... Amazing how a character of that nature was done so well in the 80's - 90's. These days its not fun just preachy, then again is is 100% anime goodness ^^.
I remember watching it every time I came home from middle school in the mid 90s. Don't remember if it was on KUSI or KTTY but it was def one of my favorite 90s cartoons. The theme song brings back a lot of memories of the good ol days.
Do you remember the dialogue at the end of the two-parter where the Cats get the Supreme Catatonic robot? The bit about how it came from "a civilization so advanced, it blew itself out of existence"...? _I_ remember that line. It was 1998, and I was twelve. My brain began to spin and whir... "Civilizations don't just... blow themselves away, because of how advanced their tech is!" I thought. "Wait -- I wonder what a civilization like that would... be like?" I started exploring, and creating a character -- and a race -- around that... lore happened, although I didn't know that word yet. It wouldn't be till sometime in high school, somewhere between 2001 and 2003, when I'd discover that there were others who, like me, were deeply interested in races and even whole universes of animal people... and it wasn't until after I'd left college that I really got involved in the Furry Fandom. I'm 37 now, I'll be 38 this June. I'm disabled -- always have been -- but I'm also an artist, a computer nerd, and I swear someday I'll be a writer if I can just get past Chapter Four! and I owe quite a lot of who I am to that dialogue in that scene and what came out of it. My life kind of blew up and fell apart all at once when my mother got very ill in mid-to-late 2007. I eventually had to move out, we couldn't deal with each other any more. I'm neither proud nor ashamed to admit -- after all, such things just kind of are in some folks' lives -- there's a lot of damage there. I have a few friends, furries as well, all of them -- we kind of support each other through our own various issues. I never knew your name, even though I have the DVD box set. I'm going to do my best to remember it -- forgive me, please, if I forget, I have ADD memory issues, amongst many others. I'd love to meet you someday, shake your hand, show you some of the art and writing I've done -- art and writing that happened because of the show you were a part of. Thank you, sir.
I loved this cartoon so much as a kid and you clearly really went for it with this performance so thank you for making my childhood a bit better than it might have been.
I remember this show! My big brother was in the navy, and whenever he was on leave, he'd come home and show me and our sister books, games, and shows he'd seen on the boat. We watched this the same day we watched Japanese Spider-man. He told us that pizza cats is what happens when you let studios drink at Christmas parties. Good times.
This show was also quite popular here in Germany…I absolutely loved it. The German dub was just as good as the English one, with so much improvisation, tons of innuendo and intelligent & satirical stuff thrown in.
to this day the opening theme is my ringtone. This was one of the first non-Looney Tunes cartoons I was exposed to that was more about cramming in jokes than cramming in toy sales and I hold it and you all responsible for my first steps into developing my sense of humor. Thank you and everyone else who was involved with this gem!
All i dream of seeing any more for anime to pick back up: "ladies, gentlemen, and new genders we don't know, it's been over 20 years... and now... WE CAN START THE SHOW.... WHAT? we still haven't found the script!" "It's ok announcer! We'll take it from here!" "Whenever danger is near," "don't you fear," "cause at last after 20 years..." "THE PIZZA CATS ARE HERE!"
Does anyone have a Charleston, South Carolina TV-Guide from the late 1990’s (1997) that mentions “Samurai Pizza Cats”? I want to see proof that they aired in my state (if they did or so). It used to came on WTAT Fox 24 from 1996 to 1997.
imagine if one day i pursued baseball and entered to this combined with the siren that sound when they launch is the perfect combination for an entrance like how oscar gonzalez uses the spongebob theme song (look that up)
I didn't grow up with this show, but I saw a bunch of the episodes on UA-cam about ten-ish years ago in my first year of college and became obsessed ❤ Thank you for uploading this! Also it's awesome to see you're into drag! I guess it makes sense! I realized I was a trans woman a couple of years ago but when I first discovered Samurai Pizza Cats I was still so in denial/oblivious that I didn't connect the dots that Big Cheese was supposed to sound like a drag queen. Here's to expressing yourself and having fun!
I still don't understand why they turned Ko'on into a rat in the dub, even with the script lost and everything. He still looks overwhelmingly like a fox and nothing like a rat.
I will never get why Big Cheese was translated as a Rat in the german version of this show. He clearly is a fox! Maybe the took "the BIG Cheese" a bit to literal
Let’s be real, your preformance as Big Cheese carried the show.
Agree 🤣🤣🤣🤣
... Amazing how a character of that nature was done so well in the 80's - 90's. These days its not fun just preachy, then again is is 100% anime goodness ^^.
San Diego ... In the late 90s it was on for a year then this show like disappeared.... I loved this show.
It was likely not very popular then.
I remember watching it every time I came home from middle school in the mid 90s. Don't remember if it was on KUSI or KTTY but it was def one of my favorite 90s cartoons. The theme song brings back a lot of memories of the good ol days.
"Read all the credits so you know who did the work!" That still makes me laugh decades later.
Discovered this show back when I was in 8th grade (several years ago) on UA-cam, and the theme song got me hooked! It's so delightfully wacky!
I watched the show in the late 80's and early 90's when it was on YTV :P
Omg same
First saw this show on channel 11 in New York back in 1996. Thanks for the crazy memories, Mike!
it sounded like he said will somebody please kill that bird. but in reality the guy at the beginning said will somebody please cue that bird
All this time I thought it was kill
@@andrewhamlin5262 So did I
Omg I've always taught it was kill. 😂😂😂 Cue makes more sense for a kids show
@@andrewhamlin5262 Me too!
He'll always be saying "kill" in our hearts.
Man, over here in the Netherlands this show was the voice of my childhood, even just hearing the intro brings me back some nostalgia
I can still sing along after all these years
@@samurijder9550 same
I’m downright amazed the English dub aired first in the UK and Canada before it ever aired in America
someone straight up had their priorities sorted on that one: YTV was the *one*
Wasn't this dub produced in Canada or something
@@JulianR2JG Yes, it was. But the North American distribution was by Saban, which is an American company.
Since last month this song has been stuck in my head. That's how you make a perfect intro theme
I always wondered what the deal was with seeing "Googie Gomez" in the credits.
Thanks for voicing my favorite villain the BIG Cheese
Do you remember the dialogue at the end of the two-parter where the Cats get the Supreme Catatonic robot? The bit about how it came from "a civilization so advanced, it blew itself out of existence"...?
_I_ remember that line. It was 1998, and I was twelve. My brain began to spin and whir... "Civilizations don't just... blow themselves away, because of how advanced their tech is!" I thought. "Wait -- I wonder what a civilization like that would... be like?" I started exploring, and creating a character -- and a race -- around that... lore happened, although I didn't know that word yet. It wouldn't be till sometime in high school, somewhere between 2001 and 2003, when I'd discover that there were others who, like me, were deeply interested in races and even whole universes of animal people... and it wasn't until after I'd left college that I really got involved in the Furry Fandom.
I'm 37 now, I'll be 38 this June. I'm disabled -- always have been -- but I'm also an artist, a computer nerd, and I swear someday I'll be a writer if I can just get past Chapter Four! and I owe quite a lot of who I am to that dialogue in that scene and what came out of it. My life kind of blew up and fell apart all at once when my mother got very ill in mid-to-late 2007. I eventually had to move out, we couldn't deal with each other any more. I'm neither proud nor ashamed to admit -- after all, such things just kind of are in some folks' lives -- there's a lot of damage there. I have a few friends, furries as well, all of them -- we kind of support each other through our own various issues.
I never knew your name, even though I have the DVD box set. I'm going to do my best to remember it -- forgive me, please, if I forget, I have ADD memory issues, amongst many others. I'd love to meet you someday, shake your hand, show you some of the art and writing I've done -- art and writing that happened because of the show you were a part of.
Thank you, sir.
YTV memories!
I wonder if one of the vocalists UNCREDITED is Cindy Wilson of The B-52s
my favorite childhood tv show bar none! you're voice acting was a huge part of that, I thank you 🙏
I loved this cartoon so much as a kid and you clearly really went for it with this performance so thank you for making my childhood a bit better than it might have been.
One of the best anime intro tracks ever!
Big Cheese was a delight! I hope you had as much fun voicing him as it was for us to listen to him! You and the writers killed it with this show!
You made my childhood!
This is EVERYTHING.
This show is a CORE MEMORY! Thanks for your awesome voice work here.
2:31 Spiritual Advisor Hogan, The Wonder Cat.
I remember this show! My big brother was in the navy, and whenever he was on leave, he'd come home and show me and our sister books, games, and shows he'd seen on the boat. We watched this the same day we watched Japanese Spider-man. He told us that pizza cats is what happens when you let studios drink at Christmas parties. Good times.
2:30 “No animal was hurt or mistreated during the making of the cartoon”
😂 I just noticed that!
One of the most iconic characters that even to this day I still bring up!
I even try to do my own voice for Big Cheese, thank you Michael!
If the description is accurate, that is friggin amazing. Bravo.
I always assumed this was written after a night of B-52s. That poke at the ninja turtles too!.
Such an amazing theme.
But really, i think this is like they ask for Paul Lynde and you gave them Fred Schneider.
This show was also quite popular here in Germany…I absolutely loved it.
The German dub was just as good as the English one, with so much improvisation, tons of innuendo and intelligent & satirical stuff thrown in.
to this day the opening theme is my ringtone. This was one of the first non-Looney Tunes cartoons I was exposed to that was more about cramming in jokes than cramming in toy sales and I hold it and you all responsible for my first steps into developing my sense of humor. Thank you and everyone else who was involved with this gem!
I recall watching this in 1996. Good shit.
I really liked this show
0:26 She's so cute 😭💖
The guy singing sounds like escargoon
I keep hearing Squidward lol
I mean the talking vocals@@kvg198x6
You were Big Cheese?! That's awesome!!
All i dream of seeing any more for anime to pick back up: "ladies, gentlemen, and new genders we don't know, it's been over 20 years... and now... WE CAN START THE SHOW.... WHAT? we still haven't found the script!" "It's ok announcer! We'll take it from here!" "Whenever danger is near," "don't you fear," "cause at last after 20 years..." "THE PIZZA CATS ARE HERE!"
Ugh I can hear it in the announcers voice! lmao
that would be to great!
Altough many people might take it the wrong way..
Todays audience is a bit..soft
I remember watching this on Sunday afternoons on UPN57.
"once somebody finds the script, we can start the show"
Hilarious reference to the fact that Saban was not sent any of the scripts by accident
Lol after all these long years I notice that the first notes of the theme are a reference to chinese stereotype music and not japanese lmao.
Sing along!!!
Does anyone have a Charleston, South Carolina TV-Guide from the late 1990’s (1997) that mentions “Samurai Pizza Cats”? I want to see proof that they aired in my state (if they did or so). It used to came on WTAT Fox 24 from 1996 to 1997.
Aww bless them ❤❤
My son just started watching this and asked me ..dad who sings this song.. ummmmm THE SPECIALS. AHAHHAHAHA
You were the voice of Big Cheese? Cuz last time I checked, it was Dean Hagopian
Only in the theme song, not in the show.
@@David_Downs That probably explains a lot.
I was in grade 1 when this show was released in North America. Just as messed up as I remember hahahahaha
90's anime was peak. we will never get fun dubs and awesome fun anime like this again.
Only realized after watching this as an adult, that Big Cheese was in fact a fox, not a rat.
Very catchy
imagine if one day i pursued baseball and entered to this combined with the siren that sound when they launch is the perfect combination for an entrance like how oscar gonzalez uses the spongebob theme song (look that up)
That fan club oath still gets me.
I only ever got to see this show once before my horrified parents banned it. The theme just stuck in my mind forever.
Saban....
Sweet days
10/10
If Pokemon ever had a crossover with this, Meowth of Team Rocket would be friends with the pizza cars
I didn't grow up with this show, but I saw a bunch of the episodes on UA-cam about ten-ish years ago in my first year of college and became obsessed ❤ Thank you for uploading this!
Also it's awesome to see you're into drag! I guess it makes sense! I realized I was a trans woman a couple of years ago but when I first discovered Samurai Pizza Cats I was still so in denial/oblivious that I didn't connect the dots that Big Cheese was supposed to sound like a drag queen. Here's to expressing yourself and having fun!
I'm watching this with my children. They love dads old shows 😅😂
Is it me, or does the lead signer sound similar to Escargoon from "Kirby, Right Back at Ya?"
Surveillance Donair Sloths!
I still don't understand why they turned Ko'on into a rat in the dub, even with the script lost and everything. He still looks overwhelmingly like a fox and nothing like a rat.
agreed. the ppl who dubbed this show probably dont even know what a kitsune is
I vow to cast you as the Big Cheese and/or the Big Cheese's dad if I ever get the funding for a remake.
* Takes out sword * *screams*
This guy's a lot like me. Or at least a lot like my Interpretation of any fighting style.
I will never get why Big Cheese was translated as a Rat in the german version of this show.
He clearly is a fox! Maybe the took "the BIG Cheese" a bit to literal
Better than sailor moon
What's he saying at the start.? Will someone kill that boy/bird.?
Will somebody please cue that bird
Kind sir,
Would you happen to know why they changed your character from a fox in the Japanese version to a rat in the North American version?
Because the localization team didn't have the many original scripts. And they apparently didn't know what a Kitsune is
idk that’s why I prefer watching the sub.
he literally looks nothing like a rat
Ah yes, good ol' Saban Entertainment/International, the people who change entire soundtracks for their anime dubs.
Besides the Power Rangers, X-Men and VR Troopers, they're Experts in Anime.
This theme song has much more character than the original imo