"Big Monster on Campus" was the series finale of Archie's Weird Mysteries, first shown in February 2000.
A mad scientist with a major hate on for Riverdale decides to avenge himself by inserting an android onto Central High's wrestling team, targeting Riverdale's star, Marmaduke "Moose" Mason.......
From season 1 of Dexter's Laboratory:
Dexter doesn't want to go to gym class, but a substitute teacher forces him to endure a week of dodgeball, and it doesn't help that there are three idiots passing themselves off as bullies. Of course, as Bugs Bunny famously put it, you realize this means war.
From season 1 of The Flintstones:
Barney (Mel Blanc) buys Betty (Bea Benaderet) an engagement ring (??), and has Fred (Alan Reed) hold it for safekeeping. Wilma (Jean VanderPyl) finds the ring, and assumes Fred bought it for her. Uh-oh!! Now, Fred, who doesn't have the money to buy a 2nd ring, talks Barney into an exhibition boxing match with the champ. The girls ask the champ's manager to let Barney win the fight, but Barney's clowning proves costly. Believing they've been double-crossed, welllllllll......
I think we had this one up before, but it was taken down. It's back, but for how long, who can say?
Wonder Wheels is at "The County Fair" to foil a larcenous duo of thieves, one of whom is also competing in a motocross race.
From season 1 of The All-New Popeye Hour:
Popeye (Jack Mercer) and Bluto (Allan Melvin) are in a steeplechase race after Olive (Marilyn Schreffler) inherits a horse. Well, you know how this goes.
From season 2 of Problem Child:
Cyndi, one of Junior's closest friends, is entered in a skating competition, but her parents are so, so focused on her winning, they don't want Junior offering support. Meanwhile, a rival skater, Tonya, has hired Principal Peabody (Gilbert Gottfried, Aladdin) as her manager, and he's trying to sabotage Cyndi's chances of winning.......
Happened across this compilation of ads, some of which were in-show spots from The Bugs Bunny Show during its primetime run (1960-2), and some we've used before, for Alpha-Bits and Tang. Voices by Mel Blanc, except for Elmer Fudd (Hal Smith, The Andy Griffith Show):
From Famous Studios' Noveltoon series comes this farce from 1946, "Sudden Fried Chicken".
Now, we're all familiar with Herman (Arnold Stang), who teamed with Katnip in the 50's, but it turns out Herman had already appeared in a number of shorts with Henry, a rooster, and his wife, Bertha. "Sudden Fried Chicken" spelled the end for Henry & Bertha, and it would be a few years before Katnip made his debut.
Here, Henry is coaxed into fighting in a boxing match to win some money and respect.
From Liquid Television:
Beavis & Butt-Head's 2nd short on the series was heavily edited when it premiered in 1992 by MTV censors. The boys attend a monster truck rally, where future teacher Dave Van Driessen ends up getting run over by a truck in mid-song.
In 1979, at the request of then-NBC programming chief Fred Silverman, Disney's Sunday package was rechristened, Disney's Wonderful World. Unfortunately, this cosmetic change, coupled with a more contemporary theme song, didn't help the flagging ratings, as this iteration lasted two seasons.
As we are in baseball's preseason, it's fitting, then, to present "Baseball Fever", a compilation of shorts, including "Casey at The Bat", narrated by Jerry Colonna, and its sequel, "Casey Bats Again", which we've previously featured, and a copius amount of Goofy and Donald Duck.
Gary Owens was brought on board as the announcer. Casey Kasem, then a studio announcer at NBC on top of everything else on his schedule, is heard at the end of the show for network plugs.
Some segments were edited for copyright reasons.
As we're in the final stages of a cold snap here in the 518, let's check this winter-themed episode of Wacky Races.
Dick Dastardly (Paul Winchell) makes some ill-advised moves to try to trap the competition, and karma comes calling at the end of the race......
The next Olympics are still a ways off, but let's see how it all began, though the eyes of Goofy in "The Olympic Champ":
This is getting silly.
Tonight's Monday Night Football game between Cincinnati just got a little cray-cray with Disney's decision to do an animated alternate feed featuring The Simpsons.
Bart (Nancy Cartwright) will captain the Bengals. Homer (Dan Castelanetta) will lead the Cowboys. Hmm, y'think maybe it should be the other way around?
Here's a promo:
The tables are turned, for a change, for Popeye in 1936's "Never Kick a Woman".
Seeing a woman at a sporting goods store working a heavy bag, Popeye decides to teach Olive self-defense, against her wishes. Things change when the woman, presumably the store manager, makes a play for Popeye......
Paramount's Famous Studios served up "Rabbit Punch" as part of its Noveltoon line in 1955. As these shorts were incorporated into The New Casper Cartoon Show 8 years later for ABC, these were rechristened, Harveytoons.
Moe Hare & Tommy Tortoise square off in the boxing ring in a take-off on Aesop's classic The Tortoise & The Hare, which WB had parodied with Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle on a couple of occasions.
From Fox's ill-fated Woody Woodpecker Show:
Winnie (BJ Ward) enters Woody (Billy West) in a surfing competition after he learns there's a vacation as a prize. Buzz Buzzard (Mark Hamill) may have something to say about that.
Here's "Surf Crazy":
It's been a while since we checked into the Fender Bender 500.
This time around, the racers are in Washington. This is tame compared to the real-life chaos that has consumed the nation's capital in the 33 1/2 years since this first aired. Get in line to catch "The Monumental 500". Our race announcer/narrator is Shadoe Stevens (American Top 40, ex-Hollywood Squares):
Here's a black & white Merrie Melodies entry, springing from the imaginations of Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising.
"Freddy The Freshman" is based on a popular song of the era, and in this 1932 entry, Freddy is embodied as a canine college student in a raccoon coat who becomes a football hero.
I'd imagine this aired in New York back in the day, when WNEW (now WNYW) had a bigger library of WB shorts to complement later stars like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, & Porky Pig.
Partridge Family 2200 AD turns 50 this year. With baseball spring training underway, let's take a look at what would be the 23rd century's answer to football, spaceball. Danny (Danny Bonaduce) pretends to play the game to impress his mom......
