{"id":30571,"date":"2012-10-13T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/and-the-best-of-all-jonny-quest.html"},"modified":"2012-10-16T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:47:51","slug":"and-the-best-of-all-jonny-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/and-the-best-of-all-jonny-quest.html","title":{"rendered":"And the best of all &#8212; Jonny Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which always confused me because I had a brother named John and I was <i>sure<\/i> there should be an &quot;h&quot; in there somewhere. \u00a0But, no (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonny_Quest_(TV_series)\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonny_Quest_(TV_series)<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Best cartoon ever. A pastiche of B-grade SF \/ Horror \/ Adventure films from the 30s and 40s, it was non-stop chills and thrills and <i>there was a kid just like me, right there in the middle of it<\/i>, learning Judo from a CIA agent in a cool red shirt and having a genius father who invented jet packs and alongside a mysterious friend who could do magic (Sim! Sim! Salabim!).<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the plots and characters were horribly politically incorrect by modern standards (Pygmies! Arabs! Fiendishly Evil Oriental Mad Scientists!), but they got the adrenaline pumping and the heart racing. \u00a0And, again, the Alex Toth designs, the Hoyt Curtain music, the solid voice artistry from the Hanna-Barbera stable (hey, isn&#39;t that bad guy Fred Flintstone?), and the thrill-a-minute bits overcame the limited (but generally heavily inked) animation.<\/p>\n<p>Triffic stuff. Bought the DVDs as early as I could and raised my daughter on it. \u00a0We still enjoy watching it.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t to <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117242040716806453518\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"117242040716806453518\">Mark Means<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for recounting so many classic HB heroic cartoons of the early-mid-60s, before the anti-violence censors got to &#39;em).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117242040716806453518'>Mark Means<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Saturday Morning Fever<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Action\/Adventure edition<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One of the best action cartoons of all time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Johnny Quest<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L0kg_tzQvf4?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MEe8agjUcik' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which always confused me because I had a brother named John and I was sure there should be an &quot;h&quot; in there somewhere. \u00a0But, no (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonny_Quest_(TV_series)). Best cartoon ever. A pastiche of B-grade SF \/ Horror \/ Adventure films from the 30s and 40s, it was non-stop chills and thrills and there was a kid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/and-the-best-of-all-jonny-quest.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the best of all &#8212; Jonny Quest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30234,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/12\/verizon-and-prls-and-3g-vs-4g.html","url_meta":{"origin":30571,"position":0},"title":"Verizon and PRLs and 3G vs 4G","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Sep-12 9:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get on the Internet.Whilst arranging for my India trip, Margie contacted Verizon to determine how best to deal with voice connectivity for my phone. \u00a0India is actually one of the few CDMA countries out there, so it looks like I can just roam for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12469,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/back_in_business_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":30571,"position":1},"title":"Back in business","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Apr-08 2:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Got my replacement Curve, so I've yanked the SIM chip out of my loaner model and gotten my new one more or less back up and running. 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