The episode "Brain Blaster" won the Humanitas award for depicting drug use in a surprisingly non-hamfisted fashion. It really stands out compared to other 80s ant-drug media.
As a kid in the 80's, I was a huge comics nerd-- especially Marvel Comics. I remember reading an article in a comics related magazine of the era-- I think it was Wizard, but I can't remember for sure --that Stan Lee and the editorial staff at the Marvel "Bullpen" were frustrated and stymied when trying to do anti-drug stories by the Comics Code Authority. As I recall, for some reason the CCA banned _all_ real-life drug storied (I mean Goblin Serum and Hourman's super-pills were one thing... But telling kids not to use cocaine or smoke pot-- that is just crazy talk!) I always found that crazy.
This channel... I don't even know what to say. 10 year old me loves you guys. 45 year old me is pretty fond of you guys too. Keep doing what you do. Thank you!
“Galaxy, High! Galaxy, High!” As soon as I saw the title of this video, I could hear the chant from the theme music. This is a classic misremembering for me - I would have sworn this had dozens of episodes, but I must have just watched those 13 over and over again for years on Saturday mornings.
I remember Galaxy High. Beef wore a shirt that said "Earth Stinks." He was kind of on point. Looking back now, it is funny how relatively few episodes some of these shows had, and with no merchandising to speak of, Galaxy High was probably doomed to fail in a sea of toy commercials.
I loved the intro music. It's like someone made a soundtrack for an 80s Trapper Keeper. Full disclosure, as a high school football player, I had a silly fantasy of walking out on the field with my team to the crowd chanting Gal-ax-y HIGH! Gal-ax-y HIGH!
I was not expecting to see Lum or Urusei Yatsura get mentioned on Toy Galaxy. With the new anime series coming out, there would probably be enough material to make an episode on, especially its loads of merchandise
It would be nice to see an episode or two on the burgeoning manga scene, of which Lum (as it was re-titled here) was one of the earliest series released...and unfortunately, one of its first failures, being cancelled twice, first after the initial eight comics and then, after returning as, well, The Return of Lum, it was cancelled again in the late 1990s (I think it covered the first 11 volumes, but missing various chapters). Thankfully, it's being re-released by Viz and should finish by next year (it looks like Volume 16 is scheduled for November, and I think there should be 17, if they were released as 2-1 (there were 34 tankobans).
Urusei Yatsura was one of the first anime series my friends and I really got into when anime was still pretty fringe, but just starting to pick up steam in the US. There was a video store near us that had a bunch of the VHS tapes. Just seeing the first episode where Ataru wins the game of tag by stealing Lum's bikini top, I knew I was watching something different.
@@warnerd79 D&D was a great cartoon. I just wish it hadn’t confused me so badly on what the source material for D&D actually was. I took at face value that it was an amusement park ride. Then I saw ads for it as computer games and board games. I saw the ‘80s Satanic Panic without the context of what they were talking about. I didn’t understand what all that was based on. Wasn’t until college in 2001 that I finally had the roleplaying game aspect explained to me, and then I was hooked on it. Needless to say, I was disappointed I hadn’t known what it was sooner, or I would have enjoyed playing it as a kid. I realize this is hugely beside the point of a video about Galaxy High. :)
@@ffreed I hear you bro. I was confused at first cause I knew about the board game from older cousins playing it so I chose to ignore that and have fun with the cartoon. Thank God I did cause wow I was hooked on that show. I'd catch it and enjoy it again. They don't make cartoons like that anymore
I never thought I'd see the day When this show was given it's due. Me & my friends were sophomores in High School at the time, and we ALL dug this show. And keep in mind, this was pre-Simpsons, so watching a cartoon at the time would be considered immature & very "not cool." We made art projects from the show & drew the characters on our notebooks, and we even got the "Teenagers from Outer Space" tabletop RPG to have our own episodes with our own characters. And all these years later, I gotta say, it holds up. It looks absolutely great, and has a better premise than most sitcoms. Thanks, Dan, for spotlighting this show.
_Pee-Wee's Playhouse,_ Bakshi's _Mighty Mouse,_ _Teen Wolf_ - that late '80s CBS Saturday morning line-up was 🔥. _Galaxy High_ was the cherry on top. The theme song's been living in my head for 30 years. And the clever reversal of "weirdo to popular" was a genuine confidence booster for a kid soon to enter junior high around that time.
@@thomaspayton436 ooooh Hey Vern it’s Ernest…yes I may be biased (host of an Ernest podcast) but hot damn I loved that show. Faves were Dr. Otto, Dust Bunny, and any character Gailard Sartain played. And who didn’t love Auntie Nelda?!
I STILL love this one season Saturday morning cartoon. The animation, the stories, the character designs, a forgotten gem of late 80’s kids entertainment. Wish it got a second season.
I did not know there were only 13 episodes. Now that I reflect on it, I was anticipating new shows only to be let down when instead of new episodes they repeated season 1. I rewatched most of it since I liked it so much. Even then, kids knew they were required to support their favorite shows to get more episodes
Massively underrated show. Bought the DVD as soon as it came out. Needed way more episodes and merch than it got. Bring it back and do it just like this.
First of all before I get started, how can ya'll forget that TMS also created Bionic Six. And why they don't have an official DVD release is beyond me... Now, I remember this show, and I was singing the theme song just the other day at work, lol. But the one thing I will say is, being a would be comic book creator, my main character, my 'Spider-Man' or 'Superman' type's secret identity was inspired by the 'Doyle' character... Kind of like what if Flash Thompson got bit by the radioactive spider, and this idea has been with me for years. I always said, if I win the lottery....
In the UK there was a kids magazine called "Look-In" which, for a year or so, ran a Galaxy High comic strip. Sometimes they were full page or double page adventures, but they were also sometimes just a long 8 panels comic strip. Thought it was worth adding that here! 😊
Threre was a regular parody cartoon of Galaxy High in the UK called Cosmic Comprehensive, which ran as part of the Spitting Image kids show, Round the Bend.
The Famicom ad for the Urusei Yatsura ad could have used a 30-45 second version of ad (and maybe an English dub of the commercial. Maybe get Lum Invader's English VA to voice the commercial)? PS. Pity they didn't do a "Urusei Yatsura Down Under" series. We could have Lum Invader come to Melbourne, Gold Coast or Sydney in the pilot episode.
TMS also worked on The Real Ghostbusters, Rainbow Brite, Denise the Menace, DuckTales, Bionic Six, Rescue Rangers, Visionaries and is one of the reasons why 80s animation looked so God damned good! And if that wasn't enough, in the 90's they went on to do or at least assist in shows like Gargoyles, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Batman The Animated Series, Superman The Animated Series, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Spider-Man the Animated Series and did all of the work for Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker!
I haven't seen or even heard of Galaxy High or most of the properties in this series Mystic Knights..., Ronin Warriors, Swat Cat, Cadillacs....etc , maybe because I'm a 47year old British man but I still love these retrospective videos! Top notch as always Toy Galaxy!
I thought Galaxy High was just a fever dream I had when I was a kid until later reruns happened. It was so much better than it deserved to be. And it deserves to be remembered and even continued today. I think 80s kids were definitely spoiled by some great animation on Saturday mornings. It wouldn’t be until Cartoon Network’s original shows like Samurai Jack, Dexters Lab and Powerpuff Girls showed up that we’d get anything as great, and even then the actual animation and artwork was not surpassed.
There were great shows with excellent art and animation in the early and mid-'90s as well: Batman: The Animated Series, Ren and Stimpy, Darkwing Duck, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and more. That's not even including adult animated series that took off in the wake of The Simpsons like The Critic, Aeon Flux, and Daria.
Yes! A Galaxy High episode! TMS started posting episodes on their UA-cam channel a year or so back. That’s how I saw it for the first time I can remember. I was surprised at how well done the whole show was and disappointed there wasn’t more. It’s still an 80s kid’s cartoon, but it had character development and a lot of care. It was a fun watch and I would still love to see more in some capacity.
Back in the late 90s--early aughts there was a fantastic indie rock band from Scotland who went by Urusei Yatsura. (Here in the States, or maybe just later, it was shortened to just Yatsura.) They were way into anime and sci-fi and most things geeky (singing about meeting a girl at the comic convention, for instance). And they rocked the eff out.
Threre was a parody cartoon of Galaxy High in the UK called Cosmic Comprehensive, which ran as part of the Spitting Image kids show, Round the Bend. There's also an official DVD of the series over here too, but they split it across two sets annoyingly.
I had no idea there was a Spitting Image show for kids, but then I'm an American: We, sadly, only got a couple of Spitting Image specials. We taped the one about Spock sabotaging the Oscars and watched it to death. Loved that show...
Outside of Dungeons & Dragons, this was my favorite Saturday morning cartoon ever! There was a DVD release about 10 years or so ago and I have them. I still watch them almost every weekend with kids to this day. Such a great show! Wish it could have lasted longer!
In the pilot episode Aimee tries on various outfits one of which is Lum’s tiger-print bikini. Never would have understood that Easter egg back in 1986!
It is truly insane that back in the late 80’s and early 90’s studios spent the time and money to get the people who made Akira to animate cartoons for us. I love the way TMS shows move
This is freaky! I literally just watched the opening theme song for this yesterday. It was the first time I had seen it since I was a kid! And now you post this?!
I love this show. I now understand why my memory of it consists of the theme song and how all the characters looked liked Americanized anime characters. Plus I confuse it with Beverly Hills Teens for some reason.
Great episode! Galaxy High aged like a fine wine, and is still beautifully made. Great soundtrack too! Hope you'll do an episodes of The Wuzzles soon! It was kinda forgotten about by Disney, despite playing an important role in establishing their TV animation department. It even had loads of toys!
I love the giant inflatable 1980's cell phone gag, Dan! "Stop answering it during the show!" 😂🤣📞 Also, I was three years old in 1986, so there is no way that I could even remember this TV show. Besides, I was a Muppet Babies and Pee-Wee's Playhouse fan. 💖📺
I wonder how much/many shows I remember were just reruns on some local channel. Every so often I'll come across a show that aired much earlier than I recall.
Another 80s cartoon with an awesome theme song. Galaxy High was about normal earthlings at a space school, Gravedale High was a normal teacher at a monster school (and had a decent theme song as well), Teen Wolf was about a werewolf attending a normal high school, Turbo Teen was a regular high school student who becomes a werecar, and I Was a Teenage High School is about a not-so-normal teen who turned into a high school full of normal teens (which I just made up). Nice little zinger there at the end, TG.
Wow, I remember watching re-runs of this and Gravedale High in the '90s! Maybe Gravedale High is what you were remembering? Similar premise - it's high school, but weird (with monsters instead of aliens) - except the fish-out-of water this time was a nerdy human teacher, played by the one and only Rick Moranis. Also sadly ran for only a single season, in late 1990. Of the two, I was more into Gravedale, but both were great fun.
Was not expecting an episode on 'Galaxy High' but I'm glad you did one. I ended up running across this over on the official TMS UA-cam page a bit ago. I wondered how I could've missed it back when it originally aired. Should've guessed it was due to the network's favorite dance - The Time Slot Shuffle. = )
This was one of my favorite shows. I would have sworn it had multiple seasons but I guess I just watched a lot of reruns without realizing they weren't new. Great theme song, too!
Used to watch Galaxy High every Saturday. Mom loved the Creep and his Elvis impersonations. I picked up the complete series on DVD a while ago, and it remains a favorite of mine to this day.
Yes, I do remember “Galaxy High”. I remember the music used in the show was pretty cool. I was 11 in 1986, and what a year for Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Long story incoming... About two decades ago, Nancy Cartwright came to my college to talk about The Simpsons and acting. After her talk, she fielded questions from the audience. After a few questions asked, I raised my hand, she picked on me and I took my chance. "Before I ask my question," I started, "I just want to say that I'm a huge fan and Galaxy High was one of my favorite cartoons Saturday mornings." She lit up. "Oh my God! I loved working on that show! That was the show where I developed my Bart Simpson voice when I voiced Flat Freddy Fender! Wow..." She looked wistfully into the sky, reminiscing. Then it hit her... "Wait a minute," she says, her tone changing abruptly, "How in the hell do you remember that show? It wasn't even on for a year over a decade ago, they kept changing our time slot, and it never re-aired on TV. How did you even see that show?" I got all sheepish. "...Because I'm a fan?"
*What* a show. I loved it as a kid. I was in the extreme minority. The flipped sibling dynamic is such a great concept and the art design is so much fun. It really deserves a toy line. But it was the mid 80s, it was on Saturday morning, it was in outer space, and there were no lasers, no evil warlords, no dogfights or explosions. It was basically Saved by the Bell in space, and just a bit ahead of it's time. If this show had premiered on Nick or CN about ten years later, Hot Topic would be selling the retro merch today. Personally, I'd love to see a modern take in live action with Jim Henson's Creature Shop bringing to life all the whimsical alien designs.
I saw one episode of this show, it reminded me a lot of Urusei Yatsura for some reason and I thought I was crazy. But thanks to this video I feel validated.
And THAT Chris Columbus who directed "Adventures In Babysitting" helped launch the career of Elizabeth Shue, and the SAME John Krickfalusi that gave us Ren & Stimpy.
Your wit is singular , your wardrobe impeccably styled and your beard all the way alive! I'm not sure how many people appreciate the research that goes into each episode, but we do. Keep up the great work.
There, actually, WAS a comic strip of Galaxy High. It was in the UK magazine Look In, if I remember rightly. I remember reading it in a magazine as a kid, and I'm pretty sure that the magazine was Look In
Always a fan of quality animation I watched anything that “moved”. I knew it was done by TMS so I just loved watching GHS! Thanks for bringing back those memories! ❤️
@@warnerd79 you and me both! I rewatched it a couple years ago and you're right, it was ahead of its time. I want more but I hate the idea of a reboot of it. I'm afraid it'll lose its charm!
@@nikkis.3148 oh no i pray they don't reboot or remake it. it was awesome for the time that it came out in. our favorite 80's cartoons would not last after the first episode in these sad sensitive times.
I didn't see Galaxy High when it was first on, I watched the heck out of Muppet Babies and the Ninja Turtles on CBS but I never saw this show. I've seen some episodes now on cartoon compilations, and it's a fun show. In a lot of ways it was like Futurama later became, a young guy traveling through space and working as a pizza delivery driver, just that he went to school.
I enjoyed this Saturday morning cartoon but it aired in '86, I always thought it aired sooner like in late '84 or early '85, memory is such a fickle thing.
Never understood how Galaxy High wasn't as popular as the shows at the time. Maybe if they had the kids solve mysteries or fight supervillains after school, that could've helped? 🤔
For me, Galaxy High couldn't compete with Spiderman & His Amazing Friends or Kid's Super Power Hour With Shazam (aka Kids From Hero High) or WWF Wrestling or NWA Wrestling.
I can think of several reasons. The show has a similar protagonist dynamic of Fairy Tale police department and Ben 10: a competent, no-nonsense woman and a goofy man. This sort of dynamic works best when both protagonists have to work together, learning to compromise between their two extreme approaches. Galaxy High fails to do this, in fact it goes so far as to put them in completely different social circles so they spend more time separate than together. At that point you might as well be telling 2 different stories. Furthermore, they made it so that Amy immediately fits in with little to no issue, so not only do they flub what makes the "Ms. serious and Mr. goofball" dynamic work, but they just got rid of the main source of conflict in both school dramas and (western) isekai: finding your place in a new setting. For ONE of the main characters, mind you; Doyle gets this conflict in spades. This amplifies the problem of splitting the party; stories require conflict, so Doyle has to carry the show's drama. You could make Amy another one of the alien students, and nothing in the show would change. Ironic; by trying to make Amy a symbol of strong independent women, they pushed her out of the spotlight.
While the RPG Teenagers from Outer Space was inspired by Urusei Yatsura, I associated it more with Galaxy High which I had actually caught episodes of once in a while.
I actually was going to bring that one up. The 2nd edition i particular with its Retro-50's future design always seemed an unofficial Galaxy High RPG to me growing up
Galaxy High is not generally recognized as anime because it doesn't have that typically cold anime look. It has a more western cartoony style. TMS did a great job. And though I don't care much for him as a human being, I doubt John K who worked on it would appreciate Galaxy High being labeled anime, even though it was a Japanese studio who did most of the animation.
I was lucky enough to grab this on DVD the short time it was available. It left a huge impression on me as a kid, and I was always surprised in the midst of the 80s cross-marketing glut that no merchandise was ever produced.
My young eyes already knew the difference and I absolutely loved that show. It is animae. Before the internet it was nearly impossible to find it on beta or vhs. This show lives on in my memories and the rare individuals who actually recalled the show. Also mentioned in the video was “Mighty Orbots”. These seeds planted a passion for animae, design and art which I continue to enjoy to this day. Both my children grew up exposed to my 80’s classics / animae introduction. Both of my children love animae and now I have to play keep up with them. I’ve created two ani-monsters and I love it. Great video and thank you. So glad I ran across your channel.
Hell yeah, I remember this show, it was a favorite. When I saw the thumbnail all I could hear was the cheer from the end of the theme song, “Galaxy High, Galaxy High!” I loved that block leading up to Pee-Wee and I love this channel for showcasing this stuff.
I was absolutely obsessed with Galaxy High when I was a kid. So glad I got the DVDs of them years later and still fire it up once in a while. Love love LOVE the theme song.
Hell yes!... Another cool intro with great music and a pretty funny cartoon as well. I enjoyed it a great deal as a kid. When I watched this, I seriously wanted to go to school in another galaxy... Great video Dan!
That show was as anime as Transformers, that is about 50%. It needs actual anime character designers, not just anime animators and directors. TMS in America was great! They hired Alex Toth!
I remember when it came out in the UK on Saturday morning TV. I loved it just on the fact that it was the first cartoon show in years that _wasn't_ a 30 minute toy commercial.
I haven't watched this show in over 30 years, have no particular fond memories of it. And yet, to this day chunks of the theme song will start playing in my head at random.
I remember reading the translation for the _Lum_ manga, and I absolutely do remember watching Galaxy High School as a kid, and Teen Wolf which I believe ran just before it. Lum was the first time I had ever seen bare breasts in a comic, let alone in a _first issue._ The connection between Galaxy High School and Lum is vague, because Lum was an _edgy_ comedy about a hedonistic, cad of a teen getting his comeuppance inevitably from his desires, with all the ways his awful behavior could fail him within each issue. This also includes his _teen marriage_ to the main character Lum and all of her _baggage._ Galaxy High School was as tame as an Archie comic minus the love triangle and romance, in most episodes. At the time I was reading Lum, I was also reading Ninja High School, an American manga made by a man named Ben Dunn. Great Stuff!
I’m with you, I have vague memories of watching a show like this maybe during the early ‘90s but nothing about this specific show is ringing any bells.
cool seeing Urusei Yatsura a bit!, You guys gonna cover any of that sweet sweet Takahashi stuff anytime soon? I mean, much of it didn't air here in the states except Inuyasha, but all of her stuff is amazing. facts.
Yes I remember it. I think, at least in 2019, it was archived on youtube somewhere since I watched it again. It surprisingly still held up in my opinion.
I loved this show so much as a kid, I can't believe there were only thirteen episodes! I wish someone would make a live action movie or TV version, the concept and story are solid and as far as I know has never been done anywhere else.
I remember it being shown in the UK in a block of other Saturady morning cartoons and having good jokes and characters but as far as I can recall it was never repeated
So love Galaxy high school. I still think to this day that the show is very underrated. I think the humour is clever at times and the characters are well developed for a show of that time. Voice cast was fantastic and it had a good sound track too.
The episode "Brain Blaster" won the Humanitas award for depicting drug use in a surprisingly non-hamfisted fashion. It really stands out compared to other 80s ant-drug media.
Jessie on Saved By the Bell getting hooked on caffeine pills because the network said no to actual drugs comes to mind
That drug dealer dude was creepy.
As a kid in the 80's, I was a huge comics nerd-- especially Marvel Comics. I remember reading an article in a comics related magazine of the era-- I think it was Wizard, but I can't remember for sure --that Stan Lee and the editorial staff at the Marvel "Bullpen" were frustrated and stymied when trying to do anti-drug stories by the Comics Code Authority.
As I recall, for some reason the CCA banned _all_ real-life drug storied (I mean Goblin Serum and Hourman's super-pills were one thing... But telling kids not to use cocaine or smoke pot-- that is just crazy talk!) I always found that crazy.
@@mythicaldakka "I'm so excited, I'm so excited 😨😰😥😪😢😭😭😭". Lols 😂😂😂
Holy shit, the Humanitas is real?! I thought that was just a gag on Clerks: The Animated Series 🤣
Galaxy High was WAS AHEAD of it's time. One of my favorite 80's cartoon show.
This channel... I don't even know what to say. 10 year old me loves you guys.
45 year old me is pretty fond of you guys too. Keep doing what you do. Thank you!
Relatable comment is relatable!
Accurate comment is accurate
45 year old me agrees the 80s man just felt differently
“Galaxy, High! Galaxy, High!”
As soon as I saw the title of this video, I could hear the chant from the theme music.
This is a classic misremembering for me - I would have sworn this had dozens of episodes, but I must have just watched those 13 over and over again for years on Saturday mornings.
I remember Galaxy High. Beef wore a shirt that said "Earth Stinks." He was kind of on point. Looking back now, it is funny how relatively few episodes some of these shows had, and with no merchandising to speak of, Galaxy High was probably doomed to fail in a sea of toy commercials.
I loved the intro music. It's like someone made a soundtrack for an 80s Trapper Keeper.
Full disclosure, as a high school football player, I had a silly fantasy of walking out on the field with my team to the crowd chanting Gal-ax-y HIGH! Gal-ax-y HIGH!
I was not expecting to see Lum or Urusei Yatsura get mentioned on Toy Galaxy. With the new anime series coming out, there would probably be enough material to make an episode on, especially its loads of merchandise
Would love to see more anime episodes. Not to discount the many they have already done.
Ah Lum... the show that would introduce me to the concept of arousing nosebleeds
It would be nice to see an episode or two on the burgeoning manga scene, of which Lum (as it was re-titled here) was one of the earliest series released...and unfortunately, one of its first failures, being cancelled twice, first after the initial eight comics and then, after returning as, well, The Return of Lum, it was cancelled again in the late 1990s (I think it covered the first 11 volumes, but missing various chapters). Thankfully, it's being re-released by Viz and should finish by next year (it looks like Volume 16 is scheduled for November, and I think there should be 17, if they were released as 2-1 (there were 34 tankobans).
Ah shit I didn’t know a new series was coming out thanks!!
Urusei Yatsura was one of the first anime series my friends and I really got into when anime was still pretty fringe, but just starting to pick up steam in the US. There was a video store near us that had a bunch of the VHS tapes. Just seeing the first episode where Ataru wins the game of tag by stealing Lum's bikini top, I knew I was watching something different.
I loved Galaxy High. It used to air in a line up that included the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon Saturday mornings, when TV cartoons were great!
D&D was hella awesome too 🔥🔥🔥 80s Saturday morning lineup was the best
@@warnerd79 D&D was a great cartoon. I just wish it hadn’t confused me so badly on what the source material for D&D actually was. I took at face value that it was an amusement park ride. Then I saw ads for it as computer games and board games. I saw the ‘80s Satanic Panic without the context of what they were talking about. I didn’t understand what all that was based on.
Wasn’t until college in 2001 that I finally had the roleplaying game aspect explained to me, and then I was hooked on it. Needless to say, I was disappointed I hadn’t known what it was sooner, or I would have enjoyed playing it as a kid.
I realize this is hugely beside the point of a video about Galaxy High. :)
@@ffreed I hear you bro. I was confused at first cause I knew about the board game from older cousins playing it so I chose to ignore that and have fun with the cartoon. Thank God I did cause wow I was hooked on that show. I'd catch it and enjoy it again. They don't make cartoons like that anymore
@@ffreed and there is terrific RP video series online for D&D game play now. Enjoy!
@@planetmuskvlog3047 Oh yeah, I like watching those. So much fun, and so much inspiration now that I’m DMing.
I never thought I'd see the day When this show was given it's due. Me & my friends were sophomores in High School at the time, and we ALL dug this show. And keep in mind, this was pre-Simpsons, so watching a cartoon at the time would be considered immature & very "not cool." We made art projects from the show & drew the characters on our notebooks, and we even got the "Teenagers from Outer Space" tabletop RPG to have our own episodes with our own characters. And all these years later, I gotta say, it holds up. It looks absolutely great, and has a better premise than most sitcoms. Thanks, Dan, for spotlighting this show.
_Pee-Wee's Playhouse,_ Bakshi's _Mighty Mouse,_ _Teen Wolf_ - that late '80s CBS Saturday morning line-up was 🔥. _Galaxy High_ was the cherry on top. The theme song's been living in my head for 30 years.
And the clever reversal of "weirdo to popular" was a genuine confidence booster for a kid soon to enter junior high around that time.
HEY VERN Iits ernest the show
Agreed all around. That theme song can't be escaped and the inversion of the popular kid trope was amazing for the time.
THIRTY YEARS, DO YOU HEAR ME?!
Until recently I didn't know Galaxy High was a UY redraw.
@@thomaspayton436 ooooh Hey Vern it’s Ernest…yes I may be biased (host of an Ernest podcast) but hot damn I loved that show. Faves were Dr. Otto, Dust Bunny, and any character Gailard Sartain played. And who didn’t love Auntie Nelda?!
I STILL love this one season Saturday morning cartoon. The animation, the stories, the character designs, a forgotten gem of late 80’s kids entertainment. Wish it got a second season.
I'm glad someone besides me remembers this show.
Dude I also thought I was the only one. That show was golden
I did not know there were only 13 episodes. Now that I reflect on it, I was anticipating new shows only to be let down when instead of new episodes they repeated season 1. I rewatched most of it since I liked it so much. Even then, kids knew they were required to support their favorite shows to get more episodes
Massively underrated show. Bought the DVD as soon as it came out. Needed way more episodes and merch than it got. Bring it back and do it just like this.
Galaxy High was waaay better than it should've been! Chris Columbus with the writing. Yes THAT (Home Alone) Chris Columbus!!
First of all before I get started, how can ya'll forget that TMS also created Bionic Six. And why they don't have an official DVD release is beyond me... Now, I remember this show, and I was singing the theme song just the other day at work, lol. But the one thing I will say is, being a would be comic book creator, my main character, my 'Spider-Man' or 'Superman' type's secret identity was inspired by the 'Doyle' character... Kind of like what if Flash Thompson got bit by the radioactive spider, and this idea has been with me for years. I always said, if I win the lottery....
In the UK there was a kids magazine called "Look-In" which, for a year or so, ran a Galaxy High comic strip. Sometimes they were full page or double page adventures, but they were also sometimes just a long 8 panels comic strip. Thought it was worth adding that here! 😊
Came down to say this, it would be you guys beating me to it
@@ajpoint of course! 😉
Threre was a regular parody cartoon of Galaxy High in the UK called Cosmic Comprehensive, which ran as part of the Spitting Image kids show, Round the Bend.
@@Larry I’d forgotten all about round until ‘the foot of our stairs’ brought it up
@@ajpoint Ooh, who is that? I'll have to check them out!
So cool to hear Urusei Yatsura mentioned in this video! Any attention that series could use in the west, the better!
UY is getting a reboot.
The Famicom ad for the Urusei Yatsura ad could have used a 30-45 second version of ad (and maybe an English dub of the commercial. Maybe get Lum Invader's English VA to voice the commercial)?
PS. Pity they didn't do a "Urusei Yatsura Down Under" series. We could have Lum Invader come to Melbourne, Gold Coast or Sydney in the pilot episode.
TMS also worked on The Real Ghostbusters, Rainbow Brite, Denise the Menace, DuckTales, Bionic Six, Rescue Rangers, Visionaries and is one of the reasons why 80s animation looked so God damned good!
And if that wasn't enough, in the 90's they went on to do or at least assist in shows like Gargoyles, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Batman The Animated Series, Superman The Animated Series, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Spider-Man the Animated Series and did all of the work for Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker!
I haven't seen or even heard of Galaxy High or most of the properties in this series Mystic Knights..., Ronin Warriors, Swat Cat, Cadillacs....etc , maybe because I'm a 47year old British man but I still love these retrospective videos! Top notch as always Toy Galaxy!
I thought Galaxy High was just a fever dream I had when I was a kid until later reruns happened. It was so much better than it deserved to be. And it deserves to be remembered and even continued today.
I think 80s kids were definitely spoiled by some great animation on Saturday mornings. It wouldn’t be until Cartoon Network’s original shows like Samurai Jack, Dexters Lab and Powerpuff Girls showed up that we’d get anything as great, and even then the actual animation and artwork was not surpassed.
There were great shows with excellent art and animation in the early and mid-'90s as well: Batman: The Animated Series, Ren and Stimpy, Darkwing Duck, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and more. That's not even including adult animated series that took off in the wake of The Simpsons like The Critic, Aeon Flux, and Daria.
I loved Galaxy High, especially the robo-voice tuner intro. I think it came on after Kidd Video.
Yes! A Galaxy High episode! TMS started posting episodes on their UA-cam channel a year or so back. That’s how I saw it for the first time I can remember. I was surprised at how well done the whole show was and disappointed there wasn’t more. It’s still an 80s kid’s cartoon, but it had character development and a lot of care. It was a fun watch and I would still love to see more in some capacity.
Back in the late 90s--early aughts there was a fantastic indie rock band from Scotland who went by Urusei Yatsura. (Here in the States, or maybe just later, it was shortened to just Yatsura.) They were way into anime and sci-fi and most things geeky (singing about meeting a girl at the comic convention, for instance). And they rocked the eff out.
I'm a simple man. I see Lum in the thumbnail, I hit the like button.
Threre was a parody cartoon of Galaxy High in the UK called Cosmic Comprehensive, which ran as part of the Spitting Image kids show, Round the Bend.
There's also an official DVD of the series over here too, but they split it across two sets annoyingly.
I had no idea there was a Spitting Image show for kids, but then I'm an American: We, sadly, only got a couple of Spitting Image specials. We taped the one about Spock sabotaging the Oscars and watched it to death. Loved that show...
@@Warlocke000 Check it out, most of the episodes are on UA-cam now! But it's exactly what you'd imagine a Spitting Image kids show to be!
@@Larry Thanks for the heads up!
Outside of Dungeons & Dragons, this was my favorite Saturday morning cartoon ever! There was a DVD release about 10 years or so ago and I have them. I still watch them almost every weekend with kids to this day. Such a great show! Wish it could have lasted longer!
In the pilot episode Aimee tries on various outfits one of which is Lum’s tiger-print bikini. Never would have understood that Easter egg back in 1986!
It is truly insane that back in the late 80’s and early 90’s studios spent the time and money to get the people who made Akira to animate cartoons for us. I love the way TMS shows move
This is freaky! I literally just watched the opening theme song for this yesterday. It was the first time I had seen it since I was a kid! And now you post this?!
I love this show. I now understand why my memory of it consists of the theme song and how all the characters looked liked Americanized anime characters. Plus I confuse it with Beverly Hills Teens for some reason.
TMS is such an awesome studio. Their quality is second to none
Great episode! Galaxy High aged like a fine wine, and is still beautifully made. Great soundtrack too!
Hope you'll do an episodes of The Wuzzles soon! It was kinda forgotten about by Disney, despite playing an important role in establishing their TV animation department. It even had loads of toys!
I love the giant inflatable 1980's cell phone gag, Dan! "Stop answering it during the show!" 😂🤣📞
Also, I was three years old in 1986, so there is no way that I could even remember this TV show.
Besides, I was a Muppet Babies and Pee-Wee's Playhouse fan. 💖📺
I wonder how much/many shows I remember were just reruns on some local channel. Every so often I'll come across a show that aired much earlier than I recall.
Another 80s cartoon with an awesome theme song.
Galaxy High was about normal earthlings at a space school, Gravedale High was a normal teacher at a monster school (and had a decent theme song as well), Teen Wolf was about a werewolf attending a normal high school, Turbo Teen was a regular high school student who becomes a werecar, and I Was a Teenage High School is about a not-so-normal teen who turned into a high school full of normal teens (which I just made up).
Nice little zinger there at the end, TG.
Wow, I remember watching re-runs of this and Gravedale High in the '90s! Maybe Gravedale High is what you were remembering?
Similar premise - it's high school, but weird (with monsters instead of aliens) - except the fish-out-of water this time was a nerdy human teacher, played by the one and only Rick Moranis. Also sadly ran for only a single season, in late 1990.
Of the two, I was more into Gravedale, but both were great fun.
Please take a seat, yeah, I'm dying to meet ya
Galaxy High and Teen Wolf were the first glimpses that the geeks would inherit the earth.
That makes me like both of them a lot less tbh.
Was not expecting an episode on 'Galaxy High' but I'm glad you did one. I ended up running across this over on the official TMS UA-cam page a bit ago. I wondered how I could've missed it back when it originally aired. Should've guessed it was due to the network's favorite dance - The Time Slot Shuffle. = )
This was one of my favorite shows. I would have sworn it had multiple seasons but I guess I just watched a lot of reruns without realizing they weren't new. Great theme song, too!
Used to watch Galaxy High every Saturday. Mom loved the Creep and his Elvis impersonations. I picked up the complete series on DVD a while ago, and it remains a favorite of mine to this day.
galaxy high & gravedale hight need a reboot. They both deserve more than one season.
Probably my first introduction to anime - just blew every other animated show out of the water with how well it was designed and animated
Holy shit! No one I know remembers the show and I was starting to think I had a Mandela affect going!!!
Yes, I do remember “Galaxy High”. I remember the music used in the show was pretty cool. I was 11 in 1986, and what a year for Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Long story incoming...
About two decades ago, Nancy Cartwright came to my college to talk about The Simpsons and acting. After her talk, she fielded questions from the audience. After a few questions asked, I raised my hand, she picked on me and I took my chance.
"Before I ask my question," I started, "I just want to say that I'm a huge fan and Galaxy High was one of my favorite cartoons Saturday mornings."
She lit up. "Oh my God! I loved working on that show! That was the show where I developed my Bart Simpson voice when I voiced Flat Freddy Fender! Wow..." She looked wistfully into the sky, reminiscing. Then it hit her...
"Wait a minute," she says, her tone changing abruptly, "How in the hell do you remember that show? It wasn't even on for a year over a decade ago, they kept changing our time slot, and it never re-aired on TV. How did you even see that show?"
I got all sheepish. "...Because I'm a fan?"
*What* a show. I loved it as a kid. I was in the extreme minority. The flipped sibling dynamic is such a great concept and the art design is so much fun. It really deserves a toy line.
But it was the mid 80s, it was on Saturday morning, it was in outer space, and there were no lasers, no evil warlords, no dogfights or explosions. It was basically Saved by the Bell in space, and just a bit ahead of it's time. If this show had premiered on Nick or CN about ten years later, Hot Topic would be selling the retro merch today.
Personally, I'd love to see a modern take in live action with Jim Henson's Creature Shop bringing to life all the whimsical alien designs.
Aimee and Doyle are not siblings. In fact, there was ship tease between them throughout the series.
One of the best classic Saturday morning cartoons, full of humor and heart, I loved it!
I saw one episode of this show, it reminded me a lot of Urusei Yatsura for some reason and I thought I was crazy. But thanks to this video I feel validated.
And THAT Chris Columbus who directed "Adventures In Babysitting" helped launch the career of Elizabeth Shue, and the SAME John Krickfalusi that gave us Ren & Stimpy.
Ooh Galaxy High granted one a whole new vocabulary to play with! Guilty pleasure!
It was schway. Oops, wrong show!
Man look at that high tech state of the art cell phone!! Dan has really hit the big time being able to afford a phone like that!
TMS was the GOAT of 80’s Saturday morning cartoons
Your wit is singular , your wardrobe impeccably styled and your beard all the way alive! I'm not sure how many people appreciate the research that goes into each episode, but we do. Keep up the great work.
I have literally never met another person who remembers this show, and yet, I could sing you the entire theme song.
There, actually, WAS a comic strip of Galaxy High. It was in the UK magazine Look In, if I remember rightly. I remember reading it in a magazine as a kid, and I'm pretty sure that the magazine was Look In
Always a fan of quality animation I watched anything that “moved”. I knew it was done by TMS so I just loved watching GHS! Thanks for bringing back those memories! ❤️
Finally someone talks about Galaxy High. I felt like the only one that watched it back in the days. I loved that show ❤
I feel you! For a while I thought it was a fever dream cause no one I knew saw it!!! It was good!
@@nikkis.3148 ahead of its time and I wish there were more episodes of it
@@warnerd79 you and me both! I rewatched it a couple years ago and you're right, it was ahead of its time. I want more but I hate the idea of a reboot of it. I'm afraid it'll lose its charm!
@@nikkis.3148 oh no i pray they don't reboot or remake it. it was awesome for the time that it came out in. our favorite 80's cartoons would not last after the first episode in these sad sensitive times.
I remember watching galaxy high on the sci fi channel when I was a kid it's still excellent and I wish that a second season would happen. 😀👍👽
Same here. I would watch this before school, alongside Droids and Ewoks.
@@Rattwap that's cool 😎. 😀👍👽
I didn't see Galaxy High when it was first on, I watched the heck out of Muppet Babies and the Ninja Turtles on CBS but I never saw this show. I've seen some episodes now on cartoon compilations, and it's a fun show. In a lot of ways it was like Futurama later became, a young guy traveling through space and working as a pizza delivery driver, just that he went to school.
Wow! I absolutely loved this show. I mostly remember the Brain Blaster episode.
I enjoyed this Saturday morning cartoon but it aired in '86, I always thought it aired sooner like in late '84 or early '85, memory is such a fickle thing.
Never understood how Galaxy High wasn't as popular as the shows at the time. Maybe if they had the kids solve mysteries or fight supervillains after school, that could've helped? 🤔
Or have about a hundred blue creatures in the school, each with rigidly defined personalities. Call them the Star Nurfs or something.
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For me, Galaxy High couldn't compete with Spiderman & His Amazing Friends or Kid's Super Power Hour With Shazam (aka Kids From Hero High) or WWF Wrestling or NWA Wrestling.
Galaxy High couldn't compete against The Smurfs/Foofur (NBC) & The Real Ghostbusters/The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show (ABC) in the ratings battle.
I can think of several reasons. The show has a similar protagonist dynamic of Fairy Tale police department and Ben 10: a competent, no-nonsense woman and a goofy man. This sort of dynamic works best when both protagonists have to work together, learning to compromise between their two extreme approaches. Galaxy High fails to do this, in fact it goes so far as to put them in completely different social circles so they spend more time separate than together. At that point you might as well be telling 2 different stories. Furthermore, they made it so that Amy immediately fits in with little to no issue, so not only do they flub what makes the "Ms. serious and Mr. goofball" dynamic work, but they just got rid of the main source of conflict in both school dramas and (western) isekai: finding your place in a new setting. For ONE of the main characters, mind you; Doyle gets this conflict in spades. This amplifies the problem of splitting the party; stories require conflict, so Doyle has to carry the show's drama. You could make Amy another one of the alien students, and nothing in the show would change. Ironic; by trying to make Amy a symbol of strong independent women, they pushed her out of the spotlight.
While the RPG Teenagers from Outer Space was inspired by Urusei Yatsura, I associated it more with Galaxy High which I had actually caught episodes of once in a while.
I actually was going to bring that one up. The 2nd edition i particular with its Retro-50's future design always seemed an unofficial Galaxy High RPG to me growing up
Galaxy High is not generally recognized as anime because it doesn't have that typically cold anime look. It has a more western cartoony style. TMS did a great job.
And though I don't care much for him as a human being, I doubt John K who worked on it would appreciate Galaxy High being labeled anime, even though it was a Japanese studio who did most of the animation.
Nice going with the Might Boosh Old Gregg reference. You ever drink Baileys from a shoe? Lol
Way back in the day, I had a crush on Aimee, she had the cutest eyes!
I was lucky enough to grab this on DVD the short time it was available. It left a huge impression on me as a kid, and I was always surprised in the midst of the 80s cross-marketing glut that no merchandise was ever produced.
My young eyes already knew the difference and I absolutely loved that show. It is animae. Before the internet it was nearly impossible to find it on beta or vhs. This show lives on in my memories and the rare individuals who actually recalled the show. Also mentioned in the video was “Mighty Orbots”. These seeds planted a passion for animae, design and art which I continue to enjoy to this day. Both my children grew up exposed to my 80’s classics / animae introduction. Both of my children love animae and now I have to play keep up with them. I’ve created two ani-monsters and I love it. Great video and thank you. So glad I ran across your channel.
Loved this show as a kid. Snapped up the DVDs when I saw they were available.
Me too
This has been in my UA-cam recommendations recently: amazing quality.
I just wrote you suggesting that you make this video. Thanks for hearing me, going back in time, and doing this video a year before I asked for it.
Hell yeah, I remember this show, it was a favorite. When I saw the thumbnail all I could hear was the cheer from the end of the theme song, “Galaxy High, Galaxy High!” I loved that block leading up to Pee-Wee and I love this channel for showcasing this stuff.
I was absolutely obsessed with Galaxy High when I was a kid. So glad I got the DVDs of them years later and still fire it up once in a while. Love love LOVE the theme song.
Hell yes!... Another cool intro with great music and a pretty funny cartoon as well. I enjoyed it a great deal as a kid. When I watched this, I seriously wanted to go to school in another galaxy... Great video Dan!
Always remembered "Milo De Venus" who had extra arms as opposed to the venus de milo who had none. Always made me smile
Being an alien you can relate to how it feels to be an outcast or a Stranger in a Strange Land or Strange Universe.
That show was as anime as Transformers, that is about 50%. It needs actual anime character designers, not just anime animators and directors. TMS in America was great! They hired Alex Toth!
I remember when it came out in the UK on Saturday morning TV. I loved it just on the fact that it was the first cartoon show in years that _wasn't_ a 30 minute toy commercial.
I haven't watched this show in over 30 years, have no particular fond memories of it. And yet, to this day chunks of the theme song will start playing in my head at random.
I have no idea what this show was about but it did keep my attention to the end. "Beef in the bunch bunch"... good stuff.
I remember reading the translation for the _Lum_ manga, and I absolutely do remember watching Galaxy High School as a kid, and Teen Wolf which I believe ran just before it. Lum was the first time I had ever seen bare breasts in a comic, let alone in a _first issue._
The connection between Galaxy High School and Lum is vague, because Lum was an _edgy_ comedy about a hedonistic, cad of a teen getting his comeuppance inevitably from his desires, with all the ways his awful behavior could fail him within each issue. This also includes his _teen marriage_ to the main character Lum and all of her _baggage._
Galaxy High School was as tame as an Archie comic minus the love triangle and romance, in most episodes.
At the time I was reading Lum, I was also reading Ninja High School, an American manga made by a man named Ben Dunn.
Great Stuff!
Loved this as a kid. I also have it on dvd. Great 3rd grade memories of Saturday morning 86. Thanks Dan !
I live in England and Galaxy High was one of my favourite shows, as a kid in the 80s. I have them on DVD and still love watching them.
I’m with you, I have vague memories of watching a show like this maybe during the early ‘90s but nothing about this specific show is ringing any bells.
Great video. I picked up both dvd's of the show a few years ago. So glad I did. Great Channel
This was well loved in my house as a kiddo. One of the few cartoons dad has would sit and watch with us. The character designs were a hoot.
I love watching the Galaxy High School show back then on Saturday Mornings. Amy was my favorite character.
I am unashamed to say I had a crush in Aimee when this aired and I was 10.
I always loved the slime's "I'm a poison" line. Loved the theme song but don't remember much else.
cool seeing Urusei Yatsura a bit!, You guys gonna cover any of that sweet sweet Takahashi stuff anytime soon? I mean, much of it didn't air here in the states except Inuyasha, but all of her stuff is amazing. facts.
Yes I remember it. I think, at least in 2019, it was archived on youtube somewhere since I watched it again. It surprisingly still held up in my opinion.
Used to watch it on CBS with my brothers!
I'm Galaxy High right now, Dan
I loved this show so much as a kid, I can't believe there were only thirteen episodes! I wish someone would make a live action movie or TV version, the concept and story are solid and as far as I know has never been done anywhere else.
I remember it being shown in the UK in a block of other Saturady morning cartoons and having good jokes and characters but as far as I can recall it was never repeated
Funny, I didn't see Galaxy High until, oh last year or so, randomly online. It was a cool twist, making the popular dude and nerd gal switch places.
Loved Galaxy High!!!!👍👍👍
What! I’m 49 and STILL watch this every Saturday 😊
Loved this cartoon as a kid❤️💯
So love Galaxy high school. I still think to this day that the show is very underrated. I think the humour is clever at times and the characters are well developed for a show of that time. Voice cast was fantastic and it had a good sound track too.
I remember. I started singing the theme song as I clicked the thumbnail excitedly. This was totally a favorite for the short time it lasted.
I have it on DVD. It would made an amazing live action tv series now, with cgi added.😊