What RUINED Hanna-Barbera?
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- Hanna-Barbera is a company that ruled televised animation for decades. There was a time when they controlled over 80% of the market but then it came crashing down. How did this happen? How did this studio fall so far from grace?
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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)
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.
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
at least u can buy these shows on amazon
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.
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?
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
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
"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
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
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.
I legitimately thought that Hannah Barbara was a woman...
jennifervan75, obviously NOT A FAN of animation. Everyone knew those were the last names of the creators always spelled out in the titles (just one H for Bill) since they've been there since the MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons (love them since the '70s on syndication).
honestly same
I thought so too, when I was younger.
Wrong! They're two girls. (Also, they're bringing the name back)
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 OBJECTION! HANNAH BARBERA was two man william hanna and joseph barbera
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
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.
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 ❤
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!
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 son's who were Johny Bravo fans, but a belated thank you to Hanna Barbarra for the Power Puff Girls. I have met dozens of women now, who had were inspired to be strong girls watching the Power Puff Girls. It's amazing how you can change the world by inspiring their minds when they are children with something like a cartoon.
This caused me to shed a tear. I was born in the late 60s. Thank you for a good historic video.
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.
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.
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
My two cents: from early on, Bill and Joe assembled a lot of key talent, including themselves, but also designer Ed Benedict, composer Hoyt Curtin, the voices of Daws Butler, Don Messick, June Foray, Mel Blanc and others; animators like Ed Love, Carlo Vinci, George Nicholas, and Ken Muse; and many others. Most were veterans, and as they aged out, there really wasn't a next generation, as few animators entered the business between the mid-thirties and mid-sixties. The early stuff is just much more charming and appealing than "The Funky Phantom", "Jabberjaw". "The Cattanooga Cats", and "Hong Kong Phooey"- and later, "The Smurfs", etc. By the early seventies they were just a factory, but as a place to work, it still had some of the lingering magic, and seeing Bill and Joe walk the hallways (or going into their offices) was like walking into your childhood. RIP, 3400 Cahuenga Blvd.
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 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
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.
In my experience there are two main things that ruined Hanna-Barbera Studios. The first and the most important thing that caused the fall was the fact that in 1981 they closed their doors in order to send all of the animation work overseas. The Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild, our union, had us go on strike and demanded a doubling of our salaries or we would remain on strike. Hanna-Barbera had already warned the union that if we went on strike that they had set things up after our last contract to send all of the work overseas. The union did not head their warning and went on strike any way and that was the end of work for us here in the U.S. The quality of the animation suffered and this was the beginning of the end for the studio. Another problem was that when Bill Hanna and then Joe Barbera died there was nobody to take over the studio. Ted Turner bought the studio and had no real direction for the studio and did a few things but it was never to regain it's stature. The studio building is now an apartment complex rather than an animation museum which is what it should have become. Bottom line is that out union was the problem and now instead of making $17 and hour, which was very good back in the 80s, by demanding $34 an hour resulted in me making $0 per hour since there was no work. Luckily for me I realized what was happening and when I heard the Filmation was hiring and the head of the studio has said he would NOT send work over seas and that extended my career another 8 years... NO THANKS to the stinking union.
I agree, I worked in the Inbetween department when they were in St Leonard’s Sydney and then Disney took over later but they were trying to get me to go overseas. I was a naive young woman then who was still living at home and with strict parents was lucky if I could stay over at a friends place for the night.
I missing opportunity to go. Many former colleagues now work at Dreamworks and other studios. I dabbled with Mr Big studios and Yoram Gross but I never really felt like I could fit in. The team at Hanna Barbara then were awesome. Well apart from Mary who took over the section and had her nose out that I got into animation because Bill wrote my parents to offer me a job when I left school. I felt honoured to be head-hunted by Mr Barbara. 😔💔
And they say that the unions are always right…
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!
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
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! :)
Wonderful documentary and so nostalgic. It was incredible waking up everything Saturday morning to watch these cartoons. So many amazing memories. The kids after this generation do not know what they missed. Rest in peace, Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera. You left behind an incredible legacy. Great job! 💖
It was an epic era, the anticipation of cartoons on Saturday mornings, and only Saturday mornings, sitting down with a bowl or two of cereal to watch the few hours of cartoons, then outside to play until the streetlights came on.
@@thewafflez_73, Great memories.
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?
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Oh, he's making more movies...
That's nice to know
Hurray more cringe
Wot
I'm with you there.
Nothing beats the original.
spidey central You are more cringe!
Slight correction----Hanna-Barbera may have introduced the Smurfs to English-speaking children's television, but they weren't created by the studio. The Smurfs already existed as characters in a Belgian comic book.
Great childhood memories for me. My favs were the Flintstones & Jetsons. I really appreciate the historical content. Thanks!
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
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
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
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
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
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
Excellent work. Thanks for posting/sharing. I love film/artistic history. Have a good one 👊👊
Omg!I just stumbled upon this! Sooooo glad I did! Thank you sooooooo very much!I have to share & watch again.and probably again lol!I love this! Wow very well done bravo to you.... Braaaaavo !!!!!
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
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
Wow thanks for putting that together
Pretty cool to see those old cartoons and all the history behind them. 😎
This was awesome! Surprised I had not seen it before. Thank you for making this!
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
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
Awesome video. There was so much there that I grew up with…so entertaining. I’d spend every Saturday morning from 7am -1pm watching cartoons. Thanks for the video.
7:20 I instantly recognized that Flintstones clip because it was used in Soul Coughing's "Circles" music 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!
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?
😏
I still get over the fact that Walt Disney didn’t response to both Hanna Barbara when they ask him how to start animation company. Disney was good friends with Walter Lantz(woody woodpecker) 0:38 and Chuck Jones.
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!?
Hannah Barbera needs to stop making Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo remakes.
*Turner/WB Animation
Hannah Barbera no longer exists.
Hannah-Barbara has been completely absorbed into Warner Brothers Animation that only mention They get is that they created the Scooby Doo characters at the beginning of their direct to dvd movies.
HB only exists as a brand, Warner Bros. Animation was responsible for every single project since Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
I don’t think Warner Bros is going to stop that. It’s their money maker.
Those 2 are the only most popular hanna Barbara series, though.
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.
That was just an extraordinary deep dive! Thank you so much!
Absolutely EXCELLENT video and insight!!! I always wondered what happened. Thanks!!!
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!
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...
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
No childhood was complete without H&B cartoons. Huckleberry Hound...Yogi Bear...FlintStones. Iconic...Epic...Legendary...Mythical!!!
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
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.
I loved HB, and their cartoons. As a child we saw the same screen crap but we didnt care. Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby Doo, JQ, etc etc. I loved when Cartoon Network played the old cartoons... Great video
One thing I would like to say: if there is no Hanna-Barbera, there is no Cartoon Network.
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Hi Saberspark. Can you do another top worst animated movies you reviewed from 2018?
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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.
I am a cartoonist... How cann i upload a fan pic?????
U are by far my favoret channle and i made some fan art......
Lol
Please check wownow studios
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.
I loved these old cartoons ! Years back I went to a comic convention in Seattle. There I met a guy who worked on Johnny Quest, my favorite series. He was selling original cells from the show. We talked for some length and I loved meeting him! I think what happened to H&B was they couldn’t change or wouldn’t change sadly😢. While Japanese animie was innovative with RobotTech, StarBlazers and others ; US animators stayed where they were. Others passed up on Transformers, GI-Joe and others. The companies creating these series approached H&B, Filmation, WB, and others. Each expressed doubts about its future viability. Now most animation is done abroad, writing and voice talent here in America ; the actual product done in The Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and others. Most of our newer toon’s aren’t even made here anymore sadly 😢 Just my opinion
Thank you for making my childhood wonderful.. miss your content even now 🙏
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
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...
I guess you could say...
Zoinks, Scoob!
@@CharlesVDoktaur Like, wow!
And they deserved it! The animation on those shorts are masteful (and often taken for granted)
Hanna Barbara still lives in our hearts forever ❤
May Hanna Barbera live forever with "Jellystone"
Your right
I loved Saturday morning cartoons and after school cartoons too. It's a shame that my children would never have that chance. Thank you for giving me and millions other children a wonderful childhood ❤.
I recall these pieces of nostalgia in the mid early 2000's and boy did they used to be watched by me. I was a daily consumer of these cartoons and I salute to Hanna Barbera to give me the best childhood memories ever.
Same buddy. Same. This was my childhood and I'm kind of sad that a lot of it I can't watch anymore.
@@michaellarose4913 me too man me too.
@@poopybeak2814 but you look like you're from the mid-early 1900's?
@@oakleysierney1918 its a meme Harold.
great video, i grew up with these cartoons and they hold a special place with me, I now collect the old comic books
Thank you for this.
I use to Love their cartoons..Sad to think of them ending this way.
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
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
What a cool insightful way to spend my time...thanks!!
Over the years I've seen this video about 3 times, it's gotta be my most watched medium length video. Great job SS.
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.
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
Fascinating. I didn’t know any of this. Great video! I will forever remember Jonny Quest.
The background music in the Pixie and Dixie, Augie doggy, QuickDraw McGraw, etc. was very unusual when as an adult musician I had a chance to listen it after many years. Extremely abstract.
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
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
13:05 You have my attention. I wish I could find Pirates of Darkwater somewhere now.
I'm a student at Columbus college of art and design and we watched your video today and I had to speak up and tell my professor when I heard your intro I jumped because I love watching your videos and I binge you almost every day while I do my work 😭
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
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.
In the late 90s my kids got a fat double vcr cassette of Tom & Jerry. Having grown up during the 70s I was astonished that some of the Tom & Jerry episodes featured a 1960s sci fi theme using a completely different cartoon style with even Tom & Jerry themselves appearing completely different. Somehow these editions or series hadn’t been played on British tv before. I’d never seen them anyway ! Thanks for this production. 👍
Those were made on a lower budget by none other than famous looney tunes director chuck jones
You know this video is well researched when it actually is used in a college animation history class! Needless to say I was excited to recognize Saber when the teacher pulled up the video lol
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?
I grew up with Hanna Barbera in the early 2000's. You can still watch them but late nights.
Thank you for this video I was wandering what really happened.Over Here in the Netherlands we Only had “Tom & Jerry”/“The Flintstones”/“Scooby-Doo” /“The Jetsons”/“Looney tunes” and “Whacky races”on dvd or we could watch “Cartoon network”.I had to import dvd’s from America Because “Hanna Barbera”has such a great legacy of animation.Another fact you didn’t said is that animators that quit from Disney moved over to “Hanna Barbera productions”.But also vice versa.It’s a small world after all”..
Very interesting video. It left a real lump in my throat.
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.
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
I cringe at both of those.
Came JUST to say this
Friendship 😂
Hannah barbara also created a cartoon bible series, that's quite good.
Great video…thank you for revisiting my childhood! 👍