Talkback: "Boomernag on Cartoon Network" (9/11-9/12)

[Zach Williams]

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"Boomerang on Cartoon Network"
September 11 - September 12, 2004

Saturday September 11, 2004 (6 AM)
The Flinststones
Ep. 59 - Latin Lover


Impressed by actor Roberto Rocketing, Wilma tries to turn Fred into a reasonable facsimile, and is surprisingly successful--ultimately a little too successful, as the dashing, mustachioed Fred now causes women to swoon in his arms.

Sunday September 11, 2004 (6:30 AM)
Looney Tunes
Sleepy Time Possum/Now Hare This/Tweet and Sour


A father possum tries to stop his son from sleeping the day away. ;The Wolf and his nephew use various fairy tales to try to lure Bugs out of his hole. ;Sylvester must stop a one-eyed orange alley cat from catching Tweety. "Let me warn you, Sylvester, if there is one little feather, just one little feather, harmed on this bird, I'm going to sell you to the violin string factory," Granny declares. But the orange cat won't give up on dinner! Is it all worth it in the end?
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Sunday September 12, 2004 (6 AM)
The Jetsons
Ep. 1 - Rosie The Robot


Jane wants a maid but George says they can't afford it. He invites Mr. Spacely over for dinner but what he doesn't know is that Jane has taken a free one day trial offer on a slightly used 'Rosie'. George is in a panic because he thinks that he can't possibly convince Mr. Spacely that he needs the raise if he sees Rosie. Mr. Spacely sees the robot, and storms out the door, that is, after he fires George.

Sunday September 12, 2004 (6:30 AM)
Looney Tunes
Iceman Ducketh/Wacky Wildlife/Dixie Fryer


When Daffy sees the large amounts of cash be giving out for furs, he decides to go out and get his own, but he's too late as Winter sets in, but the greedy duck pursues after Bugs. ;A truly twisted nature short showing nature out of kilter, with spot gags involving animals in the wild. ;Foghorn hitches a ride to a new area only to end up living next to 2 adult country hick chicken hawks who want to eat him.

[Zach Williams]

I will ad the Looney Tunes descirptions as soon as I can. I was late putting it up because my compter is down.:sad:

There, the Looney Tunes descriptions are up. BCDB was down this morning, so I was late.

[Mister Intensity]

I hate what Boomerang on CN has become. Now it is just a half-hour of the same H-B staples instead of a showcase of cartoons by year. It's sad because it was a good idea that Cartoon Network never used to its full potential.

R.I.P. Boomerang on Cartoon Network

Mister Intensity

[Zach Williams]

R.I.P. Boomerang on Cartoon Network
It ain't dead yet, its still a hour a week. I think it should be:

5 - Cartoon Roullette
6 - Boomerang on CN
7 - Looney Tunes

That's a bit of classics. The action cartoons are takin' care of with CR. Comedy and others with Boomrang. Then LT with, well LT. If CN even wants to go far enough, T&J at 8. But its on weekdays.

There is a far amount on now, Sylvester & Tweety, Scooby Where Are You, A Pup Named Scooby, Tom and jerry, New Scooby Movies, fair amount. But more is needed.

[Mister Intensity]

It is dead. The Boomerang hour is officially an half-hour followed by a half-hour of Looney Tones with Ed, Edd, and Eddy at 7:00. It's pretty much dead.

Mister Intensity

[Brainatra]

It is dead. The Boomerang hour is officially an half-hour followed by a half-hour of Looney Tones with Ed, Edd, and Eddy at 7:00. It's pretty much dead.

Mister Intensity

Too bad...though considering it's the same network that finds room to air Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh in *primetime* for an hour each weeknight...

But to add something constructive to the original thread:

Re: The Flintstones:
Don't really recall this episode, so don't have much to add...

(AFter looking it up on TV Tome)

The writer for this episode is listed as being someone named Harvey Bullock...

(BULLOCK: If you hacks think writin' "rock" puns is a cinch, I'd like ta see you do it! I've been at dis job for years, and I'm *not* going to be replaced so I can go come up with a show proposal about some pointy-eared *freak*!)

:-)

Re: The Jetsons:
Ah, Rosie's first appearance in the series.

Why on Earth, in a society where *everything*'s operated by machines and buttons (and they barely even have to walk), would the Jetsons even need a maid anyway is peculiar...but part of the show's whole joke---that the family doesn't consider their heavy reliance on such gadgets (to the point of finding pushing buttons to make coffee as "exhausting") as "unusual", and despite the Jetsons' (by our standards) lavish existence, they still consider themselves "middle class." Either that or the repair man's stopped coming by to fix the food dispenser for the 87th time... ;-)

Rosie's being considered "obsolete" comes up in one of the 80's episodes, I think...

Wonder if Rosie's name is based on the World War II "Rosie the Riveter" posters...

As of yet, robots still aren't a commonplace thing in American households---the closest might be those automatic self-propelled vaccuum cleaners with onboard sensors...

-B.

[STARTOUNZ]

As a side note that I mentioned in another post, the original spelling is Rosey, which is the way the name is spelled in the Jetsons' pilot episode. They did spell it "Rosie" for quite a number of the 80's episodes, but switched back to "Rosey" for a few episodes toward the end of the series run.

[Howard Fein]

Re: The Jetsons:
Ah, Rosie's first appearance in the series.

This was the first episode of THE JETSONS. It's very evident due to a lot of exposition, and you can tell the writers are having a field day with the 'futuristic' gadgets and premise. There's also a rather shocking throwaway line early on that must've been deemed very topical in 1962: Jane advises Elroy not to pick fights with any Russian boys on his school field trip to the moon! And somewhat unique to the original series, there were several minutes towards the end with some genuine sentiment and poignancy- almost anticipatory of THE SIMPSONS. You c'd need one hand to count all the emotional moments on THE FLINTSTONES, which ran six seasons to the JETSONS' one.

While the pilot centered around Rosie, she would only be in one other original 'Classic 24' episode: Rosey's Boyfriend. Maybe she was originally meant to be a major character due to the popularity of another sitcom maid in the Screen Gems canon, namely Shirley Booth's Hazel, which was running on NBC's prime-time schedule that year. But poor Rosie took a back seat to Astro and Mr. Spacely. While Spacely was also in the pilot- and a bit less blustery than accustomed- Astro didn't arrive until the sixth or seventh episode, which was devoted entirely to him.

Even after he was established, Astro wasn't in every original episode. But the famous "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" closing titles make it appear as if he was there from the beginning. That always confused me; maybe the titles were animated after his inaugural episode was produced but before it aired. Or is there a long-lost closing sequence without Astro floating around somewhere, just as there was for THE FLINTSTONES' first two seasons?

Rosie would appear in every episode of the 1985-87 revival. And yet, she's in the closing title segment as well. Marketing of the series between 1963 and '85-comic books, etc.- made it look like she was a constant presence in the sixties' series. Virtually every 'new'episode seemed to feature Spacely as wells in roughly half the original episodes. By 1985 it was painfully evident that Mel Blanc was having difficulty voicing the character. He made him sound like his later (also heavily strained) Yosemite Sam for WB theatrical and prime-time clip anthologies.

[Steve Carras]

Re: The Jetsons:
Ah, Rosie's first appearance in the series.

This was the first episode of THE JETSONS. It's very evident due to a lot of exposition, and you can tell the writers are having a field day with the 'futuristic' gadgets and premise. There's also a rather shocking throwaway line early on that must've been deemed very topical in 1962: Jane advises Elroy not to pick fights with any Russian boys on his school field trip to the moon! And somewhat unique to the original series, there were several minutes towards the end with some genuine sentiment and poignancy- almost anticipatory of THE SIMPSONS. You c'd need one hand to count all the emotional moments on THE FLINTSTONES, which ran six seasons to the JETSONS' one.

While the pilot centered around Rosie, she would only be in one other original 'Classic 24' episode: Rosey's Boyfriend. Maybe she was originally meant to be a major character due to the popularity of another sitcom maid in the Screen Gems canon, namely Shirley Booth's Hazel, which was running on NBC's prime-time schedule that year. But poor Rosie took a back seat to Astro and Mr. Spacely. While Spacely was also in the pilot- and a bit less blustery than accustomed- Astro didn't arrive until the sixth or seventh episode, which was devoted entirely to him.

Even after he was established, Astro wasn't in every original episode. But the famous "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" closing titles make it appear as if he was there from the beginning. That always confused me; maybe the titles were animated after his inaugural episode was produced but before it aired. Or is there a long-lost closing sequence without Astro floating around somewhere, just as there was for THE FLINTSTONES' first two seasons?

Rosie would appear in every episode of the 1985-87 revival. And yet, she's in the closing title segment as well. Marketing of the series between 1963 and '85-comic books, etc.- made it look like she was a constant presence in the sixties' series. Virtually every 'new'episode seemed to feature Spacely as wells in roughly half the original episodes. By 1985 it was painfully evident that Mel Blanc was having difficulty voicing the character. He made him sound like his later (also heavily strained) Yosemite Sam for WB theatrical and prime-time clip anthologies.
Yeah,I noticed that myself..Spacely does sound more like Yosemite Sam,no make that EXACTLY lke him in the 1980s episodes. Other voices guesting in the newer ones were such dependable radio/TV character comic actors as Frank Nelson, who was on the early FLINSTONES and the JETSONS, Robert Ridgely (doing his Hands Conreid/John Barrymore like hammy villian voice for a Halloween thewmed themed Elroy and Orbitty epsiode),as well as GREASE and THOMAS THE TANK ENGINGE costar Didi Conn,also heard in FONZ AND THE HAPPY DAYS GANG (Cupcake,the cool girl),and announcer William Woodson,sounding alot like Gary Owens.

A DATE WITH JET SCREAMER with showcased my favorite, Judy, was the first broadcast. Astro & Rosey/Rosie as you mention didn't get much attention in the 1962 series.BTW this makrs the 19th.anniversary of the 1980s series (and the 49th.of Perry Como's TV debut..)

[Brainatra]

>>>
Ah, Rosie's first appearance in the series.

>>This was the first episode of THE JETSONS. It's very evident due to a lot of exposition, and you can tell the writers are having a field day with the 'futuristic' gadgets and premise.
There's also a rather shocking throwaway line early on that must've been deemed very topical in 1962: Jane advises Elroy not to pick fights with any Russian boys on his school field trip to the moon! <<

Quite topical, I'm sure---esp. given the race to the moon at the time (where the whole US space program's focus was on "beating the Russians"---never mind that the Russian space program had launched the first sattelite, first living creature, first human, *and* first woman into space by the mid-60's...though I think internal staffing changes in the Soviet Union's space agency and/or internal Soviet politics or somesuch is to blame for their not going "all the way" to the moon).


>>And somewhat unique to the original series, there were several minutes towards the end with some genuine sentiment and poignancy- almost anticipatory of THE SIMPSONS. You c'd need one hand to count all the emotional moments on THE FLINTSTONES, which ran six seasons to the JETSONS' one.
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Hey, the Flintstones had plenty of sentimental moments! Like, um, all those scenes at the end of the show where Fred and Wilma tell each other how much they love each other, or, um, probably any episode with Fred playing with or doting on Pebbles, or even, erm, uh, how grateful they were to the Great Gazoo for turning Barney into a woman? :-)

I'll also assume it's the older Simpsons episodes, seeing as I bailed on said show somewhere between seeing Kid Rock, Britney Spears, and Gary Coleman showing up (back to back episodes, no less) and too many plots that felt more at home tonewise with the likes of "Family Guy"/consisted of money-making schemes, the family going somewhere, the townspeople rioting, or Homer acting *too* obnoxious.

But that's another topic (and forum) altogether... :-)

>>While the pilot centered around Rosie, she would only be in one other original 'Classic 24' episode: Rosey's Boyfriend. Maybe she was originally meant to be a major character due to the popularity of another sitcom maid in the Screen Gems canon, namely Shirley Booth's Hazel, which was running on NBC's prime-time schedule that year. But poor Rosie took a back seat to Astro and Mr. Spacely. While Spacely was also in the pilot- and a bit less blustery than accustomed- Astro didn't arrive until the sixth or seventh episode, which was devoted entirely to him.
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Perhaps so. Though a better guess might be that, since the Jetsons is modeled closely on the comic strip "Blondie," Mr. Spacely and Astro had closer counterparts to emulate (Mr. Dithers, Dagwood's boss, and Daisy, Dagwood's dog)---and a maid wasn't a part of the Bumsteads' strip, obviously.


>>Even after he was established, Astro wasn't in every original episode. But the famous "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" closing titles make it appear as if he was there from the beginning. That always confused me; maybe the titles were animated after his inaugural episode was produced but before it aired. Or is there a long-lost closing sequence without Astro floating around somewhere, just as there was for THE FLINTSTONES' first two seasons?
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I don't know, but I'm guessing Astro's always been a part of the closing credits---the whole sequence of "future man walking his dog" might've been too amusing to pass up?

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Rosie would appear in every episode of the 1985-87 revival. And yet, she's in the closing title segment as well. Marketing of the series between 1963 and '85-comic books, etc.- made it look like she was a constant presence in the sixties' series. Virtually every 'new'episode seemed to feature Spacely as wells in roughly half the original episodes. By 1985 it was painfully evident that Mel Blanc was having difficulty voicing the character. He made him sound like his later (also heavily strained) Yosemite Sam for WB theatrical and prime-time clip anthologies.[/QUOTE]
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Wonder why that was---Spacely's voice in the 60's episodes seemed pretty, well, sedate/flat-sounding (when he wasn't yelling at, um, whatever, that is)---nowhere near as rough-sounding as Yosemite Sam's voice...

[Nick K.]

What's Boomernag?

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

Boomernag is soooooooo annoying. All it does is nag and nag and nag, and whe it leaves, you know it will always come back.

Couldn't resist. :D

[anime fan]

i wish some boomerang shows where still on our cartoon network sigh.

it stoped at around october 2002 thats partly why cartoon network is going down no clasics.

i would gladly watch it even if its at a crap time it shows them that the channel needs these cartoons.

[Zach Williams]

i wish some boomerang shows where still on our cartoon network sigh.

it stoped at around october 2002 thats partly why cartoon network is going down no clasics.

i would gladly watch it even if its at a crap time it shows them that the channel needs these cartoons.
Uh, yeah, Scooby, where are you, New scooby Movies, Tom and Jerry, 13 ghosts of scooby, Boomernag on CN, Looney Tunes, A PUP named scooby. CLASSICS!!!!

[JCorey3rd]

it appears that the folks at CN are running shows that are out or scheduled to be on the boxsets - Flintstones, Jonny Quest, Jetsons, Top Cat and Yogi Bear. But they don't actually plug the boxsets during the breaks. On Hallmark, they plug the first season boxset of Gilligan when the show airs.

[Zach Williams]

it appears that the folks at CN are running shows that are out or scheduled to be on the boxsets - Flintstones, Jonny Quest, Jetsons, Top Cat and Yogi Bear.
I guess you mean during Boomerang. they havn't aired Top Cat yet though.:sad: