Laff-A-Lympics Review

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Good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest imagination.

Heavens to hilarity! This is it, sports fans!

Participants, even! Television's greatest array

of stars, Laugh Olympics, presents the round

the world triple -team competition between the

Yogi N' Yuhuis, the Scooby Doobies, and the really

rockies! The players are on the field, in the

stadium, even! So let's get on with it! Hello

and welcome to the 30th episode of Tooncast Beyond,

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Mike, and today I'm joined once again by Optimus

Solo. Hello. Hello. Today we are going to be

jumping back into the DeLorean for another Tooncast

Beyond DeLorean time episode with our heading

set for 1977 and Laugh Olympics. Yes. And you've

brought me along, like always, for the old stuff

because... I, for one, can watch the old cartoons

and enjoy them. You just have to keep getting

those shots in, don't you? I seriously doubt

they even listen to this show. That's all right.

That's all right. Not all old stuff is bad, people.

This being one of them, that is excellent. Yes.

Why don't you give us a history lesson on Laugh

Olympics? Yes, sir. Laugh Olympics is the co

-headlining segment with Scooby -Doo of the package

Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby's All

-Star Laugh Olympics. Obviously, it's produced

by Hanna -Barbera, as is all Scooby -Doo type

stuff. The show was a spoof of the Olympics and

the ABC television series Battle of the Network

Stars, which debuted one year earlier. It featured

45 Hanna -Barbera characters. Yes, 45 Hanna -Barbera

characters organized into the teams, the Scooby

-Doobies, the Yogi -Yahooies, and the Rilly -Rottens,

which would compete each week for gold, silver,

and bronze medals. One season of 16 episodes

was produced in 77 78 and then eight new episodes

combined with reruns for the next season It's

kind of an interesting like most things in that

era would often get renewed under different titles

and scoobies all -stars package with other stuff

and yeah kind of nonsense Unlike most cartoon

series produced by Hannah Barbera in the 1970s,

Laugh Olympics did not contain a laugh track,

so there's a little bit of trivia for you. What

do you remember about the laughing Olympics?

I remember all the classic characters. Just seeing

them all on one screen at once, you know. Something

you dream about when you're a kid is seeing all

your favorite characters together and It was

awesome. Plus, I'm not trying to cut you off,

but the other cool thing was because they use

so many, because there's 45, they were constantly

doing stuff with different characters. Like,

you didn't see the same people all the time,

so you'd almost be waiting to see your favorites.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, so much fun. So... God. I

love... I literally just love this stuff. It's

just awesome. The other really cool thing, though,

on this one is that you don't just have good

against bad. Right. You know, you have like the

Scooby Doo team going against the Yogi team.

Right. And it's almost like a mind boggling thing

as a kid to be like, you almost have to choose

which one of your favorite characters you have

to root for. Right, right. You have to pick a

team. That was the point It's like, you know

the this team has these characters and I'm we

are going to be going through all the teams and

we're gonna go through all 45 characters I guarantee

you that because these characters are awesome.

Yes but what I loved so much about this was It

wasn't like wacky races where? Dick dastardly

was out to get everybody right You know what

I mean? It wasn't so much that. It wasn't so

much good against bad. It was quite, at least

to my knowledge, you can correct me and other

people might correct me on the website or posts

or comments or on the fan page. This was the

first time we ever had animation, video game,

whatever, that wasn't the actual... This was

the first time animation got Olympic -type things,

because you have the... You have the The Olympics,

you know the US Olympics and all that stuff you

have that and But this was the first time the

Olympics with cartoons characters since then

we've had Mario and Sonic go to the Olympics.

We've had other stuff do Olympic stuff, but this

was the first and It was just amazing Well, it

was it was amazing for a lot of different reasons

You know the format with the Olympic style which

made it a lot different than wacky races It wasn't

just a race type scene which we've seen now,

you know multiple times It was something again

that was somehow they found another way to make

it unique and to do a new take on this but for

me it was just a combination of a lot of things

like The format where you'd get to like visit

different places different parts of the country

or different parts of the world, you know, the

teams going against each other. And now all of

a sudden, you know, you're so used to being forced

as a, as a child to, um, to, to choose good versus

evil. And I really think it was cool that you,

like I said before, that you had a Scooby team

and you had a yogi team. So it was like, Good

and good and you could really differentiate,

you know, oh, well who would I like in this?

You know, you're not a force -fed You're not

force -fed the oh like the good guys because

it's good against bad. It's like Well, if this

was a contest would I be rooting for? Mr. Jinx

or Speed buggy, right? You know what? I mean,

you know what? I'd be rooting for Captain Caveman

or Pixie and Dixie So I mean, I think I forgot

Pixie and Dixie were in this. So so I mean, it

was it was really cool to have that scenario

where for once you get to get to decide levels

of the good guys and who you like more than the

others. So I just think that it was a cool format.

Yeah, it was. So let's let's get into the characters.

I guess we can alternate teams team by team here.

Yeah. I'll talk about the Scoobies. The Scooby

Doobies, which is a bad Jay and Silent Bob reference

at this point because, you know, smoking a doobie

and all that. Anyway, first thing I thought of

when I saw this again. You would. The team. Drew

Manley from the 1970s, Santa Barbara cartoons,

particularly the mystery solving series derived

from Scooby Doo, whose titular character served

as the team captain. The early production art

for the series showed Genie from the Genie series

as Melody, Alexander, Alexandra, and Sebastian

the cat from Josie and the Pussycat series as

members of the Scooby Doobies team, but legal

problems with Columbia Pictures Television Screen

Gems successor prevented it. Hanna Barbera owned

Babu, but Columbia controlled all rights to Genie's

image. As a result, Babu appeared alone as a

member of the Scooby Doobies. Likewise, Archie

Comics held rights to the Josie characters, and

in the actual series, Genie was replaced by Hong

Kong Fooey, and the Josie characters were replaced

by Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. I'm glad

they were replaced. I am honestly glad, because

I'm sorry, Josie and the fucking Pussycats do

not belong in this series. Right. So I think

it was also cool that they did this where not

only are they combining their characters and

featuring all their different classic characters,

but they're separating that by like generations

here. Right. Yeah. So, you know, you have all

the 70s characters together and I think that

was really a cool way to do that. Yeah. The Scooby

Doobies team consists of Scooby Shaggy, Scooby

Dumb, Dino Mutt, Blue Falcon, Captain Caveman,

Brenda Chance, who is one of the Teen Angels,

Tuffy Dare, and Dee Dee Skies, who are also Teen

Angels, Speed Buggy, Tinker, who are from Speed

Buggy, Baboo from Genie, and Hong Kong Fooey.

Did you have a favorite on the screen? Yeah,

well, I had a couple that really kind of stood

out for me. I mean, I never really watched Speed

Buggy too much as a kid, or Genie, so I didn't

really... Wasn't didn't have that prior attachment

of Babu Tinker or speed buggy No, I didn't really

have a prior attachment to Blue Falcon so much

either or dynamite I think my favorite probably

was Captain Caveman I really liked Captain Caveman.

Obviously, I like scooby -doo as the leader You

know Hong Kong flu is great but if I had to pick

one that I really liked it was it was Captain

Caveman is just hilarious because he's just this

you know, just Smash caveman smash. It's like

Hulk smash here. You know he just he's just the

caveman I mean he's a neanderthal and it's fun

to watch him with all these civilized quote -unquote

Individuals. Yeah, how about you? Which one did

you like the best? I like Hong Kong. I Never

really had like you. I never had a connection

to the speed buggy show But I think simply from

this series, I got attached to Speed Buggy. I

thought he was a cool, stuttering little character

that they added in there, because he's a car

and he's sputtering along. I love Captain Caveman.

I wish they didn't put Scooby -Dum in here. He

was kind of funny at times, though. He was a

little bit... I know you're probably going to

disagree with me, but... And the world is probably

going to disagree with me. Don't you dare say

the word. Except maybe Lara, LT, Smash Thomas

from This Week in Geek, but I honestly would

have liked Scrappy in here better because Scrappy

is the lesser of two evils when it comes to Scrappy

and Scooby -Dum. I like Dumb better. What about

the Yogi -Yahooies? Well the Yogi -Yahooies,

like we said, it's kind of a generational thing

and the Yogi -Yahooies were basically 1950s Hanna

-Barbera and the first two years of 1960s, with

one exception, and we'll talk about that in a

second. And it's also the only team that's all

anthropomorphic animals. So it's all the classic

animals. So you have Yogi Bear who is the the

leader of the team. And then obviously with him

you have Boo Boo Bear and Cindy Bear. Then you

have Huckleberry Hound. You have Pixie and Dixie.

You have Mr. Jinx. Hokey Wolf. Yakky Doodle.

Quick Draw McGraw. Snooper and Blabber. Super

Snooper and Blabber Mouse. Auggie Doggy and Doggy

Daddy. Wally Gator. Grape Ape. And Grape Ape

would be the only character that was from post

1962. So all the rest came from before 1962.

So it's a larger team here because with these

Scooby Doobies, you had 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, I think

about 13. And this one you have about 16 or so.

So it's a slightly larger team. A lot more of

the classic characters, whereas the Scooby Doobies

had that... More likely to have like you said

characters that you didn't have that attachment

to Right. Whereas this one you just about know

everybody. I mean, I know some people might not

know Let's say a snooper and blabber as much

as as I as we do, you know some people might

not know Yakky doodle or mr. Jinx or hokey wolf

But if if you were around in that time period

when this was airing you knew all of these characters

Oh, yeah. Um, this one is a much harder one to

pick a favorite character. For me, not counting

the main big characters, my two favorites have

always been, simply because of the relationship

with each other, is Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

I always love those two. I love the voices of

Huckleberry Hound and Quick John McGraw, but

I agree. I love Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

If I had to pick another one just for the way

it's done in this series, I would probably pick

either Wally Gator or Grape Ape. Yeah. Just because

I think they're used very well in this series.

I don't think they use, you know, Yogi and Boo

Boo and Cindy up to their potential, maybe. And,

you know, it would be easy to say Huckleberry

and Quick Draw. But outside of Augie Doggie and

Doggie Daddy, I really like what they do with

Wally Gator and Grape Ape is just hilarious.

And I've always loved Pixie Dixie and Mr. Jinks.

I actually thought before I even looked at the

at the teams, I thought that Jinx would have

been on the Rottenz. Because I thought, like

when you see these three teams, Scooby Doobies,

Yogi Ahuys, and the Really Rottenz, you think,

OK, well, the Really Rottenz, that means all

of the villain characters, all of the bad characters

are going to be on the team. That's not necessarily

true, because Mr. Jinx is on the Yogi Ahuys.

Not to say that he's like a evil super villain,

but I mean, essentially, he is a villain character.

uh... because he's always chasing vexing indexing

and before we get to the the villain team i gotta

say this is an interesting predicament that they

got themselves in uh... because henna barbara

basically didn't have villainous characters for

the most part like you're watching you know old

yogi bear shows or huckleberry hound or or quick

drive you there's really not right quote -unquote

villains so they're they're coming up with this

the format for this show and they're doing the

generation thing with the 50s characters, they're

doing the generation thing with the 70s characters,

now they come to the villain part and they really

can't draw on any villains that have been in

Hanna -Barbera cartoons. So it's an interesting

dynamic here because the Really Rotten's are

basically all original characters almost. Yeah.

You know, with a few exceptions. And I guess

we got to talk about it right away. Yeah. Dread

Baron and Mumbly. Oh, seriously? Obviously, there

were some legal, I'm guessing, issues that prevented

them from using Dick Dastardly and Muttly. But

we all know, based on the voice, based on the

look, that Dick Dastardly and Muttly are in the

form of Dread Baron and Mumbly. Oh, it's because

It's because those two characters were co -owned

by Header -Quigley Productions. That's why. So

they couldn't use those guys, so they had to

rename them, but everybody knows it's the same

people. Yeah. So, I mean, Mumbly's been used

before. Like, the whole Mumbly -Muttly thing...

Mean, they're basically the same character, but

they are different characters because mumbly

showed up on Tom and Jerry Grapeape in the mumbly

show, etc But it's still basically Muttley Yeah,

it's those two characters are so similar and

and Dread Baron basically is just the dick dastardly

with a new costume and a new name Yeah, but the

only the only re characters that they could draw

on from prior shows is mumbly and then the Dalton

Brothers And the Dalton Brothers is an interesting

thing Because they appeared in 50s and 60s in

some shorts And the thing is though, they've

always they've like this they've never had the

same names Because in the in the 50s and 60s

shorts they were dinky dirty and dastardly Dalton

and then they had older brothers dangerous detestable

desperate and despicable Well in this one we

we have just dastardly dirty and Dinky. Right.

So it's like not all of them. It's almost similar

to the who are the characters in Penelope Pit

Stop? Oh, the Ant Hill Mob. The Ant Hill Mob.

How you always have different names or different

members of the Ant Hill Mob showing up. It seems

like you always get different Dalton Brothers.

Yeah. So I mean, they were given a slightly different

Get up and and different look and then later

on it's interesting because the the movie the

good the bad and the huckleberry hound Yeah,

Dinky shows up there, but now he has different

brothers again because now he has stinky Finky

and pinky And and he doesn't look like Dinky

he looks like dastardly so the Dalton Brothers

is a whole mix of history. Yeah But I can let

you go over some of the other You got mr. And

mrs. Creeply who? Mr. Creeply the original character

was the patriarch of the villainous monster family

based on the gruesomes and Mr. And mrs. J evil

scientist You also jr. Creeply Orphal octopus

the great fondue magic rabbit Daisy mayhem suey

That's it. Oh, so Sui is Daisy Mayhem's patch

-eyed pig. Yeah. They're kind of an interesting

group. Outside of, I don't care what the copyrights

say, outside of Dastardly and Mutley, that's

what I'm fucking calling them. I don't give a

shit. Outside of Mumbly and Red Baron, or Dread

Baron, Dastardly and Mutley, those are the only

two I really liked on. I like those two. I don't

mind the Daltons. The rest of them just seem

weird. I can see the great fondue Uh, he's not

bad and awful octopus seems like he could be

an ahana barbaric character So that's fine to

me the creeplies Don't seem like they fit No,

and either does the magical rabbit just looks

like a freaked out alice in wonderland like knockoff

and and daisy mayhem and her pig like I could

see them if you're wanting to have some type

of Who would be the... Maybe she's Miles' great

-great -great -grandmother. Yeah. No, but I could

see Daisy and Suey being a counterpart to some

of the 70s characters. Yeah. You know, whether

it be Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels or

Speed Buggy and them. Like, I can see those two

maybe. To me, it's really Magic Rabbit and the

Creepleys just don't work for me. And that's

the only weak spot of this whole show for me

is some of the bad characters. I know they had

a hard job creating a bunch of new characters.

But it's like, they obviously were not using

any of the people that created all these other

great characters. Yeah, exactly. If they did,

that would be a huge surprise to me because these

just don't seem like they're made of the same

mold. Yeah. And we can't talk about this show

without talking about the narrator or one of

the announcers. The broadcaster and the announcer,

basically. To me, the best part of the show.

Yeah, don't you know? Good ol' Snagglepuss. Snagglepuss

and Mildew Wolf. You know, Snagglepuss and Mildew

Wolf, they did all the interviews, they did all

the announcing, the play -by -play, the commentary,

and they were magnificent. They were. Just absolutely

friggin' brilliant. Well, first of all, if you

had to pick two Hanna -Barbera voices to be announcer

-type people... It would be these two. Yeah Like

it was just perfect the way they played off each

other was perfect Just pure genius. I did want

to say right before we continue that conversation.

I don't understand one thing about The way they

came up with this I don't understand why they

couldn't use Maybe some of the people from wacky

races in coming up with the other bad characters

Like if you already had in wacky races big gruesome

and little gruesome Mm -hmm. Why couldn't that

they have been used instead of the creeplies?

It's probably copyrights and I don't think it

would have been too much of a stretch to actually

I know they're not really bad characters But

I don't think it would have been too much of

a stretch to use the handheld mob Right the the

anthill gang or whatever you want to call them

in here Or even if you want to pull something

else in from Penelope pit stop. What's his name?

Sneedly snively the the dude that was the dude

that was always wanting to steal her away, right?

Yeah, I know who you're talking about, and I'll

think of the name temporarily. But I was just

trying to rack my brain, and I know there's not

a lot of bad characters to choose from. But if

they had those couple from Wacky Races, I just

don't understand why they couldn't have used

a couple of those characters. Or just some other

people that made them bad. They could have used

the hooded claw. Yeah. I don't know. To me, use

the gruesomes that you've already used instead

of the creeplies. uh... you know i don't know

throw like win some which in there or throw uh...

you know just some of these random characters

and i'm still trying to think of the snide lee

character you did uh... his his real name is

neatly and the the hooded claw was the alter

ego okay actually yes i mean i i don't understand

why they couldn't maybe used a couple of those

characters but like i said this is to me the

only weak spot and and it's made up for by the

the use of these two announcers which to me are

The biggest part of the show. Yeah. Well, they

made the show because I mean really You're rooting

for This is just kind of like wacky races. You're

rooting for everyone else except dick dastardly

and motley Mean you're rooting for Augie doggie

and doggie daddy and the yogiyahu is you're rooting

for Shaggy and Scooby and the and the rest of

the Scooby doobies team So I do want to mention

a couple other characters that do show up at

some point but Fred Flintstone Barney Barney

rubble Jabberjaw and and Peter Potamus made appearances

as guest announcers and and judges So it was

really cool to see those guys show up. And it

was kind of just out of nowhere. So that was

just, it was just a nice little touch that they

even added some that weren't on some of the teams

to the group. Yeah. Now, do you think by this

time, and we've already had this huge discussion

on Flintstones and Jetsons, but on over on GCN

wars episode three, but go listen to it. Do you

think that? Like you said that you know Fred

and Barney and and Peter Potamus all made like

guests guest appearances Do you think that any

of the Jetsons characters could have made a guest

appearance and it would still? Retain what Laugh

Olympics is see to me to me This would have made

more sense You have the the yogi yahoo is right.

This is the classic characters, which are all

animals You have the 70s generation characters

the mystery characters, you know, though all

the crime fighting mysteries teams I don't understand

why I know that there was probably a need for

bad or villainous characters But I almost wish

and take out all the really rotten or add the

human classic characters and it would be made

up of Jetsons characters and Flintstone characters

and you know I'm sure there was a few others

that you could have thrown in there like why

not have a team with Fred and Barney and Bam

Bam and George and you know I mean you could

easily get eight or ten Flintstones Jetsons and

you know possibly some other random characters

in there that would have made a cool team even

if they only guessed it as a team like once or

twice I think it would have been cool to have

like you know that that type of dynamic there

i wouldn't want to lose dastardly and mutley

but honestly yeah i mean you know you could put

like instead of you know you could keep put in

put in the take out the creeplies just remove

them all together right put in the gruesome twosome

in their place like it was supposed to be and

then outside of dastardly and mutley Erase the

rest of the team you could put in This would

have been an amazing amazing thing if they did

this I can't believe I just thought of this put

in Spacely and Cogswell on the runs forced them

to work together Okay, you could put in Like

I said you could put in The snively yeah, you

could put in the hooded claw You could put in...

See, Flintstones really didn't... Put Officer

Dibble in there if you wanted. Yeah, yeah. Or

Mr. Peebles or... You know, you could have put

some more human characters in there, but... You

know, I don't know, I just think it would have

been cool also to see some type of team of...

Flintstones Jetsons slash you know whoever else

you wanted to put in there as far as as far as

human characters I just think it would have been

a cool I don't think they should have been there

necessarily every episode right but just to have

them like once or twice be a guest team of some

sort I think just would have been really really

interesting yes so getting into the are we done

with the characters yeah Getting into the actual

show the format essentially is the sporting competitions

that the characters would be called upon to perform

Would often be comical and offbeat versions of

Olympic sports races and scavenger hunts each

segment took place in a different location around

the world the event occurred on the moon That

event occurred on the moon as a climactic ending

which followed the rocket race to the moon that

was held as previous event Each episode was presented

in format similar to Olympic television broadcast

with announcing voice -over duties handled by

an unnamed unseen announcer character. Hosting

duties and commentary were provided by Snagglepus

and Mildewolf from the It's the Wolf segments

of Catanuga Cats? Yeah, buddy. Okay, then. Although

there was a switch here because mildew wolf used

to be voiced by Paul Yeah, and now it was John

Stevenson both of them equally geniuses, right?

Yeah That's awesome. It's down to the detail

that they were even wearing the traditional yellow

jackets of ABC sports We talked about the guest

appearances a little bit and there's also a point

system Yeah, each event you basically had 25,

15, and 10 points for first, second, and third.

And sometimes you'd have a bonus or double points

on the last event for the winner. And then they'd

go through the whole episode. So you'd have Laugh

Olympics, and they'd be in France or whatever.

And they'd go through these different events,

and they'd award points. down to the end, whoever

had the most points was declared the winner and

would receive the gold medal. And of course,

occasionally points would be subtracted for treachery,

sabotage, or just general rule breaking. So essentially,

the Rotten's always had a negative score. Seems

like that happens sometimes. And, you know, there

was kind of a thing where the good guy teams,

the members would help each other out. Right.

You know, whenever they got into a jam or something,

but the really rotten's obviously would never

do that. They would do the dirty tricks. They

would cheat. Right. And they would basically

be in last place in most episodes. Yup. Even

though sometimes they'd be, you know, kind of

like wacky races, they'd be right about to win

and something would happen. They'd make an error

or they'd get dequeued or they'd have points

taken away. And a lot of times, though, it was

kind of funny because their cheating techniques

weren't actually against the rules. So they did

win a few episodes. I remember hearing the announcers

be like, well, there actually isn't a rule against,

you know, whatever it is that they just did.

And then they did win one time just by sheer

chance. So you got to have them win one. Well,

they didn't do it in wacky races, but. all right

well yeah but wacky races that was against the

rules i mean you know setting it up you know

having monthly set up something to essentially

drive a racer off a cliff that's would be you

know killing a racer is against the rules nonsense

um What about the music of this one? I mean,

it's kind of like what we talked about with dastardly

and mutley and and wacky races It's it's very

essential because you have a lot of times where

there's some type of chase or some type of event

going on where there's not a lot of need for

dialogue what this Show did differently is not

only that they have the music to support that

but they had mildew and snaggle. Yeah So they

could they could take care of anything that was

going on where the actual contestants wouldn't

be Talking or having no dialogue and they could

just commentate on it And that's what made this

separate for me from those other shows and made

it even more enjoyable to watch was the use of

those two commentators. Oh Yeah, so much so I

gotta say it's been a week since we did the dastardly

and mutley episode I still has a fucking song

stuck in my head. Stop the page it stopped Yeah,

it's Hannah Barbera I don't know. All right,

so let's get into the legacy segment. As far

as some other media, there was actually a comic

book based off of this. In March of 78, Marvel

Comics produced a comic book series based on

the cartoon. Creative staff for the comic book

included Mark Eveneer, Carl Gafford, Scott Shaw,

Jack Manning, Owen Fitzgerald, and others. The

series lasted 13 issues. A Laugh Olympics comic

book was also published in Australia in 1978

by Sydney Murray Publishing. From 1980 to 1982,

various Laugh Olympics stories were reprinted

in Laugh Olympics annual hardback books in the

United Kingdom by Fleetway. There's an interesting

thing though interesting because there's also

a comic book called the hammer bear presents

and it was a superstar Olympics Yeah, now get

get some of the other characters that appeared

in here though Adam Ant Along with obviously

we still had Augie and doggy Barney Barney Rubble

and Betty Rubble. We still had Boo Boo Bear,

but then Chopper, Cindy Bear, Dick Dasterly,

Fred Flintstone, Grape A, Pokey Wolf, Huckleberry,

Jabberjaw, McGilla Gorilla, Muttley, Peter Ponemus,

Pixie and Dixie, Mr. Jinx, Quick Draw, Ranger

Smith, Secret Squirrel, Snaggle, Smooper, Blabber,

Squidly Diddley, Top Cat, that's a good addition

there, Touché Turtle, Wally, Gator, Wilma Flintstone,

and Yogi Bear. So that would have been an interesting

arrangement to see how they divided up those

teams because there's no bad characters in that

one. No, not at all. And as far as some games

here, we had some handheld and pill ball games

were released for Laughlinix in 78. The game

featured Scooby -Doo, Captain Caveman, and Teen

Angels, Blue Falcon, Yogi Bear. That's interesting.

Yeah. I don't main card yet. That'd be an interesting

one to find if it's still around and probably

kind of expensive. You know, there's been some

cultural references like everything Hannah Barbera,

it's spoofed on Harvey Birdman, attorney at law,

everything spoofed by robot chickens, so that's

no surprise. So you can see all kinds of different

things in those. Series as well as others. I'm

sure they've shown up on some, you know Family

Guy or some some other types of spoof shows as

well There has been some home media releases.

Yeah 96 there was four VHS versions released

Some more VHS releases over the year, but the

big ones for us and people that might be interested

is the DVD sets The first four were released

in January 2010 is Scooby's All -Star at Laugh

Olympics volume one and that included quite a

few different things there. Then they had a exclusive

second volume with the next four episodes that

was released by Target on the same day, Scooby's

All -Star Laugh -O -Lemmick's Volume 2. So there's

a Volume 1 and a Volume 2 out there that you

can get your hands on. Another DVD set of the

series will be released supposedly this summer.

containing the remaining episodes of season one

in addition to four season one episodes that

were already on DVD in the previous two sets.

It's supposed to be some type of ultraviolet

digital copy of all twelve contained episodes,

so we'll be looking for more information this

summer on how you can watch some more Laugh Olympics.

Oh yes. And with that we're gonna take a break

and you'll hear some commercials as well as some

other Laugh Olympics stuff and we'll be back

after this. The greatest prize in the sports

world, the Laugh Olympic gold medal. Now it's

back to France, where our three teams are ready

to compete. And here they are! The Scooby Doobies,

the Really Rotten's, and the Yogi Yahuys! Scoring

is 25 for first, 15 for second, and 10 for third.

Now, to the French countryside and our on -the

-scene reporters. Hi, it's your on -the -scene

reporters, on the scene of the first event! The

rough and bumpy Tour de France bicycle race.

How velocipedic. Exciting even. Here we are at

the starting line. Awaiting the start of the

first across the finish line event. What's this?

A yogi gold medalist using training wheels? Surely

you just withdraw. Nope. Never rode a two -wheeler.

Only four -leggers and they use horses. If you

think that's odd, snag, get a load of dynamite.

Riding for the Scooby Doobies. No wheels at all.

I knew I almost forgot something. One set of

wheels coming up and out. The racers are lining

up at the start. Quick draw for the yogis. Dinky

Dalton for the Rottens. And Dynamut for the Scoobies.

And there they do. Quickdraw is peddling for

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sir, final thoughts on Laugh Olympics. I just

love this. I absolutely love this series. To

me... This is something I mean I know a lot of

people will just put it in the same package of

wacky races and this or that and not to take

any away from thing away from those shows, but

to me this one's the superior one this one is

the the combination of You know this smorgasbord

of classic characters that we'd never really

gotten done quite like this and it's never been

done the same The format school with the Olympic

setting You're visiting different lands, different

areas. You have two good teams. You have different

generations represented. And then you have two

kick -ass broadcast commentators, broadcasters.

And to me, this is the funniest of these types

of shows. It's the best done. It doesn't drag

at all. It's between the music and the commentators.

Everything keeps going. It is a Laugh Olympics.

It is a... non -stop laugh fest basically and

nobody since this has been able to Find the same

magic in this type of format, right? It would

be I mean, you know if you're only counting animation

I will agree with that statement, but I think

that the Mario Sonic Olympic video game stuff

that has been kind of cool But that's just because

it's those characters, but I will agree with

you Yes, since this no one in animation has been

able to do something like this. It's almost like

I had Immediately thought of this, you know the

MetLife commercial that's been airing recently

in the five or six months You know that has all

those different characters It immediately makes

me think of this and it's like man if they could

make something again with all like the classic

80s characters Or this or that it would be awesome

But it's just like nobody has been able to do

what Laugh Olympics did in and like I said with

a few of these other Hanna -Barbera things The

this is not that dated and this type of thing

would still sell to kids. I guarantee it I'm

surprised that Hanna -Barbera, whether it's their

on -demand service as far as like movies on demand

where you can only buy it online from their certain

website or like WB shop or something like that,

I'm surprised that there is not a complete series

of this. I mean, we have a complete series of

Dash for Liam Motley. We have a complete series

of other Hanna -Barbera stuff. I'm honestly surprised

that there is not a complete series DVD set for

this. And what I'm surprised at is that not only

that, but that somebody else has not tried to

do something similar to this since then, basically.

I mean, there's been a few bad attempts and stuff

like that. But with all the stuff that's being

rebooted and all of the, you know, the nostalgic,

you know, play to the kids of yesterday that

are parents today. I'm surprised that nobody

has tried to do this type of show. I know there

would be a lot of legal hurdles to get over as

far as which characters you could secure rights

to and which ones you couldn't, but tell me,

tell me that show that had, you know, classic

characters. And the problem is, is, is that back

then Hannah Barbera had so many shows that they

had a big library to choose from and if you wanted

to do it today you're dealing with this show

that's owned by this company and that show that's

owned by that company and there's not like a

big overall umbrella company but even if like

Disney could have done something like this, it

wouldn't be as cool, but I'm just picturing some

type of Laugh Olympics where you have like Optimus

Prime and Duke and freaking Lion -O and you know,

you have like the heroes on one team and then

you have a villain team with Skeletor and Megatron

and freaking Mumrah and Molnstar. I mean, that

would be freaking awesome. You could have a sidekick

team with Orko and Snarf and Copperkid and Daniel

and Matt Tracker's little... bastard child yes

that's that's from that's wrong because he is

a bastard child so i should not say that but

you know it would be another is we just don't

know who his mother is that's true it would just

be an awesome format everybody would eat it up

and somebody should do that uh all right so There's

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