Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
Dysfunction in Cartoon Land
Remember those Saturday mornings when you'd wake up early, grab a bowl of sugary cereal, and lose yourself in cartoons for hours? What seemed like innocent childhood entertainment might actually explain some of our adult quirks and perspectives.
In this nostalgic yet eye-opening conversation, hosts Chrisy and Kerry dive into the surprisingly problematic world of classic cartoons that defined Generation X childhoods. From Bugs Bunny's cross-dressing antics to the deeply uncomfortable romantic pursuits of Pepe Le Pew, these beloved characters now raise serious questions about the messages they conveyed to impressionable young minds.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.
KERRY:Good morning everybody. Th is is Kerry.
CHRISY:And this is Chrisy.
KERRY:Oh, waking up on the morning as a kid on Saturdays, saturday morning cartoons. If you ever wonder why we're screwed up, those of us in our 50s, it's because of the dysfunctional cartoons we were addicted to on saturday mornings.
CHRISY:yes, chrissy go well, because you know, I was sitting there watching them all. Yeah, they were wonderful and great and we're going to talk about them and we're going to bring up things that probably I think a lot of people have touched on this kind of stuff already because it was pretty obvious, especially with how aware we're supposed to be about things now right, and that we try to be aware of for our kids. Yeah, so I mean the, the one I have a whole paragraph of notes for.
KERRY:Chr Chrissy was like having the time of her life doing show notes for this one episode.
CHRISY:I was really upset that I actually forgot a couple of characters, and I may have even forgotten some other ones again, but man, bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner Show.
KERRY:Oh my gosh.
CHRISY:That was just packed full of inappropriate humor when you look back at it, you know.
CHRISY:The time period where these shows were being produced. I mean, I think Bugs, bunny, warner Brothers type thing was probably started maybe in the late 30s, probably some of the earlier ones. So cartoons were, I think, when they were made back then. Because of the way motion pictures were shown, they were sort of like things that were shown prior to movies or maybe during intermissions or something in the theaters. So there was a lot of adult humor to them, a lot. So the visuals and the fact that it was a cartoon appealed to children, no matter what.
CHRISY:But the real beauty of that and I think there's been some shows that have tried to adopt that kind of thing too. I'll mention it briefly because I feel, in my opinion it's like the best cartoon ever produced and I know a lot of people are fans of the Simpsons and like Family Guy or whatever those ones are, and I South Park, you know all of those are wonderful, but those are really straight adult humor type things, not that kids can't watch and enjoy, but the one that I think appeals to adults and children is Phineas and Ferb to me is the ultimate cartoon ever. I didn't put the notes down.
KERRY:I was going to say I'm looking at my notes going wait how did we go from Bugs Bunny to Phineas and Ferb?
CHRISY:I'm definitely going to get back to Bugs Bunny, but I just threw a quick shout out to Phineas and Ferb because it does appeal to children and adults. There's a lot of adult humor in there as far as it references a lot of popular culture that adults would mainly get from our time period. I'm guessing that the two creators of that show are probably around our age.
KERRY:I have no idea what this show is. I'm like literally Googling it because I'm like I don't recognize this. This was in our time as kids. No, oh, it's recent, it's more recent, and they just came out with a new season.
CHRISY:It's a disney vehicle and I I do plan on talking about disney stuff eventually, but not so much today. But not so much today. But I just want to, as far as the fact that they seem to have a recognition for show cartoons that do appeal, that a child and an adult could sit down together and enjoy.
KERRY:Okay, Now I'm still trying to find them on here to look at the characters.
CHRISY:Oh, it's just again. I'll talk more about that later, but just a quick shout out as far as that, whereas I think that the people who make Phineas and Ferb, that is their intention to appeal to adults as well as children, I think, like the Warner Brothers thing. Yeah, it just seemed to work out that way for them.
KERRY:Now I see the picture, so I know who you're talking about. Yeah, okay, sorry Now.
CHRISY:I got it. But going back to the Bugs Bunny, yeah, one thing that I remember traumatized me horribly with Bugs Bunny, to the point where I would have to get up and leave because I wasn't going to shut my TV off, because that's sacrilege you, because I wasn't going to shut my TV off, because that's sacrilege.
CHRISY:You don't shut a television, but I would leave or I didn't want to watch it. It was called what's Opera, doc, I believe was the title of the episode, or whatever it was segment, and it terrified me. It horrified me, it was awful, I don't know that one. It had a lot of classical pieces involved in it. What's it called again? What's Opera Doc O-P-E-R-A? It's Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny Nick you were researching it.
DJ NICK:It's based on a lot of Wagner's operas. Oh, okay. And it actually intermingles two or three of his different operas that he had done. So they used that as kind of a basis. It was from 1957. I used that as kind of a basis. It was from 1957. I think it was kind of a stand-alone thing originally. Maybe they tucked it in with Saturday morning cartoons.
KERRY:Okay, it actually was its own little thing. Now it's starting to ring a bell now. Now I'm starting to get it, yeah.
CHRISY:It just to me. It really flipped me out a little bit.
KERRY:There was always this thing with Bugs Bunny that sometimes, just for humor, bugs Bunny would dress up as a girl.
CHRISY:Oh, now I know what you're talking about. Yes, and Elmer Fudd was like a hunter a lot in his things he was usually trying to kill either Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny or something and this just got really serious.
CHRISY:Outside of the fact, the music was really dramatic and you know, it started out lightheartedhearted, it was very operatic, I guess is what you would as far as the like little you know beats it took, you know, because it was music, uh, inclined but and the fact that I don't think I'm ruining this for anybody at this point. So I mean, oh mean, elmer Fudd kills Bugs Bunny. Yeah, like in cartoons. This like was totally upset because nobody ever really died. Right, yeah, you drop stuff on them, they fell off buildings, they fell like a pancake on the ground, but then nobody ever died, right, but this literally he killed him.
CHRISY:And this is the end where Elmer Fudd regretted this and is carrying a lifeless Bugs Bunny at the end of the cartoon into the sunset or whatever in his arms and he's crying I killed the rabbit. I killed the rabbit.
KERRY:I killed the rascally rabbit.
CHRISY:Yeah, it was just, and I hated it. I was like, oh my God, please, I can't handle this, I don't want to see. Now, at the very end, I guess, to try and keep it somewhat lighthearted, he does sort of Bugs Bunny kind of wakes up and does talk to the. What do they call it? Breaking the fourth wall? Yeah, which is weird, he says to the audience you know it's opera or whatever. Did you expect a happy ending?
KERRY:or something like that.
CHRISY:For me. That didn't like fix me. I was wasted by then. I was like cartoon wasted. I was like I can't believe you killed Bugs Bunny and like you're thinking this is going to make it all okay. So yeah, we had a cross-dressing rabbit once in a while and you know not that there's anything wrong with that, um, but uh, you know, we just really didn't think of all the things that he was doing. Right, a lot of times people have brought up that skunk. Oh my god, pippi lapew. And the cat. The cat has a name, nick, found out what it was. The kitty cat has a name. I have to to look.
DJ NICK:I wrote it in my notes it's a Nellipi pussy cat.
KERRY:Oh.
DJ NICK:Yeah, so she actually had a name. I didn't know her name as a kid.
KERRY:I jokingly referenced this Pippi Le Pew and the cat. I joke about them a lot, but I love that one, but it's horrible. I mean, well, what makes me mad about that is not so much.
CHRISY:It was a cartoon. It's that time period. Why is everybody, our kids, have we made our kids just so aware now? And I hate to downplay us, but were we that dopey where we were? Just like? He just really digs her man, he's got her pinned to the wall and he's trying to kiss her. Who cares? You know it's horrible, but I guess it's like offensive. But you know you're gonna cancel this crap. You know put like what again. We'll talk about disney later, but I think with disney they put warnings on some of their old cartoon movies right because and I do agree with that I don't think that we should try to erase things.
CHRISY:Yes, because I think they're supposed to be there, as you know something to sort of embark on a good conversation about where we were and where we've come so far. The other thing and I don't know why I was thinking about it when we were looking at this Pepe Le Pew issue was when everybody got up in arms about it, because I have this type of music and you hear it at Christmas. Dean Martin sang the one I'm thinking of, but there were other people saying it, which was the Baby. It's Cold Outside, where he basically is trying to get the girl in his apartment to drink more so she'll stay longer. Right, and again, maybe we were just idiots, but when I heard that song, I wasn't thinking about anything more than you just want to spend a little extra time with right, you know, right, I know but boy.
KERRY:But that is a great comparison between the the song and the pippi lapew storyline there. That is, that was a good connection of the two.
CHRISY:Yeah, I guess I get offended at the fact that we have to.
KERRY:That people are offended. Well yeah, your offensiveness you being offended is offending me.
CHRISY:I think it helps dialogue. It helps bring conversation. It gives us an opportunity to talk about these things.
CHRISY:And even if it's like you and I talking about it in a funny manner, are there people who need to maybe have this addressed to them a little bit more, because maybe they have a hard time being able to separate what's right and wrong. Right, and I understand that you know, some people are more vulnerable to having a hard time doing that, but I mean, these are things we grew up with and we love. So, yeah, pepe Le Pew, yes, wah, I'm sorry the whole. I hated the Roadrunner and the Coyote dynamic. I hated. Whenever that came on, I was like great, here's 10 minutes. I'll never get back. I really wanted something better on. I never. And I know people love that part. Yeah, but I did not.
KERRY:My dad loved the Roadrunner and the Waddy Coyote. He loved that cartoon. So I think that I liked the cartoon because now, looking back, I think it was just because that would be maybe a half hour that my dad would sit and watch cartoons with me oh really. So I think it was more because my dad was sitting and watching cartoons with me than it really that I like the cartoon. But I remember him laughing about like, like I could just sit here and hear him laughing as we're watching that. But I just love that. It was predicting Amazon from way back in the day.
CHRISY:It was like Amazon.
KERRY:Oh, it was immediate delivery of whatever they wanted, whatever. Whatever they wanted, whatever they wanted, whatever Wildy Coyote needed to try to do, whatever Boom, it just instantly appeared. It's like Amazon.
CHRISY:It was like Amazon.
KERRY:I never thought of that.
CHRISY:Geez, I mean you're right.
DJ NICK:Yeah, if he needed explosives, acme explosives.
KERRY:Exactly, acme is the Amazon life he needed. Whatever, whatever he needed Boom it was immediate, immediate delivery. Boom, it was there. There's some.
CHRISY:I think there's something there I'm telling you. I remember.
DJ NICK:You should have Jeff Bezos in and ask him if that's where he got the inspiration from Amazon, that would be true?
KERRY:Yeah, that's a good point.
CHRISY:Yeah, again, and I understand, like I said, that's awesome that you have that memory with that. Yeah, I remember my father, maybe just because of the type of media watcher he was of the time. Yeah, he liked cartoons, so dad would watch cartoons.
KERRY:Oh, he would watch with you.
CHRISY:Oh yeah, in fact I remember my mom saying that her mother had brought that up as maybe a small concern.
KERRY:Oh that was a beige flag or a red flag, or whatever you want to call it.
CHRISY:Well, my grandmother had mentioned that probably before I was born. Even she had mentioned to my mother about her husband. She says you know, your husband actually likes to watch cartoons. And I, my grandmother, must not have understood that there were people my father's age who would sit and watch cartoons still. So, but did you want to?
DJ NICK:I got to go back to Pepe Le Pew because I you know and, true to your fashion, I felt like you were normalizing what he had done.
CHRISY:Oh yeah, what do you mean normalize?
KERRY:I didn't feel like you were like it wasn't a big deal.
DJ NICK:Why are we?
KERRY:offended that he's, you know, molesting the cat.
CHRISY:Well, did he legitimately? I mean, well, come on, he was. He was, don't you remember? Well, yeah, but okay, well, he was a skunk. I don't understand what skunks are driven by, maybe he couldn't help himself.
DJ NICK:I would think most mammals are kind of driven all by that same thing.
CHRISY:Well, okay, at any rate, all right. Whatever how they act on their drive, I don't know.
DJ NICK:When you were prepping for the show, you were more critical of Pepe Le Pew the other day than you are right now, are you?
CHRISY:normalizing it. I'm not trying to normalize it, but I guess. I just want to say that, because it just falls in line with that whole, let's just cancel it, not mention it, try to shove it over here and act like it never happened.
KERRY:And that would be my family's way of we're not going to talk about it. Don't talk about Pepe Le Pew. Pretend it never happened. That never happened. We're going to gaslight.
CHRISY:You, you that you're remembering that? All wrong. What do they call? There's a fact, what do they call that when Cancel culture? No, there's like an actual thing. I've seen online, too, where they call it. Is it the Mandela effect? Oh, I'm vaguely certain. They're like are you kidding me? Right now they're trying to say that Doesn't everybody remember this? Yeah, but now they're saying that that never happened. You can look it up, but I see that a lot. And then you have Tweety and Sylvester and the old lady, and that old lady.
KERRY:I think Nick found it.
DJ NICK:You're so smart.
KERRY:You're so smart, Chrissy. Again, I watch a lot of TV.
DJ NICK:The Mandela Effect is a social phenomenon where a group of people share false memories of specific details about an event, person, place or situation.
KERRY:Ooh, Look at you. Look at you. Wow, it's the DSMR of Chrissy.
CHRISY:Oh, there she goes, using them big words again. Yeah, it's just, which, I think, is sort of like this weird, crazy science experiment on us to try and put us all together and make us believe one thing, almost to control us in some weird way, maybe, I don't know.
KERRY:But there was so much violence in those cartoons, a ton of violence A ton of violence to the things that kids are watching today. I mean I'd rather have the Waddy Coyote violence than some of the stuff they're watching today in the games or you know video games and stuff.
CHRISY:Well, the gaming is, and it's very realistic.
KERRY:Yeah, right, but there was a lot. There was a lot. Well, yeah, I mean, you just let's blow up, but they all came back to life. It's like you said. You know, that was what was so tragic about the Doc Opera, was that you know Bugs Bunny actually died yeah, and the other ones. You know, the Roadrunner gets blown up or no, no, not the Roadrunner. The coyote ended up getting blown up how many times? But he still lived Right.
CHRISY:So all of his plans backfired. Yeah, they always backfired. But so, yeah, this sylvester the cat, the tweety bird, the old lady, and I kind of liked sylvester and twee's dynamic more than like tom and jerry's dynamic, I guess because sylvester wasn't as threatening yeah which doesn't speak a lot about his capabilities as, uh, tom seemed. I don't know why. He just seemed more threatening to me, and I mean God, yosemite, sam, there was that foghorn leghorn which that guy was totally just obnoxious.
KERRY:I love the whole. You know when they go to work, when they would go and they'd walk in and click the. You know the sheep, the sheep dog leaving. Oh yeah, and then the sheep you know, and they would hit the time clock. Morning, ralph, yeah, morning.
CHRISY:Ralph.
KERRY:Yeah, morning, ralph, morning, sam, yeah, exactly.
CHRISY:I remember that one that was a good one, that cracks me up.
CHRISY:Yeah, bugs Bunny could be a whole show on its own, yeah. Now here's the other one which I think is even worse than Bugs Bunny. Yes, what was up with the Smurfs? Why are we not addressing this issue? I know there are all the village of guys and there's sort of like the seven dwarfs thing, where they all had these like weird titles like Grumpy and Smarty and I don't know what the hell. They had all these different names, but there was only one girl. I know, for all of those dudes, I know, did you not look at Smurfette and think whore sorry?
CHRISY:and no, I tease, maybe not a whole, yeah right that was smurfs after dark well, nick, again, dj nick did some research because I just know that I remember there was one girl for everybody. And I do remember one specific episode which offended me. Even then, bugs bunny, yeah, doing all the things he did was never didn't stick with me as offensive, but they literally had an episode unless this is the mandela effect for me that I remember where papa smurf was trying to court smurfette, really, and it just felt wrong to me, yeah, and I was like what, 10, 12, I don't know how old I was, and I was just like this seems wrong.
KERRY:The guy is like sorry, I don't mean to be an ageist, but dude is really old, like the hugh Hefner in the Girls Next Door, that girl. But there's only one girl next door.
CHRISY:Like Hugh Hefner with three or four blondes on his arm, didn't offend me as much as this one blonde in Smurf Village Right, but Nick's DJ Nick researched this and here Smurfette was a creation of Gargamel.
KERRY:I don't, I never knew this. This is all new.
CHRISY:And this is what's offensive to me. Okay, what? When Gargamel created her, she had dark hair?
KERRY:And why did Gargamel create her? Do we know why?
DJ NICK:Okay, step in Step into our office over here, dj Nick, because you did the research on this. So Gargamel created Smurfette to basically spy on the Smurfs to get information.
CHRISY:Oh yeah, let's create a woman to do that. We'll work on Christmas. Go ahead, keep going. I wish this was a video I know this would be great you didn't bring that up last night Now I'm. I didn't know if she was set to be a spy.
DJ NICK:No, that's the reason that Gargamel created her was for that reason, to spy on the Smurfs, because he could never figure out where they actually lived. He didn't know where the Smurf village was, or whatever. Yeah, he was always trying to score the directions to at some point smurfette decided she liked all you know, like being part of the village and oh, I bet and so she, her allegiance shifted, I'm supposing, from gargamel to the smurfs but did it really but? But papa smurf um then did a spell to make her so did.
KERRY:Did papa snurf know that she was a spy of gargamel?
DJ NICK:I don't think she knew he. I don't think any of the smurfs okay.
KERRY:So then why did he feel he had to do the spell he didn't like?
DJ NICK:the well I think at some point yeah I'm guessing smurfette must have came clean, or something.
CHRISY:I you know, yeah, right, you know it's been. When did she become clean? But?
DJ NICK:when he did put the spell on her to make her a quote-unquote real smurf.
KERRY:A real smurf.
DJ NICK:That's when her hair suddenly turned blonde.
KERRY:See this is Tell me how you feel about this, Chrissy.
CHRISY:This is wrong. Why does the brunette now, to be good, have to be blonde? What? Why? Because blondes have more fun. Maybe blondes won't question why they're the only girl in an all-man world and what their duty is to be. I mean, I'm wondering. I'm gonna take this down a really bad path. Was she just not gonna question anything when she became blonde? And a sarcastic, snarky? Brunettes would be like. This seems wrong. I don't want to be stuck here with all of you dopey men, smurfers or whatever the hell you're called. Yeah, come on the smurfs. I know everybody loves them, but there's a really weird cartoon, payo it is remember the name that came up for the creator.
DJ NICK:That's the creator, Peyo. It's French.
CHRISY:What is he? A soccer player. He's French, don't? Soccer players usually have one name, like Pele Peyo, created by. What's up with Peyo? We'll deal with him later. We can touch on some other shows, talk about some other cartoons, because you had brought up some good ones I didn't even think of I love the jetsons, meet the jetsons, oh my gosh, the jetsons.
KERRY:But it was one of those very hard to find cartoons. So I don't know if it's because we only had, you know, the antennas on the tv, so maybe we just didn't get the channel that the judsons were on, but I felt like that was like the unicorn of of uh cartoons that if I, if the judsons happened to come on, it was like, oh my god, I can't get over.
DJ NICK:I love the judsons, I think the theme song really brought that everybody loves that song yeah, I'm wondering not much dysfunction with the judsons, though for youons, though for you guys? Not much content for you guys to talk about? Though that's the only problem with the Jetsons.
CHRISY:It just seemed like his wife spent a lot of his cash and I'm not exactly sure what his dynamic was with his boss. But I can find dysfunction in everything.
KERRY:Come on, nick, you know Chrissy's going to come through and find something for us. I'm wondering.
CHRISY:I stand corrected. We would have to probably do a little bit of research. I wonder if the Jetsons initially, although, were on Saturdays eventually. But were they like the Flintstones, where they started out as a primetime cartoon? And I'm wondering if they were the answer to like, because the Flintstones was all prehistoric like. Stone Age type thing.
KERRY:And.
CHRISY:Jetsons was supposed to be futuristic.
KERRY:Right, right, that's true, but the other one, though and this one will give us a lot to talk about it's Scooby-Doo. I love Scooby-Doo.
CHRISY:I know Now you're going to have to talk about it because Scooby-Doo holds such a place in my heart. Yeah, I can't crap all over it, I just can't.
KERRY:I can't. Well, my biggest take on Scooby-Doo was I mean, it was just like okay. Well, first of all, come on Shaggy. You know that Shaggy was smoking pot behind the van. Come on, they may never have showed it, but come on, shaggy.
DJ NICK:He always wanted a Scooby snack. Right, he had the munchies.
CHRISY:They always had the munchies.
KERRY:They always had the munchies? Yes, and they were the hippie living out of the van.
DJ NICK:you know, but you know, what it's legal now.
KERRY:I know In Ohio, right, but here's my take on. I think, because I loved Scooby-Doo so much. This is why I later loved Gilligan's Island. Now, I know Gilligan's Island is not a cartoon, but it's basically the adult version of Scooby-Doo. You've got these seven random people that are together, that would never be together in the same walks of life.
CHRISY:I mean, come on, yeah, but with Scooby-Doo they choose to be together and Gilligan's Island. Although, why were all those people on the same flipping boat tour?
KERRY:I know and the amount of things that the rich people brought on the boat.
CHRISY:Come on that boat it was a three-hour tour. I know Because I remember the theme song. Yeah, you're right.
KERRY:What were they doing? But the boat couldn't have handled all that luggage. When you look at the boat like where, Anyways, I think Mr Howe was avoiding the IRS.
CHRISY:I think he sabotaged that boat ride and he needed to be on an island. He obviously was avoiding something. All right, nick's got something.
DJ NICK:You guys have moved too quick.
KERRY:Sorry.
DJ NICK:So the Jessens did start, and it was Sunday night.
KERRY:Oh, okay.
DJ NICK:But it didn't fare well because it was up against Dennis the Menace and the Disney wonderful world.
CHRISY:World of Disney. Oh yeah.
DJ NICK:Then it got moved to Saturday mornings for season two. So you were right, chris, it started out as an evening thing, much like.
KERRY:And that probably explains why I didn't get to watch it much. Right, because I was not free access to the TV. So Saturday mornings I would get TV and I would get a little bit when I got home from school. Remember we talked about one of the other episodes.
KERRY:You know I was that latchkey kid kid, so I had like an hour and a half of I could sneak in some tv time, but other than that there wasn't much tv, so but you guys weren't even born when it first run, I mean when it right it was.
DJ NICK:1962 is when it started oh yeah the jetsons you guys watch for, unless they, you know they would do those special shows right.
CHRISY:the original run occurred before you guys were even born there was a slot of shows on when we would come home from school. Yeah, that Gilligan's Island was in that grouping, and so was Scooby-Doo, yeah, but probably things like the Jetsons. Yeah, the Flintstones, I think those were sort of after school, before you know, after the soap operas probably ended, but before the evening news came on. So like that two hour period, probably between four and six.
KERRY:Right, you had like kids could sit, and it was right when the soap operas ended. Yeah, and before the news. Yeah, that was your window so, but All right, we got, we got a few more to cover, so Real quick Some.
CHRISY:Yeah, that was your window so but all right, we got, we got a few more to cover, so real quick some oh my god okay I don't know how to bring this one up everybody, because I don't want to make anybody upset with me, but I mean, I think we live in a time where we're supposed to be able to talk about stuff, say whatever we want. So what was up with the snaggle puss?
KERRY:in the yogi bear grouping.
CHRISY:According to nick, he looked it up because I sort of had my own feelings about snaggle puss and what his you know demeanor or background was. Uh, nick said that, uh, he had a definite definition to his uh, he was you know a finer things.
DJ NICK:I mean he was you know a finer things.
CHRISY:He enjoyed the finer things of life.
DJ NICK:He had the collar and made a lot of Shakespearean references and he was, you know, Into theater Into theater. So would he have been.
KERRY:What's that called? Whenever shoot I'm trying to think of the term when a guy is like you're going to have to edit my pauses out on this one, while I think when they're in touch with their feminine side and they're, I can't think of a name you have to edit it out, well, well, and here's the thing I think that he just he was into the finer things in life.
CHRISY:That he was into the finer things in life. That's all, and I think sometimes you can do what you want with this.
KERRY:Edit it out or what. Here's where I'm going.
CHRISY:Would he have been part of the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or would he have been someone that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys would have helped? Yes, so would Snagglepuss be a cast member or a participant, but you know what so what? I know, oh, we don't care.
KERRY:Well, no, we don't care, we don't care, but it's just funny because it's the way these cartoons were talking about things, or bringing things up that were going on without talking about them.
CHRISY:He certainly was going to tell you every time he was leaving the room exit, stage, blah, blah, blah, dude, and not everything is a stage. Why did he have to always go stage left, stage right, what was that? Because he was. He had a performer's heart. Do you want to do the impersonation? Come on, nick, you're so good at impersonations.
DJ NICK:One of things must even always say heavens to murgatroyd and he would always add the word, even after everything he said you know like what. Like he would say, um, I'm trying to think, but. But he would add the word even, like to accentuate whatever I wanted to say. Like I would say my life is beautiful, even is what, oh?
KERRY:got you now. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that was one I had actually not thought about until I read your notes and stuff.
CHRISY:But Yogi Bear was great, always still in the picnic basket, him and Boo Boo. That was sort of a weird relationship, but okay, okay when you mentioned on here.
KERRY:you had about the three stooges. That was my cue to turn the TV off the Jabberjaw, the Three Stooges.
DJ NICK:Oh, so Jabberjaw. She may not even know who Jabberjaw is.
CHRISY:Jabberjaw is a flippin' shark, oh.
KERRY:I know who that is and he sounded like Curly from the Three Stooges. Oh, I see what you're saying.
CHRISY:And I know there's a lot of Three Stooges fans out there. They have a ton of appreciation for it. I understand their importance. I was more of a charlie chaplin, harold lloyd grouch, the marx brothers type person, not so much with the stooges, and I didn't really care for laurel and hardy much.
KERRY:But yeah, no, three stooges would come on like. This would be more like a sunday thing, sunday morning thing, when the three stooges would come on. That's when I exited stage left. Me too. I did not care for that.
CHRISY:So we had Speed Buggy, which was kind of fun. That was sort of the same voices that we got with Scooby-Doo, probably because it was made by the same people. Captain Caveman, who?
DJ NICK:was always screaming, captain Caveman.
CHRISY:He looked like a hairball.
KERRY:Um, and then the school of rock stuff, yeah, fantastic, that was great, that was really good schoolhouse school oh, what did I call school of rock school? Oh no, not good, yeah, jack black thank you for school of rock?
CHRISY:no school house rock awesome. Does anybody want to maybe touch real quick? I know we're running on time. You're gonna have to edit this down. What was up the picture pages thing?
KERRY:picture pages. Picture pages time to get your picture I always wanted to have that I'd sing that picture pages song all the time, do we not?
CHRISY:realize to what level I'm going to say the name Bill Cosby had himself embedded in our lives our generation especially.
KERRY:I know it's hard.
CHRISY:Dude, you're totally disappointed, I know. I know you let a whole generation down. All right, no more of that. The other thing I was going to bring up real quick and I made notes on it was oh, we didn't like Pink Panther.
KERRY:No, no, no to Pink Panther.
CHRISY:Rocky and Bullwinkle. I used to get mad when that had to come on. Did not find that funny at all. That was a pretty old one too, but it still showed up. Sid and Marty Krofft stuff. I don't know what that is Now if you want to talk about Scooby-Doo, and maybe they were having fun with the gong or whatever the hell they were smoking.
DJ NICK:Sid and.
CHRISY:Marty Croft is notorious for that. They had that one thing.
DJ NICK:H&R Puffin stuff. I mean go H&R.
CHRISY:Puffin stuff. But your Land of the Lost Was that Sid and Marty Croft also Land of the Lost.
DJ NICK:It was the same time period. I don't know if Sid and Marty Krofft had anything to do with Land of the Lost, though, Talk about. Watch Sid.
KERRY:This is stuff like right as you guys were born, it's early 70s, so yeah, but he says this as if he's like you know, so much age difference than us. You're the same age, nick yeah he's the same age.
CHRISY:Yeah, Sid, and Marty K. Supercraft Land of the Lost awesome.
KERRY:Yes, I loved also He-Man.
CHRISY:Yeah, I was totally into the He-Man.
KERRY:And Cringer the battle cat.
CHRISY:I remember the Superfriends and I know He-Man was on. The other thing is with this one sitting next to me here, this DJ Nick thing. He loves Transformer crap.
DJ NICK:Oh yeah.
CHRISY:And they actually had to make a whole like what do they call that when they make these movies and they're like many installments in, like you know, they're like a whole franchise. Yeah, he likes to listen to that crap. Real loud. The movie, that horrible noise, I hate it I hate it when they transform.
DJ NICK:I love when they transform. Yeah, I hate it, I get so angry and he's like.
CHRISY:it reminds me of my childhood. I'm like that's really too bad. Because of the cartoon.
KERRY:I watched the cartoon Okay so one other last cartoon on my notes was Popeye. What's your take on Popeye and olive oil? Popeye the sailor man it made by an olive oil.
CHRISY:Um, it made me try spinach out of a can, did it really? Yeah, oh yeah, because I was like, does so much for you and you know me with my whole affinity for dieting. I was just gonna, I was like, where was the popeye diet? And let me tell you what spinach in a can, oh, it's awful. It's so wrong. Did you have it with ice cream?
KERRY:no well maybe I should have. That might have made it better.
CHRISY:But no, I wasn't really big on the whole Popeye thing. It was kind of, but there's people who love it and it's very recognized. You see that sailor and the song, of course, yeah.
KERRY:This was a good. This was a good, lighthearted down memory lane, about to give you something to think about, maybe, where some of our dysfunctions come from these days.
CHRISY:Starting out with cartoons and eating that sugary stuff called cereal in front of the television.
KERRY:Absolutely so. What we want to know is we want to know what your favorite cartoons were. Make sure to find us on our Facebook page and pop in on there and tell us what your favorite cartoon was or what cartoons traumatized you. Yes, please, what's your take on the Smurfs? We want to know that.
CHRISY:And we will be coming in with the Disney. You're not off the hook. Oh yeah, we're going to do one about Disney, and I didn't talk about it because it wasn't Saturday morning. But there was some bad Charlie Brown stuff too. Oh, as much as much as I love Charlie Brown, there's some traumatizing stuff there.
KERRY:We'll get into that in the future and we're also going to get into in the future. We touched a little bit on Gilligan's Island but we're going to talk about some of those shows in the 80s. I know Chrissy's got a lot to say about the Love Boat, yeah.
CHRISY:How come we had love was fantasy island on after.
KERRY:Yeah, fantasy island love. What were you trying to tell the muppets?
DJ NICK:gilligan's island and all that jazz yeah, lovely, all right.
KERRY:Well, be sure to check us out on our facebook page. Also go to our new website, dysfunction junkies podcastcom. And don't forget, in the month of sept, we are supporting Canine Companions. We are raising awareness for this wonderful organization. We're also raising funds, so we have a link where you can donate to Canine Companions. We will be at the Canine Companions Dog Fest on September 21st in New Albany, ohio. So if you want to see us face to face and meet us, please come out. We would love to see you and teach you a little bit about Canine.
CHRISY:Companions yes, please, please, donate Wonderful organization.
KERRY:All right, everybody have a wonderful week. Talk to you later. Bye-bye.
