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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 14, 2005 22:08:13 GMT -8
it's a minor annoyance to me that talking about these cartoons now has to include that stupid Harvey show.
anyway, i never saw this show growing up. i really enjoy The Galaxy Trio, it's very cool- Star Trek meets the FF, really. Birdman, while interesting, is probably the biggest square ever- i mean, even worse than me!  gotta love the idea of Avenger, his eagle. that's one HUGE bird.
anyway, it ran for a year, Birdman got 40 episodes while the Galaxy Trio got 20. fun stuff.
David
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 15, 2005 10:09:23 GMT -8
Yeah, but Harvey Birdman is freakin funny as hell. I don't care for the Sealab spoof, as it is smut just for smuts sake. Harvey is pretty damn funny and the satire is pretty funny. I didn't care for the regular Birdman because as you said, he was quite the square. Galaxy Trio on the other hand is pretty cool. I like your comparison, Star Trek meets FF, that works.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 15, 2005 12:01:35 GMT -8
i think i read that comparison in an old issue of Fantastic Films. they were giving an overview of Saturday morning tv, pretty positive, although they assumed that every Japanese show from the 60s was a cartoon (Ultraman, Johnny Sokko) and from the same studio. i do enjoy Galaxy Trio, but Birdman is pretty funny since he's such a square, the unintentional kind of humor, that is.
David
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Post by Preston on Apr 14, 2006 13:51:20 GMT -8
The other day,I was at the local comics shop, and I noticed two other gents in their late 40s or so, discussing cartoons from the 1960s which they had obviously watched during their youth. I joined in the chat briefly, during the course of which the three of us added some "background" to METEOR-MAN of the Galaxy Trio. This is somewhat off-the-wall,so it's not meant to be taken seriously at all, but still enjoyable to ponder on. It centers on Meteor-Man's superpower of enlarging his hands, and also confining that enlargement to those hands. In our off-the-wall conjecture, it was suggested that maybe Meteor-Man was one of the previous experiments conducted by the SKRULL-aliens from the FANTASTIC FOUR series from which they eventually developed the SUPER-Skrull who possesses all Four superpowers of the Fantastic Four. That is, the enlargement of his hands seems to resemble that of BEN GRIMM. And to further bolster the theory is the fact that METEOR-MAN has the Pointy-Ears which resemble those of the Skrulls. Admittedly, Meteor-Man has smooth skin as compared to the craggy reptilian skin of the Skrulls, so obviously that difference had resulted from the Super-Skrull experiments.
That conjecture is an overlapping between the Marvel Universe and the Hanna-Barbera Universe, so, as I said, it's not meant to be taken seriously at all. Instead,the whole purpose was to provide some "background" for Meteor-Man. After all, the three members of that GALAXY TRIO have NO background, except for GRAVITY-GIRL who is described as coming from a Royal family. Other than that, the Disappointing-lack of background for the other members motivated us to create a background for Meteor-Man.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 10, 2007 17:16:40 GMT -8
picked up this set today, it looks just great. i haven't watched the doc on this one, it seems to have a 20 minute version of the Toth one from Space Ghost, so i'm hoping this has more to it about the actual hero.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Aug 10, 2007 18:59:36 GMT -8
I have Birdman and Space Ghost sets in my Netflix queue. I know I've seen the show before but I really don't remember much about them. I did rememberl Birdman's large eagle assistant ant the Space Ghost becomes invisible, leaving an outline so the viewer knows where he is.
I don't remember Galaxy Trio (or the other shows thats with Space Ghost) at all.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Aug 11, 2007 21:13:02 GMT -8
I used to watch the Galaxy Trio and Birdman on Boomerang. I really thought they were pretty cool and for some reason they really had a golden age comic vibe to me. Well maybe early silver age but still, they just had that classic old school feel to them. Birdman was pretty cool, didn't mean to say earlier I didn't like him, just one reason why HBAAL is so funny to me.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Aug 11, 2007 23:16:34 GMT -8
that's where i saw most of the episodes to begin with. i didn't think you were dissing the show. it's fun, and i'm looking forward to the doc at the end.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Oct 9, 2007 14:04:21 GMT -8
I watched the second Birdman disc this afternoon, after work. Not a bad little show. I do wonder what happened to Birdboy though.
For some reason the evil group's name goes from having each letter pronounced (F-E-A-R) to having the word pronounced ("fear") instead. Like any other good villain "Number 1" refuses to stay dead.
As for Galaxy Trio, it seems that other people from Vapor Man and Gravity Girl's home planets have similar powers. She's a princess by the way.
The short documentary briefly mentions the artist.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Oct 20, 2007 20:35:58 GMT -8
ah ha! this Michael Ouwleen TOOL is from the Harvey Birdman show, claiming that Birdman was the pre-eminent super show from H-B in the 60s, conveniently forgetting Space Ghost or the Herculoids which have always been more popular than Birdman.
of course, he couldn't think of his own creation, so that explains that.
sorry, i really don't like the harvey show.
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Post by tyranitar42 on Jul 22, 2008 13:11:22 GMT -8
The only thing I didn't like about the OG Birdman was his crying out "BIIIIIIRRRRRDDDDDMMMMAAAAANNNNN!!!" at least three times a cartoon, and even had my soon doing it around the house! Drove my wife up the wall. I would like to stay out of the doghouse, so watching that again isn't likely!  As far has Harvey Birdman went, I felt is was very hit and miss. That's just me though. Still love the ATHF though. That show is soooo wrong I just laugh all the time. |
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