Thinking of the Saturday-morning Happy Days cartoon, where they were time-travelling with a ditzy future woman, and one time they were going past the year 1111 and that was a problem because when the digits lined up the time machine would go wonky and fly off to a random time, and how even at a young age that seemed to me like a serious design flaw, yes, but also something that shouldn't really keep you from getting to the time you *wanted* to get to except for the year 1111.
Also yes for some reason they adapted Happy Days into a Saturday Morning cartoon with basically the setup for Doctor Who and NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN ANY PART OF HOW THIS HAPPENED.
@Austin_Dern Cupcake. Cupcake is the only explanation needed. JUST ASK @Phorm AND @anthracite. >:D
@Austin_Dern Although the actual reason for this show's existence probably looked more like this.
@zebratron2084 I mean, I guess, and I'm not sure what would be a better way to cartoon up Happy Days except put them in the army and Laverne and Shirley already did that. (I think?)
@Austin_Dern They could have put them in space. Surely there's a reason for them to be in space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4lSmVo3G0
@zebratron2084 Oh the Shmoo cartoons were very ... influential ... on the young me. Also the Plastic-Man cartoon.
OK, how's this for a Happy Days cartoon: Richie gets a job as the local TV horror movie host but, uh-oh, every week some *actual* horror movie character thinks Richie's the *real* Count Fangula or whatever and Fonzie and the gang have to get him out of that scrape?
@Austin_Dern Oh my god, and it's REALLY conscious of the cultural differences between now and then...? That sounds really fun actually. Spooky Hanna Barbera was often the most tolerable...
@zebratron2084 Down side is it's a non-bonkers-enough premise that nobody would have any memories of it 40 years on, the way nobody has a clear recollection of the Dukes of Hazzard cartoon even though they gave Uncle Jessie a pet raccoon and everything.
@Austin_Dern Or...
(SPOILER: They don't really meet the Thing or the Shmoo. They're just anthology shows with a bit of each. What a letdown!)