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At long last, my life is complete! These cartoons were the best thing of every weekend when I was a little kid. I would wake up at 6:00 a.m., go downstairs, make myself some cereal (I distinctly remember Alpha-Bits and Fruit Loops, and Apple Jacks), and impatiently wait for the Super Friends versus the Legion of Doom to begin! My childhood love is back in my life. This is everything I dreamed it would be, and more. I have already watched "Revenge on Gorilla City," where Grod and the LOD use Braniac's mind control device on his home city in an attempt to take it over and use the Gorilla troops to conquer the rest of the continent, and "Conquerors of the Future," in which the naive Super Friends display criminal negligence and reckless dereliction of duty by trusting the fate of an entire planet which they previously promised to protect to the Legion of Doom merely because Bizarro assures them that "The Legion of Doom is now the Legion of Good..." and Lex Luthor says that the LOD will take care of it. How foolish can you get?!?
The Legion of Doom is by far the most fun to watch. They refuse to abide by any code. How fun would that be?! How fun would it be to really wreak havoc and then laugh that sinister laugh and piss everyone off by being an egomaniac about it?! (Did you ever wonder though how repeatedly robbing Fort Knox helps achieve their aim of "conquering the universe"? Hilarious!) It's great to fantasize about that, PROVIDED you know that the universe in reality has a supernatural care taking mechanism which will not allow it to continue and assist good to bring things back into balance. The Super Friends may be fools themselves, but Fortuna, the Goddess of Fortune, is always ultimately on their side. If you will recall, in one of the episodes after having foiled the Legion of Doom yet again, Luthor cries out that he can't figure out what went wrong, that their plan was fool-proof. Superman responds, "Well Luthor, sometimes when you're on the side of good, things just go your way." See what I mean? This is akin to God being on their side; they are always helped by an invisible supernatural hand; Fate or Luck, those intangible, uncontrollable powers, favor the good and punish the bad and the sinful. So in the end we know the supernatural universe will make sure everything ends up "ok" and in balance. Comforting for a kid, or anyone for that matter, don't you think? BUY THIS, WATCH IT, LEARN IT, KNOW IT!!
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I watched this when I was ten, back in the days when fifty cents would buy you a pack of baseball cards, a candy bar and a fountain Coke at the local drugstore and the cards came with that stick of gum that tasted lousy, but if you threw it at your siblings, they stayed out of your room for days!
Ever since Cartoon Network created those bumper promos poking fun at the Legion of Doom (for example, having the Powerpuff Girls wipe the floor with them and Braniac complaining that he never had a pair of pants), I've been hoping that the entire series would come out on DVD. Finally, after putting out just a few of them, they came out with the entire season, complete with a documentary, commentary by two comic book writers who weren't afraid to point out some of the silly parts of the show, some entertaining bios of the entire lineup, but more importantly, all the episodes, uncut.
For many of us, this was our first look at a lot of the DC heroes, such as my favorite, the (Hal Jordan) Green Lantern, while all of the top heroes were there to actually fight villains from the comics and not deranged scientists or alien invaders.
The writers even added some of the multi-cultural heroes and surprisingly, worked them into the stories best they could instead of just having them hang around for appearances sake. Ironically, while there was a black Superfriend, and Asian Superfriend and a Native American Superfriend, there was no hispanic Superfriend.
Some of the plots were a little out there even for a cartoon (trying to trap Superman, Wonder Woman and Hawkman in a storybook? Come on, Mojo Jojo could have come up with something better than that!), but most of them seemed plausible in a comic book hero world and kept us interested.
Best of all, the DVD is 100 percent Wonder Twins free!
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This series is my favorite of the entire "Superfriends" bunch because it has the coolest villians of all, the Legion of Doom,
fighting against all the best members of the Justice League, without all the annoying ones like the Wonder Twins or Wendy and Marvin. The extras are nice too...I esp. liked the bios of all the heroes and villians. All your favorite characters are here...you certainly get our money's worth with this one, and the feeling of nostalgia produced by watching these episodes is
worth the price of admission.
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it's really good to have the super friends all together on this DVD.this use to be a really cool Show to watch early in the Morning back in the day.it's cool that it's finally coming out on DVD.
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I remember being 6 years old and waking my brother up every Saturday morning so we could watch the Superfriends. Looking back on this show now, I'm amazed at how campy it is, especially with the disco music soundtrack. But this show is one of my fondest memories from my early childhood, and watching it makes me wish that I was still innocent and oblivious to the problems of the world. From watching the Superfriends, I learned that good always triumphed over evil, that stealing a pack of gum would get you a lecture from the Wonder Twins, and to make sure you are in control when riding your skateboard downhill.
This season (and I do believe there was only one season, so I'm not sure why they are calling it "The Complete First Season" instead of "The Complete Series") was the best. I loved the concept of this band of superheroes battling against a counterpart band of supervillains. The seasons tend to blur together, but I do believe this is the one with the hokey Safety, Arts and Crafts, and Magic vignettes at the very end of each show.
The other versions, like "World's Greatest" and especially the Darkseid "Galactic Guardians", don't hold a candle to "Challenge". It's too bad they didn't make more episodes with the Legion of Doom. I wonder why they went the direction they did.
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