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To: TheBigB; atomicpossum
No contest. Racer X.

BigB: You choose "Interpol Agent 9" over one of the CIA's best? Globalist! ;-)

BTW, if you ever see the episode of Dexter's Laboratory titled: "Mock Five", you will split your sides laughing.

A bit more on the original JQ that I thought was interesting:

According to the FAQ page at www.originalJQ.com, the show's end credit sequence hints at the show's origin. In the end credits one sees a dark-haired boy who runs from African natives, who then jumps into what looks like the Quest jet. That dark haired boy was never seen before or again.

That animation was used only to pitch an idea that was never made. It was intended to be a series based on the old radio show, Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy. That old radio show had Armstrong, in his radio incarnation a college-age young man, travelling throughout the world with two younger kids. Hanna-Barbara could never reach an agreement with the owners of the Armstrong character, and the animation was re-used for the end title sequence.

Why was there such a problem? Like many early radio shows, the Jack Armstrong character was owned by its sponsor. It is apparently still owned by General Mills, as Armstrong was the pitchman for their Wheaties cereal. Oddly enough, Jack Armstrong got to television much later, but in a much stranger form; he was parodied on a weekly basis by Jonathan Winters on his TV variety show in the mid-70's.

Frankly, General Mills would have done better by going with Hanna-Barbera; Jonathan Winters was lame satire.

96 posted on 05/27/2004 11:24:42 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Who put the Tribbles in the Quadrotriticale?")
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To: Charles Martel

Racer X just looked cooler. What's up with Race's head? Looks like he dunked into a barrel of flour. :-D


122 posted on 05/27/2004 12:30:36 PM PDT by TheBigB (When Woody Allen and Soon-Yi are in bed together, does he ever yell, "Who's your daddy?!")
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To: Charles Martel

That final scene is from the original pilot for the show, actually.

I remember watching it. It was sponsored by PF Flyers, the sneaker that made you run faster, and jump higher!

I downloaded a lot of stuff from an old Jonny Quest site that is now defunct, had movies from shows, original plots for each episode, except the pilot!

My favorite episode was the one where the invisible monster was created on some island, and they had to throw paint on it to see it. Thing was scarey!


167 posted on 05/27/2004 2:08:07 PM PDT by RaceBannon (VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
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