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The notes stated that there were going to be some good cartoons here. SAVE YOUR 20 BUCKS. No Herculoids and Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles could not be found. Think I will have to go back to my first plan and simply wait for a studio to release these two titles separately like they did with Space Ghost and Bird Man. Please wake me when the studios release what I want and not just what they want to waste my time with.
Rating: 1 / 5

This DVD is a must have for anyone thats a kid at heart.

It will remind you of waking up on Saturday mornings with your favorite

cereal and watching one favorite after the next. A must have for Baby boomers…
Rating: 5 / 5

I was born in 1964 and my memory starts from about 1967, so I have vague memories of watching most of these at my grandmother’s house, but I can only recall most of the titles of some of these toons as opposed to full episodes. Seeing them in their enirety after 40 years, I’m pleased to say most of them held up well in my point of view.

“Quick Draw McGraw” is one of the most clever of the early Hanna Barbera menagerie. I was always amused by the dopey crime-fighting horse of the wild west and his Mexican donkey sidekick Baba Looey (who referred to his partner as “Queekstraw,” thus the title for my review, as a child I loved to hear him say this). the “El Kabong” toons deal with Queekstraw in a Zorro parody (and a funny one to boot) while another deals with Nibbles the dog, who floats to heaven whenever he eats a certain dog biscuit. Imaginative stuff! Fortuantely, the original Kellogg’s commercials are included. “Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy” deals with a Jimmy Duranteish dog and his genius son. I have a fondness for this because my own Dad would fall out of his chair in laughter when Doggie Daddy would say in the Durante voice, “That was my boy who said that!” Wish he lived to see this DVD.

The Hillbilly Bears are quite a hoot, particularly Paw Rugg (who kept me in stitches as a child) which his hilariously unintelligible mumbling that is done to good effect here as he tries to stop the son of a feuding clan from dating his daughter. I also recall liking Wally Gator, Touche Turtle, and Lippy the Lion and Hardy har har as a child, and after all these years, their antics (especially when the cgiar-smoking Wally is mistaken by a crazy old man as a fire-breathing dragon) are ones that I still find amusing.

It’s also good to see the Looney Tunes exactly as they were packaged on television at the time. The 1960s Bugs Bunny Show is amusing. The episode with Bugs in jail and Yosemite Sam as the warden was unseen by the time I could remember these more clearly in the 70s because of the hanging and electrocution scenes. The Tweety and Sylvester toon features a howlingly hilarious moment when Sylvester dresses as a tree to trap Tweeety-and a bulldog anxious ot make use of the “tree” stops by! The do-gooder killjoys of the 70s (who might have watched this same stuff as kids without any negative effect, as it was with most of us) later took this kind of humor out of the saturday monring toons. Also included are the original Road Runner and Porky Pig shows. BTW, Barbara Cameron sang the famous Road runner theme. The Tom & Jerry package is one that I vividly recall (the theme gives me the same nostalgic rush as the baby boomers have over Beatles songs), and the Droopy toon about him racing a bulldog is pretty good.

On the whole, this has some clunckers (like the Space Kidetts & Peter Potamous. I never was a Magilla Gorilla fan either). But on the whole, it’s worth the money, nostalgia or not.
Rating: 4 / 5