{"id":550,"date":"2002-09-20T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=550"},"modified":"2021-05-17T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T02:33:05","slug":"super-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/09\/20\/super-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAs so often happens when I’m sitting around shooting the breeze with my imaginary friends, the subject turns to old TV shows, specifically old cartoons. Unlike my friend Chrondar, Lord of the Goatpeople, I don’t really have any favorites. Sure, I watched cartoons, but I don’t recall particularly liking any, or thinking back fondly on any. I remember watching Johnny Quest<\/i>, Scooby Doo<\/i>, Speed Racer<\/i>. and Kimba the White Lion<\/i>, but recent glances at these shows reveal them to be really crappy. (Looney Tunes don’t really count since they’re such a standard and weren’t intended for kiddie-viewing anyway.) Discussing this further with Giselle, my imaginary French girlfriend (she thinks we Americans are so foolish, by the way), I realized that what I really liked about those kid shows were the theme songs. In some cases, the theme songs were pretty much my whole reason for watching those shows (like the only reason I used to watch Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp<\/i> was for the swirly psychadelic effects on the episode titles). One series I particularly liked was on WXON channel 20, in the afternoon. It showed cartoons based on different Marvel superheroes. The animation was practically nonexistent, but I like each different superhero’s theme song. And, having spent all tonight searching the Internet for copies of those songs, I put together this video of those songs.