After the theme to an 80s cartoon...

Post by **Denyer** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:48 am

http://www.vandegrift.net/evert/retro_main.html

It's called "The Bluffers", the link's dead, and I've had no joy pulling things out of Google so far.

On a side-note, how many of those do you recognise?

homerbot · Post by **homerbot** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:55 am

i recognise alot but i believe i have seen somewhere near 27 of them

and these are all older than me i think

Dead Man Wade · Post by **Dead Man Wade** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:17 am

Remembered most of them...

They have the SPC, though.

homerbot · Post by **homerbot** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:47 pm

also, i have heard funny things about the a team
such things as that they could each be given loaded machine guns and several clips, unload on a crowd and not kill anyone

Dead Man Wade · Post by **Dead Man Wade** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:32 am

Originally posted by homerbot
also, i have heard funny things about the a team
such things as that they could each be given loaded machine guns and several clips, unload on a crowd and not kill anyone

Pretty much. They're worse than the characters in a Bond movie, meaning every criminal/innocent bystander/plucky youngster with a criminal record and a heart of gold can rest easy (secure in the knowledge that Hannibal, despite being a highly-trained commando, couldn't hit them with an elephant gun from ten paces).

I think the only things to get shot in that show were the following:

-Well placed drums of flammable fluid.

-Murdock's teddy bear (which made him go postal, as I recall)

-The front wheel of any speeding jeep loaded with heavily-armed nogoodnicks, which invariably sent the thing careening over the ramps that every small town/orphanage/locally owned farmers' coop seems to have decided adds to the property value

-Whatever heavily armed tank B.A. managed to cobble together from an Edsel and two tons of sheet metal

Gesani · Post by **Gesani** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:42 am

wow.. i remember 43 of those shows..... and i am not that old either..

Of course you can only get a few of those on DVD... i seen the first season of Knight Rider the other night at Walmart...
only if they could bring more back either on DVD or by rerun..

edit:44.. i missed the gummi bears....

bluekatt · Post by **bluekatt** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:36 am

Off that list i reconigze and have seen 75 .
I remember most of them ...and now i want to see those again

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:07 am

63 that I remember clearly, about another 10 that I half remember.

Sir Auros · Post by **Sir Auros** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:14 am

Didn't bother counting, but I remember a lot of them. Wish I had episodes for many of them. They could use an English-language version of David the Gnome...

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:41 am

I wasn't going to bother counting myself, but it beats actually doing work. The thing that surprised me most is how many of the ones I don't remember I'm actually quite familiar with due to the internet and nostalgia culture.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:30 am

That site brings back memories:

Heathcliff-One of the great theme tunes.

The Raccoons-I remember the movie, that seesm out of contunity from the cartoon I remember, am I right?

Does anybody remember a cartoon called vicky the viking? I recall enjoying it hugely and that he rubbed his finger under his nose to get an idea.

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:51 pm

Vaguely. The names not familiar, but a viking with the nose-rubbing is.

bluekatt · Post by **bluekatt** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:04 pm

I remember it as wicki the viking .
And after looking it up on google i rememberd jayce and the wheeld warriors as well. Used to had a toy of it.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:28 pm

59 personally, which is kinda scary. Many of them were things I tended to watch on holiday, though...

Caught the site at a time it had bandwidth. That's one half-memory I can lay to rest, along with the big red Dai-X robot, and Laputa: The Castle in the Sky. That last one drove me crazy for years... it's great being able to dig up this kind of stuff online now...

The Raccoons-I remember the movie, that seesm out of contunity from the cartoon I remember, am I right?

The part of my head which retrieves vague impressions is agreeing, anyway.

King Fargo · Post by **King Fargo** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:37 am

I saw about 34 of those while growing up.

homerbot · Post by **homerbot** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:24 am

Originally posted by Denyer
59 personally, which is kinda scary. Many of them were things I tended to watch on holiday, though...

Caught the site at a time it had bandwidth. That's one half-memory I can lay to rest, along with the big red Dai-X robot, and Laputa: The Castle in the Sky. That last one drove me crazy for years... it's great being able to dig up this kind of stuff online now...

The part of my head which retrieves vague impressions is agreeing, anyway.

its not that scary, weren't all these made in the eighties? the age i was born 24 days after:rant: ?
i totally missed the eighties:(

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:54 pm

Originally posted by Denyer
59 personally, which is kinda scary. Many of them were things I tended to watch on holiday, though...

Caught the site at a time it had bandwidth. That's one half-memory I can lay to rest, along with the big red Dai-X robot, and Laputa: The Castle in the Sky. That last one drove me crazy for years... it's great being able to dig up this kind of stuff online now...

Laputa is on DVD now, it's just titled 'castle in the sky' as Laputa was 'offensive' to someone. It's been redubbed though.

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:15 pm

Originally posted by Jetfire 2.1
Laputa is on DVD now, it's just titled 'castle in the sky' as Laputa was 'offensive' to someone. It's been redubbed though.

Well, it does mean "the whore" in some countries, so I'm not all that surprised.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:54 pm

Originally posted by angloconvoy
Well, it does mean "the whore" in some countries, so I'm not all that surprised.

It also means the 'bitch'. But not in english.....

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:47 am

I think its transposable to mean either of those, which, now we are supposed to be integrating into europe more, would be an offensive thing to put on shelves in the children's/family section.