First, watch this video — any description of it won’t really be able to do it justice.
Don’t know about you, but in the words of my colleague Jeff Labrecque, "I think I’m high from just watching this." And yet, from all I can tell, it was at the least commissioned by the children’s cable network Nickelodeon, and probably did indeed air to millions of 12-and-youngers nationwide. Which, actually, is what I love so much about this clip: Somehow, it feels like so many of the animated series I used to watch as a kid — ice kings, rainacorns, iceclopses, doot-de-doo-doo-with-a-banjo music, "he’s not my dog, he’s my friend," Abe Lincoln on Mars — mixed in with all the rules-change-every-five-seconds imagination games I’d play with my friends at recess.
Which could explain a great deal about my psyche, but, I leave it to you, PopWatchers: Has kids TV always been as psychedelic as Adventure Time? Are there some beloved shows from your childhood that, in hindsight, perhaps evoked the sensation of, you know, being high as a kite? Like, maybe, a show with the initials H and R…?
The crazy voice they gave Abraham Lincoln was the best! “Your mind has been transported back in time… and to Mars!”
One word – Smurfs. They ate the magic mushrooms.
I think my constant viewing of Pinwheel as a child goes a long way towards explaining my warped mind. That show is like an acid trip.
Wow. Welcome to the city of Awesome. Population: Us.
While I find this deeply amusing, it’s just like something a child would write. It’s a step beyond junk-food TV; it’s a drill to the brain.
I LOVE.
This could not have been on TV. It’s my ‘shroom hashbowl experiences from 1992 magically extracted from memory and placed on the internet by pixies.
How about the Bugaloos, lidsville or H.R. Punstuf. Those were all trippy shows.
Algera’s Castle was cool. It had Alegra a girl wizard and her pet dragon Magellian.
I used to watch Rocko’s Modern Life on Nick when I was a kid and that was a pretty trippy show from the Pierson/Schneider (B52′s) theme song to Rocko’s best friend Heffer Wolf, who is a steer raised by a pack of wolves. Man, totally classic!
Animaniacs was also super cool (own it on DVD now) but not as trippy.
In retrospect, the entire concept beyond “Rainbow Brite” is pretty much insane. Didn’t she come from another planet or something? And does anybody remember the movie where she finds a baby hidden in some caves, and the baby gives her rainbow powers, and…well, really, that right there is enough to make me say “WHAT?”
stephanie it was allegra’s window and eureka’s castle
Spiderman.
Did anyone else notice that the dog was voiced by John Di Maggio, aka Bender on Futurama?
Thanks for the attention, Adam. “Adventure Time” is the creation of Mr Pen Ward, whose hat is also awesome and totally math.
Two words: The Buggaloos
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