Saturday 6 February 2010

Toon-tastic Saturday Morning Show from the 90's Starring, Take That, Andy Crane, Pat Sharp, Yvette Fielding, Bro & Bro and erm....Gary Glitter

What's Up Doc? 1993



A long clip, including the titles to the show that was like a long-running advertisement about how wonderful Warner Bros. cartoons were. Lasting for a quite short 1992-1995 run, it wasn't just a "safe" product placement show. The titles of the show featured, a quite exciting all-new animation of the famous "Looney Tunes" characters, with Bugs Bunny being the lead star, pretty much the "Mickey Mouse" of the rival cartoon firm, but with more biting wit. Bugs Bunny rides on a witch's broom as he rushes about the famous Warner Bros. studios.

The show opens up with gruff-voiced puppets "Bro and Bro" 2 wolf brothers voiced by Don Austen and John Eccleston. In a surprise showing, it's not the regular presenters who appear, but pop boyband "Take That", who were practically everywhere in 1993. The soon-to-be rebel of the group Robbie Williams dominates proceedings, but he was clearly the most colourful and charismatic of the group. He interviews the regular presenters almost, taking a dig at Pat Sharp's mid-atlantic twang, radio DJ accent. Then a preview of what was to come, including the popular cartoons of "Tazmania" and "Batman: The Animated Series". The we see Bro and Bro in a studio, static Taxi with Gary Glitter. It's hard to take in now, he appeared on alot of entertainment programmes in his 90's "oh-look-how-pantomine-his-acts-is-mirth", before his 1997 arrest, being convicted of storing child pornography on his computer. In pretend style, the Taxi ends up through the newly built Channel Tunnel and end of in France, and 2 Frenchmen appear, and for no apparent reason, a Frenchie with a Hitler hair and moustache.

We then see the now vanished anarak-spoof character "Norm" or Simon Perry, played by Stephen Taylor Woodrow, looking grotesque with shaving cuts and balaclava. The presenters read off mail from child viewers, in the old days before emails and such came along.

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