Yeah, I'd have to say the list and the scholarship behind it was pretty lacking.

Out of that whole list, only Scooby-Doo and Underdog qualify as being originally created for Sat AM.

Popeye, Addams Family, TMNT, Garfield, and Speed Racer had pre-existing print origins.

Transformers was based on a Japanese toy line.

The Flintstones did start life as a cartoon, but in prime time, not Sat AM.

Fat Albert's origins were stories Bill Cosby told in his stage shows.

The author particularly messed up with Addams Family.

First, as Age-K mentions, they used a still from the 90's animated series as opposed to the '73 version which would have been more appropriate in context.
Second, they get the synopsis almost completely wrong, referring to the lawyer as the doctor and calling Christopher Lloyd's character "his son".
With errors like that, I have trouble taking the rest of his article seriously.


As far as the movies go - I like Popeye and the Addams Family movies enough to own them, I prefer the comic to the TMNT movies, and Fat Albert was better than it had a right to be.

I may check out Transformers and Speed Racer if I come across them on premium channels.

The rest I doubt I'd watch even if someone paid me to do it. Even John Goodman and Rick Moranis, who I'm particularly fond of, weren't enough to get me to watch the Flintstones movie. And don't get me started on the abomination that is Underdog - I could use a whole 'nother post on why that should've never gotten greenlit.

That title is so misleading. The author of this blog is right on - it's way off base.

I liked Transformers...but...what happened to Alvin & the Chipmunks, my Saturday morning fave of yore.

Yeah, I definitely agree with you too. Plus, I'm pretty sure the picture they used for the cartoon version of The Addams Family comes from the cartoon that came out AFTER the movie came out.

I concur with you.