CARTOON: the Houndcats intro

[3fatkid]

i'm only 19 but i had a VHS of the houndcats as a little kid....*wipes a tear away* from the very very deepest depths of my heart thank for bringing my childhood back to me

[Frizzurd]

I am 28 and just saw this on the local PBJ station. Intro theme is awesome and had to learn more about it

[yumenightfire27]

was Cream music featured ever in Houndcats episodes ? if not, does anyone remember another cartoon where it was?

[Michshnly]

this was my fist favorite cartoon wow i think 1970? I think i was 5

[sweethki]

I don't know why, when i hear this song i think about George W. Bush singing this with a cowboy hat! LMAO

[sweethki]

Puttypuss, Mussel Mutt, Dingdog, Rhubarb, Spark plug & Stutz Anybody doin' a wrong thing better watch out These cats is rough Yeah, anytime there's a rumble out west Who do you call? You call the best Cause everyone knows, it's as simple as that The best in the west is the Houndcats! Yeah, anytime there's a rumble out west Who do you call? You call the best Cause everyone knows, it's as simple as that The best in the west is the Houndcats!

[smichelle65]

It's official: nothing is too obscure for Youtube!

[HELLOW1969]

It was the music I remembered and the message that always blew up when they received it, like impossible mission. Must have been about 5 or 6 - UK 1974 to 1975 when I saw this -

[glasgowfranko1981]

I loved this, and the Barkleys!

[shmuli9]

Wow - I remember this. Freling and Depatie did a lot of cartoons, like The Pink Panther, the Barkleys (a bizarre cartoon that was kind of like 'All in the Family'), the Anteater, and a few other ones...

[speeta]

from the fall 1972 season, it ran only one year. IIRC it was loosely based on "Mission: Impossible!" They'd get pre-recorded instructions that would self-destruct in funny ways.

[50zcarsman]

@speeta The destructing-messages thing does sound stolen from M.I., but surely the cartoon is mostly based on a '71-2 prime-time series about two Army officers who use a Stutz Bearcat to defeat bad guys back around 1913. Name escapes me; that show in turn was loosely based on the Rat Patrol.

[MupMupsAnimalActors]

It's actually from 1972. I was in 4th grade. I had a little crush on a boy in school who could draw the Houndcats pretty well!

[Dreadsouljah]

likewise!! I can't believe what i'm seeing! I thought i'd dreamt this!

[shinjukugewalt]

ARGH MY CHILDHOOD!!! i love this show

[cartooncoon]

It was actually from 1972, when I was 10 and a half

[MissCrow86]

Thanks for posting this, the Musselmutt was my fave. :D

[Chiggs58th]

At the age of 44 I was begining to think I had imagined seeing this cartoon. When I mention it to people nobody remembers it. Thanks for posting.

[TeeVeeNZ]

Thanks for your Comment, I had forgot it all except for the Name seeing it again restored my memory in a flash.

[karmalola]

OMG, i remember watching this everytime after nursery when i was little, a true cartoon classic x

[TeeVeeNZ]

Yes, gone but not forgotten thanks to Youtube!

[Starkeee]

Not a lot of people remember The Houndcats but it was one of my faves & I knew the intro song by heart