A/N: Takes place the next morning after the last chapter of the previous review episode of The Loud House Movie following the timeskip. It is also the first special in the story similar to the substory spinoff RWBY's Nostalgia Commerical Commentaries (also based on NC). As always, I DON'T OWN ANYTHING.


In this fifty-third review episode and the first special of the story, Saturday Mornings were never so awesome as Team RWBY celebrates their first special with a retrospective of the Fox Kids programming block from the 1990s. From Tiny Toons and Batman, to X-Men and Animaniacs, the four huntresses, along with their friends Pyrrha, Nora and Penny (along with a couple others) will take a look at the best and worst that the Fox Kids program had to offer.

Team RWBY's Fox Kids Commentary Special (Part 1)

BEACON ACADEMY
4:59 AM

In team RWBY's dorm room, the four teammates Ruby Rose, Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee were sounded asleep together, with both Ruby and Yang sleeping together on one of the bunk beds, Blake and Weiss sleeping on another, their JNPR friends Pyrrha and Nora sleeping on Weiss' bunk bed while Penny sleeps on Yang's.

All of them peacefully slept until...

5:00 AM

"MORNING!", excited Ruby as she and Yang sprung out from slumber, both saying as they went down to Weiss' bunk where Pyrrha and Nora were sleeping on, also going to Yang's bunk to find Penny and Blake's to see both the Faunus and Weiss lovingly sleeping, "Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!", managing to wake the five up while Ruby uses her Semblance in a splitsecond to teleport both her and Yang to their 4K TV, the two sisters excitedly telling, "It's Saturday Morning!"

Nora groggily said, "Ruby, Yang, after that fun review you did yesterday for The Loud House Movie, we didn't get enough sleep last night due to late night activities with Winter and Cinder."

"I know, but you know what would make this morning better? A bowl of Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Crunch Cereal! It even has you on the box, Pyrrha!", Ruby brightened as she poured cereal into five bowls with a few boxes of it.

Pyrrha replied, "I know it's a cool cereal, but I think it's bad to eat?"

"We know. That was the marshmallow flakes version, now they changed it to oat cereal with marshmallows.", Yang figured.

The red-haired girl shrugged, "Can't argue with that-"

"Had a big dinner, so you can have it.", Nora offered.

Pyrrha confessed, "I'm on a diet. Thanks for the offer."

"Suit yourselves.", Yang answered as she, her sister Ruby, Blake, Weiss and Penny had some Marshmallow Crunch cereal with their bowls.

Blake said, "Hey, Ruby? Yang? I wonder if there's any reason why we're up at five o'clock in the morning?"

"Isn't that a little early to get up at?", Weiss questioned.

Ruby said, "Well, you know? It's the ritual of Saturday morning that children and grownups have done throughout the years."

"Saturday Mornings? Why's that?", Penny wondered.

The leader of team RWBY stated, "You see, Saturday morning used to be a special time for kids, we often have friends sleepover the night before and then wake up to the majesty of television, which were Saturday morning cartoons, with each one filled with brain-rotting material coaxing us to buy teeth-rotting material. Unfortunately, TV did its job too well, and the following generation said, 'Let's just have this shit raise our kids 24/7.'"

"Thus, every second of every goddamn day was already Saturday morning cartoons, and they got rid of them years later.", chroniclized the elder sister of Ruby, "Not blaming society, but the amount of streaming services it amounted to due to the everchanging age of technology and programming. Not to mention the global cinematic recession that has happened last year due to poor marketing choices, outrageous delays and low profits. Absolutely no pandemic to blame it on unless there was."

Blake told, "Before we got our hobby into reviewing nostalgic media, I didn't even know about Saturday morning cartoons until then and now."

"Neither do we.", Weiss told as Pyrrha and Nora nodded, "Due to focus and education, I've never saw much cartoons like that."

Ruby and her older sister look at each other and the former said, "Well, we did. We weren't born in the 90's, so seeing cartoons made back from Earth was stunning to say the least. And now, we're paying homage of the best in Saturday morning awesomeness, Fox Kids!", then saying, "In 1990, the then-still-young Fox Network aired its Saturday Morning lineup of shows called Fox Kids. It included bumpers, PSAs, catchy songs, and, of course, some of the best kids shows to ever aired on TV. Eventually branching out to Monday through Friday as well, Fox Kids lasted twelve years, an unbelievable run when you consider its counterpart, the Disney Afternoon, lasted only seven years."

"While half of these shows can still be viewed today, some of them have sadly never gotten a DVD release or were never aired again. So keep in mind, we're not going to look at every single show that aired on Fox Kids, because, like I said, this is twelve years of material. We're just going to look at the most unique, inspired, and...memorable parts of the greatest Saturday morning line up there was.", said Yang about the cartoons on the Fox Kids block.

Blake decided, "If we're going to cover up the Fox Kids programming block, what about Cinder and Winter? Would they want to join in or what?"

"I doubt it. You know how my older sister Winter is strict about staying up early in the morning or late at nighttime.", informed Weiss.

Penny nods, "True. And you know Cinder. He's starting to turn a new leaf, but her aloof and cynical emotions are starting to lessen from her formerly antisocial behavior."

"I'm just go on the record and say that they're both gonna join us at some point.", Nora predicted.

Pyrrha agrees, "We can see that happen later on, so-"

"Hey, girls."

The seven girls look to the dorm room entrance to see Professor Ozpin himself.

Ruby startled, "Oh! Hi, Professor Ozpin. Sorry about waking up early in the morning. The seven of us were planning a throwback session on the Fox Kids programming block over at Earth. So we were hoping if you're going to be fine with it?"

"I see. Since you all have graduated as full-fledged huntresses and decided to become alumni, I don't see why not. It seems you're enjoying Saturday morning?", Ozpin answered.

Team RWBY, Pyrrha, Nora and Penny reply, "We are. That's why we're starting the morning by looking back at nostalgic shows from the 90s."

"No problem. As a treat, I'm going to head down to the cafeteria and ask to whip up some rainbow pancakes just for you girls.", plans the Beacon professor before making his leave.

Ruby craved, "That's what I'm craving.", smacking her lips.

"This is Fox Kids!", Yang commenced before taking another bite of her Pumpkin Pete cereal.

Fox Kids

But before they can start off looking at the slate of cartoons and shows on the programming block, the seven then watch the Fox Kids intro as they began to cheerfully dance or lip sync along to the song.

Sit back, chill out, see what all the talk's about, everybody knows... (Plucky Duck: It's on Fox!) There's Tiny Toons and Dynamo, Plucky Duck with his own show!

"What was that?", questioned Pyrrha during the song about The Plucky Duck Show.

Ruby told, "Well, it was complicated, we'll get to it when we get to it.", before the seven continued dancing to the song.

Everybody knows it's on FOX! Now Batman's gonna show you, he's the greatest superhero! Eek! the Cat, Taz and Bobby, Super Dave, Tom and Jerry...

Nora and Penny confused, "That doesn't rhyme."

"Keep going, keep going!", Yang said.

Blake and Weiss support, "Don't stop now!", while they listen to more of the song and groove to the 90's beat.

Dog City, X-Men, too, Merrie Melodies, Beetlejuice, everybody kno-o-o-ows... They're on FOX!
Bugs Bunny: It's on Fox! (Plucky Duck: It's on Fox!) Joker: It's on Fox! (Platypus Brothers: It's on Fox!)
Oh! Big surprises, fresh new faces, now you know the cool places, everybody kno-o-o-ows, everybody knows...

Then Ruby, Yang, Blake, Weiss, Pyrrha, Nora and Penny all sang the last part;

Team RWBY, Pyrrha, Nora and Penny: IT'S ON FOX!


Bobby's World

Ruby starts off the first cartoon on the block, "Let's start with one of their earliest staples, Bobby's World."

"Oh, I've heard of this. It's like if Calvin and Hobbes were made by Ned Flanders.", Pyrrha thought.

The leader of team RWBY said, "Hey, it's a lot more than that."

"Seems pretty accurate to me.", Penny calculated.

Yang nods, "Yeah, it's pretty accurate.", then saying, "Bobby's World was based off of a little boy voice that comedian Howie Mandel did for his popular stand-up."

"And because the 90s were a strange time where crude comedians got kid-friendly shows, he was given one of his own.", Blake informed, referencing the underrated shows Waynehead, Life with Louie, Camp Candy, Little Rosey and Rick Moranis in Gravedale High.

Weiss soon proved, "Just look at how awkward he is in the live-action openings.", when Howie was seen making his introduction in one of the episodes, "It's like he said, 'GERMS! I hate germs!'", as the other six girls look surprised at her acting.

"While certainly aimed at a younger demographic than the other Fox Kids shows, Bobby's World showcased the imagination of a little boy misinterpreting what adults say. Either that, or he swallowed all his mother's NyQuil. Either way, neat.", analyzed Ruby.

Yang stated about the characters, "The characters included Howie as his father, with the afro rat-tail haircut...", before shrugging in confusion, "...Common?", continuing, "The cast of Fargo as his mother, his older brother representing the 90s trying to kill the 80s, and his older sister representing the 80s refusing to die. Along with Uncle Ted, who gives an obligatory fart joke."

"Bobby had children's fantasies often based on movies a kid his age wouldn't see yet. Looks like somebody read the kid-friendly version of Die Hard.", Blake synopsizes.

Nora wondered, "So, was it any good?"

"It was...hypnotizingly unoffensive.", critiqued Blake.

Weiss told, "It's for little kids, so it's simple, but imaginative. It even had possibly the first Saturday morning character get pregnant, and we actually see her progression throughout the season."

"Little touches like that make it stand out just enough. And I guess kids thought the same thing, because it was surprisingly one of Fox's longest-running shows. Add a catchy-as-hell theme song, and you have a decent start to the Fox Kids lineup.", Ruby finished.

Nora anticipated, "That's cool and all, but how about some more violent stuff?"

"Well, you're in luck, 'cause this network also had Tom and Jerry...", informed Yang much to Nora's anticipation, "Kids."

Nora sighed, "I second that."


Tom and Jerry Kids

"Yeah, another strange trend in kid shows for a while was just making famous characters younger.", imagined Yang when reviewing the second cartoon on the block, "Because if there's anything better than seeing someone brutally dismembered and maimed, it's...seeing it happen to them as children?"

Pyrrha snapped her fingers, "That seems reasonable. Not surely if it's a main issue, exactly."

"It was pretty much the same thing as the regular Tom and Jerry cartoons, except it was done with kids, so the slapstick wasn't nearly as violent, and therefore, not nearly as funny.", underwhelmed Blake, "Granted, it had other characters, too, like Spike and his son Tyke, Droopy and his son Dripple..."

Weiss acknowledged, "In fact, how are Tom and Jerry younger if their counterparts are the same age? And how is Skyfall a prequel if M is in Goldeneye? Also, how did Minions exist with dinosaurs millions of years ago?!"

"But you know, this is a road you don't want to go down on.", comforted Nora as she, Pyrrha and Penny embrace the four members of team RWBY.

Ruby thought, "If only Ozpin saw us right now, he'd be so happy.", reasoning afterwards, "Much like Bobby's World, this was obviously meant for smaller children, so it was tamer and more gentle than previous versions."

"So, not good...?", presumed Penny innocently.

Ruby answered, "Seems to be so.", explaining, "But for little kids, it gets the job done, we guess. I mean, it is better than other outings Tom and Jerry have had in the last decade."

"It lasted a few seasons, though, so it obviously had its fans.", told Yang, "It's not the cat and mouse team we remember, but it's not obnoxious either. It wasn't harmful enough to be Tom and Jerry, but it was harmless enough to be a decent distraction for little kids.", concluding before switching to the next show.

Blake hyped, "But let's get to something more grisly and adult. Peter Pan and the Pirates!", as the other six looked anticipated as ever.


Peter Pan and the Pirates

"We all know the classic book, play, the animated Disney film and the Spielberg movie Hook, but few adaptations of Peter Pan ever captured the darker and surprisingly more adult take of the original J.M. Barrie story than this one. I know that sounds strange, but this was actually a really great show.", said Blake.

Weiss discussed, "There were ideas that took concepts from the original book and pushed them even further. For example, Peter steals the pirates' shadows, and what happens? They walk upside down because they've lost their anchor to the ground. That's so creatively strange, but it weirdly makes sense."

"In another episode, Peter is gone for too long and forgets about everybody because he's distracted by Wendy's future daughter in the real world, who he brings back to Neverland to meet her future mother, despite them being roughly the same age.", Ruby told.

Yang says, "It's super surreal, but it's also surprisingly adult. It's kind of like the ending of Return to Neverlandwhere young Peter meets older Wendy. That's a lot of people's favorite part in that movie, and this show is mostly comprised of scenes like that."

"The characters all have fleshed-out personalities, with Peter always hungry for mischief, the Lost Boys and pirates all having distinct character traits, and in my opinion, the best Captain Hook ever portrayed played by the only actor who could perfectly portray him.", amazed Blake, "Literally, the first perfect thought that comes into your head is who plays him!"

Pyrrha, Nora and Penny shrug, "Tim Curry?"

"You're goddamn RIGHT, Tim Curry!", happily stated Team RWBY.

Weiss explains next, "This is the first Captain Hook that has dimension to him. Yes, he's an angry screamer and a scoundrel, but he prides himself on being a gentleman and a sophisticate. One minute, he's ready to stab your heart, but the next, he might let you go if you make him laugh with a reading of Shakespeare."

"He was an egotist, but still valued his bizarre ethics. It made him both funny and intimidating at the exact same time. And nowhere is the series' complexity shown best than in its series finale, where Peter decides he does want to grow up, and he starts to wither away into an old man, unaware that he's actually taking Neverland with him. So you could argue Hook was being portrayed even before Hook was doing it. It's surprisingly intense and unbelievably well done.", Ruby and Yang both critiqued.

Blake finished, "It lasted for only one season, but it resulted in a ton of episodes and had a pretty good life in reruns. Criminally, though, there is no DVD release of it. If you're able to find it on sites like YouTube or anywhere else, definitely watch as many of them as you can. It's a cannonball of imagination waiting for you."

"That's all fine and good, but what about the poor people who demand a series about demonic fruit? I mean, vegetables?", Pyrrha suggested the next show.

Weiss said as the other six look at her, "Let me guess. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?"

"That's the one.", Pyrrha nodded.


Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Weiss starts off, "So, um, because we apparently demanded it, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was given its own cartoon series. Based on the B-movie comedies, it did have some of the original characters like Igor, Tara, that parachute guy named Wilbur, and even John Astin reprising his role as the mad scientist who made the evil vegetables."

"Tomatoes are considered a fruit and vegetable. But since it's the modern day, the term for tomatoes being a fruit is no longer used.", Pyrrha commented.

Ruby admits, "It certainly had the strangeness of the films down, but it didn't have much more beyond that. The plot is similar to the movies. In that, a mad scientist wants to take over the world with the tomatoes and his failed experiments, Tara and F.T., and Tomato War veteran, Wilbur, tries to stop them. He gets help from the main lead, a boy who was not in the movies named Chad, and you can clearly see why. He's pretty bland and forgettable, and the animation doesn't do him or any of the other characters any favors.", watching a clip of the show where the seven saw Tara shake her head back and forth.

"What is up with this girl? Is the binary code on her neck being hacked? She must be like, 'Must blackmail George Clooney with Return of the Killer Tomatoes footage.'", imagined and imitated Yang, "And look at this next scene. She has to lean over to talk to F.T., but look how she does it.", showing another excerpt of Tara seemingly bended upside down to talk to F.T., "What the hell? Is this part of the joke, or is it just poorly animated? The whole show is kind of like this, leaving you with no idea what's intentional and what isn't."

"Even the dialogue you can't figure out what they're aware of and what they're not.", Blake said when seeing the snippet of Tara telling Chad that being a luscious ripe tomato could be hard on a girl; she, Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha, Nora and Penny looked surprised by this, "Whatever you're thinking, erase it from your heads."

Nora instructed, "No need for any saucy or raunchy innuendos at this time!"

"I didn't even think of anything, so I consider myself lucky.", Penny truthfully said.

Weiss ended, "I guess on a level of bizarre awkwardness, I can see this entertaining a few, but for many kids, the most memorable part of the show was the theme song, but goddamn, that's a catchy theme song."

"But not all of the Fox Kids shows started off on Fox Kids.", Ruby teased...


Beetlejuice

Ruby states, "A charming story about a dead man who befriends a young girl he was going to marry..."

"I don't want to even know...", realized Pyrrha.

Ruby shrugged, "It's for the best."

"We know.", Pyrrha shuddered.

Ruby continues, "...Beetlejuice had only the slightest connection to the movie, which was surprisingly welcomed as it allowed for a lot of wild and inventive designs."

"Granted, in the movie, everybody looks the way they do because they died that way, here... well, I don't know how the shit they were supposed to die to look like this.", noticed Yang.

Blake notifies, "Tim Burton himself helped design the show, and it certainly shows in all the strange people and creatures. It had little in terms of plot, but it had a lot in terms of visual and gross-out humor."

"At the time especially when there wasn't much in terms of dark or macabre cartoons, this one gave us a small, but still memorable taste of the enjoyably morbid.", Weiss reviewed.

Ruby encapsulated, "It was a waste of time, but it was a fun waste of time."

"But we know what you're thinking, 'If Beetlejuice got a cartoon, why not Little Shop of Horrors?'", wondered Yang.

Nora says, "Because no one was thinking that."

"Just for that, the plant raps.", Yang reveals.

Nora's jaw dropped when hearing this, before shouting, "NOOOOOOO!"


Little Shop

"Little Shop is based on the musical interpretation about the man-eating plant, except Seymour is now a little boy, the plant raps instead of sings, and absolutely none of it looks completed.", Yang soon began.

Pyrrha noticed while the seven watch and listen to one of the show's songs, "This looks more like the bumpers you see before they go to commercial."

"You don't give those bumpers enough credit.", Blake considered; "The focus of the show is the plant named Junior is trying to get Seymour to win the girl Audrey and defeat the bully Paine Driller, while also running a plant shop that's constantly infested with bad musical numbers."

"We can bear with this over the original cinematic ending.", Weiss feared.

Ruby said, "Yep. Man, that was a dark ending, even Yang and I talked about it in one of our top lists a while ago."

"On another note, why's he even shocked the plant is talking? The flowers act as backup singers all the time! Not even sure if the plant is talking, his lips move so rarely.", questioned Weiss as they watch more excerpts of the show.

Ruby then told, "I guess I can give credit that for a show that had a budget of monkey feces, the backgrounds are at least creatively simple. I mean, I'm sure the layout artist had two minutes to color these on Mario Paint, but there is at least a little structure in between the poorly animated sections.", listening to another rap during one episode, "Also, the writing doesn't make any sense either. The girl in the show is obsessed with a refrigerator. I'm going to repeat that. The girl in the show is obsessed with a refrigerator. And they never explain why."

"Well, refridgerators do help cool or freeze food and drinks up as well as act as an air conditioner, but falling in love with it is a strange chemistry. Not saying much since I'm a robot.", Penny chuckles.

Pyrrha smugly rolled her eyes, "Clearly, Little Shop of Horrors was ahead of its time."

"Like I said, this has little redeeming value, but I'm sorry, I have to reference a Little Shop of Horrors cartoon show in the 90s where the plant raps! I know you think it's a crime it exists, but it's an even bigger crime to act like it doesn't exist. The show lasted only 13 episodes before it was yanked, and you can see why this fertilizer didn't get far.", verdicted Yang.

Pyrrha soon mentioned, "You know, we're noticing a pattern of characters that most likely wouldn't make a good show..."

"Not making a good show?", asked Blake.

Nora also said, "Were there any existing characters that would allow for clever writing or intelligent dialogue?"

"As a matter of fact, yes.", Blake figured as they watch the next show in particular.


Taz-Mania

Blake introduced, "Warner Bros. was given the task of turning one of their most profitable Looney Tunes, the Tazmanian Devil, into a hit show. How do you do that, though, when his dialogue is mostly...", watching clips of the Taz cartoon with him speaking gibberish when destroying a box.

"Well, they ingeniously make everyone else very well-spoken, even to the point of it being ridiculously overwritten. Because of this, not only did Taz-Mania have a distinct sense of humor, but its writing was surprisingly ahead of its time, along with other shows like Duckman and The Simpsons.", informs Weiss.

As Pyrrha and Nora looked a bit baffled by this statement, the four members of team RWBY simply nod in agreement.

Ruby then synopsized, "Based in the land down under where Wakko Warner sings the theme song, Taz lives with his talkative family, interacting with his talkative friends and partaking in the conversations as little as possible. Much like the other Warner Bros. shows, there's a lot of fourth wall breaking, a lot of slapstick and like I said, surprisingly a lot of talking, again, from a show where the main character speaks gibberish."

"Though not talked about by many, Taz-Mania still had an impressive four-year run. It had good animation, good timing and actors who had to talk a surprising mouthful for a show about a Tasmanian Devil.", reported Yang whilst the seven watch more snippets of the cartoon's episodes, "It's so strange this would be both as funny and as worthy as it is, but maybe that's part of a bigger joke in general; that the most dialogue-focused slapstick children's show was around this guy."

Blake saddened and concludes, "Sadly, there's only a few DVD releases of this show; it honestly deserves a lot more. The episodes you can find, though, are a ton of laughs and had a lot more work put into them than they probably deserved. To put it short, Taz-Mania is a heck of a spin."


Tiny Toon Adventures (with The Plucky Duck Show)

"So having a very successful run in syndication, Fox Kids bought Tiny Toons and ran it from its third season on. It was one of the few shows based on the younger versions of popular characters that branched out not only to be successful and funny, but also obtained its own identity over time.", next said Weiss.

Ruby describes, "Characters like Elmyra, Montana Max and Furrball were all very different from their counterparts, Elmer, Yosemite Sam and Sylvester. The nice thing is while in syndication, there was definitely a lean towards being more kid-friendly, but when it went to Fox, they broke out more of the classic Looney Tunes humor with celebrity jokes, in-jokes, satire, a...Buster that sounded eerily close to the Cryptkeeper...?", whilst seeing clips from the cartoon.

"It played well, so well that one of the most popular characters, Plucky Duck, was given his own show that same year.", chroniclized Yang.

Nora reminded her girlfriend Pyrrha's question from earlier, "Yeah, so what was that?"

"It was...complicated.", Yang replied, "You see, the first episode of the spin-off was...actually hilarious. They're acknowledging he's getting his own show, but he abandons it to try and be Batman in Tim Burton's next movie. It's amazing how funny it is."

"The violence, the satire, the celebrity in-jokes... It had a ton of viewers rolling on the floor with laughter, it was so good!", Blake says.

Pyrrha interested, "That sounds great, what happened?"

"...That was the only new episode.", revealed Blake, "They weirdly just started showing clips from other Tiny Toons episodes where Plucky Duck was the focus, so what was supposed to be The Plucky Duck Show just became the best of Plucky Duck, a clip show. Maybe this was filler for a show they didn't make in time, maybe they only animated the pilot, but pulled the plug like what they did with The Elymra Show?"

Weiss presumed, "Whatever they did, it faded quickly, resulting in only 13 episodes. Regardless, we still got a pretty funny first episode and a ton of great material from the original Tiny Toons, giving it a memorable and hilarious run."

"But not every show gets the attention it deserves.", taught Ruby.

Nora suggests, "I know what you guys mean... Homeboys in Outer Space, right?"

"Well, that masterful work will have its day... But we were talking about Eek! The Cat.", says Ruby.


Eek! The Cat (with Eek! Stravaganza featuring The Terrible Thunderlizards)

Ruby summarizes, "In a world filled with Ren & Stimpy knockoffs, Eek! The Cat was arguably one of the first. But just like those other shows, it had a similar style, but still, its own hilarious identity. The opening sums it up perfectly: he has a dream about helping someone, wakes up to reality, and everything tries to kill him."

"That's basically the plot of every episode. The world is trying to punish him for all the good deeds he does. But, nevertheless, Eek is always kind and optimistic, always helping people no matter what's thrown at him.", Yang unveils, "And indeed, a lot of strange things are thrown at him. It's a world where snacks can blow up in your head, cuddly bears are greeted with machine guns, and Ross Perot was commander-in-chief, back when THAT was the craziest person who could be president."

Blake continues, "There was a mean-spirited creativity to it that was held together by just how gentle and helping Eek is. No matter what, he always wanted to help, even if it meant getting pummeled. Hell, the biggest curse word he ever used was kumbaya.", then saying, "Granted, as the show went on, they seem to run out of ideas, so they started putting him in several movie parodies. They were fine, I guess, but it was a little odd, even for this show. To make things even stranger, the timeslot was suddenly being shared with another show."

"Suddenly, it was called Eek! Stravaganza and half the running time was dedicated to The Terrible Thunderlizards, a series about dinosaurs who were trying to wipe out a new species called Man. At the moment, there's only two of them, and they're constantly screwing up trying to evolve.", Weiss noticed as they watched a clip of the Thunderlizards cartoon, "These guys are like the prototype for SpongeBob and Squidward, except the sexual tension might be a little greater with them."

Ruby sums up the Thunderlizards and the Eek! show, "The show was pretty funny, but not as good as Eek! Nobody minded too much that the shows were cut in half, as we still got our daily dose of strange, and the show had a good run of five seasons. Sadly, again, though, there's no DVD release, hence the watermark. With the rise of even more surreal humor and Internet culture, this really should be more available to the public. It was mean, violent, cruel, relentless, yet, funny enough, had a good heart at the center of it. Eek! definitely needs to make a comeback, and hopefully, somebody out there can make it happen in the future."


Jim Henson's Dog City

"But there's stuff for dog lovers, too. Jim Henson's Dog City, for example, lasted for three seasons.", told Yang, "Based on Henson's short film from another TV series, the show opened in the puppet world where an animator created a private eye show about a detective named Ace Hart."

Blake said, "It then jumps into animation, as Ace constantly battles the gangster Bugsy Vile, with the help of chief Rosie O'Gravy and paper pup named Eddie. As you'd imagine, there's a lot of dog puns in this, which is usually annoying, but after a while, there's so many of them, you're kind of floored so many could exist.", before she, Ruby, Blake, Weiss and their friends Pyrrha, Nora and Penny were perplexed after seeing several clips of Dog City.

"I'm...annoyingly intrigued.", Nora remarked.

Weiss imagines, "Like many Jim Henson projects, there's a charm in how kid-friendly it wants to be. For example, the animator hates violence, so guns are usually replaced with rolled-up newspapers, and when guns do eventually make their way in, he switches it out for a senseless showdown. It's...kind of adorable."

"The strange thing is, Fox would do another dog detective show called Droopy: Master Detective. What was up with this concept?! They had the same obsession Disney Afternoon had over ducks! Did they just think this would be the next big thing? Did they even watch Tequila and Bonetti?", exasperates Ruby.

Yang shrugs off, "While Droopy was canned pretty quickly, Dog City had a pretty decent run. So, I guess if you're a dog detective person, or rather a cat detective person, Dog City is cute enough to give a viewing."

"You know, girls, we gotta admit, these shows are fine and purely nostalgic so far, but it feels they're not really mind-blowing back in its time.", interluded Pyrrha.

Nora and Penny eagerly said, "Yeah, where's the really cool stuff?"

"Well, over the next three years, Fox Kids would have their highlights. They would give us the most incredible, awesome, badass shows any kid's ever seen at the time!", Ruby told, "And one of those shows is indeed the Dark Knight himself... Batman!"

But before they could continue, they heard a knock on the dorm room door.

Yang volunteered, "I'll get it.", walking over to and opening the door to see Ozpin with a platter of seven plates with the rainbow pancakes he organized for the seven of them as an early breakfast treat, which were pancakes but with rainbow sprinkles and whipped cream on it.

"Ozpin!", greeted Ruby, "Those pancakes looks delicious!"

Professor Ozpin answers, "Just the way you like it."

"We can't thank you enough, professor.", Yang gratefully spoke as the seven grab their plates.

Ozpin delighted, "Enjoy. I best be off for now. Let me know how your thing went.", before leaving the room and shutting the door.

"Okay. First, let's eat before we continue. It's been a while since we had early morning birthday pancakes! I love food!", Ruby smacked her lips.

Nora appetized, "Same here!", as the seven girls laughed before they began eating their pancakes during their break.

To be continued...