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Animation Damnation: BraveStarr (Patreon)

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2024-03-21 10:00:06
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On this month's patron-curated episode of Animation Damnation, we're chatting about the ridiculous Filmation cartoon, BraveStarr! The episode in question, "The Taking of Thistledown 123," first aired back on September 16, 1987, and features some kind of disgusting half-ostrich/half-man creature, a hilarious talking pig wearing a Union Army uniform that is also a bad guy, some real iffy Native American "magic" floating around, and a horrifying anthropomorphic horse creature that acts as BraveStarr's partner AND primary means of conveyance! PLUS: This BraveStarr episode's after-school special message at the end is all about teamwork! The more you know!

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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RJ Cunningham

This aesthetic could have fit perfectly within the haunted hellscape desert town in Devil’s Rain. Bravestarr and Tom Skerritt teaming up would be great theater

Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've been hoping you guys would cover an episode of Bravestarr for years. This show seemed like the coolest thing when I was a kid, and I was always trying to see it. My 15-minute-a-week limit on TV as a kid made it very difficult, but one of my fondest childhood cartoon memories was of the two-parter where Bravestarr teams up with Sherlock Holmes (they have Holmes fall through Reichenbach Falls into a time-warp, and then Moriarty cryogenically freezes himself so he can f*ck around with Sherlock in the future. Moriarty finds a kid who can hypnotize people with his singing...it's nuts. I did not remember the lightning bolts, though. But I think there is a cyborg Watson waiting for Sherlock in the future, if I recall correctly. There's also, if I remember right, an episode where a kid becomes a junkie and dies rather than getting rehabilitated. It's kind of an after-school special that gets its wires crossed. Also, I remember that the toys for this show were kind of awesome. They were constantly advertising Bravestarr's blaster on Saturday mornings, and I did know another kid who had the action figure of the horse, which was...strange... Anyways, thank you so much for this. Love the episode!

RJ Cunningham

I’d like to think the Horse-Man, when noticing the bathroom is full tells his friends, “I’m going to see a man about a horse,” and then goes outside, turns into a horse and shits on the ground

Lono's Oboe

I have a vague recollection of you guys doing an episode on this before. Back in the days when you had all the extra animation damnation, side order of sleaze along with the Madmen and Breaking Bad round up episodes on another site. (Bandcamp?) I have a distinct recollection of Steve doing a impression of the little beaver dude. (Deputy Fuzz IIRC) I know the WHM wiki folks are dilligent so that impression might be from a different episode

Melanie St.George

Watch Dark Winds! Great show and t is about native Americans

Nathan Lemire

So you're telling me there is a fantasy space western cartoon with mysticism and muties that I have never seen !? I know what I'm doing after work!

Mark Ibarra

Cowboy He-Man actually seemed more compelling than actual He-Man, But this was syndicated in the mornings for some reason, and I was starting to age out of waking up on a friggin school day to watch cartoons on local tv. Except for Tranzor Z, that was awesome.

Smaug

I am willing to leave my job for a work from home position with the WHM team as Archivist so that you all never have to forget if you've done an ep before. Also my brother stole a bottle of Godiva Chocolate Liqueur from my parents one time and had it in his closet for sippin. I took one swig and it was straight gross af

Frank Grimes

oh hell yeah. This and Filmation's Ghostbusters has a special place in my heart. I had a VHS of Filmation's Ghostbusters, cause I think my mom got confused, and thought it was the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. The filmation would have the Bravestarr promo and I saw it so much I wanted to watch more Bravestarr!

Ryan

I was sure the boys had covered the bravestarr episode where kids get hooked on some illegal substance.

FiddlersGreenDay

How did I not notice you were covering one my ultimate cartoons that time forgot!

Felipe Sobreiro

On paper I really like the sound of a combination of western and sci-fi but this is so badly done... I did enjoy some of the background art and prop designs.

Nick Quintero

Can’t wait to see y’all in new new texas in may

Mark Ibarra
>>132955502

Yes, even though "Great Mazinga" preceded it as a toy in the 70's with the Shogun Warriors, the edited anime showed up in the US a little after Voltron had faded, and surprisingly kept the female robot's boob missiles.

Justine Prudhomme

I adore Susan Blu ❤️. She's a true icon, both in voice-work and to the queer community. She's probably most famous for her role as Arcee of Transformers and my personal favorite, Stormer on Jem. It's worth noting that Jem has yet to be covered on Animation Damnation.

Damon LeCornu

Aww, man! I would love it if Zack Snyder would reboot this in live action! Can you imagine! Oh, wait... Leave the horse/person alone!

Daniel Hood

Even as a furry, I am nervous even looking up Thirty/Thirty on deviantart or other art sites; I feel I'd lose more sanity points.

Daniel Hood
>>132948392

Thanks for being the reason I almost had my entire office stare in my direction from stifling a laugh.

Daniel Hood
>>132964690

It almost feels like an idea that one of the animation studios that did cartoons for MTV Liquid Television would do

CharlesGrodin'sToupee

Jon Favreau made this movie already with Cowboys and Aliens, and nobody saw that either.

Catboyslim
>>132967112

I second that nomination for that mess that is Jem. I vaguely remember some guy with a deep voice doing a voice over of an episode Jem on you tube a million years ago

I.C. Weiner

Res Dogs ended last year, but to Chris's point there does seem to be a rising amount of media about Native Americans (Prey last year, Echo, and an episode of What If... as well from this year). Also, Andrew, I was also one of the dozen people who saw John Carter in theaters, I loved it, but not as much as my wife who ended up reading like 3 of those books.

Alan Geoffrey James Lawrence
>>132947510

My parents were peaceniks from the 60s who studied early childhood education, and they were worried that television would rot my brain. I don't think they knew how the programs were structured, or they didn't care. Back then, a lot of the cartoons would run for about 6 months, I think, and then they would all repeat for the next 6 months, or something like that. So I'd tune in for the first 15 minutes of the show I was into, and then in the second half of the year I'd catch the reruns, and start watching 15 minutes in. I'd try and stitch the stories together based on what I remembered from the previous cycle of episodes. I remember tons of pieces of all these shows that way, watching them in black and white on a 12" television. I think my parents hoped this way I wouldn't be too interested in television in general, and it sort of worked. But then when I was a teenager they showed me Blue Velvet, and I became movie-crazy for life.

Felipe Hallenbeck

Most of the Filmation cartoons were okay, but then there were some horrific cartoons they put out, like The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show. Those made even the worst Hanna Barbera cartoons look good in comparison.

Rhio2k
>>132963748

The Price. That ep goes hard. Also surprised that didn't get reviewed. It did NOT fuck around.

Rhio2k
>>132990338

And boy howdy, did Hanna-Barbera put out some crap. And I think they had the laziest colorists in the industry. What lazy idiot would make the whites of characters eyes the same color as their skin?

Dylan Foley

RIP to WHM regular, M. Emmett Walsh 💜

Graham Trainor

Killers of the Flower Mooooon 🐮

Mark D Myers

I also would have sworn you did this one.

Excitemike 64

I feel like you guys are conflating this with your Wild Wild West episode.