BE AFRAID.....VERY AFRAID......
This had a weird effect on me when I saw this again. First of all, i felt like a 100 years old. Second, I noticed that Rakin Bass, (Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolf etc.) did the animation. The other thing i immediately notice is that the cartoon characters look like the people in the Osmonds... I know, they're supposed to... but it looks odd.
Its got the psychedelic colors and designs to it. This always baffled me as a kid. We would get these hints too on Yogi's Ark, on ABC. There would be disco references with glowing dance floors and mirror balls and so on. You would see more disco beat references on the Sid and Marty Kroft shows.
I was 8 years old. The only thing I knew about disco was Saturday Night Fever and I wasn't old enough to view it. So I had to rely on my usual source -- my window to the outside world... Mad Magazine, (no wonder why I was a D student in junior high !!)
Still the cartoon industry kept insisting that saturday morning fare must have disco references in them. I suppose they wanted to make the cartoons enjoyable for kids as well as adults. But I found the pop culture element to be very confusing. Plus the Osmonds in the cartoons went on dates. I had reliable transportation that required training wheels. SO once again, I could not relate to this, "adult" cartoon.
It was beyond me. And looking at it again in 2006, it terrifies me. I will have nightmares after witnessing this clip.
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Ted Cantu FASCUBE 2006
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