El Show de Gary Coleman

I remember staying over at my friend's house when I was in elementary school a few years ago and staying up 'til about 3 in the morning, and then turning on Cartoon Network to watch The Gary Coleman Show! I remember it being really stupid but I loved to watch it. I wish they'd release it on DVD or something.

If your looking for some brain-dead cartoon to make you stop and ponder of why all things could have been only conceived from the depths of hell itself which are inane,insipid,and most of all insanely irritating but incredibly stupid beyond a reasonable doubt. To make all assumptions to that and then some of why there were of lot of repulsive blatant animated shows that came out of the 1980's,then the short-lived Saturday Morning series "The Gary Coleman Show" was one of them. This was a prime example of the very worst Hanna-Barbera had to offer. And it is right up there with some of the worst animated shows that came out of the 1980's that were produced by Hanna-Barbera like "Fonzie and the Happy Days Gang", "Scooby and Scrappy Doo",and not to even mention "The Flintstone Mysteries" or "The Flintstones meet the Shmoo"(WTF???) to name a few.

Gary Coleman at the time this show premiered as part of NBC's Saturday Morning schedule for the 1982-1983 season,was still at the peak of his fame with audiences in prime time as Arnold Jackson on the hit nighttime live-action sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes"(which starred Conrad Bain,Dana Plato,and Todd Bridges),which was one of NBC's biggest hits and was at the time still up in the top ten of the Nielsens. Seeking to capitalize on the Gary Coleman's overwhelming popularity, NBC comissioned his own Saturday Morning cartoon show starring the adorable lad. The animated version of Gary Coleman's show was based on the made for TV-movie "The Kid With The Broken Halo",which premiered as a live-action special for broadcast during a presentation of for the NBC Movie Of The Week that premiered in prime-time on April 5,1982. The movie also starred Robert Guillaume(of TV's Benson)along with June Allyson, Mason Adams,and Ray Walston(of TV's My Favorite Martian and also from the 80's movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High). The movie featured Coleman as an apprentice angel trying to earn his wings. The animated version was the same way,but with a twist. Coleman reprises his role as Andy LeBeau,who is an angel in training who is in charge of protecting a group of brainless kids in a generic city.

Naturally,he is no good at it. Fortunately for him,the only opposition he faces is in form of a devil-type character named Hornswaggle(who was sent by the competition)who obviously is crossed with the animated version of Dastardly(from Wacky Races)who in my opinion was one of the dumbest villains ever!!!! In just about every episode of this animated infantile mess,the imbecile Hornswaggle would always try to stop Andy from doing good deeds. And in just about every episode,the situations where Andy gets himself into trouble with just saving some of the stupid kids who in any case can't even defend for themselves in a crisis(including one episode where they come across a wolverine!!!) This show was totally lame with Gary Coleman(at the time this came out was heading toward the lowest point of his dubious career)doing voicework for his character based from the TV show. As for the show itself,it was lame and utterly boring. The animated Andy LeBeau was not as endearing as the real-life Coleman,and after 14 episodes,gained premature admittance into cartoon heaven. The show that replaced it? Mister T. the following season.

This was a really good show, and I wish that they'd put it back on. It was about a kid angel who had to do good deeds to get into heaven. He was always losing his halo, and he was getting trouble from Hornswaggle too. I wish Cartoon Network would go back to other cartoons instead of those Cartoon Cartoons every single day. They're ok, but I'd like to see shows like this some more, without having to tape it at 4:00 in the morning.

A show this torturous could only have been conceived in the depths of Hell itself. Inane, insipid, and insanely irritating. A prime example of the very worst Hanna-Barbara has to offer.

Gary Coleman (in what is probably the lowest point of his dubious career) stars as a trainee angel charged with protecting a group of brainless kids in a generic city. Naturally, he's terrible at it. Fortunately for him, the only opposition he faces is in the form of a devil-type character named Hornswoggle (ho ho ho, how clever!), who obviously must not have graduated Kindergarten in Villain School. Shriek in terror as he dons a caveman disguise to scare kids from a cavern! Gasp in horror as he sends rain on a picnic! Yawn in boredom as he goes through this same shtick over and over again! You'd think that the soulless fiends responsible for the INCESSANT "witticisms" that Gary Coleman spews every five seconds or so could have come up with a much more impressive demon. But that would have been too much to ask for.

I suppose the show might be worth watching solely for camp value, but for me, even that is pushing it. Some things are just not worth the pain.

I can't believe the stuff i'm reading about this great wholesome cartoon, sure it's a little cheesy but it a lot better then the crap that out now in my opinion. i actually looked forward to every Saturday morning to see this one along with the cartoons that were on at the time in the 80's i would love to see this series out on DVD, so i could show my sister's kids . the lessons that were learned throughout the show are priceless. sorry this is no devil show i think people that are cynical shouldn't put down a kids cartoons. they should leave them alone, people are always complaining about getting wholesome entertainment, for well me you can't get any better than this Gary Coleman Show and his classic films from the 70's and 80's.

Peace To All.