Wayback Wednesday: TaleSpin
TaleSpin, part of the Disney Afternoon "back in the day" (see: early 90's) was a strange sort of experiment. Featuring a re-imagined Jungle Book world filled with boat planes, art deco buildings and sky pirates, Baloo and Kit Cloudkicker ran for a grand total of 65 episodes and were single-handedly responsible for my current love of art deco/steampunk/sky piracy. It's one of those cartoons that you fondly remember from your childhood, but watching it now you realize how horribly it was animated. Unlike something akin to Thundercats, however, Talespin actually had quite the interesting plot based on the grand, sweeping storylines back in the Carl Barks days of Uncle Scrooge (which was later turned into DuckTales). TaleSpin also had some great voice actors in it, including cartoon staples Jim Cummings, Lorenzo Music, Tress MacNeille, Roger Bumpass, Dan Castellaneta, Frank Welker, Rob Paulsen and... Sally Struthers?
As a kid I always wanted to fly on an airfoil like Kit Cloudkicker.
