Animation Damnation: BraveStarr
Added 2024-03-21 10:00:06 +0000 UTCOn this month's patron-curated episode of Animation Damnation, we're chatting about the ridiculous Filmation cartoon, BraveStarr! The episode in question, "The Taking of Thistledown 123," first aired back on September 16, 1987, and features some kind of disgusting half-ostrich/half-man creature, a hilarious talking pig wearing a Union Army uniform that is also a bad guy, some real iffy Native American "magic" floating around, and a horrifying anthropomorphic horse creature that acts as BraveStarr's partner AND primary means of conveyance! PLUS: This BraveStarr episode's after-school special message at the end is all about teamwork! The more you know!
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I feel like you guys are conflating this with your Wild Wild West episode.
Excitemike 64
2024-06-18 03:31:38 +0000 UTCI also would have sworn you did this one.
Mark D Myers
2024-03-28 01:08:33 +0000 UTCKillers of the Flower Mooooon 🐮
Graham Trainor
2024-03-22 06:27:11 +0000 UTCRIP to WHM regular, M. Emmett Walsh 💜
Dylan Foley
2024-03-22 01:27:02 +0000 UTCAnd boy howdy, did Hanna-Barbera put out some crap. And I think they had the laziest colorists in the industry. What lazy idiot would make the whites of characters eyes the same color as their skin?
Rhio2k
2024-03-21 23:08:42 +0000 UTCYou know what's there: nothing with women.
Rhio2k
2024-03-21 23:06:32 +0000 UTCThe Price. That ep goes hard. Also surprised that didn't get reviewed. It did NOT fuck around.
Rhio2k
2024-03-21 23:05:24 +0000 UTCMost of the Filmation cartoons were okay, but then there were some horrific cartoons they put out, like The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show. Those made even the worst Hanna Barbera cartoons look good in comparison.
Felipe Hallenbeck
2024-03-21 19:45:12 +0000 UTCMy parents were peaceniks from the 60s who studied early childhood education, and they were worried that television would rot my brain. I don't think they knew how the programs were structured, or they didn't care. Back then, a lot of the cartoons would run for about 6 months, I think, and then they would all repeat for the next 6 months, or something like that. So I'd tune in for the first 15 minutes of the show I was into, and then in the second half of the year I'd catch the reruns, and start watching 15 minutes in. I'd try and stitch the stories together based on what I remembered from the previous cycle of episodes. I remember tons of pieces of all these shows that way, watching them in black and white on a 12" television. I think my parents hoped this way I wouldn't be too interested in television in general, and it sort of worked. But then when I was a teenager they showed me Blue Velvet, and I became movie-crazy for life.
Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence
2024-03-21 19:30:16 +0000 UTCNo Jem? That's truly...something....
Mark Ibarra
2024-03-21 19:07:53 +0000 UTC:scoffing: It's no Cowboys of Moo-Mesa!
Chris Dobson
2024-03-21 18:20:49 +0000 UTCRes Dogs ended last year, but to Chris's point there does seem to be a rising amount of media about Native Americans (Prey last year, Echo, and an episode of What If... as well from this year). Also, Andrew, I was also one of the dozen people who saw John Carter in theaters, I loved it, but not as much as my wife who ended up reading like 3 of those books.
I.C. Weiner
2024-03-21 18:10:06 +0000 UTCI second that nomination for that mess that is Jem. I vaguely remember some guy with a deep voice doing a voice over of an episode Jem on you tube a million years ago
Catboyslim
2024-03-21 18:05:25 +0000 UTCJon Favreau made this movie already with Cowboys and Aliens, and nobody saw that either.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-03-21 16:41:45 +0000 UTCIt almost feels like an idea that one of the animation studios that did cartoons for MTV Liquid Television would do
Daniel Hood
2024-03-21 16:33:53 +0000 UTCThanks for being the reason I almost had my entire office stare in my direction from stifling a laugh.
Daniel Hood
2024-03-21 16:29:46 +0000 UTCEven as a furry, I am nervous even looking up Thirty/Thirty on deviantart or other art sites; I feel I'd lose more sanity points.
Daniel Hood
2024-03-21 16:28:18 +0000 UTCAww, man! I would love it if Zack Snyder would reboot this in live action! Can you imagine! Oh, wait... Leave the horse/person alone!
Damon LeCornu
2024-03-21 16:16:12 +0000 UTCI adore Susan Blu ❤️. She's a true icon, both in voice-work and to the queer community. She's probably most famous for her role as Arcee of Transformers and my personal favorite, Stormer on Jem. It's worth noting that Jem has yet to be covered on Animation Damnation.
Justine Prudhomme
2024-03-21 15:26:25 +0000 UTCYes, even though "Great Mazinga" preceded it as a toy in the 70's with the Shogun Warriors, the edited anime showed up in the US a little after Voltron had faded, and surprisingly kept the female robot's boob missiles.
Mark Ibarra
2024-03-21 15:05:54 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to see y’all in new new texas in may
Nick Quintero
2024-03-21 15:03:32 +0000 UTCOn paper I really like the sound of a combination of western and sci-fi but this is so badly done... I did enjoy some of the background art and prop designs.
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-03-21 15:01:24 +0000 UTCIs that the same as Mazinger Z?
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-03-21 14:59:45 +0000 UTCHow did I not notice you were covering one my ultimate cartoons that time forgot!
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-03-21 14:59:25 +0000 UTCI was sure the boys had covered the bravestarr episode where kids get hooked on some illegal substance.
Ryan
2024-03-21 14:49:25 +0000 UTCOr...JODOROWSKY'S BRAVESTARR.
Mark Ibarra
2024-03-21 13:58:12 +0000 UTCoh hell yeah. This and Filmation's Ghostbusters has a special place in my heart. I had a VHS of Filmation's Ghostbusters, cause I think my mom got confused, and thought it was the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. The filmation would have the Bravestarr promo and I saw it so much I wanted to watch more Bravestarr!
Frank Grimes
2024-03-21 13:30:28 +0000 UTCI am willing to leave my job for a work from home position with the WHM team as Archivist so that you all never have to forget if you've done an ep before. Also my brother stole a bottle of Godiva Chocolate Liqueur from my parents one time and had it in his closet for sippin. I took one swig and it was straight gross af
Smaug
2024-03-21 13:17:22 +0000 UTCAsk an old person. Edit: BTW, you guys f'n crushed it this week.
Mark Ibarra
2024-03-21 13:16:46 +0000 UTCThanks for listening, Alan! One question: 15-minutes of TV a week? - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-03-21 13:14:47 +0000 UTC::double takes at computer monitor:: Tranzor Z? - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-03-21 13:13:58 +0000 UTCCowboy He-Man actually seemed more compelling than actual He-Man, But this was syndicated in the mornings for some reason, and I was starting to age out of waking up on a friggin school day to watch cartoons on local tv. Except for Tranzor Z, that was awesome.
Mark Ibarra
2024-03-21 13:03:46 +0000 UTCSo you're telling me there is a fantasy space western cartoon with mysticism and muties that I have never seen !? I know what I'm doing after work!
Nathan Lemire
2024-03-21 12:54:02 +0000 UTC"Is this hell?" -Steve
James C Harris
2024-03-21 12:11:43 +0000 UTCWatch Dark Winds! Great show and t is about native Americans
Melanie St.George
2024-03-21 11:55:01 +0000 UTCI have a vague recollection of you guys doing an episode on this before. Back in the days when you had all the extra animation damnation, side order of sleaze along with the Madmen and Breaking Bad round up episodes on another site. (Bandcamp?) I have a distinct recollection of Steve doing a impression of the little beaver dude. (Deputy Fuzz IIRC) I know the WHM wiki folks are dilligent so that impression might be from a different episode
Lono's Oboe
2024-03-21 11:09:42 +0000 UTCI’d like to think the Horse-Man, when noticing the bathroom is full tells his friends, “I’m going to see a man about a horse,” and then goes outside, turns into a horse and shits on the ground
RJ Cunningham
2024-03-21 10:56:09 +0000 UTCI know this sounds ridiculous, but I've been hoping you guys would cover an episode of Bravestarr for years. This show seemed like the coolest thing when I was a kid, and I was always trying to see it. My 15-minute-a-week limit on TV as a kid made it very difficult, but one of my fondest childhood cartoon memories was of the two-parter where Bravestarr teams up with Sherlock Holmes (they have Holmes fall through Reichenbach Falls into a time-warp, and then Moriarty cryogenically freezes himself so he can f*ck around with Sherlock in the future. Moriarty finds a kid who can hypnotize people with his singing...it's nuts. I did not remember the lightning bolts, though. But I think there is a cyborg Watson waiting for Sherlock in the future, if I recall correctly. There's also, if I remember right, an episode where a kid becomes a junkie and dies rather than getting rehabilitated. It's kind of an after-school special that gets its wires crossed. Also, I remember that the toys for this show were kind of awesome. They were constantly advertising Bravestarr's blaster on Saturday mornings, and I did know another kid who had the action figure of the horse, which was...strange... Anyways, thank you so much for this. Love the episode!
Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence
2024-03-21 10:35:07 +0000 UTCThis aesthetic could have fit perfectly within the haunted hellscape desert town in Devil’s Rain. Bravestarr and Tom Skerritt teaming up would be great theater
RJ Cunningham
2024-03-21 10:33:50 +0000 UTC
