Talk:ThunderCats (1985 TV series)/Archive 1

How cool were the Tundercats? wow! Selphie 14:45, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It is truly a travesty that this page lacks any mention of the Robear Berbils.

How did the Thundercats intend to repopulate the planet with other thundercats wen there was only 1 female? Not very good planning. Chris H - UK.

Same goes for the Smurfs, really. Good lord! I theorize that some of the others (Smurfs, not Thundercats) were less-obvious females..

Actually, there are two females, Wily-kit is also female. Of course, she's also a little young ;) --Wilykit 15:15, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

--- Hey, one of the greatest cartoon series I have ever seen.

Jorge, Mar del Plata,Argentina

Profanity

Is it really necessary to have a strong profanity in this article? I replaced the word with f**k but this was reverted back. It's as if someone has gone out of their way to put a swear-word on this article.

I've removed the reference that contained this profanity. Parodies on the internet that dub new dialog over the actual clips are not "Outtakes", and have nothing to do with the actual series. MrItty 17:14, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually, Larry Kenney, the voice of Lion-O and Jackalman (among other characters), has gone on record as stating the "Outtakes" from Thundercats are, in fact, real. It's even confirmed in Matt Blank's interview.DrachenFyre 23:52, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Whether the outtakes are real or not is besides the point - i.e it is unnecessary and irresponsible for a credible encyclopedia article to have strong (or any) profanity. The only exceptions to this would be articles about the etymology of such words for example, and then it should be objective and NPOV. This is clearly not the case for the ThunderCats article! Marky1981 09:14, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Very well then. DrachenFyre 14:32, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

If this comes up again, here's wikipedia's policy on profanity.--Starwed 18:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Third Earth = our Earth?

Has Third Earth been confimed officially that it is our Earth (in the future)? If not, we should either delete "(which is our own planet earth in a distant future)" or change it to something like "(which is speculated to be planet Earth in a distant future)" Marky1981 11:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I really dont know, you should go ahead and do it. Jack Cain

Aside from Egyptian architecture (like Mumm-Ra's and Mumm-Rana's pyramids with obelisks), the specific mentioning of "Egyptian" by Mumm-Ra himself in episode "Pumm-Ra", the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Wizz-Ra (and his Egyptian helmet), Hachiman and the code of Bushido, the legend of King Arthur and the appearance of Merlin, and the Berzerkers (just to name a few), all evidence points to Third Earth actually being a future Earth. Obviously, there must have been not one but TWO cataclysmic events in the planet's past which forces it through two "ages"... DrachenFyre 22:52, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

I've modified the line accordingly - feel free to modify Marky1981 23:59, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This guy sure knows his cartoons.

first episode

I recently saw the first episode of thundercats again and it never mentions that lion-o's pod malfunctioned

However, it is generally accepted by the fanbase that his pod malfunctioned. How else could he have aged so rapidly yet none of the other ThunderCats did? - DrachenFyre 20:36, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

i jus saw it too, and the explanation given there is not that it malfunctioned, but that ageing did occured on the pods.

Seasons?

I know there are webpages out there that say Season 2 was 1986-7, but I remember when seeing the episodes air a few years ago (2001 to be precise), the copyright date at the end of some of them was 1987 and for others 1988. I remember seeing somewhere that Thundercats went into a 1 season hiatus for the 1986-7 season while 65 episodes of the cartoon series Silverhawks were aired (a show which featured some of the same voice actors as Thundercats). The only Thundercats episode/s produced in that span was Thundercats! Ho!, a 5-parter which introduced the 3 other Thundercats. That may have been first released as a video before being broken up into episodes for syndication.

Episodes with 1987 in their credits span from "Mumm-Ra Lives! Part I" to "Vultureman's Revenge". Episodes with 1988 in their credits span from "Thundercubs Part I" to "The Book of Omens". I've seen some sources say from "Return to Thundera Part I" to "The Book of Omens" were aired in the 1989-1990 season. I'm not sure what that is about, though it might be possible they filled their remaining episode order in terms of production in 1988 and just held half the episodes over to make another season out of the episodes made (A 5th season of Futurama aired even though there were only 4 seasons of production. That "season" was made from several unaired episodes from previous seasons).

By the way, a lot of webpages out there operate on certain assumptions with cartoon series. They assume 65 episodes will be aired 5 episodes a week for 13 weeks without any mistakes in airing or delays in production of some episodes. These cannot be considered reliable because we don't know if the webpages actually confirmed the airdates or just looked for the first Monday of September and started counting off air dates from there on out. What I'm saying is we don't know for sure if the episode airdate list is correct and has been generated by looking at actual data or if it is just a theoretical list of when episodes most likely aired. In the case of Thundercats, it is known to be false.

And many series have 65 episode orders but don't air all 65 episodes over a single season. Transformers for example, aired 16 episodes in Season 1 and 49 episodes in Season 2 (16 + 49= 65) and G.I. Joe produced two 5 episode mini series in 1983 & 1984 before getting a first season and that season had 55 episodes (50 if you count the 1985 Mini-Series as separate from the 1985-6 Season).

I would ask for the 1986-7 data to be confirmed. If it cannot be, then the wiki page should state the lack of certainty regarding when the second half of the series aired.