Can we call this cartoon obscure? I was born in 2000, so any cartoon that nobody around my age knows about, I consider obscure. Even shows that were successes in their day like OG Muppet Babies are pretty obscure nowadays
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I know of it but never watched it. From what I read, it's not considered very good.
They made a batch of episodes then realized they weren't working, and made a whole new batch of episodes with the different partner Lucky, and moved the original partner episodes to the back of the season.
The Lucky episodes were better than the Miranda episodes. Lucky was the straight man to Bonkers insanity while Miranda was just bland.
I thought the concept was pretty cool. Never could catch it on TV tho. Was it really as bad as people say and if it was, why?
The problem is that they're all toons. It's a cartoon not a live action/animation deal.
So to differentiate between the characters that are supposed to be "human" and the toons, they had to over exaggerate the tooniness to obnoxious levels.
It's mostly annoying at best. The show is obviously trying to emulate Roger Rabbit/cash in on the success of Roger Rabbit, but doesn't have the commitment and dedication to actually showcasing its setting. Like another anon said, it's a world of 'toons and humans' except the humans are also toons so it doesn't quite work out on any level.
I could never forget that theme song
But I think ultimately the entire character has been thrown into the abyss of my memory occupied by Bubsy the Bobcat.
>I was born in 2000
Well, of course. They stopped playing old cartoons on tv around the time you were born so to zoomers most older shows would be "obscure". Generally speaking, no, Bonkers isn't obscure. It ran for years on a very popular block of cartoons.
It has been completely memoryholed tho. Unless you were a kid watching the Disney Afternoon in the 90s it's very likely that you've never heard of Bonkers
The other day I had some kid comment on one of my YouTube videos that was about Bugs Bunny. The comment "Oh I remember this character from Who Framed Roger Rabbit". I would say most kids born after a certain time don't know most old cartoons unless it was from some modern remake.
Absolutely insane to suggest zoomers are more familiar with Roger Rabbit than Space Jam 2 or Multiversus.
Apparently that one zoomer was. Roger Rabbit is immediately available on a streaming service that most kids have. Space Jam 2 is on Max, I guess. How many kids have access to that?
HBO Max was pretty successful when they dropped Space Jam 2 and Multiversus was inescapable for the first month or so.
Your commenter theoretically could exist but that kid is nowhere near typical.
Well the point is, do kids have access to Max? Anecdotally, the kids in my family live off of Disney Plus and Youtube but Max is really more through of as a a service for adults. Like Hulu.
WB should really merge their various services into one and just have all the old Hanna-Barbera/Warner/Ruby-Spears/Rankin-Bass/MGM/DC stuff on one thing. Does anybody really subscribe to that Boomerang service?
Anon do you not know kids? Are you making Bugs Bunny video essays and don't know any kids? Go ask two if they know who Bugs Bunny is and you'll have a better sample than the one YouTube user.
Yes. My little cousin (born 1999) has never seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon in her life. And that's not even a kid.
>her
the little bawd is practically a child
Yes. But then I consider everyone who grew up with the internet a child.
>Yes.
>a woman in her mid twenties
You could've said no and I would've respected that answer more.
I think there was a reference to Bonkers in the Chip and Dale movie but yeah, aside from that, I can't think of a single time Disney referenced the character. It was kind of a weird reference even in that movie since I can imagine it going over a lot of people's heads.
Bonkers aired up until like 03 on Toon Disney too.
Bonkers actually cameos in Ducktales (2017) so he's not completely forgotten
Yeah, also Toon Disney, but you had to be lucky enough to have parents with that package.
Tom & Jerry kept running for years on Cartoon Network though. Isn't that an old cartoon? Same goes with Rugrats, which still ran in reruns until about 2007 or so on Nick
reruns as a concept doesn't exist in the minds of these people
It was a Disney Afternoon cartoon, so no.
More forgotten than obscure.
It was no Freakazoid thats for sure.
I barely remember the cartoon itself but I had the Bonkers game for the Genesis and I don’t know if it was actually hard or if I was just too little to “get it” whenever I played it. I remember the car level always fricking me up
If it didn't make it into any of the modern 90s Disney game ports it was probably dogshit.
Being born in the 2000s puts you at a disadvantage. Both mentally and with references to decent shows. Start at 89 and work forward then come back.
I watched Bonkers all the time on my public national TV, so its pretty weird for me to see people shitting on this show.
I hate how much porn this show has and how Fawn Deer is only in a very small fraction of it.
Bonkers would be mid-level obscure for normal people but no where near basic obscure for Cinemaphile. You got to get into background waifus from Soviet Era Hungarian juice ads for Cinemaphile obscure.
Ever since it became exclusive to Boomerang, The Flintstones has become obscure. People around my age mainly know it for Pebbles cereal, vitamins, and Grand Dad
Boomerang was always a stupid idea. They should have just kept those old shows running on Cartoon Network if they wanted to keep them culturally relevant.
Network space is prime real estate and advisors were probably willing to pay more for ads on newer shows than older ones.
>exclusive to Boomerang
Boomerang just airs CN shows from the past decade for the last few years
He's talking about how it was removed from Cartoon Network's schedule in the early 00s, leading to it becoming obscure among younger kids. Today Boomerang is just Cartoon Network 2.
Even though it came out during my generation, I NEVER see anyone talk about this show
Has this even aired outside of Canada?
Unfortunately, yes
Marsupilami is probably more obscure than Bonkers
Marsupilami has like half a dozen shows, Bonkers just has one plus Raw Toonage (which also had Marsupilami)
I saw a few episodes recently and yeah, I was really wondering why it's forgotten unlike other 90s disney shows. The eps I watched were a lot of fun
I checked out an episode and was surprised that the fat cop had a cute wife and kids. I mean, he seemed like a stereotypical hardboiled inspector who constantly reeks of booze and prostitutes.
Bonkers is overhated. The Lucky Piquel half is genuinely better than Goof Troop, at least.
>Bonkers, now with a black nose, only appears on Ducktales 2017 getting mauled by four of the Fearsome Five in the Darkwing Duck special.
Man, people must have REALLY hated this show, did they?
Funny thing is Bonkers is done better and more accurately then at least half the characters in that show
I’d consider this a mildly obscure show
In the sense if you ask a cartoon community (such as Cinemaphile or elsewhere) they are very aware of it and discuss it quite a bit, but if you asked anyone more casual they’d never have heard of it and there’s nothing that stood in popular culture
The show's fine, I honeslty think most of the hate stems from Animaniacs making a jab at it which I don't even think was meant to be taken seriously. I think cartoon watchers back then went like "Oh Bonkers is bad? Okay. Bonkers is bad."
I remember Animaniacs openly made fun of it at least once.