Why, oh why, did you bring this bad cartoon show up? And yes, I remember it.

I loved watching it as a kid.

So did I, but remembering it now, my mind goes, why did I watch this???

That's fair. I remember liking the Star Wars TV Special as a kid.

Not me. I saw it and went, what the bleep is going on here!?!?

I think I saw a vhs of this at a thrift shop once

I remember this one. Didn't know that Chesty the lead panda was voiced by Jesse "The Lonely Maytag Repairman" White.

Yes, yes he was. :)

I have the complete series, albeit the Italian dub transferred from 16mm.

How on Earth did you get your hands on that?

Some random YouTube post directed me to a link where I ordered it directly from a private dealer.

They give off a vibe.. Like ed edd and eddy

Pan, Pann and Pandy?

I do not remember this, but boy do I sure miss Saturday morning toonage. X.x

I vaguely do. I got a couple of episodes saved on my Plex server. Was hell for me to catch whenever they aired it back in the 80s since i was watching and recording other cartoons when it was on heh.

It was before I was born sadly so no

Over 45? Check.
Seen this show? Nope. Never heard of it.

Probably because it never found its way across the Pacific to TVNZ.

Odd, but not too odd, as I know a lot of US cartoons did make their way Down Under.

I was watching the Dot cartoons from Australia, which they managed to ship over here back in the 80's.

I clearly remember this and always hoped the serious one of the trio with the big pecs would flex his muscles one day.
But it never happened...

I remember seeing an episode or two of this on Saturday mornings. Years later, I saw some kind of toy for it in a hardware store's toy section.

Vaguely. Only survived one season, and like many a toon with a "goal" back then, the goal wasn't reached prior to the cancellation of the series. (See Dungeons & Dragons for another example, though the ending had at least been written)

Looks like a fever dream.

Vaguely.

I remember coming across it once or twice. I think it was on Boomerang

oh yes, I remember this show

Yep! I remember getting up early every Saturday morning to watch this, munching on a bowl of dry Capt'n Crunch.

Thanks for the memories Dutch. *hugs*

* the original captain crunch was good.. but for me.. if it had to be dry cereal.. Captain Crunch *PEANUT BUTTER!!* ( that or Honey Comb.. that also had a good sweet and balanced taste if eaten dry ... super golden crisp was nice, even dry, but it always had a SLIGHT aftertaste that milk made better.. )

I have never seen this cartoon at all, but it feels like style wise it'd sit right in the middle of carebares, and He-Man o 3o

Infact it feels like finding this is like finding the missing link in human evolution.

And there's a laugh track, so there's a bit of scooby doo in there too. Hell it FEELS like a hanabara cartoon! XDDD

...What is this show?

I do not remember this show but I was probably born at the tail end tip of the 80s, maybe that's why. XDD

It was a Marvel Productions show that came out in 1982. Back in the 80's there were a lot of cartoons they tried spinning as a regular series, but most of em didn't make it past the first season.

Yeah, the laugh track... I surely don't miss canned laughter...

I guess even the 80s was an era where they tried everything to see if it stuck, not that I'd mind such things so long as the stories aren't homogenized like today.

Even so neat find bro :>

Oh good lord of fandoms. I barely remember this. But the greater comedy is that if you look at the copyright, it's a Marvel production. These 3 pandas could be in the MCU!

I- I need more!

They form into one giant panda and deus ex machina the situation. :D

Thanos: I thought losing to Squirrel Girl was bad.

Dr. Doom: None shall speak of this in the presence of Doom.

I HAD blocked the memory, thanks loads.

I was hoping I'd get your thoughts on it.
Now I got em. :)

"Of course you realize THIS MEANS WAR." - B. Bunny, Esq.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i9kp2gFsdw

Oh, the 70's / 80's were nutty.
Now for something else we didn't dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uz.....fGY&t=247s

I swear, the backup guitarist looks like Nigel from Spinal Tap.

There is a certain resemblance, yes.

Notice how there's a lack of a bass player?
Does Spaghetti double as bassist on that keyboard she carries around?

Could be!

Hoo boy, 4 years before my time. As hokey as that was, I wasn't expecting the "Flowers for Algernon" reference, and I appreciated the girl getting back at the dude who was working overtime with that quip about him "not bowing when I'm around" , given he still couldn't afford a plane ticket and he seemed to mostly only appreciate her having a credit card.

I actually thought that line was funny; the one joke where they didn't have a laugh track. Go figure.

Huh. Maybe they were referencing Flowers for Algernon...
The other reference they made was likely toward Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary. The human male character in the show was called Peter Darrow.

Good to see the work trying to steer the audience towards some other meaningful culture

Sadly, mostly only adults would catch those references. :(

true, but maybe they were grateful while enduring schlock, and perhaps someone in that writer's room was desperately trying to point them towards something better X3

Perhaps. It wasn't unusual for inside jokes to be placed in studio productions in order to help maintain sanity. :)

Nope.. never heard of it..

Surely it made its way to Canader!

Yeah, I'm over 45.

Apparently too far over 45 to have ever seen this.

I was 10 when I saw it on CBS.

I am 61. I do not remember this show at all.

At 20 were you watching Saturday morning cartoons then? (I mean, I probably would have at the time).
The show came out in 1982.

I would have been 20 or 21. I didn't have much chance to watch cartoons in the Army.

I remember this one.
I didn't like it, but I remember it.

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

I know of it.. have not thought about it for a long LONG time.. I thought the concept was interesting.. but sadly, I never got to watch any of it.. it was often on in a time slot when I was either watching something else on a different channel ( Likely the old *D&D cartoon ).. but after seeing and hearing the intro, It rings a bell in my brain from back when I was entertainingly young..

dont think I ever saw that one...

It didn't aired here in the Netherlands

Strange as I've seen German dubs of it on Youtube, so I think it did air in some parts of Europe.

huh. I honestly don't think I have heard of this. And I watched Jabber jaws, josey and the pussycats, froggert, Tiger sharks. Hell Turbo teen but not this. Need to add to my bad shows

Jabberjaw and Josey and the Pussycats came out in the 70's, I think. Frogger, Tigersharks and TurboTeen I think were past 1982.
Pandamonium was likely between those. It had that mix of post-70's / early 80's vibe going for it.

Late 1982? Gee, sorry, I was too busy keeping Moluccans out of a nuclear power plant.

Hold up. Wait a minute.
There's a tale here I wanna hear.

Not much to tell. In 1980 I got a job working as a security guard at a nuke plant on the East Coast. The 1977 Dutch train hijacking was still fresh in people's minds. In our training classes, the Moluccans became the generic terrorists (it could just as easily have become the Islamic Revolutionaries from Iran). Today, of course, it's Politically Incorrect to single out any particular group, but hey, I'm Old School.

I looked up the event and thought, 'Perfesser was in the Netherlands?!'

Ha, no. Just one of those weird late-'70s-early-'80s connections that were made in peoples' minds.

I've actually only been outside the U.S. twice in my life, both times to Canada.

I don't remember that ever showing on any channel when I was a kid. New to me.

It was on CBS in the U.S.

I don't remember it from when I was a kid because I'm pretty sure 4-5 year old me was watching and/or doing other stuff back then. I'm as much at a loss as to what that other stuff was as I am to having seen this show. I've heard of it a couple times as an adult, but still haven't gotten around to checking it out.