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  • god please take me back to my child hood where there were no problems no stress life was so good back then....

  • Man, this cartoon has so much more to offer than half the animated movies in the cinemas we see today.

  • I think the last scene of the music video explains everything. This show as well as the theme is the bomb!

  • Jesus Christ up Muhammed's ass while Buddah is ticklig some random balls!! This is some fan-effinn'-tastic-motereffin'­super theme song shite!!! I think I had multible ragegasm whie listening to this mozart's symphony of a theme song!!! :)

  • love this song . best song ever for a cartoon.

  • This is just as amazing now, as it was then, jumping on the sofa, sound up. eyes shut ,singing...and now I am 29! The most motivating song EVER

  • The contrast between the values and principles of yesterday & the depravity and shallowness of today make me want to curl up under a rock.

    This cartoon is a stark reminder and example.

  • @ArmaniDemon A pity the creator dosen't see it that way nowadays.

  • @ArmaniDemon tell me about it. from music to movies we have lowered our standards to a puddle of piss. it o cured to me after listening to the tripe my younger cousin calls music.

  • Listening to this tells me Going Live is nearly over. Grandstand's on next.....

  • @SimonB198207 I didn't know the Raccoons were ever aired anytime after 11.00am, LOL. :D

  • @David315842 Maybe i'm getting mixed up a bit - it WAS split into two parts wasn't it? The first was on about 9.35-ish... just after Sarah Green did the game where viewers phoned in to direct a computor generated thing. Then some Trevor and Simon comedy ('Swing your pants! / We don't do discs (duvets)') Then loads more stuff... we'd usually gone shopping before then...

    Nostalgia-gasm.

    Happy new year : )

  • @SimonB198207 They usually do split a cartoon into two parts, I think as memory serves it aired either as the first cartoon around 9.15-ish or at 10.15-ish. I admit when I was younger I only saw it on Going Live only a couple of times, but yeah they often would show cartoon shows about a quarter or half the way through the programme. :) Happy New Year to you too. :)

  • @SimonB198207 The game was called "Hugo" and Trevor and Simon came on after Thundercats, I remember this because they did a Comic Animation taking the Piss out of Thundercats called "Thunderpants with the Villain named "Bumraah".

    I think that The Raccoons were on about 8:30 ish.

  • @KitCloudkickerUK KitCloudkickerUK 'Thunderpants' was on Children's ITVs 'Round the bend', on weekday afternoons. Thundercats was never on Going Live.

  • @SimonB198207 Thank You, I stand corrected

  • @KitCloudkickerUK As I said sometimes they were shown before Going Live and sometimes it was intergrated into the show itself and yes you are thinking of Round The Bend which was on Children's ITV in the late 80's/early 90's

  • You know what? I was, am and still being like Bert Raccoon.

  • goosebumps!!

  • The next person to say "Hobo with a shotgun" gets an arrow to the knee.

  • @DrPhilMusic Thank you DrPhilMusic, it's because of Kevin Gillis selling out to those stupid amateur filmakers, that The Raccoons may not get a proper DVD release, or any kind of merchandise put out for a long time, it's a pity a lot of Canadians liked the film and can't see the harm in what Gillis had done! :(

  • they dont make kids cartoons like they use to :/

  • @MRchurch100 They certanly don't and sadily never will again.

  • @MRchurch100 the 80's and 90's was the golden era of cartoons

  • Raccoons run with us rock

  • ha so they're ardvarks also wondered that lol makes so much sense now^^

  • Those pigs were awesome.

  • I feel a montage coming on

  • Now here's a good one of this hour, a song for the troubled, from ppl who have the light lol

  • Love this song, although I feel so old listening to it. The cartoon was great.

  • @ReinaHW Indeed it was. :)

  • Thee's no passion than that of a raccoon-yeah, I'll run with racoons, for-ever

  • i recognise this song but the other intro video titled The Raccoons Intro is also familiar! how do I remember 2 intros?

  • @thestonegoose It's simple, you don't. This is not the intro. It's used for the end credits and used as an insert song in some episodes. Please read my response to abqkaza's comment./

  • maaan this was one long intro they sure put effort in in them days

  • @abqkaza The song was actually recorded to be used in the end credits and during the episode. The song had a full version recorded as that and the other songs used for this show were made by a professional songwriter, who also created the show..The full length version was released on an album and single, both of which sold poorily due to very little promotion.

  • this takes you right back to your childhood in an instance! Gleamin!!!

  • I was actually listening to this song when I started playing this video and they played in sync, creating a weird remix of some kind. 8|

  • What exactly were the Sneers? They were like pink versions of the Racoons! Weird.

  • @thecrikster They're aardvarks.

  • it's up there with the Cyndi Lauper "Goonies R Good Enough" theme.

  • @thecrikster OK?

  • I loved this show when I was little. It was on Teletoon Retro but they stopped playing it and I miss it so much.

  • @digigirl986 Sadily, it may be a long while before the show airs again. :( The company that supposedily had the copyrights has dissapared off the face of the earth. :(

  • @David315842 I wonder where I can find the DVDs because here in Canada they had them at Zellers for a short time.

  • @digigirl986 The Canadian DVD's from Morningstar released in 2005, are now out of print and fecth collectors prices online. However Seasons 1 and 2 are avaliable on DVD in English in the UK, however they're in Region 2 PAL format.

  • @digigirl986 I live in the Uk and I found Season 1 of The Racoons in a local Charity shop yesterday (21/12/11) its so good to watch it again!

  • @sexybiker928 Digigirl is Canadian and I had all ready told her about the UK sets of Seasons 1 and 2.

  • great...miss stuffs like this for the kids of today

  • @Filosofem2008 oh nööö ciryl sneer

  • @GoddessHECATE666 It's spelt 'Cyril' Sneer. :D

  • This may be an 80s Canadian cartoon, but for some reason, the song screams retro post-apocalyptic anime to me.

  • @sega310982 Is that because I commented on LittleKuriboh's one shot Evangelion parody, or is it because you're an Eva fan, I've seen your avatar. :D

  • @David315842

    No, it just has the feel. :D

  • @sega310982 OK then. :)

  • just screams 80's - great song and vocals for a cartoon intro - could easily be played in an 80's disco and i'd be all over it!

  • wasnt there a video for this song back then?

  • @Allcanadian79 There was, to promote the single that hardily got noticed. It just featured Lisa Lougheed singing and dancing in some back city streets with a bunch of dancers with a few short clips of The Raccoons and the Lost Star inserted into it. If you look for Lisa Lougheed Run With Us you may be able to find that video.

  • This is one of the best, if not THEE best cartoon themes ever + also THEE best tribute video put together. Thank you so very much, Please never delete this, it's my only escape to my childhood ;)

  • @djdovewhite Deletion is not up to me, but YouTube and the copyright holders. But I'm glad you enjoyed the video, you're very welcome.

  • thnx for making this video :3 makes me happy!

  • @jadjkorn64 Oh you're very welcome. :)

  • Love this intro as well. Reminds me of my eldest son when he was little, Michael.

  • This brings back great memories for me.

    I think this is the best cartoon theme tune of all time. Saturday mornings will never be the same.

  • Brings back Happy memory's I actually have this song on my ipod, Just love it ;)

  • arthur darvill's tweet brought me here ... i used to watch this show. its cool

  • One of the best theme songs to the greatest canadian cartoons ever!

  • Thumbs up if Arthur Darvill brought you here.

  • @MissStephie149 Out of curiosity what did Arthur Darvil do to get you to watch this video?

  • @David315842 So he posted a link to this on his Twitter account? Is this the same actor who's currentily in Doctor Who?

  • @MissStephie149 sorry i grew up watching this, dont know who arthur is unfortunately

  • @doghartdon Well since no one is talking, I'm assuming it's an actor (who acording to Wikipedia is currentily on Doctor Who) who poste a link to my video on his Twitter account.

  • @David315842

    how is this 'your' video?

  • @Keldard If you had bothered to watch the end, you'll see my name in the credits and at the start you'll see it says 'my video tribute'. I made this music video using Windows Movie Maker years ago!

  • @David315842

    very nice video, thanks for posting.

    it felt so right...I forgot that they didn't use the whole song!

  • @Keldard They used the song during the actual episodes on a few occasions, but it was used for the end credits mostily, with only the first verse and the chorus being heard. The full version was avalaible on the short lived album; Evergreen Nights and a 7 inch single was avalaible, but both sold poorily due to poor promotion. Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for your comment. You're very welcome. :)

  • I question Arthur Darvill for posting this on twitter

  • @xSheIsRegretx As do I.

  • @xSheIsRegretx I second that. Also makes me wonder if he has a youtube account. LOL

  • he first day of reception class, i gave my name in as ace raccoon :)

  • ha charming and very young with a lot of energy

  • @David315842 You are an enlightened man. :)

  • @ShionKreth Thank you. Well there's that and it just means fewwere of the same and tiresome arguments about people complaining about new kids TV shows these days, it's getting tiresome now!

  • @ealdie24

    That's a big generization. I have friends who are still under 10 and they do see quite a few older shows.

  • Such an incredible song.

  • god bless Teletoon Retro for having this for a while.

  • @Cobaltios Indeed, it's a pity that it isen't playing anymore. But that just be the result of Gillis' dissapearence. That and his company; Skywriter Media. :(

  • I always thought the female one at 2:11 was beautiful..

    ..what's wrong with me?

  • @TallmanMike It's 2.12 and her name is Melissa. And no nothing is wrong with you for thinking that. She is very beautiful. We can see why Ralph married her. ;)

  • Brilliant!

    Loved the Raccoons.

  • @ThotPran1 Thank you. :)

  • Back when TV stations cared abouth Kids TV!

  • classssssssssssssssicccccccccc­ccc

  • I had a jumper like Berts with a big B on it - I was so upset when I grew out of it :-(

  • what is cyril sneer meant to be?

  • @robjwager An aardvark, check with Wikipedia, the Raccoons fan community or watch the cartoon to confirm this, there is a couple of instances where aardvarks are mentioned.

  • Даже не смотрев мультик можно проникнуться саундом, а уж посмотрев... Плюсом к этому такая ностальгия, так и тянет посмотреть еще раз! :)

  • @MrDudeNudem Sorry don't speak Russian. This video is in English and many of the comments are in English!

  • @David315842 I said, that it is very magnificent soundtrack. Despite have you been see cartoon or not :)

  • @MrDudeNudem The soundtrack was spacificaly made for this cartoon, the creator was a professional singer/songwriter.

  • @David315842 I know. I love this soundtrack, I like this cartoon(I was see it in childhood) and I want look it again. Sorry for flood :)

  • @MrDudeNudem No it's fine you can comment as much as you want, just as long as I can understand you. :) It's great to hear you love the soundtrack as well as the cartoon itself.

  • remember it like it was yesterday god feel old thanx lol !!!!!

  • @jimjams1976 You're welcome I guess. :D

  • what a tune!!

  • This reminds me of Saturday mornings waking up and all my fav shows were on, Racoons was one of them, those were the gud old days lol

  • I love that song. Reminds me my childhood! ^^

  • something about this song, i dont know what it is, perhaps nostalgia but it almost brings tear to my eyes

  • I always thought Lisa's voice was very nice...as I got older, it made me feel things LOL What I'm saying is it sounds seductive in a way, I dunno, I'm not being perverted at all, I meant inside feelings, not physical LOL

  • its 20 years ago on sat morning Im a young kid again. love it thank u :D

  • @RoxxyBalboa You're very welcome. :)

  • hmm, i... wait what!? OMG!!! i remember this!!! :D thanks dude total nostalgia trip

  • @italianchriswilko100 You're very welcome. :)

  • lol the girl racoon reminds me of courtney cox and the pink girl reminds me of katy perry... am i mad or what? used to love this cartoon. big time naustalgia. when ever i hear that song the first thing i think of is the raccoons. memories lol!

  • class!

    

  • Love this, reminds me of my childhood in england.

  • @Fishmonkey123 Cool. You know that seasons 1 and 2 are out now on DVD? If not, well you know now. :)

  • @David315842 me and my sister used to love this cartoon when we were kids. i've just bought it on dvd for my son who is 6 and he thinks its great. the old cartoons are so much better than what they have today. he also likes super ted lol

  • @jpmilling1981 Cool. :)

  • @Fishmonkey123 Me too

  • @Fishmonkey123 and yet its american lol

  • @philessexuk It's Canadian actually. It was a huge hit in the UK when it was aired on the BBC from 1987-2002!

  • kids today have a superficial life period.........

  • @uiolkijhgh I'm assuming you mean to say that kids today can't or don't apprciate older shows like this one? I certanly know a lot of adults who don't!

  • @uiolkijhgh Actually, I used to love this show

    Im 12 years old right now!

  • damn i got to here from one of my frriends on here favoriting the artist that sang this, and found this. a shame this cartoon wasnt released in the US, i would have watched it back then!

  • @TeslaDRay It was, but it wasen't well recieved. The 1st season was out on VHS in the states and the show was aired on the Disney Channel. The specials were also aired on local TV. Unfortunatily, the show never made much of an impact in the US. You can however get the 1st and 2nd seasons on Netflix and the 1st on iTunes.

  • Memories of saturday mornings of my childhood with this song from the racoons

  • Used to sit down in the kitchen with my dad on Saturday mornings watching this. Very much a missed song.

  • and yes i plan one day to getting all fo the raccoons on dvd the hobo movie wasnt all that great just another shoot em up with a song rip at the end i wonder what they will use in hobo 2 the super mario theme song for the end credits but anyways thank you again for posting this im a life long fan of the raccoons i miss the 80's here soo much and finding this on youtube is a treasure to beheld thank you again.

  • @staticmunk7777 Thank you for agreeing with me about that Hobo movie. Who knows if anymore Raccoons episodes will come out on DVD as Kevin Gillis has dissapeared after he sold out his own song to those film makers. The only seasons avaliable in English on DVD are Seasons 1 and 2 and only in Region 2 PAL format. You can get Season 1 on iTunes and 1 and 2 on Netflix, but still a lot more could have been done. You may get lucky by looking at the newraccoons group on Yahoo Groups for episodes.

  • @David315842 i plan on doing that thank you so much

  • @staticmunk7777 You're very welcome. :)

  • lvoe this video trully awesome many happy memories

  • @staticmunk7777 Thank you very much. :)

  • When checking my Favs I just can't resist to click on that video. ^_^

  • That was my fav movie!! My fav characters were the lil pigs and i named my dog after the Sneer's one - Snag

  • @StruggleDaPreacher It's a series of TV specials and a TV series.

  • Amazing how many good cartoons came out of Canada back then

  • Hi from Russia. I saw this cartoon at 1992. Good memories, thanx for this great song!

  • @kaliylinux You're very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. :)

  • @kaliylinux Всё верно:)

  • Loved this cartoon when I was young

  • I thought this already was on dvd. I can understand the frustration fans of the show have. But don't be too hard on Hobo (no point slating dumb commentots on YT, that's always gonna happen) the song is strangely fitting to to scene. And, in the commentary, the director and producer state they're fans of the show and wanted the i end credits song from such an iconic Canadian cartoon. So their use of the song comes from a sincere place, I feel

  • @LiamTheGreat I don't agree with that in the slightest I'm afraid! A perfectily good cartoon is now soiled by these amateur filmakers and the Raccoons' creators greed! If you notice it is out on DVD, but only in the UK, as far as English releases go and only 2 out of the 5 seasons have been distributed, that and the specials haven't been released either! We raccoons fans deserve better then this and I just feel sorry for any Hobo fan that feels differentily. End of story.

  • @David315842 I don't think it's been ruined. How can it be? I hadn't thought about the raccoons for years until I heard this song at the end of the movie. And if it draws people, who never heard of the show, then it might stir up interest in getting the dvd you so desire. And I hope you get it. I'm a fan of several shows that don't get proper dvd releases, so I can empaphise with your plight. You're clearly very passionate about the show.

  • @LiamTheGreat The show could have had it's DVD release without Hobo With A Shotgun! The Canadians obviously failed to notice it on Teletoon Retro and it was being repeated here in the UK, when our DVD's came out. True in North America, Season 1 is on iTunes and Seasons 1 and 2 are on Netflix, but that is not good enough! We got scrwwed out of a good thing, because the creator just dropped everything for cash.

  • I found these videos sung by Lisa Lougheed. One for the raccoons and other for hobbos with shotgun.

    1. Hobbos with shotguns

    2. raccoons theam song

    both songs are on youtube.

    In both videos the shooting that she did were the same but the sceense where the raccoos are in were replaced  with the hobbos with shotguns.

    Personally i prefer the racoons song.

    She also song the oprah winfrie show theam song. have a look

  • @chandrandev9 Sadily Kevin Gillis (The Raccoons creator and writer of the song) sold out his song to a group of Canadian film makers to be used in the film Hobo With a Shotgun, a film that's the total polar opposite of he Raccoons. As for the whole Oprah Winfrey thing, it does say that on Wikipedia, but persoanlly I don't know wearever or not that is true!

  • Do you know much about Lisa who sang the theme from the Racoons David. When I listen to her sing her style sounds so familiar to Cyndi Lauper. I guess it was a pop song really suited to the 80s. I used to watch Racoons every Saturday morning on BBC.

  • @roadrunner1ification She has a Facebook page, however from what I heard (from reliable sources I know), Lisa threatened to close her account on there since certain Raccoons fans wanted to get 'close to her'. Judging by that, she probably has had some bad experiences with this show and would rather avoid talking about this part of her career, pity really, but then it wasen't a bed of roses working on this show from what I heard. :(

  • @David315842 Sorry, pero yo no sabía que en Youtube no se podía escribir en español y además que hubiera discriminación por los gustos de un costarricense. This means in English. I did not know that the Internet could not write in Spanish, and that there was discrimination by the likes of Costa Rica.

  • @Rigo21berto11 It's not that at all. As you can clearily see this video is in English with people commenting in English. There's no point typing anything in Spanish as not many people will understand what you're saying! It's simple, use common sense, which is something that the internet seems to be lacking, the ability to use common sense.

  • Oh wow I had actually forgotten I used to watch this on CBBC when I was little until I came across this. Thanks for the memories I love this show and this song and now i can listen to it more!

  • @Samstar1990 You're very, very welcome. I'm glad I was able to help you uncover some fond memories. :)

  • Pegajosa canción que me trae grandes recuerdos de este animado.

  • @Rigo21berto11 Sorry I can't see any Spanish people here?

  • @David315842 he said THIS SONG STICKS WITH YOU IT BRINGS ME BACK MEMORIES OF THIS CARTOON" o_O anyways great song

  • @DVKNIGHT000 He clearily didn't read the part where it says ENGLISH COMMENTS ONLY! No one else can read it, it's English for a reason since this is for English speaking fans. And yes it is a great song.

  • @David315842 Oh wait my bad. I removed that part because I was fed up of YouTube users posting whatever they wanted without thinking of the consequences.

  • @David315842 lol dude :) how can he read the part where it says ENGLISH COMMENTS ONLY, its like me telling you to read COMMENTARIOS EN ESPANOL SOLAMENTE its redundant :O

  • @DVKNIGHT000 Obviously I know now. It's just a pity people on the internet in any language dosen't use common sense or logic. Why post comments in a foreign language where you can clearily see it's not in the language you know, I don't go around posting English comments on Spanish videos, like you said it's redundant and makes no sense. People honestily do not think.

  • @David315842 I am glad that we ended this argument in a formal fasion with no yelling or name calling, it was an honor to pick at your brain sir

  • @DVKNIGHT000 I'm glad I was able to talk to someone who sees sense, it makes a change from all these constant Hobo comments I keep getting nowadays. I pray for the good old days where people (in English of course) would write about how they used to watch and like this show. Now it seems those days are gone. :(

  • I agree the show been made back crap to what been done to it kevin Gillis should release all the Raccoons shows n specials as was made.....to people in Usa also i would support! ( i hope u like)

  • @MrLehnerd It would get a DVD release in Canada first, if Gillis gets off his ass, stiops selling out and actually does something to win back the fanbase! Thank you for the support, it is greatily apprciated.

  • So many childhood memories. I loved the Raccoons.

  • They should make a cartoon: Raccoons with a Shotgun. Really teach that Cyril a lesson.

  • @MrDeschlong They should shoot they're creator for one thing!

  • 20 years later and the theme tune was just as i remembered it, classic