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The greatest Hanna-Barbera cartoon finally coming out on DVD

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:19 pm



Well ain't that cute... :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:19 pm

Seriously, though, this show was great, although I think the "Secret Squirrel" revival was the best part.

In hindsight, it's amazing just how much talented animation people got their start on this show: Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti, etc. etc.

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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:18 pm

I can barely remember this. It played as filler between longer cartoons when I was a kid. It was good stuff.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:42 pm

Got the DVD and have been watching it.

It's actually pretty good for a MOD set. The show is presented as it originally aired, with opening prologue narrated by Gary Owens on each episode ("Today, 2 Stupid Dogs face the theory of relativity"), as well as including the commercial bumpers

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It was fun seeing the show again. Hoping the Season 2 DVD will come out as well.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:53 pm

I watched the shit out of 2 Stupid Dogs back in the day :granny:
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Re: The greatest Hanna-Barbera cartoon finally coming out on DVD

Post by Madeline (?) » Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:46 pm

I liked the Secret Squirrel reboot that was part of the show :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:51 pm

Madeline wrote:
Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:46 pm
I liked the Secret Squirrel reboot that was part of the show :-I
Same. I think this is one of those cases where the remake was better than the original.

There was a funny story about that from when I interviewed Donovan Cook, the "Dogs" creator:
My best Joe Barbera story...we made updated Secret Squirrel cartoons at the same time we made the first season of Stupid Dogs and I took the first storyboard we had for Secret Squirrel and took it to Joe to show it to him. He was so funny because when I first took it to him to say "Hey Joe, how are you doing? You know, we're doing new versions of your cartoon, Secret Squirrel and I wanted to show you one of the storyboards". Joe said "we didn't make Secret Squirrel!" [laugh] And he literally had a plush toy of Secret Squirrel on his shelf. I took it off the shelf and handed it to him and said "yeah, you did. Look, you have a toy of it."

So I pitched him the whole storyboard, I think the first one was the one we called "Goldflipper." I pitched the whole board, the big damn thing, doing the voices, and at the end he cuddles the plush toy and looks at it and says "Oh Secret, they ruined you!" [laugh] It was heartbreaking, obviously, at the time but it's hysterical because it was like "Wait a minute! Ten minutes ago you told me you didn't create this character and now you're cuddling the toy and saying that I ruined it."

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Re: The greatest Hanna-Barbera cartoon finally coming out on DVD

Post by Madeline (?) » Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:05 pm

It reminds me of a story I heard about how Barbera got confused and thought a Ruby-Spears show was an H-B show for a few minutes. H-B pumped out so many shows that I guess he would have to forget which ones they had made :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:05 pm

Madeline wrote:
Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:05 pm
It reminds me of a story I heard about how Barbera got confused and thought a Ruby-Spears show was an H-B show for a few minutes. H-B pumped out so many shows that I guess he would have to forget which ones they had made :-I
It can't be overstated just how much schlock Hanna-Barbera churned out during his heyday, so that's to be expected, I guess :-I

In all fairness, Ruby-Spears was, at one point, effectively a sister company to Hanna-Barbera once the company got sold to Taft Broadcasting, which already owned HB by then. They even co-produced the 4th and final season of "Scooby and Scrappy Doo" together (HB doing the script and storyboards, while RS handled the animation production).

And while looking up info on Ruby-Spears, I was shocked to find out that the company existed until 1996. I figured it phased out in the 1980s or something.

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Re: The greatest Hanna-Barbera cartoon finally coming out on DVD

Post by Big Boss (?) » Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:18 pm

You need Ruby-Spears in the 90s to give us this gem.


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