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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2004 4:48:15 GMT
I spent years under the belief that this was golden age, run-home-from-school unmissably classic TV. Then someone bought me the videos and it's just so boring. There is only so much fun you can have with laughing at the abysmal animation (in the bit where Dogtanian proves his skill by slicing an apple in midair - a series of apple-coloured feathers just hang there as a series of arm actions fade from one to the other), and Dogtanian's most frequently used line is "waaoowaawaa" in a whiny voice.
I even managed to misremember the theme tune. My version was so much better. It had more musical yapping dogs.
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Post by Sparkle on Jun 17, 2004 8:29:06 GMT
But did you remember the bit in the theme tune that goes, "Tra la la, tra la la" in the bridge?
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Post by klee on Jun 17, 2004 9:32:07 GMT
Lord, it went on forever, didn't it? And what was all that business with Queen Anne with her silly neck fur and English 'lover'? It took over the programme in the later stages.
It wasn't, however, as dull as 80 Days Around the World with Willy Fogg (because Phileas was too difficult for the kids, you see).
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Post by Sparkle on Jun 17, 2004 9:33:43 GMT
I don't remember the plots of any of the cartoons of my childhood. Like The Mysterious Cities Of Gold. All together now - Aaaaaaaaaaah, ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaaaaah, someday we will find........
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Post by klee on Jun 17, 2004 9:47:30 GMT
There were meant to be seven, they only found three and Esteban's Dad was alive, well and working as a High Priest in an Inca temple.
And the Olmecs scared the living shit out of me with their live organ transplant plot.
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Post by joined up talking on Jun 19, 2004 9:13:20 GMT
It wasn't, however, as dull as 80 Days Around the World with Willy Fogg (because Phileas was too difficult for the kids, you see). I remember that, it used to be on the same day/morning as Dogtanian... Worzel Gummidge, that programme about Sinbad the tiger pirate thing and the almighty Dungeons and Dragons were also shown on the same day. Or it could have been in the holidays so they were all on on different weekdays. But either way, it was greatness. |
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Post by Jonny on Jun 21, 2004 17:17:05 GMT
It wasn't, however, as dull as 80 Days Around the World with Willy Fogg (because Phileas was too difficult for the kids, you see). Willy Fogg is much funnier than Phileas when you're a kid though. And don't diss Willy- he tha baddest cat on tha seven seas, home. All yo haterz can STEP OF MUTHA FUCKERZ!!! Anyway, Tico and Rigadon did all the ace stuff while Willy went off and did boring crap like getting married to the biggest cat in the world.  His wife was crap. And the size of a boat. The theme tune was ace as anything and for some random reason they later decided to journey to the centre of the earth, which required a tiny bit of adjustment to the ace theme tune. |
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Post by pauliepoos on Dec 25, 2007 13:10:22 GMT
I've just treated myself to the dvd - a bargain at £8.99 from HMV online!
The perfect Christmas treat.
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Post by Becky on Dec 25, 2007 19:55:47 GMT
I had fond memories of Dogtanian, but then I got the DVD off ebay and it was shit. So boring. I must have been easily amused.
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Post by skillex on Dec 28, 2007 9:48:02 GMT
I would rather not sully my memories of Dogtanian by seeing it again. I always remember when I went off to university in my first year European History lecture the lecturer showed a slide of Cardinal Richelieu while discussing the power of the Catholic Church across Europe. Many of us immediately started pointing out to each other "But he should be a greyhound" across the lecture hall.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jan 7, 2008 14:39:16 GMT
Mi'lady was strangely hot though - for a cat with a hooded cape
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Post by jerriblank on Jun 16, 2008 8:28:30 GMT
Absolutely, I bet she'd be quite mucky in bed if Dogtanian ever got the chance. There seemed to be a plethora of hot female cartoon characters at that time - I'm thinking Cindy Bear, Penelope Pitstop and Evil Lynn.
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Post by Ugly Netty on Jun 16, 2008 17:45:04 GMT
We have someone at work that looks like Juliet from Dogtanian.
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Post by emma on Jun 17, 2008 1:31:33 GMT
My sister was utterly terrified of Dogtanian. A brief interlude of the theme tune today sent her cowering.
Not that I am in any way going to exploit this knowledge.
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Post by thelovelykate on Jun 17, 2008 17:09:30 GMT
Mi'lady was strangely hot though - for a cat with a hooded cape When I watched this when I was little I thought Aramis was completely dreamy. |
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Post by fuzzydunlop on Jun 18, 2008 11:56:11 GMT
The real highlight of all those badly-dubbed cartoons (how you can dub a cartoon badly is beyond me but they somehow managed) for me was the karaoke-style sing-a-long they used to have in The Broom Cupboard. I can't quite remember whether this was during Andy Crane or Philip Schofield's reign in The Broom Cupboard.
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Post by emma on Jun 19, 2008 2:06:46 GMT
It was Andy Crane. He used to vogue with Edd the Duck
But...wasn't Dogtanian on CITV?
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jun 19, 2008 2:16:40 GMT
It was Andy Crane. He used to vogue with Edd the Duck But...wasn't Dogtanian on CITV? NO! CBBC, definitely. Don't know about Dogtanian 2 - although Boomerang+1 is too good for that load of old rubbish. |
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Post by anorthernmonkey on Jun 19, 2008 14:07:10 GMT
I think i blanked dogtanian II out of my mind, all i remember are dogtanian mini boys and juliet mini girls as their kids. Oh and didn't milady somehow escape the executioner to threaten them again.
Speaking of milady why did Dogtanian always fall for her when she was in disguise? And as for the bad dubbing, i think the bad translation was even worse 'oh i forgot I couldn't swim' being one line that im sure made more sense in Fench.
I do love the show though. The Black Moustache was the most ineffectual baddie ever!
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