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Swat Kats back on tv

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For any of you who remember this Cartoon Network series from the mid 90's (teir first original series, too) it's back on Boomerang, weekdays at 4pm.

Although it only lasted 2 seasons, it was a really cool show. It had great animation, music, voice-acting, continuity, and, over time, an awesome rogues gallery.

Glad to see it finally hit reruns on Boomerang.

In other news, The Tick will be back on Toon Disney around June 6th as part of their late night Jetix line-up. Sweet.
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I liked Swat Kats. It was quite violent too, didn't it?

But from what I remember, continuity wasn't cared about much in second season.
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It was pretty violent. Morbulus died in the first episode and most of the villains ended up getting offed by the end of the series.

The continuity was still really good by the second season, they just changed animation studios (the 2nd season studio was better, IMO).

The only major continuity issue I ever noticed was with the Pastmaster. Typically, he ended up getting hurled into another time or dimension at the end of his episodes with no way back. Yet he always came back...somehow. Well, except in his last episode where he got dunked in lava and died. Ah well.
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Didn't even realize I had Boomerang until I started looking for Swat Kats...:glance:

Anyway, Swat Kats was suprisingly good, considering the premise.
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i remember the swat cats too, they were cool

i hope they will be back on danish tv too,

my favorit willans were always the metalicats and Dr. .....I don't know his english name, that mutant guy, he had some snakes name in the danish dub.

and violent it were:D

who was Morbulus, i cant remember him :confused: was it that guy with eyes on the back of his head?
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Awesome! I missed that show ever since CN dumped it. Now if I could only get time to actually watch it.:wall:
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Originally posted by RUNAMOK
i remember the swat cats too, they were cool

i hope they will be back on danish tv too,

my favorit willans were always the metalicats and Dr. .....I don't know his english name, that mutant guy, he had some snakes name in the danish dub.

and violent it were:D

who was Morbulus, i cant remember him :confused: was it that guy with eyes on the back of his head?


You're thinking of Dr. Viper, the mad scientist that was part snake. I especially liked his last episode in season 2 where he mutated himself into a giant Godzilla-like monster and then got blonw to bits by the Swat Kats.

And Morbulus was only in the first episode. He was the pilot with eyes in the back of his head who got turned into the Bacteria Manster by Dr. Viper and subsequently killed in the same episode.
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I remember that show! we didnt have cartoon network around these parts so it came on annother channel like ytv or soemthing. unfortunately i think they only showed a couple of episodes from what i can remember.
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Originally posted by DrSpengler
You're thinking of Dr. Viper, the mad scientist that was part snake. I especially liked his last episode in season 2 where he mutated himself into a giant Godzilla-like monster and then got blonw to bits by the Swat Kats.


i remember that too, diden't he also turn the sity into one big mutant swapm at that time?
Originally posted by DrSpengler
And Morbulus was only in the first episode. He was the pilot with eyes in the back of his head who got turned into the Bacteria Manster by Dr. Viper and subsequently killed in the same episode.


yep, all four parts of him.
but somthing isen't logical in that episode, because i remember the episode with Dr. vipers creation beeing aired later
Originally posted by Hawkeye
I remember that show! we didnt have cartoon network around these parts so it came on annother channel like ytv or soemthing. unfortunately i think they only showed a couple of episodes from what i can remember.


funny, when i saw it, it weren't on CN ither, i saw it on a channel called TV3(viasat)
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Wow, I remember that show, and I used to think the theme song kicked ass. In fact, every once in a while, I can hear it in my head. :)
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I remember watching the show as well, didn't the 2 main characters have a black and red F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as their main means of transport/attack? I'm pretty sure the actor who provided the voice for the co-pilot/mechanic also provided the voice for Donatello in the old TMNT cartoon. What were the main characters called?
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Originally posted by Orion1
I remember watching the show as well, didn't the 2 main characters have a black and red F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as their main means of transport/attack? I'm pretty sure the actor who provided the voice for the co-pilot/mechanic also provided the voice for Donatello in the old TMNT cartoon. What were the main characters called?


T-Bone (Chance) and Razor (Jake).

Yeah, Razor was the voice of Don as well as the voice of the Nestle Quick Bunny. T-Bone was voiced by Charlie Adler, the guy who did Buster Bunny on Tiny Toons, Mr. and Mrs. Big-Head on Rocko's Modern Life, and Cow & Chicken on their show.

Great voice talent on that cartoon.
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Thanks doc
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swat kats totally kicked @ss... i used to just watch it for their modified F-14 that they used.. that 3 engine plane was awesome.. thats to bad it didn't come out as a toy.. now that would have been cool...
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Wait I remember this, didn't they deliver Pizza too? I'm serious.
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Originally posted by Wildrider
Wait I remember this, didn't they deliver Pizza too? I'm serious.


That would be Samurai Pizza Cats.

The main difference between the two shows is that Swat Kats was cool and Samurai Pizza Cats was not.
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Originally posted by DrSpengler
That would be Samurai Pizza Cats.

The main difference between the two shows is that Swat Kats was cool and Samurai Pizza Cats was not.


actually the main difference was that swat kats took it self seriousley and was a serious violent show
while samurai pizza cats was a self concious satire that took the piss out of any thing including it self its own genre sentai anime and the super robot genre in anime

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