Hammerman

It was wonderful to remember my childhood memories because he is my favorite rap singer. I wanted to be like him when I was a young kid. I wanted to be like him for sing for microphone to dance all the time at my home when I was growing up.

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.

And I mean it when I call this the worst cartoon ever but possibly not for the reasons you think.

As far as the story goes it's pretty basic and dare I say it had a good message. It starred MC Hammer himself in a bunch of live action clips that would introduce and close out the show. Each episode dealt with some aspect of life and had a lesson to be learned. MC Hammer stared as Stanley, a young man who taught dance at the youth center. But one day was given a pair of magical talking shoes which turned him into Hammerman, a musical superhero. Again, not necessarily a bad premise.

But then why is this the worst cartoon ever? The animation, or lack thereof, is terrible. Sure it's stylized in that experimental 90's way that a lot of places were trying. But the animation is just so janky that it's impossible to watch it without getting a migraine. This honestly looks like the kind of stop motion animation you made as a kid but more colorful and angular. It looks cheap. The animation is choppy. It's nigh unwatchable.

This is an experiment that should never be repeated. Ever. There are episodes floating around on youtube and various streaming sites for free. Watch it only out of curiosity and then stop after maybe five minutes because it's starting to hurt your eyes.

Good idea. Terrible execution.

Hammerman! Hammer! Hammerman! Hammer! Whenever there's a crime the goons are gonna do time They all better beware, cause the Hammerman will be there! Here's how it started A long time ago The legend of the hammer and how it began to grow! He was given magical shoes from a hip hop mo-town dude! Together they had power, they stood up for what was right But Gramps was getting old and he couldn't keep up the fight (Right) So Gramps and his granddaughter they went out on the road (Searchin) To find the man they knew could tell who was worthy of the load! They met a guy named Sally (Stan) He was dancing every night! He helped those kids play everyday His heart was out of sight! So Gramps opened up the bag, and took out the magical shoes He set them on the ground and they soon began to groove (right) The shoes knew at once they had finally found their man They hopped right on his feet and he became HAMMERMAN HAMMERMAN, HAMMER HAMMERMAN, HAMMER HAMMERMAN, HAMMER HAMMERMAN, HAMMER OH YEAH!