Hammerman

I actually remember this as a kid (as it debut the same year as Darkwing Duck, another superhero cartoon I like). Hammerman is another in a long line of cartoons based around real life famous folk. The celebrity this one focuses on is MC Hammer, who everyone knows for hits like "Can't Touch This".

Basically, this cartoon tries to turn MC Hammer into a superhero. The origin story we get is in the theme song, as youth center owner Stanley Burnell is visited by Grampa, an elderly man who back in the 60's and 70's, fought crime as Soulman, wearing a pair of magic talking shoes to transform. Stanley is given the shoes, and when he puts them on, he becomes Hammerman, and with the power he inherits, protects the city of Oaktown from wacky supervillains themed after various crimes.

Yeah, we can already tell this is going to be a train wreck, as the series only lasted thirteen episodes before being yanked off the air. Basically, the series is another one of those preachy shows meant to educate kids on stuff (the pilot episode "Defeated Graffiti" teaches about how bad graffiti is, Rapoleon is supposed to teach about not picking on those smaller than yourself, etc). Sadly, they fall through. Each episode has a live action wraparound introducing the lesson the episode teaches, and at the end, it has MC Hammer himself lecture to the kids about what they learned. But when it gets to the animated segment (you know, what the kids want to watch), that is where it falls apart. The villains used are basically based on actual crimes (Defacely Marmeister, who debuts in Defeated Grafitti, is based on vandalism via graffiti, and has the power to turn graffiti into monsters, and Rapoleon is a Napoleon clone who wants to shrink Oaktown because, get this, people picked on him for his small size). Seriously, these villains sound like bad guys who would be either B-listers or C-listers. Also, the episodes do a horrible job teaching the moral, and the animation is a bit iffy (Defeated Graffiti is the worst, as it has static animation, making it look more like a pilot pitch than an episode for air). This is one stinker to avoid.

It had a lot of problems but it did do 1 important topic that is and was a big problem, vandalism and grfeet. also I think this show is the only resin I passed the 1 esasa on the reeding reginse as the topic was grfet. so at lest it thot of a orginle topic that is barly menched past 'do not pant the walls.' thow wat is it with cartons from fall of 1991. thows 3 months are the black hole of cartoons.

In today's world of giant robots slaying mutant roaches with mysterious ray guns, people sometimes forget the simpler pleasures of an animated cartoon show based on the life and times of mega-star MC Hammer. Who was the real star of this show, Hammer, or his magical, talking dance-shoes? The world may never know. I know in my heart of hearts that this odd assemblage of pop culture and nonsense had some sort of message, but i really can't figure out what that was. Perhaps if one is bold enough to dream big dreams and reach for the stars, then they too can find a pair of magical dance shoes that will wisk them away to a world where crime and evil can be "danced" out of town. Fight on, sweet hammer, fight on.

I remember seeing this show on Saturday Mornings on ABC back in the early 90's. I actually liked the show then, but I later realized how bad it was. It was a cartoon starring MC Hammer who became a super hero. I think he became his superhero identity when he hit his shoes together or something. I also recall he wore the trademark Parachute pants when he was Hammerman. It was a riduculous premise, and all in all, the show was stupid altogether. Thankfully, ABC canned it in its first season, never to be seen again. As much as I liked Hammer back in the day(like everyone else), this show certainly wasn't contributive to his career. But then again, we all know where his career went after awhile. 0/10

Yes there were some good things about this cartoon but it was obvious this was for MC hammer what Shaq FU was for Shaquille O' Neal or what Space jam was for Michael Jordon clear propaganda. I used to watch this show but that was 16 years ago and I would watch any thing on Saturday mornings back then. I remember it being pretty good hammer use his real name as a secret identity and had talking shoes that would turn him in to hammer man A rapping dancing super hero and their where two villains I knew of there may have been more there was also some friends who might have known he was hammer man and helped him out. MC hammer was one of the biggest stars back then but the show was canceled once hammers popularity faded their aren't even DVDs out of this cartoon.