The "Wildest" TMNT Ripoff: Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2022
- Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is one of the classic 90s cartoons to capitalize on the trend of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And boy howdy, is this show mighty fun.
Grab a glass of sarsaparilla and saddle up!
I’ll explain the premise, the first episode (called “Bang ‘Em High” which is just beautiful), and go into some of the fandom. There’s also a bonus mention of Street Sharks.
Stay tuned to the end for a solid minute of me making off-the-cuff cow puns. I was having a great time.
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Cartoon shows with anthropomorphic characters are always a trip to watch as an adult. I swear I saw a Ducktales' episode where they were feeding ducks at a pond once. How in the hell?! Your commitment to the cow puns was awesome too, excellent work as usual!
It's the Goofy/Pluto dilemma.
And thank you! :)
I heard those theme songs in my head when you started mentioning them - Also, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Inspector Gadget, Taz-Mania and the Muppet Babies - so many great cartoon theme songs.
"Moo."
I recall this show vaguely and now I got some insight on the show.
"Moooooot" made me audibly exhale through my nose.
I vote yes! Do a Street Sharks vid please.
P.S. I love how proud you looked when you made that “moote” joke 😂😂
I remember this show and it’s arcade game well. They were pretty cool.
Manimals is a word I could have very happily lived my life without ever hearing and yet, here we are.
It sounds a lot like "Danimals." So now whenever you see commercials for Danimals yogurt, you can be reminded of Manimals.
Just wait until you find out about cult classic superhero show Manimal, starring Simon MacCorkindale! It was canceled after a single season but then the Manimal returned in an episode of NightMan, an even worse and somehow even cheesier superhero show in the late 90s. I have sat thru so much superhero TV; from The Flash, Up Up And Away, and Lois & Clark to Superboy, Arrow, Iron Fist, MANTIS, and Black Scorpion. And even I can't make it thru an episode of Manimal. It haunts me. And now I'm not the only one who will wake up to Manimal-themed night terrors
We had Street Sharks in Australia (the show, not real sharks on the street). Parents would talk about Power Rangers being violent but tbh the aesthetic in Street Sharks just "felt" violent if that makes sense. Those transformation sequences add to that feeling. It's always kinda funny to see US specific shows like the cowboys show, considering how much US media we get here.
That’s surprising! Power Rangers just kind of felt fun and campy. From what I’ve seen of Street Sharks so far, there are giant needles, people screaming in pain, and body horror.
Wow, going through your back catalogue and we have a lot of tastes in common. Glad I found this channel, looking forward to seeing more of your past stuff and what you make in the future!
Thank you! :)
I forgot about this show. I thought I remembered watching it when I saw the title for this video then it all came rushing back to me when you played the theme song. Thank you for reminding me this exists. And yes please do a Street Sharks video. ❤90's
Stars of Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa of DIC Entertainment (1992-1993): Marshal Moo Montana, the Dakota Dude, the Cowlorado Kid, Lily Bovine, Cowlamity Kate Cudster, Cody Calf, Buffalo Bull, J.R., Puma, Carly, Jake Daffidil and Tewah
YES do streetsharks! I used to love that show.
I am STRONGLY considering it!
a few weeks ago it was announced that The Nacelle Company bought the rights to wild west c.o.w.boys of moo mesa and will make a new cartoon and merchandise, the creator Ryan Brown has ties to the ninja turtles, he's worked on various ninja turtles comics and recently he designed some of the mutants in the new ninja turtles movie
The horses were obviously shipped in from outside of moo mesa. Also moo mesa was definitely way better than street sharks.
I also don't know how your videos aren't more popular. You're amazing. :P Maybe you need a more specific theme... Stargate stuff made sense but I don't think stargate stuff is very popular... I'd be happy with a 90's cartoon retrospective type thing. :P You're doing somewhat of a nostalgia old timey shows/movies thing. Maybe something more focused? I'm not a youtuber so I have no idea, just throwing things out there since you deserve more love. :P
I missed a lot of 90s tv culture, but I have a distinct memory of one of my cousins trying to convince me that the TMNT were real, because he had seen them at a professional wrestling match.
Yes, I have a memory of this cartoon existing.
Street sharks, oh yeah I still got a cup from a pizza hut promotion they had.
I remember the main villain in street sharks wearing his heavy costume in public to do a press conference. The guy wasn't out publicly as a bad buy so it just didn't seem was putting in effert to fool people into thinking he's a normal scientist (or whatever).
I love that Street Sharks did a Pizza Hut promo -- they explicitly say in the show that the Sharks don't like pizza. 😆
@@PugMugsly LOL, I didn't know that. I guess they had to create distance between them and TMNT.
Oh, I should point out, yes I do know the whole aspect of the Street Starks and their swimming thought the ground was unrealistic not just the scientist villain.
Man, on the one hand, this was another awesome video of yours (complete with the puns at the end).... on the other hand, I _knew_ I would get the theme song stuck in my head just hearing someone talk _about_ Moo Mesa, even without actually dedicating any time to explaining how good that theme is! Which you did, as one should, and the theme is now totally going to be with me for at least 24 hours (or until I knock it out of there with, like, the theme from 'Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'😋). Those cartoon themes really were incredible! Thanks to the Toy Galaxy channel (which, really, mostly just covers old TV shows and cartoons now), I now have brain space dedicated to, like, which cartoons Shuki Levy did theme songs for. I recently saw that Tubi had "Arthur and the Knights of Justice" on there, and I literally said out loud, "Hell yeah I'll watch that just for the theme song!" haha. _No. Regrets_
Biker Mice from Mars is ALSO pretty fun as far as TMNT clones go, though it too has a lame theme song like Street Sharks (nothing can touch Moo Mesa). That thing the C.O.W.Boys did to the train is wonderfully ridiculous, but there may be even more silliness in Biker Mice. I swear there's one moment when two of them are fighting a giant underground robot and they defeat it by riding their bikes in a crisscross pattern in front of it, then leaping up, and high fiving right in front of its face, causing the thing to explode... because it can't handle that amount of awesome-ness, I presume? Seriously, to confirm it's something that I didn't make it, I just found the moment and it is.... lol: czcams.com/video/RJGUW_z2SXY/video.html
Great video!
Oh my god, Biker Mice from Mars looks like an absolute TREASURE. Even the small detail that the one mouse kept calling the other one "Big Fella." I'm totally going to watch it.
Ever seen Jim Button? It's a fully serialised cartoon from the 90s based on books by Michael Ende (who also wrote The Neverending Story).
I haven’t seen it! (Although I’ve of course seen Neverending Story.)
I never watched this cartoon, but I absolutely LOVED arcade action game Konami made of it as a kid. I played so much of it in the arcade hall that I recognize stuff from clips of the series based on the game alone.
Good to see a fellow gummy bers tv show fan. And also good that, for once, I actually know the tv show mention on the video.
Adventures of the Gummi Bears was one of my favs!
Joseph Williams, current lead singer of Toto, was the vocalist for the Gummi Bears theme song.
So if they exist in an isolated place with 19th Century infrastructure, are there also humans in the show?
As far as I know, they don’t show any humans. (But I admittedly haven’t seen every episode.)
I remember having a coloring book with these guys. Didn't know it was a whole show. Thought the villain was cool though.
Nacelle toys is making a shot at reviving this franchise, coming next year they have some toys. Right now it's 3 figures: Marshall Moo Montana, Sheriff Terrorbull, and Cowlamity Kate. These are NOT like the old toy line, these are premium figures, it's why pre-ordering the whole set of 3 is around $105...it's $104 and some change before tax and shipping. Each figure comes with accessories, a different head to change out and different hands for holding accessories...my favorite thing is Cowlamity Kate comes with an old fashioned wild west wheel mounted gattling gun. Nacelle also has the rights to Biker Mice from Mars, which they have the 3 main characters and they are coming out with their motorcycles soon too...also they are working with Maximum Effort and Ryan Reynolds to make a shot at reviving the cartoon and I've heard rumors they want to take a shot at reviving this show as well...no word on who might work on it. Also some of the characters made a cameo in TMNT back in the 2000s when they went to the future and met April and Casey's son...they appeared in a danger room style setup where the TMNT fought them at first but then April and Casey's son (a tech genius) was able to fix the hack in his system (since he made the room for the turtles to train in, in the first place) and the TMNT teamed up with the C.O.W Boys to fight the villain. There were also crossover comics for TMNT and Wild West C.O.W Boys back in the day too.
Holy cow, Some of those puns are udderly terrible. And that's no bull. I'm not trying to be bossy. That one was a bit of a reach but hey ho. We're not exactly dealing with high steaks here. I don't want any beef. At least you didn't butcher them. I'm not having a cow. At least I can be seen and herd. Let's steer this in another direction
I would agree with your theme song picks and add DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Doug, TaleSpin, Animaniacs, and Tiny Toon Adventures. I'm sure I missed many but that's how good we had it. Also, I didn't know you were a Gummi Bears fan. Loved that show. We didn't have many straight fantasy cartoons so I watched it whenever I could
Those are some grade A cow puns! I'm very moooooved.
(Weirdly, I was just thinking about Doug -- but not the theme song. The fictional band within the show, The Beets, had a song called "Killer Tofu." And THAT resurfaces in my brain from time to time.)
"Funnie" enough I just happened to think about Doug recently too. I happened to see the Jim Jinkins USA Network ad that featured an early appearance by Doug and Porkchop in a Duckman video. I always thought that was Doug's debut but actually it turns out there was one before that. While Porkchop did debut in that ad, Doug first appeared in a grapefruit juice ad of all things. Porkchop wasn't in that one but Lorenzo Music did the VO. It's very easy to find if you've not seen it
But yeah, I always think of the line "I'd eat my sugar cereal but it makes my teeth bacterial" whenever I see a Magic Spoon ad. And considering how ubiquitous those have become it happens a lot
I remember Biker Mice from Mars that was cool
I’ve seen Bike Mice mentioned a few times! I’m very intrigued.
@@PugMugsly Well they're mice, that ride bikes, and they're from Mars.
And is pretty similar to Moo Mesa in that there are three of them with the leader, the..uhm...let's say 'tougher' one, and the kid
@@PugMugsly It's a great animated show( and they've had video games, comics and a toy line, too). I personally think that it's the best rip-off of the TMNT that I've seen yet. I want to do my own independent comic books and I'm even going to be doing doing graphic novels for a TMNT parody and a He-Man parody and if people call them TMNT
and He-Man rip-offs, I won't mind that because they're meant to be TMNT and He-Man rip-offs. As long as people think that the characters are GOOD rip-offs and they like the characters and they like the story, then that's all that I care about.
I always say that it's fine to rip something off but just make it a GOOD rip-off and then it can evolve and grow into it's own thing and develop it's own fanbase. Marvel's Deadpool was a rip-off of Spider-Man and DC's Deathstroke The Terminator, Thanos was based on DC's Darkseid and Metron of The New Gods and even the TMNT themselves, were based on the grim, dark and gritty Daredevil comics from the 1980s by Frank Miller( as the creators of the Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird have even said themselves in interviews before).
Mark Twain said that there's no such thing as a new idea and that we all take old ideas to make new ones and I largely agree. I think that most people do
do that but for some reason, they just like to pretend that they don't.
4:16 Only some of each animal got transformed by the comet. In a later episode we see Cowlarado talking to an anthromorphic horse while riding on his normal horse, and in another they herd non-anthromorphic cows.
I never saw this cartoon growing up but had to check it out after picking up a Ninja Turtles comic where the C.O.W. Boys guest starred. Turns out that they are the favorite TMNT wannabe of Peter Laird, one of the Turtles' co-creators. I can't say they're my favorite TMNT wannabe, but having seen the first season and 1 episode of season 2 it's far from the worst one I've seen. For me, half the episodes range from okay to good and the other half are all quite enjoyable. My favorite episode is from season 2, Skull Duggery rides again. The first Skull Duggery episode was pretty good but his second episode cemented this ghost out to kill anybody who even thinks about wanting to take his diamonds, even kids as my favorite villain in the entire series. After his first defeat, he wants revenge on Marshall Moo by turning Cow Town into a ghost town which means aging the buildings to ruin and the citizens to weak elders. He was ready to age an entire town with the intent of aging them to death just to get back at our heroes. Definitely the darkest villain in the show, and one of the best villains in any Ninja Turtles wannabe series.
I am actually a huge fan of most of the TMNT wannabe cartoons, having loved them growing up without ever comparing them to TMNT and even a couple I didn't grow up with that have writing good enough for me to appreciate even as an adult. I loved Street Sharks and I still do, I don't know exactly where I'd rank it but they had a pretty good through-line with their quest to find their missing father which helped keep me invested in the series.
Skull Duggery is indeed the scariest villain in Moo Mesa universe. He's an evil spirit where it's likely that not only did he kill anybody that entered the mines, but suppose he had an entire collection of skeletons and bones of all his previous victims hidden somewhere. And I wouldn't be surprised if he dabbled with the black arts before his death.
So how many of those fan fictions did you write?
…Not THAT many.
crap i thought you were going to do Tigersharks but that was made in the 80s
I just googled Tigersharks, and it looks like a Thundercats knockoff. Which is ALSO fascinating, and I’ll definitely check it out later!
Several lols from this one.
Just curious, did you buy that getup (or is it a giddyup in this case) for this occasion, or did you make it, or did you already have it? 😉
...and yes, do street sharks.
I purchased it just for the occasion! I really had to hold myself back from buying a tiny cowboy hat and a gold sheriff's badge that said "Official Brothel Inspector."
@@PugMugsly hah! sounds like a must-have.
I don't remember this terrible pun filled creation. I did watch Biker Mice from Mars which I think was TMNT inspired.
I’m definitely jotting down “Biker Mice from Mars.”
@@PugMugsly I just remembered Samurai Pizza Cats, another show I watched as a kid.
@@buddhamack1491 Samurai Pizza Cats sounds AMAZING.
@PugMugsly Samurai Pizza Cats is buck wild! It's an interesting story. The localization team couldn't get complete translations so they just dubbed in their own lines. They decided to make it a screwball comedy. It plays like more of a parody of action anime than actual anime. I don't watch anime because it's weird AF anyway but this show is a bizarre experience. I think you'd like it. I would be very interested in watching a video on it. I would love to hear your thoughts. I think that would be interesting
There’s my sketch page at 10:20 on the bottom left.
I wonder if there is any connection between these tmnt rip-offs and the rise of furry culture? Also your costume game is on point as always.
Sometimes people tend to emulate the ideals they absorbed in childhood - like I think of people who LOVED Disney Princesses and try to recreate that lifestyle (in varying degrees) in adulthood. So it would potentially make sense that furry culture could have similar behaviors based on this style of anthropomorphic cartoons. (It must be fun to be a modern anthropologist, lol.)
@@PugMugsly Yeah you could get lost in all sorts different sub cultures. Personally I like learning about things people collect and the life styles of the hardcore collectors. The other day I watched a 45 min mini doc on VHS collectors.
Yet again another fantastic video from a cowgirl that could totally be a sharkgirl. Am trying really hard to outpun you but I just can't think of any. Would Bikermice from Mars count as a TMNT rip off show?
That’s another show I never saw! But it sounds amazing, and I’ve definitely written it down.
Wow, I've never even heard of this show.
Also, are there any humans in the show? Because if it's just an anthropomorphic world the elaborate backstory with the mesa seems really unnecessary.
No humans exist
The action figures were where it was at! Great review - deserves way more views!
Thank you! 😄
Duck tales woo woo
suits you
7:55 That's sexist!
...
No, wait...
Street Sharks was more popular than this.
Weird show if you ask me
No offense, but all this rip off accusations has gotten out if hand and overused where it's too tiring and too negative
Moo Mesa was created by Ryan Brown, an artist primarily known for his work on the TMNT comics. The connection and inspiration is pretty clear! It's not a bad thing. The Moo Mesa characters also appeared in a few TMNT issues as a crossover.
@@PugMugsly I got nothing against Ninja Turtles, but I feel they've had enough reboots after another and should give other shows a chance to shine, like this one, if only people had more respect for wild west genre.
Honestly, I might be a little different because I don't see anything wrong with ripping something off. As a good example, Marvel Comics and DC Comics have been ripping each off for decades and some great characters have come out of it( like Deadpool, Thanos, The Squadron Supreme, Lobo, Red Tool, Red Lion, etc). Just make the rip-off a GOOD one and I think that people will accept it, resonate with it and be less inclined to care. The TMNT themselves were a rip-off!
Everybody takes inspiration and influence from something that came before them. Using old ideas to make new ones is itself, nothing new.
I would hardly call this a tmnt rip off the origins are way different and it's not clear if the planet they live on is on earth or not.
And also you bring up Ducktales so wouldn't Tmnt be a ripoff of Ducktales they been around way longer then tmnt.
couple of other series are Biker Mice from Mars, Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, and road rovers and swat kats
SWAT Kats was surprisingly good. I recommend that one