I was recently involved in an argument about crappy cartoon show theme songs (it’s a long story…well, it’s a short story: my friends and I are useful people) that ended with me pleading “no one remembers Samurai Pizza Cats? Early 90s? Unwatchable but we watched it anyway, like every cartoon? Confuses the hell out of you when you sleep over your friend Jack’s house and he wakes up every morning to this theme song playing on his tv alarm?”
Well, after two seconds of Googling, the theme song is stuck in my head again. Click below if you wish for the same fate:
After the jump, three additional observations about SPC (what the cool kids called it back in the day!) (Ed. Note – No one has ever called it this.)
1) Has there ever been a ballsier rip-off of a phenomenon than this cartoon coming out after Ninja Turtles? “What do the kids like? They like animals, so let’s make the turtles into cats. They like ninjas, so let’s make them “samurai.” And they like pizza, so let’s continue to include pizza and throw it in the title. BINGO! Hello hit kids’ show, even though the kids who watched Turtles in the U.S. are like seventeen now!”
2) How was this level of animation ever deemed acceptable by anyone’s standards? It’s like, one crayon drawing every three seconds, it baaaaaarely fits even the loosest definition of what actually constitutes “animation.” Someone could’ve filmed themselves manually turning pages in a picture book and it would’ve been less jerky and easier to watch than this show.
3) Why is the theme song a minute and a half long? “We just have too much information we need to convey to the kids before this show about cats who run a pizza place and also are ninjas begins – better make it ninety seconds. What do you mean, ‘can we trim it to sixty?’ You lose ONE SECOND off that song and I f***ing WALK.”
