Friday nights at 8:00 is never a good time for a show to air. I think this show would have been much more popular had it
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — KaBlam!
joshwinkler87 — 18 years ago(October 06, 2007 08:30 PM)
Friday nights at 8:00 is never a good time for a show to air. I think this show would have been much more popular had it have been on another night. I always wanted some Kablam! merchandise but they never made much of it.
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joshwinkler87 — 18 years ago(December 08, 2007 03:19 PM)
Not all of the cartoons on Kablam! were good, some of the really, really sucked! I remember ones I hated like Patchhead, Race Rabbit, The Brothers Tiki, Jet Cat, Big Top. These really sucked, and I think they only had 1 or 2 episodes with these on them. Life With Loopy and the Off-Beats were ok, but Action League Now and Prometheus and Bob were always my favorites. Looking back, I guess this show was kind of cheap made and childish, but I liked it then and I like it now, so screw anyone who doesn't!
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Wackd_w_apostrophe — 16 years ago(December 01, 2009 07:48 PM)
Sniz and Fondue's production company went out of business, hence Race Rabbit and Jetcat. (S&F left mid-season three. The show lasted four seasons. RR and JC were there for that whole period.) Life with Loopy had a little trouble with production early on, so they got the Offbeats to fill in on occasion.
The main guys only did Henry and June and Action League Now, and commissioned the rest. They really had no control over how those went, and replacements were often done last-minute.
The show was a hit, for it's time. Very popular with the kids, not so much with nostalgic adults, hence the low demand for DVDs. (Time marches on, eh?) The fact of the matter was that the show was done very skin-of-the-teeth by virtue of having to keep four different production schedules in sync (five after S&F left)add that to the fact that stop motion takes a notoriously long time, while traditional animation is comparatively simple, and you have a recipe for a
very
inefficient show. It was wearing out the creators, who felt that they had produced the best show they could do and pulled the plug before the shark-jump arrived. So for those complaining about the poor segments, be glad for the good stuff and realize that the creators didn't always have time to sort through for the cream of the crop when Sniz and Fondue or Life with Loopy were unavailable.
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joshwinkler87 — 16 years ago(January 15, 2010 09:18 PM)
True. I wish they would release the complete series of this show on DVD, but as you mentioned it isn't remembered all that well among 90s kids like other shows are. As I said in my first post, this show was not all that popular to begin with. It didn't take off the way Hey Arnold did.
I always wondered why Sniz & Fondue went away after the second season. It had some of the best quality animation on the show in my opinion.