I have had images of this show engraved in my head since I was practically a baby and I couldn't for the life of me find what it was called. All I remembered was the contrast of the live-action main character and the animation that accompanied him. It took 26 years for me to find this again.
I have been searching for this forever!!, I remember seeing it on Cartoon network and being mesmerized and scared lol, but have desperately wondered about it for years.
Same here, but I actually remember this from when it aired on Saturday mornings in the late 1980s. It's the kind of show that stays with you, yet makes you think you dreamt it up during a really bad childhood flu. Thank God the Internet proved that this show, Gravedale High (which I never knew was actually called "Rick Moranis in 'Gravedale High'"), Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, Camp Candy, and Pee Wee's Playhouse existed, even if some don't hold up so well now.
Oh. Wow. I had completely forgotten about this show until now. I remembered the character of Ed Grimley, and I knew it was Martin Short, but I forgot this cartoon even existed! I used to watch it all the time. And seeing Count Floyd in the intro was like coming home again. Hahaha.
I used to love seeing this every Saturday morning on NBC and years later, every Saturday night on Cartoon Network. Though it was short, I for some reason loved this show.
I remember watching Ed Grimley cartoon show on cartoon network when I was a kid it's still very funny today and I wish that a second season would happen. 🤣👍
For the longest I was trying to find this intro and couldn’t ever find it. I just recently seen a Martin short commercial for Paris in Vegas and he dressed up as this character lol wow
Animation Bliss! You're not wrong. Given that Hanna-Barbera produced this in 1988--right at the height of _Pee-Wee's_ popularity--you could almost say that _Ed Grimley_ was NBC's attempt at stealing CBS' thunder (CBS, of course, had _Playhouse_, whose big draw was that it was a live-action series in a cartoon-dominated world).
Nicholas Tosoni I know i'm late but this show was a DIRECT Response to Pee's Wee's PEDO Playhouse... Since This was Martin Shorts SNL Creation they felt Y Not try to put this up against Paul's show on CBS... Unfortunately this character skit FAILED to resonate with kids other than me....
Nicholas Tosoni I know i'm late but this show was a DIRECT Response to Pee's Wee's PEDO Playhouse... Since This was Martin Shorts SNL Creation they felt Y Not try to put this up against Paul's show on CBS... Unfortunately this character skit FAILED to resonate with kids other than me....
This cartoon aired whilst I was a Sophomore/Junior in high school, and I religiously watched it every weekend, out here in the suburbs of the South Puget Sound, in the PNW. I haven't seen the series or even the intro since around that time, now well over three decades ago. I've been going through quite a bit of binge viewing of SCTV segments and episodes as of late, so it was bound that this would also appear in my suggested feed. Aside from both of my maternal grandparents passing within 7 months of each other between the summer of '88 and early '89, and my questioning of a lot of things that I still haven't found any answers to, it was a far better time to be alive than this 21st century has turned out to be - which jumped into the toilet within its first two years, and has been absolute shite.
I came here because my daughter had her pants up extra high and I told her that she looked like Ed Grimley and I did the dance so she wanted to see. LOL
I've heard people say that, as kids, they thought cartoons were just people in costumes. I never understood how they could ever get that idea, but I bet a lot of them got it from this intro.
Wow, I haven't seen this cartoon in 27 years and i still remember it. I loved it as a seven year old and I would love to own the dvd collection if it's something that's available.
It's DVD-R format which is WHY I won't buy it. It's cheap media guaranteed to decay with 10 years unless you back it up on MUCH better archival media like stone disc DVD-R's which will last up to 20 years minimum; they're saying archival quality (lifetime) but I'm not so sure about THAT. I'm serious -- if you buy anything on DVD-R, you'll want to back it up ASAP because it WILL go bad within 10 years. It's pathetic that well cared for VHS tapes will outlast DVD-R media but I'm finding that to be the case as I find more and more of my DVD-R videos just won't play all the way through after the last time I played them 5-7 years ago because they've rotted in spite of the fact I keep them out of direct sunlight AND air-conditioned. It's a losing war with DVD-R... That's something I hate about both Warner Archives and Sony Archives. They manufacture their low print run movies on horrible -R media that is VERY unstable no matter the brand name (except M discs allegedly). They could STILL afford to print these movies on PRESSED DVDs and Blu rays but won't do that much in an effort to pinch a few pennies. Speaks volumes about their opinion of the consumer! Furthermore, I think there are enough SCTV and Martin Short fans that they COULD have done a PRESSED disk (normal DVD) run of the Ed Grimley animated series with decent extras from Martin Short and the cast not to mention all the promos and commercials announcing the series. It's amazing to me they never promoted the fact that this show was a literal reunion of a bunch of SCTV talent! You have the voices of (confirmed) Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, and (probably) Andrea Martin! That's virtually everybody except John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis that was part of those guys' runs on SCTV!
Talk about pure GOLD! Is this a real show? I love RARE shows like this. I wish The Hub, or Cartoon Network would focus on getting blocks of these to air on Saturday & Sunday Mornings. Imagine the ratings they could get. All of us retro fans now have kids, nephews, young cousins. We would watch it, then also get the kids in our family to watch it. Networks would make money on shows they don't even pay to produce now. Why can't they get that in their heads? Thumbs this up, and spread the idea.
It came on in 1988 and only lasted a few months due to low ratings and a really long Writers' Guild of America strike that happened around that time. It's the only time a Saturday Night Live character has had his own kids' cartoon (there was also the Coneheads, but that was never made into a real series. It was just an animated pilot).
@@canaisyoung3601Ed Grimley (Martin Short) first appeared on SCTV (Second City Television) before Saturday Night Live. Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) also premiered on SCTV along with Rick Moranis of Gravedale High and John Candy of Camp Candy. There was also a Bob & Doug MacKenzie cartoon, but while Dave Thomas reprised his role as Doug, Dave Coulier of Full House provided the voice of Rick Moranis' Bob MacKenzie.
Oh my god! I haven't seen this show since I was a kid. I never could remember the name of this show, but I so remember watching this back to back with Space Ghost C2C!
I remember this show when I was a kid. I loved Martin Short ever since Steve Martin too and so many of my child hood memories into adult hood. So many memories.
I have to admit, I used to think it was odd he dressed in the cartoon costume version of himself as a child. Thinking back now - And seeing it in this video - it actually seems like a pretty slick move.
I knew Ed Grimley from Martin Short's one-year stint on Saturday Night Live (mostly because SNL, MADtv, and In Living Color were the sketch shows I grew up with that weren't the kid ones like All That and You Can't Do That On TV). I didn't know about SCTV until later.
I grew up watching a lot of sketch comedy too, snl, sctv, mad tv, the state, the kids in the hall, in living color, and one sketch comedy show called crabs which was made and aired in my home state of Maryland. and also kid sketch comedy shows like all that, and you can't do that on television. and HBO's not necessarily the news.
All I can remember from the cartoon is paprika. I watched most every episode. I remember all of the Count Floyd's Scary Stories. I love Ed Griey, I must say. I just can't recall specifics. Paprika.
I thought I dreamed this at age 7. Then cartoon network started airing it years later. More years after that and here I am on UA-cam reminiscing. Ahhh my youth was good.
I was talking with someone about Ed Grimley earlier today. And then I went to the time machine also known as UA-cam and searched for Ed Grimley. First time in over 20 years I saw this intro of Ed Grimley woooooowwwwww!!
Ha! I found you! It took me a couple days but I finally found Ed Grimley! I remember this weird funny character that looked like an adult Alfalfa. Did not realize it was Martin Short this whole time! I also remember these 2 weird scientists guys climbing over furniture or the title words to the show. 😅😆🙃
Oh, I remember watching this show on Cartoon Network back in the day. Back in Halloween '94, my best friend's older brother was him, her other best friend was Dr. Crusher and she was Miranda Veracruz De La Hoya Cardinal (from Married with Children.)
I may have been 5 years old when Ed was around but then faded away didn’t even realize that was Martin short the entire time finally resurfaced I’m 38 now. Finally happy to lay this mystery to rest 😅
@@TraceurDoc1 I remember seeing this on NBC Saturday mornings too (though I'm millennial too, but I'm "born in the 1980s, grew up in the 1990s" millennial. My generation would have seen Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons on both network TV and cable, even though the network TV stuff would be on its way out due to cable and home media offering cartoons that weren't bound by censorship or educational requirements, which is what killed network TV Saturday morning cartoons).
I came here after having a sudden memory of wearing a Ed Grimley costume for Halloween when I was like a kid kid ( like probably 5 or 6). Apparently I really liked this cartoon as a kid, but hardly remember it now. So weird 😮
I would so watch this if it was still on Also this made Ace Ventura pet detective Jim carries walk dance and humor for that movie was from this cartoon.
Remember when I watched Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery on UA-cam in honor of its 35th anniversary this year? Well, since Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery was released in 1989, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley ran for only one season with 13 episodes the year before in 1988. So The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, from 1988, and Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery, from 1989, were both animated by the now-defunct Colossal Pictures. Does that make sense or what?
Casey Strange I used to stay up so late every night watching the old cartoon network shows..i flipped it there a just a couple nights ago just to see what was on, and it was nick news doing a segment on High School kids coming out of the closet, my how times have changed
aeongod your correct a/b that, I obviously misworded it. I used to watch cartoon network and nick toons growing up, as they both had shows I liked; I was just making a point a/b how much things have changed, as a show about teens coming out of the closet on either channel would have blown my mind\
Casey Strange OK, this is a summarized version of the bomb scare: on Wednesday, January 31, 2007, after both the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards resembling two characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force as improvised explosive devices. Because of such, the Cartoon Network president Jim Samples resigned his post and ever since then Stuart Snyder has been the president of Cartoon Network. Since that time, most of shows from Cartoon Network that are good (at least by my standard) like “Young Justice”, “Green Lantern”, “Sym Bionic Titan” and such have been canceled within two seasons, and many shows which are inappropriate (usually over-sexualized) for children (e.g. “Adventure Time”, “Regular Show”, “The Amazing World of Gumball”) have been getting multiple seasons (should not have even been put on). Example: “Adventure Time”: Episode "Evicted!”: During the time of house hunting, the word "sexy" is used and Finn is later butt-slapped by Marceline. And many butt-slaps and overused and gender-switches (to the degree of full gender sexual features) are used throughout the entire series. “Regular Show”: Mitch "Muscle Man" Sorrenstein's big-breasted girl-friend. The “Amazing World of Gumball”: The banana strips revealing his butt. There are many more albeit the fact which I think some episodes are good. Cartoons back in the 90's were respectfully funny and subtlety educational (a lot of them anyway). Also; whether an image is acceptable/creepy/tolerable is based upon not only whether it's a cartoon but it's animation style. Cartoons in the 90's may have been creepy but were tolerable because the animation style made them seem "cute" (for lack of a better term). Now, with most modern animation styles, even an alleged "regular human" being looks discombobulated. Furthermore, the oldies had good stories: “Dragon Ball Z” (if it was shown to children who were well disciplined to not imitate it) “Gargoyles”, “Pokémon” (Kanto Region arc), “Yu-Gi-Oh” (Vs Pegasus arc) etc. Now most of the stuff is recycled materials and/or too many Clichés/Stereotypes/Tropes without balance and substance. If they want to show these shows so bad, put them on “[adult swim]” or something equivalent; they are near if not in a class of “Family Guy”, “Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law” etc. Some may be even approaching “Food Fight” (Watch the Nostalgia Critic’s review of it if you want a good summary. Disclaimer: he uses high-quality profanity a lot). I admit that the oldies had their problems too but were sure better than most of these moderns ones.
What I would've given to have seen a three-way crossover with Ed Grimley, Pee-Wee Herman and Ernest P. Worrell.
What about mr bean and johnny English ?
Right...three moronic man-children on some grand adventure. I would pay good money to see that...extra if Gilligan did a cameo
The universe would splode.
Throw in Harland Williams, and you've got it.
IKR!! ^____^
I have had images of this show engraved in my head since I was practically a baby and I couldn't for the life of me find what it was called. All I remembered was the contrast of the live-action main character and the animation that accompanied him. It took 26 years for me to find this again.
He was animated. The only unanimated part was Count Floyd's Scary Stories.
It feels awesome, doesn't it? I loved this show as a kid.
Me 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is a live person in the intro though. Maybe this is what was meant by live and cartoon character.
Me too. I remember his hair mainly.
Ed Grimley, the forefather of "THE DAB" 🤣
That dance thou
I have been searching for this forever!!, I remember seeing it on Cartoon network and being mesmerized and scared lol, but have desperately wondered about it for years.
Same here, but I actually remember this from when it aired on Saturday mornings in the late 1980s. It's the kind of show that stays with you, yet makes you think you dreamt it up during a really bad childhood flu. Thank God the Internet proved that this show, Gravedale High (which I never knew was actually called "Rick Moranis in 'Gravedale High'"), Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, Camp Candy, and Pee Wee's Playhouse existed, even if some don't hold up so well now.
Same here, minus the scared part. I was just a little weird out, but I enjoyed it.
This aired on cn?
And Boomerang
In the 80’s it (briefly)aired on NBC
I'm high and this is quite the trippy intro.
None of my friends remember this one. It feels like I dreamt the whole thing.
I am in the same boat mate.
It was the last animated show to take the 1130 Saturday morning timeslot before Saved by the bell premiered in its place next season on NBC
NamesMoriarty so glad I’m not alone. I’ve been looking for this for years and it’s like it never existed
Mine either just me and my brother seem to remember
💯💯
This was 1 of the most OBSCURE cartoons ever! I never met another little kid who used to watch this show back in the day.
I watched it
I watched it. It originally aired my kindergarten year. I remember asking my Mom if she would fix my hair like Ed Grimley for school and she said no.
I used to watch the fuck out this show
Obscure? It used to come on Saturday mornings on NBC.
It was my favorite cartoon of all time. Especially the Leonard episode.
awesome cartoon theme I must say!!
Oh. Wow. I had completely forgotten about this show until now. I remembered the character of Ed Grimley, and I knew it was Martin Short, but I forgot this cartoon even existed! I used to watch it all the time. And seeing Count Floyd in the intro was like coming home again. Hahaha.
I used to love seeing this every Saturday morning on NBC and years later, every Saturday night on Cartoon Network. Though it was short, I for some reason loved this show.
Loved this show growing up funny & odd
The complete series is now available as a $25 DVD set from Amazon, by the way.
I remember watching Ed Grimley cartoon show on cartoon network when I was a kid it's still very funny today and I wish that a second season would happen. 🤣👍
Just popped into my head, today
I KNEW I wasn’t bugging
Same.
For the longest I was trying to find this intro and couldn’t ever find it. I just recently seen a Martin short commercial for Paris in Vegas and he dressed up as this character lol wow
One of many hidden gems from the good old days of the 90s, god bless Cartoon Network
This cartoon is from the late '80s.
I so proud he's the most intelligent but positive chartacter SNL ever done in my lifetime even he has his own cartoon. Thanks Mr short.
I just spent over 2 hours trying to remember the freaking name of this show. Love it!!!!!!!
Shit, try 20 years..
This reminds me of the opening theme song to Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Animation Bliss! You're not wrong. Given that Hanna-Barbera produced this in 1988--right at the height of _Pee-Wee's_ popularity--you could almost say that _Ed Grimley_ was NBC's attempt at stealing CBS' thunder (CBS, of course, had _Playhouse_, whose big draw was that it was a live-action series in a cartoon-dominated world).
Nicholas Tosoni
True!
+Nicholas Tosoni NBC didn't do the show any favors banishing it to its 12:30PM Eastern Time Slot after "2 Hip 4 TV" bombed.
Nicholas Tosoni I know i'm late but this show was a DIRECT Response to Pee's Wee's PEDO Playhouse... Since This was Martin Shorts SNL Creation they felt Y Not try to put this up against Paul's show on CBS... Unfortunately this character skit FAILED to resonate with kids other than me....
Nicholas Tosoni I know i'm late but this show was a DIRECT Response to Pee's Wee's PEDO Playhouse... Since This was Martin Shorts SNL Creation they felt Y Not try to put this up against Paul's show on CBS... Unfortunately this character skit FAILED to resonate with kids other than me....
This cartoon aired whilst I was a Sophomore/Junior in high school, and I religiously watched it every weekend, out here in the suburbs of the South Puget Sound, in the PNW. I haven't seen the series or even the intro since around that time, now well over three decades ago. I've been going through quite a bit of binge viewing of SCTV segments and episodes as of late, so it was bound that this would also appear in my suggested feed. Aside from both of my maternal grandparents passing within 7 months of each other between the summer of '88 and early '89, and my questioning of a lot of things that I still haven't found any answers to, it was a far better time to be alive than this 21st century has turned out to be - which jumped into the toilet within its first two years, and has been absolute shite.
I came here because my daughter had her pants up extra high and I told her that she looked like Ed Grimley and I did the dance so she wanted to see. LOL
I've heard people say that, as kids, they thought cartoons were just people in costumes. I never understood how they could ever get that idea, but I bet a lot of them got it from this intro.
That dance use to kill me..😆😆😆😆
Wow, I haven't seen this cartoon in 27 years and i still remember it. I loved it as a seven year old and I would love to own the dvd collection if it's something that's available.
+NotoriousNoe it is on amazon and warner brothers archives site.
the complete series is on dvd today
It's DVD-R format which is WHY I won't buy it.
It's cheap media guaranteed to decay with 10 years unless you back it up on MUCH better archival media like stone disc DVD-R's which will last up to 20 years minimum; they're saying archival quality (lifetime) but I'm not so sure about THAT.
I'm serious -- if you buy anything on DVD-R, you'll want to back it up ASAP because it WILL go bad within 10 years.
It's pathetic that well cared for VHS tapes will outlast DVD-R media but I'm finding that to be the case as I find more and more of my DVD-R videos just won't play all the way through after the last time I played them 5-7 years ago because they've rotted in spite of the fact I keep them out of direct sunlight AND air-conditioned. It's a losing war with DVD-R...
That's something I hate about both Warner Archives and Sony Archives. They manufacture their low print run movies on horrible -R media that is VERY unstable no matter the brand name (except M discs allegedly). They could STILL afford to print these movies on PRESSED DVDs and Blu rays but won't do that much in an effort to pinch a few pennies. Speaks volumes about their opinion of the consumer!
Furthermore, I think there are enough SCTV and Martin Short fans that they COULD have done a PRESSED disk (normal DVD) run of the Ed Grimley animated series with decent extras from Martin Short and the cast not to mention all the promos and commercials announcing the series.
It's amazing to me they never promoted the fact that this show was a literal reunion of a bunch of SCTV talent! You have the voices of (confirmed) Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, and (probably) Andrea Martin! That's virtually everybody except John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis that was part of those guys' runs on SCTV!
Talk about pure GOLD! Is this a real show? I love RARE shows like this. I wish The Hub, or Cartoon Network would focus on getting blocks of these to air on Saturday & Sunday Mornings. Imagine the ratings they could get. All of us retro fans now have kids, nephews, young cousins. We would watch it, then also get the kids in our family to watch it. Networks would make money on shows they don't even pay to produce now. Why can't they get that in their heads? Thumbs this up, and spread the idea.
It WAS a real show. Back in... was it 1988, or 1989?
CN actually used to air reruns of this for a while, in the 1990s.
It came on in 1988 and only lasted a few months due to low ratings and a really long Writers' Guild of America strike that happened around that time. It's the only time a Saturday Night Live character has had his own kids' cartoon (there was also the Coneheads, but that was never made into a real series. It was just an animated pilot).
Shocking that this was a giant hit, lol.
@@canaisyoung3601Ed Grimley (Martin Short) first appeared on SCTV (Second City Television) before Saturday Night Live.
Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) also premiered on SCTV along with Rick Moranis of Gravedale High and John Candy of Camp Candy.
There was also a Bob & Doug MacKenzie cartoon, but while Dave Thomas reprised his role as Doug, Dave Coulier of Full House provided the voice of Rick Moranis' Bob MacKenzie.
This show gave me nightmares. Actually, it still does.
+Pablo neves Why?
he was raped by his father in front of the tv when this show was running.
It was Count Floyd wasn't it?
That doesn't sound like it could be very pleasant. You know?
This show was fkng awesome Saturday morning TV.. Whatever happened to Martin short..
Oh my god! I haven't seen this show since I was a kid. I never could remember the name of this show, but I so remember watching this back to back with Space Ghost C2C!
RIP Joe Flaherty, aka Count Floyd.
Count Floyd will be missed
talk about bringing back memories!!
me and my brother love this show!!!
I remember this show when I was a kid. I loved Martin Short ever since Steve Martin too and so many of my child hood memories into adult hood. So many memories.
I have to admit, I used to think it was odd he dressed in the cartoon costume version of himself as a child. Thinking back now - And seeing it in this video - it actually seems like a pretty slick move.
If it werent for the sctv reruns on nick at nite back then, i wouldnt have known who ed grimley was when i first saw this as a kid in 1988
I knew Ed Grimley from Martin Short's one-year stint on Saturday Night Live (mostly because SNL, MADtv, and In Living Color were the sketch shows I grew up with that weren't the kid ones like All That and You Can't Do That On TV). I didn't know about SCTV until later.
I grew up watching a lot of sketch comedy too, snl, sctv, mad tv, the state, the kids in the hall, in living color, and one sketch comedy show called crabs which was made and aired in my home state of Maryland. and also kid sketch comedy shows like all that, and you can't do that on television. and HBO's not necessarily the news.
Same here! I would watch the best of snl then sctv followed by laugh in on nick at nite every Friday night. I was also 8-9 years old at the time
All I can remember from the cartoon is paprika. I watched most every episode.
I remember all of the Count Floyd's Scary Stories.
I love Ed Griey, I must say. I just can't recall specifics. Paprika.
😭 I loved this cartoon
its on dvd today
RIP to Count Floyd aka Joe Flaherty.
The best family sitcom to receive all the fun
I remember that distinctive look from my childhood but could never remember this character's name until recently.
I used to watch this
The originator of the dab
Also the Ginyu Force
Kamen Rider beat both Ginyu Force and Ed Grimley
I thought I dreamed this at age 7. Then cartoon network started airing it years later. More years after that and here I am on UA-cam reminiscing. Ahhh my youth was good.
SNL ....BROUGHT ME HERE
I was talking with someone about Ed Grimley earlier today. And then I went to the time machine also known as UA-cam and searched for Ed Grimley. First time in over 20 years I saw this intro of Ed Grimley woooooowwwwww!!
I had such high hopes for this show. I think they must have blown a significant portion of the season's budget on the intro.
And since when does he use oven mitts?
Ha! I found you! It took me a couple days but I finally found Ed Grimley! I remember this weird funny character that looked like an adult Alfalfa. Did not realize it was Martin Short this whole time! I also remember these 2 weird scientists guys climbing over furniture or the title words to the show. 😅😆🙃
The scientists were the amazing Gustoff brothers, Roger and Amile.
Oh, I remember watching this show on Cartoon Network back in the day. Back in Halloween '94, my best friend's older brother was him, her other best friend was Dr. Crusher and she was Miranda Veracruz De La Hoya Cardinal (from Married with Children.)
I may have been 5 years old when Ed was around but then faded away didn’t even realize that was Martin short the entire time finally resurfaced I’m 38 now. Finally happy to lay this mystery to rest 😅
This was so creepy to watch when I was a kid, and it's still creepy
Thanks Pan , Wasted 1min of my life
Why is it I never heard of this until today!!!
Why did Dracula howl like a werewolf?
He mentions that in his family, one of them was part werewolf, so he inherited some of the traits.
RIP, Count Floyd.
The essence of the character was real, when being animated, later, that Martin Short had put his cartoon image, on in the end.
Rest in Peace, Joe Flaherty (aka Count Floyd)
Ah, the introduction to sit-comedy for kids; back when Cartoon Network was at its best!
I agree. I enjoyed this cartoon as a kid.
Cartoon Network? Dude I remember this on Saturday morning NBC. Gen X= sat morning “Network TV” cartoons...Millennials= “Cartoon Network”
@@TraceurDoc1 I remember seeing this on NBC Saturday mornings too (though I'm millennial too, but I'm "born in the 1980s, grew up in the 1990s" millennial. My generation would have seen Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons on both network TV and cable, even though the network TV stuff would be on its way out due to cable and home media offering cartoons that weren't bound by censorship or educational requirements, which is what killed network TV Saturday morning cartoons).
@@canaisyoung3601 yeah, I forget that these generations have a wide span. An early millennial and late Gen-Xr had similar experiences for most part.
RIP Joe Flaherty who portrayed the role of Count Floyd
I sometimes think of this and go "Nah, just some weird dream I had once" but nope, here it is!
He uses the same dance in the movie The three amigos. Lol
Rip to Joe Flaherty
I came here after having a sudden memory of wearing a Ed Grimley costume for Halloween when I was like a kid kid ( like probably 5 or 6). Apparently I really liked this cartoon as a kid, but hardly remember it now. So weird 😮
I would so watch this if it was still on
Also this made Ace Ventura pet detective Jim carries walk dance and humor for that movie was from this cartoon.
this show feels like a fever dream
que recuerdos que nadie se acuerda de esta caricaturaaa tan bizarra
Thanks for posting this!
I feel upset Paul Ruebens died which makes me less into future entertainment especially now that we have AI
Surprised he never teamed up with pee-wee!! There where on t.v around the same time . Lol 🤣🤔
This show was never on the saturday morning top favorites list, but it was just right for its 11:30am time slot
I remember this VERY well. I didnt find out it was martin shorys character until much later in life.
My parents love this show!
I remember him from SCTV and SNL.
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT I HAD IMAGINED THIS SHOW. I've been googling "Character with backwards alfalfa hair" for the past 20 minutes with no results
Happy 35th Birthiversary, Ed
I used to love this cartoon show,pretty cool guests on it too.there was a segement in the show where the late jonathan winters voiced a character
I really used to watch this….
Late night Cartoon Network in the 90's! I was only born in 1987...
Glad to see I was not alone!
Hard to believe this was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Barely looks or feels like one
I used to think Ed Grimley was an actual person. I had no idea he was just a character made up by Martin Short. 😆
Remember when I watched Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery on UA-cam in honor of its 35th anniversary this year?
Well, since Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery was released in 1989, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley ran for only one season with 13 episodes the year before in 1988.
So The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, from 1988, and Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery, from 1989, were both animated by the now-defunct Colossal Pictures. Does that make sense or what?
Ed Grimley's signature outfit reminds me of Greg Brady in the first two seasons of _the Brady Bunch_.
Loved this
Wow, I'm also glad to see that I'm not alone. :D
This dude was dabbing before it was cool
Or never cool
Who needs acid when you have this video?
why isn't there a channel on tv with shows like this on, I mean shit there's like three or four disney channels on now why not this
Casey Strange I used to stay up so late every night watching the old cartoon network shows..i flipped it there a just a couple nights ago just to see what was on, and it was nick news doing a segment on High School kids coming out of the closet, my how times have changed
dogfacesoldier1000 they were doing nick news on cartoon network? I don't believe you....
aeongod your correct a/b that, I obviously misworded it. I used to watch cartoon network and nick toons growing up, as they both had shows I liked; I was just making a point a/b how much things have changed, as a show about teens coming out of the closet on either channel would have blown my mind\
Unfortunately ever since the Boston Bomb scare, Cartoon Network has never been the same....
Casey Strange OK, this is a summarized version of the bomb scare: on Wednesday, January 31, 2007, after both the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards resembling two characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force as improvised explosive devices.
Because of such, the Cartoon Network president Jim Samples resigned his post and ever since then Stuart Snyder has been the president of Cartoon Network.
Since that time, most of shows from Cartoon Network that are good (at least by my standard) like “Young Justice”, “Green Lantern”, “Sym Bionic Titan” and such have been canceled within two seasons, and many shows which are inappropriate (usually over-sexualized) for children (e.g. “Adventure Time”, “Regular Show”, “The Amazing World of Gumball”) have been getting multiple seasons (should not have even been put on).
Example: “Adventure Time”: Episode "Evicted!”: During the time of house hunting, the word "sexy" is used and Finn is later butt-slapped by Marceline. And many butt-slaps and overused and gender-switches (to the degree of full gender sexual features) are used throughout the entire series.
“Regular Show”: Mitch "Muscle Man" Sorrenstein's big-breasted girl-friend.
The “Amazing World of Gumball”: The banana strips revealing his butt.
There are many more albeit the fact which I think some episodes are good. Cartoons back in the 90's were respectfully funny and subtlety educational (a lot of them anyway).
Also; whether an image is acceptable/creepy/tolerable is based upon not only whether it's a cartoon but it's animation style. Cartoons in the 90's may have been creepy but were tolerable because the animation style made them seem "cute" (for lack of a better term).
Now, with most modern animation styles, even an alleged "regular human" being looks discombobulated.
Furthermore, the oldies had good stories: “Dragon Ball Z” (if it was shown to children who were well disciplined to not imitate it) “Gargoyles”, “Pokémon” (Kanto Region arc), “Yu-Gi-Oh” (Vs Pegasus arc) etc. Now most of the stuff is recycled materials and/or too many Clichés/Stereotypes/Tropes without balance and substance.
If they want to show these shows so bad, put them on “[adult swim]” or something equivalent; they are near if not in a class of “Family Guy”, “Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law” etc. Some may be even approaching “Food Fight” (Watch the Nostalgia Critic’s review of it if you want a good summary. Disclaimer: he uses high-quality profanity a lot).
I admit that the oldies had their problems too but were sure better than most of these moderns ones.
So bizzare that this was a cartoon,lol.
Grimley's smile makes look back at Stefano the Seal of the last of Madagascar
Also Cat in the Hat and Hubie
This was on cartoon network at one time i remember watching it when i was younger came on really late to
The second SNL skit to get a cartoon. (The first was Coneheads.)
GamerZero Yes, but Coneheads only got a special, whereas Ed Grimley got a whole series!
crescentfreshbret True.
I think that special was meant to be a pilot.
Ed Grimley actually came from SCTV in 1982 before he was on SNL in 1984.
Look, it's that dude from Radiohead
They should find a way to work this into "Only Murders in the Building"!
He is doing the dab
He DID invent the dab
No Kamen Rider did
😅🤣🤣🤣I use to watch this cartoon on Cartoon Network.
Hey, it's not Pee-Wee's playhouse.
no shit sherlock
I could have sworn Ed Grimsley was Pee Wee Herman
Which given Short would go on to voice the “Cat in the Hat”...
Ed Grimley invented the dab!!! Take that, Millenials
We're as doomed as doomed could be, you know.
He was basically like a less creepy Pee Wee Herman lol 😆 I really liked this show as a kid I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who remembers it 😆😁
This is like peewee meets steam pipe ally kinda craziness. 😂
Loved this show as a kid..I'm not really sure why.
This was NBC kicking themselves for not picking up Pee-Wee's playhouse after appearing on David Letterman