the Flintstone's house was from the inside. Fred would be running endlessly past door after door and window after window.
Fred Flintstone, Time Lord.
Look at the layout...the house is a boulder...round.
Fred is just running in circles! 😉
Another thing that was incredible during the Hanna Barbera golden age was the music. Hoyt Curtin wrote some of the most iconic themes of all time (Flinstones, Jetsons, Jonny Quest, lots more). and even his incidental music cues were top-notch. His music is a major reason many of those older shows are so memorable. As the industry kept trying to save costs, there was less of that fully orchestrated music.
Bryce Beattie you are right that some of the themes were good. The shows were really poor quality though
@@bojack40 it's not quality it's the content tht matters !!
@@bojack40 The cheap cash-ins/clones were the worst but others were pretty inventive and they didn't cut costs in a manner that cut entertainment value. The animation, writing, and music varied by cartoon show, even for the more recent ones. SWAT Kats was amazing! Courage the Cowardly Dog was fucking creepy as hell... The old Powerpuff Girls was excellent.
In the 90s, Hanna-Barbera went back to fully orchestrated music in most cases, often matching with every movement or action ala the Warner Bros. cartoons (i.e. "Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights.")
@@DoveJS Classic Powerpuff Girls had Jungle and Drum'n'Bass for it's music.
I grew up with Hanna Barbera in the early 2000's. You can still watch them but late nights.
I was at NYCC in 2019 and met a former animator from Hanna-Barbera that worked on Scooby Doo (1960s) as a background artist, he was amazing and funny too, he talked about the studio in Florida that he worked at while working on Scooby Doo and talked about the intro and the effects they used for the lightning sound at the beginning of the cartoon
, I also grew up watching Hannna-Barbera and got hooked on Jonny Quest (1964, 1989,1995) the art work was made by a comic artist Doug Wildey that is why it was a unique style of animation, and was the cartoon with a unique intto, to this day I love Hanna-Barbera, also fun fact the ideas of the tech used in the Jonny Quest show were from various future tech magazines that came out in 1960s which influenced the designs of the various tech used in the show
I've worked with a few animators who worked at "H&B". They would complain about working on cartoons I grew up on. "If I had to draw another damned Smurf!!..." and I would be starstruck.
Haha aww! That's really funny. But I mean, I guess I understand from their POV.
Can't really blame them when referring to Smurfs. It does sound a bit like an STD!
Idk if it’s just me, but it feels like Hannah Barbera wasn’t ruined like CN, Nickelodeon or Disney, but just ran out of steam at the end and wasn’t willing to change. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s how I feel
Well, by the early 90s, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had been in the business for over half a century and the cartoon landscape was changing rapidly. It was only natural they'd sell to Turner (which would eventually be absorbed by WB).
Who says that CN is ruined?
Manuel David Rendon Acevedo Well Cn’s main issue is they keep using a formula that no longer works. Back in the day it made sense to play your most popular show more than anything else. However this only works if you have multiple popular shows because otherwise you just end up spamming one or two cartoons. Today thanks to kids using the internet more than watching tv, there are less cartoons being produced. But Cartoon Network is still using the same formula I mentioned which leads to the sad result of it being the Teen Titans go channel. If they just balanced their programming a little bit it would be ten times better as they do have some great shows in Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Snow and We Bare Bears. Although two of those ended and are now only reruns and one is very clearly ending soon.
In addition their release schedule for new episodes is a lot more all over the place than it used to be. It’s just whenever they feel it will get the most views which can make it hard to keep up with new episodes and lead to very big periods of dead space.
Long and short, a little bit of reformatting would do them well but they just don’t feel like it for some reason.
Verlierer hmmm...yeah
@@Soufriere84 Technically H-B still exists as Cartoon Network Studios. They rebranded after Hannah died. Early Powerpuff girls episodes still have the HB card.
I was born in Mexico, in the early 80’s. In those days, while Hanna-Barbera was already straggling, their old shows were actually really popular. I remember watching shows like “The Flintstones” “The Smurfs” and “The Jetsons” (and many more) all in Spanish. “The Flintstones” were called “Los Picapiedras.” “The Smurfs” were called “Los pitufos.” And “The Jetsons” were called “Los Supersónicos.” While the newer shows mentioned here were also VERY POPULAR, Hanna-Barbera was still relevant (at least to Mexican children). In Mexico, there was actually a balance between the new stuff and the old stuff. Hanna-Barbera was so popular. I had no idea they were having problems. It’s sad how things can change. But to this day, I remember those wonderful characters. This video brings back so many memories. 💁🏻♂️🐸
Muy de acuerdo igual en el Caribe, pero aca tambien Daban Mazinger Z, Galactico, Capitan Raimark (harlock)
@@kazzuo32 Recuerdo a Mazinger Z, y a “Voltron (y muchas otras). Las series animadas Japonesas también tuvieron su popularidad en nuestros países, es verdad. 💁🏻♂️💁🏽
En mi país, aquellos que nacimos después del 85, tenemos muy muy sembrados en nuestros recuerdos todos los personajes de hanna barbera, recuerdo muy bien que como hasta el 2001 (que emepzamos a ser adolecestentes y cambiar de gustos e intereses) las cómicas (cómo le decimos en mi país a los dibujos animados) eran super populares a la par de las cómicas japonesas del momento (Gokú, Caballeros del Zodiaco, etc).
The creator of the Smurfs was the Belgian cartoonist Peyo. He insisted, to allow them running on TV, that only classical music would be used except for the Smurfs theme on the very first season, as far as I remember.
Well with all the problems they had during the 80’s , 90’s , and 2000’s they did manage to hang in their especially with all the movies 🍿 that they made like Flinstones , Scooby Doo, and the Smurfs
Thanks for the video! I was lucky enough to meet Bill and his wife Violet who had a second home in Irvine Cove that was partially damaged during the 1993 Laguna fire. We were there to fix the damage, and he brought me thru the house where there were “Cells” of all the cartoons he and Joe made lining the hallways. I stood there in awe. I also did work for Violet’s twin sister Vera, who I told about being in their home, and she asked which was my favorite cartoon. I told her Yogi n BooBoo. Soon after, there was a signed framed Cell from Bill to me featuring Yogi n BooBoo waiting for me at the job. Still have it up on a wall. He also told me he was working on a new cartoon called “ Hard Luck Duck” about a duck living inside the head of an alligator.
Thanks again for great video
I feel so sorry for my kids. I remember waiting for the fall lineup up. We would get so excited. We got up Saturday morning fixed a bowl of cereal grabbed our pillows and vegged in front of TV and watched cartoons. Letting our poor parents who had worked hard all week sleep in. Now parents hit the floor running driving here and driving there for all the stuff they have signed kids up for. Kids just need to be kids.
Totally agree !
Same!! I'm 44, I have fond memories of waking up around 6am grabbing a bowl of cereal and watching Saturday morning cartoons until what was it 9am? Maybe 10am, Sunday morning had some good ones too!!
@@trevander1able Sunday was Doctor Who on PBS channel 6. Love the 4th doctor Tom Baker.
@@kentyler3962 I remember that, too. Tom Baker was the Doctor when I watched it on Sundays, WGBH out of Boston carried it. And on Saturdays between 1 and 4 in the afternoon, one of the local stations out of Manchester NH carried Creature Double Feature, a double header of old horror and monster movies from Toho Studios in Tokyo and Hammer Studios in London. No other girls my age watched any of those things, but I loved it. I still watch them on streaming services, at almost 60.
Get up early to watch cartoons, go outside and play all day, and stay up late to watch movies, Saturdays were the best. Glad I got to grow up through the 60's and 70's. Then repeated it with my kids in the 80's and 90's, real bonding time!
The old boomerang will forever be in my heart 😢 CURSE YOU TEEN TITANS GO!
Blue Angel In Uk boomerang only has Scooby doo where are you reruns it gets annoying
Ok I hate TTG too but what does that have to do with anything?
@@myristicina. USA has mostly Tom and Jerry than Scooby Doo where are you.
@@eevee1583 I was thinking the same thing 🤔
Ttg. Is a huge hit, you dumbfuck
Honestly, most of their popular cartoons had a similar vibe to me when I watched them which made it feel all the better to watch these cartoons. Like, being in a happy space or so.
I second that
Third.
They were kinda comedy shows
Oh,
Pirates of Dark Water....I absolutely adored that show! It ended too soon.
I like that the first and last thing Barbera worked on was Tom and Jerry. Poetic.
Sorta like the beginning of Batman TAS, and the end of Batman Beyond. Poetic.
@@edwardgaines6561 BATMAN = Poetic *Justice*
* Poetic Justice = Tupac Shakur & Janet Jackson movie reference ;)
it kinda ripped another show off but, yeah, they did it better
Tom & Jerry was the foundation of Hanna-Barbera so they started it all
When I was little I thought they were two women and that their names were Hannah and Barbara.
That would have actually been pretty interesting, NGL.
Me TOO
I thought it was one lady who’s first name was Hannah and last name was Barbara
@@8-ball350 I was only about 7 years old when I thought they were women and my mother hollared and told me how stupid I was not to know that only men did things like this and women stayed at home and did housework and took care of the children.
Pam H was she trying to sarcastic and cynical or did she actually believe that?
If you are grown up with Hanna Barbera means you had a splendid childhood.
I was born in the early 1980s, but I did watch a LOT of Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the 1960s and '70s as well as the '80s. My favorite HB cartoon ever is SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.
well the 50s 60s were awesome times to be a child i would imagine. funny how even kids from the 80s and 90s could also say "i grew up on Hannah barbera
@Angelsgirl1621 : Same here. I wonder why WarnerMedia (formerly Time Warner) won't revive this franchise in some way or another.
@Angelsgirl1621 : In my humble opinion, SWAT Kats was no more or less violent than the other action cartoons that were being shown at the time.
@Angelsgirl1621 : Yeah, I'm aware of the DVD releases. What I want is some new SWAT Kats material, though. The franchise could be revived as a comic book series through DC Comics, either a kids or adult cartoon via Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and/or a 3D action movie for kids from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. From what I understand, Christian and Yvon Tremblay, the creators of SK, had an SK-based Kickstarter a few years back that met its goal, so I'm still holding out for hope that SK gets revived in some fashion.
Growing up in the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, the majority of animated cartoons shown on national TV were Hanna-Barbera produced. They were dubbed in Macedonian or Serbian language. My favorite were: The Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Atom Ant, Laurel and Hardy, Tom & Jerry, The Smurfs, Wally Gator, Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, The Hillbilly Bears, Precious Pupp, The Mumbly Cartoon Show, The Flintstones.
We're back with another "What RUINED" video! Been working on this one for quite a while so I hope that you all enjoy it. A big thanks to Jim Gisriel for his help with researching this topic!
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Saberspark I know you don’t take requests but it would be awesome if you do a video centered on Blue Sky Studios, be it a “What Ruined” or a “The History of...” video now that the animation studio is now owned by Disney following its acquisition on Fox.
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You know it's time like these I'm reminded how much i really miss watching Hannah Barbera cartoons on Boomerang before it went down the toilet, anyone else?😟
Same
Me too
Amen
It went down the toilet like the history channel
Boomerang was my childhood and seeing things like the og scooby doo, swat kats, and Johnny Quest was amazing
I love original Scooby Doo. I still watch it to this day.
Stephanie Phouotrides I really want the songs in the cartoons. God they were so good.
Loved the "Spooky Space Kook" episode. Found it mildly frightening as a young child.
Me too He is such a good dog like Courage
I'm french and I grew up on these wonderful cartoons!
Hanna Barbera toons were a very big part of my childhood. So many wonderful memories!
IMHO Looney Tunes by Warner Bros. was number 1 or The Wonderful World of Disney. But outside of that I loved Hanna Barbera too. My earliest childhood memories of t.v. animation were of: The Flintstones, Mighty Mouse, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker. I looooved the Flintstones, and then probably Scooby-Doo, we even watched it everyday after school in the '80s along with Heckle and Jeckel, Woody the Woodpecker, and Casper the Friendly Ghost, maybe Inspector Gadget, but mostly Scooby and Little House. Weekday mornings were Happy Days and/or Different Strokes, Mork and Mindy, I Dream of Jeannie, Eight is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, stuff like that. Saturday mornings were Bugs, The Smurfs, and maybe Yogi-Bear, and Tom and Jerry (loved that one too!!)? or the Laff-a-Lympics, and maybe Gumby and non-animated shows, some terrible show like Flipper, or Grizzly Adams, Sigmund and the Sea monsters or Land of the Lost (good actually); and years before that HR PufnStuf (Buggaloos?), or Partridge Family or The Monkees, later in the morning to afternoon Chips and Dukes, afternoon tv movie for kids, in the evening, possibly Saturday Movie of the Week, and The Incredible Hulk. Sundays: Wonderful World of Disney--Ohhh yeah, AMAZING for a kid. Other kids were into Transformers, GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, on Saturdays or whatever flavor of the moment. Man, I didn't even cover all of the sitcom re-runs from the 60s and 70s still being shown in the '80s (and current ones at the time). Television programming was pretty incredible back then I have to admit.
I agree. The worst part was when adults started to confuse this with real life - that made people just boycott all the animators, starting with Hanna Barbara.
You know what really killed Hanna Barbera?
1. Time
2. Money
3. WB
The second live action Scooby Doo was amazing imo, as well as Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, and Top Cat: The Movie from 2012 as well.
And with the success of SCOOB! (i’m not saying it’s good, as i haven’t had the chance to watch it yet) not only will there be another Scooby Doo comeback but there’s even a chance of other Hanna Barbera reboots.
Joe mama it is suppose to be the start of the Hanna Barbera Universe I think?
Jaeden yes it is
@@bigman5823 My mate was going to go see it.
We accidentally saw a short of it.
Didnt go see it.
4. Political correctness.
5. parental and societal intolerance for anything even "slightly" offensive !!! This is what banished cartoons like the He-Man, She-Ra, ThunderCats, the original Teen Titans and just about ALL of the old Loony Tunes and Tex Avery cartoons, as well.
Father Time is what ruined Hanna Barbara. It catches up to every person on earth sooner or later. Rest in peace to Hanna and Barbara.
Jason Crook RIP Cliff
@@EddieSparxx
The narrator glossed over Hanna-Barbera losing a lot of their veteran animators back in the early 80s. They broke off over labor issues and created their own studio, Ruby-Spears. Hanna-Barbera found itself competing against a higher quality version of themselves.
That is true. But company wise, they were a victim of change in tv viewing.
You are correct sir! It was Hanna-BarbAra!
Disney hasn't been ruined by time yet.. they understood adapting which HB did not
The smurfs are NOT from Hanna Barbera. This is originally a comic from Peyo.
I searched specifically for this comment.
Teaming up with WWE and Boomerang turning into garbage (and dropping all those cool bumpers with the toys) certainly didn’t help
Pickle Master so true. I spent almost a whole afternoon the other day watching collections of the bumpers and music videos they made the other day. I have to applaud them for those. What other channels can you say you really enjoyed the bumpers for? lol
@@rennisanctuary cartoon networks CN city.
Robert Harris yes! Absolutely agree
@@robertharris6092 I want CN city back, them bumpers where lit.
I'm Pretty sure everything in that movie was made by Warner Bros(only the characters were owned by HB and WWE).
They had to sacrifice themselves to create the Shaggy meme
Christopher Moon oh my gosh yes XD
Shaggy this isn't weed
Yey Bruh
"Shaggy meme"...meh. 😒 You kids are slippin' up.
Christopher Moon don’t dispose our god
The only reason to get up early on Saturday mornings as a kid.
Bob Savage notice how everyone started sleeping in when the good cartoons started leaving? I guarantee a lack of great cartoons is a big reason many people sleep in now
Preach
Cartoon Network was the final shot that killed Saturday mornings.
@Savage well, that and highly sugared cereal
@pkunkbwok YES! Are you old enough to remember Quisp and Quake cereals or perhaps Freakies?
Fair to call them "low budget", but I strongly disagree that they were "low quality". Their cartoons are still better than most of what's out there.
It was kind of Ted Turner's fault for ruining and fixing it. The last show they semi worked for was the PowerPuff Girls.
That wasn't to bad of a CN & Hanna-Barbera series.
@Cynical Joker Fine, you might have a point about that.
@Cynical Joker Still have a good point
You'll Pay for this Ted Turner!
Ted Turner: Nope, you will, buster!
NYAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAA!!!
Scooby Doo: Where are you? Was by far the best of the Scooby series
Mystery inc
Poison Griffin - Mystery Incorporated was pretty good because it had an interesting storyline as opposed to the original show's random quirky adventures. But in my opinion, nothing will ever beat the original.
@@TheBradinator214 the original was so bad it's good
hanna and barbera hated the show. but they loved the money.
Whats New Scooby Doo was good too. As well as Scooby and Scrapy. They have really ran Scooby Doo into the ground the past few years though.
It's like any other industry, they revolutionized a market, and saturated the market without making any changes, and by the time they realize that industry had changed, it was too late.
The same reason blockbuster is no longer around.
Erick Chinchilla And Arrow Dynamics.
Such a valid point.
Wonderful tribute! HB was my all time 'go to' throughout my childhood in the 70's. They shall never wain ✊🏽💜
Actually "The Smurfs" was an animated series of the Belgian comics by Peyo. Peyo's Smurf comics was also a spin-off to his older comic series "Johan and Peewit" (Johan and Pirlouit). The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) themselves made their debut in a Johan and Peewit comic "The Flute With Six Holes" in 1958 while Smurfette debuted in 1967.
The Hannah-Barbera series decided to make Smurfette a main character which resulted in Peyo making Smurfette become more prominent in the comics since she was originally a minor character. Plus the Hannah-Barbera series is the second animated series starring The Smurfs. The first was made between 1961-1965 as called "Les Schtroumpfs" that only aired in Belgium, West Germany, and other countries in Europe. It eventually got overshadowed by the Hannah-Barbera series and faded into obscurity. But some of the cartoons can be found at the Belgian Comic Strip Museum in Brussels, Belgium.
That's actually super interesting. Had no idea that there was a series before in the early 60s. Is there a way we can find it online ?
@@Thewritingelf Currently, the first 1960s Smurfs series has never gotten a home video release. But I will link these four videos showing the first Smurfs animated series.
This video is from a German TH-cam channel that contained the German dub from one episode but doesn't contain the entire episode.
th-cam.com/video/ud2GEnOVmwg/w-d-xo.html
These three videos show footage from the Belgian Comic Museum that showed some of the episodes with Dutch subtitles.
th-cam.com/video/6XrGRcE5kYQ/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/PDBE_J3STVc/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/rSmRWisrBM8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this, it's really interesting.
I remember Johan and Peewee in the smurfs cartoon. For some reason, whenever I talk to other people that watched the smurfs, nobody else remembers them
I remember them :)
Thanks for posting. My dad was a background artist and worked with Hanna-Barbera several times between 1964-85. So, these shows are near and dear to my heart. I was in LA a few years ago and went by the old studios; it's just not the same.
Dude nothing's the same anymore. I'm glad your dad had the privilege of being a part of that. Hanna Barbera still holds a place in my heart though I'm refreshed Warner Brothers still keep their work going though I'm not fond of Jellystone on HBO MAX
@@charlespennie3621 Thanks. I didn't know about "Jellystone." It looks weird, but I have to check it out.
@@smdias65 hopefully you'll like it...WAY too out there for me
@@charlespennie3621Old people just can’t embrace change. They cry about things not being the same too much.
@@legendaryTMNICO FYI I like some of my kids' programs and activities
Even as a kid in the 70's I knew the animation was repetitive & sometimes pretty crappy, but I didn't care because the content was so much fun; Scooby still rocks my world.
Ditto Rocky and Bullwinkle: lousy animation but witty, sometimes hilarious skits. A lot of it went over small kids' heads.
Scooby doo is life raggy
The flintstones was a good example of this. It seemed like they drew about 5 minutes of footage and stretched it into a half hour episode by repetition. They couldn't fool me as a kid either and like you I still was an avid watcher. Makes me yearn for those simpler times.
@Oakley Sierney I don't think any of us 70's kids we're fooled by production line animation, but because they were "simpler times", we didn't care so much if the content was great. I think maybe that's one of the reasons we embraced "South Park" 20 years later. Perhaps comedy works better if it isn't beautiful.
@@gameblor Strange thing is Flintstones still seems to hold up today. So perhaps your theory " Perhaps comedy works better if it isn't beautiful." is correct. I wonder why that would be :)
To my simple-minded brain as a child, it was noticeable that Hanna Barbera's cartoons were just inferior to warner brothers. HB always ruined their toons by adding sidekicks to their main characters. In my mind back then, the shows were never as good after sidekicks were added. Kazoo, bleep, wonder twins... drove me nuts.
Now, I don't mind the sidekicks.
Johnny Quest was my Saturday morning fix .
A bowl of cereal , a flickering , staticky TV screen , and adventure aplenty .
The theme song can still get me to smile .
The original ... not that later one .
Romeo Whiske
I enjoyed the characters and the science and technology part quite a lot. But the way the lips moved creeped me out on some of those i think.
Why my dad didn't apply him becoming Dr. Quest and I could spend my teenage years fighting frogmen and flying jets instead of pulling dents out of Fords.
The coolest jazz theme music!
sad story sir; my childhood consisted of cartoons during the mid to late 90's.. staying @ my grandmas house house while my mom worked.. GOLDEN memories.. miss u GMA
I grew up in the '60s and 70s on Hanna-Barbera cartoons on Saturdays and after school.. they will always be a treasured part of my life and memories.. thank you Mr Hannah and Mr Barbera ❤️RIP
Totally agree with you.
MISTER?!?!?! :SICK:
Me too
told my parents to leave me alone on Saturday Mornings. I I went to school 5 days a week, Church and Sunday school on Sunday,s had to go to all the other stuff during the week, but to leave me alone on Saturday Mornings, I ate breakfast and maybe a peanut butter sandwich later on, Then after 12 when the cartoons went off the monster movies came on like King Kong Godzilla
@@altha-rf1et yes yes you remember! Creature feature too
Why is Velma with a a goatee tryna tell us about Hanna Barbara???
Velma finally made it official? :)
@Will N r/wooosh
That’s Velman, Velma’s son
Because she was a feminist she had sex change
@@marcuspi999 hahaha, yeah, the therapy finally kicked in
That Dexter clip is a deep deep cut, sir
There was no ruin or collapse. Simply a matter of everything having its time and place. Most do not stay around that long. Your video should be called what made Hanna Barbera so successful.
And political correctness shoved down our throats
Not as many clicks without a salacious title.
Or humanity showing its fickleness once again.
Hanna barbera actually had cartoons that made sense whereas nowadays..
@@Micfri300 Times Change. Kids change. Just like kids from your era wouldn’t have related to Betty Boop, kids today aren’t going to relate to the Smurfs. It’s really no one’s fault.
@@dewilew2137 i was born in 1995 and scooby doo and the flintstones are definitely top 5 cartoons for me which I watched in the uk. Times don't change.
Kids don't relate? I would suggest otherwise. Ever heard of overwatch?
Hanna-Barbera, Saturday mornings, and a big bowl of your favorite cereal. What else did anyone need?
I know, right!
I heard that!
Then outside until dark. Awesome
I hated as a kid that when12pm came, that was the end of the Saturday cartoons
@@josevalentin3990 it was a little sad when noon came along, but I worked out a great system. Wake up, start cartoons, eat cereal for breakfast, then around 11-11:30 I had lunch and then go outside to play. Funny that when you're a kid you can't wait to get older and once you're older you wish you could go back and relive times when you were young. Then again, maybe reflecting on your early youth is enough LOL.
Loved the Laff-A-Lympics when I was a kid! The first real "meta" cartoon concept: bringing characters outside their own show, and treating them as celebrity athletes. What a world. Saturday mornings rocked, and the commercial interstitials were just as good with the content, with Schoolhouse Rocks.
Yessss I was going to comment something similar about their wacky races they would have; the only other thing I remember with a similar vibe was one of the Animaniacs movies where everyone was racing to get to the fallen star. But those wacky races were so fun!
Conjunction junction what's your function
Jonny Quest!!!
They should have continued making that show. I loved it. Too pity is that there isn't big number of their epizodes.
@@oneiros458 It would be so cool to see an epizode in which Muttley and Dick Dastardly won the race.
H-B cartoons were an importan part of my happy infancy. I am infinitely thankful to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and to each and every members of their stuff. Long live their memories
This can be summed up using three words: *World Wrestling Entertainment*
Shaggy uses 0.001% of his powers to see John Cena clearly.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 lol
Came JUST to say this
Friendship 😂
Haha. Good one. I love that joke.
Cartoons taught us the difference between time zones every Saturday morning...
THEY NEVER STARTED AT 8AM FOR ME!
You know,That may be how I learned about time zones to. I had never thought about it until I read your comment.
@@58jharris - Same. I quickly learned that when TV said some show would start at 8, it meant 7 since I was and am on Central Time.
Yep that Central and Mountain time could be tricky for a kid back then. LoL
These shows still gave me some of the fondest memories of my childhood (born in 1972). May Bill and Joe rest in peace.
The year I was born. Kids don't understand how great life was from 1977 - 1995
Same, ‘73.
@@adampender2482different era honestly
I’ll never forget; In the 70s they could’ve almost transitioned to mostly computer based animation. There is a short with the Scooby gang and the Harlem globetrotters, except that it was made entirely using Scanimate/“CAESAR”. That’s the computer responsible for all the analog wavy animation of the 70s that I love so much. To think they would start ANIMATING THEIR SHOWS WITH IT!?
I think that's why I can't watch televised sports to this day. They always interrupted Saturday morning cartoons.
Jerks!
Right, I always hated televised sports for interrupting my cartoons. I think you're onto something. I can watch sports live but not on TV.
Giving away my age, but I remember being pissed that my Saturday morning cartoons were interrupted by sports and the occasional Apollo moon landing report.
Nov 23, 1963, I was watching cartoons when the whole program was interrupted with some kind of special announcement BS. I was so mad my tunes were off the air.
Lmbo!!!! Omg you are so right......It was called Game Time....I think...and it was NBA...histed by Summer Sanders and Ahmad Rashad...on NBC....lol....I could not stand that...
.but that is when you would have to turn to Nickelodeon to wa5ch He man or She Ra..or USA network for the cartoon express...to see Pac Man...or whatever else they were showing
Saturday morning was the time you waited for all week back then.
Hong Kong Phooey was one of my faves.
God I am old.
Hong Kong Phooey was great. RIP Scatman Carothers.
The three words bypassed the current political climate of HongKong and transported me directly to 2001, coming back from school, praying mother was not angry and watching TV.
What now adults say about phones, I was quoted the same non-sense about TV.
Fanrific!
Thank you for making my childhood wonderful.. miss your content even now 🙏
It's a shame that whoever owns the rights to all these cartoons haven't realized that with every new generation, it's an opportunity to make new fans of ALL of their material. I was introduced to the vast array of Hanna - Barbera cartoons during the mid 70s, when I first arrived in the USA. By then, I was absorbing all generations of animation and other genres of children's programs, including The Little Rascals and Our Gang series. When I was 10 years old, these programs were already 15 to 40yrs old. Yet they were immensely popular with my peers. So if we were able to embrace all the " old " stuff dating back to the early 30s, there's no reason why a child of today can't find any amusement in the classic cartoons and programs of yesteryears gone by!
I agree! I'm 51 yrs old and still watch these cartoons. I miss them
I agree as well. I'm 18 and I loved watching these shows on Boomerang. My mom even introduced me to the original 'The Little Rascals' because she enjoyed the show as a kid.
Well there's that disaster "Velma" too busy pushing wokeness instead of fun shows for children unfortunately so it may never happen.
Columbia Pictures would have been an ideal fit for anything that was billed as *A Screen Gems Presentation.* (Partridge Family 2200 A.D. had the CPT Pretzel.) Since they released the animated "Man Called Flintstone," that would also have included all their Flintstones stuff.
Warner Bros Discovery owns the rights to 85% of the Hanna-Barbera library.
And the real travesty is that they have a myriad of characters to work with and several great ideas they could be doing (like a sequel series to Pirates of Dark Water (since that NEVER got a proper ending), or even a reboot of The Herculoids that could follow in the same vein as the 2002 He-Man or the 2011 Thundercats). What are they doing instead? Shit nobody asked for (Like that Tom and Jerry Meets Willy Wonka movie (that came out one year after Gene Wilder died) those weird Hanna-Barbera WWE movies, that Banana Splits Horror Film nobody asked for, and that Velma cartoon that tries way too hard to be funny)
WB Discovery don't care! Just so long as they can make a quick buck off taking a shit on Bill and Joe's legacies.
What ruined Hanna barbera was they tried to milk certain series and ran them into the ground
Just like Disney, eh?
Will N you’re absolutely right about the what the network wanted during that era. I once read an interview with Joe Barbera regarding why there wasn’t enough African American Characters. Joe stated they fought to keep Valerie for Josie and The Pussycats because the networks felt she was “ too intelligent “ and there was the one time that a family was created called The Blackstones opposite The Flintstones. They were supposed to be The Jeffersons to The Flintstones Bunkers. Network squashed it and Joe gave them that Gruesome Family.
that and all the redundant casts of characters. you can only put a porkpie hat on an anthropomorphic animal so many times before everyone gets collectively bored with it.
@Will N I agree with this. As someone who grew up during this era, the networks were too afraid to try something different. I would have watched the Batman spinoff they were working on from Galactic Guardians (plus, considering it was the first time we saw Bruce's parents' deaths on TV, and his dealing with his personal fears we could have had something closer to BTAS years earlier). I definitely would have watched a TT series too! Perhaps they even could have encouraged viewership from the key demo's older siblings had the networks allowed them to go forward.
All we saw were more animated versions of live action network shows (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy), Scooby & Scrappy Doo (which had changed formats and alienated earlier fans) and unfunny comedies (in part due to Peggy Charren's crusading against violence on TV, which negatively affected Saturday AM TV for about 15 years) when we should have had more shows like Johnny Quest (the '64 version), Space Ghost, etc. Network executives are generally not the brightest bulbs on the proverbial tree, and are almost never prescient about what would make good TV.
@@Bigreid92 I had heard about trying to keep Valerie (who was very likable), but I didn't hear about The Blackstones. If true then I can guess part of the reason was the networks didn't want to alienate southern affiliates and viewers (it didn't help that race riots and the civil rights marches were on TV nightly). The Gruesomes were essentially a knock off of the Addams Family/Munsters so that was as close as that show was going to get to having a mixed neighborhood.
Scrappy Doo was a HUGE MISTAKE
The company never recovered from his destructive inclusion into Scooby Doo
So true. "Don't do a Scrappy Do" should be a saying used when annoying character additions are proposed.
you're so right.
@@levitation25 It's not a saying because the phrase "Don't do a cousin Oliver" already exists, referring to when The Brady Bunch tried adding a "cute kid character" named cousin Oliver. Kid was annoying. Scappy fits the Cousin Oliver bill. So it's already covered.
Scrappy was almost as destructive to Scooby Doo as Shaggy is to food tho
@@fuzzydude64 Okay good to know.
I remember as a kid I never minded scooby doo. Back then I really liked the 3 TV movies that came out in the late 80s. No clue how well they hold up.
I remember seeing a cartoon of the Hollywood mansion tours. While on the tours there was an illusion of mansions but behind them were beat up shacks. Idk if HB did this cartoon but I can find it anywhere. Does anyone else remember this episode?
Thanks for this video! Having been born in 1956, I literally grew up watching all of the original H&B shows and I loved them all, and I still do. Fred and Wilma, George and Jane, Johnny and Hadji, Huckleberry, QuickDraw, Magilla, Scooby and Shaggy, and all the rest literally helped shape my early years, for good or for bad. And looking back, I think it was good. I knew the name "Hanna-Barbera" when I was a kid. And you left out one essential and important thing. You called their work "low quality," and it was low quality animation, but it was top quality entertainment. As any decent filmmaker knows, the special effects don't make a good film (and animation is essentially an effect); the story development and character development make a good film. Thanks again. Great tribute to Hanna-Barbera!
It was not a story of tragedy and ruin.
It's a story of a long glorious reign, and a dignified end.
Thank you, Hanna Barbera.
I'll Tell You What Ruined Hanna-Barbera....
The Moxy Show, What A Cartoon, Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and PPG !
These 7 Cartoon Network Originals Are The Reason Why Hanna-Barbera Is Dead !
@@harrygray999Actually it's because of the studio being fold into Warner Bros. Also the moxy show wasn't even made at Hanna Barbera
@gendoruwo6322 well said ❤
@harrygray999 Cow and Chicken alone served to take HB right near the edge of and then over the cliff
Johnny Bravo was hit, and so was Dexter's Lab
They would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for those meddling Scooby Doo and Flintstones ripoffs.
I like gravity falls but does it count
kendall the gamer where tf did you get gravity falls from they're talking about hb shows
😂
@@kendallthegamer9348 gravity falls isn’t really a ripoff to Scooby doo it’s just the stuff is similar but different
Good stuff, an era gone by. 👏
Bruh i thought hannah barbera was a woman who controled it all 💀💀
F
You're not the only one. I grew up thinking they were a husband and wife team!
Me too... Always thought it was a woman flying solo
@@Ritchieg1983 a whole ass trap
At one point, I thought the same thing about Ruby-Spears.
Still waiting for my flying car. Folding up into a briefcase is purely optional.
Bryan Hall I’m still waiting for my robot maid and a house where all the cleaning is done at the bush of a button.
HANNA BARBERA CARTOONS AND TOIE ANIMES WERE OUTSOURCED IN THE PHILIPPINES BACK IN THE DAY (LEGIT/GOOGLE IT). JOHNNY BRAVO WAS CREATED BY A FILIPINO ARTIST AND HE PATTERNED JOHNNY AFTER EX FILIPINO PRESIDENT JOSEPH ESTRADA- DJ JIKKO FLIPINO
I see where this is going.
What ruined Hannah Barbera then? Nothing really. It simply folded into Warner Brothers completely in the end.
Recycling the same plot over and over again
Warner Brothers ruined Hannah Barbera. “Be Cool Scooby Doo” is one of the worst things on television and is nothing like what it should be.
Bobby Lawson As it was literally shown. Also, unlike Disney, it has failed to adapt to 3D. People find that too much unrealism in 2D is pretty boring.
@@alexzander4426 I disagree... I feel it was good, a parody of the original show, the artwork put off some people, but eh, I liked it so well. I knew it wasn't gonna last so I enjoyed it while I could.
@@EkoBahamut I don't mind parodies, but the comedy was very off for me. I mean one "joke" is them saying the word Rick for a minute straight. It was boring and had poor taste I feel. However, to each their own. Glad you could enjoy it.
Wow thanks for putting that together
Pretty cool to see those old cartoons and all the history behind them. 😎
Seeing these old cartoons really brought back such great memories
Always stay young at heart.
We used to watch Tom & Jerry before going to school that used to air for one episode every morning... i miss those old days when i was a kid in the late 80s & early 90s :(
@@Cissy2cute Indeed! I definitely intend to
Hopefully, you too
@@F-Khan491 Yes indeedy
Yes, lawd. Love me some Flintstones, Scooby Doo, and Smurfs.