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Roger Ramjet
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This animated Comedic Hero from the mid-1960s was the Air Force's answer to Popeye. Roger Ramjet (voiced by Gary Owens, best known as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) led the American Eagle Squadron (comprising Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee) in defense of truth and justice. Ahead of Batman by one year, episodes of Roger Ramjet displayed sound effects, and sometimes dialog, on the screen.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The animation, from Ken Snyder and Pantomime Pictures, was crude, but the tone was snarky, even a bit subversive. The show's production coordinator, Fred Calvert, went on to produce animated shorts for Sesame Street. Most of the jokes went over the heads of the kids, but were appreciated by the parents.Roger's proton pill gave him the strength of 20 atom bombs for 20 seconds, enabling him to fight assorted spies and criminals. When the pill's effects wore off, the Eagle Squadron was always there to rescue Roger. In his leisure time, Roger competed with Lance Crossfire, playboy and ace test pilot, for the affections of Lotta Love. A couple of shorts have made it into the Internet Archive's Moving Picture Collection. Before that, however, the show made history as the first ever animated series to ever be given a home video release. It was released in 1972 for the short-lived "Cartrivision" format.note The first home video format to have pre-recorded video cassettes for rent and purchase, predating both Betamax (also known as simply "Beta") and VHS. The format was discontinued after a year.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In the early 1990s, the PBS series Square One TV featured a character named Dirk Niblick, whose segment used much of the same personnel as Roger Ramjet, including animation director Fred Crippen, writer Jim Thurman, and voice artists Gary Owens (Roger), Bob Arbogast (General Brassbottom), Joan Gerber (Dee), and Gene Moss (Doodle). | |
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Audience Murmurs: The No Goods. At the end of one round of murmuring we hear "West Virginia". | |
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Beware the Nice Ones - Dee, the littlest and youngest of the American Eagles, typically serves as the sweet, happy homemaker. Intelligent and often matching the boys in joke-telling. When an episode focuses on her, she will often be kidnapped or otherwise seized by baddies. Usually the kidnapper is Noodles Romanoff. One time she was assisted by a genie, however, she Took a Level in Badass when bound and helpless, her only weapon being an earth-shattering scream that she can hold indefinitely until the No Goods from N.A.S.T.Y. give up. Then there was the show where she sensed a miscarriage of justice when her homemade Cherry Berry pie wasn't even sampled by the spy judge in a contest. So she takes said pie and proceeds to rapid-fire hammer into the ground the four spies on their heads like nails. Gotta wonder what that pie was really baked with. | |
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