heathcliff ending

[SuperFlashDriver]

The difference between Garfield and Heathcliff is that heathcliff actually started earlier then garfield.

[TheNostalgiaJunkie]

Those ID jingles well up so many past states. The energy comes straight out of my eyes. Guess nostalgia'll do that.

[TheNostalgiaJunkie]

@TheNostalgiaJunkie Especially if you hadn't heard it since that time.

[hoodmistress]

@TheNostalgiaJunkie Those same ID jingles just make being an 80's kid worth it.

[TheNostalgiaJunkie]

@hoodmistress Maaan.

[Nanteos]

I love when Heathcliff randomly starts beating trash cans with a 2x4.

[appau3]

3 people had no tv when they were kids

[ziggi914]

i miss this they cancel all the good shows

[itsme111478]

A rare case where the star's part of the show just wasn't as good as the filler "back-up" material. Cats & Co. carried this show.

[whaleofashrimp]

the cartoon for all punk rock dumpster divers

[porcorosso81]

Lots of big names in the credits. John Kricfalusi, Lynne Nailor, Eddie Fitzgerald...

[TheLogoChamp]

@porcorosso81 they hated making these shows

[mrkingofkings]

@porcorosso81 And also, Mel Blanc.

[Akira625]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that Zlatko Grgic worked on the show. I think he's best known for creating Professor Balthazar, I watched that cartoon along with this one when I was a kid.

[ma7799]

Ah, the ending theme song and DIC and LBS logos! Memories from the 80's!

[blacknickelson]

Yes Undertakerfan they had HeathCliff and Marmaduke... which was done my Ken RUBY and Joe SPEARS around the same time..title song was by Scatman Crothers {Wikipedia Link here} who was the original voice for Hong Kong Phooey

[vfreeck]

And he also compased the theme song to Hong Kong Phooey.

[Loise004]

oh in nick at nite instead of showing this DIC (or die) logo, saban international logo (Saban international Twirly Doo Logo 1996-2002) was played

(i don't know but maybe nickelodeon does not want to scare the hell out of those children watching this show)

[Zeddtar]

Saban did the music for most Dic Cartoons enough not all.

[Akira625]

From the research that I've done on Wikipedia, Shuki Levy was the one who actually wrote the music. Haim Saban took care of the business side of things at the record company they founded.

BTW, that's Levy singing the theme song.

[Loise004]

0:48 !!!!!!

DIE?

[Zorianff9]

No, DIC.

[Loise004]

whew i was shocked when i saw that

BUT it does look like it says die.

[vfreeck]

It's a common misconception.

[Loise004]

oh....

[TheUndertakerfan2002]

Didn't they have Heathcliff and Marmaduke episodes one time?

[Akira625]

That was from a Ruby-Spears series that came out a couple years before this one.

[ErichoTTA]

It's rare a show has a great ending and beginning!

[BundaLoira]

hehehe. Quando eu era criança, me dava um pavor quando vazava o logo da "DIC" no final dos créditos (quando a emissora brasileira - SBT - não cortava).

[LAboy456]

Também dava-me um pouco de pavor quando era criança. De inicio, porque depois, tudo isso passou ;)

[AICJDR]

CLASSSICCC

[1BigChris7]

so true

[Dsleaz]

have heathcliff and riff raff ever interact or cross each other in the show per chance? I'm not sure if it ever happened or not

[ApacheMan2K]

unfortunately, no. i'm not sure if it was for copyright reasons...yet, Hector, Mungo, and Wordsworth appeared in Heathcliff episodes.

[Dsleaz]

hmm, very interesting

[tantrumania]

i have also realized the same.. those main characters never appear together in an episode but the other three cats appear in heathcliff or in their own episodes.. we only see riff raff and heathcliff together here..

[2080red]

i use to love this cartoon.and still do:)

[MadMan400096]

Pause from :28 - : 30. You'll see Haim Saban's (the dude who founded, of course, Saban Entertainment) name in there.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

These credits still have the "Brace Yourself" effect that they had when I was 3-4 years old. When I was that age, I used to prepare for the DiC vortex - I just don't like how the credits were already fading out before the outro did. The Vortex comes on strong, and LBS...well, let's just say that LBS '84 is VERY bombastic and loud.

[KillYounglings]

Bombastic. Very good choice of words!

Nobody's ever ready for DiC. I'd get very sad from it sometimes when I was a kid, cuz for that brief moment your little TV dreamworld was put an end.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Thanks - I like to write, and have this thing for big, powerful, descriptive words.

It's actually sad to see this now and not be reminded of the many afternoons I spent in front of the TV before I went to school.

Glory days!

[GameShowNetwork]

Brings my bro memories. My bro has watched the show since he was 3 (he was born in November of 1980) when Heathcliff premiered.

[biggleboffski]

It is so sad that noone shows the endings nowadays.

[Janayla94]

My ex-bestfriend Randy West who moved to Carrollton, Texas in 1993 from California reminds me of Riff-Raff! That's his character

100%! He was a short nigga that thought he could whip everybody ass! That's why in got him in a shitload of trouble in Texas! What a dumb ass!

[palmercomm]

You mean Randy West the game show announcer?

[Janayla94]

Not that I'm aware of. I haven't seened that bastard in almost 9 years. This Randy I knew was a Black guy that's 31 yearsold and I believe he's still in Texas.

[Janayla94]

I wonder why the animators had Heathcliff punking out to Riff Raff in the ending credits

by having him snatch that hat off his head?! Everybody know's that Heathcliff would hand Riff Raff his ass in a fist fight!

[kinmanyuen]

It's a catchy song :)

I remember these 2 characters are in 2seperate stories. Never seen them together.

[edosux]

i used to have a crush on that naked cat girl.

[SystemJammer]

Hahahaha... tell me about it! Prettiest cat-girl I've ever seen in a cartoon... check out CATS (the Broadway musical) if you like pretty cats!

[arvydas0069]

Wow

[Hellstinger]

Hahaha me too XD and the mouse girl in the Rescue Rangers

[arvydas0069]

Some sick Catroon fetish commentary here!!

[Ratmus1]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one

[chosenxeno]

@edosux lol hmm 2 ppl have said this and they both have the most thumbs on seperate videos lol

[corrupt200]

@edosux I also like Cleo more than Sonja

[angelfox18crescent]

Been 17 years since I last saw this animation.

^^

[radix9523]

Me too. This "growing up" as they call it, sucks.

[angelfox18crescent]

In some ways it feels

it sucks

2 things I find that suck these days are lack of decent Tv and crime.

[ReturnofRetroBoy]

God bless every person listed in these credits for creating the greatest cartoon of my childhood.

[SirGalahad86]

A few familiar names on this show who, at the time, were not well-known:

-0:11-0:13 John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy)

-0:13-Tom Tataranowicz (Biker Mice from Mars)

But I don't think they spelled TT's last name right... Well, he's Polish... Their last names are almost IMPOSSIBLE to get right on the first try :)

[Novametalstar]

Shuki Levy and Haim Saban did the music for this series also? Seems every show I've every liked, they did the theme: Power Rangers, this, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Inpsector Gadget...

[palmercomm]

Any ID on the theme song performers? Or should I call them the "DIC-Saban Men's Choir"?

[macstar2002]

when the DIC thing came on at the end everyone used to laugh.

[Kieranizmyname]

John Kricfalusi worked on this show!

[dolphinluv2413]

Garfield was better then Heathcliff.

[NukeA6]

Heathcliff made Garfield look like Minnie Mouse.

[EyesAreOpen07]

Garfield's rival

[ElectricHawk]

More like Garfield's cold blooded murderer.

[trent100100]

modulation alert at 40 seconds

[illanig]

heathcliff would fuck ralph up for snatching the hat from him like that

[Forysan]

It's interesting to see that a lot of Japanese artists worked on the series along with a number of other animated series from the 80's. And was I the only one watching for Cleo?

Wait...whut?

[Kieranizmyname]

American cartoons are sometimes sent to Asian countries to finish off animation because it's cheaper.

[bearcattony]

it was French animation, i believe, typical Jean Chalopin style.

[1stWomanOnURF]

... and i just realized that all the stuff they're doing is relating to the credits. i guess when you're 3 you don't notice that stuff...

[ChuckRoast14]

Ah! First time I've noticed it too!

[1stWomanOnURF]

that look on his face when the typewriter spool falls of the typewriter is hilarious. LMAO!!

[asianthor]

go mongo!

[deyanmegara]

Well, it's still re-run here with a Saban International logo.

[rcredit]

i love Cleo!!!

[TurtleDove81]

man those logos are scary at the end O_O

[dmarquis24]

This brings me back to my childhood!!! It is so funny how the TV logos have made an indulable mark in my brain!!! They blend in smoothly with the end of the Heathcliff theme song. I enjoyed reading people's coments on how the TV logos (DIC and LBS) captured the children's/adults attention (funny).

[William23A]

Cara Lorde Gato era muito bom me divertia com as armações dele.

[hoodmistress]

I remember sitting in the room with my cousins and watching this show when we were kids. And I especially loved those DiC and LBS logos at the end. Sometimes it can be just the minute (pronounced Mai-NOOT) details of a cartoon that you don't forget.

[RodPower78]

This brings a lot of childhood memories for me. Heathcliff is one of the best afterschool cartoons ever made.

[WGF23K]

Desenho da hora.

[stridertian]

WOW!!! I haven't heard this song since...well...before I could spell haven't. Seriously, it must have been 16 years. But when I did, it was like not even 10 seconds had gone by since the last time I saw Heathcliff. I'll admit, I cried a little. Thank you for the nastagia, and the memories of a better time long since gone. Thank God for Voltron on DVD.

[WGF23K]

Esse desenho era muito legal SBT por favor volte a exibir Lorde Gato.

[superleviathan]

Floyd Norman worked at Disney (when Walt was Still Alive) then moved to Hanna Barbera and the other TV studios.

As a matter of fact, he's gonig to be honored as a "Disney Legend"

[jonghyunchung]

Later in the 90s, the "Kid in Bed" replaced this show's first logo. Currently now, the Incredible World of DiC (Heathcliff's 3rd logo) plasters both of them.

[Tornado1994]

The "Kid in Bed" Dic logo was first used in 1987.

[TheUndertakerfan2002]

That was used in the Super Mario Bros Super Show

(RIP Capt. Lou)

[megamanj2004]

Isn't it also ironic that the Cadillac Cats also appeared a few times on another '80s DiC show in "Inspector Gadget," when Brain (Penny's Dog in that show) was chasing a bad guy through the streets and they knocked over some alley ctas that looked suspiciously like the Cadillac Cats on this show.

[musidramas]

Siempre me quedaba viendo el final, me parecia muy chevere.

[megamanj2004]

I never really remembered this version's end credits. Much like another syndie DiC show in "Inspector Gadget," also had hard-to-read end credits.

[wiley207]

Yes, "Gadget"'s credits were hard to read for the first several episodes, but starting with Episode 10, they switched to a larger font for that show.

[LondonOntGuy]

DIC = Do It Cheap.

[MaxL214]

Dido on da last one, but I always wanted Heathcliff to pop Riff-Raff in the mouth, it ain't his fault he looks better with his hat!

[BreastMan34]

This was my favorite cartoon back in the day. What happen to it?

[RedLifeguardRanger]

You left the DIC and LBS logos in there too they can also be viewed here on youtube too.

[34serhat67]

ahhh ahh:(

[sharp10304]

The logos in the 80's from all television shows were always a scare.I believe that the companies designed it that way to capture the tv viewer's attention from the show and focus on the production company.

[Marbles471]

It occurs to me that those of us who were kids in the '80s and into the mid '90s experienced TV logos in a unique way that kids didn't before, and don't today. Many TV companies in the '50s didn't really have logos, and '60s and '70s ones were rather low-key. Today, there are far fewer logos since there are far fewer TV distributors, and far fewer companies putting out product, due to media consolidation.

[Marbles471]

And of course, most times logos are no longer a climactic thing. Since credits are retyped, shoved to the side for commercials, and deprived of their own music, most logos appear BEFORE the credits now, which means there's no "buildup" to the point when some company will shout "THIS IS ME!!" Which is how it comes across in a lot of 80s and early 90s stuff, like a climax. (Probably deliberatly, like you said.)

[Marbles471]

So the result---people who have had television logos stuck in their heads all these years are probably going to be limited to 70s through 90s kids, and especially 80s kids. Because nowadays they're usually not loud and obnoxious anymore, because there are fewer of them, and because they aren't usually presented as a climactic point.

Just my thought. In 20 years when some twentysomethings start TV logo chatgroups, I'll know I was wrong.

[ugali1]

There was an episode where heathcliff and riff raff did meet. They never fought but argue who was smarter,wiser, tougher,and more sleek

[Malamockq]

According to wikipedia, they never met.

[superleviathan]

According to the credits, John Kricfalusi, Eddie Fitzgerald, Lynne Naylor, and Floyd N9orman worked on this show

[stereo123]

i know the first three, but who's Floyd Norman?

[1984AP]

Easily one of the best cartoon theme songs of all time. My earliest memories was watching this in the fall of `84 when I was in Kindergarten. Oh memories.

[Dsleaz]

why is the white cat gay? not that he isn't but I honestly didn't know. anything in particular give aways.

[RazorRaven619]

I think he's reffering to the scene in the ending where Wordsworth accidentally slams into Hector. Reading too much into it, of course.

It could also be interpreted as defending his cousin, I think, but the simplest one here is that it was an accident intended for comedic effect >>

[Dsleaz]

i see what you're saying, thank for the info input

[Izlude]

I HAD NO IDEA THE WHITE CAT WAS GAY

[ecto123]

HEY!

[jake94]

I always wanted Heathcliff and Riff Raff to meet each other.

[rjgbass]

I can remember always wanting to see heathcliff fight that other cat with the hat and cane, I forget his name...but i never saw it happen.

[reclusivesage]

Riff-Raff, and yeah, I remember thinking the same thing.

[offcampusstudent1993]

Dic Produced in Association With Hanna Barbera Production, LBS Communications Inc. Worldvision Inc.

[4071104]

All the time, all the time; Most hated tv quote: "We have more to come so stay with us" and only to be disappointed by the rolling of the credits at the end of the show. I fell for it all the time as a kid.

[90sCartoonMan]

Oh yeah, I hated that.

[AllisonSNLKid]

Did anyone have to brace themselves at the end of the credits for the DiC vortex and LBS '84 logos? I loved Heathcliff but used to wait in terror for this to happen. GAH!

[1984AP]

You're not alone. The song was enough of a flashback, but when the logos came on it only added to the nostalgia. You waited in terror for the logos back then? Wow.

[4071104]

Yeah, Cats & Company, the team of the 80's. The best faction I've come to know.

[jake94]

Loved this show. Cleo was a hottie.

[TheUndertakerfan2002]

Yeah same here. Cleo is a hottie

[a1cjlock]

Heathcliff was badass

[sshuicq]

that is memorable

[sshuicq]

that is memorable

[barulez]

This is the best Heathcliff cartoon series thus far.

[spacegeek]

I wish I can go back to the 80's and 90's to rec all these shows and Classic Nick, so I can upload all that stuff on here! ...and ofcourse I would comeback in the year 1999 when stuff sort of started to go pop culture sh*T!

[auronfangirl]

memories...great cartoon!

[SiegeFox28]

Yeah tell me 'bout it. How good was this show? I've never even heard about it.

[CelesteK]

Heathcliff and the Cadilac Cats was a great cartoon show. It was based on the Heathcliff Comics created by George Gately and told the story of an alley cat that terrorized the neighbourhood by playing practical jokes on everyone.

[badbobbyhughes]

god i miss the 80s

[CGM5]

Heathcliff was the shit.

[prstateofmind]

WTF?

[GuardianxAngel]

haha...

ik vind het eindstukje altijd zo saai...:P

haha