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Earl De La Warr
02-08-2010, 02:02 PM
Anyone remember this cartoon from the 70's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6LMSdfXEc
Atgxtg
02-08-2010, 11:26 PM
That's worth a Cruel check! :P
doorknobdeity
02-09-2010, 06:52 AM
I'm glad I grew up with Pokemon.
Doon
02-09-2010, 09:02 PM
Ouch. As a Britophile with lots of UK friends, the character accents really cracked me up! Was this a UK-produced cartoon with British actors? Some of the accents were like Blue Blood Stereotypes of the 19th century: "mmm...nyes...quite...". Americans love that shiz; citing the success of many wonderful Victorian/Edwardian costume dramas, and the Tudors (which all Pendragoners should see, just for the court and jousting scenes alone), here in the states.

A few questions for any UK Pendragoners who saw it: Were the accents trying to make fun of the upper crust? Or is it just a convention to make nobility sound that way? BBC/Ox-bridge standard doesn't sound that way at all to my Yank ears. :)
Flexi
02-10-2010, 09:42 PM
A few questions for any UK Pendragoners who saw it: Were the accents trying to make fun of the upper crust? Or is it just a convention to make nobility sound that way? BBC/Ox-bridge standard doesn't sound that way at all to my Yank ears. :)


Ah, those nasally, whiny voices are surely a hideous caricature of an upper class English accent but then again...............

It has been a looooong time since I saw this cartoon. Morgana still frightens the crap outta me!
Sir Pramalot
02-12-2010, 06:49 PM
Watching this, a very very latent childhood memory bubbled back into my consciousness. Brilliant stuff!
Earl De La Warr
02-12-2010, 07:18 PM
Sir Pramalot. Could it even be the seed of interest in things Authurian?

I am gutted that this is not in general circulation and 2nd hand prices are high.
Sir Pramalot
02-12-2010, 08:11 PM
Sir Pramalot. Could it even be the seed of interest in things Authurian?

I am gutted that this is not in general circulation and 2nd hand prices are high.


It could be. I always thought my first taste of the Arthurian legend was the Sword in the Stone, but now I'm not so sure. I don't know why, but the style of this cartoon also reminds me a lot of Catweazle.
Sir Pramalot
02-12-2010, 08:30 PM
And for those that don't know what the hell I'm on about. Catweazle was a British kids show from the early 70s about a magician - Catweazel - who gets transported from his time to modern day rural England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRYWUxmNkzU&feature=related

"Art thou Norman? No, my name's Edward" ah timeless.