Lots of things on "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company", particularly Muppet names and parody tunes by Joe Raposo. There was a Lone Ranger-like Muppet on "Sesame Street" in the early Seventies whose name I forget, who had theme music that was sort of an inverted and scrambled "William Tell Overture". There was a Sherlock Hemlock and a Roosevelt Franklin.
The makers of the "Star Trek" animated series never got the rights to the Alexander Courage theme, so they made their own, recognizable-but-modified-enough-for-copyright version. I became familiar with that first, and found the original series theme strangely off.
I just found out that an episode of "Speed Buggy", one of Hanna-Barbera's million cookie-cutter knockoffs of "Scooby-Doo", had a guest monster named "Kingzilla". Since I'm pretty sure I watched the whole run of "Speed Buggy" as a kid, it's possible that this is why the name "Godzilla" always sounded slightly wrong to me early on. Also, I was more familiar with Speed Buggy's Tinker (Shaggy with a wrench and a Southern accent) than with Scooby-Doo's Shaggy.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:36 am (UTC)The makers of the "Star Trek" animated series never got the rights to the Alexander Courage theme, so they made their own, recognizable-but-modified-enough-for-copyright version. I became familiar with that first, and found the original series theme strangely off.
I just found out that an episode of "Speed Buggy", one of Hanna-Barbera's million cookie-cutter knockoffs of "Scooby-Doo", had a guest monster named "Kingzilla". Since I'm pretty sure I watched the whole run of "Speed Buggy" as a kid, it's possible that this is why the name "Godzilla" always sounded slightly wrong to me early on. Also, I was more familiar with Speed Buggy's Tinker (Shaggy with a wrench and a Southern accent) than with Scooby-Doo's Shaggy.