Post by wileyk209 on Aug 3, 2021 21:31:31 GMT -5
Anyone with HBO Max see this yet? It's C.H. Greenblatt's third animated series, after "Chowder" and "Harvey Beaks," but it stars classic Hanna-Barbera characters!
It premiered on HBO Max last Thursday. Many people seemed to criticize the art style, saying how those classic non-Flintstones/Jetsons/Scooby-Doo Hanna-Barbera characters (most of which had faded into obscurity after H-B was fully folded into Warner Bros. Animation) don't look right. But knowing this was from the creator of "Chowder," I was able to accept the designs. In a way, this show is pretty much "Chowder" with lesser-known Hanna-Barbera characters, but so far I am enjoying it.
But worth of note is all the gender-swapping that's been done! Several male characters have been retooled into females to try and be gender-neutral, due to how most of the old H-B stars were male. These include Jabberjaw (who now has the voice and mannerisms of a sassy black woman, sort of like Mammy Two-Shoes or Witch Lezah), Augie Doggie, Yakky Doodle, Squiddly Diddly, and even Loopy De Loop!
I like how it also uses lots of classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects, in a manner similar to "Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?" (But it's a different sound editing team: Hacienda Post/Sabre Media Studios, whom worked with Greenblatt on his previous two shows, and they also did the sound editing for "Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico" and "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!" )
One thing that surprised me about this show is how it doesn't have the throwback Hanna-Barbera logo at the end, the one that was used on Warner Bros. Animation's "The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania!", the "Wacky Races" reboot and "Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs!"
At first they were just not using it on the Scooby-Doo stuff made by WBA, since they usually classify Scooby-Doo as not being part of the Hanna-Barbera family anymore (even if some of the newer Scooby-Doo productions reference other H-B properties!) Instead, the show just ends with the current WB Animation logo.
I wonder if this has something to do with Warner Bros. rebranding Cartoon Network's European-production arm as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe? (After all, Cartoon Network Studios was originally a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera back in the 1990s.)
It premiered on HBO Max last Thursday. Many people seemed to criticize the art style, saying how those classic non-Flintstones/Jetsons/Scooby-Doo Hanna-Barbera characters (most of which had faded into obscurity after H-B was fully folded into Warner Bros. Animation) don't look right. But knowing this was from the creator of "Chowder," I was able to accept the designs. In a way, this show is pretty much "Chowder" with lesser-known Hanna-Barbera characters, but so far I am enjoying it.
But worth of note is all the gender-swapping that's been done! Several male characters have been retooled into females to try and be gender-neutral, due to how most of the old H-B stars were male. These include Jabberjaw (who now has the voice and mannerisms of a sassy black woman, sort of like Mammy Two-Shoes or Witch Lezah), Augie Doggie, Yakky Doodle, Squiddly Diddly, and even Loopy De Loop!
I like how it also uses lots of classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects, in a manner similar to "Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?" (But it's a different sound editing team: Hacienda Post/Sabre Media Studios, whom worked with Greenblatt on his previous two shows, and they also did the sound editing for "Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico" and "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!" )
One thing that surprised me about this show is how it doesn't have the throwback Hanna-Barbera logo at the end, the one that was used on Warner Bros. Animation's "The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania!", the "Wacky Races" reboot and "Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs!"
At first they were just not using it on the Scooby-Doo stuff made by WBA, since they usually classify Scooby-Doo as not being part of the Hanna-Barbera family anymore (even if some of the newer Scooby-Doo productions reference other H-B properties!) Instead, the show just ends with the current WB Animation logo.
I wonder if this has something to do with Warner Bros. rebranding Cartoon Network's European-production arm as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe? (After all, Cartoon Network Studios was originally a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera back in the 1990s.)