Hanna-Barbera The Checkered Past Rise And Downfall. 

I don’t care how many people say Hanna Barbera animation was shitty and cheap. These shows were my childhood and the nostalgia factor runs deep with me. I like to hang on to my childhood so much I bought the entire series of The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and the Hanna Barbera era of Tom & Jerry.

Hanna-Barbera is so nostalgic to me. We'd all sit together and watch cartoons and it was cool that my dad grew up with these shows too. He'd be able to quote lines as they happen.

I used to watch most of Hanna-Barbera's cartoons. Thanks for the history lesson on this company.

The duo behind Hanna Barbera really made a landmark in animation. While yeah there were some mistakes made and that there are more obscure cartoons than most can count, HB is still a pretty revolutionary studio all things considered to this day and thankfully its legacy is still being respected long after its absorption.

A classic organization that could've been better if they just adapted better. Thanks for covering this.

I feel like people blindly crap on Hanna-Barbera for being cheap, and most forget how innovative, impactful and genius they were. The Flintstones is one of my favorite animated sitcoms(probably only in competition with Futurama).

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Hanna-Barbera played a vital role in my childhood watching cartoons in the 90s and I found them way more entertaining Loony Tunes which was still fun to watch. I had no idea that those cartoons were so old and I think it was a blessing that Hanna-Barbera cartoons ended up on Cartoon Network otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch them as a building block for other cartoons on the CN in later years. By the way, I subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago after watching your other videos and they were really good like this one. Thanks for taking me down memory lane and I look forward seeing more videos from you in the future.

Funny how I was just watching The Jetsons on Boomerang last week. Thank you.

I tell you, as a Millennial who grew up on free Cable in the 90s because my Mom was a Time Warner Cable employee for most of my childhood, hearing that Hanna-Barbera Productions logo with the Star definitely qualifies as unlocking a Core Memory now, every time I do. Oh, such simpler times.

Technical speaking Hannah Barnera Europe still exists even though Cartoon Network collapsed. They're currently working on a sequel for Gumball Waterson. Personally, I'm hoping it's an [as] revival since the humor in that show got a lot more mature & meme centric in its final seasons.

Great video, to think HB had a chance to survive had they cut down on the spin-offs. Especially the Scooby Doo ones.

Even if H-B shut down, their sound effects library still lives on. Depsite being overtaken by the unique Hacienda Post, Joel Valentine and Hollywoodedge sounds, as well as the more realistic sounds, in recent years.

I remember most of these cartoons, that was a time to be alive. A pup named scooby doo had me feeling excited on the weekends! 😊 I love how your channel is growing, I enjoy going down memory lane watching your videos.

As an elder millennial, when I was a kid, USA Network's Cartoon Express exposed me to so much of H-B's 50s-80s library. That was a big boom to H-B at the time, and I feel like that was a big reason why Cartoon Network came about soon after. I also remember watching a ton of H-B cartoons on weekday mornings on TBS, TNT as well.

MGM was not located in Burbank. It was located on Washington Blvd. in Culver City near West LA

Hannah barbera was my childhood

I saw Hanna-Barbera as a great intro into sketch art & animation. Their work should be studied by developing animators.

Pirates of Dark water and Midnight Patrol were two of my favorites as a kid.

I remember the Magilla Gorilla song at the end!

I kept watching the HB cartoons on boomerang and then on the Internet, and in my honesty, the Duo did great on those cartoons they made

I remember watching the Hanna-Barbera Cartoons when I was little, it was in the 2000s it was in the Boomerang on Cartoon Network. I miss the old days of classic Boomerang on Cartoon Network.

Thank you so much for doing this. I never knew the full history of HB. I always knew their cartoons from my childhood and I know they were very important and influential in the history of western animation but never knew the full run of their company history. I appreciate what you’re doing. We need as many historians and archivists as possible to preserve the cartoons and studios of yesteryear.

Boomerang is what introduced me to Tom and Jerry and given my love to the series, I used my imagination to try replciate the worlds between that and Sonic the Hedgehog like how Rare and Nintendo did with Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country. Nicely done on this video but there are two things though. 1. There are spots in this video that you were soft spoken. 2. You didn't memtioned Jellystone which is the only way in the Modern Age for people to meet the HB characters (even though some of them had to change their gemder like what happened to Jabberjaw).

Hanna barbers made some classic cartoons, but in term started the animation age ghetto in the 70s.

Great video just like you everything else you just mentioned yes it's true friends don't always work that's what basically everyone else found out just because Batman work doesn't mean that something else like Batman will work too or just because a group of teenagers and a animal work together to solve a mystery will work doesn't mean to work again and again and again and again well they were a fun time and gave us great theme songs and wonderful characters that will touch the heart and even today somewhere somebody is watching a Hanover America tune for the first time

Sir, once again you did great job 💪

"I know some of yall are still eating that" Dude, they are putting marshmallows in fruity pebbles now. Hell yeah I bought some.... 2 days ago

YOOOOOOOOOO I FORGOT ABOUT "WE GOT A GORILLA FOR SALE..."

I to grew up watching the flint stones plus the jetsons I own the complete series dvd boxsets

now we use their sound effects for comedy

Still waiting for blu ray releases of many of those cartoons especially Pirates of Dark Water and SWAT Kats.

If you haven’t done one yet you should do a video on Tex Avery. 😉

Also they still got the vitamins as well. N i didn't know they did that pig movie kool..

Your video is shorter than Saberspark's video, and yet I feel like yours surpassed his. Great job

Red. Thanks for the history lesson and for the groovy tunes, man. :)

Been looking forward to this one. Good job!

No manusphere ninjas in sight. Great pivot!

Hannah Barbers is dat JOINT!

whoop ass stew goes great with a knuckle sandwhich on wheat or rye. thatll toss your salad.......

Have you heard of The Banana Splits Show? There's an era where Hanna-Barbera Studios did live-action shows. It ran from 1967-1974

You would be great at interviewing the animators behind these works.

This was a great video ❤

It was Great while it lasted, this is part of my Childhood!

I agree with much of what you said there - though I could add a couple more things that contributed to its downfall. I loved HB, I always will; it still has its charm that make me rewatch some of those awful-ish shows from the 1970s. But that was just that. The problem was after Scooby-Doo became a huge hit, the studio never really made anything original after that. It was simply one SD clone after another, to the point of the gimmick and the formulaic plots becoming stale. Much so that by 1979, Scooby-Doo fell drastically in the ratings which led to everyone's _favorite_ character, Scrappy-Doo, ironically saving the franchise. But it wasn't just that. The studio cut so many corners by the 70s that they had a bigger rep of being cheap. Shows like Funky Phantom were made overseas in Australia to cut costs, which is why the quality is far more inferior. And to add insult to injury, they decided to make a horrendous laugh track, where they played six tinny laughs from Douglass' laugh track incessantly for the whole decade. I can still remember as a little kid watching The New Scooby-Doo Movies and I can hear the same woman's chuckle at least 59 times through the episode! While it doesn't take away from the show, it's still kind of a distraction and kinda makes you shake your head. I mean, its rival Filmation, for all of its technical flaws, could still hire a full laugh track all the way up into the early 80s!

I've been enjoying your videos. I may have to subscribe. I enjoy the nostalgia and you have a great narrating voice.

And that is why we have Jellystone, in honor of Hanna Barbera’s death

I joked once on the Jump the Shark blog that the equivalent to this for cartoons would be "Hopped on Yogi's Ark" for that silly 70s show about all of the animal HB characters flying around and trying to prevent pollution! Haha! Even the lame ones that briefly appeared on The Banana Splits like Squidly Diddly and the Hillbilly Bears!

your dam right I'm 56 years old and still eat Pebbles Cereals.

Scooby-Doo is my show

I've already read about the history of this studio elsewhere and gained a better understanding of it. I didn't watch everything by it growing up, as for one, I never had Boomerang when several of those shows I didn't watch were moved to and aired on there. Two, I wouldn't be aware of more of its oeuvre until years later. Several of those works I didn't see until adulthood I wish I had seen sooner. I'm not a completist, but I like some of the stuff by it. But nowadays, I think I like several of the specials more than the T.V. series. This studio may not had been the most perfect, but at least it made some good material better than others, of which the same can't be said for Dingo Pictures, Spark Plug Entertainment, Video Brinquedo, and Bevanfield, as they never made anything good.

there 70s output was atrocious

I read something online through a commentary that technically Billy and Mandy was the final Hannah-Barbara cartoon. The pilot impreticular

You know for Checkered Past, it's nice that we get to see Dexter's Laboratory, Ed Edd n Eddy, Billy and Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, I am Weasel, and Evil Con Carne again, although why didn’t Cartoon Network continue this nostalgic tradition after 2012 during Cartoon Planet, that goes for how they should’ve done complete series DVDs during that time since I only have Courage the Cowardly Dog. I also get the feeling that reboots, such as The Looney Tunes Show, Teen Titans Go, Be Cool Scooby-Doo, or other reboots or bad Cartoon Network, shouldn't even exist since it cause the downfall to this channel, and imagine if Adventure Time was on Nickelodeon to begin with, and by that, I mean not make Fanboy and Chum Chum happen.

Does anyone miss the old Boomerang?

N how u said it was a diff time lol

i grew up in the 90's but i still watched some of the older hannah barbara cartoons like the flintstones, scooby doo,, johnny bravo etc. i think there were too many carbon copy cartoons, but what studio hasn't done that?

I love cartoons

Hello!!! I really like your videos man!!!❤ but it kinda hard to hear you and you can’t really hear the background music 😩😢

Interesting. But boy are these clips and stills out of order. And the MGM animation studio closed in May 1957, not 1951. Also the Kling Studios was the old Chaplin Studios on LaBrea. That is an office building with the same name. It was not the location where H-B Enterprises company started. I was attending USC in 1979. There was not Strike then. That strike over outsourcing occured in 1981. I was in my last two years in the Navy, assigned to the Internal Relations Activity at the Naval Photographic Center in Washington, D.C. Aside from being an Associated producer/film editor on a News Magazine film series, I was the assigned Producer of animated spots promoting Navy benefits and educational programs. There was an Animation Department on the third floor that was essentially turning out titles, but no animation. I was administering a outsource contract to produce the animation. The Head of the Animation Department retired, leaving a vacancy. I was due to end my enlistment the following year, and would have been in line to fill that position, which was as GS civilian job. They hired a West Coast Animator, Lester Pegues, who told me a great deal about how that strike had divided people and caused several, including him to leave the industry. That was in 1982. That Strike was ineffective since it only sent the work overseas and defeated the worker's purpose. I was at Hanna-Barbera when Fred Seibert was running the studio. He came there after being in charge of the animated bumpers for MTV. He came to Nickelodeon after that. The Oh, Yeah unit was created around 1997 when I was hired on CatDog. I was not aware that Cartoon Network "rejected" BOO BOO RUNS WILD since they aired it. Also, TWO STUPID DOGS was a Hanna-Barbera production. Spumco was not involved. I saw Donovan Cook working on this show at Hanna-Barbera. There was no collaboration with John K that I ever saw. Nice thoughts, but not entirely accurate.

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The studio that brought you Drake sound effects.

Dude, you keep using the term SPINOFF; I do not think that term means what you think it does…also, in your analysis you laid blame on HB for not evolving or innovating; I’d say most of the blame went with The Networks, who paid for the programs and had almost complete control over what HB could get paid to produce; once they had cable channel Cartoon Network to produce programming for they were able to push the heavy restrictions they had been working with under the Big 3 broadcast networks, and produce shows like Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and SWAT Kats…

Spumco (aside from a few contributions from John K) had nothing to do with 2 Stupid Dogs.

Love these cartoons #DisneyDiva

What happened to the Hannah Barbara studio now?

We dont talk about v*lma.

Hanna Barbera (1957-2002)

Get your facts together bro The Simpsons came out in 1987 by way of the Tracy ullman show if you're going to do these types of videos you need to know all of your information. This will happen when you let children do stuff about subjects that's out of their jurisdiction