Challenge of the Superfriends - The Final Challenge Pt 1

[Topjimmy1999]

@kmg4-WW is Greek? I think she's Amazonian. But you bring up a good point, she may not be "white". But neither then is Superman, he's Kryptonian. And Aquaman is Atlantian. So few Superfriends are actually "white". The main villains , Luthor, Riddler are white. I guess this really was an anti-white, racist cartoon!

[Topjimmy1999]

How long is WW's lasso? The mountain is 10,000 feet high, but she ropes the rock from the bottom.

[ReturnofLatinPupE]

@Topjimmy1999 She wasn't on the bottom of the volcano. She was climbing and close to the top when the rock that the lasso was attached to gave way. She then surfed down the lava on another rock formation, but when she came to rest, she was on a landing on the mountain, not at the bottom. Then she used her lasso to cap the volcano.

[SIGSALYmedia]

2:32 - Sinestro has lumbago. Or is constipated. Or both.

[samtherealboy]

I have some constructive criticism for Luthor. Talking about betraying the Superfriends with Hawkman only five feet away. I know Hawkman is incompetent but he has a transmitter that can at least tell Superman of the Legion of Doom's planned treachery. They worked so hard to convince the Superfriends they had no ill intent and you blow it by talking out loud about that plan in the same small room as Hawkman. Why does he need to repeat the plan? Does he not tell them the plan until it starts?

[samtherealboy]

Why did Luthor reveal his plan with Hawkman five feet away? He didn't even try to whisper...

[stargate121]

Aqua-FOOL!

[filmkid20]

Where did the riddler Get those leaves

[marlon5970]

I thought the pit was supposed to be BOTTOMLESS according to the Riddler, Batman fell about ten feet, before he hit paydirt

[marlon5970]

Apache is DUM, why didn't he groe BIG when he was about to be throwen in to the engine.

[Ivansky24K]

Aquaman is useless. He sucks!

[fucheduck]

oh, another inter-universal trip. Okay, that is why hard science isn't always sci fi, not if the laws of physics don't apply. then magic is real.

[RandyZakk76]

how da fuck Hawkman talking and flyin thru space!!??

[amaxamon]

This is *so* Star Trek ha ha! Great episode, tho! 

[TheTallMan35]

2:16 .....and the voice of God said unto thee, "you will destroy no one!"

[AG5551]

I could have sworn though that Black Vulcan and the flash appeared on a regular superfreinds episode. Anybody you tube that episode?

[AG5551]

Didn't Flash and Black Vulcan star in a Superfriends short episode?



[MetalHeart8787]

@AG5551 yeah but sometimes they just leave characters out like many other shows/ cartoons.

they just use & only need 10 characters in this or specific episodes.

[poppingjaz]

what the hell was taking Bizarro so long to throw them into the engine! I hate procrastinators! lol

[MCfan09]

Whats the point of having an invisible jet if it doesn't make YOU invisible? Since they can still see you its kinda pointless.

[MrFilmMakerNumber2]

@ 3:25 the Evil God

[kmg4]

Apache Chief in doing things in space doesn't really fit......

[fjccommish]

One challenge they could never meet was explaining the worth of El Dorado.

[kmg4]

Aquaman and Apache Chief in space seems weird.

And why couldn't Apache chief just say 'Enukchuck!' and become too big for Bizarro to hold?

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 I liked how they left Flash and Black Vulcan at the hall. "You guys are worthless, stay here."

[kmg4]

@fjccommish Actually, they are quite good about respecting all of them, even though Superman and Green Lantern are the only two who are substantially more powerful than all the others.

Even Robin is part of the group, despite being, well, not very 'super'. I can't think of a time when Robin did something great on his own, in this series.

If I were to rank a #3 superfriend, I would probably choose Black Vulcan. No Wonder Woman is not #3, let's dispense with the feminism here.

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 Wonder Woman is certainly #3.  Robin does little, but he's more useful than any of the PC superheroes HB created in this series.

[kmg4]

@fjccommish I think Black Vulcan beats Wonder Woman.

But Robin most certainly is NOT as useful as Samurai, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, or El Dorado. Come on.......Each of those has done big things on their own, but Robin has not.

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 Apache Chief, Samurai, Black Vulcan and El Dorado were added by Hanna Barbara to make the series "culturally diverse". They were poor heroes with their chief aspect that they were politically correct and culturally diverse. None of them hold a candle to Robin the Boy Wonder.

[kmg4]

@fjccommish Way to miss the point.

Robin has no super powers whatsoever, and is not even clever like BatMan is. He is nothing.

BV, Samurai, AC, and ElDor all have useful powers. You dismiss their powers just because they are not white.

I suspect that in a fight between Solomon Grundy and Black Vulcan, you will side with Grundy because he is the white guy.

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 Robin has shown his abilities again and again in the comic books, and even on this show. You're proving my point that BV, AC, ED and Sam were thrown in only for diversity.

[kmg4]

@fjccommish No, you are proving my point that you are a racist.

Robin has done absolutely zero on this show. Comics don't count here.

Plus, you dodged the questions :

a) In a fight between Robin and any one out of BV or Sam or ApCh, would Robin win?

b) In a fight between a white villain (Luthor, Sinestro, S.Gundy) and BV, who would you side with?

Answer the questions.

Oh, PS : Wonder Woman is Greek, and thus not really 'white'.

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 Power vs power batman wouldn't beat most of the other heroes. But when cunning is added, Robin who comes with Batman, could defeat any of them. Luthor, Sinestro and S Grundy have at times defeated heroes like Superman, GL and the Flash. They would wipe the board with a guy like Black Vulcan. I'm not arguing because of the ethnicity of any of the heroes. Nobody cares, and that's the point. AC, BV, Sam and AC were thrown in because some weenies cared about ethnicity.

[Horticultural1]

@fjccommish Robin on this show is pretty lame, and all of the Superfriends are very stupid. Cunning doesn't really come into consideration here, and I have a hard time saying that Black Vulcan would lose to Robin in a fighter. Sinestro and Grundy, totally could beat him though. Black Vulcan is lame, but he at least has superpowers.

[fjccommish]

@Horticultural1 People fail to understand that Batman, with preparation, could defeat any of the others including Superman. Batman is always prepared, and has revealed that he has preparations ready to kill each of the others if needed. Robin knows much of what Batman knows. Vulcan, being a PC cultural diversity throw in, wouldn't stand a chance against Robin.

[Horticultural1]

@fjccommish Batman from the comics could beat anyone. Batman ON THIS SHOW is an idiot, just like all of hte other characters. I get what you're trying to do here, but this show makes Batman look like a clumsy buffoon with a bunch of lame toys.

[fjccommish]

@Horticultural1 On this show mostly all of them were idiots.

[fjccommish]

@Horticultural1 However, the biggest idiots were the execs who decided to add the culturally diverse lameheroes.

[kryptonian55]

@fjccommish Are you freakin kidding me!?!? Batman and Superman are fictional characters. That being said, if they both really existed, Superman could kill Batman 50 different ways in a fraction of a second before Batman could blink of an eye. I dont care how many cook toys Batman has, he wouldnt stand a chance. Of course, there is the exception of him having a kryptonnite force field around him or something like that. Even so, superman could just vaporize him from orbit.

[fjccommish]

@kmg4 No KMG4, the racists are the people who decided the DC superheroes weren't diverse enough. The racists are the ones who counted race. They said "wait a second, we need more races in this group." That's racists. The rest of us didn't and don't care. We don't look at the heroes races, we look at their heroism.

[kevin1278]

Sinestro is a serious tough guy, but in the Superfriends show, he looked like a faggot.

[sabalouie2000]

Robin and Saumari together? @2:55 What is this, Superfriend cross training!

[kmg4]

@sabalouie2000

Weird combo.

[GoGojiraGo]

This cartoon did so much damage to DC's characters that they're still recovering from it today. Especially Aquaman, the guy was a powerhouse with an array of abilities in the comics and a personality to match, especially in the newer cartoons. Yet people still describe him by this stupid show.

Though this incarnation fo Aquaman is the sexiest, I have to say. And him being snared by the clam made me feel funny in my pants.

[Booncier]

Figures Aquaman would be the one to give the Superfriends team a loss -_-

[jon1980sss]

classic saturday mornings :)

[cbaile]

Oh, shit! It's Darth Vader's head! AND IT'S HUNGRY!

[redtalon74]

Im not quite sure why Aquaman would go into space at all. I wouldve taken Green Lantern in stead.

[lawmancpa]

@redtalon74 you didn't know...aquaman and wonder woman had a thing going...she couldn't get enough of his fish hook

[SuperSaiyanDylan]

1:21 That Classic Sound! Never Gets Old *LOL*

[brianpadraic]

This reminds me a lot of Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars ('84). This is probably where they (Jim Shooter) got the idea.

[captcold1]

I wonder where the riddler found a palm tree

[brianpadraic]

Thanks for putting this up! I have the DVDS, but it is great to show it to the other generations who missed this great show!

[mindofmorrison]

God i loved this when i was a kid but its epic nonsence

[fjccommish]

@mindofmorrison Little did they know their friends had been taken into the Tomato Soup Universe.

[hameron]

Hmmm, shades of Marvel's Contest of Champions.

[ultimatemegadeath]

Call the Flash? Sheesh! he's WAY better than hawkman! hawkman shouldve been held back, not Flash!

[negrofam1]

lmao lets split up in 2 groups and search the parallel universes...wot? omg how many resources did they hve at their disposal

[ultimatemegadeath]

@negrofam1 , Apparently ALOT. sheesh Bruce just splurges the wayne fortune. don't you think?

[hameron]

@negrofam1 Obviously, that's the first plan anyone would come up with.

[Bargoth60]

At 8:08, why doesn't Aquaman just tickle the inside of the giant clam's mouth---you know---like they do in other cartoons...?

[ReturnofLatinPupE]

@Bargoth60 Because according to Rule # 34, Section 3 Paragraph 2, Tickling is not allowed

[iggitry]

@ReturnofLatinPupE LOL!!!

[ultimatemegadeath]

@ReturnofLatinPupE , that kind of reminds me of how i was watching the new justice league dvd and flash says to wonder woman "what's with the plane? you can fly!" and wonder woman says " Spoils of war" lol.

[LibraGamesUnlimited]

@ReturnofLatinPupE Yeah that would be a bad touch thing I think :)

[kainemaxwell]

Why is Aquaman in space?!

[rmyxjpineda]

i miss those oldies but goodies 80's cartoon : )

[pjperez]

Huh. So Hawkman can breathe in space? And Batman has a magic rope that ties itself around multiple people at once? Gawd, the things we liked as kids ...

[landobnice]

Im telling you...they must've thought when we were kids watching this we were just SUCKERS..i thought the same thing..there's no air in space so how can Hawkman fly and breathe there..but hey..lol

[cadfog]

I love Black Manta's voice. I was a Marvel Zombie back in the 80's as a kid when they aired in my city, but I enjoyed the Super Friends anyway.

[stormshado9]

me too. BM was always my favorite supervillain because of his wet suit

[granpapi29]

4:50 where the hell did the riddler happen to find those conveniently found tree branches in this desolate maze? and 5:00 how is it the "WORLDS GREATEST DETECTIVE" didn't notice the awkwardly and out of place tree branches on the ground?!

[dolemitedavis]

@granpapi29 LMBO!!!

[HypnoToad72]

3:20 in - LOL. Somebody stole from the Star Trek episode "Arena"...

[HypnoToad72]

When Apache Chief got big, did anybody look under the loincloth? :-D

[Kltpzyxm1978]

Is this the last episode from The Challenge of the Superfriends?

[ReturnofLatinPupE]

No, History of Doom is the last of 16 episodes

[optimus57]

You can definitley see the star wars influences on this episode.

[r0bw00d]

Supervillain fact #1: When one is trapped by a rope, everyone does nothing so they can be trapped, too.

Superhero fact #1: Batman is strong enough to pull large creatures off their feet, even without leverage.

Superhero fact #2: Your universe is instantly recognizable, despite many others looking exactly like space filled with a lot of stars.

Superhero fact #3: It's possible to talk in a vacuum.

[WhoKilledDizzy]

6:52 - "Batman...the hell!" LOL

[blueskunk12]

"Batman! But how?"

[Canisticus]

OMG... Black Manta is DARTH VADER! :P

[Lfdjake91]

Black Manta proceeded Vader by well over a decade, but the Legion of Doom's HQ actually was based on Darth Vader.

[mom369222]

There was one I really liked. It was the one where Wonder Woman, and Apeche Chief faced a giant Cobra, There was an earthquake in India, and hundreds of posionous snakes were headed toward a villeage, and there was only 1 hope, a giant cobra +

[jordan23authentics]

Yea, that episode is called the Antidote. I used to love these cartoons when I was a kid back in the early 80's. I used to watch em every saturday morning and than a few years later on a local channel after school daily. MISS THEM DAYS!

[LightningChimp]

My favourite episode of one of my favourite shows...Love that Star Wars opening. So much goes on. Having Batman and Riddler face off in a maze is genius, and mythical.

[Tareltonlives]

Looks like someone's been watching Star Wars

Saruman's been watching too much anime-look at his eyes.

Batman, if you didn't see the obvious pit, you deserve to die.

A giant seahorse. Right....

Can't he just....you know....talk to the clam?

[RetroTV3]

My favorite version of Superfriends, when kid.

¨Challenge of the Superfriends¨

[Lfdjake91]

Mine too.

[sconex]

Black Manta and his voice are so cool.

[fahqueman]

This is a rip off of an old star trek episode.

[ALunaB]

Really? Which one?

To me, it looks like a rip off of Marvel Comics' Secret Wars (you know, where all good guys and bad guys are spirited away to some distant alien world to battle each other at the whim of some powerful alien being)

[fahqueman]

Episode 22, "The savage curtain" Where Kirk Spock and Abe Lincoln and some other Vulcan guy are forced to fight to the death by some rock-like Alien against evil people from history.I'm no trekkie or anything,I just used to watch allot when I was a kid and remember this one.

[Astraldragon1]

Abe Lincolin? don't tell me in the star trek univerise Honest Abe didn't get shot and killed but lived a ripe old age....or he did live but was kidnapped by the aliens......I never did watch the orginal ST TV series, only got interested when the movies came out.

[Lfdjake91]

Awesome episode, I remember it well.That was the episode that introduced Surak & Kahless, the founders of the Vulcan & Klingon cultures.

[ARMquaman]

Hate to break it to you but this came out 5 years before SECRET WARS,

[ALunaB]

What? Get out!

[piscesrising2006]

for those that do not know... Robin's voice is played by Top 40 legend Casey Kasem :D