Captain Planet is an environemtalist animated tv show…. yeah, doesn’t sound fun said like that At the beginning of the 90s, it suddenly became obvious that we were polluting too much. So they start to communicate a lot about how we have to behave to save our planet. But how to explain that to kids ? cartoons. 21 jumpstreet taught me not to do drugs and Captain Planet to respect environment. Thanks to TV I’m a good person

Gaia, spirit of earth started to worry about earth and hired 5 teenagers from all over the planet : Kwame is from Africa, Wheeler from North America, Linka from Eastern Europe, Gi from Asia and Ma-Ti from South America and gave them rings with super power : earth, wind and fire (couldn’t resist) water and.. love. Yeah right… and they all fight together to protect the planet. Sometimes (often) when they’re running out of ideas, they combine the power of their rings to call Captain Planet (a blue guy with red underwears basically…). I can’t remember why, but I used to love this show

Here’s Captain Planet Intro :

and I can’t resist to show you the Don Cheadle parody :

“Captain Planet bitches!”

As a 90s kid in the 90s, there’s 2 things I loved above all : cartoons (of course.. candys could have been also a correct answer) AND Michael Jordan. So, when they decided to mix both, it just blew my mind ! Bugs Bunny and His Airness together in a movie. Wow.

Storyline : The owner of “Moron Mountain”, an extraterrestrial theme park ,decide to send his minions, the “Nerlucks” to capture the Looney Tunes as a new attraction for his failing park. The Looney Tunes challenge them to a basket ball game, because the minions are very small. But they steal talent of NBA superstars : Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson and others and become giant basket-ball monsters. Michael Jordan, who was freshly retired was not captured and tries to help Bugs Bunny and his squad to win the game. oh.. and Bill Murray is the coach

Space Jam Trailer :

The movie was released in 1996, 16 years ago.

Hard to talk of Space Jam without thinking of the theme song by R. Kelly : I believe I can fly

The Critic is an animated TV serie starring Jay Sherman, a film critic. Each episodes featured movie paordies : Honey, I ate the kids (Honey I shrunk the kids) or the cockroach king (The Lion King) and every critics are almost the same : “it stinks !”

The show’s first season of 13 episodes aired on ABC in 1994 and was canceled after only 2 seasons and 23 episodes.

The serie was created by Mike Reiss and Al Jean who also work as author for the Simpsons. Jay Sherman made few appeareances in Simpsons episodes.

The Rugrats is a cartoon by Nickolodeon, it’s the everyday life of four babies Thomas “Tommy” Pickles, Charles “Chuckie” Finster and the twins Phillip “Phil” and Lillian “Lil” DeVille. The toddlers live all kind of new experiences with a lot of imagination oftenly fed by Angelica, Tommy’s mean cousin.

The show was aired for the first time in 1991, 20 years ago…

Here’s the opening :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phIg2lhIsuQ

The Snorks are small and colorful creatures who live underswater in the world of Snorkland. They have a tube on their head to… we don’t really know what for but I remember that when a Snork is excited,  they made a sound with the tube on their heads.

The show ran on NBC from  1984 to 1989. It was 22 years ago and yes, you’re that old !

Here is the intro :

I just figured that the name snorks certainly came from snorkel…