Meme Time

Fnorkled this from jonasbagel:

I want to know you better.

Tell me one fact about you that I didn't know. It can be anything you want.

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RIP Joe Barbera (1911-2006)

"Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died yesterday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95."

Joe was the second half of the Hanna-Barbera team that cranked out such hits as The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Top Cat, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss... the list goes on and on. That same cartoon company also, of course, produced SWAT Kats (after having been acquired by Turner Entertainment).

While some of the team's stuff was hokey (wolf?) at best, it was entertaining. And Scooby Doo's 1978 incarnation was the first one to really wean me from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood/Sesame Street/Electric Company to something more mature (?!!)

RIP Joe... you'll be missed, but your work will live on! (Just check out "Boomerang"...)