I'm a little surprised that they're brown.

Just because wasn't this the 80s?

There were brown people in the 80s o:

yes but

it was controversial to do anything beyond movies and music with colored people still

That is the decade with the Mr T cartoon

But c'mon Mr. T is comedy gold right there

Okay then what about The Mysterious Cities Of Gold?

was that even popular?

More so then this show was, it was part of a popular animation tend in the early 80's were cartoons were essentially animated serials where it was all one big plot arc. I must confess though it was before my time and I haven't really seen much of it.

The 70's gave us I Am The Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali.

To say nothing of the Harlem Globetrotters and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

Oh, and Rubik the Amazing Cube is hands down the WORST godawful show of the entire 80's -- and it had some heavy competition, too!

Very too and Fat Albert would also run into the early 80's. Haha there was some REAL shockers made in the 80's, I regularly use this show as an example of the lowest "toy cartoons" sank in embarrassing shallowness. Haha ho god Teen Turbo, just the other day me and cat_on_the_couch were discussing who that crap looked like some David Cronenberg nightmare.......minus the talent

I was going to make an age joke about knowing those cartoons but then I took a double take and well~

It still makes it no less surprising to me however since this was to advertise the toy, and I'm not sure how many kids thought Muhammmad Ali and the Harlem Globetrotters was entertaining. Fat Albert, not so sure- I'd watch Fat Albert still if they aired it.

Any other cartoon listings though that had predominate Hispanic characters?

Well, there was the Cantinflas show from Hanna-Barbera in the late 70's/early 80's. But this wasn't made for a Saturday Morning line-up -- it's more of an educational program -- so I'm not sure if it counts.

And I was going to mention Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go! -- but again, I don't think that's quite what you had in mind...

yeah I wouldn't count dora and diego because I was trying to focus around the 80s and predating period

I applaud the artists and directors though who were attempting to transition from a predominately white (and racist depictions of blacks and asians) cast of characters to a more acceptable multicultural array of characters so that stuff today wouldn't feel as taboo or like "taking a risk"

The older sibling has an Indian accent so I can only assume they are from India

Haha yeah.....crap like that makes such good fodder

or fun to trash

memories!

repressed ones?

Best show ever! :'D

It is glorious and wonderous

It ended when someone mixed up the cube and they couldn't solve it :'c

YOULL SELL A MILLION RUBIX! hahahah this is great. you should do more derpy stuff XDD

I likely will be because my work this year has been lacking the humor of last

Ya know, if they were really drawn like that, I might be more inclined to watch it. lol x3

that would imply the show had a sense of humour

Even if it remained stupid, their dippy faces would at least be good for a cheap laugh every now and then. x3

well the faces looked pretty stupid in the series.....just in a boring way

Much like in the intro Rubik zaps the kids to give them the power of flight, then they all burn up on the atmosphere THE END

Much like they would be, you are on fire because that's one hot idea

NOT CULTURAL DIVERSE ENOUGH! THEY NEED A 40% DARKER COMPLEXION

I wonder if it ever crossed their minds to make a toy based on that monstrosity... like, the shows' version.

if so....not for long because this was hardly a runaway success

OMG. This exists why? (Other than making money.)

Those expressions made me laugh so much. I'm laughing while typing this, honestly. XD

Haha well I'm glad to know this

BURN IT WITH FIRE

It clearly came from hell, flames will only make it stronger

So um Ky showed me this



and um.

whoever thought this dumbass idea up needs to be shot.
Holy fuck there were some bad cartoons.

The idea would have come from toy manufactures and focus groups, the show wasn't designed to be an entertainment for but a ploy to increase sales to a toy line.....in this case Rubik's Cubes. The animation itself would have been handled much like a sweatshop as that's pretty much how they were treated and the people who had any real creative talent had no say what so ever.

Oh Ruby-Spears, what were you thinking?

There were thinking about the cash payouts they would get making it

Ah! From the same studio that brought you such greats as "Goldie Gold", "Dirty Dog", "Quickie Koala" (snirk!) and "Pacman".

God Bless you Hanna Barbara and Ruby Spears to. Why not?

When it came to over produced, flat, dull and lifeless animation.....there was none finer.

YOU SO FUCKIN KINDY ME!? WHAT THIS SHIT IS! i love the patetics shows kids of the 80s XDDD