I don't think it's even worst among the line of Josie and the Pussycats-derived shows (even if it gets incorrectly lumped in as a Scooby-Doo-derived show).
I'm not sure you can claim that Josie and The Pussycats *isn't* a Scooby-Doo derived show. And quite honestly Jabberjaw is an almost canonical melding of both: Four teens and their sidekick animal solve crimes, and hey they're in a band too! They're even in space an underwater future. I think that's why the show has kind of a bad rap: It's considered a cookie-cutter mashup of all the things that were working for Hanna-Barbera at the time.
I agree though; across every genre far worse X gets made than widely-known Y, but no one's heard of the really bad X, but Y was just good enough to get well-known, and then savaged for not being as good as Z.
Heck, did they even get as far as rec.arts.hanna-barbera? I'd have figured even if there were a concerted cored of Jabberjaw fans, they'd be off in alt.tv.jabberjaw if anyplace.
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Date: 2010-12-07 08:31 pm (UTC)I'm not sure you can claim that Josie and The Pussycats *isn't* a Scooby-Doo derived show. And quite honestly Jabberjaw is an almost canonical melding of both: Four teens and their sidekick animal solve crimes, and hey they're in a band too! They're even in
spacean underwater future. I think that's why the show has kind of a bad rap: It's considered a cookie-cutter mashup of all the things that were working for Hanna-Barbera at the time.I agree though; across every genre far worse X gets made than widely-known Y, but no one's heard of the really bad X, but Y was just good enough to get well-known, and then savaged for not being as good as Z.
Heck, did they even get as far as rec.arts.hanna-barbera? I'd have figured even if there were a concerted cored of Jabberjaw fans, they'd be off in alt.tv.jabberjaw if anyplace.
--Chi