I picked up the Galaxy High School DVD set. It’s a fun little cartoon from 1986 that only lasted one season. Basically, it’s your not-so-standard high school drama with two earth kids that interact with all kinds of weird alien creatures, and corny sci-fi at an intergalactic school. The show was imaginative for it’s time and has a pretty good soundtrack. Of course, you have to throw logic and reason out the door and just enjoy the crazy antics of the characters. GHS has obviously been released to ride the success of Andy Mangles’ cartoon boxed sets like Dungeon and Dragons and the Filmation programs that have come out the last few years. He clearly didn’t produce the Galaxy High School DVD as it has absolutely no extra features and is not digitally re-mastered, but then at ten bucks, it’s a great deal. Oh those Saturdays… they had lots good-natured gems, and GHS is one of them.
-Swinebread
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I'm amazed I actually remembered that. I think I saw all of two episodes. My biggest memory of it is the scene where the smart girl goes out shopping with her new friends. She goes into a beauty salon, and an alien says, "What color?" in a tone of voice that fit in perfectly with the "Colorman" inside joke going around my friends at the time. She replied, "Blue," and promptly got turned blue. (Yes, that fit in with the inside joke, too.) It was funny at the time.
That show looks fun.
Hey Kool-Aid! Swinebread just dug this show up out the Honeycomb Hideout!
Hmmm, I don't remember this at all...but since I was in college doing other stuff (like working, studying, and getting a tan)..it didn't leave much time for TV...especially since the lone TV on our floor was monopolized by the kids watching the soaps (which I didn't care for...)
Do kids nowadays even know what the Honeycomb Hideout is, or has that been flushed down the toilet of history, too?
OH, YEAHHHHHH....
Moody – I think I saw about 4 or 5 episodes myself. It’s interesting that you remember that color moment so well. That’s in the first episode. Your memory is astounding. All I remembered what the end of the galaxy high school song. “Galaxy High, Galaxy High!”
Dean – I think you middle kid would enjoy GHS. Some Japanese folks worked on it so it’s got a few proto anime-isms.
Snab – Hey, now I’ll have to find that commercial! It’s all coming back huh!
LB – You are older than me and so you missed out on some great cartoons in the 80s. sad but true.
Moody – It’s gone all right
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