Saturday Morning Cartoon

Back in 1978 DePatie-Freleng Enterprises produced a crappy cartoon featuring Marvel Comics World's Greatest Comic Magazine super-heroes - The Fantastic Four. Of course there was actually only three of them and an annoying robot named Herbie.


The popular rumor was that the folks at NBC didn't want kids lighting themselves on fire in an effort to imitate the Human Torch. So they replaced him with the annoying robot. But that was not the case. Universal Studios had previously bought the rights to the character with the intent to make him into a live action television show like The Incredible Hulk. I guess they couldn't find an actor that wanted to light himself on fire for an hour a week.