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How many cartoons can you recall the names of?
The first issue of Camp Candy, the comic book version of the John Candy voiced cartoon, was published with a cover date of May 1990. ("The Return of Headless Harry" "The Owimpic Kid" Camp Candy 1, Marvel Comic Event)
Should Camp Candy be a Live Action Movie?
Yes
No
Ecology -- The Way To Be!
A follow up to yesterday’s reblog from peteneems:
Geoffrey’s Secret Word Game was a “watch and win” contest. The promo doesn’t specify a prize (at least the one I found readily available). It’s not really clear on directions either - it just says “listen for Geoffrey’s secret words and you’ll be a winner”. I’m assuming if you won, you got a shopping spree at Toys ‘R Us. Remember those?
That’s not why we’re here. We’re here because it’s the first and only time we see Mario plastered next to late comedic actor John Candy, hip-hop duo Kid ‘N Play and Rick Moranis? I was 2 in 1990, so I can’t recall a cartoon with Rick Moranis that wasn’t The Real Ghostbusters.
A cool find, but this has nothing on Pac Man hanging out with various Hanna-Barbera stars in the USA Cartoon Express promos.
Watch the original promo here, uploaded by Television Archives
Tracey Ullman Short #40
Hiatus Week: Day 5
Shoplifting February 26, 1989
Bart steals candy from a store and gets yelled at by adults. This is one of my favorite simpscreens ever because the comedy central logo and the presence of ronald regan in the background makes this such a bizarre temporal anomaly. You could show this to one of them blade runner robots and their heads would explode.
THE B-SODE:
Camp Candy: "?" Season ? - Episode ? | 1989-1992 Okay, bear with me here. This is the most I’ve ever straight-up given up on a B-SODE but it’s literally the only thing I could think of. I assumed that children’s cartoons would be lousy with episodes about kids trying to shoplift and get in big trouble. But to my surprise there wasn’t much I could find. Keyword searches were difficult because a LOTTA kids cartoons were about characters continually trying to steal from other characters (the Gummi Bear’s jumping formula, Scrooge McDuck’s wealth; Baloo tangling with smuglers on Talespin, Darkwing Duck and the Rescue Rangers regularly getting assigned cases dealing with burglary, etc). Shockingly enough, the all-too-common-in-sitcomdom trope of a mostly-good kid reckoning with consequences of petty theft is bizarrely absent in cartoons from this era. But, there is one thing I COULD have used: An episode of Camp Candy. Unfortunately there’s VERY LITTLE episode info online for Camp Candy and I’d have to probably scan through each episode until I found it. But it’s literally the only scene I remember in the whole series. A kid runs away and needs supplies so he goes to the camp shop and swipes some stuff. He doesn’t WANT to steal; he just can’t be seen purchasing the stuff, so he actually leaves money behind to make up for it. So there you have it; the cartoon code of the 80s must’ve had a zero tolerance thing in place when it came to showing kids stealing or something. Because the one example I could even come up with the kid still left money behind to make up for it. Fancy that.
