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Many people are aware of The Banna Splits Adventure Hour, a 1968 hour-long series most well known for it's wraparounds featuring Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky. However, less know about an attempt by Hanna Barbera to revive the format years later in 1977, entitled The Skatebirds.  This show pretty blatantly held it's "inspiration" on it's side. Both shows featured actors in suits who sang songs and introducing cartoons (in Banana Splits, it was The Three Musketeers, Arabian Nights, Micro Ventures and the Hilbilly Bears (starting in Season 2) while in Skaterbirds, it was The Robotic Stooges, Wonder Wheels and edited down reruns of Clue Club retitled Woofer and Wimper Dog Detectives) and an adventure live action segment set on an island (in Banna Splits, it was Danger Island and in Skatebirds, it was Mystery Island), even the title font appeared to be the same!  Starting in February of 1978, the Robotic Stooges cartoons (alongside Woofer and Wimper) were placed ...

Whatever any of you do, DO NOT UPLOAD ANY TOON IN WITH ME OR SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS VIDEOS TO YOUTUBE. Lately, Weigel has been taking down any uploads of clips from those shows from YouTube. This resulted in my channel being terminated. This is corrupt and unjust. Many of these videos are short and do not contain much footage from Weigel. Sometimes, they copyright the whole video INCLUDING the cartoons. Something they do not own. I demand you to message Weigel about this. I laugh at the people who say "It's not a big deal" or "It's just a dumb YouTube channel". As if that justifies all of this. I can sympathize with a studio that takes down cartoons because they don't want to lose sales. It’s only fair that they do that. But it is even more unfair when a giant corporation takes down stuff without warning or any prior statement whatsoever, even more so when they don't even own the bulk of what they are making. Plus, many Toon In With Me and Saturda...