The Source Material: Frank Oz's 1986 horror-musical Little Shop of Horrors, about a man-eating plant called Audrey 2.
Why It’s Inappropriate For Kids: The hero chops people up into chunks of meat and feeds them to a flesh-eating plant. Also, it features a sadist dentist, not the sort of thing that's going to encourage Billy to get his pegs checked every six months.
What we have here is the history of American culture in microcosm.
Subversive underground hit (Roger Corman's 1960 original) becomes camp musical off-Broadway, gets remade for the mainstream and ends up on kids' telly.
By which time psychotic "Audrey 2" has become mild-mannered Audrey Jr.
Modern Equivalent: Sweeney Todd, presumably about a loveably eccentric barber who insists on giving his clientele ridiculous haircuts.
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SteveMcc
Sep 8th 2010, 12:04
....Is it wrong that apart from the slightly wierd shots of Rambo getting dressed I would watch the Rambo cartoon?
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ChrisWootton
Sep 8th 2010, 13:38
There was a shot in the Rambo intro (where he hangs from a helicopter and then crashes through a window) that looked exactly like the Matrix. Tenuous? Probably.
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JohnJDuffy
Sep 8th 2010, 16:16
I had the Toxic Crusaders figures
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snakes65
Sep 8th 2010, 16:44
It's no wonder parents eventually got p****d come the 90s(in the States at least) as studios in the 80s pretty much knew that ANYTHING action or broad comedy oriented, especially when Rated R, was going to be really popular with the audience who weren't old enough to be watching some of the movies hence the animated spin off shows. Regarding James Bond Jr was anyone ever really surprised that, despite their obvious elements, the Bond films would spin off a cartoon for kids considering the movies had become a family watching, Xmas, Bank Holiday etc tradition? At least the makers did what others didn't and created an appropriate new character.
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Hadouken76
Sep 8th 2010, 18:32
I heard the original ninja turtles were pretty brutal
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melissathekaiki
Sep 8th 2010, 18:42
I loved beetlejuice and still do!
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Giles83
Sep 9th 2010, 2:09
Don't forget Conan the Adventurer and the numerous Godzilla cartoons!
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Giles83
Sep 9th 2010, 2:10
Don't forget Conan the adventurer and the numerous Godzilla cartoons!
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MadMatt
Sep 10th 2010, 16:35
Rambo - How many kids cartoons can you think of with a theme by Oscar-winner Jerry Goldsmith and an intro by voice-over legend Don LaFontaine? Class.
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MadMatt
Sep 10th 2010, 16:36
Rambo - How many kids cartoons can you think of with a theme by Oscar-winner Jerry Goldsmith and an intro by voice-over legend Don LaFontaine? Class.
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jdemicco
Sep 13th 2010, 15:32
What do you mean, "even Ronald Reagan got it?"
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