Episode 66 - The Harlem Globetrotters / Norman

Today's show is an experiment: We're discussing a cereal that none of us ever had and a show that one of us never saw! Luckily, YouTube helped us out with the show, but the cereal...well...let's hope for a revival. What is Norman, and why is Cory so averse to human-named cereal? Listen and find out!

Episode Transcript

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It's time to PLoP down in frontof the TV and the Way Back Machine
with a bowl of your favorite cerealto relive the cartoons that made it worth
waking up early on the weekend.It's the Saturday Morning Supercast. Oh and

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welcome to the Saturday Morning Supercast,where it's always Saturday morning in the cereal
bowl is always full. I'm Jeff, I'm Corey, and I'm Olivia,
and it's it's gonna be a funshow, folks. It's either going to
be a fun show. It's goingto be an unmitigated disaster. We you
know, it's pretty much all ornothing with this group. So I'm I'm
going on the fun show. Wegot a blast from the past from the

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seventies to talk about when we talkabout the cartoons, and we have a
blast from nobody's past to talk aboutwith the cereal. So let's just dive
right in. The cereal that Iwanted to talk about is called Norman,
not Norman Cereal. It's just Norman, and you would be hard pressed to
find anybody who remembers it. ButI love this cereal because the tagline was

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the name is a shame, butthe taste is insane. That's a good
that's a good tagline. Yeah,that's all right, that's okay. It
is one that I wish that Icould find. So Norman was made by
a Nibisco and it was on storeshelves, Mister Breakfast says nineteen seventy one.
But there's someone that we'll talk aboutin the comments that is very adamant

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that it was not in existence inseventy one. It was on the street
from nineteen seventy four to nineteen seventyfive. Okay, so we'll we'll we'll
see about that. Well, we'lltalk a little but about that. But
by all accounts, it was onstore shelves in nineteen seventy one. I
think this person just didn't know anythingabout it. That's possible. It was
described as crunchy balls of goodness witha big buttery surprise in every crunch.

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I'm assuming the surprise was flavor,not yeah, balls of goodness. You
just don't know topally, not thateach ball was not just a tiny kingcake
with a little plastic Jesus in it. So I'm assuming that neither of you
have ever heard of Norman before.Correct, No, never, not a

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bit, not a bit. I'dnever heard of it until I got my
Great American Cereal book. The Normanwas a mascot. It was a little
fuzzy like orange guy who was likea little ball of hair. Basically that
wearing like looked like Chuck Taylor converseswith very large and in charge hair sprouting
out of his head, a pinkishpurple nose, very short arms, and

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a big smile. Okay, basicallynightmare fuel. Yeah, but I get
the feeling that Norman was supposed tolook like what the Norman Balls of Goodness
looked like minus the hair? Maybeprobably so, So let me let me
ask you as this. When youhear that it's a buttery has a buttery
flavor, what does that invoked toyou? I kind of had this idea

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of almost like a cinnamon toast,French toast kind of thing. Okay,
yeah, I don't know. Itmakes it makes me think of like a
oh makes me think of like awaffle. Right. How if you butter
it when it's nice and hot,then the butter melts in the little squares

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and it's like a little sauce cut, right, and it's not when you
eat it without If you eat itwith the syrup. It's not super sweet,
but it is a little sweet.Yeah, And that's kind of what
I thought as well. I thought, like Captain Crunch without the brown sugar
element to it. It's kind ofwhat I thought, Okay, which to
me sounds delicious. It sounds likeit would be dangerous because it doesn't sound

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like it would be super sweet.So it's sort of a mild flavor,
which is something I can just shovelin down my gullet. Right. So,
based on that, is Norman?Is that idea? Is that something
that appeals to you? Is thatsomething you would if you saw if they
brought it back for some reason,is that something you would be interested in
trying? If they changed the name, Oh you don't like the name?

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No hmm, And I mean Iknow why they did it. But at
the same time, no, thatdoes not that does not a breakfast cereal
make to me? Okay, Olivia, what about you? Oh? Um,
I would give it a go.It's it's worth a three dollar box.
Um. Honestly, I'm kind ofintrigued by the mascot because there's a

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lot going on there, Like hereminds me of equal parts gossamer, right,
that's what I thought, Uh,is Gossamer was he Looney Tunes or
was he? Yes? Yes,okay, so Gossamer the big hairy guy,
uh with some pinches of like sweetumsfrom the Muppets. Yeah okay,

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and then also a little bit ofof the sports mascot gritty. I can
see that. Yeah, gritty.Yeah, yeah, gritty was something that
popped popped a mind for me aswell, or to get real or more
modern with it, kind of anuh if like Jim Henson's Creature Shop did

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their own spin on meat Wad fromAquitine, then it's maybe something like that.
Yeah. No, yeah, that'scool. Yeah, that's that's very
it's a good point. Um yeahMeatwade. That that's a yeah. And
that's kind of what it reminded meof as well. So yeah, I
would be perfectly willing to try Norman. I actually kind of do want to

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try Norman. I am intrigued byCorey's um refusal of the name. I
don't know, I don't know,this is interesting to me. Is it
just because it's a guy's name?Would you prefer it to be something a
little more descriptive, like butterballs orsomething? I mean, yeah, maybe
so, and yes we got thingslike you know, cap and Crunch and
such, but Norman is just inmy mind, it's not connecting as hey,

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this is Cereal. This is morelike, hey, this is your
accountant, and I just I'm notconnected with it. I'm not getting that.
So yeah, well it almost seemslike something that would have been done
in the nineties, like with sortof a cynical or a post modern bent
to it, like it's the it'sthe anti Cereal mascot, you know.

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Sure, yeah, the name isa shame, but the taste is insane
that that sounds like something from themid nineties to me, mid to late
nineties, you know, in away I get it, Like I'm I'm
the kind of person that hates petnames that are not typical names, so
things like oh, this is mydog, you know, Cuddles, this

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is my cat Mittens. Yeah,I can't stand that, but I am
so amused by giving them like properfirst names, like these are my dogs,
this is Sheila and Steve yeap andlike and I love that. So
in yeah, like the name Normandoesn't bother me. I have a feeling

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they were trying I don't know.I think they were trying to catch an
audience that they were just was itwasn't the right time. It could be
well. I wanted to read someof the comments on the two websites that
I found that reference Norman. Ijust wanted to share some of them with
you. We have one person thatsays, of all the cereals I consumed

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as a child, this is theonly one that remembered that I remember with
a shiver of revulsion. Butter FlavoredI believe was advertised on the box play
p E H play, But afterthat you have this was one of my
favorite cereals as a kid. Ican still remember the commercials in the sweet
Buttery Flavor, and an one says, oh, I loved miss Norman.
I wish we could get them torebirth it. Does anyone have any of

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the old commercials? Someone says,I'm not crazy, I love Norman Cereal,
but nobody but me remembered it.They all said that I imagined it.
I started to think that I didfor a while, and this other
kid said, for some bizarre reason, I actually saved an empty box of
Norman Cereal when I was thirteen yearsold. Perhaps I thought I was going
to start a collection of cereal boxes. The box is still somewhere in my
parents attic, okay, And thenon the Mister Breakfast website. These are

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the ones that amused me in thelackluster flavor of the day cereals that we
have today. Please bring Norman back, and please bring Norman back, as
in all caps that butter hard crunchycereal was delicious. Okay. Then here
is perhaps my favorite one. Thisis by shirt Guy. His name is
shirt Guy says, I've studied Normanfor a while now. There seems to

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be only one box in a collector'shands. I've spoken to Nibisco and they
did not have an archive for NormanCereal. Norman was on the street between
nineteen seventy four to nineteen seventy fiveand limited areas. It was not in
existence in nineteen seventy one. Ihave the copyright paper for which I will
upload, which they haven't yet.If anybody has any info on Norman,
please contact me Shirts four or fivesix at aol dot com. This is

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in twenty sixteen he posted this.He's still using an AOL email address right,
so if anybody has any information that'sShirts and then the numbers four or
five six at aol dot com.Sullivan says, I adored Norman and even
had a nuts about Norman T shirtthat I wore so much it got so
thin quote it only had one sideend quote as my dad would like to

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say. I miss you and allyour buttery goodness, Norman gross. And
people enjoyed having a mouthful of Normanright exactly, and post after post people
asking for a picture of the cerealbox. There's apparently not one available online
anywhere, so if anybody out therehas one, please upload it to mister

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breakfast dot com. Everybody wants tosee it. The last one is I
loved Norman. I wish it wouldmake a comeback. Never has there been
a cereal flavor like this since thedeparture of my beloved Norman. Now where
can I view a commercial? Andagain, can't find a commercial online anywhere?
Okay, so it's it's definitely acult favorite. If a cereal can
have a cult following, I thinkNorman has the cult following. It sounds

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like it, huh. So Coreylikes likes animals that have human names,
but he hates cereal that has humanname unless there is some sort of title
in front of it, like captain. Is that is that the deal?
No, that's not. I don'tlike pets that have human names. Although
yes, my pet has a somewhathuman name. And it's not like I'm
gonna sit there and say, mydog's name is Steven Aloisious Jones And that

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would be a great marge for adog, wouldn't it. That is a
great name for a dog. Yeah. I agree. You could take it.
You could have it. No,I have. I have Archibald,
I have Ultra Archibald Valentino, andI have Margot Feldman exactly, and before
that I had Marvin Carlos. SoI'm just got Zoe. So that is

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very much a human name, andit's very fitting. Zoe is a good
name, Zoe. Zoe is verymuch a Zoe, all right? For
what, for whatever reason, Normandoes not do it for me. Oh
so if the name had been somethinga little a little different, Yeah,
so what would be an acceptable name? Then, Corey, I'm gonna put
you on the spot. What wouldbe an acceptable name if they were to

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rerelease Norman? That would get youto try it? Buttery, goodness,
no, it's gotta be a humanname like Steve, Steve Cereal. Oh,
I would not eat Steve Cereal.What about Brandon Cereal? Light it
on fire, get out of here. Yeah, we've we've seen, we've
we found the hill that Corey isgoing to die on, Folks, No

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human named Cereals, so he willhe will eat something called like butter crunch
goodness. Yeah. But but ifyou're Cereals named Greg, screw you right
out. Interesting hot garbage. Interesting. All right, Well we're gonna take
a short break and we'll be backto discuss the Harlem Globetrotters, which I

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didn't reveal at the beginning because Iwanted it to be a surprise. Oh
do do do you can You can'tdo that. We can't afford it,
we can't shoot. Okay, Ohthat's copyrighted, and we're back. You
may have heard Corey whistling something thatmay have sounded somewhat like Sweet Georgia Brown,

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but it was not, in factSweet Georgia Brown, and I will
explain why in a bit as wetalk about the Harlem Globe Trotters cartoon.
The Harlem Globetrotters aired from September twelfthof nineteen seventy to October sixteenth, nineteen
seventy one in its original airing,and then was on repeats until the middle
of nineteen seventy three, and thenlater was rerun in nineteen seventy eight as

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the Go Go Globetrotters. That's partof like a two hour block that they
sort of anchored. Yeah. NowI knew of this show's existence, but
had not ever seen an episode.They did are some on TV Land on
their Saturday morning block several years ago. Were either of you familiar with this
cartoon before we decided to talk aboutit? Yes, yes, but very

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generically, so you were aware thatit existed. I am pretty sure I
had caught some episodes, probably onprobably on TV Land now that i'm thinking
about it. Yeah, that's asfar as I know. That's the other
place that's aired in the last coupleof decades. Core. He's the same
for you. No, I seemto remember it um being on TV somewhere

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else rather than TV Land like whenI was a kid. Um, because
I know I've seen a couple ofepisodes of it, so I'm kind of
wondering where it was. Otherwise,they did show up on Scooby Doo.
So I'm wondering, maybe you say, oh maybe, Yeah, they did
use the characters on Scooby Doo fora while. So okay, So the

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Harlem Globetrotters. I was as surprisedas you guys probably were when I watched
the two episodes that I found onYouTube that the theme song of the show
is not, in fact, SweetGeorgia Brown. The production company couldn't apparently
afford the rights to it, sothey wrote a sort of sound alike.
Yeah, close enough to play overthe credits, you kind of it sort

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of suggests it without being you know, being legally different enough that they didn't
have to pay for the rights,right. But okay, So so the
Harlem Globetrotters. It follows the sametrope that we've seen with the Mister T
cartoon, with Josie and the Pussycats, Speed Buggy. You know, you

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get people that are traveling the worldfor some reason, being a tour of
some sort, performers whatever, andthey happen to get caught up in all
manner of crime and shenanigans on theway to their next gig or what have
you. But this one, startingin nineteen seventy one probably predates a lot

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of those, so this may havebeen outside of Scooby Doo been the one
that sort of set the blueprint,which is odd. Yeah, and it
was also the very first cartoon tofeature a predominantly African American cast. We
had shows like Josie and the Pussycatsand that and The Hardy Boys that had

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African American characters. Josie and thePussycats I believe started the same year,
so I started a year before innineteen seventy that had an African American female
character, but this was the firstone that was centered around a group of
African American characters, which I thinkis great. After the cancelation, they
did appear at three times on thenew Scooby Doo movies in seventy two and
seventy three, so I'm guessing that'smaybe what you saw, Corey. Yeah,

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I'm thinking so, because I've seenthose episodes as well. Oh yeah,
yeah. They did come back innineteen seventy nine and a show called
the Super Globetrotters where they were featuredas superheroes. Yeah. I don't know
about that one either, And oddlyenough, the Harlem Globetrotters did not provide
their own voices. I get that'spretty standard for these sorts of shows.

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Scat Man Cruthers, who was everywherein the seventies for Hanna Barbara was a
voice of George metal ark Leman,who is sort of the most famous of
the Harlem globe Rotters. I feellike he's the one I know at least.
Yeah, I'd say that. StuGilliam voiced Freddie Curly Neil Johnny Williams
voice Hubert Geese, Osby, RichardElkins voiced CJ. Gip Gibson, Eddie

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Rochester, Aaron Anderson voiced Bobby JoeMason, Robert DOKEI voiced Pablo Robertson,
and Nancy Wibble voiced Granny who wastheir bus driver, Old White Lady who
was their bus driver. Now,of those names, obviously we all know
scat Man Cruthers, and I knowRobert Doke. He was in RoboCop and

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RoboCop two as well as RoboCop three. He was also in Coffee and Nashville,
so he had a pretty good,pretty good run there. Eddie Rochester
Anderson is the one that I wasleast familiar with. But if you look
at his career, he had ahuge career. Yeah he was. He
was pretty big. Yes, RichardAlkins is a name that I recognize,

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but just off the top of myhead, I couldn't remember what I knew
him from Great Black Explantation film BlackChariot. Okay, I'm not familiar with
that one. No, you gottaseek it out. I'm sure it's somewhere,
but yeah, it's great. Okay, I'll have to check it out.
Um. Edie Eddie Rochester Anderson wasknown as Eddie Rochester Anderson because Rochester
was a character he played on TheJack Benny Show and that's where he made

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his name, and he was prettymuch second only to Jack Benny on that
show. Yeah, but I wantedto share a story with you guys and
with our audience. That just crackedme up. He was going to make
an appearance at a at a smoker. I guess I have yet to figure
out exactly what a smoker was at, something that they used to do back
in the day. I would assumeit probably has something to do with liquor

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and cigars. I think so aswell. He was invited to a Harvard
University smoker but was detained by studentsfrom MIT. He was met at the
airport by MIT students who claimed theywere on the Harvard committee, and when
it was discovered why Anderson was lateto the Harvard gathering, a riot broke
out between Harvard and MIT students asstudents from the school began fighting over the

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incident. Yeah, this is thesort of thing that just does not happen
today. No, but it shouldnow. No, but it cracked me
up. Now, Corey, youyou've got a good ear for voices.
There is one voice actor on theshow that at times sounds exactly like John
Amos, you know from from MyGood Times, Right, that's probably Robert

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Doki, That's what I was thinking, But I could not ever place which
character was, and ever called himby name when I noticed that was happening,
and so I couldn't figure it out. But that's what I was thinking
as well. But he sounded exactlylike John Amos so much show that I
kept trying to find John Amos andthe credit somewhere, and I'm trying to
remember him in RoboCop, and I'mpretty sure that that's him. I think

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you're right. I think you're probablyright, And of course, DAWs Butler
and Don Messick also did various voiceson it. We know them from every
other Hannah Barbara show. So theshow had twenty two episodes. The episodes
that are on you can find easilyon YouTube or episode one The Great Geese
goof Up and episode three, HoldThat Hillbilly. Did either of you make
it through both episodes? I madeit through the first one, but that

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was then, and I only watchedthe third one, Hold that Hillibilly?
Okay good. I watched all ofthe first one, and I watched about
half of Hold That Hillbilly. Sothis will be a good a good compare
contrast, because from what I cantell, every episode pretty much followed the
same trope. They get they getsidelined on the way to a gig,
and they have to play a gamein order to best the villains, and

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it always looks like they're going tolose, but in true Harlem globetrotter fashion,
they pull it out at the endand end up winning the game.
Is that that what happened and HoldThat Hillibilly? Olivia, yea, uh,
pretty much? Yeah, And that'sobviously what happened in the Kangaroo and
of course, we had a kangaroothat they thought somehow they thought geese had

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been turned into a kangaroo. Yeah, something like that. In this episode,
the kangaroo was an unknowing accomplish ina jewelry heist. And haven't we
seen that somewhere before in one ofour other shows that we discussed that seemed
awfully familiar to me. I think, are so buff people think that they're
going to ar rob you and beatyou up? Maybe so? I don't
know, No, now that soundscorrect, though, I want to say

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it was maybe, oh maybe likeHong Kong foui or that's what I was
thinking, something like that one ofthose. Um and it was a gorilla,
okay, yes, yeah, isa gorilla used in a jewelry heist?
Yes? But it does feel veryfamiliar. And they have a dog

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and the dog what was the dog'sname? I can't even I didn't even
have it in my notes. Umweels right, yeah, I don't remember.
Dribbles. The dog was named Dribbles. The mascot was named Dribbles,
and Dribbles looked like Hong Kong Foo. He's homeless cousin to me, Yes,
very much. Oh, Okay,that's all I would describe times.

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Yeah, I just sort of mangeand everything. And he had he had
his own seat on the bus becausein the first episode he was sitting in
I think he was sitting in Geese'sseat and he said, that's my seat.
You get you got to sit inthe dog seat. So he has
his own seat. Yeah, butagain had a typical Scooby Doo vibe throughout
the they chase around one of thechases around places which I'm going to copyright
that phrase, and a lot ofsitcom misunderstanding. He's only the tempo was

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so slow that it doesn't really workfor adults. It makes the jokes not
work at least that's what I found. Oh, I completely agree. I
was grateful that this had a laughtrack because that indicated to me, oh,
that was a joke. And thisis another one of those Hanna Barbar
shows that has a laugh track,and it just it weirds me out every
time. Corey, did you havethe same experience. I was fine with

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that. I thought a law stuffwas funny without the laugh tracks. So
yeah, I don't know. Soyou so you found some of it,
So you sounds like you might haveactually enjoyed this one a little bit.
Corey. Yeah, but again,you know, I'm a huge Scooby Dude
nerd, so this falls right inline with it. Yeah, that kind
of hits that sweet spot for you. And the characters are all likable,
they're they're fun, and you know, scat Mancruthers, you know, can

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carry anything. He's got so muchcharisma even with just his voice. So
the talent behind the mic on thisone really is immense. It's just a
shame they didn't have more to workwith. But let me ask you,
guys, this, a cartoon aboutthe Harlem Globe Trotters makes about as much
sense to me as the Mister Beancartoon, because the fun of the Globe
Trotters and the fun of Mister Beanis what they can do with their actual

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bodies in real life. Sure,you know, it's seeing Rowan Atkinson make
the faces that he makes and gettingthe predict pretty Cooman cities. In the
fun of the Harlem Globetrotters is beingable to see them do what they do
live. Yeah, so a cartoonversion kind of takes away the novelty of
their talent, doesn't it. Isee where you're going with it. But

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at the same point, I thinkit was the Harlem Globe Trotters were huge
at that point. I think itwas just trying to cash in and get
more people to go see them liveand to see them, you know,
solving mysteries and Central Scooby Doo andeverybody. I think it was just to
appeal to the kids, to getthe kids tell their parents that they want
to go see the Harlem Globetrotters.Well, and I guess that makes sense

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because the basketball games were only asmall part of every episode exactly. Yea,
but it did seem like that theyall had sort of superhuman strength.
I think it was one of them. I think it was Gip was the
big one, and he would jumpand like it would jump in like the
sidewalk would rattle underneath him, rightyeah, yeah, yeah. So but

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Olivia, do you see what I'msaying though? As well? No,
I do, because it's not likethey were spending the time in the budget
to animate them in a way thatcould communicate those skills exactly because those skills
paid those bills indeed. And umyeah, and so you wouldn't see um

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in the basketball game segment. Youwouldn't see that much physical action, and
my assumption it was just because animatingit was too much of a pain,
right, they had to animate morethan more than four movements. So yeah,
and again I mean this is thisis, this is early seventies,
Hannah Barbara, So that animation skillis what it is. Was that I

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had an issue visually with how theglobetrotters were all trying to look fairly realistic
to their real life personas. Yeah, metal ark women looked like metal luck
woman. Yeah, Curly looked likeCurly. Yeah, but all of your
other characters would be drawn in veryexaggerated cartoony terms. So like in hold

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that hillbilly you had, you hada bunch of them with like big giant
noses. And the one particular hillbillyin question who's supposed to Umu, who's
an eligible bachelor who could potentially marryanother hillbilly, which though it's a whole

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subplot that smells of Little Abner umthe if anybody out there's familiar with a
cartoon, I was never really familiarwith Little Abner the cartoon. I know
it because of the awful musical umBut anyway, Rock flat Field, who
has this really kind of big,big, you know, strong exaggerated,

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sort of chin it again, verylittle latner um. But yeah, like
they there was this the weird dichotomyof all the players look like themselves in
normal proportion, but everybody else wassuper exaggerated, cartoony. Yeah, I
think Corey's onto something. It hasto be something to do with like likeness

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rights or something, or there wassomething contractual where they said, you know,
we have to look like us sincethey're based on real people. They
didn't want to do something too youknow, cartoonish for lack of a better
word, which makes sense. Butbut I agree, I get that.
Yeah, it is sort of weirdto have these, you know, human
looking characters amongst all of these youknow, caricatures. Right, it just

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makes everybody else look very bizarre andcartoony. And I remember you said that
it was flat Fields. There wassomething. It was a hat Fields in
McCoy spoof, but I can't rememberthe other name. Oh yeah it was
um, I don't have to flipover and look, Okay, it was
the flat Fields and COIs just COIs, Okay, just COIs. No mech

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could ever tell you guys that Iworked with a Hatfield Andy McCoy once I
think you told me. My firstpaid acting gig was at an outdoor theater
in Kentucky, which was right nearthe Virginia the West Virginia border. That's
where the Hatfields and McCoy's happened.Our sound designer, his last name was
Hatfield, and one of the daughter, one of Tevy's daughters, and fiddler
on the roof was a McCoy.Pretty cool and I was happy summer that

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I put the two together. Iwas like, wait, are you guys
Hatfield mccoive, and they said yeah, yeah, Like, how's that working
on those actual descendants? Yeah,oh, okay they have at the this
is twenty years ago, but atthe time they used to have reunions every
year, both sides of the family. Because obviously they've all gotten over it
now, I guess went hope,yeah, moment hope. Yeah. But

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yeah, it was an interesting storyabout well a semi interesting story not about
me, but about someone else thatnobody knows. Um, I'm gonna take
time to share that. That's great. Yeah, So, uh, Corey,
since since you seem to enjoy thismore, is this something that if
if you were able to find moreepisodes. Do you think you would enjoy

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reliving some of that or do youthink the two episodes that we have available
to us are probably enough. I'dwatched the whole season or series of this.
Yeah, I'll twenty two episodes.Yeah, yeah, Olivia, what
about you? I'm guessing. I'mguessing you're done with it. I'm cool,
I'm good. There you have soAhold the Hillbilly I'm interested. Um,
how offensive is it from a modernperspective? Um, it's it.

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I didn't have much in the wayof moments of oh god, um like
I have with other shows that we'vewatched. Okay, I mean other other
than obviously that the beat you overthe head hat filled the McCoy reference,
and and the fact that like thewhole Um the Hillbilly picnic and then the

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cheating and the it just it justsounds too much like a little Abner comic
strip that so you were more offendedesthetically than any other way. Yeah,
that sounds accurate. Okay. Yeah. What I think is funny is if
you go to the Wikipedia article inthis, there are several episodes that have
no synopsis because there's just no informationavailable right in fact, I think most

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of them in season one, orat least about half of them do I
don't have a don't have any aboutthe synopsis about half nothing for season two,
no other than titles. I wouldbe very interested to watch episode six,
double Dribble Double, because it takesplace in Transylvania, and uh,
you know, I'm a big fanof every you know, we're all big
fans of everything Halloween, so Ithink that would probably be kind of fun.

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They get pitted against robots. Yeah, and again we have sorry,
go ahead, I would say there'sanother one where they have to help help
a lodge owner in the winter,uh, save his business. Yeah.
Well, and conveniently, since sincethe Globe Trotters are a traveling demonstration basketball
team, we have that age oldcartoon theme of travel. And every episode

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is set in a different kind ofenvironment or a different scenario, different locale.
Yeah, different different vibe. Imean, the plot typically boils down
to something it's alway. Yeah,it's always the same plot, always the
same plot. Right, there's aplayer basketball game. There's another episode where
they have to help a group ofkids at a youth center on a camping

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trip, and that involves a runawaycircus line. So yeah, it's all
it's all pretty uh, pretty outlandishfor the most part, but but harmless
at the same time. But butI have to ask you, and why
did this exist? Course, youmentioned that the Globetrotters were huge in this
seventies. I don't. I rememberalways being aware of them, and you
know, when when the subject cameup, we're all like, oh,
yeah, the Globetrotters are fun.But I don't remember them being like in

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the part of the zeitgeist. Ican't speak to whether they were part of
the zeitgeist, whether they were onthe tip of every adult and child's tongue,
but I know that there was afascination and almost a circus like mentality
when it came to the Globetrotters comingto your town to face off against the
Washington Generals, right, and that'sthe team that they always play. Yeah,

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I certainly was super aware of themin my eighties childhood. Have you
either one of you ever seen themlive? No? No, I saw
not the Globetrotters. There's another groupcalled the Harlem I think they're called the
Harlem Magicians. Okay, to cameto Paris back when I was a kid
as far as I could remember,every bit as good as the Globetrotters,

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you know, obviously, probably notquite as flashy, but had a really
good time with them. And Idon't know if they were like the B
squad, like the minor league orsomething, or if they were the retirees
from the Globetrotters. I don't know, but it was a lot of fun
and I wish it would I wishthat was something that was still around.
I guess they are still around,but I don't know if they're still active.

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Yeah, it's got to be awhole new generation. So yeah,
I'm not sure. Oh, probablymultiple times over at this point. Yeah.
Yeah, So Olivia, I thinkyou said you had some information on
the current globe Rotters. Oh yeah, they have a let's see what they
describe as the twenty twenty three WorldTour starting up soon, like I believe

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in December, nice with a lotof dates, stretching across the South at
first and then moving kind of tothe Midwest. And so maybe they'll come
buy Mississippi, come by Jackson Corey, you can go see him. That
that'd be great. I would Iwould be all about that. I'm gonna
have to look in that and seeyou. I mean, I would be

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all about that. There's some Georgia, there's some Kentucky, some Alabama.
Cool. Oh cool, Well lookinto it. Check out the Harlem Globetrotters
website. Well, um, so, so, I guess we're all so
so. Olivia and I are onboard for for Norman, the serial.
Corey is not. Corey is onboard for the Hall Harlem Globetrotters cartoon,
and Olivia and I are sort ofon the fence. Um. I didn't

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hate it, but I don't knowthat I would seek anymore out. Okay.
Is that sort of the same foryou, Olivia? Yeah, that's
okay. Well, folks, we'dlove to hear your thoughts on and I
especially want to know if you havethe same hang up about serial names that
Corey does. This is I thinkwe've we've unearthed something here that we're gonna
have to explore in greater detail lateron. But that's for another time.
But head to the Facebook page andlet us know what you think about the

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Harlem Globe Trotters and Norman. Untilnext time. For the Saturday Morning Supercast,
I'm Jeff, I'm Corey and I'mOlivia and it looks like it's time
for college sports and not the HarlemGlobe Trotters. So I'm going to go
outside and play. I'm fun,I'm gonna watch the Globetrotters. I'm gonna
take a nap. Thank you forlistening and don't forget to follow the show

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