My favorite on the list is bucky ohare. Ive watched bond, and hammer. The rest i wasn't interested in or was never shown in canada. Id love to get my hands on a digital copy of bucky comics. Same with original tmnt.
@@TheReviewStudiosi dont know if it early 90s, or late 80s. Visionaries was sadly cut short, as well as king arthur and the knights of justice. Though there is an nes game for arthur which sees to the end.
@@TheReviewStudios if ever there was a 90s cartoon that was awesome but cancelled before its prime, it was that show. The premise of the show was that an exiled prince sailed with his crew in search of curing their world of the "dark water" an oily and dangerous substance covering their planet's seas. Alongside him was the exotically beautiful Tula, who was like a more beautiful version of Princess Jasmine, the antiheroic Ioz who would be like an older version of Jason Momoa, and their mischevious Monkey-bird Niddler. There were not many episodes made, which is a shame, because it has such great potential.
I loooooved Bucky O'Hare. The theme song rocked and always pumped me up as a little kid. I think I got the first episode on vhs through the scholastic book order. Always longed for more episodes.
Same. That show really captured my imagination like few did back then. Bought the great but hard as nails NES game and at least one of the figures with my birthday money. Didn't know the show's run was so short until a few years ago though. Still feels bad.
I was devastated in second grade when another kid showed up to school for Halloween wearing the EXACT SAME Bucky O'Hare costume that I was going to wear!
Bucky was kinda a cult classic, had a good Konami arcade game too. It's cancellation sadly also lead to the cancellation of Stan Sakai's pitch for a "Space Usagi Yojimbo" series.
I remember watching Pro Stars, Bucky O'Haire, Wish Kid, James Bond Jr., and Yo Yogi. They were really good shows to watch as a kid, and it was a nice thing of nostalgia to get to watch this.
I swear, Yo Yogi saying "to outsmart a picanic table" has old me in stitches. It's really great to see adults trying to relate to kids. Very funny and eye-opening...
I love Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons. In 1995 I remember watching Ghost Busters, Mutant League, Street Sharks and the Hurricanes. I can talk for days of the amount of cartoons I used to watch.
I remember James Bond Jr and Wish Kid. I really liked James Bond Jr. I can't beleive it was only one season, but with 65 episodes I guess it makes sense. I'd sit down and watch it again now 20+ years later. I remember watching Wish Kid, but have no real memory of it. I guess with only 13 episodes its easy to forget.
5-year-old me watched all of these and distinctly remembers really enjoying most of them -- Bucky O'Hare in particular was an all-time favorite. Even the ones like Pro Stars and Hammerman that I *didn't* care for all that much still managed to keep my attention on a weekend where there was nothing to do but watch cartoons.
Bucky O'Hare used to SLAP! Konami even made an arcade game about it . I also watched JBJ. What's crazy is that MC Hammer is still around till this day. Appearing in couple a Super Bowl commercials like Nationwide and Cash For Gold. Not to mention, sitting front row at Golden State Warriors games.
Its bizarre to me that James bond Jr, which was barely talked about, got over 60 episodes, but Bucky o'Hare got only 13, everyone was going crazy for Bucky o'Hare, games, McDonalds toys, merchandise, but the series was just insanely short.
You have no idea how frustrating it was as a kid to have invested time into the Silver Surfer, watched the epic cliffhanger on the first season and then wait weeks and weeks for it to come back on, only to realize that it was never going to happen. This was the same frustration many people felt for a long time waiting for what seemed like an eternity, to get more episodes of Dragonball Z.
if that's the show i 'm thinking of the animation was offputting there is a gray area between real and not real but almost real looking. I forget the name of the condition but when something looks not quit human but almost human just a little off it is disturbing at a primal gut instinct level
Holy Crap, Wish Kid, Space Cats, and Hammerman ... You just shot the corner of my brain with some kind of nostalgia shot, especially with the Wish Kid theme music.
I remember James Bond Jr. Looking back on it now, it had the right formula in a lot of aspects. I think making him the nephew instead of a son made sense, you sorta forget how much of a womanizer Bond was. I liked that they kept a number of the same villains, but made them unique for the show. There were also subtle hints to things in the movie too, like the inclusion of an Aston Martin. Though, for me at least, I think it was just boring. It was literally just "Saved By The Bell" with a Bond character. I feel like if they nixed the whole prep school thing, it would have been better. Then again, growing up in the 90's, I absolutely HATED the "let's make a baby version of popular characters and make an entire show of it" trope. I didn't want a young Yogi Bear or Scooby Doo, I wanted Yogi Bear and Scooby Doo.
I'd rather accept A Pup Named Scooby-Doo as the prequel to other Scooby-Doo cartoons than Velma. No thanks to hate watching, Velma is getting another season and we'll get four seasons or more of that shluck if the hate watching keeps up.
Loved and remembered ProStars. I forgot about Wish Kid. After watching your video, I can't believe how formulaic these Dic cartoons were. Same idea just slap a different celebrity(ies) as the face of the cartoon and have them appear at the end and you got your self a one season wonder.
Man, what memories! I was born in 1985, so there are a lot of cartoons listed that I remember. As much as I got sucked into the TMNT craze, I did enjoy Bucky O' Hare for as long as it was on. I also got hooked on Gargoyles, like most did, or Biker Mice from Mars. I actually was pretty surprised to see you had the Waldo cartoon as well. That was pretty short lived. Same with the Mario show. I had to try so hard to get up in time for Mario, and would be so happy if they did the Zelda episodes in conjunction those days!!! Also: I saw the clip of Fido Dido! For the longest time, in Ontario Canada, he was a highly regarded mascot for "Sprite" brand pop, and used for filler commercial animations. Remember his doggy? Lol. Great video! Thank you for reminding me that I had happy and fun memories growing up. ❤
I think the thing you have to remember with the MC Hammer cartoon, you have to appreciate the 24 month rocket ship to stardom that was his career. It was almost entirely based on one hit, but “you can’t touch this” was SO ubiquitous and he was a cultural phenomenon to himself, being the first rap artist to have a hit go to #1. It didn’t last long, but there was a brief period where he was at the Michael Jackson/Madonna level of stardom, almost entirely on charisma. The backlash to his constant commercialization and ubiquity started about right at the time the cartoon went out, but it wasn’t the worst idea for a show in 1991 (I think it replaced a New Kids on the Block cartoon from the year prior)
"U Can't Touch This" was a top ten hit, but didn't go to number one. The first rap single to hit number one was "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. Thankfully, no one made a cartoon about that guy.
This is a really interesting topic and really interesting concept for a series. You should definitely follow this up with more failed cartoons from 1991 and a top 10 of 1992/1993, etc.
The Bucky Ohare cartoon was cancelled because of a strange production error that resulted in hundreds of Toad Air Marshall figures being made but very few of tye good guy characters who are all now rare collectors items.
Another thing to note about Yo Yogi! being cancelled was during it's airing, Hanna-Barbera was bought out by Ted Turner, besides the DIC stuff that was heavily reliant upon licensed works, most of NBC's live action content they began to rely on was done in-house, as well, the T-NBC block.
Yup, I remember all of these. (The TV bumpers too) To this day I still remember some of the theme songs. Very much products of their time, but still memorable to those of us who grew up watching them.
@@TheReviewStudios I'm glad you did, that really adds to the nostalgia factor and also adds that much more experience for those who were born years later. Thanks much for uploading this!
Thank you so much for bringing these cartoons to light, I loved James Bond Jr, Pro Stars, Where’s Waldo, Wish Kid, and Bucky O’Hare as a kid and a lot of people don’t remember them if I bring them up. Also had no idea most of them only ran 13 episodes! Subscribed! -Cast
I did watch james bond jr. Really dug the theme song. Pro stars and wish kid ring a bell. I probably watched them if nothing else was on. Bucky O'Hare was cool and got made into a great Nintendo game
I actually loved James Bond Jr. I will still randomly sing that theme song. I liked Bucky O Hare too. Mainly for the theme song. I don’t remember Little Shop. Pro Stars was the best. And I loved Hammer Man.
Totally forgot about Pro Stars!! 😂 I was a huge MJ fan at that age, well still! Lol Thank you for the trip down memory lane! Longest I’ve smiled in awhile buddy. Good job 👍
There's a bunch of these I remember airing on Dutch TV, which I never see anyone else talk about, and kinda figured no one else remembered; particularly Space Cats and Little Shop. I do remember enjoying those, as well as Bucky O'Hare and Little Dracula. Heck, I even kinda liked Yo! Yogi, and had a VHS tape with two episodes back in the day.
I loved Little Dracula. But i was just a kid who didn't understand how television networks actually work and the concept of cancellation was not familiar to me. After these five episodes I was still waiting each week for a new one but it never happened. At least my dad had recorded one of them on VHS and was rewatching it again and again until the cassette was chewed up.
I LOVED Hammerman as a kid. The shows style was fantastic and i loved the that you saw the man himself too at the end of every episode. The talking shoes were a pretty sweet idea too so the whole thing really worked as a Cartoonshow. Definitely the kind of creative ideas that we really lost in the past 20 years.
I remember watching the Space Cats on channel 4 back in the 90s when I was a kid and enjoyed watching , I really wished the series is finally released onto DVD at last because it deserved maybe SDBD (Blu-Ray) could make it happen since they already released the whole Earthworm Jim and Street Sharks onto a complete SDBD (Blu-Ray) .
I was a teenager in the 90s, all of these cartoons were dubbed into Turkish. At that time, I didn't even know that most of these cartoons were American productions, every Saturday and Sunday, all the cartoons were played from morning to night , these were the best times in our lives, the years when we were happy with the little things,
Not only do I remember these, but I had some toys for most as well! For a part two, some ideas: Rude Dawg, ExoSquad, Battletech, and Life with Louie? ;)
I remember watching Where's Waldo back in the day. I mainly remember there was a narrator on the show that sounded like Robin Leech from Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. Each episode he would refer to the viewers as "Waldo Watchers" as he tells us about Waldo's latest adventure.
While cleaning out my parent’s garage, I came across a box filled with paper and school work from when I was around 6 years old. Apparently, I was big into Space Cats, “writing” and entire “book” about how the the team went to Mars. I don’t remember any aspect of the show whatsoever.
ProStars had a trading card series that from what I remember came out after the show was canceled. I remember seeing it like "OH THAT LOOKS NEAT" and then finding out the show was already gone.
There's a big difference between a bad cartoon and a failed cartoon. A bad cartoon is the result of a lack of care, creativity, merit, or built as a cash grab. A failed cartoon fails out due to all sorts of circumstances that lead to cancelation. Not always being necessarily bad. And could even have been good enough to be remembered by die-hard fans.
this sounds like the difference between a great cartoon and an under rated cartoon....not much of a difference at all. Most failed cartoons are bad. But not all bad cartoons are failed cartoons. But these were all terrible cartoons. even the one I liked as a kid, James Bond Jr.
@ravinraven6913, both James Bond Jr. and Bucky O’Hare had the most potential. One thing that was missed was Bucky O’Hare had a fairly successful arcade game during this time.
I remember all of these. Some of them fondly. But as to the ridiculousness of MC Hammer s cartoon, it wasn't any worse than the cartoon for New Kids On The Block... which was pretty horrible.
I watched the New Kids Cartoon. I knew they were super popular at the time but I didn't know any of their music. For a while it seemed like everyone having a moment in the early 90's got a cartoon. Do you remember the Kid N' Play cartoon? It was kind of ridiculous that they got a show since their movies were rated R. Maybe as a result or by coincidence, my 7 year old self was desperate to see House Party and House Party 2.
@@TheMetrored Same, actually. Then I watched them, and thought the cartoon was stupid. Millie Vanilly also had one, Karate kid, John Candy, Swamp Thing, everyone got a cartoon for sure.
Being born in 81’, I remember all of these!!! It’s crazy that I thought that all of these lasted longer than they actually did. Still, there were some underrated classics on this list!
You have to remember cartoons around this time, were more interested in selling toys. And using cartoons to be nothing more then a 30 minute commercial for kids.
One of the reasons why “Pro Stars” failed (In addition to the failure of the kids block of programming), was the enormous cost, resulting from having to pay Nike for the use of their licensed athletes, and the “Bo Knows” tag lines.
I was almost convinced Little Shop was a fever dream I gaslit myself into believing was a cartoon. That was a wild time for cartoons. I remember watching a few of these, overall, but they were almost all reasonably forgettable.
Capitol Critters (granted it debuted in January 1992) only lasted 7 episodes (out of 13 created) on ABC. The remaining six were eventually aired on Cartoon Network (3 in 1995 and the last 3 in 1996)
I've more heard of these cartoons than actually watched them, I was only 2 in '91 after all. However I've gone back and watched Bucky O' Hare which is *awesome*, Wish Kid had a catchy theme tune and Yo Yogi is bad but it's also bad in fun ways. Space Cats was unknown to me, it looks like it might have been animated by more than one studio. Little Shop is completely new to me despite liking the musical a lot. I like it's art style!
OMG That claymation cowboy had my nostalgia feels in overdrive!!! My brother and I used to run around singing that all the time!!! Lmao! Had to bring it back eh!? I love it!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I probably only saw James Bond Jr once when I was like 5, but the catchphrase "bond....James bond....jr." has stuck in my head for ever. First thing I think of when I think James Bond.
I remember liking James Bond Jr. and Bucky O'Hare as a kid, and I was very much disappointed when the latter ended so early. Among the others, I have a vague recollection of Yo Yogi (teen 90s revamp of older popular characters were quite common back then) and of the Little Dracula toys, although I'm not sure I had ever watched an episode of it. No clue whether the others were even broadcast at all in my country.
They all have one thing in common: low retail sales. All the cartoons that have high toy retail sales lasted. Some were made into comic books, Legos, action figures, movies etc. It may be different for streaming.
I was unaware of Space Cats or Little Dracula. I was an avid watcher of Yo Yogi (and had the glasses at the ready for when he spun his hat). I think I watched Wish Kid (vague memories that it had a bully named Francis? or might be thinking of another show). The others I wouldn't go out of my way to watch, and most would induce channel-flipping. As a side note, I'm not sure I would consider a full 65 episode run as failed, that's the magic number to put it in syndication as reruns.
BUCKY! Captain bucky O’Hare! Used to get that song stuck in my head when ever I heard it Loved that show so much but Could never watch it cause it was so obscure and hard to find
Nah you trippin… Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Duck Tales, Ninja Turtles, Mighty Max, Batman, Spider-Man, I can keep going shit even Bonkers was better but I respect the nostalgia and his hustle
I wanna joke about MC Hammer the cartoon , but MC Hammer is a scary man in real life , his got hits on any Rapper who decided too insult his goofiness , his like mafia Don in the west cost . A few Rappers can't go too Cali because of him .
I grew up in Brazil in the 90's and only a few of the cartoons popular in the USA would be brought over here, since cable TV was still not broadly available until the 00's. If you were a kid you would have to depend on kids show in the morning and afternoon in just a couple of TV channels to watch your cartoons. For that reason, not all of these one season wonders got to be aired here at the time. Out of all the cartoons in this video I believe only James Bond Jr and the Macaulay Culkin show got to be shown on Brazilian TV.
I remember just about all of these cartoons. Sadly, I also remember that Roseanne Barr had a Saturday Morning cartoon show. It was just as terrible as "Hammerman".
Born in December of 1986 and I remember none of these. But I also had just turned 4 in 1991. I’m sure I watched them. I do remember Doug, rugrats, Ren n Stimpy. X men and Spider-Man were my jam though. The Batman cartoon. Great shows that still hold up today.
Another highly underrated show was Mighty Max, about the kid with the magical baseball cap who traveled to different times and places with his "chicken" guardian Virgil, who would always say "Fowl, actually." And Max's Viking warrior bodyguard, Norman. Fighting against the evil Skullmaster.
It’s a testament to the creative work of the artists who put together the theme music for these shows. So many of them are memorable, while most of the shows only lasted 13 episodes. I’m looking at you James Bond, Jr., Bucky O’Hare, Wish Kid and Hammer Man. The themes stuck in my head 30 years later, I would have sworn the shows lasted longer.
Totally remember James Bond Jr., Bucky O'Hare, Pro Stars, and Wish Kid. That Hammerman show looks pretty awesome. I think I was mostly stuck on Captain N and Super Mario World during those years.
My favorite part about this whole video was the cowboy singing, "after these messages will be right back" and then the horse falls on him. That instantly took me back to my childhood and I vividly remember sitting on my bed looking up at my TV and seeing this. Nostalgia can be such an incredible feeling.
man these vids are bringing back some memories. i remember most of these cartoons. back when fox was just starting some of the line up was standard but some of the shows i only saw advertisements for and in my state some stations got different cartoons for some reason. and the time it would come on was random. i remember having to get up earlier than normal for school one time and seeing toxic avenger and battle toads at like 6 in the morning. i tried to get up and watch it again and i never got to see them again. one cartoon i cannot remember the name of to save my life was one where there was a group of oddball characters but one guy had a head and his helmet was kind of shaped like a bullet or missle and his head would come off and go flying around and knock over some enemies and then come back on his body. an old elemtary school friend drew a picture of them that i used to have. they were kind of like a knock off xmen or similar type of a team. i rember that bullet head guy and there was a girl and several others but that was one cartoon i only saw maybe 2 episodes of and i cant even remember if it was on fox, usa or cbs and i cant remember if it watched it on saturday before school or after.
There was definitely Bucky O'Hare toys - i have him on my shelf! Its a great toy, he still has his gun too ❤ I also have Little Dracula but always thought he was a Ghostbusters enemy 😂
I actually still have a few James Bond Jr. episodes on VHS tapes recorded. I really liked the cartoon as a child. I'm very surprised it's considered as a failed one.
You know what? You're actually right about James Bond Jr. So far, there has never been another show just like it in the past 33 years, and by the looks of it, there will never be another show like it. James Bond Jr. is the one and only TV show based on the James Bond Movie franchise. It's too bad that this show is very much forgotten.
i find it humorous that for the little shop of horrors they didn't just name it Audrey 2, but either way good video. the one season cartoon i remember the most from the 90s is wayne head.
I grew up with those cartoons but it’s so sad those shows got immediately cancelled by low ratings. However, cult following just making us rewatching them even drawing them to represent our nostalgia. Great vid.
4:00 Bucky O Hare also had an NES game. It was by Konami, pure quality, and criminally underrated just like the show. I'm sad I no longer own a copy of that game.
I watched Where is Waldo and also in french "Où est Charlie". Bucky O'Hare was good! I have one in mind that you might miss: Spaceship Sagittarius. I watched it in french "Les aventuriers de l'espace" but it might not been popular in the US.
Loved Bucky O Hare. I had a bunch of the toy figures because I found them on sale about a year after they came out they had been put on clearance at a local department store called Roses
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Do you remember any of these?
Good list! There are quite a few I don't recognise.
@@espurious thanks for watching
My favorite on the list is bucky ohare. Ive watched bond, and hammer. The rest i wasn't interested in or was never shown in canada. Id love to get my hands on a digital copy of bucky comics. Same with original tmnt.
@@TheReviewStudiosi dont know if it early 90s, or late 80s. Visionaries was sadly cut short, as well as king arthur and the knights of justice. Though there is an nes game for arthur which sees to the end.
I do
Does anyone remember a 90’s cartoon called the Pirates of Darkwater?
Can't say I do
Great catroon
HOLY 💩 YESSSSS!!! 😂😂😂
Yo ho!!!🏴☠️
@@TheReviewStudios if ever there was a 90s cartoon that was awesome but cancelled before its prime, it was that show. The premise of the show was that an exiled prince sailed with his crew in search of curing their world of the "dark water" an oily and dangerous substance covering their planet's seas. Alongside him was the exotically beautiful Tula, who was like a more beautiful version of Princess Jasmine, the antiheroic Ioz who would be like an older version of Jason Momoa, and their mischevious Monkey-bird Niddler. There were not many episodes made, which is a shame, because it has such great potential.
I loooooved Bucky O'Hare. The theme song rocked and always pumped me up as a little kid. I think I got the first episode on vhs through the scholastic book order. Always longed for more episodes.
And if you own a copy of the NES video game lucky you that game is expensive as hell
I wouldn't have thought Bucky O'Hare was considered a failure, I mean they had a Arcade game
Same. That show really captured my imagination like few did back then. Bought the great but hard as nails NES game and at least one of the figures with my birthday money. Didn't know the show's run was so short until a few years ago though. Still feels bad.
I loved Bucky O’Hare. It was great fun. I wish they had been more.
Agreed. I've been trying to find the comics the show was based on.
@@DarkLiger It seems basically the same, except the comics are drawn with much higher detail! and have more grown up jokes? as with Ninja Turtles.
I was devastated in second grade when another kid showed up to school for Halloween wearing the EXACT SAME Bucky O'Hare costume that I was going to wear!
Bucky O'Hare had a cool arcade game back in the day.
Bucky was kinda a cult classic, had a good Konami arcade game too. It's cancellation sadly also lead to the cancellation of Stan Sakai's pitch for a "Space Usagi Yojimbo" series.
I remember all of these. Reminds me of a show called Bots Master. I loved that show as a kid, but it got cancelled after one season, as well.
That 3D glasses trend was definitely a Bots Master feature. Found the SZN on here!
That was an amazing show
I miss Saturday morning cartoons
Don't we all.
So do I. I miss the innocence and simplicity of childhood in general....😭😭😭
They were nice when the stations actually did new episodes every day instead of once a week or once a month
Saturday morning cartoons, before school cartoons and after school cartoons. Now kids broadcast television has to be education.
The sheer variety of the shows is mind blowing, especially compared to the absolute desert of creativity we have today.
I remember watching Pro Stars, Bucky O'Haire, Wish Kid, James Bond Jr., and Yo Yogi. They were really good shows to watch as a kid, and it was a nice thing of nostalgia to get to watch this.
Definitely, thanks for watching.
I swear, Yo Yogi saying "to outsmart a picanic table" has old me in stitches. It's really great to see adults trying to relate to kids. Very funny and eye-opening...
I remembered watching Hammerman back in the 90's when I was a kid and love it. I only wished the series is finally released into complete DVD at last.
Me too! I never saw the hammerman cartoon and I thought I dreamed it but it existed back then. I wish I could find all the episodes of hammerman.
I had the Hammerman Action Figure and lunch box. I definitely miss it.
I mostly remember that that show killed MC Hammer's career as a rapper.
@@Macrochenia I thought that pumps and a bump music video and the fact that hammer tried to be gangster, killed his career.
@@marccaselle8108 It all contributed. Agreeing to do such a low quality show gave him a bad reputation as a sellout.
I love Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons. In 1995 I remember watching Ghost Busters, Mutant League, Street Sharks and the Hurricanes. I can talk for days of the amount of cartoons I used to watch.
Ghost Busters was re runs by 95 the series ended in 92.
It’s really not fair how all the good shows end up getting cancelled while the garbage ends up running forever.
That's because most people are vapid plebs with horrible taste in art. If it's not like the farting butt movie in Idiocracy, it's not good to them.
Agreed
Like sponge bob
Hammerman was garbage though.
@@ExtremeWreckAww c'mon it wasn't that bad.......Yeah ok maybe it was bad but hammer was legit lol.
I remember James Bond Jr and Wish Kid. I really liked James Bond Jr. I can't beleive it was only one season, but with 65 episodes I guess it makes sense. I'd sit down and watch it again now 20+ years later. I remember watching Wish Kid, but have no real memory of it. I guess with only 13 episodes its easy to forget.
33 years later my man. Sometimes I think 1994 was 20 years ago but then I realize I'm old AF now
@@Mark-vs9rk Shhh, it wasn't 33 years. I'm not that old. 😄
"Don't worry, the ProStars are gonna win." Almost the only thing Jordan EVER recorded for that show. I remember noticing that even as a kid.
Nope, Michael Jordan didn’t use his voice, it was actually Dorian Harewood
Jordan was barely seen on ProStars. Bo and Gretzky were on the beginning and ending of the show
5-year-old me watched all of these and distinctly remembers really enjoying most of them -- Bucky O'Hare in particular was an all-time favorite. Even the ones like Pro Stars and Hammerman that I *didn't* care for all that much still managed to keep my attention on a weekend where there was nothing to do but watch cartoons.
Bucky O'Hare used to SLAP! Konami even made an arcade game about it . I also watched JBJ.
What's crazy is that MC Hammer is still around till this day. Appearing in couple a Super Bowl commercials like Nationwide and Cash For Gold. Not to mention, sitting front row at Golden State Warriors games.
Its bizarre to me that James bond Jr, which was barely talked about, got over 60 episodes, but Bucky o'Hare got only 13, everyone was going crazy for Bucky o'Hare, games, McDonalds toys, merchandise, but the series was just insanely short.
You have no idea how frustrating it was as a kid to have invested time into the Silver Surfer, watched the epic cliffhanger on the first season and then wait weeks and weeks for it to come back on, only to realize that it was never going to happen.
This was the same frustration many people felt for a long time waiting for what seemed like an eternity, to get more episodes of Dragonball Z.
Silver surfer was too good. It had a depth and back story that was too deep for its target market
@@tolfan4438 That Spiderman fox 90's animated series cliffhanger too
if that's the show i 'm thinking of the animation was offputting there is a gray area between real and not real but almost real looking. I forget the name of the condition but when something looks not quit human but almost human just a little off it is disturbing at a primal gut instinct level
@@loonytunescrazy what I am happy with in regard to Spider-man is that it was a highly successful show and lasted at least 3 seasons.
@@tolfan4438 uncanny valley
Holy Crap, Wish Kid, Space Cats, and Hammerman ... You just shot the corner of my brain with some kind of nostalgia shot, especially with the Wish Kid theme music.
I remember James Bond Jr. Looking back on it now, it had the right formula in a lot of aspects. I think making him the nephew instead of a son made sense, you sorta forget how much of a womanizer Bond was. I liked that they kept a number of the same villains, but made them unique for the show. There were also subtle hints to things in the movie too, like the inclusion of an Aston Martin. Though, for me at least, I think it was just boring. It was literally just "Saved By The Bell" with a Bond character. I feel like if they nixed the whole prep school thing, it would have been better.
Then again, growing up in the 90's, I absolutely HATED the "let's make a baby version of popular characters and make an entire show of it" trope. I didn't want a young Yogi Bear or Scooby Doo, I wanted Yogi Bear and Scooby Doo.
I'd rather accept A Pup Named Scooby-Doo as the prequel to other Scooby-Doo cartoons than Velma.
No thanks to hate watching, Velma is getting another season and we'll get four seasons or more of that shluck if the hate watching keeps up.
I used to play the game on SNES
That James Bond jr theme song went pretty hard though. I remember I heard it before I ever heard the real James Bond theme.
I really enjoyed that TV show James Bond Jr. too
Then you'll LOVE Muppet Babies then! 🤓
Loved and remembered ProStars. I forgot about Wish Kid. After watching your video, I can't believe how formulaic these Dic cartoons were. Same idea just slap a different celebrity(ies) as the face of the cartoon and have them appear at the end and you got your self a one season wonder.
Man, what memories! I was born in 1985, so there are a lot of cartoons listed that I remember.
As much as I got sucked into the TMNT craze, I did enjoy Bucky O' Hare for as long as it was on. I also got hooked on Gargoyles, like most did, or Biker Mice from Mars.
I actually was pretty surprised to see you had the Waldo cartoon as well. That was pretty short lived. Same with the Mario show. I had to try so hard to get up in time for Mario, and would be so happy if they did the Zelda episodes in conjunction those days!!!
Also: I saw the clip of Fido Dido! For the longest time, in Ontario Canada, he was a highly regarded mascot for "Sprite" brand pop, and used for filler commercial animations. Remember his doggy? Lol.
Great video! Thank you for reminding me that I had happy and fun memories growing up. ❤
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing
I think the thing you have to remember with the MC Hammer cartoon, you have to appreciate the 24 month rocket ship to stardom that was his career. It was almost entirely based on one hit, but “you can’t touch this” was SO ubiquitous and he was a cultural phenomenon to himself, being the first rap artist to have a hit go to #1. It didn’t last long, but there was a brief period where he was at the Michael Jackson/Madonna level of stardom, almost entirely on charisma. The backlash to his constant commercialization and ubiquity started about right at the time the cartoon went out, but it wasn’t the worst idea for a show in 1991 (I think it replaced a New Kids on the Block cartoon from the year prior)
Great points. I have to say I agree.
I feel like Hammer Man was intended to fail.
"U Can't Touch This" was a top ten hit, but didn't go to number one. The first rap single to hit number one was "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. Thankfully, no one made a cartoon about that guy.
I wasn't too fond of The New Kids on the Block cartoon.
Lol. Were any of yous even there? Hammer cartoon was loved.
This is a really interesting topic and really interesting concept for a series. You should definitely follow this up with more failed cartoons from 1991 and a top 10 of 1992/1993, etc.
Thanks, yeah, it's been great lots of fun and positive response. Definitely more coming soon
The Bucky Ohare cartoon was cancelled because of a strange production error that resulted in hundreds of Toad Air Marshall figures being made but very few of tye good guy characters who are all now rare collectors items.
You had to buy the vehicles to get the good guy figures as I recall
@@matthewcaughey8898 lol yup lol.
65 episodes for 1 season? Now this kind of animated series is 6 seasons with 10 episode per season.
Another thing to note about Yo Yogi! being cancelled was during it's airing, Hanna-Barbera was bought out by Ted Turner, besides the DIC stuff that was heavily reliant upon licensed works, most of NBC's live action content they began to rely on was done in-house, as well, the T-NBC block.
Yes, all great points
Then Ted Turner thought he was Captain Planet.
It was basically the beginning of the end 4 Hanna Barbera cartoons
I wish Bucky O'Hare would've lasted. It had the potential to legit compete with the TMNT.
Yup, I remember all of these. (The TV bumpers too) To this day I still remember some of the theme songs. Very much products of their time, but still memorable to those of us who grew up watching them.
I just had to add those bumpers in there for a little more nostalgia.
@@TheReviewStudios I'm glad you did, that really adds to the nostalgia factor and also adds that much more experience for those who were born years later. Thanks much for uploading this!
I'm right there with you.
Thank you so much for bringing these cartoons to light, I loved James Bond Jr, Pro Stars, Where’s Waldo, Wish Kid, and Bucky O’Hare as a kid and a lot of people don’t remember them if I bring them up. Also had no idea most of them only ran 13 episodes! Subscribed!
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I did watch james bond jr. Really dug the theme song. Pro stars and wish kid ring a bell. I probably watched them if nothing else was on. Bucky O'Hare was cool and got made into a great Nintendo game
I actually loved James Bond Jr. I will still randomly sing that theme song.
I liked Bucky O Hare too. Mainly for the theme song.
I don’t remember Little Shop.
Pro Stars was the best. And I loved Hammer Man.
It's crazy I've carried the phrase "Bond James Bond... JR" with me all these years.
Totally forgot about Pro Stars!! 😂 I was a huge MJ fan at that age, well still! Lol Thank you for the trip down memory lane! Longest I’ve smiled in awhile buddy. Good job 👍
That's awesome, thank you
There's a bunch of these I remember airing on Dutch TV, which I never see anyone else talk about, and kinda figured no one else remembered; particularly Space Cats and Little Shop. I do remember enjoying those, as well as Bucky O'Hare and Little Dracula. Heck, I even kinda liked Yo! Yogi, and had a VHS tape with two episodes back in the day.
I loved Little Dracula. But i was just a kid who didn't understand how television networks actually work and the concept of cancellation was not familiar to me. After these five episodes I was still waiting each week for a new one but it never happened.
At least my dad had recorded one of them on VHS and was rewatching it again and again until the cassette was chewed up.
I LOVED Hammerman as a kid. The shows style was fantastic and i loved the that you saw the man himself too at the end of every episode. The talking shoes were a pretty sweet idea too so the whole thing really worked as a Cartoonshow. Definitely the kind of creative ideas that we really lost in the past 20 years.
I remember watching the Space Cats on channel 4 back in the 90s when I was a kid and enjoyed watching , I really wished the series is finally released onto DVD at last because it deserved maybe SDBD (Blu-Ray) could make it happen since they already released the whole Earthworm Jim and Street Sharks onto a complete SDBD (Blu-Ray) .
I forgot street sharks was on DVD
Space cats was great! Great, I’ll say. What can I say? It was great!
I was a teenager in the 90s, all of these cartoons were dubbed into Turkish. At that time, I didn't even know that most of these cartoons were American productions, every Saturday and Sunday, all the cartoons were played from morning to night , these were the best times in our lives, the years when we were happy with the little things,
Interesting thank you.
Not only do I remember these, but I had some toys for most as well! For a part two, some ideas: Rude Dawg, ExoSquad, Battletech, and Life with Louie? ;)
I'd include Mighty Max in that
I remember watching Where's Waldo back in the day. I mainly remember there was a narrator on the show that sounded like Robin Leech from Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. Each episode he would refer to the viewers as "Waldo Watchers" as he tells us about Waldo's latest adventure.
Yes! And Wizard Whitebeard sounded like Rodney Dangerfield
While cleaning out my parent’s garage, I came across a box filled with paper and school work from when I was around 6 years old.
Apparently, I was big into Space Cats, “writing” and entire “book” about how the the team went to Mars.
I don’t remember any aspect of the show whatsoever.
Wow, that's really cool. My parents didn't keep anything 😆. Thanks for sharing
Oh I wanna see that book, it sounds awesome!
That’s hilarious
ProStars had a trading card series that from what I remember came out after the show was canceled. I remember seeing it like "OH THAT LOOKS NEAT" and then finding out the show was already gone.
There's a big difference between a bad cartoon and a failed cartoon. A bad cartoon is the result of a lack of care, creativity, merit, or built as a cash grab.
A failed cartoon fails out due to all sorts of circumstances that lead to cancelation. Not always being necessarily bad. And could even have been good enough to be remembered by die-hard fans.
Definitely
this sounds like the difference between a great cartoon and an under rated cartoon....not much of a difference at all. Most failed cartoons are bad. But not all bad cartoons are failed cartoons. But these were all terrible cartoons. even the one I liked as a kid, James Bond Jr.
@ravinraven6913, both James Bond Jr. and Bucky O’Hare had the most potential. One thing that was missed was Bucky O’Hare had a fairly successful arcade game during this time.
Absolutely.
Cybersix is such an example of a failed but fantastic cartoon
Not me singing along to ALL of the show intros 😂😂 I loved all of these
I remember all of these. Some of them fondly. But as to the ridiculousness of MC Hammer s cartoon, it wasn't any worse than the cartoon for New Kids On The Block... which was pretty horrible.
My cousins and I used to watch New Kids. We were all fans.
I watched the New Kids Cartoon. I knew they were super popular at the time but I didn't know any of their music. For a while it seemed like everyone having a moment in the early 90's got a cartoon. Do you remember the Kid N' Play cartoon? It was kind of ridiculous that they got a show since their movies were rated R. Maybe as a result or by coincidence, my 7 year old self was desperate to see House Party and House Party 2.
@@TheMetrored Same, actually. Then I watched them, and thought the cartoon was stupid. Millie Vanilly also had one, Karate kid, John Candy, Swamp Thing, everyone got a cartoon for sure.
@@khogetzu8429 OMG I forgot about Milli Vanilli lol What a time!
@@khogetzu8429I recall Milli Vanilli showing up in an episode of Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 but never having their own cartoon. 🤔
Being born in 81’, I remember all of these!!! It’s crazy that I thought that all of these lasted longer than they actually did. Still, there were some underrated classics on this list!
Snap I was born 86 and I thought these lasted far longer too in UK we got these around 95/96/97 don't recall these before then
Same
I definitely thought Hammerman and ProStars lasted longer, I remember we had a VCR and I recorded my cartoons
You have to remember cartoons around this time, were more interested in selling toys. And using cartoons to be nothing more then a 30 minute commercial for kids.
One of the reasons why “Pro Stars” failed (In addition to the failure of the kids block of programming), was the enormous cost, resulting from having to pay Nike for the use of their licensed athletes, and the “Bo Knows” tag lines.
I was almost convinced Little Shop was a fever dream I gaslit myself into believing was a cartoon. That was a wild time for cartoons.
I remember watching a few of these, overall, but they were almost all reasonably forgettable.
Capitol Critters (granted it debuted in January 1992) only lasted 7 episodes (out of 13 created) on ABC. The remaining six were eventually aired on Cartoon Network (3 in 1995 and the last 3 in 1996)
I remember Capitol Critters!! Remember Family Dog?
Capitol Critters was hilarious, every cartoon back then had atleast one rat with an Italian mobster voice 😂
I loved Capitol Critters. Was so sad when it disappeared one day.
Little Dracula and Space Cats are the only two of this list I’ve never heard of.
I've more heard of these cartoons than actually watched them, I was only 2 in '91 after all. However I've gone back and watched Bucky O' Hare which is *awesome*, Wish Kid had a catchy theme tune and Yo Yogi is bad but it's also bad in fun ways. Space Cats was unknown to me, it looks like it might have been animated by more than one studio. Little Shop is completely new to me despite liking the musical a lot. I like it's art style!
If Bucky O' Hare had just stuck to the animal war stuff and not focused so heavily on Willy's personal life, it would have been so much better.
This is a great list! 👍 i don't remember a lot of them but they are AWESOME!! 🤣🤣✌️
Funny how the “adult” critics hated Hammerman. Most of us that were children back then LOVED this “kids” cartoon 😂
OMG That claymation cowboy had my nostalgia feels in overdrive!!! My brother and I used to run around singing that all the time!!! Lmao! Had to bring it back eh!? I love it!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Definitely had to have it in there. Now it's stuck in my.
Bucky O'Hare deserved better.
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I probably only saw James Bond Jr once when I was like 5, but the catchphrase "bond....James bond....jr." has stuck in my head for ever. First thing I think of when I think James Bond.
Where's Wally was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid.
7:15 Pro Stars was my go-to as a kid.
I remember liking James Bond Jr. and Bucky O'Hare as a kid, and I was very much disappointed when the latter ended so early.
Among the others, I have a vague recollection of Yo Yogi (teen 90s revamp of older popular characters were quite common back then) and of the Little Dracula toys, although I'm not sure I had ever watched an episode of it.
No clue whether the others were even broadcast at all in my country.
They all have one thing in common: low retail sales. All the cartoons that have high toy retail sales lasted. Some were made into comic books, Legos, action figures, movies etc. It may be different for streaming.
I was unaware of Space Cats or Little Dracula. I was an avid watcher of Yo Yogi (and had the glasses at the ready for when he spun his hat). I think I watched Wish Kid (vague memories that it had a bully named Francis? or might be thinking of another show). The others I wouldn't go out of my way to watch, and most would induce channel-flipping.
As a side note, I'm not sure I would consider a full 65 episode run as failed, that's the magic number to put it in syndication as reruns.
Every time, literally every time I tell someone about James Bond Jr, they ask me "Why his nephew and not his son?"
James Bond Jr. Was my jam back then.
I was still a kid in that time, so I did not know about the original James Bond until I got much older.
BUCKY! Captain bucky O’Hare!
Used to get that song stuck in my head when ever I heard it
Loved that show so much but Could never watch it cause it was so obscure and hard to find
Hammerman was the best thing to happen to 90s cartoons
Hammerman was corny.
Nah you trippin… Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Duck Tales, Ninja Turtles, Mighty Max, Batman, Spider-Man, I can keep going shit even Bonkers was better but I respect the nostalgia and his hustle
@@josephclegg3562 that was the appeal
I wanna joke about MC Hammer the cartoon , but MC Hammer is a scary man in real life , his got hits on any Rapper who decided too insult his goofiness , his like mafia Don in the west cost . A few Rappers can't go too Cali because of him .
I grew up in Brazil in the 90's and only a few of the cartoons popular in the USA would be brought over here, since cable TV was still not broadly available until the 00's. If you were a kid you would have to depend on kids show in the morning and afternoon in just a couple of TV channels to watch your cartoons. For that reason, not all of these one season wonders got to be aired here at the time. Out of all the cartoons in this video I believe only James Bond Jr and the Macaulay Culkin show got to be shown on Brazilian TV.
Oh man, I used to love Bucky O’Hare!
Classic
Me too. I remember liking it and singing the theme song chorus
keep up the good work. miss the 90s but cant live with out my smart phone anymore so would never go back to it.
I remember just about all of these cartoons. Sadly, I also remember that Roseanne Barr had a Saturday Morning cartoon show. It was just as terrible as "Hammerman".
I liked hammer for the moral segment at the end. Reminds of mr rogers neighborhood
Little.@$$ Rosey from 1990!
Yeah, you're right about the show giving the viewers a moral lesson. The only bright spot the show had.
@@Olee1980 its was bad, but in a good way? At lest its not velma, shera reboot, or teen titans go bad
I really like this! If you do this for each 90's year cartoons, I could see this being your rise in subs.
Thanks yeah its been great. we're definitely doing more
Born in December of 1986 and I remember none of these. But I also had just turned 4 in 1991. I’m sure I watched them. I do remember Doug, rugrats, Ren n Stimpy.
X men and Spider-Man were my jam though. The Batman cartoon. Great shows that still hold up today.
Hope you laughed at Weinerville enough.
Another highly underrated show was Mighty Max, about the kid with the magical baseball cap who traveled to different times and places with his "chicken" guardian Virgil, who would always say "Fowl, actually." And Max's Viking warrior bodyguard, Norman. Fighting against the evil Skullmaster.
Ummm... that math not mathing. Wouldn't you be 4 going on 5 in 91?
@@tearle29 no I turned 4 in December of 1990. Jan 1 1991 I was still 4 and some days old.
Thanks for that info. You have a birthday like my sis. Did you have to start school years the following year cuz your age didn't line up?
It’s a testament to the creative work of the artists who put together the theme music for these shows. So many of them are memorable, while most of the shows only lasted 13 episodes. I’m looking at you James Bond, Jr., Bucky O’Hare, Wish Kid and Hammer Man. The themes stuck in my head 30 years later, I would have sworn the shows lasted longer.
I love cartoons
Good for you.
Totally remember James Bond Jr., Bucky O'Hare, Pro Stars, and Wish Kid. That Hammerman show looks pretty awesome. I think I was mostly stuck on Captain N and Super Mario World during those years.
Hammerman 😂
I laughed Heartily as an 8 year at it in 1991. It was Bad.
My favorite part about this whole video was the cowboy singing, "after these messages will be right back" and then the horse falls on him. That instantly took me back to my childhood and I vividly remember sitting on my bed looking up at my TV and seeing this. Nostalgia can be such an incredible feeling.
Agree I absolutely had to add that in. I had trouble picking between that one and the one with the dog and fire hydrant.
I remember thinking the 90s were off to a horrible start with cartoons.
Bucky O'Hare had one of the best theme songs ever.
Yes!
man these vids are bringing back some memories. i remember most of these cartoons. back when fox was just starting some of the line up was standard but some of the shows i only saw advertisements for and in my state some stations got different cartoons for some reason. and the time it would come on was random. i remember having to get up earlier than normal for school one time and seeing toxic avenger and battle toads at like 6 in the morning. i tried to get up and watch it again and i never got to see them again.
one cartoon i cannot remember the name of to save my life was one where there was a group of oddball characters but one guy had a head and his helmet was kind of shaped like a bullet or missle and his head would come off and go flying around and knock over some enemies and then come back on his body. an old elemtary school friend drew a picture of them that i used to have. they were kind of like a knock off xmen or similar type of a team. i rember that bullet head guy and there was a girl and several others but that was one cartoon i only saw maybe 2 episodes of and i cant even remember if it was on fox, usa or cbs and i cant remember if it watched it on saturday before school or after.
I keep telling my nieces that RUGRATS came out when I WAS 10!!! Lol! I’m 42 now! They thought I was LYING!! Lol
Very cool. Now you should do a follow up with failed cartoons of 92 etc. And wow what a blast from the past this was!
In progress... thanks for watching
THE HAPPY HELMET 😂🤣😂🤣 “angry?!?! You’re darn tootin I’m angry!!! I’ve never been so angry in my whole life Stimpy “!!!!!! God I love Ren and stimpy
There was definitely Bucky O'Hare toys - i have him on my shelf! Its a great toy, he still has his gun too ❤
I also have Little Dracula but always thought he was a Ghostbusters enemy 😂
Nice
Unfortunately cartoons will probably never be as good as they were in the 80s and 90s.
Sadly, you are right but there was some good things in the 00s.
I actually still have a few James Bond Jr. episodes on VHS tapes recorded. I really liked the cartoon as a child. I'm very surprised it's considered as a failed one.
You know what? You're actually right about James Bond Jr. So far, there has never been another show just like it in the past 33 years, and by the looks of it, there will never be another show like it. James Bond Jr. is the one and only TV show based on the James Bond Movie franchise. It's too bad that this show is very much forgotten.
Bucky was so fun, I totally forgot about Pro Stars until you mentioned it, I also liked it.
i find it humorous that for the little shop of horrors they didn't just name it Audrey 2, but either way good video. the one season cartoon i remember the most from the 90s is wayne head.
Good news! Waynehead is on our next cartoon video list! Thanks for watching and for commenting too!
I grew up with those cartoons but it’s so sad those shows got immediately cancelled by low ratings. However, cult following just making us rewatching them even drawing them to represent our nostalgia. Great vid.
Just found this channel and it's nuts!
10,000 subs but 250,000+ views! That's insane! Why aren't more people subscribing??
I had a James Bond Jr. lunch box as a kid that I had to beg for, so I must have been the shows few fans.
I remember loving Pro Stars . I also remember Yo Yo Yogi. Those commercial break sequences really bring me back .
Totally remember watching hammerman, pro-stars, wish kids and where’s Waldo. Miss watching Saturday morning cartoons
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Bucky O Hare also had an NES game. It was by Konami, pure quality, and criminally underrated just like the show. I'm sad I no longer own a copy of that game.
Loved Where's Waldo, Bucky O'Hare, and Yo Yogi,
Bucky O'Hare has great character designs. It looks so good.
In what universe isn’t Ren & Stimpy iconic?
Bucky Ohare was highly underrated. I sang that theme song for a year and the show didn’t come back.
I didn't realise Where's Wally had so few episodes, it was great. Also James Bond Jr I remember.
So if James Bond Jr. is James Bonds nephew, then James Bonds brother is also named James Bond and Jr. is his son?
I watched Where is Waldo and also in french "Où est Charlie". Bucky O'Hare was good!
I have one in mind that you might miss: Spaceship Sagittarius. I watched it in french "Les aventuriers de l'espace" but it might not been popular in the US.
Loved Bucky O Hare. I had a bunch of the toy figures because I found them on sale about a year after they came out they had been put on clearance at a local department store called Roses