Lessons I've Learned From The Superfriends:

[Pink Bat Max]

I just got in the latest Superfriends DVD collection (The Legendary Super-Powers Show) and am simply glorying in it. This show has taught me to much. To wit:

1) 'Multicultural' superheroes should always have names that reflect their ethnic heritage rather than powers.... i.e. Apache Chief, Samauri, El Dorado.
2) Blue Space Monkeys live to fuck with your mind.
3) Even though you can turn into a tidal wave or a 50 foot ice giant, that lacks the flair of turning yourself into an ice gondola.
4) French people are easy to recognise by their goatees, berets, and baguettes.
5) When your commitee argues whether to put your headquarters in the arctic or in the desert, compromise: put it in the swamp.
6) Gorillas long to live in cities where they can fly about in triangular hover cars wearing goofy hats.
7) Flying, time travelling headquarters that look like Darth Vader's helmet are just plain rad.
8) Robin is the man to go to deliver America's Top 40.
9) The Flash can fly.
10) Wonder Woman can control her lasso telepathically, and turn it into a cage.

Mmm... I'll post more if they come to me. Anyone else got some?

[shrike]

I just got in the latest Superfriends DVD collection (The Legendary Super-Powers Show) and am simply glorying in it. This show has taught me to much. To wit:

1) 'Multicultural' superheroes should always have names that reflect their ethnic heritage rather than powers.... i.e. Apache Chief, Samauri, El Dorado.
2) Blue Space Monkeys live to fuck with your mind.
3) Even though you can turn into a tidal wave or a 50 foot ice giant, that lacks the flair of turnning yourself into an ice gondola.
4) French people are easy to recognise, by their goatees, berets, and baguettes.
5) When your commitee argues whether to put your headquarters in the arctic or in the desert, compromise: put it in the swamp.
6) Gorillas long to live in cities where they can fly about in triangular hover cars wearing goofy hats.
7) Flying, time travelling headquarters that look like Darth Vader's helmet are just plain rad.
8) Robin is the man to go to deliver America's Top 40.
9) The Flash can fly.
10) Wonder Woman can control her lasso telepathically, and turn it into a cage.

Mmm... I'll post more if they come to me. Anyone else got some?

Sea horses are meant for riding.

[Tommy]

12. A bug the size of a T-rex standing in front of you is no indication of organic life on a planet.

13. Rope is the equivilent of Kryptonite to the entire team.

[Pink Bat Max]

14) High school nerds can hack the Justice League computer, but Lex Luthor can't.

15) Everyone with a governmental job has a direct like to the Justice League Trouble Alert, from the UN to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Racine, Wisconsin dog catcher.

[JTPencils]

16) Batman and Robin's utility belts are their "superpower" and if they're rendered useless... so are the Dynamic Duo.

17) No one ever gets hit in these battles, but they can be roped, thrown over waterfalls, and shrunk or grown to incredible sizes.

[Tommy]

18. When convenient Flash can run on the air.

19. You can clean up all the pollution on an alien planet, but you best never do it on earth.

20. Aquaman makes a great hatrack.

[ChadtheH]

21) Arch-criminals are always sporting enough to incorporate a water element to their crimes and/or escapes, just so Aquaman has something to do. 'Cause, you know, if they got away on the interstate that might make sense.

22) The token teen JLA member(s) never grow up to be adult team members. They just switch out with other, weirder teens.

[Aggie]

23) incest doesn't always have necessarily be uncomfortable...

[Pink Bat Max]

24) Apokolyps is a planet known for its lovely green meadows.
25) Somewhere in the universe, there is a planet of sentient dice.
26) Wonder Woman's 'WW' crest has become progressively more difficult to animate over time. When it was done in the 80's, it was a perfect reproduction. 20 years later, not so much.
27) Superman has a Supermobile, just in case.

[Aggie]

28) just because you're in an invisible jet...it doesn't make *you* invisible

[PatrickG]

28) just because you're in an invisible jet...it doesn't make *you* invisible

I always had this funny idea growing up that everybody was just too nice to tell Wonder Woman this...

[Aggie]

I always had this funny idea growing up that everybody was just too nice to tell Wonder Woman this...

that's a possibility...but my cynical self thinks it's for a much more nefarious reason...

[Red Berens]

30. Who knew fish could be such formidible foes of injustice?

[Linkara]

31. New, world-changing inventions can only be used once or twice in a 24-hour period and then can never be used again.

[Aggie]

32) ice gondolas, though having more flare, are in fact really lame...and serves no true purpose in the super hero game...

[Pink Bat Max]

32) ice gondolas, though having more flare, are in fact really lame...and serves no true purpose in the super hero game...

But... it had a face and everything!

[PatrickG]

that's a possibility...but my cynical self thinks it's for a much more nefarious reason...


Dude. Flying is much more Freudian and much more sexy than invisible plane wedgie.

I really have to chalk up any failure of the Justice League to report flaws in Amazonian design to sheer niceness.

Except for Aquaman. Who you KNOW was just tagging along in the Invisible Plane to smell Wonder Woman's hair when practically anyone else in the Superfriends could have ferried him just as easily.

'Course, if you read Grant Morrison's JLA, you'd probably gather that Arthur had the hots for Diana and would have dropped even the mother of his child like a cold potato for a night on Paradise Island.

... Hm. I suddenly feel as though I'm writing a Maxim article.

[BnL]

I always had this funny idea growing up that everybody was just too nice to tell Wonder Woman this...

LOL. Too funny.

[Grazzt]

33. Lex Luthor is always watching you. Always.

[Lester C.]

34. There is an African American Suprefriend you never hear about. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Dv83BM_5w)

[Red Berens]

35. Letting two teenagers drop out of school and tag along is ok, as long as they promise to wait over there where it's safe. And if they want to bring their dog, thats fine. I'm sure he can take care of anything that slips by Superman.

[heystacy]

Green Lantern, Flash, & Aquaman can destroy the ecosystem, making the planent more like Venus, and have a limited time to turning the planet back to it's correct state.

[Aggie]

But... it had a face and everything!

which made it all the more sadder...

Dude. Flying is much more Freudian and much more sexy than invisible plane wedgie.

I really have to chalk up any failure of the Justice League to report flaws in Amazonian design to sheer niceness.

Except for Aquaman. Who you KNOW was just tagging along in the Invisible Plane to smell Wonder Woman's hair when practically anyone else in the Superfriends could have ferried him just as easily.

'Course, if you read Grant Morrison's JLA, you'd probably gather that Arthur had the hots for Diana and would have dropped even the mother of his child like a cold potato for a night on Paradise Island.

... Hm. I suddenly feel as though I'm writing a Maxim article.

non, no, no...i think you've hit on something here...not only was aquaman just really pathetic, he was psychotic too...it all makes senses now...

[Pink Bat Max]

36) Beware Sinestro's Yellow Bagpipe Construct of Death.
37) Darksied's kicky lavender belt really sets off his eyes.

[titanfan]

- If you're a Junior Member of the Justice League and you run into a villain by yourself, you're as good as captured.

[PatrickG]

34. There is an African American Suprefriend you never hear about. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Dv83BM_5w)

What's wilder is that Ed McMahon says "Kareem" at the end of the special and flies off the same way.

[Sabrinaset]

38) Whenever high-paced music starts playing around you, run. Someone is about to chase you.

39) The entire Universe ... over trillions upon trillions of life-forms ... consists of beings who only have about ten or so different voices between them.

[Michael P]

41. The universe would be a much safer place if somebody could just get Darkseid laid.

[Pink Bat Max]

41. The universe would be a much safer place if somebody could just get Darkseid laid.

Well he tried his best with Wonder Woman! And he wanted to marry her first. Darkseid's a social conservative that way. Which reminds me:

42. Even Darkseid trembles beneath the evil Wonder Woman android.

Also...

43. The Sixth Dimension? It's the dimension behind mirrors.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

44. It's a lonnnnng wait 'til Bruce Timm, James Tucker, & Dwayne McDuffie...

[Question_Authority]

45. Everyone has a Kryptonite powered energy gun, just in case Superman turns evil, gets mind controlled or steps out of line. Even the monkey!:eek: :D

[Aggie]

46. how to recognize a jackass when you see one...i'm lookin' at you wendy and marvin...

[heystacy]

Ummm what did Hawkgirl contribute? :confused:

[Aggie]

Ummm what did Hawkgirl contribute? :confused:

waaaait...there was a hawkgirl??...why don't i remember a hawkgirl??

oh and 47) a sense of irony...

[heystacy]

waaaait...there was a hawkgirl??...why don't i remember a hawkgirl??

oh and 47) a sense of irony...

She was there. I know she didn't do much. Maybe she made the coffee.

[90'sCartoonMan]

48) If it weren't for Superman, Hawkman would be considered the world's greatest hero.

49) At some point in history, thousands of children were sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and heard the phrase "Bat lube". And nothing was wrong with that.

[Night Swordsman]

50) Have no fear,Wendy Marvin and that stupid dog are here! :rolleyes:

[Pink Bat Max]

51. Ellis island is an island that still signifies immigration to millions of Americans. 'L' island is an island shaped like a giant 'L'.... with straight lines and right angles... that is the home base of Lex Luthor.

52. Sappho suffers. Appearently she has something to do with another island that starts with an 'L' sound.

[Larry Dixon]

53) There's nothing rude about having entire conversations in which your head and neck remain perfectly still while only your lips move. In addition, eye contact isn't required, since half the Justice League is drawn without pupil or iris.

54) It's fun to say "Inukchuk." Inukchuk, inukchuk, inukchuk.

55) More things in life should have transitions with cheapo optical effects and "zweeeo zweeeoo zweeeooop" electronic sounds.

"I need to get my tag renewed."

zweeooo zweeoo zweeeooop

Later, at the Hall of Justice....

"Got your tag renewed for you."

"Thanks, Aquaman."

[Aggie]

53) There's nothing rude about having entire conversations in which your head and neck remain perfectly still while only your lips move. In addition, eye contact isn't required, since half the Justice League is drawn without pupil or iris.

54) It's fun to say "Inukchuk." Inukchuk, inukchuk, inukchuk.

55) More things in life should have transitions with cheapo optical effects and "zweeeo zweeeoo zweeeooop" electronic sounds.

"I need to get my tag renewed."

zweeooo zweeoo zweeeooop

Later, at the Hall of Justice....

"Got your tag renewed for you."

"Thanks, Aquaman."


*chuckles*...niiiice...:D

56) after hearing the word "holy" for the gazillionth time, it loses all it's meaning...

[Shisho]

21)

22) The token teen JLA member(s) never grow up to be adult team members. They just switch out with other, weirder teens.

The JLA and Menudo are the same group? :eek:



48) If it weren't for Superman, Hawkman would be considered the world's greatest hero.

49) At some point in history, thousands of children were sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and heard the phrase "Bat lube". And nothing was wrong with that.

57) Everything can be found in the Bat utility belts. Everything. Mass and weight are irrelevant. Coincidentally, the things Batman & Robin just happen to need for that episode are most accessible for some reason. Good planners I guess.

[Pink Bat Max]

58) When he was a young man, Lex Luthor was totally gay for Superboy.

59) Young Lex was such a queen that the thing that turned him evil? Losing his hair. 'I'm Luthor, and I'm supposed to be FAAAAAABULOUS, daaarling.'

[tangentman]

60) Cheetah is SO in touch with her primal nature that she doesn't mind gettin' nekkid in front of Brainiac or Scarecrow. *The Origins of The Superfriends episode* The Legion of Doom roll that way.

61) Wonder Woman proved that having super-strength does NOT mean you still can't be a lightweight!

62) In fact, SF Wonder Woman was there to make douchebags like Batman and Aquaman look badass.

63) The Superfriends existed to make Superman look good. DC learned this lesson so well that they modeled numerous crossovers, Elseworlds, and Jeph Loeb series to impart this important lesson to new generations of comic book fans!

[Dr Ray Palmer]

64) If your superpower is turning into water, make sure there is a monkey with a bucket around at all times.

[DaveRothe]

I learned not to pee in the wind with your mouth wide open. Thanks SuperFriends!

[Night Swordsman]

65) As powerful as the Legion of Doom are,they are nothing compared to the unholy might of the lawyers of the WWE.

[Pink Bat Max]

I learned not to pee in the wind with your mouth wide open. Thanks SuperFriends!

c.f. the Watersports thread.....

[Cam63]

66) Wonder Woman had the same hairstylist as the sheila from " That Girl. "

67) As always, wearing a nehru jacket means you're an alien trying to go incognito on Earth.

[beetlebum]

48) If it weren't for Superman, Hawkman would be considered the world's greatest hero.

49) At some point in history, thousands of children were sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and heard the phrase "Bat lube". And nothing was wrong with that.
Bat Lube?:confused: I don't remember that! Did they ever sell it as a product? If so I want to try it...

67) As always, wearing a nehru jacket means you're an alien trying to go incognito on Earth.
The Beetles were Aliens?:confused: That could explain why John let Yoko sing.
Things I learned from the Superfriends:

68: Ethnic stereotypes: A- OK! Archie Bunker's bigotry diluted for children.

69: One does not have to spend much to make much. People are mindless drones who will sit down in front of the TV and watch anything. Hell, they used to watch test patterns.

70: Despite the prevalence of Gloria Steinem, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Davis, Billy Jean King and Indira Gandhi in the political spectrum, Wonder Woman is only allowed to use her magic lasso and fly around in her jet. And look pretty and bake cookies for the mens:rolleyes: ( and that is why I hated that show!:mad: )

[Arawn]

65) As powerful as the Legion of Doom are,they are nothing compared to the unholy might of the lawyers of the WWE.

LoL Hawk said the name came from the cartoon. He mentions it on the LoD DvD.

"The Legion of Doom" that consisted of the Road Warriors, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, The Spoiler, Matt Borne, King Kong Bundy, Arn Anderson, The Iron Sheik and the original Sheik. Apparently growing up he, Animal and Paul Ellering were all fans of the show. So they used the name in Georgia Championship Wrestling (where it actually originated).