KaBlam!

When I first watched Kablam!, I actually thought it was stupid, and for small children only. A few days later, I saw it again, and I laughed a lot... It is very funny, and Action League, Now is the best. Life with Loopy is totally nonsense, and you'll laugh a lot too. Watch it!!! It may not be quality TV, but it's Funny TV, for sure!

The idea for this show is really genius. It's about a comic book with hosts Henry and June who flip the page to the different comic sections. The regular segments on this strange anthology show were Action League Now!, a superhero show with action figures as the main characters. Life with Loopy, a stop motion cardboard segment about the adventures of a little girl, narrated by her older brother. Sniz and Fondue, a traditionally animated segment about two cats (?) that get in to mischief. Promethius and Bob was a claymated segment about an alien trying to teach a caveman. The Off-Beats was an occasional segment that resembled the Peanuts. This show was just really great. The Henry and June segments had this horrible animation that worked so perfectly, and my personal favorite other segment was the very imaginative Life with Loopy. Try to find this classic Nick show.

This is as fun as Liquid TV, better than cartoon sushi, and has a lot of the same animators. Favorites would be Life with Loopy, Sniz and Fondue, and Prometheus and Bob. Check it out on Nickelodeon!!!

"KaBlam!" is one of those shows from one's childhood that makes them realize just how awfully generic and unoriginal today's cartoons are. I was a child of the '90s, and I was fortunate enough to see the boom period of originality happen before my eyes. In my opinion, Nickelodeon hit the jackpot with this cartoon, which was sadly only on for 4 years.

Hosted by crudely-animated cartoon hosts Henry and June, two children, "KaBlam!" was a melting pot of animated freedom. Any and all styles were welcome, and they were showcased to their fullest potential. With its first (and best, in my opinion) four segments—"Sniz & Fondue", "Action League Now!", "Life with Loopy" and "Prometheus & Bob"—each containing two-dimensional and hilarious characters, the show was a goldmine in advancing animation's boundaries.

I miss this show a lot. I grew up watching it and looking most forward to the "Action League Now!" more than anything else. It's not on TV, and it's also not on DVD, and that's a crime against humanity. When people think of Nicktoons, they think of great shows like "Rocko's Modern Life" and "Doug" before anything else, but "KaBlam!" is a diamond in the rough. It's timeless and hilarious. Even though most of the later cartoons and shorts that replaced the older ones could be boring, Henry and June more than made up for it. Each character evolved as the seasons continued, and that rarely happens in cartoons.

In conclusion, I think "KaBlam!" is one of the most original, funniest and most likable shows ever produced. Not just in the cartoon world, but in general. It makes me wish I had a time machine so I could see these old, great shows again. Nickelodeon needs to get their sh*t together and release this on DVD.

KaBLaM! was what is known as the first anthology Nicktoon. It featured a weekly set of regular cartoons hosted by "comic book" characters (Henry & June). It explored the different mediums of animation. This anthology formula was crucial at the time for increasing demands of Nickelodeon to pump out more new Nicktoons each year.

The original regulars were Sniz & Fondue (which utilized traditional animation), Action League Now! (chuckamation), Life with Loopy (puppet/stop-motion animation), and Prometheus & Bob (claymation). Later on, the show added The OffBeats, (traditional animation), and several other shows.

This show was good for the most part. The Henry & June hotsing segments were cool. The later regulars (Jet Cat, Patch Head, and Racer Rabbit) and most of the miscellanys were quite boring. The best of the KaBLaM! cartoons were Sniz & Fondue and Prometheus & Bob.

By 2000, Nick phased out of KaBLaM!, as more time was devoted to another anthology series, Oh Yeah! Cartoons. That show turned out to be more successful for Nick's anthology formula, which gave birth to several spin-offs (The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, and My Life as a Teenage Robot). The only real KaBLaM! spin-off made was with Action League Now!, but it was actually better off as a segmented cartoon than an independent series.

But KaBLaM! was still pretty good in its own right. Nowadays, repeats can be seen constantly on Nicktoons TV (via digital cable).