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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
Yeah, lol! At least the monsters and ghosts on "Johnny Quest" were REAL monsters and ghosts, though, and the Bad Guys were usually Neo-Nazi mad scientists who actually had automatic guns and SHOT people, so the threats were genuine. Even if there wasn't any romance(though I have seen that Dr. Bannon and Johnny's dad have their share of "slash" fans), it was still a pretty decent show. This is the era of animating pop bands; the Jackson Five and the Osmond Brothers both had their own cartoons, and fake pop bands("Josie and the Pussycats" or "The Archies", anyone?), and mystery-solving teens who never went to school("Scooby Doo", "The Funky Phantom"), and those endless chase-toons, wherein some small but very smart character got chased around all the time by a big but really dumb character who wanted to do him harm("The Ant and the Ardvaark", "Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch")-no romance in any of 'em. Well, Richie in "The Archies" DID have a crush on Veronica, I think, but she wouldn't have anything to do with him. The other teen characters were way too busy pulling the masks off of criminals disguised as ghosts/monsters/mummies/etc. to fall in love with each other.
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Jonny Quest was VERY good. Great animation, great plots, great voice acting, etc. Race Bannon was a frggin Die Hard-style dude. ex-CIA, ex-Green Beret, always packing heat. Dr. Bannon was a nerdy guy but sometime during the episode he'd always pick up an M-16 or something and start blowing away mummies or communists, which was a total "WTF?" moment for me.
And those robot Daddy Longlegs things were AWESOME! Death rays for eyes...so cool!
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I really think that at that time in my life, though, as a young kid, I had no interest in romance at all. I could have ignored a small amount, but given the atmosphere in which I grew up(deep South, Bible Belt, rural conservative family), if it had been a prevelant part of the tv series, even something as innocent as a kiss now and then, either I would have gotten bored quickly with it and found it "yucky", or my parents would have noticed it and made me turn it off, since they would make me leave the room if they were watching a tv show and two people kissed!
My, how times have changed!
pitbulllady
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the free love scene never hit South Carolina?
and here i am listening to Iron Butterfly...(bad hippy, bad!)