Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Reminiscing

The peeps over at Topless Robot have compiled a list of the 10 Most Underrated Cartoon Sidekicks which we have summarized below...

  1. Brain from Inspector Gadget
  2. Blitzwing from Transformers
  3. Spike from My Little Pony
  4. Evil-Lyn from Masters of the Universe
  5. Eric from Dungeons and Dragons
  6. Ioz from The Pirates of Dark Water
  7. Igor and Nanny from Count Duckula
  8. Bow from She-Ra
  9. Lance from Voltron
  10. Slowpoke Rodriguez from Looney Tunes

Each entry has an accompanying video so if you don't remember any of them or you just want reminisce Click Here to check it out.

Our most favorite on the list is Slow Poke Rodriguez. Do you guys remember him? Well, apparently all appearances of slow poke have been banned from our airwaves. Seems he was quite the stoner.

"It sounds like something you’d make up while drunk at a party. Yeah, Speedy Gonzalez had a cousin named Slowpoke Rodriguez. Seriously. But they won’t show his cartoons anymore because he was obviously a huge stoner.

Well, most of that’s true. Slowpoke was a laid-back country mouse who showed up in a mere two Looney Tunes shorts. In one, he sings the marijuana-positive version of “La Cucaracha” and is constantly hungry. He also has the ability to hypnotize Sylvester the cat, but we geek-culture wags can’t work that into a pot joke.

Slowpoke’s other appearance, in Mexicali Schmoes, was brief and involved him gunning down a cat, thus shamefully furthering the stereotype of Mexicans as people who may own firearms at some point in their lives."

Poor lil Slow Poke, he's just "hongry".

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