Who remembers the Go Go Gophers

I do!!

My brothers and I also created new words to their theme song to taunt each other with when we bankrupted each other in Monopoly…

Ahem: “Mortgage, mortgage, mortgage, gotta pay, pay, pay!”

I remember the theme song more than the actual segments. Loved Underdog as a little kid but don’t remember a lot about it now. I mostly remember it was followed by Johnny Quest on our local station and Speed Racer was either before or Underdog or after Quest. I was way too young to know what gay was back then but that block of TV might have influenced my later preferences

Rocky & Bullwinkle were so much better in every way.

It was one of those early morning cartoon fixtures that, even as a small child, one was conscious that it was an interior television offering. Lifted directly from the television series 'F-Troop,' it managed to be even worse than the program it imitated. And talk about racist as fuck! I knew that, too, even as a kid.

Both the Jay Ward cartoons (Rocky & Bullwinkle) and 'Total Television'/'Leonardo Television' (so-called in honor of their earlier series, 'King Leonardo & His Short Subjects') were pretty crappy. But I was always a little nostalgic for their respective end credits. Here's the ending to 'The Underdog Show':

▲ inferior television offering