UNRULY AND indeed unwelcome animated argy-bargy from America ripping off ROWAN AND MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN stock gimmicky, something which obviously had bags of resonance over here. Titular ensemble goofed and gooned through 20 minutes of overloud sound effects, shitty animation, laughter tracks, baddies-as-goodies, pratfalls, slapstick and all the sodding rest, linked together with that characters-opening-doors-within-giant-wall-to-deliver-shit-joke business (“Why didn’t the skeleton go to the ball? Because he had no body to go with!”).
Groovy Ghoulies, The
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November 2, 2015 at 2:50 pm
The Frankenstein(‘s Monster) had a catchphrase that went “I needed that!” delivered whenever he was clonked on the head, got electrocuted, was booted in the bollocks, etc.
There was a Banana Splits influence as much as Laugh-In, with all those bubblegum pop songs the monsters “played”. Always thought it was a thankless task making that music, because those ditties had a lot of work put into them for something nobody was going to remember five minutes later when the rest of it was so shoddy.
Richard Davies
November 2, 2015 at 6:07 pm
This along with Dinky Dog & The Drac Pack hasn’t had had any sort of retrospective evaluation (as far as I know!) that many other cartoons of the era have had, & can’t remember seeing any of them in the last 30 years. Even when CBBC2 dug out stuff like the Kwicky Kwola Show a decade ago.
Applemask
July 4, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Ever see Clu Gulager and Yvonne Goolagong with the Groovy Ghoulies in the Gulag Archipelago?
Droogie
July 4, 2017 at 6:11 pm
I remember Groovy Ghoulies would have a different animated band perform each week with a horror-themed name. The only one I recall was The Mummies And The Puppies, which was a crap pun on The Mamas And The Papas and involved a band consisting of Egyptian mummies and,er, puppies.