As you probably know by now, one of my favorite things to do is look for weird old shit on the Internet. One of my favorite things I've found is this cartoon: Roger Ramjet. It's a Saturday morning cartoon from the sixties and most of the episodes are around five minutes long including the theme song and end credits, which are both sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle by the most ear-bleedingly annoying children's chorus I've ever heard. According to Wikipedia, though, every episode ran for a full thirty minutes with commercials, so I can only imagine how many commercials they must have had.
In the cartoon, Roger Ramjet is an inventor and full-time hero who is frequently called on by General GI Brassbottom to catch crooks and spies and solve bizarre problems. He's also really dumb. He usually gets caught by the villain and has to rely on the Eagles, who are his sidekick team of kids who are much smarter than he is, or one of his Proton Energy Pills, which allows him to beat the crap out of the enemies with lots of written sound effects, to save his ass. There's also a snarky narrator, hilariously limited animation, an abundance of puns, and lots of running gags. It's great.
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