The Unlikely History of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is an American animated television series based on the 1978 film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and its 1988 sequel Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes had a 2 season run as well as a line of action figures and assorted other merchandise along with 3 sequels, including Return of the Killer Tomatoes starring a very young George Clooney.
But how did we get from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a low budget parody movie in the 1970's to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a cartoon airing every week on Fox Kids? And how do the Muppet Babies factor in?
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Saying “the tomato verse” with the increasing level of moustache shenanigans all with a straight face? Standing ovation
That intro theme has been living rent-free in my brain for 30+ yrs..
Then Dan said the legend Shuki Levy composed it, and now I'm like... "Yeah. That tracks".
i'm not sure which i'm more impressed by: dan's dedication to pronouncing 'produce' that way every time, or the ability of that comb-mustache to cling to dan's face.
You have to give props to Dan for staying faithful to the skit
He really knows how to produce good results.
This video is seeded with great humor!
Dan needs to go the Neal Breen approach & just use masking tape.
@@queenannsrevenge100 Everyone will enjoy the fruit of his labor
It takes real talent to stay straight-faced while you're dressed like a hot dog.
I still remember the scientist's line, "I'm not a mad scientist! I'm just very angry!" I loved that line as a kid
I like how Dan kept pronouncing produce-d. Well done!
I was thinking the same thing
I didn't get the joke until the second time. Just thought it was odd.
@@beatrixwickson8477 Yeah, it took me till the third...
Came here to say the same. Good man
Right? Brilliant commitment
I don't really remember much about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes beyond it existing, but that theme song has stuck with me for basically my entire life.
So I have a Playlist of TV show theme songs, now I get to add another one.
Pretty much anything from Shugi Levy is a banger.
Ataaaack of the killer to-maaaaatoes!
The end of the first season of the animated series was amazing in my opinion. Dr gangrene giving a countdown to the end of the show and the fact that he was still winning. That he was going to be the greatest cartoon villain ever.
Another cool thing, they sold a sewing pattern set, so you could use the pattern to cut out and make your own Killer Tomato costumes for Halloween. My mom when I was kid made me a Zoltan costume that was big and round, and even had a little head piece. And I remember as a kid, waiting on Killer Tomatoes Eat France to hit home video. Video stores had posters up for it, and said it was coming, and then suddenly the posters were gone, and it wasnt coming. It ran into some kind of distribution snafu. I didnt get to see the 4th movie until years later when I randomly found it on VHS somewhere. Also, due to the cancelation, the show ended with the Tomatoes conquering the world and the bad guys winning. That still leaves an impression with me to this very day. It was not how kid me expected the show to end. Will always love Killer Tomatoes.
@That 80's Dude Sorry to disappoint, Im just a regular ol bad speller.
My first intro to the franchise was hearing the original theme song on Dr. Demento in the early 80's. Such a classic of goofiness.
To be honest when I started watching this I didn't think I'd get through 15 minutes about Killer Tomatoes, however, the mustache drama slowly unfolding on screen kept me riveted.
Loved this show as a kid. Thanks for doing an episode on it. The 90s really did have a ton of weird media, didn't it?
The 80s also. Mr. T, Rambo, Chuck Norris, and more got cartoons.
I sing this theme song to this day
@@billybarnett2846 M.A.S.K., and ROCKS too
@@thinkinaboutpolitics yup
@@billybarnett2846 MR T even had his own cereal!
Much like with Toxic Crusaders, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (the animated series) was my introduction to the movies. Fun fact: the guys that came up with the idea had also made an earlier version filmed on 8mm as well as an unofficial first appearance of the Wilbur Finnletter character in a spy spoof "Do They Accept Travelers Checks in Babusaland" while attending classes in filmmaking at UCB.
The theme song still rings in my head like a favorite commercial jingle
Attaaaack of the killer tomatoes
Attaaaaaack of the killer tomatoeeeees
The 50s-themed restaurant in my hometown had the Killer Tomatoes theme song in the jukebox (as part of a Halloween-themed collection). It was guaranteed to raise some eyebrows during the dinner rush.
I remember being obsessed with this show as a 7 year old. I honestly couldn't have told you anything about it, besides there being a tomato girl, before watching this video. I think the theme song did a lot of the heavy lifting.
Same! The intro was a banger when I was 5, and I remember the tomato with the eye patch.
I love that Dan kept going on the script, even though the prop mustache was not working with him!
That is true dedication right there! 🍅🤣😂
This one goes out to my friend Rodney Bass. He was an animator on this show. RIP, Rod!
I remember that episode of Muppet Babies!! Loved that show.
Missed an opportunity to Wilhelm scream when the moustache fell off.
I love how it's always a different stache falling off 😂❤
As a child, I was fascinated by a group of villains taking over the individual continents. The Koopa Kids did it and so did the Gang of Six. I still can list them off (Zoltan, Beefsteak, Tomacho, Fang, Mummato, and Ketchuck) off the top of my head.
I am not well.
One thing that confused me was that in the first season Zoltan's gang had only five members (including Zoltan), and in the second season there was six. Where did that extra tomato come from? Lol
I think you are perfectly fine
No-selling the moustache (mustache? You say, I say... ) had me in tears (the water that falls from my eyes, not what you create in multiple sheets of paper).
We really knead to figure out how this language works...
I had no idea that there was any movies beyond the first or that the show was based on the characters and events based on the second, but it makes the show make a lot more sense now.
Such nostalgia! I had the biggest crush on Tara from the animated series as a kid! Lol 🍅
Me too! Lol my only tomato based crush lol
She was the most memorable part of the show aside from the theme song.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Wait you didnt remember the Killer Tomatoes?
@@jaggin7561
Absolutely. This show was around during my formative years. I was like around 10 I think when this show first hit. I don't remember all that much about this show besides the guy with the parachute and sword, the cute tomato chick and the weird tomato dog. But I definitely remember the theme song. That said I probably watched all of maybe two episodes ever when it first ran.
I think I may have seen more of it in reruns years later. And I definitely remember a lot of other Fox kids shows way more than this one.
Tara Boumdeay (as in "ta-ra-ra BOOM de ay" is one of the best character names EVER! Love her. I never saw any of the merchandise.
She one of my faves too
I'm having a rough day, but watching your various mustaches fall off definitely made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
I remember as a kid being lost and thinking I had missed something when the Killer Tomatoes cartoon came out, because I had seen the Muppet Babies episode, and was like, "Okay suddenly everything is referencing this. What is it and why have I never heard of it before?" My first real experience with that, since I was, like, 4 when the Killer Tomatoes cartoon came out lol
Oh man, the first AOTKT movie was an early favorite of mine and I played that VHS to death. I remember it came with a pack of “Killer Tomato” seeds that we dared never plant 😂 I still bust out in a chorus of “Puberty Love” every so often 🍅
I was first introduced to this silly series via a DVD copy my father bought for me. It's still a fun flick to watch
George Clooney's best role. Fact.
No l9ve for from dusk til dawn?!🤷♂️
He's sharing the screen with Gomez.
That would inspire even the biggest fillistine to greatness.
Absolutely!!
He hates it though.
Thank you! I've been trying to remember the name of "Computer Warriors " for years. I could never figure it out no matter what lists I looked up of cartoons from the 80s or 90s.
One of the problems with the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon was it’s placement in the Saturday morning schedule.
In the Detroit Area it was regularly scheduled at 6 or 6:30 am ON A SATURDAY!!! Like seriously, who thought that 6:30am was the appropriate time to schedule any cartoon unless they WANTED it to die.
Yeah quality of the programming aside Fox did kinda suck when it came to the actual scheduling of when programs should be on.
It wouldn't be the last time that would happen.
Yeah, there were a lot of cartoons I never knew about because they were in the weird early-morning death slot. For many years, the GI Joe cartoon was on at 6 am where I lived.
What did (and probably does) Fox care about? The 5pm news and MLB.
I saw the cartoon as a kid. When I was in college, I bought a VHS tape of a "director's cut" of the first movie at a Walgreens, and it came packaged with a tiny packet of tomato seeds. A couple years ago, I bought a DVD of the first movie off Amazon, and while it had a bunch of special features, it unfortunately didn't have that alternate cut on it.
So what exactly makes the alternate cut an alternate cut?!
I've seen the first two movies. I found a special edition of part 1 for super cheap and gave it a shot. To say it was "uneven" is an understatement, but still funny and worth seeing. The sequel is great, with some of the best sight gags of its era. It's amazing it took George Clooney as long as it did to finally break out, because even in something like Killer Tomatoes, it's obvious the guy was meant to be a star.
I saw the first movie as a kid long, long ago. Sometimes when I see a bottle of ketchup, I remember the guy asking the tomatoes to please pass the ketchup and I chuckle.
"Muppet Babies was *PROduced* by Marvel productions..."
This is why I love this channel
I love some of the gags in the original - the guy with one bionic leg, the Japanese expert, please pass the ketchup, cinema's slowest car chase, and the crazies who didn't evacuate - but the sequel has the best brick joke ever.
As a kid the S2E1 ending where they talk about the villain winning and point out it's not even a two-parter stuck in my mind. But I just looked it up on CZcams and I swear the speech given at the end is cut off in the uploaded version, because I thought he said something like, "It may be the end of the episode, but it's not the end of the series". But maybe that's a half-invented memory.
I like that you went out on the vine for all the references in this episode.
I still remember that awesome intro music like it was yesterday...it's a criminally underrated cartoon.
4:13 I laughed so hard when he made his produce joke. I'm certain the team were very happy at themselves for that one.
This show was the first time I saw the final episode of a cartoon. It ended with the tomatoes taking over the world and it blew my young mind that the bad guys won and that was it!
7:55 "to expose the dangerous experiments Dr. Gangrene is conducting and his continuing effort to build an army and take over the world"
M. Bison dramatically turns: "OF COURSE!"
I really apreciate all the work you put into every video. The hosting, the research, the script, the editing, the jokes. Everything is always amazing. Thanks!
I got so many of those Killer Tomatoe toys from the bargain bin at dollar general and big lots as a kid.
I love Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I've been a fan since I saw the first movie when I was a kid. Such a great, dumb, parody bad horror movie franchise that kind of evolved in clever ways over time. And launched the career of George Clooney in the second movie, too 😄
I wish I could find the cartoon show on DVD or something. I don't even think it's streaming unless they recently released it.
RIP John Astin father of Samwise Gamgee
I watched the cartoon as a kid, actually enjoyed it from what I remember. I was too scared as a kid to try and watch the films...
One of the best theme songs of all time.
I cannot express how much I loved this show as a kid, or how happy I am that its getting some attention now, in Spooktober🎃🍅❤
Gotta love that stach! Especially that "SLAP!" when it lands 😂👍
R.I P. To Fox Kids Saturday morning and all the joy you brought all of us kids who grew up in the nineties. You will be missed, but you will live on forever in our hearts. Moment of silence.
Yep, there's a reason why I consider it the last great decade.
Technically Saturday morning cartoons lived into the next millennium but it was a pale imitation of what it wants was.
Saturday morning cartoons burned brightest one more time but by the end of the '90s it was dead for all intents and purposes.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu for those who were there and for the little while we had it it was glorious
@@ninjetti9898
It was, it really, really was.
It was all too brief but it was truly an amazing time to be a kid and experience these things fresh.
I wouldn't exactly say it profoundly changed/shaped my life but it did profoundly establish my taste that I would have to this very day.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu eek the cat, xmen, batman, the terrible thunder lizards, Fox Kids will forever be the G.O.A.T
@@ninjetti9898
I mean Batman alone makes it the G.O.A.T.
But then you add all the rest and you've got just an absolutely legendary lineup.
It got weak towards the end of the decade
(When Fox got NFL and basically said eff it)
But up until then and even for a while after it was still truly incredible.
Oh, I didn't do the assignment so here goes: I saw the original back in the early 80's; it's okay and more of a historical artifact than something I'm interested in watching again. I've seen Return of the Killer Tomatoes many times. I have several online and in-person friends who I sometimes greet with the phrase, "Hey [person's name], How about Crest!"
I had no idea there were two more sequels but they don't look all that good.
I remember watching the cartoon and my dad was a big fan of the movies. He would always sign the song to embarrass me around that time. When I understood the joke of it, it was another movie/series that me and him bonded over.
This was one of the first cartoon I watched on Fox Kids, I was surprised they made a cartoon of Killer Tomatoes. They need to release this on DVD, whoever owns the series like Disney which bought Fox Kids or Saban which were the non-Marvel properties that are now owned by Hasbro. Please release these old Fox Kids shows on DVD!
I appreciated how the host pronounced "produce" throughout this video. 🤣🤣🤣
Glad to see Doctor Gangrene start his own CZcams channel.
I came across the Killer Tomatoes franchise when I was fully into my Troma/Full Moon/Canon Pictures phase of early cinema nerdery.
It's a fun series.
I've always kinda wondered if the ending of Mar Attacks wasn't in some way influenced by the ending of Killer Tomatoes.
According to other comments I've seen here it definitely seems to be a distinct possibility. I think somebody even said Tim Burton himself admitted he was "inspired" by killer tomatoes.
Take a shot every time the mustache falls and kiss yr liver goodbye!
Dan Quayle: "Potatoe".
Dan Larson: "Tomatos".
Congratulations, you're qualified to be Vice President.
To be fair, Mr. Quayle was reading off the card he'd been given... Was it a pre-spell-check mistake? Or sabotage? We'll probably never know.
The mustache has my side hurting right now 😂😂😂😂
I had no idea how deep a dive this would be into my subconscious.
Mutango Attack of the Mushroom People, the Muppet Babies, and John Astin all in one video!
I'm one of the handful of people who lost time watching this cartoon series. Because I loved (and used to own on VHS) the two live action tomato flicks. Mutango messed me up as a kid! I found it on a UHF station, with no idea what it was. Just mushroom people attacking everything! Eventually I found Attack of the Killer Tomatoes in a video rental store (it's an old story)!! Once Cable TV became a thing I caught up with the second film. But the Fozzie connection was lost on me until now. Madness! I love it. More deep dive madness like this PLEASE!
When I was a kid I used to love this show I think they brought it back in reruns in the late 90s then in my teens I was really into the first two movies for a while and still found the cartoon funny
I know that's true because the spot they used where it was this show and Casper was definitely from after the movie which I don't think really hit until 95-ish and the show came years later. Also Fox was getting hella lazy by the late 90s. Way fewer news shows and way more old stuff they would just use for filler between the two or three actually new shows.
I still have that plush FT. Been with me for 20+ years now
After seeing Return of the Killer Tomatoes I finally figured out how the characters where related to the cartoon. Great stuffs 👍 Thanks for another entertaining history lesson 😉
Each time you referred to John Aston my mind kept switching between Sean Aston and Raul Julia for some reason! Took me a few minutes to figure out who you were actually talking about!
Can anyone stop these mutant fruits? Where will we find our brave recruits? Can Wilbur get rid of that dumb parachute?
This brings back so many memories. I remember my mom hand and machine stitching a costume for me based on the tomato with the eye patch when I was about 5 back in 1991'.
i like how in the secret galaxy there's a 1:1 ratio of lazer tag starhelmets and skulls 😅
My favorite of the movies was Killer Tomatoes Eat France. Mostly because it has the best post credits scene ever. Marvel can't even come close to John Astin in his getaway balloon saying he was just in the parking lot stealing your car radio.
This cartoon was a staple of my childhood and my kid self was happy that it was tied in with the movie...thanks for showing these awesome shows.
When I was a kid I loved this show. It also gave me the strangest nightmares. My mom worked at A pizza place and I’d have vivid bad dreams of giant killer tomatoes attacking her in a bathroom stall.
I use to watch the cartoon all the time. But remember it got it a rerun in the late 90s again. The late 80s and 90s had the best cartoons.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes is legitimately a brilliant film (although some of the sex jokes are showing their age). Yes it's dumb and it's cheap, but it knows it and it pokes fun at itself constantly and breaks the fourth wall in hilarious fashion.
Dude there are so many things from that era that have not aged well... It's kind of sad but also understandable... I was going to show something to my step kids the other day (can't remember what rn) and was like... Lemme hold off and rewatch it first before showing the kids.... Didn't even get a chance to go recheck cuz something came up that showcased that no it wasn't kid friendly. May have been the og Ghostbusters come to think of it.
I was going to respond to this, but I'm afraid my comments budget just ran out. I'm going to have to resort to...product placement.
In conclusion,
PEPSI
I remember this cartoon and loved it. Its shame it didn’t have a longer run.
They probably should have made it a weekday series. It depends on how much plots they could have done but it would have been cool to see 65 episodes and then it gets another season and movie for completion.
The mustache bit is slaying!
Oof... getting crushed by a giant tomato must ache.
I remember the cartoon series and it gave the best mad scientist line ever "Mad?! I'm not mad! I'm just very angry!" That right there was and still is chuckle worthy.
Loved the Return of the Killer Tomatoes and the cartoon. Never knew they made two more movies
In 2006 another film was released that followed the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" concept of being a film so ridiculous that the title alone sold tickets, that film's title: "Snakes On A Plane."
I TOTALLY remember those ads for AotKT and Casper.
Old age hasn't affected my memory too much...
This episode was PROduced very well. 🍅
Haha, what an appropriate setup, kudos Dan and Greg, thanks for the episode 🍅
As a kid I named my red doberman "Tara" because of attack of the killer tomatoes.
I've never seen any of the movies. I saw only one episode of the animated series which still sticks with me to this day. It was the episode where Dr. Gangrene comes up against his school bully/rival, who was making an army of killer kumquats to steal Gangrene's idea for world domination.
I had an irrational love for this show as a kid. I have entire notebooks of drawings of new tomotoes from my own Tomato-verse. I tried to watch the movie as a kid, but found it too scary.
I still have no idea how or why I loved it so much.
Do you still have those drawings?
@@jaggin7561 I think so! They are terrible
I probably caught the animated series on TV back in the day. I wasn't into the Tomato-verse back then. Now it's amusing :3
The editing and costume changes (and various versions of the mustache) in this entry made me smile.
this is the best!!! To this day this is my all time favorite kid cartoon! thanks for doing this one!
Finally. Loved all 4 movies and the cartoon. Had a bunch of the toys.
How was this only 21 episodes? God, I remember watching this at like 530 in the morning on Saturdays when I was a kid.
Team Show Biz! My father owned one in Columbus Ohio. Brother and I had every birthday party there until that location closed. We walked around with cabinet keys playing like kings. Awesome Times!
I was totally into this franchise as a kid and didn’t know a single other kid who was. I loved the cartoon, the movies, and even got one of the toys.
The moustache budget alone must have made this an expensive video to produce. 🍅
I remember stumbling across _Return_ on USA or TBS, right after ER hit and Clooney became a household name. My mom and I watched it together. It was a hoot.
Was that a hotdog suit? 🌭 LOL....😎🤣
Oh man, love the choice for new intro music. I used to listen to a hour long loop of it when I worked as a content moderator for Facebook, made that job a lot more bearable.
The video of course is great stuff as usual.
After watching this entire video, all I could do was to count the 7 different mustaches and the 11 mustache fails...
Sadly, I do remember the animated version of this series, it was "rotten" in my personal opinion.
I rented Return of the Killer Tomatoes from the video store every chance I could as a child. Classic
Can't remember the name of the movie but there's some 80's teen comedy movie where two characters go to see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I remember the characters in this 80's movie singing the Tomatoes song and that was my first exposure to it.
All I remember from the show is the kickass theme song, also the running gag of the stache falling off and changing between takes is Tomato Tier quality.
"Testy! You wanna know why I'm testy? I'll tell you why I'm testy. Today I was nearly hung, I got into a fight with a psychotic albino, I met a human pin cushion in the bathroom, I ate a cockroach, my best friend disappears and then I'm nearly assassinated by a runaway elevator! I'VE HAD A BAD DAY!" Vamp... not Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I remember the toys but I used to confuse them with MadBalls and Barnyard Commandos.