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Harlem Globetrotters, The (1970)

Cartoon
The Harlem Globetrotters
Super Globetrotters

Animal
Basketball team
wtf is that a dog with them?

 

 

Outfit: shorts / patriotic tanktop / basketball / warm-up suits / afrocentric attitudes

Tagline: "I thought the Generals were due! He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it! Take the ball! That game was fixed. He was using a freakin ladder for gods sake."

Plot summary: The Harlem Globetrotters (Bobby Joe, Curly Neal, Curly Joe Neal, Geese, Pablo and Shemp) travel the world playing basketball with their funny antics and wild game play, like the one time they went to Ethiopia and got a real kick out of throwing a bucket of confetti into the mouth of a dying boy. He thought it was water, ha! The regular formula was as follows: 

1) Globetrotters stop to help someone in trouble. The person in trouble sees a van full of black people stop and walk up to him and shits his pants.
2) They get involved in a dispute that inevitably must be settled by a basketball game. Like in American History X, before the "curbing."
3) The villains set the game in an unusual setting to make sure the Globetrotters will lose (on ice, against kangaroos, battling robots on Gilligan's Island) 
4) Globetrotters are trounced in the first half but always find a way to even the odds.
5) The Globetrotters superior skill always wins them the game in the second half.

This blurb comes to you thanks to whatever generic "HEY REMEMBER THIS" site I found that had the Globetrotters on it. Let's call it... HOLY SHIT NOW I REMEMBER THAT SHOW WAS CALLED SNORKS.com
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User Comments: There is a common misconception that white people don't know anything about basketball just because we aren't classically good at playing it. Nine times out of ten if you ask a twenty-six year old black guy in a George Gervin jersey who the player on his shirt was he'll mumble and go "Das Shaq, ya hurr." Shaquille O'Gervin. Ask a nerdy white kid how many assists per game Toni Kukoc had in his first pro season and he'll tell you, along with stats for Scottie Pippen, Bill Paxton, Craig Worthington and the rest of the UNBEATABULLS. Ask a twenty-six year old white guy in a George Gervin jersey who the player on his shirt was and he'll say "basketball doyyyy." Ask a nerdy black guy anything and he will create an evil puppet or robot cop, and then you might fall in love with him through pity and time-served. Such is my knowledge of humanity and basketball. Basketball? dooyyyyy

The Globetrotters are basketball players dressed as basketball players, so they score TEN POINTS! Let's go to the leader-board, Mo!

Mo?

User Rating: 10/10 (1 votes)