I’ve decided that we all need a little more fun at the
moment, so instead of looking at Rod Serling’s Patterns like I was going to, I am instead recapping an episode of Super Friends where they fight the
Titanic.
Yes. The actual Titanic.
Saturday Morning Cartoons went extinct a couple of years ago.
With streaming services allowing parents to curate their kids’ viewing, and
24hr cartoon channels available, the once noble establishment that brought
forth everything from The Jetsons to
the North American Pokémon craze died
a peaceful, largely unnoticed death.
But, for fifty years of broadcast television, it was a
coveted block of time carved out for the wild imaginations of kids, and the
advertisers trying to target them. A devil’s pact of calculated branding and
genuine fun.
The history of Super
Friends, in particular, is a mess
full of title changes, network changes, syndication deals falling through, and
so much behind-the-scenes drama it’d make a hilarious HBO drama set at Hanna-Barbera
in the 70’s. You’d never guess how much backstabbing went into producing each
seven minute episode about a super hero friendship team.
