So I bought myself a birthday present: the entire first season (26 shows) of the Jonny Quest cartoons! I thought it was Johnny, but no, it is Jonny. I've watched two episodes so far: Mystery of the Lizard Men, and Arctic Splashdown. The Curse of Anubis, Pursuit of the Po-Ho, Riddle of the Gold, Treasure of the Temple, and Calcutta Adventure round out the first disc.
The first episode gives a very cursory introduction to the characters and a bit of background. There's Dr. Benton Quest, who apparently is so incredibly amazing as a scientist, some government agency (not sure who) has assigned "one of our guys", Race Bannon, to protect Dr. Quest's son Jonny from would be kidnappers. Hadji does not appear in the first episode, but he shows up unheralded in the second. Bandit, the dog figures almost too prominently, barking almost to the point of making me cringe.
It is funny to watch it as an adult after all these years. It hardly makes any sense, but you can see why it would be fun for a kid to watch, because they aren't going to be analyzing much. For instance, the first episode makes it clear that the Quests are worth the protection of a full time body guard, yet, when called in to help figure out why five ships have disappeared in the Sargasso Sea, they decide to sail a boat right into the middle of the Sea, and cheerfully bring the kid and dog along - by themselves! The Sargasso is full of old ship wrecks and Jonny spots one that is hundreds of years old and wants to go climb around on one, and Race says, "I don't see any harm in it" - sure, lets get the famous doctor's kid out walking around rotting ship wrecks, what the hay! Another hard-to-believe item: a character I had forgotten about - EUNICE, which is an acronym for something. Its a computer that Dr. Quest talks into conversationally and Eunice spits out an answer. Quite silly when you see it!
Regardless, I am having fun watching them. I am looking forward to The Curse of Anubis, which is the one with the mummy... Maybe I will learn a little about who Hadji is and why he is involved in all the action. One of the discs has a Handbook that "tells all about the Heroes, Villians, Locations, and more..." I think I will watch that prior to seeing many more episodes.
M, J, and D: don't worry, I'll bring these down next time (in about two weeks with the girls!) and we can have a Jonny Quest marathon!
Cheers,
G
By the way, Race's real name: Roger T. Bannon.
The first episode gives a very cursory introduction to the characters and a bit of background. There's Dr. Benton Quest, who apparently is so incredibly amazing as a scientist, some government agency (not sure who) has assigned "one of our guys", Race Bannon, to protect Dr. Quest's son Jonny from would be kidnappers. Hadji does not appear in the first episode, but he shows up unheralded in the second. Bandit, the dog figures almost too prominently, barking almost to the point of making me cringe.
It is funny to watch it as an adult after all these years. It hardly makes any sense, but you can see why it would be fun for a kid to watch, because they aren't going to be analyzing much. For instance, the first episode makes it clear that the Quests are worth the protection of a full time body guard, yet, when called in to help figure out why five ships have disappeared in the Sargasso Sea, they decide to sail a boat right into the middle of the Sea, and cheerfully bring the kid and dog along - by themselves! The Sargasso is full of old ship wrecks and Jonny spots one that is hundreds of years old and wants to go climb around on one, and Race says, "I don't see any harm in it" - sure, lets get the famous doctor's kid out walking around rotting ship wrecks, what the hay! Another hard-to-believe item: a character I had forgotten about - EUNICE, which is an acronym for something. Its a computer that Dr. Quest talks into conversationally and Eunice spits out an answer. Quite silly when you see it!
Regardless, I am having fun watching them. I am looking forward to The Curse of Anubis, which is the one with the mummy... Maybe I will learn a little about who Hadji is and why he is involved in all the action. One of the discs has a Handbook that "tells all about the Heroes, Villians, Locations, and more..." I think I will watch that prior to seeing many more episodes.
M, J, and D: don't worry, I'll bring these down next time (in about two weeks with the girls!) and we can have a Jonny Quest marathon!
Cheers,
G
By the way, Race's real name: Roger T. Bannon.
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and,on the side of your blog-the teachers? what are the initials beside them?