At least in the game you could assume he was speaking his own alien language, but here there's no bones about it. He's already speaking English so there's only one thing it could be.
There was big money to be made with cartoon/product tie ins in the 80s, and studios would do anything to turn a popular toy or game into a Saturday morning show. Hanna Barbera proved it in the video game industry with their Pac-Man series, and Ruby Spears, a studio formed of ex-HB employees, decided to get in on every other video game license they could afford in one fell swoop. The result was CBS’s Saturday Supercade, where Frogger became a journalist, Q*bert lived the life of a 1950s high schooler, and Donkey Kong Jr. was under the protection of a motorcyclist, among other things. Clearing the rights for all the video game licenses has made Saturday Supercade near impossible to rerelease in any format, but Sony Pictures, who owns both Q*bert and the Saturday Supercade show, has released the majority of the Q*bert segments on DVD (the exclusions were 2 episodes that featured copyrighted songs they couldn’t get clearance for, one of which was a Michael Jackson tribute episode, if that can be believed!). Some years back, Boomerang had also rebroadcast the Space Ace segments. Hanna Barbera already had the license to Don Bluth’s other game, Dragon’s Lair, and although that’s on DVD as well, there seems to be no plans to issue Space Ace or any of the other Saturday Supercade segments.
It is indeed a recording of the speech synthesis in the Q*bert arcade game. The game feeds random data through to the speech synthesizer to generate Q*bert's distinct "language" and tone.
@@arqivist2077 Although, speaking of Q*Bert’s gibberish and grawlix. This arcade game’s aesthetic is meant to be psychedelic, non sensical and was sort of a puzzle game to change the block’s colors.
I guess this is just part of the shows identity, in the game Q*Bert speaks in gibberish and those symbols are used whenever he speaks, and it was usually as an exclamation for both
TheChoujinVirus the vidios called Q*bert has a dirty mouth, so hes swearing. i know. bad cartoon for kids. i guss thats why they dont play it on TV enymore.
TheChoujinVirus and the disc looks like the windows madia flag. I've played Q*bert rebooted before on my phone/the phone im using right now to tipe this. well, i've played it.
Wreck It Ralph: "I don't want to be the bad guy anymore."😞 Bowser: Roar! (Breathes fire in Shock) 😮 Clyde the orange ghost: (Turns Blue with power pellet jingle)🙁🔵🔵🔵🔵
As a kid, I was over at a parent's friend's house, and I got in trouble for using symbols in place of a swear word. The word was even fully censored, and there was no indication of what the word actually meant. This right here is why I am starting my own business as an adult, and why I typically avoid online public communities. People in general have ego trips, and just want to show authority.
The timing was perfect. A lot of kids like me had tremendous interest in video games, yet couldn't get out to the arcades, and our parents couldn't afford the consoles. There was also the Great Video Game Crash of '83, so those who bought them stopped doing so, as the tech of the time had reached its limit, and they'd grown tired of it. So these cartoons fit the bill. Fortunately the industry was revitalized by the arrival of the NES in '87, which we could then afford.
You're thinking Hanna-Barbera there! This once-lost series is produced by Ruby-Spears, a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Plus, at the time, this so-called practice was long abandoned due to controversy.
What the @!#?@! were the creators thinking about making a !#@?!-ing character that @?#!?-ing swears!? Where the ?#@!? were the !@?#!-ing censors back then? (Yes I know Q*Berts a game character. No need to rage at me about it lol)
For a while many years ago, I was kinda intrigued by the idea of old cartoons based on video games because I imagine it be kinda fun for kids back then to compare what's similar or what's different between the 2. (PS I was born in May 1991). For me as a kid, it was the Pokémon anime/Pokemon Version games. I also bought the "Captain N trilogy" on my Wii several years ago (Castlevania, Megaman, & Kid Icarus).
0:56 Quran Quran I'm sure that's a reference to Duran Duran and not Islam, but it's still ironic. Keep in mind, back then, most people were accustomed to it being romanized "Koran."
Well this is kind of fine if you think about it It could be some kind of catch phrase he says everytime he gets hurt because if you listen carefully you can notice its always the same sound effect And depending on how long he is stuck / hurt he will say the whole sound clip so it’s probably just a catch phrase
Just for a little thought here, but I really wanted to know if either Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, or someone in the RS studio actually knew about Q's cursing in the actual game before creating the series.
Alex K Someone a long time ago uploaded a clip from an off air recording of one of the episodes cut from the Q*Bert DVD, where I believe he and his gang sing a rendition of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (probably Sony didn't want to have to pay royalties to the record company) and near the end is a clip from a transition between Q*Bert and Space Ace segments.
Indeed! Q*bert and Donkey Kong shared their time with the stars of Frogger, Pitfall, Donkey Kong Jr., Space Ace and Kangaroo on CBS’s Saturday Morning Supercade, produced in 1983 by Ruby-Spears, following the success of the previous year’s Pac-Man show, produced by rivals Hanna-Barbera for NBC. All but 2 of the Q*bert episodes have been released on DVD under the title “The Best Of Q*bert”.
I Can't Exactly Understand What Q*Bert Says, But, I Had No idea he had an entire Species Like Pacman Does with his Family. Also, I've never seen him with an Actual Mouth. Although, It's Too Bad the Pac Man Cartoon is Outside of Saturday Supercade.
I want this show to air on MeTv’s Saturday morning cartoons. I think a good time to start is sometime is this week. after the Tom and jerry show. First it goes from Popeye and pink panthers party, than the Tom and jerry show, and lastly Bugs bunny and friends. I think Q*Bert should be between The Tom and Jerry Show and Bugs Bunny and Friends would be good.
This show was a part of a series called "The Saturday Supercade", which had a bunch of shorts from popular arcade games at the time: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Frogger, Space Ace (yes the Don Bluth Game), Pitfall, Kangaroo, and of course, Q*Bert. Their Q*Bert segment was closest to the then competing Pac-Man Cartoon in which they took the game, which really had no plot, and put it in a suburban setting full of duplicates of the main character, and made all his rivals just a bunch of jerks. The biggest difference between Q*Bert and Pac-Man was that Pac-Man was set closer to the then modern times (of the idealized 80's), where Q*Bert was set in the idealized 50's which was big during the 80's (thanks to shows like Happy Days and movies like Grease).
Never understood why Slick and Sam were friends with the good guys, those little assholes changed the color of your blocks and undid a lot of your hard work!
At least in the game you could assume he was speaking his own alien language, but here there's no bones about it. He's already speaking English so there's only one thing it could be.
more like squashednose-onezze
And plus, he mostly says his ‘alien language’ when he’s in trouble or hurt, or mad, so I guess it would make sense for him to be cursing
Yeah he only says the language whenever his nose is pressed in
It's actually Q*bertese
But watch this 0:51
I cannot believe they even managed to make a cartoon premise out of Q*bert
There was big money to be made with cartoon/product tie ins in the 80s, and studios would do anything to turn a popular toy or game into a Saturday morning show. Hanna Barbera proved it in the video game industry with their Pac-Man series, and Ruby Spears, a studio formed of ex-HB employees, decided to get in on every other video game license they could afford in one fell swoop. The result was CBS’s Saturday Supercade, where Frogger became a journalist, Q*bert lived the life of a 1950s high schooler, and Donkey Kong Jr. was under the protection of a motorcyclist, among other things.
Clearing the rights for all the video game licenses has made Saturday Supercade near impossible to rerelease in any format, but Sony Pictures, who owns both Q*bert and the Saturday Supercade show, has released the majority of the Q*bert segments on DVD (the exclusions were 2 episodes that featured copyrighted songs they couldn’t get clearance for, one of which was a Michael Jackson tribute episode, if that can be believed!). Some years back, Boomerang had also rebroadcast the Space Ace segments. Hanna Barbera already had the license to Don Bluth’s other game, Dragon’s Lair, and although that’s on DVD as well, there seems to be no plans to issue Space Ace or any of the other Saturday Supercade segments.
@@arqivist2077you wrote a whole essay on q*bert you can congratulate yourself
Me either
Verdade
Well they did make one of Pac-Man way back too.
Fun Fact: In the cartoon series, he attempted the same swear as in the game.
It is indeed a recording of the speech synthesis in the Q*bert arcade game. The game feeds random data through to the speech synthesizer to generate Q*bert's distinct "language" and tone.
@@arqivist2077 ok then
@@arqivist2077
Although, speaking of Q*Bert’s gibberish and grawlix. This arcade game’s aesthetic is meant to be psychedelic, non sensical and was sort of a puzzle game to change the block’s colors.
@@solarischannel4998 Yeah.
That _is_ the Premise of this Video. Isn't it?
He tries to yell obscenities, but since his nose is squished in, he just can't
I’m starting to think that this isn’t cursing and more like a speech impediment caused by a squished nose
He's trying to say "OUCH" but he can't.
He is shown to actually speak, and the "swearing" only happens when his nose is squished, so this is plausible
The speech bubble make it clear for me that he's pissed.
ok.
You do have a point
I guess this is just part of the shows identity, in the game Q*Bert speaks in gibberish and those symbols are used whenever he speaks, and it was usually as an exclamation for both
I got thrown for a HEAVY loop when I heard him speak actual English.
same dude
This is evidently what happens when you learn swear words from the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, instead of from your parents...
he's either swearing or warning that someone's gone turbo
TheChoujinVirus the vidios called Q*bert has a dirty mouth, so hes swearing. i know. bad cartoon for kids. i guss thats why they dont play it on TV enymore.
TheChoujinVirus and the disc looks like the windows madia flag. I've played Q*bert rebooted before on my phone/the phone im using right now to tipe this. well, i've played it.
Sorry, Q*Bert. It’s me, Ralph! Shhh! *runs into wall* The wall.
i think he said *RALPH HAS GONE TURBO!*
I guess it's just his natural habitat? Also why does this Qbert have arms?
The running gag of him smashing his nose in and cussing out God Almighty. Man, cartoons got soft
he’s not cussing.
@@chaick5148 Exactly.
@@chaick5148The speech balloon has censored text.
RALPH'S GONE TURBO
GASP
Wreck It Ralph: "I don't want to be the bad guy anymore."😞
Bowser: Roar! (Breathes fire in Shock) 😮
Clyde the orange ghost: (Turns Blue with power pellet jingle)🙁🔵🔵🔵🔵
Wouldn’t that be Q*Bert Gone Turbo?
00:38 Favorite part
Yeah it's funny
Q*Bert: I’ve got a nose for solving crime.
Me: And you’ve got a mouth for profanity.
Lmao
Q-Bert wearing a jacket is the most 80s thing ever! 🤣
As a kid, I was over at a parent's friend's house, and I got in trouble for using symbols in place of a swear word. The word was even fully censored, and there was no indication of what the word actually meant. This right here is why I am starting my own business as an adult, and why I typically avoid online public communities. People in general have ego trips, and just want to show authority.
"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"
How did this go from strict families to online communities and business???
Where did you hear that symbol from
@@faveless People abuse power all the time. I've seen it in criminal justice, business, etc. The key is to become independent, and this all vanishes.
Holy shit. This guy had an actual villain backstory. Gabriel, calm down before it's too late!
They made qbert a high school American jock
Fricking qbert
Yeah plus he has arms but in-game he doesn't and to you and Qbert: NO DIRTY MOUTH 🚫👎⛔🚽🤐👄🤐
Qbert's friends are the cool sporty kids while Coily's gang are the mean greasers, whoever wrote this show was real nostalgic about the 50's.
He said Frick TF are you going do to him
0:14 when I get a scratchy voice
So it's canon that he's just saying like the worst of profanities, nice
I don’t blame Qbert for cussing so much. Guy gets his nose broken pretty often.
I love how nobody acknowledges him swearing since if they did the kids watching this show would realise what it was
I love Q*bert's Saturday Supercade cartoon!
Me too. He's my favorite. He should have his own series.
Garth Davis Yes! Q*bert needs his own series now!
Me too
*This is the premise of the whole series*
*HOW*
Just when you think the 80s were already a weird, yet influential time, you find shows like Saturday Supercade to further state that fact.
The timing was perfect. A lot of kids like me had tremendous interest in video games, yet couldn't get out to the arcades, and our parents couldn't afford the consoles. There was also the Great Video Game Crash of '83, so those who bought them stopped doing so, as the tech of the time had reached its limit, and they'd grown tired of it. So these cartoons fit the bill. Fortunately the industry was revitalized by the arrival of the NES in '87, which we could then afford.
This is like making a tetris cartoon
they kinda did...
That's what Q*Bert is popular for. His swearing, and he's notable for that
He isn't swearing.
This is what censorship was like back then.
Q*bert was always like this, lol.
I’VE GOT A NOSE FOR SOLVING CRIME
*C R A S H F R O M D A P I A N O*
These Q*Bert cartoons should’ve added laugh track especially for the moments with Q*Bert berating due to how funny his profanity sounds.
You're thinking Hanna-Barbera there! This once-lost series is produced by Ruby-Spears, a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. Plus, at the time, this so-called practice was long abandoned due to controversy.
Translation: "Oh crap!"
What the @!#?@! were the creators thinking about making a !#@?!-ing character that @?#!?-ing swears!? Where the ?#@!? were the !@?#!-ing censors back then?
(Yes I know Q*Berts a game character. No need to rage at me about it lol)
Jeremy Krane HAH! Clever
More importantly, why the @!#?@! did they decide to make a &@%?# cartoon about %+:/?ing Q*Bert of all things?
Q*Bert isn't swearing it just jibberish
Q*bert has a .‰√$#@¢ dirty mouth
For a while many years ago, I was kinda intrigued by the idea of old cartoons based on video games because I imagine it be kinda fun for kids back then to compare what's similar or what's different between the 2. (PS I was born in May 1991).
For me as a kid, it was the Pokémon anime/Pokemon Version games. I also bought the "Captain N trilogy" on my Wii several years ago (Castlevania, Megaman, & Kid Icarus).
0:56 Quran Quran I'm sure that's a reference to Duran Duran and not Islam, but it's still ironic. Keep in mind, back then, most people were accustomed to it being romanized "Koran."
????? 🤔🤨🤣 That's awesome!
Bible
Just like in the game when his enemies knock him down and when he gets mad
Orange orb creature can't stop swearing
I smell...
*U N D E R-R A T E D*
Quran
Quran
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
Qur'an
all praise be to jenova
Bible
Bible
Duran
Duran
Alt title: Orange Guy Swearing in his own TV Show
If you ask me in wreck it Ralph movie q*bert is speaking q*bert ese
HOLD ON THERE WAS A REAL TV SHOW FOR Q*BERT?!?!??!!
Yep, but this Q*bert series was a part of Saturday Supercade.
OH HEHE I can't wait until Conan O'Brien gets shocked about this.
@ 0:56 I didn't know there was a Muslim synth rock band in the Q*Bert universe!
Quran Quran
What is that last scene from that also shows the humans?
A transition bumper between the Q*bert and Space Ace segments on Saturday Supercade.
1:23 is me
It’s actually funny knowing theres a cartoon for Qbert
In 1:55 to 2:01 Q*Bert isn’t cussing, he is just making Angry noises
Everyone from the alphabet lore likes Q*Bert! (Especially Q)
Yosemite Sam-style cussing, lol.
but in the 2:01 he was really cussing
@@yeahh80 he means the clip ends at 2:01
@@CG978Garfield who asked about alphabet lore
0:53 I love when Q*bert spinning!
I honestly had no idea that this existed.
Same
That is also how I swear. I use the same comic speech swear bubble on roblox
0:19 favorite part
Why does he have a second mouth in cartoon?
Well this is kind of fine if you think about it
It could be some kind of catch phrase he says everytime he gets hurt because if you listen carefully you can notice its always the same sound effect
And depending on how long he is stuck / hurt he will say the whole sound clip so it’s probably just a catch phrase
Just for a little thought here, but I really wanted to know if either Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, or someone in the RS studio actually knew about Q's cursing in the actual game before creating the series.
Can you make qberts monster mix up for Halloween
0:13 The only part where Q*bert swear like a man instead of swearing like a kid
Was this a "once and episode" thing? It was the gimmick back then.
0:50 LOOK AT THE SIGN
What about it?
The scene where Q*Bert crashed into a piano, there are bookshelves and a sign reading the Koran
Oh wait, it's a reference to a metal band, oop
this whole cartoon feels like an excuse to laugh at implied cursing over real cursing.
What’s that episode called in 1:52
If I'm not mistaken, it's from "Rebel Without A Qause"
and i remember that my parents didn't liked me to watch this as child...
Don’t forget to Post All Full Episodes from Q*bert on The Internet Archive!
Q*berts magical spell makes his nose pop out when it’s squished in
I was really hoping the entire show was just that sound over and over again
where do you find that last clip?
Alex K Someone a long time ago uploaded a clip from an off air recording of one of the episodes cut from the Q*Bert DVD, where I believe he and his gang sing a rendition of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (probably Sony didn't want to have to pay royalties to the record company) and near the end is a clip from a transition between Q*Bert and Space Ace segments.
0:24 *= F @= #= ★=
No it's *@#☆!!!
Oh you
Q*bert had a cartoon?
Just voicing his opinion.
0:51 “I Got A Nose For Solving Crime!”
(s)
These could be stingers like King of the Hill.
So, there was a Q*bert TV series in the 80s? Like Pac Man & Donkey Kong?
Indeed! Q*bert and Donkey Kong shared their time with the stars of Frogger, Pitfall, Donkey Kong Jr., Space Ace and Kangaroo on CBS’s Saturday Morning Supercade, produced in 1983 by Ruby-Spears, following the success of the previous year’s Pac-Man show, produced by rivals Hanna-Barbera for NBC. All but 2 of the Q*bert episodes have been released on DVD under the title “The Best Of Q*bert”.
@@arqivist2077 My father told me he watched those shows when he was a kid.
@@arqivist2077 what are the 2 lost episodes?
@@arqivist2077 seems interesting!
0:03 intro
0:14 pipe
0:23 covered my nose
0:30 squashed
0:32 angry witch qbert
0:38 stuck purple juice
We don’t need that foul language in the amazing digital circus
I was looking back through the comments on here and you gave me a brilliant idea: ua-cam.com/video/MHEWPX5ZwBE/v-deo.html
Or dolphin sound from SpongeBob
I dint even know Q*Bert had a cartoon in the 80's (i dont know if its the 80's or the 90's)
I Can't Exactly Understand What Q*Bert Says, But, I Had No idea he had an entire Species Like Pacman Does with his Family. Also, I've never seen him with an Actual Mouth. Although, It's Too Bad the Pac Man Cartoon is Outside of Saturday Supercade.
The type of sound that Roblox will redound the new death sound
I think every time his nose gets squished is actually trying to mutter something but since he’s nose is squished he can’t talk
Like bro wtf this show just started appearing out of nowhere now videos from 7 year ago are appearing
Since when did Q Bert had arms
1:40 Q*bert's nose now looks like a speaker hole.
“And for God sake, watch your language!” -Robert Downey Jr.
He needs his mouth washed out with soap
it doesn't look like he's swearing it looks like he's so mad
Watch your mouth, Q*Bert!
There was a Q*bert cartoon?
I GOT A NOSE FOR SOLVING CRIME.
Whoa!
(crashes into piano)
God I wish this was a cartoon nowadays, minus the stupidity of modern day animation.
I want this show to air on MeTv’s Saturday morning cartoons. I think a good time to start is sometime is this week. after the Tom and jerry show. First it goes from Popeye and pink panthers party, than the Tom and jerry show, and lastly Bugs bunny and friends. I think Q*Bert should be between The Tom and Jerry Show and Bugs Bunny and Friends would be good.
alr so what ive learned is that if qubert gets his nose pushed in
he swears
If Q*bert keeps crashing, he will swear
I didn't know this existed... Why? ._.
The music store clip. Quran Quran sign. Tsk. If the show was less obscure, that might have been a meme.
I always thought that q.bert mouth was hos nose
6 people exclaimed "@!#?@".
0:35 oh lord
I didn't know this even existed
And how did you find so many clips of it?
This show was a part of a series called "The Saturday Supercade", which had a bunch of shorts from popular arcade games at the time: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Frogger, Space Ace (yes the Don Bluth Game), Pitfall, Kangaroo, and of course, Q*Bert. Their Q*Bert segment was closest to the then competing Pac-Man Cartoon in which they took the game, which really had no plot, and put it in a suburban setting full of duplicates of the main character, and made all his rivals just a bunch of jerks. The biggest difference between Q*Bert and Pac-Man was that Pac-Man was set closer to the then modern times (of the idealized 80's), where Q*Bert was set in the idealized 50's which was big during the 80's (thanks to shows like Happy Days and movies like Grease).
@@DingoWalley01 I am aware of the Saturday Supercade,just never knew this had Q*Bert shorts.
.... what. Did they really made a tv show of that character?
I think it was a show of multiple cartoons based on arcade games, they also made Donkey Kong cartoons if I'm not mistaken.
@@Flo_Resolution yes you are right
@@Parcel_GT ok yeah, I wasn't around back then. I just remembered looking up a Donkey Kong show, years ago
I always interpreted it not as swearing, but as his own language.
Qbert has a funny voice
dude q Bert does not have hands
has bro been saying the same curse word?
Never understood why Slick and Sam were friends with the good guys, those little assholes changed the color of your blocks and undid a lot of your hard work!
I’m imagining him saying “SHIT!!”
Do you mean @#$&!?
Poor q*Bert