How bad can this be?

In any case, it brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “play with the baby”.

This pony is so done with this world.

I thought, after that last post, that it was important for people to see how Tirek was in the first generation.  This is a compilation of all of his scenes from Rescue from Midnight Castle (1984).

People were complaining that the battle between Twilight and Tirek was somehow “too scary”, and couldn’t possibly appeal to little girls. 

Listen to the inherent menace of this character’s voice.  It is not booming and larger-than-life, because it doesn’t need to be.  It is cold and restrained, and therefore a much more sinister presence.  Also, they used the sound of a HUMAN HEARTBEAT to represent the Rainbow of Darkness.  I’m sorry, but as a horror fan, there is something RIDICULOUSLY creepy about a pulsating bag that sounds like a human heart.  Hell, any pulsating BAG is inherently creepy (Audition, anyone?).

Not only does Tirek intend to transform ponies into dragons to pull his chariot (and bring about “the night that never ends”), but he threatens Scorpan that if he doesn’t secure all four, he’ll CUT OFF SPIKE’S HEAD.  This motherfucker is willing to just up and KILL a baby dragon as punishment for someone else’s failure (remember - G1 Scorpan isn’t really the monster he appears to be, but a prince transformed by the Rainbow of Darkness that’s being forced to do Tirek’s bidding).

There were cartoon series for various toy lines (we all remember My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, Strawberry Shortcake, etc), but it didn’t stop at toys that it was easy to base a cartoon on…

Then there were cartoons based on video games…

Cartoons based on popular bands/artists…

Cartoons based on celebrities…

Cartoons based on horror movies/series that were absolutely NOT appropriate for kids…

A cartoon based on a kind of candy…

And A CARTOON BASED ON A T-SHIRT DESIGN.

Some of these intro I’m about to post are from the “Haha wow what were people DOING back then” and some are “Hey that show was great, fuck you >:(”  But all of them were “Hey here’s a popular thing let’s give it a cartoon and see what happens!”  Why did some of them work?

before the toothpaste

after the toothpaste

before AND after

i don't wet my toothbrush at all

i can't / don't brush my teeth

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party 1986

"Dead Man's Party" is a song by American band Oingo Boingo, released as the third single from their fifth studio album of the same name. The song was released on a 12" single in conjunction with another song from the album, "Stay". It is perhaps best known for its appearance in the 1986 film Back to School, where the band performed it at a party.

The lyric, "I hear the chauffeur coming to my door/Says there's room for maybe just one more," is a reference to "The Bus-Conductor," a short story by E. F. Benson about a hearse driver, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906. The story has been adapted several times and spawned an urban legend, with each version using the catchphrase, "Room for one more".

Danny Elfman performed the song as the final encore of his Nightmare Before Christmas concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in 2015, 2016, and 2018, and at Banc of California Stadium in 2021, alongside his former Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek.

"Dead Man's Party" received a total of 80,9% yes votes! Previous Danny Elfman polls: #5 "This Is Halloween".

* I borrow them from the public library (physical or digital)

* I purchase them from an independent comics shop/chain bookstore

* I purchase physical copies from an online store

* I purchase digital copies from an online store/app

* I have a subscription to a digital reading service/app

* I subscribe to the creator’s patron/private site

* I read them on a free comic app (webtoons, Tapas)

* I read them on the creator’s open site

* I pirate them

* I use another method

* I used multiple of these

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