More Cartoons of the 70's

FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS Based on Cosby's records from the early '60s,
"Fat Albert" was an animated show set in a slum in North Philadelphia.
Colorful characters such as the eponymous Fat Albert, Russell, Mushmouth, and
Rudy. It always ended with a moralistic musical number in which the Kids
played instruments fashioned out of junk. * Hey hey hey. I
always thought it was weird, this black guy pretending to be hanging out with
these black cartoon characters. Bill was a good guy though. And I always wished
Fat Albert was _my_ friend. But the character we'd imitate the most was the
Mushmouth guy who talked "eyebadeyba" with big flubbering lips. They were a
jammin' junk rock band (later influencing Einsturzende Neubauten, Pussy
Galore, Artis the Spoonman, and Doo Rag) and always went to their hideout to
watch the cartoon "The Brown Hornet." We can only assume this influenced Matt
Groening's "Simpsons" to have their own "Itchy and Scratchy."

FUNKY PHANTOM A Bicentennial-inspired cartoon about a dead Revolutionary War
hero who helped three modern-day teens solve Scooby-Doo-esque mysteries. Funky's catchphrase: "Heavens to Hessians!"

ISIS The premise of this show was that a young lady archeologist finds an
Egyptian amulet on a dig and is compelled to put it on. The next thing you
know -- blammo! -- she's become the living embodiment of Isis, the Egyptian
goddess of fertility! Along with this fancy new outfit, she gets all these
comic-book superpowers and flies around (with her arms outstretched behind her in a
very un-Superman-like style) doing good deeds and righting wrongs -- you know,
all that superheroine stuff that you would expect, with the requisite moral to
be learned at the end of the episode. I definitely had a crush on the classy
chick who played Isis.