"Kablam!" thread Thoughts on this show? it seems to be the only 90s Nicktoon that no one ever brings up
Sniz & Fondue was goign to be a full series, but creator left Nick because of creative differences. Because of this, SpongeBob got its slot.
>>150618877Prometheus and Bob always made me lose my shit.
>>150618877It alright
>>150618877Disappearing ink
>>150618877Loved the theme song
>>150618877My favorite parts were Henry and June's stuff and Life with Loopy, which I would have loved to become a full series.
I want to fug Fondue.
The only part of the show that people talked about was the rumored "finale", after it was decomfirmed all discussion of it disappeared
I loved Kablam!Life with Loopy was fun and I always enjoyed Action League Now! And Prometheus and Bob. Sniz and Fondue escapes me though.
>>150618911definitely the best one
>>150618877This show is so satanic it turned many girls in dyke whores and boys into trannies
>>150618877Prometheus and Bob was always my favorite segment. Sniz and Fondue feels like some kind of proto Regular Show and to this day I wonder if there wasn't some inspiration. Also the whole show feels like taking a time machine to the late 90s now.
>>150619611Nobody cares about your life choices
Some feller what done did drawn a fan cartoon where june was a tubby millenial struggling to cope with irrelevance.
>>150618877i would june
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>>150619768The ending to this short is one of only like 3 things from cartoons that ever actually scared me as a kid. To the point that I forgot how cute the girl was.
>>150618877I loved it, grew uo with it. As adult is still funny but you notice it was made on a budget.
>>150619355Finale?
>>150619970That rumor about an unaired finale where they kiss each other which was debunked by the creator
>>150620172What an asshole. He should have let us dream!
>>150619788How did it end?
>>150620205That was never going to happen.
>>150620221The cat in the short (not the lady, an actual cat) suddenly grows a giant freaky head that wobbles around looking right at the camera. As an adult it's not even remotely scary but as a kid it was so jarring it got me good.https://youtu.be/Herdvm1B4Xs?si=ieO4tEszRRnQ1brs&t=280
>>150620242Explain this then!
>>150620280Huh, this short has a certain Rocko's Modern Life style to it.
>>150620350I'm pretty sure it was a direct inspiration, the cat lady looks a ton like Paula Hutchison
>>150618877Thew few segments that didn't work didn't stick around, and the ones that did were pretty good the whole way through its run. There's not much discussion because there's not much to say other than "it was great!" because it was.
>>150620341Autist fan art.
>>150620341Why is June wearing an astronaut suit?
I always liked how June kept pulling Henry’s pants down and would stare at his underwear.
>>150620280Oh shit, i remember that, yeah i was scared of it tooThis and the Zombie episode of PPG
>>150620504Haha, what if a a joke Henry didn't wear underwear so if she did that she'd be looking straight at his penis?
>>150618877I sorta remember watching this show but not entirety. Just a glimpsed of one episode and that's it.
>>150621105June is the type of girl that would laugh, but yes she would stare
Don't Kablam it yet, guys.
>>150620350IIRC a RML animator created it, which is why the characters look like they’re straight from that show.
Heh
>>150619355Also that cunt Angela and how she caused a anon’s divorce
>>150619355>>150620172Bullshit. i don't give a damn what he said, i saw it on air and that bit of film still exists somewhere in someone's basement vault.
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>>150618877I remember really liking Action League Now. The rest of the block I didn't care for or don't remember but for whatever reason that one always stuck with me.
>>150618877Was always bored to tears from it, even as a kid. Saw it as the reject garbage bin of shorts that didn't go anywhere and in hindsight seems I wasn't that far off. Funny how I did not like Prometheus and Bob as a kid, but I somehow respected it, and thought it was an much older cartoon from the Looney Tunes era getting reused, just because the jokes and slapstick were so well timed. Cant even recall most of the shorts, there were so many and most of them oneshots. Sniz and Fondue had this weird meanspirited vibe of CatDog, Action League and Loopy looked like literal fucking shit and the other recurring ones, like the Off-Beats or whatever it was called were just annoying. Every single time it was on, I just took my losses and went to do my homework, so I won't miss any actually good cartoons.
>>150620280You just shaken some forgotten memories.
>>150620478At least use the right screenshot
>>150618877Double Dubs checked.It's my all-time favorite nicktoon, before he moved away, my last friend pirated the series and burnt it onto DVDs for me, including the award special and the one where Henry and June go to school.He accidentally missed a couple episodes during the initial burning, but I caught on before he moved.S-tier show.>Captcha: GADDY
>>150620172why can’t they just be good friends?
>>150618877>Life with Loopy: nice style but weird>Sniz and Fondue: tryhard shorts that wished they were their own show>Action League Now: the laziest animation style ever probably to make up for Sniz and Fondue's budget>Prometheus and Bob: hit or miss fever dreamHenry and June were honestly the best part of the show and I genuinely find it interesting how these two crudely animated hosts were more interesting than any of the shorts. They were really charming characters.
>>150620280That really took me back, the whole rest of the short is so calm and then boom that happens. Used to freak me out.
>>150619173Isn't Phantom Investigators close enough to Life with Loopy?
Bumpin' it
Fun fact.Kablam started when the voice actor for Henry was 12 and the voice actress for June was 9. So in season 1 you’re listening to a twelve year old and a nine year old banter.
>>150619573>Ka-Fap!What did they mean by this
>>150619961True but it was ambitious with all the different styles
>>150619768Cute
>>150618877>Failed Pilots: The Animated Series (starring generic boy and girl)Not bad if done well tho, which it is
>>150618877I loved Action Legaue Now>And Meltman! With the power to…melt
Life with Loopy was proto Coraline.
I had like an eye opening art experience as a kid when this show came out. I think cus the two main hosts were drawn like doodles. Like amateurish and imperfect. And as a kid I only ever saw "professional" looking cartoons. I guess it really got me into cartooning.
>>150619320I want to smooch him on his big ol' snout!
>>150627814fucking kek
>>150631898Same, his nose looks very boopable too.
>>150618877Life With Loopy needs more lewds
>>150627814Catbox the uncensored version
Reminder that Angela Anaconda not only killed the Digimon movie, but she also singlehandedly ruined the ability to release Kablam on DVD, due to licensing issues.If you don't hate her enough to see red, you need more hate.
>>150618877Kablam it, anon.
Anyone have a mega with the whole show?
>>150634028Is it because Angela got a show on Fox Kids while Kablam stayed on Nickelodeon?
>>150627639Seems like a nice friendship
>>150630125Love the style of flat faces on doll bodies
>>150618877Sniz and Fondue was the best show
>>150637562>What do you want to be when you grow up?>NOAH: I think I'm always going to be an actor.Well done, kid.
>>150626745Based friend
Sniz and Fondue had a unique setup for an kids' cartoons: adult roommates living in the same house.As a kid first watching it, I thought Sniz and Fonduue were brother and Snuppa and Bianca were their parents.
>>150627814Kek
>>150619722You would?
>>150635053Isn't the whole thing on youtube?
>>150643474Yes, it is.
> naming your leads after a notable erotic movie that was the first nc-17 movieWhat did they mean by this?
>>150644379La creatura
Ka-Bump!
>>150643474>>150644260Oh dang really? I guess it was more for HD download
>>150637757I think KaBlam went downhill once they stopped producing those shorts. Even though the original creator had no involvement with the ones produced in 1998, it would've been worthwhile to keep them around. Maybe they were worried about people getting the show mixed up with CatDog?
OUCHIES!
>>150625447It's anon's fault.
>>150637757>Sniz and Fondue was the best showWhat a weird way to say Prometheus and Bob.
>>150627814kek
>>150627814
>>150618877How great was it back then?
Posting some OC from a thread way back when.
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>>150650090
Ok, seriously. How popular was this show, and how much an impact was it back then?
>>150618877https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjhaieH5TI
>>150650443I mean, even for the people like me who were old enough to have seen it back then we were still childen, and only have the context of that to go by.It was a nickelodeon show pre online media, it was part of the larger monoculture that doesn't seem to exist much, I'd say it was very popular by virtue of being on the very popular cable channel.I really liked it, though, it was one of my favourite shows.
We can Kablam! It?
>>150650443I wasn't aware of it when it was airing. Discovered it later and found it really unique
>>150650527Good parody but disappointed there was no rear view
>>150650443>>150652274I was born in 97 and I don't remember ever seeing reruns of KaBlam or Angry Beavers even though I watched Nick all the time from around 2001 onward. I saw all of their other 90s cartoons on TV at least once or twice so I don't know what they had against these shows.
>>150650050Good times
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>>150620376You might have a point considering how slow this thread has been going
>>150653799I wish I was there.
>>150650443It was popular enough at the time that anybody old enough to remember it airing will recall it, but for some reason it really just stopped getting reruns pretty shortly after it ended so younger people have no idea about it. Same thing as the Adventures of Pete and Pete which IIRC stopped airing on TV after 1999.
Ka-BUMP
June was the ultimate 90's girl.
>>150655459Hey, it could happen again
>>150658697Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe
>>150654666(replying to myself) on second thought, it's kind of a crapshoot for obscure cartoons to get long threads here. I think last time Kablam got one was when that SB99 animation came out
>>150640477I vaguely recall the live action scene, have always liked seeing animated shows do that.
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>>150650443It had four seasons and Action League Now branched off as a spin-off. Seemed pretty good.
>>150638194Indeed.He also got me all of Spider-Man:TAS, Space Ghost C2C, Fish Police, VH1's I Love The 90's, and a various odds and ends.Despite how much I paid him, I feel like I can never repay him enough.
>>150624007Naked June is a treasure. I need more if its out there.
>>150618877I loved this show and it was my introduction to the Toasters and Ska music.>it seems to be the only 90s Nicktoon that no one ever brings upProbably because, unlike "What a Cartoon!" and "Oh Yeah! Cartoons", nothing of note came out of it. "Action League Now!" became Nicktoons fodder and "Angela Anaconda" needs no explanation.
Remember when the Off-Beats was parodied on KND?
>>150662058The ALN "show" was just a compilation of the All That and Kablam shorts, technically none of the shorts got properly made into their own shows outside of what, Angela Anaconda? And even then that ended up being a Fox Kids cartoon. ANGELAMON
>>150620280Oh, now I know from where that "running" music came. I had it in my head since childhood.
>>150619622>Sniz and Fondue feels like some kind of proto Regular ShowGood to see I wasn't the only one who thought that.
>>150662498No? Is this the episode where everyone was telling the story in a different style?
>>150618877Loved it. Action League, Sniz & Fondue, Prometheus & Bob, Life with Loopy.
>>150650443I liked it.My best friend and his wife named their dogs Prometheus and Bob. But it had to be said that the show was only popular with a certain kind of kid, the sort that enjoyed Wienerville before it and who would later like Sifl and Olly (ROCK!) and Wondershowzen, none of which were ever popular outside of cult following. So despite what everyone else itt is telling you:no, it wasn't popularno, most people don't remember it andno, it had no cultural impact at all And if I recall correctly, it kept getting it's timeslot moved around, which is an obvious sign that something wasn't doing well.It was fun and funny but it's not getting into the Library of Congress for preservation any time soon (or ever) and will eventually become lost media. It falls short of the criteria of being a work that "possesses cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance". This doesn't mean it's not good. It is. It's just not popular with wider audience and never was. It was popular with weirder audiences and remains so
>>150618877You know rewatching Action League Now I wonder where did they get all the spare toys to destroy.
>>150663645I feel how the show was with many one off shorts some shorts are already lost media. That being said I don't think an unpopular show would get 4 seasons.
>>150663693>I don't think an unpopular show would get 4 seasonsYou'd be surprised. There are numerous reasons to keep a show going besides ratings. As I can't find watch-figures from the time to back up my claim, I'll use figures from a more recent show, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, to exemplify why a show might be kept on.CEG premiered to a measly 1 million viewers and lost half of them as time went on. The show got immense critical acclaim but people just weren't into it. Despite low viewership, CW kept it going as a prestige show. As a result, it won multiple awards despite being consistently among the three lowest watched shows on the network throughout its run. All the Golden Globes in the world couldn't make the average joe (let's be honest: the show was for bitches and fags so average josephine might be more like it) give a halfpenny fingerfuck about it. Kablam! was also well received by critics. But kids don't read the trades so their opinions didn't matter for shit with them. Even looking up "nickelodeon show with the lowest viewership in 1996/1997/1998/1999/2000" (insert relevant year individually) says that while exact numbers from back then haven't been saved for us to view now, Kablam! is always mentioned as one of the lowest watched shows in each of those years alongside such impactful works as Shelby Woo, Space Cases, Cousin Skeeter, 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd and The Journey of Allen Strange (I've never even heard of these last two shows) as well as actually remembered programs like Aaah! Real Monsters and Rocko's Modern Life (both of which also had low viewership, despite how fondly remembered they are). Regardless of its 4 season run, Kablam! simply isn't remembered nearly as much as A!RM or RML, neither of which ran as long as K! did.
>>150663975>>150663716>>150663645It was cheap to make. If a show is cheap, it can survive low viewership because it still brings in ad revenue. That's why it stayed around as long as it did.
>>150663693>The Flesh, who's super strong and super......NAKED...
>>150625488>>150625643Action league started off well when they actually occasionally had stop motion involved, but the longer it went on, the more it was just people holding dolls, shaking them when they spoke, and throwing them across the room and shit.
>>150626879Didn’t they end up hosting the kid’s choice awards one year or something?
>>150646785I’m with you. YouTube compressed videos are trash. I’d prefer higher quality rips for the archives.
>>150650443I don't know about popularity but at least two shows came out of it, Off Beats and Angela Anaconda, make of that whatever you want.
>>150662333Pretty sure that's all there is- of that scene at least.
>>150664119>That's why it stayed around as long as it did.It lasted a few years and was pulled from reruns just a few years after that. Its run isn't especially impressive.
>>150653945Such horrible animation. No wonder why I forgot about it all these years
>>150664119As an adult you realized how cheap it was to make, of the three longest running shorts 2 were stopmotion with very limited animation and 1 was a guy waving toys around and throwing them in a blender.
>>150665808The fact that it outlasted other shows or better quality is impressive regardless of the lack of reruns. >>150666401The fact they used literalwho Yinzers as talent shows how cheap it is.
>>150666799>The fact they used literalwho Yinzers as talent shows how cheap it is.What?
>>150666401>>150664540This is why it was even made. Low quality fillers, failed pilots, ultra-cheap production shows getting bolted together with some cheaply animated doodle presenters as a slot filler. It basically cost nothing to make, compared to the big hit shows and they made their money back on it.
>>150666915Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi aren't household names, even now IE they're literalwhos. And they're all from Pittsburgh IE they're Yinzers. The term comes from people from that area saying "yinz" as the plural of "you" like southerners saying y'all and retards saying yous. Pittsburgh is a 7th rate "city" so you can pay someone from there in Primanti sandwiches (IE a regular fucking sandwich with fries in it) and Pittsburgh salads (IE a regular fucking salad with fries in it) to do a full day's work.
>>150663975So you think it did well with the critics? maybe since it also was a way to show pilots they thought it was worth a shot to keep it around.
>>150667933>thinkKnow. Critics at the time found the idea of animated sketch comedy novel and praised the writing and pace of many segments. One I recall reading compared it favourably with Silly Symphonies, Merry Memories or whatever. It said something like "finally, a Silly Symphonies/Merry Melodies/whatever for the 90s".
>>150667933It was for recycling pilots that did not get picked up. If they were any good, they would have been made into show.
>>150668405That critic was just ridiculous. It was an okay cheap time-waster.
>>150668408Like Angela Anaconda?
>>150669631It was fucking dogshit AND got made into a show AND its licensing prevents Kablam to ever being released on DVD. Its such an outlier of feces.
>>150670037no u
>>150670734>Sorry, but I just depicted myself as the chad and you June, as the wojak.
>>150670734>>150672126Kek
Henry is much darker so his real name is probably Enrique.
>>150672708Didn't he called himsel tbat in one episode
>>150663975It was on Friday nights running directly against shows like Boys Meets World.
>>150661986I love girls who aren’t shy about getting massages
>>150650084>We never got Kablam comics
>>150618877It never clicked with me as a kid that June was supposed to be a girl. Didn't even find out until a few years ago.
Can anyone post Kablam stuff from the Nickelodeon Magazines?
>>150675037They look like soijaks.
>>150636330It was moreso because the original creators of Angela Anaconda didn't sign off on letting them use the show for DVD rights or something, and unfortunately she was too woven into the show to remove her segments. Something stupid like that.
>>150673442Fucking and?
>>150627814SAUCE?
>>150663693i honestly want to know too
>>150668411That nice.
>>150619591That life with loopy episode with the white blob monster nearly made me retch as a kid
>>150673457Especially in the presence of a boy like Henroid
>>150677004Looking on google it seems Flesh was a painted Conan the barbarian toy with a ken doll crotch, Stinky was a repainted GI Joe and Thundergirl was a WonderWoman action figure with a doll head. That doesn't answer how many of those toys they needed to make every time, they got blended, melted, broken or burn.
>>150678015Oh yeah, the wart monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkoJz4_va1Y
>>150638301>As a kid first watching it, I thought Sniz and Fonduue were brother and Snuppa and Bianca were their parents.That’s what I thought too. I had no idea what "roommates" were as a kid.
>>150680169>That doesn't answer how many of those toys they needed to make every time, they got blended, melted, broken or burn.It’s like Sid from Toy Story worked on that show?
>>150662498Considering Mo Willems worked on both, I'd say it was more of a nod than a spoof.
>>150680169Thanks for the research
>>150618911Yeah as soon as I saw that picture in the op it all came back. There is a level of laughter that I am capable of but have never experienced since childhood. Just pure out of control "I cannot breathe and may actually die" laughing fits. That was Prometheus and Bob.
>>150680441Toy story vs Action League Now! sounds like a kino crossover.
>>150618877I wish there were more cartoon magazine styled shows. I was a big fan of this show.
>>150674488She's not outwardly girly
>>150662388D I V O R C E
>>150684926That is the only thing the show is known for.
>>150644531They're just good friends
>>150686095I actually liked Angela Anaconda as a kid.
>>150674488Same. Blew my mind when I figured out because I loved the show as a kid.
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>>150674488>>150687910You were gender confused children with the lowest IQ imaginable. She's referred to as a "she" and wears a dress and other girl cloths multiple times.
>>150618877>>150620698June has to pee one episode and went in her pants in one episode when she thought a Halloween costume was realShe has to pee one episode and went in her pants I think one episode when she thought a Halloween costume was real.I think June has just went where no one has gone before...in her pants!https://youtube.com/watch?v=yAoutwXfizE
>>150618877Henry and June are the name of the 2 main characters of the 90s r rated movie of the same name
>>150619768The little brother with cat food on his head yelling HERE DEAD KITTY I'M A TUNA! has stayed with me my entire life.
>>150629924Meltman mentioned!
>>150618911Only other good show of kablam outside of Action league now. i really loved the low budget stop motion of Action league now
always a personal favorite of mine as a kid, prometheus and bob were deff peak
>>150650443At the time of its season 1 premiere it was the 5th most popular Nick show after Rugrats, hey Arnold, all that, and aaaah real monsters
>>150662498They also parodied DBZ and Matrix 2nd Renaissance. They had taste
The 1998-99 summer Nick bloc hosted by Henry and June is lost media now
>>150691414Are you sure I think I've seen it on youtube.
>>150690414I remember the astronaut suit joke
I didn't really watch it after S2.Sniz and Fondue wasn't the best segment but its departure is a good benchmark for a lot of the segments being worse. Prometheous and Bob was the most consistent thing about it.
>>150618877Do the Japanese know about "Kablam!" show?
>>150626879Action League Now was great.
>>150629924>The Flesh! He’s super strong… (and super naked)
>>150678803>Go on trip with this after school program when I was in high school >Go into the girl's room with the other dudes>The girls start changing in front of me>"Uh, do you need me to leave?">"YOU NOT A VIRGIN, ARE YOU?">Suddenly titties in bra>Get instahardSeemed like the type of girls that get naked in front of their brothers. Weird how girls like this end up getting married.
>>150619320>>150631898>>150632951i want to kill you both!
>>150662498The Off-Beats was created by Mo Willems - the creator of Sheep in the Big City. Mo Willems also worked as one of the main writers of the first four seasons of Codename: Kids Next Door.
>>150670734>mfw I successfully ragebaited (You)
>>150692686Yeah, some girls are just like that
>>150619788What were the other 2?
>>150692806So there is a connection
>>150663693I'm guessing they actually made them themselves, which also keeps them away from any copyright problems. It's not He-Man and Wonder Woman or Supergirl etc. toys, it's The Flesh and Thundergirl, etc.
>>150674488June is a girl's name.
>>150691414>>150691437https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tclru7AObTY
>sniz & fonduenever heard of it
>>150635053I think this is the whole series.https://archive.org/details/KaBlam_201709/KaBlam!/
