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Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics
''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' is a two-hour Saturday-morning cartoon, Saturday morning animated Block programming, program block produced by Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 10, 1977, until October 28, 1978. The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series among its segments: ''The Scooby-Doo Show'', ''Laff-A-Lympics'', ''Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'', ''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' and reruns of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''. During the second season in 1978–79, the show was re-titled ''Scooby's All-Stars'' and broadcast on ABC from September 9, 1978, to October 28, 1978. The runtime was reduced from 120 minutes to 90 minutes by dropping ''The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'' and ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''. Overview ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' included five cartoon segments:Lenberg, Jeff (1991). ''The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons''. New York: Facts of File. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
