Lets. Get. Dangerous.
It wasn’t my favorite, but it certainly wasn’t bad. When there’s trouble you call DW.
Ducktales could be top tier for me as well
Also rather fond of: “When you need help, just call Chi Chi Chi Chip and Dale!”
Gadget was one of my first crushes
Totally responsible for a lot of our generation’s furries. Alongside Minerva Mink and Lola Bunny.
don’t forget Disney’s Robin Hood
Couldn’t if I tried.
Exactly this
This thread is my people haha
I played a fair amount of the NES game as well as the Duck Tales game. I probably played more hours of the games than I saw of the shows.
My brain still occasionally goes “C-H-eese spells cheese!” for no good reason.
ngl, I have a ducktails NES midi track for my phone alarm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrbnT3_5BoQ
Old school Darkwing Duck fans really owe it to themselves to check out the most recent Duck Tales animated series. It is very much made with the folks who grew up with the 1990s Disney Afternoon in mind, with many out-of-canon cameos that will make you smile and an outstanding voice cast (lead by David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck).
It’s also very clear that the creators were begging to make a Darkwing Duck reboot all along, but Disney wouldn’t let them, so they just crammed him into the show anyway.
Pretty sure Darkwing Duck was part of the Disney Afternoon, and showed after school on weekdays
Damn, you might be right.
I can’t tell if that outfit is blue and black, or white and gold
It’s yanni
Laurel?
Me back in 1990 every Sunday at 4:30 AM:
“Wings of silver, nerves of steel… (Silverhawks!) Partly metal, partly real… (Silverhawks!) Soaring through the highway of the heavens in their flight, SilverHawks, a rainbow in the night!”
Together with ThunderCats and BraveStarr. And Exosquad. And Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. And Attack of the Killer Tomatoes…
I preferred the Nickelodeon lineup myself. Rugrats, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Angry Beavers, and Pete & Pete.
Then on Sunday morning it was two hours of MST3K on The Sci Fi Channel
My parents were too cheap/poor for cable, so I missed out on Nickelodeon, unless I was sleeping over at a friends house.
And then MST3K moved to Comedy Central for whatever reason.
It was apparently on HBO at one point, too.
Now I just stream it 24/7 on YouTube
Wasn’t this the Sunday lineup?
It probably is, and MST3K was probably on Saturday. The important part is that I was watching TV and not reading or playing outside.
More of a Duck Dogers Dude personally, but I admit the importance of Darkwing Duck and Ducktales as a whole.
when there’s trouble you call DW
**I feel bad for Zoomers. They never even had Saturday morning cartoons. They barely have any good cartoons geared toward children.
It’s actually a bit ironic that some law preventing cartoons being made exclusively to sell merch, like Transformers or TMNT, just stopped good cartoons from being made. We would have still watched these even if they didn’t sell any toys cuz they kicked ass all by themselves.
They barely have any good cartoons geared toward children.
Between the hype for Bluey and the state of streaming… I think the kids are alright.
Admittedly the landscape for anything new has been blasted by that prick who runs Discovery. Half the Y7 output of the last decade might not exist outside of Bittorrent. But even the cartoons that existed to sell merch are mostly available in their hilariously long runs, so long as Kids These Days™ can tolerate a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Needs more undivided attention
I’ve always heard us being referred to the Duck Tales generation, but this tracks. Born early enough to skin your knees on a Big Wheel in the 80’s, but only after Gen X had skateboards.
Not to mention playgrounds that still had merry-go-rounds, splintery wood structures, and flesh-searing steel slides. We had it so good.
I broke my wrist on one of those slides!
My jacket caught on the top loop and I flew off. I was maybe 6.
Apologies for bringing up such a “fond” memory. That’s how we learned, I guess.
Updated, more approrpriate gif, @[email protected]
We had a slide like that in elementary school, except it had dual slides. You’d climb up the center and go either left or right, and it was two HUGE metal spiral slides. One day, 8y/o me thought it’d be a grand idea to take a roll of wax paper and hand it out at the top of the stairs. 20 minutes later, I’m in the principals office, explaining why i did what i did, as kids are flying of of the top of each slide in the background…
Good times.
We still have one of those on a near playground. And actually my kid’s favorite one… 😆
This isn’t a great representation of the old ones. They had multiple panels of aluminum all the way down that would scrape and burn you in the sun xD
“And none of that killed me”
Says older person that had at least one friend die from some of that on their infancy.
When my parents pull that line, I have to make an effort not to laugh. But at least I’m aware enough to not say it to kids nowadays.
But Wil Wheaton has been born in 1972, so basically is prototypical GenX per definition.
This should rather be a photo of e.g. Cirroc Lofton, aka Jake Sisko…
This is not the meinhof baader phenomena… I was just showing a coworker some darkwing duck stuff yesterday…
