The post-college template of Rodimus Prime.
I was in the theater when Optimus Prime died. I had no chaperone and no moment to mourn as there was still 58 minutes of TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE to thrill through. So it wasn’t until they returned to their daily TV schedule that I even realized the Autobots would need a new leader. And, as demonstrated by the discount bin at Kay Bee Toys, kids were not a fan.
How the neon flash of Jem and The Holograms helped validate Tim’s current life choices.
At eleven years old I wanted to be Jem. To be clear, I didn’t want to date her (my pre-puberty emissions were already a-washed over the Prime-adjacent chassis of Elita-1), rather, this idolization stemmed from the animated lifestyle this drawing of a person lived.
Ten Full-on ‘80s Cartoons That Could Only Last One Season
Not a day in the 80s went by without tuning in to some robot in disguise, highly trained special mission force or other person’s Little Pony. And while their adventures broadcast throughout my childhood, there was also the occasional series that aired once, then disappeared. And while those programs may not have earned the reverence of an Inspector Gadget, they were still fairly accurate time capsules of the decade.
Cartoon theme songs and the pop stars who should have sang them.
‘80s cartoons gave us the most memorable, hummable and “Woo-hoo-able” ear worms of all time. So imagine if these tunes escaped their syndicated patterns and took up residence on an album of that era. But which recording artists would have even been capable of harnessing such jingles for Casey Kasem’s countdown?