Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

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and welcome to the 47th episode of Tooncast brought

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host, Steve -Joe and Mike, and today I am joined

once again by Kevin, Professor Boss K -Dog Thompson,

who is not all choppy this time. Hopefully, we

can only cross our fingers in hope. Yeah, yeah.

Today we will be finishing up the Hanna -Barbera

spotlight with Captain Caveman. And those...

feel scooby -doo impersonators Charlie Angels

yeah well no actually it's more of the female

scooby -doo impersonators because I watched like

before I called you I watched a couple episodes

on on YouTube there's one where they're at some

lodge or something they're gonna go skiing and

one of the I don't remember which which one of

the the bitches said something they're like took

a lot of quality line just exactly from from

shaggy well good we don't have to do any more

creepy mysteries we can just have fun yeah there

is a line straight from shaggy rogers from scooby

-doo so uh... yes i would like to address the

mystery caller i know it's probably going to

be a about a month and a half before he gets

this response but uh... he did call back uh...

apparently his name is kevin as well uh... And

yeah, whatever. And he called it a vector -style

animation or something. I don't know. It's...

So from now on, I do not like vector -style or

flash -style animation on cartoons. Oh boy. But

I'm not going to rip on Dexter because he'll

keep calling in. Yeah, exactly. That's the last

thing. You know, he called in and he left a message

and I'm like, okay, cool. But it cut off. Calls

back. That's like Michael Wilson Michael Wilson

He called like four or five times cuz I I was

having him do stuff for toy cast episode 50 which

by the time this episode airs episode 50 it have

already been out but You know, he called like

four or five damn times. It was like He called

me from an unknown number. I'm like, okay fine

I know who this is gonna be so I said, you know

like like in between when he left messages one

He's like, why are you just answering the phone?

Like, because you keep fucking calling! Why the

hell do you keep calling? But yeah, what's been

going on with you, sir? Two main projects that

I've been working on, basically. I have 340 screen

captures of Transformers characters from Generation

1 updated on our site, so... You can see basically

a screen cap from the DVD for just about every

character that exists. I haven't gone through

all the aliens and humans, but it's getting up

there. It's got the second most characters on

the site. And then I, yesterday did my first,

it's been a long, long time since I've done any

voice compares. And I did the four Scooby Doo

characters, the four main ones, not Scooby, but

Velma, Daphne, Freddy and Shaggy. What the hell

did you compare them to, the movie versions?

Um, actually the, well the Freddy version, there's

only two because Frank Welker has done Freddy

on everything except for a pup named Scooby Doo.

And then the others, Velma and Daphne have had

about five or six different. voice actors over

the years. Oh really? Yeah, and even Shaggy has

had about four. Shaggy's had Casey Kasem for

the most part, but the guy that did Shaggy in

the live -action movie just took over for Kasem

on the animated stuff. Oh really? Matthew Lillard?

Yeah, because Kasem retired basically as a voice

actor. And then Scott Menville and Scott Ince

have done Shaggy, but the girls have definitely

had a lot more variety. You can listen to them

all back to back and vote on your favorite. Although

there are some that are awful. There's someone

that did Velma named Marla Frumkin who is just

terrible. But at least they're up there. It's

been a long time. We had a couple requests about

it. So I got them up there and you can listen

to them. Did you put up the, not the compare,

but the two profiles for Scatman? That's actually

on my list of things to do today. I have jazz

up. I have jazz up. I just don't have Hong Kong

fully up yet. Slacking off. Well, it took me

a lot longer to get some of these old Scooby

-Doo episodes. You wouldn't imagine how much

stuff is not on YouTube. And then the other thing

I got wasted my time with was a while back I...

I entered entries for all the Land Before Time

movies. Why would you waste your time with that

crap? Because there's been like 10 different

actors that have done Littlefoot. So I wanted

to, I thought that'd be a pretty cool voice compare

but it's impossible to find clips for the 11th

and 12th movies. There's been 13 movies and the

11th and 12th one for some reason are hard to

find. So I have like seven of the actors entered

but I'm waiting on the last three. I don't know

why I did that. I loved the first movie when

I watched it originally. I've never seen any

of the other ones. The first movie was okay,

but they pretty much... It became like a musical

thing, I think. I've never seen any of the other

movies. I've never seen any of the other ones

either, but I would see advertisements. It's

kind of like the whole Beethoven thing. After

Beethoven's second... third, fourth, fifth, sixth,

seventh, eighth, ninth. It's like, Jesus Christ,

how many times and how many different dogs can

you get to play this damn character? Yeah. You

know? Apparently, Land Before Time has become

like a music thing, because all I can find on

a lot of the movies is just song clips on YouTube.

Like, here's them singing this song. I'm like,

I don't want them singing. I want them talking.

Yes. It's stupid. Yeah. Yes, I've been, you know,

I guess we should give a little bit of a show

40 through 49 earlier than what we would normally

do because we wanted to get ahead of ourselves

in scheduling. As far as recording the episodes.

So if some of the stuff that we're talking about

in this episode is By the time this episode airs

it'll be very dated, but yeah, you know whatever

anyway I have been watching one of my favorite

and one of the best the best Cop shows in the

last 10 years nashbridge. Oh my god. That's right.

Oh my god. What? Nothing. Well, let's go I can't

take anything that Chuck Norris does seriously.

I'm sorry what Chuck Norris Isn't Chuck Norris

the other guy? I can't even think of the guy's

name. Who's Nash Bridges? Don Johnson? Yeah,

Don Johnson. I don't know. It's just all cheesy

to me for some reason. Well, if you would actually

watch the show, it's fine. If you're not a fan

of it, fine. But if you at least watch a couple

episodes and give it a chance, it is a very well

done show. I won't give you too hard a time.

I'm sure I like a lot of shows that other people

don't like. I'm obsessed with MacGyver and there's

a lot of people that don't like MacGyver. I like

MacGyver. One of the reasons why, and I mentioned

this in the Geekcast radio episode that Derek

Ferguson and I did on Nash Bridges, that one

of the reasons why I got into that show was because

of the whole, at the time back in the 90s, 96,

97, is when CBS started their Friday night. Action

block which it was Walker Texas Ranger, which

that was Chuck Norris martial law with Sammo

and Nash bridges was the was the third component

of that Action block for CBS on Friday nights,

and I got into Nash Because of my well because

I remember what seeing him in Miami Vice yeah,

and So yeah, you know what I've been getting

into lately kind of off -topic, but I They've

been showing it at midnight, I think on WGN or

something every night, and I've seen all these

episodes probably a thousand times. Isn't that

either the night? No, Star Trek The Next Generation.

I've been watching those every single night,

and if not, I've been DVRing them. But the crazy

thing that's kind of got my interest lately is

the guest stars. The guest stars on that show

which of course every episode has them. It's

kind of like most most sitcoms Especially back

in that time period was just chuck full with

you know guest stars every single week But there

is a ton of voice actors who guest starred in

live roles on Star Trek. Yeah Alan Oppenheimer

Chris Lada uh... i mean i could just keep naming

them in and it's just funny watching the show

on the scene and a pop -up in your life well

it's uh... yeah and uh... you know most of the

time they're like a claim on it so that you can

recognize them but it is still kind of interesting

to watch oh yeah i mean you know you take a show

like that or a show i mean hell even you know

people can say what they want to say about nash

bridges or walker texas ranger or whatever you

take shows like that shows like law and order

shows like n y p d blue and Just look at the

guest list. Yeah, I spent one order especially

all the law and orders well made specifically

the original one and the SVU just look at the

guest list for those and Wow Yeah, I mean Exactly.

I mean even if you look at MacGyver MacGyver

had like Cuba Gooding jr. On it as like a little

teenager had Lois from the Superman live -action

Margot Kidder No, no, no. I mean the newer, the

90s super... Oh, Terry Hatcher. Yeah, it had

Terry Hatcher on it before she was famous. I

mean, those old shows, you can find, like Murder

She Wrote's another one like that. You just find

a bunch of old people that before they got their

big break or before they ever got famous. You

know, the beautiful thing about Nash Bridges

is they could have done, because they teamed

up, Don Johnson and Cheech Marin, they could

bring back their former partners. and they did

in a couple of episodes Philip Michael Thomas

and Tommy Chong so you know it's always interesting

to see you know stuff like that but whatever

if you're not into the show it's better than

it's better than psych yeah anything is better

than psych I don't even watch that show yeah

and it's better than Walker Two different shows,

but yeah, okay. Alright, so getting into the

history lesson for Captain Caveman, take it away.

Alright, today's history lesson we actually,

for the first time during the Hanna -Barbera

spotlight, make it into the wonderful decade

of the 1980s as we wrap up our Hanna -Barbera

spotlight with Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels.

Captain Caveman was an animated series created

by Jill Ruby and Ken Spears and of course produced

by Hanna -Barbera Productions. It began airing

in September, September 10th actually of 1977

but did make it into June 21st 1980 and it aired

on ABC. The first and second season were originally

broadcast as segments on the packaged shows Scooby's

All -Star Laugh Olympics and Scooby's All -Stars

from 77 to 79, and the third season actually

featured Captain Caveman in their very own half

-hour time slot, which aired in 1980. Alright,

that does it for the history lesson. What do

you remember about our favorite old caveman?

Well, first of all, I didn't know this at the

time and I should have, but Way back in episode

20 of this show when I was doing the Looney Tunes

research, and I was researching all of Mel Blank's

other roles to bring up in that episode, Mel

Blank is Captain Caveman. Wow. Yeah. And I never

knew that either. You kind of had... Obviously

as a kid you don't know who any of the voices

are but you still have some vague sense of this

is that like everybody knew when they're listening

to Cobra Commander and Starscream that's the

same person. Even if you weren't into voice acting

even if you'd never heard the term voice acting

you knew hey that's the same person. And you

can get that with some of Mel Blanc's stuff but

Captain Caveman is kind of completely different

to me than anything else that he ever did. I

mean, he has a lot of stuff that's different,

but this is just way, way completely different.

Oh, right. Yeah, I totally agree. But, you know,

this wasn't one of those shows, even now. It's

very rare that I would, when I did have Boomerang,

it was very rare that I even saw this show on

there. I don't know what they're doing now, obviously,

with the property. As far as, because I mean,

Boomerang is the network for all the classic

cartoons. Bastards that won't air on my cable

provider. Actually, it's probably my cable provider

that hasn't aired them yet, so I shouldn't say

too much. But I am happy because on a completely

different side note, and they interject a little

bit, the Discovery channel for kids is something

that's on my current lineup, so I'm hopeful that

the Hasbro channel will also be on my lineup.

Well, let's see the... The hub. Do you have...

Okay, you have the Discovery Kids network? Yeah,

it's on my programming. OK, Discovery Kids is

turning into the hub. So all it'll do is it'll

just change over. There's not going to be an

additional channel. It's just going to change

the programming. Unfortunately, I don't know

if you've seen the advertisement for the hub.

I've seen a couple things. It's on the TFW main

page, or it was on the TFW main page. It's 95

% Discovery Kids. five percent has bro yeah i

think that's i think what they're doing though

is i think they're trying to but i a read a little

bit couple articles on it from what i read it

sounded to me like it was going to be something

where they're facing the has was something into

it bit by bit so it's kind of like a little smoother

transition so they don't lose i don't think they

want to lose it not that they have a big selection

that are watching discovery kids right but i

think they were a slightly afraid of losing that

entire base if they changed it right But yeah,

I mean, I'm just excited just because of the

potential or the possibility. I know it's not

going to be great at first, but you know, and

I know it's not a whole new channel, but I'm

just hoping that just when they change that all

of a sudden, you know, nothing happens with all

of a sudden, we're not going to get it on my.

Since I have the channel, I'm assuming that I'll

still get it. So yeah Well, that's what I'm saying.

It it will be a new channel But it won't be a

new channel in a sense is that like say say discovery

kids now is channel I don't know 75 You know

whenever they're done with this whole merger

thing You're not gonna get the hub at channel

77 or 70. It's right It's probably gonna be in

the same spot is what I'm saying. So right? Yeah,

that's and I just hope cable companies don't

do anything stupid. So But yeah, just the potential

that you eventually may down the road have Hasbro

stuff like G .I. Joe, Transformers, My Little

Pony, even if it's not right away. not that i

will watch my little pony but you know you will

yeah i had a couple of dollars when i was a kid

but i have a sister too wow i think that's i

think that's way more of a sad admission than

me admitting to watching hannah montana's show

no because you're thirty and watching hannah

montana and i was like seven and i had a my little

pony doll yeah but uh... i don't know what would

be better If I could choose having the Hasbro

or if I could choose or I'm in the hub or if

I could convince my cable company to start giving

me boomerang. Well, why not both? I know. I went

on their website and like there's like a request

to channel. I don't know what good that does,

but yeah. So anyway, yeah, I honestly, you know,

I watched a few of the episodes that I could

find on YouTube and I think Captain Caveman is

probably the only thing I like about this show.

The rest of it is just dumb. Yeah, well I Don't

know. I remember this a lot from it when I was

a kid I don't know if it was because it was more

close to the time when I was a kid or Or if it

was because it was so much like Scooby -Doo that

my brother watched it a lot because he was a

humongous Scooby -Doo fan But I don't remember

anything about the Teen Angels at all I could

not even tell you without the fact that I watched

a few episodes this week I couldn't have told

you anything about what they the girls look like

hair color names anything But Captain Caveman,

I could tell you a lot about. I just loved his

character. I loved him being completely hairy

like the Addams Family character. I loved, you

know, how he could grab things out of his hair

and basically had everything he needed inside

his beard or hair, whatever you want to call

it. You know, and his voice was cool. And, you

know, he made the show obviously just like Jabberjab

made Jabberjab on most of these shows. But the

difference is on this one is There's so much

of a difference between how good he is and how

bad or forgettable the rest of the characters

are. Right, yeah. It's like I said, oh, I think

it was last week in, oh, when we were talking

about, what the hell did we talk about last week?

Hong Kong, yeah. I think there's a difference

there. I would say that Captain Caveman is much

more like Jabberjaw where... Well, no, what I'm

trying to get at is because at the time we had

planned to do both these episodes when we did

Hong Kong last week and when we were talking

about it off air, Captain Caveman and I was going

through the script looking at stuff and I mainly

remember Captain Caveman and Son. I do not remember,

like when I watched The episode the little episodes

that I did watch of this and the team, you know,

Captain Caveman T. Angels I don't remember anything

about that I remember Captain Caveman and son

being on the Laugh Olympics the Scooby -Doobies

Laugh Olympics scene. I do not remember anything

Yeah, I think this is I can't go back to my my

two year two three year old self or whatever

But if this wasn't one of the first cartoons

I ever saw I would be shocked if it wasn't one

of the first five cartoons I ever saw as a child.

Just because given the time period, it was basically

new right as I was born. Right. So I would think

this is probably one of the first cartoons I

ever saw in my, you know, myself that I can't

remember anything from obviously. But the other

point I was getting at is to me Captain Caveman

and Jabberjaw are shows where you put all your

marbles into the main character. Yeah. And everything

is... reliant on that main character. Whereas

Hong Kong Fooey, even though Hong Kong Fooey

was a great standalone character, he had a great

cast, show, and everything else around him. To

me. I mean, to me Rosemary was good, you know,

the cat was good, and the other characters were

memorable and good as well. Whereas in Jabber

John, Captain Caveman, it was just basically

them. Even though they had a you could call maybe

a more important side cast. It was also more

forgettable to me. So I think that's why these

two shows kind of, Captain Caveman and Jabberjaw

kind of seemed very similar to me. Yes. I mean

even Scooby -Doo had good supporting cast. You

remember all the other characters, not just Scooby

-Doo. As far as like cartoons like this, not

counting the 80s cartoons like Transformers and

G .I. Joe, honestly, and I'm sure I'll bring

this up once we get to episode 100 and we do

our true Look back on the entire podcast But

you know since you mentioned that this is probably

one of the first cartoons you remember seeing

as a kid honestly two of the Just off top my

head two of the cartoons. I remember seeing most

when I was like three four years old was Casper

and The Scooby -doo Batman adventures or the

Scooby -doo Batman movie or whatever it was that

that that whole crossover thing there I know

people are screaming at their iPods, 13 ghosts

or whatever the hell it was with Vincent Price.

Scooby -Doo, Captain Caveman, and then obviously

probably some of the old -class ones like Flintstones

and Jetsons. I just think because of the time

period, I was born in 81 and this was just on

the 77 to 80. It might have been, if I could

take a time machine and go back, maybe this was

one of the first cartoons I ever saw, I don't

know. Yeah. No DeLorean for you. Damn it! Don't

ever lend one rich egomaniac a lot of narcotics.

I would trade a DeLorean for a Transporter, though.

I don't want my molecules split and put in some

place and then put in some place else. That'd

be so awesome. No. Alright, so getting into the

characters and the voice actors. Captain Caveman

is voiced by the man of a thousand voices, Mel

Blank. He's the main character in Caveman who

is thousands of years old. His exact age is never

disclosed. He can pull various objects from his

body hair. He can also fly, but his flying power

always seems to clonk out on him at the worst

possible time. Sometimes he would attribute his

mishap to energy shortage. Uh -oh, bad time for

energy crisis. Crash! which is a pun on the oil

embargo of the 1970s. He speaks stereotypical

caveman talk, replacing subjective pronouns with

their objective equivalents, and dropping articles

such as the, for example, me know where bad guys

are hiding, and often mobiles the nonsense phrase,

unga bunga. He also has bad habit of occasionally

eating non -food objects, i .e., bicycles, TV

sets, table lamps, and the Teen Angels occasionally

have to stop him from eating potential clues

that will help them to solve the mystery. I do

have to say, one of the episodes I watched since

it said something about eating non -food objects,

there was an episode where the bad guys were

stealing bars of gold from wherever and they

couldn't take them all at once so they made them

into the floor tiles or whatever and painted

over them. and they're taking them one at a time

and in the end they basically unearth or get

the paint off of these and you have basically

like ten or however many gold bars sitting on

the floor and Cavey actually eats them and the

reason I bring that up is because he had this

idea way before the hip -hop world did then he

opens his mouth and his teeth are all gold so

he had bling before bling was bling I bet you

can't say that five times fast. Yeah, so maybe

that's where they got that whole idea from. But

yeah, Cavey was just a great character. We mentioned

a couple times, pulling stuff out of his hair,

although I would never ask to borrow something

from him. Yeah, no. His eating weird things,

carrying around the big club. caveman talk, pulling

stuff out of his hair, his catchphrases like

the ungebunga, saying his name, Captain Caveman.

It's just all made for a very cool character.

And as far as the Teen Angels go, you basically

have Shaggy, Velma, and Fred. Because Brenda

is the cowardly one, Dee Dee is the brainy one

who solves all the mysteries, and Taffy is the

one that comes up with the plans. You definitely

have the Scooby -Doo characters. It's kind of

like a combination. We want to do the Charlie's

Angels, but since the whole show is going to

be a premise exactly like Scooby -Doo, then we

have to make them more like Scooby -Doo, so it's

like a cross between them. Yeah. Doing the voice

of Brenda, which is the cowardly brunette, is

Marilyn Scheffler, wears a pink top usually.

Dee Dee is the brainy African -American who usually

wears a red turtleneck and has an afro, and she's

voiced by Bernie Watson. And Taffy, which is

the blonde one, which you said, you know, basically

comes up with the plan and has her renowned cry,

Zowie, is voiced by Laurel Page. And obviously

none of those, I mean, they're decent voice actors,

but they're not ones that did a ton of stuff

in their careers. Yeah. Outside of, you know,

one of the voice acting gods, this show, meh.

It's full of voice acting gods after those three

teenagers. Okay, well, until I'm looking down

here, outside of, as far as the main characters,

outside of the three, the only one that really

matters, obviously, is Captain Caveman. But as

you said, the other voices, Dewey Bennett, Ted

Cassidy, Henry Corden's... I ain't even going

there. Stephanie Anna Kristofferson, who actually

is the original, for 12 episodes, the original

voice of Daphne Blake on Scooby Doo. And Nicole

Jaffe, or I don't know if I'm saying that name

right, is the original voice of Velma. Oh, cool.

Hold on, the Scooby Doo connections continue.

Casey Cason, the original voice of Shaggy, and

Frank Welker is the original voice of Freddy.

So this is not only a take off of Scooby -Doo,

they brought all the voice actors from Scooby

-Doo over. You're also missing Scooby itself

on Messick. Of course. Exactly. You know. And

actually, this is crazy, Heather North, I believe,

is also a person who either took over the role

of Velma or Daphne, one of them, later on. And

then you have Gene Vanderpyl as whoever. I'm

sure all these other people are all of the SOT

characters or the villains. So that's kind of

cool. But just glancing over this list, this

show by itself has one, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine people on it that were

either in my top ten male or female voice actors

before the 1980s. So it's half of the people

that were on my to -list are on this show somewhere.

But yeah, outside of the main character, you'd

really have to go to all the guest stars because

the teen angels themselves... They suck. Both

as characters and not necessarily suck as voice

actors, but they just aren't as famous as well

the characters they They suck But yeah, my favorite

characters Captain Caveman and my least favorite

character is all the other characters Yeah, you

know, I mean, I'm sure once we get into the actual

show and some of the some of the other stuff

It'll mention cavey and son. I like the whole

dynamic of Captain Caveman and son Yeah, that's

kind of a cool thing. Even though it wasn't part

of... And see, that's why when I first thought

of doing Captain Caveman and you added... You

were the one that actually added the Teen Angel's

Crap part of the title to the thing. That's the

official name. Well, I never knew it was the

official... I just always thought it was Captain

Caveman. Because that's what I always saw it

as, so... It's kind of like GoBots, even though

it's the challenge of the GoBots. Fuck them damn

GoBots and Transformers knockoffs. Anyways, we're

not going to get back into that. Hands down,

Captain Caveman is the favorite. Moving into

the behind the scenes segment. Not much here,

actually. It's just the credits. Obviously, Hannah

Barbera, Charles A. Nichols, who we've talked

about a couple of times throughout the Hannah

Barbera spotlight, Ruby and Spears. Andy Hayward,

I don't know who the hell that is. I wonder if

that is meant to say Ray Parker Jr. I think Andy

Hayward is one of the guys that's the leftover

from one of the guys they took from Warner Brothers

or those places. Yeah, it was pretty much almost

the same crew as working with one of the other

shows. Hong Kong or Magilla? I think it's pretty

close to Hong Kong, Chloe. Yeah, it was either

Hong Kong or Magilla. I'm not sure. There is

one other name that stands out, though. Wally

Burr. Yeah, Wally Burr is the recording director

in one of his probably earlier roles. Or at least

it's the first time we've seen him show up, basically.

Before Transformers. Well, and in the Hannah

Barbera cartoon style. There is one guy who wrote

some stories for Transformers that wrote for

this, but... Yeah, we don't want you to blow

your... We're not gonna even mention him. If

you wanna know who that is, you can check the

credits on Lime somewhere, but he sucks, so...

It's much in the line of a lot of us Well, obviously

you're not a Red Sox fan a lot of us Red Sox

fans that that have a middle name for Bucky Dent

Donald fucking glut Going into the actual show

I almost forgot about that Captain Caveman centers

on the mystery -solving adventures of the Teen

Angels, Brenda, Dee Dee, and Taffy, and their

friend, Captain Caveman, or Cavey for short,

a prehistoric caveman whom the girls discovered

and thawed from a block of ice. The concept and

general plot for the show was seen as a parody

of Charlie's Angels, which also aired on ABC,

and also barred heavily from other Hannah Barbera

shows such as Scooby -Doo and Josie and the Pussycats.

That's wrong. Nope, there was no music playing

in this one. Captain Caveman's powers include

super strength, a variety of useful objects hidden

inside his fur, and a club that allows him to

fly, from which pops out different tools he uses

to fight crime. His trademark is his battle cry

of Captain Caveman. Captain Caveman's voice was

provided by Mel Blank. The first and second seasons

of the show remained part of the Scooby's All

-Star Laugh Olympics and Scooby's All -Stars

through 1979. Cavey and the girls also participated

in sporting competitions as part of the Scooby

Doobies team on the Half Hour Laugh Olympics

segment. In March 1980, Captain Caveman and the

Teen Angels were given their own half hour show.

with 16 new episodes combined with reruns from

77 to 79. A total of 40 10 -minute episodes were

produced, 16 in 77 -78, 8 in 78 -79, and 16 in

1980. Yeah, one of those things, I think you

were trying to mention it when we tried to record

this last week. This show actually is very different

from most Hanover cartoons in the fact that it

had 10 -minute shorts. Most of them had what

six seven -minute shorts? Yeah, most of the time

especially in the early on you had three six

to seven minute shorts and at the same time they

were all three different components Whereas in

Captain Caveman, and I'm pretty sure with Hong

Kong Fooey as well You had two ten -minute shorts,

but it was both the same title show right, right

So yeah, it's a little different I mean if you

were tracing back the the history of cartoons

his you know cartoons on TV started with three

seven -minute segments then they eventually evolved

into two ten -minute segments and then eventually

obviously to the one twenty to twenty five -minute

segment although some obviously have tried to

harken back on that kinda classic feel and done

shorter segments stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs

and a lot of the more modern stuff has done shorter

segments you know if you if you think about it

like or even the older cartoons that we're talking

about now, if you think about it, especially

with this show, you got two 10 -minute segments.

Say on TV, a cartoon is 30 minutes. Two 10 -minute

segments is 20 minutes, and then an additional

10 minutes for advertisements. I also think it's

easier to write, one thing, the shorter segments.

without being an actual cartoon writer, of course.

But I also think that it's easier for comedies

and lighter subject materials to do these short

segments. You know, it's when you get into the

actual big time action -edited adventure cartoons

that you usually need more than a seven or ten

minute clip to tell your story. That's why I

think you see with Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and

I can't think of all the others, but there's

been a lot of others since then. It's usually

more of the fun, music, comedy, lighthearted

that has the short segments. Right, right. I

guess, what? Nothing, I'm just looking at the

theme song. Oh, yeah. Going into the music segment.

Take it away! Ta -da! The opening credits for

each episode consisted of a voiceover narration

by none other than Gary Owens, and this is how

it went basically. Set free by the Teen Angels

from his prehistoric block of glacier ice comes

the world's first superhero, Captain Caveman.

Now the constant companion to the Teen Angels,

Brenda. DD and Taffy and their hilarious and

sometimes scary mystery missions get ready for

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels and then

of course you'd have Mel Blanc doing his long

drawn out Captain Caveman thing and the music

this is weird but the music heard in the closing

credits is actually crap not again the CB Bears

another cartoon show that was airing at the exact

same time is is its actual theme music so the

theme music for CB Bears is in the closing credits

of This show which just makes it seem like they

must have been hard up for music at that time

period Must have been And we won't get into the

CB Bears other than nobody knows besides that

they were a cartoon at the same time anything

about that I don't know what the hell that show

is and it will never be covered on this podcast.

That's for sure Obviously musical directions

done by Hoyt curtain and Ted Nichols as so many

of the other ones we've done Going into the legacy

segment, why don't you take the Flintstone connection?

All right Basically in November 1980 Captain

Caveman began to star in segments of his own

on The Flintstone comedy show one of many spinoffs

of Hannah Barbera's popular primetime show the

Flintstones Often in a role similar to that of

Superman Captain Caveman worked at the Daily

Granite newspaper With Wilma and Betty his secret

identity was Chester the office boy To disguise

himself as Chester, Captain Caveman wore a pair

of glasses and a tie over his completely hairy

self. Despite the simplicity of his disguise,

he required a coat rack and an elaborate transformation

sequence to become Captain Caveman. Mainly the

Flintstone Kids connection which is in 1986 Captain

Caveman appeared in the backup segment of the

Flintstone Kids called Captain Caveman and Son.

Which I remember watching that more than the

actual show that we're talking about today. I

actually remember watching that more than the

actual Flintstone Kids. His son K .B. Junior

was voiced by Charles Adler who is also the voice

of Buster in Tiny Toons. Uh, in this case, he

appeared on a show within a show that the younger

versions of Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty enjoyed

watching. The captain's mumbled unga bunga became

a catchphrase that the kids would shout before

watching each episode of the show. The whole

secret identity idea was also ignored or forgotten.

Uh, thank God. I didn't realize that was a bad

idea. Yeah, thank God. As far as some of the

other appearances, Captain Caveman later appeared

in the Harvey Bardman attorney -at -law episode,

The Evolutionary War, with Captain Caveman voiced

by Chris Edgierly and Cavey Jr. voiced by Maurice

LaMarche. His son Cavey Jr. was teased at school

because his existence proved the theory of evolution.

That was that's kind of I'm so glad we I don't

even remember watching Harvey Birdman attorney

-at -law, so I don't think that'll ever be Yeah,

thank God He appeared in a robot chicken in an

episode we won't get into why or how He's out

there in a episode called ban on the fun And

then he's been in a couple of video games and

computer stuff that we don't need to talk about

And then in the Family Guy episode named Perfect

Castaway, Peter expresses how much he misses

Captain Caveman and vows that he will see him

again once he gets off the island. That's so

stupid. Ben and a bunch of stuff. Family Guy

is one of the greatest primetime cartoons of

all time. Ding! Wrong. No, it's better than Simpsons

and a lot of other stuff. Whatever. And Captain

Caveman's been featured in I Love the 70s, that

show that we saw on VH1 all those years ago.

And of course, the 100 Greatest Cartoons TV Special

in 2005, although it's not in IGN's top 100.

Eh, well, it's not go there now. I don't know

if I mentioned it or not on the last episode,

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to close out the Hannah Barbera spotlight and

I know that a lot of you may not be too thrilled

with us for not covering uh... certain cartoons

uh... just because of time constraints and the

episode numbers uh... as far as uh... the skater

to guess goes it was one of those things where

we had to pick and choose like some of the most

famous animal rare cartoons uh... we basically

had to pick and choose uh... in a lot of different

parts of this so i guess we have a hundred episodes

to cover as many tunes in and try to go across

the spectrum and hit genres and all all things

that were you know prominent and so we've we've

had to make choice in all of the we had to make

choices in the disney spotlight we have to make

choices in the hand of a very spotlight we even

have to make choices when it comes down to the

regular everyday cartoon type thing so exactly

or doing our best but if there's no way we can

cover everything very true uh... you know originally

the spot was going to be longer The reason why

it wasn't was because I wanted to obviously put

the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown out for Easter

because it's a holiday thing. And it was the

last Charlie Brown cartoon we were going to cover.

I'm sure Kevin's happy of that. Shut up. And

people are probably wondering, well, where's

Flintstones? Where's Jetsons? Where's Scooby

-Doo? Flintstones and Jetsons got their own,

actually the Flintstones and the Jetsons are

in the same episode, they got their own episode

back in episode 21. Scooby -Doo and some of the

other Scooby -Doo incarnations like Thirteen

Ghosts and Scooby -Doo movies will not air or

will not be covered until I think it's somewhere

in the 70s of the show. And we did already cover

a... A pup named Scooby -Doo, yeah. But basically

you've got to consider that if we find a genre

or a group that we've left out and that we want

to cover, which is also kind of what happened

even though we've cut down a couple of the Hannah

Barbera shows that gave us an opportunity to

hit a whole other group with what will be after

this. Right. with the sonic stuff. Right. Yeah.

Scooby -Doo is episode 77 or so. Yes. And then

there, I don't know, I'll have to look at the

schedule later. I don't have it pulled up at

the moment. There's actually quite a few Hanna

-Barbera ones that we'll still cover in other

fashion. Oh yeah, and I think it's one of those

things where, you know, the whole point of this

spotlight was to take some of these smaller cartoons,

like, and about... Give them a chance to shine.

Right. And I'm not saying that Yogi Bear is less

popular than Scooby -Doo or Huckle. It has nothing

to do with that. I wanted to get a whole bunch

of those mini -type cartoons, like Huckleberry

Hound. Hell, we didn't even mention Snaggle Puss,

this entire spotlight, unfortunately. Well, and

we also barely, you know, there's a lot of side

components that we tried to get in when we covered

their episodes, but we might not have given a

lot of attention, like, you know, Pumpkin Puss

and Mush Mouse, or Pixie and Dixie and Jinx and

all that. But, you know, with bigger properties

like the Jetsons and the Flintstones, which have

already been covered, and coming up with Scooby

Doo and stuff like that, I wanted to give them

their own episode. Yeah. So, I mean, basically

what we've done is we've started at the beginning

of Hannah Barbera and we've covered a lot of

the early stuff and some of the stuff that may

not have had enough information to make a whole

episode. But I think we've gone, you know, we've

gone all the way from the very first one all

the way up through the 1980s. So we've covered

Hannah Barbera over the course of 30 years. Yeah.

And, you know, I think we've done a good job

selecting them. Just to give you an idea, just

for those that may not have been watching us

the whole time, you can go back and watch these

episodes, but we've covered Huckleberry Hound,

Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Hong Kong Fooey,

Jabberjaw, McGilligarilla, and now Captain Caveman.

I would like to be put on record as saying you

forcibly told me to remove Grape Ape, which Grape

Ape was one of the best cartoons that they had.

Maybe not as famous as Yogi Bear or Huckleberry

Hound, but it was still a cool cartoon. speak

highly of of great but i remember it finally

from when i was a child i think that for the

record the ones that got caught off cut off or

uh... great paper and and adam and secret squirrel

and i remember great paper when i was a kid i

just love how it's a great great great great

you know that uh... that was cool but you know

those are some of the shows that we didn't cover

but just given my thoughts on on the ones that

we have covered not leave everything else to

you but uh... i have one reason i enjoyed the

thought of doing this and doing this is because

a lot of these cartoons I hadn't seen since either

I was a kid or since I, you know, for a long

time and it gave me a chance to watch them and

it gave me a chance to remember or to figure

out as my adult self which ones I still like

or which ones were better than others and there's

actually a couple of these I'm gonna go out and

get on DVD. There's a couple that are not available

on DVD but I am gonna get a couple of them. And

the my favorites that we've covered over the

spotlight by far and I didn't know this going

in Even though it's probably the most famous

one, but Yogi Bear is just awesome Yeah, huh?

The stories are great. The voice acting is great

everything about I every episode I've watched

in doing this podcast None of them I wanted to

turn off none of them I got bored with none of

them I was like how much longer is this gonna

last which I can't say for some of the other

Shows that we've covered on here Huckleberry

Hound was okay, but I actually think I prefer

Quickdraw McGraw over Huckleberry Hound. I just

like Baba Louie and Quickdraw McGraw a little

bit better as characters than Huckleberry Hound.

Huckleberry Hound just naturally, I mean it was

intentional, but it's naturally easier to get

bored with him with his slow talking and whatnot.

As far as the others go, Jabberjaw and Captain

Caveman are kind of hard to watch these days

even though they have two great characters. It's

just hard to... deal with the rest of the show.

But yeah, Jabberjaw himself and Captain Caveman

are cool. And I'm kind of indifferent when it

comes to McGilligarilla. I like the idea of McGilligarilla,

but some of the episodes I got kind of tired

of it. So I'd say my favorites are Yogi Bear,

Quick Draw McGraw, and I'll give an honorable

mention to Hong Kong Fooey. Speaking of Jabberjaw,

I don't know. You haven't commented on it yet,

but I tagged you in a photo on Facebook because

I found the Jabberjaw bobblehead. Oh, yeah, I

saw that. That was awesome. And you had asked,

how the hell are they going to have a bobblehead?

It's a shark. And I looked at the toy. Now, I

don't know if you can actually buy this, but

I looked at the bobblehead, and where his tail

is is a separate piece. And then, like from his

midsection up, it where his head is that's a

separate piece so that whole piece is Is what

bobbles it kind of defeats the purpose of an

actual bobble head more of a bobble doll Yeah,

it's more of a it's more of a bobble body Yes,

but you know I would say that Jamerrill's voice

is probably one of the best voices in the whole

Hannah Barbera spotlight, not just because it

was Frank Welker, just because it was a cool

take on Curly. And we had some remarkably good

take, you know, Hong Kong Fooey with Scatman

Crothers is a good voice, Mel Blanc with Captain

Caveman is a good voice. So there were some pretty

cool voices here. But as far as the whole spotlight

goes, do you have a favorite show? See, it's

so hard to pick, but I mean honestly... Hong

Kong in there because not really like number

one overall, but I would put it in there because

like you said scatman carothers, and I didn't

even know it was scatman carothers until you

Until I actually read the information and I was

like, oh wait Yeah, because I you know I started

thinking about it because obviously when you're

doing a podcast You're doing a research on these

things and then you start talking you're like,

oh, yeah. Wow Yeah, you're right that that's

that or that's that I like huckleberry, and I

like yogi one of the reasons why I like huckleberry

is just some of the strange Situations that that

the animators and Stan and writers put him in

like being a policeman and Trying to catch the

bad guys down the freeway, and they trick him

into doing something or when he's Being the mailman

and the dog won't let him Deliver the mail you

know But really you know honestly a lot of this

stuff like like huckleberry and of course we

really mentioned snaggle puss and yogi and all

that stuff I Remember them as the combination

shows like that one big yogi all the big yogi

bear combination shows and movies Because I remember

them getting all together for the majority of

it Yeah, and that's a good those are fun things

to see I almost feel like I'm cheating chosen

choosing yogi bear i will say that from now on

if i ever and this is just talking about i g

n but and any list that ever comes out of either

the top fifty or top one hundred cartoons of

all time if you'll be there's not on that list

it's an it's an automatic fail It's just an automatic

fail. There may be a couple other of these that

we've talked about that some may like better

than Yogi Bear, but for how long Yogi Bear's

lasted, for its impact, for all the spin -offs

and everything else like that, if it's not in

a top 50 or top 100 list, it's just a complete

epic failure. And I just think one last time

we should probably give a recognition or give

out props or shout outs even though most of them

are no longer with us Hannah Barbera themselves

Don Messick and Dodge Butler for doing most of

the voices that we've covered over the spotlight

and Mel Blank for some of them obviously Frank

Welker for some of them and then Ruby and Spears

for their impact in this but just Hannah Barbera

putting out classic stuff oh yeah very much so

and some of it doesn't stand up to the test of

time but Some of it does. And the stuff that

does is just beyond classic. Oh, yes. Very, very

much so. So I guess that's going to be it for

us for this episode. I would like to put out

there, even though they won't be able to get

back to us in a timely manner as far as hearing

it right away. But anybody that's listening to

this episode, I would like you to call. Call

our voicemail in and just give us a quick snippet

of what your favorite Hanover Bear cartoon is.

And if you want to, give us your least favorite

too, but I'd like to hear some of your other

peoples, because I feel like I'm cheating picking

Yogi Bear. Well, I mean, let's be honest. Yogi,

Scooby, Huckleberry. If you pick those top tier

ones, who... who's left, you know, grape ape,

pumpkin puss, mush mouse, you know, just all

the side care. And it's like I said in the, when

we talked about pumpkin puss and all that, I

actually preferred watching the pumpkin puss

and mush mouse cartoons to the McGilligrilla

show. I mean, McGilligrilla's okay, I mean, there's

nothing wrong with McGilligrilla. It's okay,

it's not the best show in the world, but It's

just one of those things where I preferred watching

the side characters. And I think it said something

similar with Pixie and Dixie as well. Yeah. Well,

Pixie and Mr. Jinx is just hilarious. Yeah. But,

you know, give us a call in and tell us what

your favorite Hannah Barbera show was. That'd

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and roll out and thank you for listening until

next time. Free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric

block of glacier ice, comes the world's first

superhero, Captain Caveman! Now the constant

companion to the Teen Angels, Sender, Dee Dee,

and Taffy in their hilarious and sometimes scary

mystery missions! Get ready for Captain Caveman

and the Teen Angels!