Can you imagine if this sort of phenomenon happened in the 2000’s we’d get promos like “Don’t miss the series premiere of Angel & Butterman! Saturday mornings after Sonic X. On CW4Kids!”
Its hilarious how many r rated franchises were randomly turned to Childrens cartoons. The first instance i noticed as a kid was Mortal Kombat. The M Rated game turned into a PG-13 movie, then down to a G rated 90s cartoon. But i loved it all.
I don't think I've ever seen the cartoons for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Toxic Crusaders when I was a kid, but I do remember watching them recently. I also remember watching the Toxic Avenger movie a while back, and to say my mom would not be happy about me watching a movie like that would be an understatement. Also, please tell me you have plans to cover PSA's from the 80s and 90s.
I remember kinda digging toxic crusaders, then some years later finding out it was based off an unrated/R-rated movie series! word is it's getting a reboot with peter dinklage, which I'm actually morbidly curious about, haha. still wild to think about those shows getting children's cartoons though. but I gotta side with sly stallone on the rambo thing, for sure.
We know we are a Kid of the 1980s when we are very intrigued with this content. 🤔 I can't look away. Maybe it's that weird longing for these days again. 🤷🏽♂️ Good stuff
My parents didn't really care about the ultra violence in movies... They only monitored the sexual content, and nudity in movies... They'd cover my eyes when an intimate scene would be shown...
I always saw it as these were our (us as kids) versions of mom and dad’s favorite movies. I did however become a Robocop fan through the cartoon and it led to me eventually seeing the movie too young and it traumatized me. Now it’s one of my fav action movies
So wild back then bc i went to a private school my folks sent me to and were pretty normal in terms of being strict but they always let me watch whatever i wanted. loved movie magic and how movies were made and they always inspired me to draw all the time so i think they noticed that and were cool about it.
You forgot in the early or mid 90s there was a cartoon based off of HBO s Tales from the crypt...called Tales from the crypt keeper ..it was based off the rated R tv series and featured the crypt keeper presenting watered down scary kid friendly stories and tales with a nice twist just like the tv show. I used to watch both back in the 90s and thought the cartoon was ok but since i was already used to the HBO Horror tv show i morely gravutated and preferred the HBO adult version even though i must've been atleast 10 or 11 years old while watching them at the time during the early 90s
We love ‘Tales From The Crypt’! In fact, the Cryptkeeper himself has appeared multiple times on our channel in skits we performed for Halloween as part of our ‘RD’s Retro Detention’ series from a few years back (featuring the actual voice actor reprising his role - John Kassir!). But since TFTC wasn’t a film (until later, and the cartoon was not based on those films) it did not qualify for our list in this video.
I was fortunate to have excellent 80's parents. My dad took me with him to see Rambo II when I was 4. No action movie was off the table. My mom's only concern was expressed by saying to dad "there better not be a bunch of boobs in that movie".
@@rightwired I had a couple friends in your situation. It made hanging out easy. I always knew they'd want to watch a movie they weren't supposed to see.
The rules were very different back in the day for movie attendance limits! In the early 70s my oldest brother was in his 20s and therefore was able to take my other two older brothers and I to see each of the Bruce Lee movies out as a "guardian"! Also, my dad took my brother and I to see movies like The Eiger Sanction and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest during our Christmas vacation because he had some time off!
My parents were fairly relaxed on what we could watch short of full on gore, or pron movies, so I saw all the movies, and cartoons based on them you showed as a kid, and it was awesome!!
@@RetroDaze I did, & one of my mom's best friend to this day also owned the small mom & pop video store in my small town, so I got to watch just about anything I wanted, so I'd ride my bike to the store, go in the store, & as long as it wasn't a new release, I could get it for a $.50 rental as long as I had it back by the next business day, & sometimes if they were feeling nice they would let me just take it, so I grew up watching a lot schlock movies on VHS on a top loading 2 head Panasonic VCR from the early 80's. 😅
9:53 - I came here specifically for Highlander: The Animated Series, and *this* is all I get? 🤷♂️🙄 You also forgot to mention the 2nd RoboCop animated series "Alpha Commando"(1998/1999)
@@RetroDaze 🤣 I stand by that decision! Besides, it gives us an excuse for a second video in the series...which is *totally* not what I was going for. 😏
I had one Toxic Crusader toy the one who had the one wheel. I watched that cartoon for sure. I think I've seen the movie. I think I've seen the Robo Cop cartoon and I've definitely watched all the movies
Dude, i'm a "broadcaster". I've seen 2300 movies, films radio broadcast. I've taken broadcast annunciation classes..I've heard everyone from Paul Harvey to Rush to James Earl Jones to Pat Foley to Morgan Freeman to David Attenborough to Doc Emmerick to Harry Carey.. coast to coast and all over Japan and Canada... I hope your creamy voice is collecting fat announce paychecks from someone. I can't believe how few views this channel has. You timing , pauses, inflection are amazing.
I've certainly seen my fair share! Of PG and PG13 movies! But even as a kid, I prefer Rated R movies over the others! Especially when they make a horror movie PG13, forget that noise! One of my favorite movies Smokey And The Bandit! Which of course wasn't horror! It would've been better Rated R!
Ah, I remember seeing a graphic scene from Toxic Avenger 3 as a kid because I collected Toxic Crusaders figures. Granted, now I love the movies, but I didn't expect all that gore when I was a kid.
@@RetroDaze Yeah, I was around, I dunno, 7-9 or so when I saw it in TV guide. We had the movie channels, and this was at like 1AM, either summer or a weekend. I switched to it and only remember because it was the scene in part 3 of Satan turning Toxie back into Melvin, so Toxie melting into a skeleton kinda stuck with me for a while.
@@RetroDaze And how things can change. I remember being scared of the trailer for the Nightmare on Elm Street collection on either an Austin Powers or Rush Hour VHS, but a few years later I was a fan buying teh DVD box set.
something you missed... Our generations were marketing targets and ploys that dont work today. So they are still marketing the same toys and now just for those same old kids that grew up. Companies like Hasbro have been making money off the same group of people through those peoples entire lives lol
@@RetroDaze that it is.. When you go to your local store check the toy section.. Not a kid to be found. For fun check GI Joe prices lol it's a market not even for kids today.
And that's a game where kids can head shot each other for extra points...things didn't really get much better...cartoons and toys just moved to video games based around murdering each other
"Toxic Crusader" toys created by Playmates, who also made the "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" figures. All of which are awesome. Sorry, they're not, IMHO.
Jon does not divulge the source of his fabulous shirt collection, to viewers or other RetroDaze staff. He is sooo secretive about it, but we suspect he has them teleported to his house from other dimensions.
Can you imagine if this sort of phenomenon happened in the 2000’s we’d get promos like
“Don’t miss the series premiere of Angel & Butterman! Saturday mornings after Sonic X. On CW4Kids!”
😆 The possibilities would have been endless.
Its hilarious how many r rated franchises were randomly turned to Childrens cartoons. The first instance i noticed as a kid was Mortal Kombat.
The M Rated game turned into a PG-13 movie, then down to a G rated 90s cartoon. But i loved it all.
That was an equally improbable cartoon for kids to exist, and yet… 😆
I don't think I've ever seen the cartoons for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Toxic Crusaders when I was a kid, but I do remember watching them recently. I also remember watching the Toxic Avenger movie a while back, and to say my mom would not be happy about me watching a movie like that would be an understatement.
Also, please tell me you have plans to cover PSA's from the 80s and 90s.
That’s not a bad idea APO.
The 80s was the funnest time to be a kid! They barely make rated R movies for adults anymore let alone making them into kids toys and cartoons.
@@codychavarria6088 "Put a chick in it, & make it lame & gay!!!"
It truly was! We were so lucky to have experienced those years.
@@CommodoreFan64While You're at It , Make It Transgender.
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I mean Rick and morty toe the line
@@Whitehorse_crimefighter They did not at first, but the longer series went on, the more it did, and I tuned out because of it, so you're right.
I watched the Rambo Cartoon and the Toxic Avengers Cartoon! I have a lot of the Toxic Avengers action figures in my toy room! Great video!
Thanks again CDR! Very cool that you still have some of those Toxie figs.
I remember kinda digging toxic crusaders, then some years later finding out it was based off an unrated/R-rated movie series! word is it's getting a reboot with peter dinklage, which I'm actually morbidly curious about, haha. still wild to think about those shows getting children's cartoons though. but I gotta side with sly stallone on the rambo thing, for sure.
That’s a tricky thing when you’re dealing with a character owned by a studio, but it’s your likeness.
There's a scene in Toxic Avenger that is so vile and shocking, that i don't even want to mention it.
That’s most scenes. 😆
We know we are a Kid of the 1980s when we are very intrigued with this content. 🤔 I can't look away. Maybe it's that weird longing for these days again. 🤷🏽♂️
Good stuff
That longing is pretty powerful. We’re here to help in some small way.
My parents didn't really care about the ultra violence in movies... They only monitored the sexual content, and nudity in movies... They'd cover my eyes when an intimate scene would be shown...
This sounds like a lot of parents back then. Language, violence… not as well monitored as the intimate stuff.
I always saw it as these were our (us as kids) versions of mom and dad’s favorite movies. I did however become a Robocop fan through the cartoon and it led to me eventually seeing the movie too young and it traumatized me. Now it’s one of my fav action movies
It’s a fine line between being traumatized and being entertained. 😆
So wild back then bc i went to a private school my folks sent me to and were pretty normal in terms of being strict but they always let me watch whatever i wanted. loved movie magic and how movies were made and they always inspired me to draw all the time so i think they noticed that and were cool about it.
That is pretty cool. Nice that you were still able to experience a lot of good movies.
Let's not forget "Little Shop of Horrors" and"Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos"!!😮😅😊
At least they didn’t make a kids cartoon out of Platoon. Though there was a kid friendly video game adaptation.
Was going to say... wasn't there a video game? Ha!
@@RetroDaze Oh, if we can scrape together enough examples, maybe a "rated-r movies that became games" video is in order.
I do remember the RoboCop cartoon. Great video! Thank You for the RETRO Content.🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
Thank you Z Man! Glad you got a kick out of this one.
You forgot in the early or mid 90s there was a cartoon based off of HBO s Tales from the crypt...called Tales from the crypt keeper ..it was based off the rated R tv series and featured the crypt keeper presenting watered down scary kid friendly stories and tales with a nice twist just like the tv show. I used to watch both back in the 90s and thought the cartoon was ok but since i was already used to the HBO Horror tv show i morely gravutated and preferred the HBO adult version even though i must've been atleast 10 or 11 years old while watching them at the time during the early 90s
We love ‘Tales From The Crypt’! In fact, the Cryptkeeper himself has appeared multiple times on our channel in skits we performed for Halloween as part of our ‘RD’s Retro Detention’ series from a few years back (featuring the actual voice actor reprising his role - John Kassir!).
But since TFTC wasn’t a film (until later, and the cartoon was not based on those films) it did not qualify for our list in this video.
@RetroDaze o right gotcha..yea i later saw ur TFTC episode..and enjoyed it .
I was fortunate to have excellent 80's parents. My dad took me with him to see Rambo II when I was 4. No action movie was off the table. My mom's only concern was expressed by saying to dad "there better not be a bunch of boobs in that movie".
You are lucky. The only movies were were allowed to watch, were not rated "Morally Offensive" by the Northwest Indiana Catholic Digest."
@@rightwired I had a couple friends in your situation. It made hanging out easy. I always knew they'd want to watch a movie they weren't supposed to see.
@@jasonwomack4064 Ha! Made for a win-win situation. 😆
Toxic crusaders was awesome….they were part of my tmnt universe lol
The figures really worked well together!
I didn't really have any interest in these cartoons but I did enjoy all the movies either on the VCR or on HBO.
They were such a departure from the films that it’s hard to imagine any of them translating well.
The rules were very different back in the day for movie attendance limits! In the early 70s my oldest brother was in his 20s and therefore was able to take my other two older brothers and I to see each of the Bruce Lee movies out as a "guardian"! Also, my dad took my brother and I to see movies like The Eiger Sanction and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest during our Christmas vacation because he had some time off!
Not to mention the more limited film rating structure meant that films could get away with having more adult-oriented content in them.
My parents were fairly relaxed on what we could watch short of full on gore, or pron movies, so I saw all the movies, and cartoons based on them you showed as a kid, and it was awesome!!
😆 You had the full experience of each of these! Nice.
@@RetroDaze I did, & one of my mom's best friend to this day also owned the small mom & pop video store in my small town, so I got to watch just about anything I wanted, so I'd ride my bike to the store, go in the store, & as long as it wasn't a new release, I could get it for a $.50 rental as long as I had it back by the next business day, & sometimes if they were feeling nice they would let me just take it, so I grew up watching a lot schlock movies on VHS on a top loading 2 head Panasonic VCR from the early 80's. 😅
Lucky!!! What a perfect arrangement.
Don't forget the networks turning hit shows into cartoons by putting the characters in an outlandish situation and/or adding a funny and unique pet.
We feel like you’re referencing Punky Brewster right now. 😆
9:53 - I came here specifically for Highlander: The Animated Series, and *this* is all I get? 🤷♂️🙄
You also forgot to mention the 2nd RoboCop animated series "Alpha Commando"(1998/1999)
Well... blame it on our writer's fascination with "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes". 😂He has been made to sit in the corner to think about his error.
@@RetroDaze 🤣 I stand by that decision! Besides, it gives us an excuse for a second video in the series...which is *totally* not what I was going for. 😏
I LOVED the Police Academy cartoon series as a kid!
Nice! Had you seen any of the films at that point?
@@RetroDaze I had seen the first 3 by the time the cartoon came out. I was around 12 lol
That sounds about right! LOL.
I had one Toxic Crusader toy the one who had the one wheel. I watched that cartoon for sure. I think I've seen the movie. I think I've seen the Robo Cop cartoon and I've definitely watched all the movies
While the films got progressively worse, the popularity of RoboCop himself pretty much never faded completely.
I always felt they should've put a picture of Brad Garrett as Officef Robert Barrone from"Everybody Loves Raymond"on the Robert Cop box!!😅😊
😆 That would have been perfect!
Dude, i'm a "broadcaster". I've seen 2300 movies, films radio broadcast. I've taken broadcast annunciation classes..I've heard everyone from Paul Harvey to Rush to James Earl Jones to Pat Foley to Morgan Freeman to David Attenborough to Doc Emmerick to Harry Carey.. coast to coast and all over Japan and Canada... I hope your creamy voice is collecting fat announce paychecks from someone. I can't believe how few views this channel has. You timing , pauses, inflection are amazing.
What a perfect adjective to describe Jon’s voice. “Creamy”. Man… we’re going to use the crap out of that now on him. 😂 😂 😂
Your kind words have been seen by me and appreciated. Thank you for watching! 😁
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
I've certainly seen my fair share! Of PG and PG13 movies! But even as a kid, I prefer Rated R movies over the others! Especially when they make a horror movie PG13, forget that noise! One of my favorite movies Smokey And The Bandit! Which of course wasn't horror! It would've been better Rated R!
@@Rob_1776 But no Smokey And The Bandit cartoons? 😆
Ah, I remember seeing a graphic scene from Toxic Avenger 3 as a kid because I collected Toxic Crusaders figures. Granted, now I love the movies, but I didn't expect all that gore when I was a kid.
Cheap and cheesy as that gore was, for we youngsters in the ‘80s and ‘90s it was pretty shocking stuff.
@@RetroDaze Yeah, I was around, I dunno, 7-9 or so when I saw it in TV guide. We had the movie channels, and this was at like 1AM, either summer or a weekend. I switched to it and only remember because it was the scene in part 3 of Satan turning Toxie back into Melvin, so Toxie melting into a skeleton kinda stuck with me for a while.
Isn’t it funny how certain scenes affect kids differently? Like, scenes that give nightmares to one kid make another laugh, and vice versa.
@@RetroDaze And how things can change. I remember being scared of the trailer for the Nightmare on Elm Street collection on either an Austin Powers or Rush Hour VHS, but a few years later I was a fan buying teh DVD box set.
Ha! Exactly. That as well.
This didn't really stop...fortnite regularly has characters from 18 rated movies....its a 13+ game!
Very true! Though you definitely don’t see the cartoons or games directed toward children like before. Teens… a gray area there.
I watched all of them. What about Swamp Thing, was that rated R?
Looks to be PG, back when PG encompassed a lot more violence and such.
something you missed... Our generations were marketing targets and ploys that dont work today. So they are still marketing the same toys and now just for those same old kids that grew up. Companies like Hasbro have been making money off the same group of people through those peoples entire lives lol
And that well is slowly drying up.
@@RetroDaze that it is.. When you go to your local store check the toy section.. Not a kid to be found. For fun check GI Joe prices lol it's a market not even for kids today.
Agreed. They’ve tried to capture some amount of interest with He-Man, and I think to some degree they have. But not enough to stick around long.
Toxic Crusaders was better than the Toxic Avenger.
It was definitely more fun and kooky!
Hey, I'm still waiting on a cartoon for mad max.
We all are! 😆
Fortnite (13+) game is starting a mad max season tomorrow
And that's a game where kids can head shot each other for extra points...things didn't really get much better...cartoons and toys just moved to video games based around murdering each other
My sons are fans of the game.
I watched Toxic Crusaders.
"Toxic Crusader" toys created by Playmates, who also made the "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" figures. All of which are awesome. Sorry, they're not, IMHO.
It’s all good. To each his/her own. 😉
As a kid I saw all of the movies and none of the cartoons.
Well, the cartoons definitely strayed away from some aspects of the films, so they lost some of the appeal.
I watched most of these movies that were cartoons. I really didn't have any limitations when watching movies, as long as it wasn't straight up porn.
Must’ve been nice! 😆
RobertCop:The Furniture of Law Enforcement@!😮😅
😆 RobertCop vs RoboCop - Who wins?
BETELGUESE!!!!!...I will get and read the fucking book i watch dave's archives...fuck you guys ...we'd probably get along
😄We get along with everybody... well, almost. Let us know what you think about the book!
Beetlejuice was a fun cartoon :D
What about Ninja Turtles? The original comics were dark and violent but I loved the cartoon.
It is funny to look back at where the Turtles started compared to the kid-friendly versions.
do a video on the choose your own adventure book series
A great suggestion! Flip to page 56 to see if we act on it. 😆
My father actually took a 12 year old me and my 6 year old brother to the Memphis rd drive in to see Robo cop
Oh gosh! Nightmare fuel to the extreme. 😆
@@RetroDaze nah our family movie nights were a steady stream of r rated movies ranging from Beverly Hills Cop to The Terminator
Nothing says “family” like killer robots from the future. 😆 😉
where you get that shirt???
Jon does not divulge the source of his fabulous shirt collection, to viewers or other RetroDaze staff. He is sooo secretive about it, but we suspect he has them teleported to his house from other dimensions.
@@RetroDaze That's hilarious and on brand for cool t-shirt aficionados
Oh definitely. He'll scold anyone if he learns that they buy from Redbubble, Temu, etc.
Where do you get your T-shirts?
Jon has them secretly delivered to him from parts unknown. He won’t even tell US!
@@RetroDaze Well damn! If you ever find out his secret make sure you share...lol
Absolutely! We have people ‘on the inside’ working him for info.
What about Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos??
Not really based on any film, R rated or otherwise. Still, Chuck’s films could get pretty violent.
So would Blade Runner have made for a good R rated cartoon? Probably not. Too deep for most kids.
Yeah, these seem to fall into the goofy horror, comedy, and action genres.
@@RetroDaze I feel ya. It's not easy to entertain today's kids these days.
Unless it’s a phone… they seem pretty enamored with those.
No time stamps?
Oh, you know… trying to give you that old school VCR kind of viewing experience. 😆
Even as a kid I knew these cartoons were wrong to make. They felt very forced.
It did seem so blatantly commercial (taking these films and making them into cartoons) that even we as kids felt like something was just off.
Not wrong