The Bizarre WTF Story of Turbo Teen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Yes, before you ask, Turbo Tenn is indeed the cartoon about the kid that turns into a car.
Extremely short-lived, lasting 13 episodes on Saturday mornings on ABC in 1984, it has a curious connection to the Marvel Universe (sorta).
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The image of Turbo Teen’s face morphing into the grill of a car was forever imprinted into my brain the first time I saw it as a kid.
I've been telling my therapist about this for ten years, but he's convinced I'm just schizophrenic.
I can only imagine, think this scarred us all for life.
At one point during the face morph, Turbo Teen briefly resembles Quagmire from Family Guy.
@@victorguerra8884 that's probably where they got the Quagmire's look, turbo teen was their inspiration, don't know for sure.
TRAUMA!!!
Best joke is calling this a "car toon" 😂😂
I love how the ladies in the beauty parlor just give no craps while there's a dude literally turning into a car beside them while they're getting their hair done.
Right? No budget for reactions!
-That boy is turning into a car.
-Yep...
Martha that boy has wheels for hands...
oh really? do tell "flips page of magazine"
For all we know, "One Life to Live" might have been on the parlor TV at that time.
Those old biddies have seen some shit.
If Turbo Teen was done in live action, that transformation would be like An American Werewolf in London, it would be utterly horrific!
Yeah that’s all I can think about this entire episode, is imagining this kid screaming in desperate agony and how truly horrifying it is that a legitimately constructed depiction of that event would simply be fucking hilarious
I want it
If it was done in love action maybe his whole body would become a metallic red and the at an extremely fast rate morphs into a car to make it less weird like hes running through a hall and then jumps and morphs into a car
@@MegatronYES I had a nightmare about that when I first saw this show. I can still recall it.
God help me.
I imagine Tetsuo the Iron Man meets Transformers and a little bit of Call me Tonight.
My kids didn't believe this show was real until I found clips on TH-cam. The fact this show made it on air is a testament to how awesome the 80's were.
The 80s were the best decade. They were awesome all over the place ‼❤
It was an awesome time my friend, sooo many good shows and amazing toy's the early 90's was great to and then everything turned to shit.
@@truck6859 And AIDs was an uncurable disease back then! FABULOUS!
@@MechalemmiwinksV2 There's still no cure for aids genius.
@@ImLooKingAtYou76 With medicine, someone with the virus can now live approximately their full lifespan. In the 80s, treatments like this weren't available. I may not be a genius, but I guess I know more than you.
“What if he had been on a horse?” That’s how centaurs are made.
No, no, that's how Bronies are made.
"would putting a banana in the tail pipe qualify for S**ual assault?"
What would have happened if he'd been rollerblading? Would he grow wheels, or just turn into rollerblades and sit there for a while.
@Adam Carter Cen-cars hehe
Now that’s a horror movie that would rival the fly
Man it crazy I’m 43 and I remember watching turbo teen every Saturday morning..... holy throwback batman
The “Ford Kafka”
You made this English teacher chortle loudly. A+!
At 8:07 OH MY GOD! Hes half human, half car And hes dragging his car half along! Did David Cronenberg make this show???
Now we know who needs to make the gritty reboot when Hollywood runs out of properties to license, although it'll probably go to Michael Bay.
@@kingedwin cronenberg or that Japanese director who made Tetsuo the Iron Man, Tsukamoto
That was my favorite episode, and something you could only see n TV in the eighties.
@@kingedwin They should make the transformation agonizingly painful and disturbing like not only does he rip out of his clothes when he changes but he then rips out of his skin as his skeleton morphs into the car.
It could be more of a body-horror movie then a superhero one.
probably would’ve lasted another season had they came up with your theory.@@twistedyogert
The fact that Turbo Teen inspired transformation fetish art exists on Deviantart gives me hope that this show will live on in the hearts and minds of future generations
Rule 34 strikes again.
I found this show through porn
"....When he gets Hot"
Damn I pityed his Girlfriend. Not the kind of Backseat action she was looking for
Check out the Robot Chicken skit.
She got the black guy that o k
🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 😂😂😂
Naw, his crew are problem solvers. The built a walk in fridge with ceiling fan and a king sized bed in it.
I believe in this case Dan a “Banana in the tailpipe” is sexual assault.
Unless it's consensual, and he's into it.
the horror of this guy's existence did not escape me back in the 80's.
Body horror
Needed a Cronenberg remake
It didn't seem it was painful like An American Werewolf in London
@@theinconspicuousbxc like that other guy said this was Cronenberg levels of body horror
I remember seeing a couple episodes of this when I was younger. I remembered it just because it was a weird idea. Then one day during college I ran into a girl I knew from junior high and somehow in our casual conversation I ended up bringing this show up. Turns out SHE remembered it, too, but she had mentioned it to so many people who had never heard of it that she had actually convinced herself that she had just imagined it.
Tell me you two are married now.
I think the ultimate goal of Turbo Teen was to make "Knight Rider for kids," but the car was made red so it wasn't a direct connection. Knight Rider really appealed to us as kids in the 80s but wasn't totally accessible--Turbo Teen would be though. It also seemed like it had a connection Transformers, but Turbo Teen debuted 2 days before they did. Also, shout out Pamela Hayden aka Milhouse
How not totally accessible? My
That's exactly what it was.
I watched some episodes of Turbo Teen not too long ago and it feels like a kiddy version of Knight Rider.
I’m surprised they didn’t get in any trouble for calling the bad guy dark rider.
Anyone else remember Knight Rider 2000 or Team Knight Rider in the 90s?
There were Knight Rider toys! A pull string talking Kitt car! The show was definitely for kids!
Spot on summary! I remember watching it as a kid. No questions asked. I never knew it was only 13 episodes.
I had no idea Kirby was involved with this show. And yeah, they were trying hard for a "Saturday Morning Knight Rider" with this one.
MONEY!
Kirby unfortunately did a lot of "shows" and comics to literally "eat" given the obvious hosejob he got later in life. 😔 One that people overlook was he worked on the "Rambo" animated series (His name is literally front and center in the closing credits along with Haim Saban [almost a full decade before Power Rangers] ) It was what it was.
I saw your comment and thought you meant Kirby the video game character.
Ok... we need a kids show that’s like Knight Rider so the main Michael Knight character will be a teenager... yeah that’s good... but we don’t want the hero leaving the car behind, like EVER, so ... maybe the kid ISSSSS the car... yeah yeah yeah! (Genius!!)
As a person who liked this cartoon. He really missed it. People who liked it, like it because they dreamed of being able to turn into a car. They were imaginative and loved cars. I used to get up at 4 am just to watch this.
I saw a couple of episodes of this as a kid and it has stuck with me ever since. I think I remember a scene where he eats a hot dog that is too hot and transforms or something like that. As a kid I was hooked and also baffled.
Now Saturday Mornings are a brain numbing wasteland of infomercials and barely educational 'shows' edited from repurposed vacation videos.
Yes, I also remember watching this show when I was very young. Its pure insanity always stuck with me.
@@jC-kc4si Yeah. If I ever have kids of my own I'll be showing them shows from either my childhood or beforehand that my parents showed me! That's not to say that all cartoons made today are inherently bad, however most of them are pretty "not so good"!
Ruby Spears had a lot of absurd cartoons,Little Rascals,Rubik,Punky Brewster
There was a lot of gay subtext in this show.
Turbo Teen is SO damn ripe to be made into a comedy, tongue in cheek, live action, superhero movie. It could work with the right writers, and producers.
The idea was so awesome, yet the transformation.... was always jarring to me as a kid. Lol.
Do King Arthur and the Knights of Justice please!
I love Arthur and the knights of justice!! One of the last great opening credit sequences (American ones at least)
Oddly, I only found out about that until very recently. I'd gone WAAAY down the rabbit hole of MotU-like figures and it was some offchance unrelated reference. I'd like to see an episode on that too.
One of the last epic theme songs for sure.
On his trip to Jusenkyo China, Brett fell into the cursed spring of drowned car.
Omg. Best reference
Lol
Ey! I made Ranma jokes when voice chatting with a pal on Discord when talking about Turbo Teen, too
I spent half my adult life trying to forget that show, and you've just re-traumatized me with the title alone.
Thanks for that.
I was this show's intended demographic - a kid that didn't ask too many questions. Watched it every Saturday. And don't ask me why but mentally I kind of bundle it together with the Karate Kid cartoon.
The Karate Kid/Turbo Teen Hour: Saturdays at 9:30 on NBC!
I was out to sea on a sub while in the Navy and a friend brought this show up (you tend to get bored under water for three months). We all remembered it but could not think of the name. It drove us crazy until we got back to port and could actually figure out the name.
Drove
This is amazing. I remember this show from a very young age and also remember trying to explain it a few years later when I was like 8 with no one knowing what I was talking about leaving me to think it was a dream or something. Thank you for validating it for me 32 years later.
Yes agreed. Many never saw ths! Mayb they were born later so they missed out
The only way to explain this is that cocaine was popular in the 80s.
Thank you so much Toy Galaxy. You have legit answered a long lost unanswered question of mine for more then we'll over 25 years. I'm 37 now and over the course of my life I have asked many people about this cartoon show, and no one has EVER heard about it. I always described it as a show about "a guy who turned into her car." Everyone would look at me like I was crazy. So seriously as silly as this sounds from one Collector to another. Thank you so much for answering this unanswered question of mine for soo freaking long.
so there DOES exist a place where childlike imagination and coke-fueled idea storming with no net intersect.
we call it "the 80's"
I was shocked when there wasn't a single mention of cocaine. It's a hell of a drug, and no doubt contributed to this madness being made.
@@WyldstaarStudios
Some of us don't need it, though. ^_^
**remembers some online galleries where strangeness (ie foothands, planetheads; limbs coming to life) is the norm**
We've come a long way since Wackyland/Tin Pan Alley Cats, Duck Amuck and The Cat That Hated People, folks. ^_^
Man just watch Schwarzenegger's Commando movie. The mall scene is 137% cocaine.
Wait. You mean...... other places exist????
I am so happy this video exists. When I was growing up, I only had 1 friend that had ever seen an episode of this show, nobody else had even heard of it. Every time I tried to describe it to people, I felt like Randy Quaid in Independence Day.
“Instead of Michael Knight AND KITT, Michael Knight... IS KITT” *BWOONNNG*
Now I have this wild image in my head of a dying Michael Knight's brain waves being used to create an AI for a brand new KITT.
Not to be confused with Turbot Teen in which a guy turns into species of flatfish in the family Scopthalmidae.
Would watch . 10/10
Thank you for not going with some kind of Turgid Teen joke.
"Please send recipe for plaice with thyme."
Omg. That transformation would be.... unsettling. Watching his eyes migrate to one side of his head, face flattening, lips stretching out.... (shudder)
Laughed so loud at this one
'Help, he's a Fish!'.
I remember this show! It was like Ranma ½ if Ranma turned into a car instead of a cute girl. Man, I miss Saturday morning cartoons.
Yeah, after growing up and discovering anime I was like "Does anybody remember the cartoon about the guy who fell into the Jusenkyō Spring of Drowned Car?"
@@bitwize A very tragic story.
Missed opportunity for a joke at that. At least when the temperature changes, Ranma remains human.
The raw positive affirmation towards the glory of Turbo Teen warms my heart.
And now I'm a Subaru Forester.
It's the origin story to the Knight Rider villain KARR.
I'm impressed that you got 10 minutes out of almost no footage or toys. And I still really enjoyed it.
Bender and the werecar was a solid episode of Futurama. But I always thought it was more from Christine. Another gem of an episode Dan, i forgot this show existed.
I honestly remember loving this show as a kid. It had the same feel as Clue Club, Jabberjaw, and Teen Wolf to me at the time. I might have a couple of episodes on vhs hidden away somewhere at my parents house that I might need to dig out next time I visit.
I loved Clue Club, of all the shows that had mystery solving teenagers that were out at that time, I found this show to be a bit more serious, and down to Earth. I loved the brother and sister duo of Larry and Dottie.
Please do Rubik the Amazing Cube (and the whole history of the Rubik's Cube craze)!
It's on the list. We'll definitely get to it at some point.
@@SecretGalaxyTV Now that was a weird cartoon. Was part of the Pac-Man/Rubik's Cube Hour on ABC during Pac-Man's second season (First season was a 90 minute series that started with a "Little Rascals" animated series, than Richie Rich, and then finally Pac-Man). The ONE episode that appeared they were going to go into Rubick's origin and they BARELY scratched the surface.
Someone remembered the Rubik;s Cube cartoon! Wow! How many episode did that have, 3?
The Littles!
@@ALT3REDB3AST There is a lost classic!
Thundar the Barbarian, the commerical of C-3PO and R2-D2 smoking, and Turbo Teen are my earliest TV cartoon memories. Thank you for this. I WAS one of those kids who accepted it at face value. I love you for doing this.
humans getting turned into inanimate objects has always creep me out. So this cartoon is one that I try to pretend it doesn't exist, because I need to be able to sleep at night.
I bet the Nome King from the Oz books freaks you out.
you may wanna try manga. theres turning into a sword, a vending machine and a set of armour.
Stephan C heard of the sword. What's the armour one?
I could creep you out with the (American) Transformers Headmasters: biomechanically-engineered humans (and humanoid aliens) transforming into the heads (and later guns and engine blocks) of Autobot and Decepticon robots. (But I've got something better...)
I created a super hero who not only generated clones of himself, but could MECHANICALLY combine with those clones to become a giant. Here's the creep factor: he and his clones are flesh and blood humans throughout. Unimaginable body horror occurs as each of his... "selves" stretch, dislocate, and worse to become arms, legs, etc. Then (whether you were smart enough to look away or not) you'll witness this combination humanoid battle whatever threat made him transform in the first place.
So those tyres are his hands. And if he gets a flat? And changes the tyre. Did they just throw away his hands?
That's the trouble with shows like this. You can only suspend your disbelief for so long. It was the eighties, so no-one seemed to care.
Also his feet. Which, if your question leads to what I think it leads to, would make Brett the world's luckiest amputee.
I love that Big Foot was the enemy in this show, then the hero in his own show after. The new intro music is cool, but can we get the old music on at least the outro?
Loved this show as a kid. I still make obscure references to it. It lives on in my memories.
Are there mysteries you could solve by being a car that couldn’t also be solved by owning a car?
How to get the best milage? Driving shortcuts?
...who stole your car? And dude where is your car?
Those are about the only two.
It might make stake-outs more effective, since anyone looking only sees a car and not a car with someone sitting in it.
@@noonebesides good point
Yes, the mystery of how much cocaine was consumed to come up with this idea?
Yeah, I did an easy 1980s cocaine joke. Everyone thumbs up me now! I mentioned cocaine!
I had completely forgotten about this one, but I do remember watching it. Being a kid in the 80' s was a great time.
I have tried to describe this show to people and it made me feel weird trying.
😅🤣😂😂😂😂 same
Everyone thought I was making this up for DECADES. Describing the concept just sounded crazy and made everyone think I was just mixing up memories from childhood. It wasn't until the internet finally caught up and "remembered" this a few years ago that I could prove this existed. Even then, my wife still barely believes me.
@@thewiirocks
I remember this crazy ass show as a kid too. More proof everyone in the 80's was on drugs.
I dunno, man, these clips you dug up make me feel like this show actually possessed some degree of self-awareness that we're not giving it credit for? Turbo Teen goes to prom and gets worked up while dancing, unaware that he has transformed into a dancing car as everyone else looks on in silent horror? Cooling off only his torso so that he's having to drag along his nightmarish car-ass behind him? This is gold, pure and simple.
Another Beverley Hills Cop reference? What's going on here, Dan? Where are you taking us?
Once again I am reminded of a show I had long forgotten existed yet suddenly remember watching rather vividly thanks to a Toy Galaxy video.
I loved this show lol and that’s me accepting and acknowledging everything is wrong with it
That is one of the best comments ever 👍👍👍👍
1. You delivered this episode with a straight face. I applaud you, sir.
2. If anyone has the other 8 episodes, please burn them.
3. Even as a kid, I despised this cartoon. There were cartoons I didn't like, cartoons that were ok, and cartoons that were boring. But I only had room enough in my heart to hate one, because Turbo-Teen used up all that free space.
everytime I see toy galaxy i think what is this guy doing with his life he's like a normal guy he should be having a nice dinner with his wife, then I see pictures of him a comic convention and I'm like oh yeah he's a wierdo like the rest of us
-A dude turning into a dancing car at prom?
*Opens another beer*
-See son? He at least graduated.
*Slaps him in the head.*
Fun Fact: here in Brazil Turbo Teen was called... Turbo Man. That's it, no translation or adaptation, just this weird change.
I AM A MAN!
It's turbo time!
And there are several episodes here on TH-cam of the Brazilian dub. Almost the whole series.
I suppose it was SBT that broadcasted it over there, right?
@@syxepop Band, actually
And again you totally refresh my memory of the overabundant plethora of cartoon viewing for those of us growing up from the late 70's through the 80's.
LaFontaine doing the voice over for the He-Man commercial... those were the days.
Scary part being 1) I actually remember that commercial [subconscious brain vault kicked in] 2) I actually had all four of those figures. My He-Man and Skeletor were both the battle armor ones because I thought they were cool even though they were never used in the series 3) I got Whiplash either for Christmas or Birthday and Buzz-Off at a K-Mart that closed 35 years ago and is now a training facility for my hometown county's sheriffs department. 😅
This needs a proper release. One of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. Ah the good ole days of Saturday morning cartoons. Every station had a mega lineup.
Surprised this wasn’t an Oddities episode.
No, this was even TOO ODD even for Ben Minnotte (The Oddity Archive), but there was so few material available in the research to tal about that Dan Larson began to look like one of RCR (Regular Car Reviews) usual spiels about BORING cars in a POETIC and PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT.
The Robot Chicken Parody of Turbo Teen is Absolutely Hilarious and has me cracking up every time I watch it!
This is one of those things that you half remember from your childhood that you're not sure actually happened. And any attempt to confirm its existence with other people is met with confused looks.
I had a similar experience when I tried to convince people that there used to be a cartoon with the Happy Days gang in a time machine.
Ever suddenly remembered a few bars of some theme song of a cartoon from when you where a little kid, and be like, dammit now I have to find this… thing.
Mine was that show of robots with one big suction cup foot and springy arms. Drove me nuts until I found it.
In one episode, I can remember they secure the rights to “classical gas” by Mason Williams in a chase sequence.
I don't remember that (and wouldn't have recognized it at the time), but I know they also had an instrumental version of Thriller in one episode. That was great.
7:15 Wait a second, why did he throw it? Is every frame of this show trying to be as nonsensical as possible?
Hahahahah thanks for pointing that out
Alex is part of the Turbo Teen team (heh). I think they rushed into the parlor because they were being chased by the bad guys and Brett/Turbo Teen needed to change into a car quickly. So under the dryer he went, and Alex threw the drier off in a hurry when the transformation started.
@@TJDimacali yeah ok 😂
Unexpected Beverly Hills Cop reference @ 4:29. My drink almost came out of my nose. Well played!
3:52 - 4:22 pure comedy gold ladies and gentlemen. But on a serious note, I only heard of this show from a Robot Chicken sketch.
This channel is a blast . I love seeing these old shows I liked as a kid turbo teen, G Force or battle of the planets( or whatever they call it these days )
I remember going into a local TG&Y when I was a kid and seeing a dozen of those Turbo Teen Monogram models. I think they were discounted to less than a dollar.
Holy crap, I remember the exact same thing, and at TG&Y no less, that is both weird and cool. I passed them up thinking they were really lame.
Dan and Greg,
Absolutely love this obscure weird segments of tv we all mostly have forgotten but thanks to you guys bring back ALIVE!!!😁
I vaguely remember this show and liked it.👍
Dan,
The jokes in this one was A+😁😁😁
Thanks!
Look up the comic Teen Boat! You won't regret it! The Angst of being a Teen! The Thrill of being a Boat! lol, so awesome.
I remember liking this as a kid. I remember it didn't last too long. I wished it did. More fun than some of the other cartoons at that time to me.
"I'm in love with my car" by Queen is now weirder for me to hear because of this show.
Ford Kafka just absolutely killed me 😂😂
I feel like I vaguely remember the sequence of him turning into a car. I was only two when the show aired though so I'm not sure what I'm remembering.
I love learning the origins of Robot Chicken Sketches
There was the live action series -“Auto Man”. It was kind of a twist on the premise of “Tron”. A computer programmer creates a man using his computer. A man who comes out of the computer and who can, amongst other things, turn into a car.
Not quite. Auto Man had a sidekick/minion called cursor (who was credited with being his own character in the intro) who could create vehicles out of light, but Auto couldn't turn into anything himself aside from covering up his glowy suit with the illusion of clothes.
I stand corrected I’m a bit rusty with it. I didn’t actually get to watch it that often when it was on.
I remember Automan! Well I only really remember two things: First, his glowing car could only take high speed turns at 90 degrees like in Tron, so anyone riding in the car would get smushed up against the glass when it turned. Second, the bad guys always locked people up next to a working computer, allowing the victim to summon Automan and get rescued.
He could sell himself limitless to car dealers and just walk away.
Even as a teen, I couldn't believe that the show was no parody. The transformation process was so hilarious.
LOL didn't think of that. Endless money from just selling himself over and over."
That sounds so wrong.
well if there were shows about robots turning into cars, why cant there be a show about a human turning into a car?
Finally, the prequel to "Christine" I always hoped existed
I remember this show. Could never remember the name. It was such a rad, crazy, horrible show. I imagine it is hard to watch, but my 9 year old self found it very interesting, and supplied me with many very strange 'becoming a car' imaginings over the years. Thanks for the very entertaining content guys.
There was a show I watched as a kid and had the same problem. Could not for the life of me remember the show or if I ever knew what it was. Finally as an adult after watching videos of intros to old cartoons found out it was M.A.S.K.
What a great idea!
I loved whenever Turbo Teen would look at the camera and go, "It's Turbo Time!"
Find ramps, jump them. Exactly. Or hit them just right and do that drive on two tires thing.
the 80s... I think it was a rule, if your show was about A Car... that Car had to do both of those things as often as possible
I reference Turbo-Teen at least once a month. It was absolutely ridiculous and I love it.
I remember turbo teen when I was a kid and I still like it and I want to turn into a car. 😀👍
can i ride on you ? :)
I also would like to turn into a car
It aired on our new local private channel back in 1992 when I was 12 years old, we didn't have enough money to purchase even a look a like toy so I decided to build my very own working card model, after asking my siblings to help me get the details off from the TV screen during broadcast, it took me a while to construct it, salvaging wheels from my friends plastic toy car chassis and pencil coloring it red the finished product resembled 65% of what is seen in the show, it had seats, a dashboard with steering wheel giving special attention to the speedometer and the screen which displays the sign wave when the guy/car speaks, the door and hood popes open and closed.it was an awesome feeling having actually built it.
"who details his car form" I suspect his Girlfriend would.
So does that mean he can only take cold showers? I think this was your best script yet. Freaking hilarious.
😎👍
Saturday Morning Watchmen is my favorite reference: "John can give ya cancer, and he'll turn into a car."
I remember watching this show every weekend morning when I was a kid growing up in California it was one of my favorites.
They do have the entire show on dvd along with some other classic cartoon shows.
I really don’t want to see the “Rule 34” for this show...
I hear it's exhausting... It'll leave you tired... but who knows, if it turns the key, it might just get your engine revving... and Drive you wild.
“Hey step car”
@Jay McDanieL I can neither confirm nor deny that i had Nasal relations with that powder, cocaine.
Have Saturday morning cartoons gone too far? A definitive YES.
So.... he just turns into his car? Thats a wish someone wished to fulfill??? I guess that could be useful in certian situations (over just having a car).
THANK YOU. My friends thought I was insane because I absolutely remember watching this as a kid and it has seemingly vanished since.
When your making out with your girlfriend and wind up running her over.
I saw the Teen Titans Go! parody/homage episodes to this and I absolutely loved them - they get the 80's Saturday morning cartoon genre down to a tee! I couldn't figure out which show it was based on, so I'm so glad I stumbled across this video! Thanks for enlightening me.
Last week I read about an animated series from the late 1990s called Van-Pires, which is about teenagers who fight vehicular vampires by turning into vehicles themselves. John Entwistle wrote some original songs for it, so either he needed money badly, or he liked the scripts or concept.
I remember Turbo Teen. I use to watch it with my brother back when it was originally airing. I tried to get my hands on a fan made DVD set but nobody has it.
I remember catching a few minutes of this show back when it first aired. When I saw the car swinging from tree to tree like Tarzan in one scene, grabbing onto the vines & branches with its tires, I said to myself, "That's it! This show has just broken the silliness barrier!"
When I later tried to describe the show to a friend of mine, she looked at me as though I fell out of a tree & landed on my head. A few weeks later (after she happened to see it for herself) she had this shell-shocked look on her face when she realized I *wasn't* just making it all up...
I didn't know how much I needed this channel. Oh, the random and WEIRD shows I have forgotten about. Thanks!
The one thing that always stuck with me about this show is that they almost always had a distinctively close version of an 80s song somewhere in the 3rd act. I would have sworn one episode had "Beat It" on there.
I remembered that segment from Robot Chicken and the episode of Rick and Morty where Morty turned into a car at the end, but had no idea they were referencing an actual cartoon from the 80's. I guess you really do learn something new every day