Comments on: Sex Pistols imagined as a Hanna Barbera cartoon

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

“I am not an anarchist, and I never was … I wrote a song called ‘Anarchy in the UK’, but that doesn’t make me an anarchist. I also wrote a song called ‘Pretty Vacant’ and I’m certainly not vacant. I wrote a song called ‘God Save the Queen’, and I ain’t no queen.”

- John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)

By: gwailo_joe

gwailo_joe — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:34:00 +0000

Um…you’re letting Sid drive? Is that…is that such a good idea?

Sure, the others may be equally untrustworthy, and JR would no doubt sideswipe bobbies and perambulators.

But Sid is going to Nod Off…chances are in front of a speeding lorry or on the railroad tracks.

It would make for a proper boisterous animated Kablammo though

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:42:00 +0000

Never mind the bollocks or the nitpickers; this is great. Reminds me of the Watchmen cartoon.

By: Abel Undercity

Abel Undercity — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:39:00 +0000

Glenn Matlock, of course, only appears in the pilot. Apparently he didn’t test well with the focus groups.

By: $19428857

$19428857 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:29:00 +0000

I would have watched it if I could have wrested the TV away from my sisters on any Saturday morning 34 years ago. It would have to have been better than Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels or the Kroft Supershow, although I would have enjoyed a battle of the bands betwixt Kaptain Kool and the Kongs and the four lads from London. Maybe the Pistols could have shown up in Fat Albert’s junkyard and smashed Rudy’s bass.

By: Meander, pontifex emeritus

Meander, pontifex emeritus — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Pretty astounding, isn’t it? Haters GOTTA hate…

By: benher

benher — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:14:00 +0000

I don’t think the kids… er… Sex Pistols had much of a grasp on Anarchy either ;)

By: Phlip

Phlip — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:59:00 +0000

So do we all recognize the two-finger salute there? (Something to do with cheap peasants with cheap longbows defeating invading armies of expensive knights in shining armor?)

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:59:00 +0000

(removing mask)

“Look it is old man McLaren!”

“I would’ve had a hit single if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids.”

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:43:00 +0000

Nah, I think consumerism is much easier for children to understand. Buy things so you'll temporarily stop feeling rotten about yourself until you buy something else again. Repeat until you have a mid-life crisis. On the other hand, I've found many adults don't understand anarchy, much less children... especially if the children have been subjected to parents that've succumbed to a monolithic information diet composed of rightwing, corporatist media. They tend to have trouble with understanding global climate change and wildly misunderstand many other important issues as well for some reason.

By: freshacconci

freshacconci — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:43:00 +0000

Speak for yourself. This child of the 70s thinks it’s pretty funny. C’mon, they’re in a dune buggy.

By: hypersomniac

hypersomniac — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:03:00 +0000

Anarchy is an idea kids can understand.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:43:00 +0000

Sid always was a cartoon, anyway.

By: Berkeleytard

Berkeleytard — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:25:00 +0000

The only people who think this is anything short of stupid were born in the 80′s or later.

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:46:00 +0000

Yeah. It’s like those retro Flash games that try to resemble a Atari 2600 or Colecovision game but end up using too many colors or sprites. If you want to be retro, do your research.

By: adonai

adonai — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:30:00 +0000

I’m picturing Malcom McLaren as a Phil Ken Sebben type of walk-on character…

“Johnny! You are my little artful dodgers, Ha Ha Ha!”

By: jeligula

jeligula — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:14:00 +0000

What? You mean the Sex Pistols were not a Hanna Barbera cartoon? I don’t believe it, not for a second.

By: Nire

Nire — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:26:00 +0000

I just have to plug tankriot’s hanna-barbera episode. Its a long watch, and lots of it is offtopic (As is the theme of tank riot), skip to about a third of the way in to hear the real stuff: http://tankriot.com/2010/086/

The gist of it is, sure, hanna-barbera sucked in terms of animation and such, but they brought cartoons to a point where they could be accessed by more people, and *on television* more. It cost many, many, many, many more times to produce a ‘traditional’ cartoon, which made people wary to carry larger ones.

By: Hubris Sonic

Hubris Sonic — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:22:00 +0000

geez, haters really DO need hate apparently…

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:04:00 +0000

I like his Ramones version too.. if not even a little better: :D

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qLaw2pbdYIk/R5Eq8ElTLPI/AAAAAAAAAGs/3eu618bt7gQ/s1600/Ramones.jpg

By: Roach McKrackin

Roach McKrackin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:02:00 +0000

I have to be honest, when I saw the headline I thought I was going to like this alot more than I did…

By: spacemunky

spacemunky — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:27:00 +0000

Less armchair quarterbacking, more appreciating cool stuff

kthx

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:12:00 +0000

I should add: The concept is great. ‘sjust that Dave put more care into drawing this than H-B devoted to their product.

By: Bartacus

Bartacus — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:09:00 +0000

Until then, Heliopister, there’s always this Hanna Barberized Six Feet Under lunchbox…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartgoldonflickr/5412349812/

By: darue keller

darue keller — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:07:00 +0000

Ramones one too…

http://montygog.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=144#/d18mujl

By: heliopolister

heliopolister — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:55:00 +0000

It would have made a helluva lunchbox.

By: kris

kris — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Nah, wouldn’t work.
Every single Hanna-Barbera spin-off franchise had the mandatory addition of an anthropomorphic household pet, either a bumbling dog or a wiseass cat, whose sole purpose of existence was to slow down and stretch the plot by falling over multiple times.
Now, the anthropomorphic car could be there to play that part, but on second glance, he looks much to likable for that. Mr. Cool he ain’t.

By: googoogjoob

googoogjoob — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:00 +0000

the art is much too clean and stylized to be anything like vintage hanna-barbera art

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:50:00 +0000

“Come on, Gang……we have to solve the mystery of the Spectral Ghost Gondola that’s been scaring away fishermen from Fishy Eye Patch Creek…..and get some heroin for Syd……before Friday night’s gig!”

By: pizzicato

pizzicato — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:47:00 +0000

That is not quite right, H-B cartoons are famously cheap, they don’t do shading (the blue car), all colors are flat and faces aren’t drawn like that…. (¬_¬) This look more like cartoon-network era…