AfterCats: Re-Watching Every Single Episode Of ThunderCats (1985) Part 7

We are going to re-watch, review, and relive every single episode of the original ThunderCats show from 1985, a task Dangerous Dave estimates will take us every Saturday for the next two years. - Johnny Spoiler.

ThunderCats is an American animated television series, based on characters created by Theodore “Ted” Wolf (also called Tobin Wolf), that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The series debuted in 1985 and ran until 1989. It was one of the highest rated and most successful animated series of its time and is still popular today with a huge fan following.

THOUGHTS ON EPISODE 7: TROUBLE WITH TIME

In this episode, the Mutants search for slaves in a human kingdom, and the ThunderCats run low on Thundrillium, an element that powers their machines.

The conflict emerges when the ThunderCats need resources in the human kingdom called The Treetop Kingdom of The Warrior Maidens and they encounter a series of environments that have temporal disturbances that advance or decrease age such as The Caves Of Time.

This is considered a famous episode and introduces a reoccurring ally in Willa, Queen Of The Warrior Maidens.

DANGEROUS DAVE: “In this episode the Mutants are complaining that they have no one to cook or clean for them and they need slaves. They are literally saying this as someone is actually serving them food so not sure what they are actually complaining about. Learn how to cook and clean and stop being such lazy buttholes. Monkian captures a woman in the jungle, she escapes. The Thundercats come upon her and defeat the Mutants and all is well but even the ThunderCats don’t know much about the woman so I am expecting her to show back up in the future.

Not a bad episode but I am seeing a pattern in the plots. Mutants capture someone, the ThunderCats save the day and all is well until the next episode.

I know this was a kids cartoon running 5 days a week in the 80s but please come up with another plot line.

On a scale of Litter Box (bad), Hairball (OK) or Catnip(Awesome): I give this a Hairball.”

JOHNNY SPOILER: “Willa is awesome. I like her more than Cheetara , but that is generally the problem with the two characters … they are essentially the same. Hairball.”

Ratings:

Hairball.