Ah that's where the Canadian part comes in. Good catch. "The Care Bears" animated series was American, the later "Care Bear Family" series was Canadian.
The Care Bears Family is a Canadian animated television series produced by Nelvana and C.B.I.S. Productions based on the American franchise of the same name, and is the successor series to the American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment
I wore Braveheart-inspired facepaint for a football game once as a kid when I lived in Germany, except it was yellow instead of blue to match my team color.
Another player asked what/who I was supposed to look like, and I said "Braveheart", but obviously this 11yo girl had not seen Braveheart- the only Brave Heart she knew was from the Care Bears
Fuck the lore. Half the hardcore fans who know all the lore just use it to bitch about inconsistencies. Dive in wherever you like and everything you need to know will be exposited to you by a convenient captain’s log or an over loquacious android.
All I had to do was force feed my wife a couple SMW episodes and she said "oh! It's a melodrama with costumes and lasers, and occasionally they have courtroom episodes where they ignore procedure and monolog and whoever gets the last one wins" and she loves it now
I saw the JJ Abrams movies, but I've pretty much just watched the original, TNG, and sometimes DS9 on repeat for years. Finally starting Voyager now...
I have a direct answer to that question! The oral history on how the Care Bears made a Star Trek parody can be found in a recent video by Allison Pregler: https://youtu.be/t_pYuglkn84
It's like one of the later seasons of The Smufs where they got stuck in a Quantum Leap type situation where they traveled through time or some shit. They were low on ideas after a while.
Wait! How'd they wrangle that? They...oh wait it's parody.
Muppet Babies would occasionally use actual Star Trek and Indiana Jones footage, they could get the rights because 20th Century Fox. I doubt Paramount let them use actual TNG footage.
AND an intro where they're waking up from a nap but it's interspliced with the scene from Aliens where the Colonial Marines are waking up from hyper sleep on the Sulaco
A Canadian cartoon about caring bears for kids sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would exist in the Federation. It would just be on the Holodeck
Unfortunately the Care Bears didn't think to take a barber with them on their interstellar voyage, and as a consequence their coats got pretty long. You can catch up with what happened to them in TOS S02E15.
A lot of modern popular culture was invented in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and so us millennials born in the 80s and 90s emerged into a world where all the adults had Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones and Jaws and such on their minds, so the adults making kids shows wrote them as references to media we didn't have time to watch yet. So by the time I was old enough to sit down and watch Star Wars, I knew the plot already. We kinda got pop culture backwards.
I didn't grow up with Care Bears, I was raised on a steady diet of Sesame Street and Eureka's Castle, so this specific instance is news to me but this kind of thing happened a lot. Does it still?
This is the kind of stuff producers throw into their children's media aimed at parents watching along. It's why movies like Shrek have so many innuendos and other things older people will pick up on.
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 141 pts · 122d
"We're already canceled, so let's do whatever we want."
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 122d
Flashes of 90's X-Men after they shipped production to a tiny Filipino studio. Weird shit.
Thrydwulf@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 122d
Ah lawd, not handsome Beast.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 122d
Please don't let my wife see this picture
fartographer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 121d
"Beast's head is too big for his body. We either need to make his head smaller, or his body bigger. Y'know what? Let's play it safe and do both."
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 122d
Memory engram unlocked.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 4 pts · 122d
Engram never found the engram!
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 121d
I don't remember, but that carebears starship is too damn familiar.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 122d
I had no idea these were Canadian
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 122d
They aren't, according to the wiki page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears
zzz711@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 122d
The animated series, however, was produced by Nelvana, a Canadian animation studio.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 122d
Ah that's where the Canadian part comes in. Good catch. "The Care Bears" animated series was American, the later "Care Bear Family" series was Canadian.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 122d
All the best SciFi comes out of Canada.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 122d
I'm gonna tell my kids this was Star Trek The Animated Series
Hupf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 121d
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMpofmkxKHBJfta_JzekLbWGHUSLUJoLt
jlow@slrpnk.net · 32 pts · 122d
I think this was pretty popular in Germany
kalapala@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 122d
Finland as well. There's a lot of fans.
TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 122d
I wore Braveheart-inspired facepaint for a football game once as a kid when I lived in Germany, except it was yellow instead of blue to match my team color.
Another player asked what/who I was supposed to look like, and I said "Braveheart", but obviously this 11yo girl had not seen Braveheart- the only Brave Heart she knew was from the Care Bears
I got made fun of a lot that day lol
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 6 pts · 122d
It was pretty popular in the US too.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
Somewhat popular in Brazil
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 122d
Germany changed the dubbing on TOS to make it more.. comedic? I wonder if they did the same thing with this lol.
saimen@feddit.org · 3 pts · 121d
What was the german name? Herzbären?
Edit: ah found it. Glücksbärchis
Clanket@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
Ireland too. I loved the Care Bears as a young kid. From memory, it was on just before The Getalong Gang in Ireland
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 27 pts · 122d
Care Bears Star Trek episodes.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 4 pts · 122d
Fascinating
mogoh@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 122d
Wait, what?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 122d
Precisely that. First I've heard of it, and now I must, uh, research my heritage.
sundray@lemmus.org · 19 pts · 122d
No way, I just recently watched an Allison Pregler video about that! (Invidious)
What a wild ride!
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 122d
That wasn’t a Mandela effect!?!?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 17 pts · 121d
I'm not subbed to this community but you guys always have the best posts lol
It fills me with the same sort of glee as whenever an Ich_iel post hits the front page
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 121d
The Trekkies on here are a great group for sure.
join us...
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 121d
There is way too much lore to catch up on...
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 121d
Fuck the lore. Half the hardcore fans who know all the lore just use it to bitch about inconsistencies. Dive in wherever you like and everything you need to know will be exposited to you by a convenient captain’s log or an over loquacious android.
Dearth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 121d
Watch a couple of the original cast movies, maybe stream TNG while you're doing chores and before you know it your one of us
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 121d
All I had to do was force feed my wife a couple SMW episodes and she said "oh! It's a melodrama with costumes and lasers, and occasionally they have courtroom episodes where they ignore procedure and monolog and whoever gets the last one wins" and she loves it now
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 121d
I haven't seen anything Trek made since 2009. You'll be okay.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
I saw the JJ Abrams movies, but I've pretty much just watched the original, TNG, and sometimes DS9 on repeat for years. Finally starting Voyager now...
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz · 17 pts · 122d
I keep discovering things from the 80s kid me would have loved but I never knew existed until my late 40s.
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social · 3 pts · 122d
There's nothing wrong with letting your inner child enjoy it!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 122d
I have a direct answer to that question! The oral history on how the Care Bears made a Star Trek parody can be found in a recent video by Allison Pregler: https://youtu.be/t_pYuglkn84
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 122d
It's like one of the later seasons of The Smufs where they got stuck in a Quantum Leap type situation where they traveled through time or some shit. They were low on ideas after a while.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 14 pts · 122d
But is it cannon?
I like to think it is.
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 122d
Absolutely not.
This is cannon:
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 122d
Bam boom
Klear@quokk.au · 10 pts · 122d
Probably. Weirder stuff has happened in Star Trek.
marlowe221@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 122d
I was a kid in this era, saw some of these episodes, and thought nothing of it.
After all, the Muppet Babies were doing Star Wars….
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 122d
Also Star Trek.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 122d
Wait! How'd they wrangle that? They...oh wait it's parody.
Muppet Babies would occasionally use actual Star Trek and Indiana Jones footage, they could get the rights because 20th Century Fox. I doubt Paramount let them use actual TNG footage.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 121d
AND an intro where they're waking up from a nap but it's interspliced with the scene from Aliens where the Colonial Marines are waking up from hyper sleep on the Sulaco
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 121d
Say what you want, but I liked the Bobby's World parody. The only thing I remember about it was he was the captain of the Boobyprise
Infynis@midwest.social · 10 pts · 121d
A Canadian cartoon about caring bears for kids sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would exist in the Federation. It would just be on the Holodeck
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 121d
Seven of Nine could have some damn peace and quiet in astrometrics
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 121d
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
How about now?
No.
....how about now?
I did want to .47 seconds ago but now I don't have the time. You missed your opportunity kiddo
Luci@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 122d
Low budget??? They paid my buddy Gord a two-fer and a sandwich for each episodes I’ll tell you that!
notabot@piefed.social · 8 pts · 122d
Unfortunately the Care Bears didn't think to take a barber with them on their interstellar voyage, and as a consequence their coats got pretty long. You can catch up with what happened to them in TOS S02E15.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 122d
Damn when I was a kid I always thought it was a spin-off series.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 122d
What? I gotta watch this!
AmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 122d
Mr. Grumpy!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 121d
Pigs in Space is Conan too this is my position
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 121d
Is there a name for this phenomenon?
A lot of modern popular culture was invented in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and so us millennials born in the 80s and 90s emerged into a world where all the adults had Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones and Jaws and such on their minds, so the adults making kids shows wrote them as references to media we didn't have time to watch yet. So by the time I was old enough to sit down and watch Star Wars, I knew the plot already. We kinda got pop culture backwards.
I didn't grow up with Care Bears, I was raised on a steady diet of Sesame Street and Eureka's Castle, so this specific instance is news to me but this kind of thing happened a lot. Does it still?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
This is the kind of stuff producers throw into their children's media aimed at parents watching along. It's why movies like Shrek have so many innuendos and other things older people will pick up on.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
I consider this series Conan, having never heard of it before this moment