Nostalgia Showdown: Cartoon Brackets and Childhood Memories Unleashed
Jun 11, 2024
The Beer Brothers
Ready for a hearty dose of nostalgia and laughter? Join us in this week's episode of "Three Guys Around the Table" as we tackle a listener-requested cartoon bracket curated by our longtime friend Ric Mellin. We kick things off with a hilarious exchange about Ric's age, featuring a live call that sets the tone for the spirited debates to come. First up, it's He-Man versus the Super Friends! Our passionate discussion is filled with fond recollections and humorous banter, ultimately crowning the Super Friends as the victor. Expect a trip down memory lane as we relive our childhood Saturday mornings and the classic cartoons that shaped them.
But the fun doesn't stop there! We dive into a heated debate over cartoon icons like Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, and Captain Caveman. Amidst our arguments, we reminisce about our favorite childhood cereals and share comical breakfast anecdotes. Our conversation meanders through cherished TV shows like "My Three Sons" and "Three's Company," and we challenge Ric to send more topics for us to explore. With laughter and shared memories, we wrap up the episode eagerly anticipating Ric's future contributions, especially his take on the enigmatic "triple lindy." Tune in for a blend of humor, nostalgia, and engaging conversation celebrating the golden age of cartoons and TV shows.
Ready for a hearty dose of nostalgia and laughter? Join us in this week's episode of "Three Guys Around the Table" as we tackle a listener-requested cartoon bracket curated by our longtime friend Ric Mellin. We kick things off with a hilarious exchange about Ric's age, featuring a live call that sets the tone for the spirited debates to come. First up, it's He-Man versus the Super Friends! Our passionate discussion is filled with fond recollections and humorous banter, ultimately crowning the Super Friends as the victor. Expect a trip down memory lane as we relive our childhood Saturday mornings and the classic cartoons that shaped them.
But the fun doesn't stop there! We dive into a heated debate over cartoon icons like Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, and Captain Caveman. Amidst our arguments, we reminisce about our favorite childhood cereals and share comical breakfast anecdotes. Our conversation meanders through cherished TV shows like "My Three Sons" and "Three's Company," and we challenge Ric to send more topics for us to explore. With laughter and shared memories, we wrap up the episode eagerly anticipating Ric's future contributions, especially his take on the enigmatic "triple lindy." Tune in for a blend of humor, nostalgia, and engaging conversation celebrating the golden age of cartoons and TV shows.
Speaker 1:
three guys around the table and by three guys.
Speaker 3:
We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent and just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around, all right.
Speaker 2:
So today we have a very special episode of three guys around the table. The best of we are witness a listener request. This is a listener request um it's more than a request. The listener put it together for us. He did. And uh, my, my, uh, my very dear friend, like a brother.
Speaker 3:
Rick Mellon, a brother from another mother. Is that Thornton's son? He is not Thornton's son, can you?
Speaker 2:
do a triple. Lindy Rick is a principal down in the beautiful state of Florida One of those people. And has been a long-term friend of mine, and I love Rick and his wife Leslie. They're awesome people and we consider them family and Rick is a loyal listener to the show.
Speaker 1:
Do you consider Rick family?
Speaker 3:
I'm feeling a little bit of excitement.
Speaker 1:
You should. I'm good with it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2:
Rick sent an episode idea of doing a cartoon bracket Cartoons when we were kids Time out.
Speaker 3:
Steamboat Willie was when Chris and I were cartoons, when we were kids time out. Steamboat willie was, uh, when chris and our children yeah, hold on, I'm looking at this list. How old is?
Speaker 2:
rick. Can we call him out on this? Rick is rick is my age. I mean, rick is so a little younger than me, not so 79 did rick had cable television uh look, not everybody had three residents.
Speaker 3:
I'm sure, I sure Rick had cable TV. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 1:
Did everybody have three residences going?
Speaker 3:
on Shut up, I'm going to head two, yeah, I think he's what was a rental house Shut up?
Speaker 2:
Moving on. Oh, actually he's texting me right now. He is driving home listening to it now, the one we just did. Oh, should have called him out on it Listening and driving. Hold on. Do you know what I'm going to bring?
Speaker 3:
him in on this call. He's calling him up. Oh wow, this is live on the air.
Speaker 2:
We very rarely do this.
Speaker 3:
Hello, shut up, I'm listening Hello.
Speaker 2:
Hey, you are live on the air, rick Mellon. Believe it or not, go for it? Hey, you are live on the air, rick Mellon.
Speaker 1:
Believe it or not, go for it. Hey, rick, he sounds excited. Hey.
Speaker 3:
Rick, I've got a question for you On the triple Lindy. Did your father teach you how to land that properly or did you just come by it naturally?
Speaker 2:
They're going with the easy jokes, Rick. So, look, we are doing an episode right now on the cartoon bracket. We have just begun it. We're two minutes and 48 seconds into it. Okay, and uh, I just wanted to give you full props and credit and put you on the air so you don't have to stay for the whole thing. Uh, you're going to be surprised by the who wins. Um, but they've already asked how old you were, because they think I'm like 78.
Speaker 1:
No we don't think Early 50s. Rick, did you have cable TV when you were growing up?
Speaker 4:
I did, but the cable TV box in order to change a channel. It was on a cable. It was on a cable so you had to. You had this little cable box that was on a line that was connected to the TV. But if you got a, it was like 20 feet long so you could like walk across the room with it and then turn the dial on the cable TV.
Speaker 3:
So, rick, besides being wealthy, what else occurred in your life as a child?
Speaker 2:
and, by the way, this is coming from the guy that lived in three different residences.
Speaker 4:
You do realize that I've listened to all of your podcasts and I can hear your background.
Speaker 2:
On that note, I will let you focus on driving and we will be publishing this later this evening. All right, sounds good.
Speaker 4:
See you, Rick. See you, buddy.
Speaker 3:
So great call right there and I just want to follow up and say that my parents owned a house and we owned the little house next to us called the Little House. It was a rental home.
Speaker 1:
The Little House was bigger than any house I've ever owned In the hood in the ghetto neighborhood.
Speaker 3:
It was in the hood neighborhood.
Speaker 1:
Why is it got to be the hood?
Speaker 3:
It was in the hood. Nobody goes there after dark. It's nobody goes after darkness.
Speaker 2:
Now not the end back then they were all 95 plus, and when those people died off is when it got really bad anyway.
Speaker 3:
So I will reiterate that. Rick, thank you for knowing my background. Now we're moving on anywho.
Speaker 2:
Um so rick has created a bracket and he actually went to effort at this.
Speaker 3:
This is oh yeah, this is big. Hey. By the way, real Rick, pick the next topic, do the same thing. Buddy, you've got the bracket, give us another one. This is fun. This is really fun. I actually do like the brackets. Yeah, man, I like it. Let's go.
Speaker 2:
In the top of the bracket. We've got it looks like. Let's see.
Speaker 3:
This is Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker 2:
Saturday morning cartoons. How many we got here? 1, 2, 3, 16? Yeah, 16 teams Sweet 16,. I like it. In the first matchup we've got He-Man versus the Super Friends.
Speaker 1:
I don't know who the Super.
Speaker 2:
Friends are oh my gosh really.
Speaker 3:
Form of Wonder Twins activate.
Speaker 1:
Form of a light sword He-Man. He-man, that was easy.
Speaker 3:
Super Friends done. He-man was the dumbest show ever by the power of Grayskull. I have the power.
Speaker 1:
What are you talking about by the power of Grayskull? Bad Skeletor is another reason why, it automatically wins.
Speaker 2:
I'm going to have to say on this one that it's got to be Super Friends.
Speaker 3:
Done. I'm sorry Because.
Speaker 2:
This is a tough first round matchup.
Speaker 3:
No, it is not, because the Hall of Justice is in Cincinnati and I know those people.
Speaker 2:
But here's the thing If this was a true bracket, this would be like number one seed versus number 16 or whatever right, so Superfans is a 16 seed.
Speaker 1:
I agree. Time out Superfans.
Speaker 3:
No chance Time out Super Friends is Spider-Man, superman, aquaman, batman, wonder Woman, and you're taking He-Man over those people.
Speaker 1:
I didn't know what Super Friends was by a vote of two to one.
Speaker 2:
Super Friends is one. Hang on, what was?
Speaker 3:
the name of the people that did the Wonder Twins, never mind the Wonder Twins.
Speaker 1:
Wonder Twins Activist, One was Animal one was Ice.
Speaker 2:
Super Friends won the first one All right, lead us into the next one, chris.
Speaker 3:
The Transformers, or Jabberjaw, jab, jab, jab, jab jab. I got to go Transformers.
Speaker 1:
Transformers. Transformers yeah, more than meets the eye More than meets the eye Easy. All right.
Speaker 3:
Were you an Autobot or a Decepticon? Oh, I'm always.
Speaker 1:
Madcast, I'm always Decepticon Autobots roll out. All right, greg, scooby-doo and Garfield, two classics here I gotta go Scooby-Doo for the cartoon yeah, I gotta go Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 3:
Just because of Channel 19, wxix, cincinnati 3 pm.
Speaker 2:
Channel 19. Wxix Doo, doo do.
Speaker 3:
I didn't have that channel in Little Mudge I did Home of Bob Braun. Thanks to that Scooby-Doo 3 pm every weekday.
Speaker 2:
Scooby-Doo a million times out of a million for me, and I love Garfield Time out, time out, if we're going to have been Scooby, velma or Daphne.
Speaker 3:
Everybody want to be Fred Shut up. I think everyone want to be Fred because, Fred's always hanging out with Velma Right.
Speaker 1:
No, daphne, I'm sorry. Sorry, daphne, daphne was where it was at.
Speaker 3:
Fred would be like Daphne, come with me in this dark scary cave. Velma Shaggy and Scooby, you go off, velma, you go with the dog and the pothead Go over here I'll be hanging out.
Speaker 2:
Alright, we got Scooby-Doo moving forward, Alright. Next one is DuckTales and the Chippendale.
Speaker 1:
Rescue.
Speaker 2:
Rangers.
Speaker 3:
I never watched either one of these.
Speaker 4:
Chippendales was two squirrels right.
Speaker 3:
Well, they're chipmunks, but it's cool.
Speaker 2:
This is going to be an easy win in the next round for Scooby-Doo in my opinion.
Speaker 4:
Let's go.
Speaker 3:
Who are you picking?
Speaker 2:
I'm going to go DuckTales.
Speaker 3:
So I'm going to go Chip and Dale because they were on the.
Speaker 2:
Disney side.
Speaker 3:
Okay, I'll go Chip and Dale, because Rangers Rescue Rangers, yeah.
Speaker 2:
That sounds great.
Speaker 1:
Inspector Gadget versus the Pink Panther. Now wait a minute.
Speaker 2:
This could go either way because the Inspector Gadget was my all-time favorite.
Speaker 3:
in a weird humor kind of way, I'm a Pink Panther Pink.
Speaker 2:
Panther, pink Panther.
Speaker 3:
Done. Do you remember the Pink Panther?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, all right. What about Inspector Gadget?
Speaker 3:
The dog was so cool. The dog was the one that said.
Speaker 1:
Then you just said okay.
Speaker 3:
Pink Panther. Well, the Pink Panther was weird, but Inspector Gadget had the dog. That saved the day and nobody knew about it, right?
Speaker 2:
See the next one for me is difficult. You've got a fun one here. The next one for me is difficult. I know this one Grape Ape or.
Speaker 4:
Captain Caveman.
Speaker 1:
Grape Ape, captain Caveman, I gotta go with Captain Caveman, captain Caveman for me. Even though I like Grape Ape because he rode on top of that car, grape Ape.
Speaker 2:
I'm going to go Grape Ape, just to be the dissenting voice. And what was his buddy's name? Grape Ape? Hello, Bigley Bigley. Captain Caveman moves on All right. So it's back to me. I'm probably going to lose this one Guaranteed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Hong Kong Fooey.
Speaker 3:
Hong Kong Fooey.
Speaker 1:
How would you lose that? I thought you all would go.
Speaker 3:
Mutant Ninja Turtles I have never seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 1:
I've never seen that cartoon.
Speaker 3:
Hong Kong Foo was legit. The dog was awesome.
Speaker 2:
Hong Kong. Foo is the man A million times out of a million Hong Kong Foo-y.
Speaker 3:
Number one super guy.
Speaker 4:
Oh yeah, that's what I meant. Come on now.
Speaker 1:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, heroes in a half shell. I was all about the rat, or whatever it was.
Speaker 3:
There was a rat on, there Was it Janie's dog. Yeah it was.
Speaker 2:
You got the last one here.
Speaker 1:
Chris, this one's a difficult one.
Speaker 3:
This is different because I'm thinking about Christmas time here Alvin and the Chipmunks, or the Jetsons.
Speaker 2:
This is a pretty easy one. It's easy for me.
Speaker 1:
It's good, jetsons jetsons jetsons yep hands down, all right why all right?
Speaker 3:
it was futuristic. It is realistic, all right, mr sprocket greg, you're starting us off into round two the quarterfinals so we're going with super friends, or? Or it was transformers no, no, it was Super Friends. Yeah, super Friends versus.
Speaker 1:
I know how a bracket works. You are a bracket racer. I'm going Transformers because I still don't know who Super Friends are.
Speaker 3:
Super Friends. I'm going Transformers because they're more than meets. The Aquaman puts me over the top. Aquaman puts me over the top. He can ride dolphins. He can telekinesis whatever.
Speaker 1:
I'm going'll be the tie-breaking vote and I'm going super friends.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, there you go. Hall of justice just useless. The next one's unanimous and it's quick yeah, scooby-doo versus scooby-doo whoever won the other one?
Speaker 3:
who cares? Scooby-doo, baby chippendale was the other one yep scooby-doo moving forward.
Speaker 1:
All right, greg uh, then this the next one is Pink Panther versus Captain Caveman. I'm going, captain Caveman, pink Panther.
Speaker 2:
I got to go, captain Caveman.
Speaker 3:
Oh, it's a mutiny Pink.
Speaker 2:
Panther.
Speaker 1:
I really enjoyed, but Captain Caveman was special, absolutely All right, that was an upset for me. Yes, you're up, hong Kong. Fooey and the Jetsons Hong.
Speaker 3:
Kong Fooey and the Jetsons, jetsons, hong Kong Fooey, hong Kong Fooey.
Speaker 4:
What was the vacuum?
Speaker 3:
maiden's name? Is that Betty?
Speaker 2:
I gotta go, jetsons here.
Speaker 3:
What was the vacuum? Maiden's name Rosie.
Speaker 1:
It's Mark's dog.
Speaker 2:
Alright, so now we're down to the semis.
Speaker 3:
So we're down to Super Friends and Scooby-Doo, I'm going Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 1:
I've been anti Super Friends the whole time.
Speaker 3:
This is a hard one man.
Speaker 2:
I'll make it easy Scooby-Doo, I was going to say Scooby-Doo. I would say Scooby-Doo as well.
Speaker 1:
Look if you ain't got a Great Dane in your cartoon. You're wrong, that's right.
Speaker 3:
Look, if you don't have the Harlem Globetrotters on your show, there's a problem.
Speaker 1:
Right, yep I mean you've got to unmask the bad person every time.
Speaker 2:
And look every time here into the next semifinal. It looks like we've got Captain Caveman and the Jetsons, jetsons for me Done.
Speaker 4:
I've got to go, jetsons, what was?
Speaker 3:
the little kid's name. What was his little name? Little boy Oswell.
Speaker 1:
Elroy, I'm going to go, captain Caveman, because I've lost, but it's okay.
Speaker 2:
We're in the finals, we're down to the Jetsons. Now you've got to say why.
Speaker 1:
I have my choice. You lead us, Greg. My choice is Scooby-Doo. Tell us why You've got a great Dane in it. First of all, You've got an ever-changing story with different mysteries, why would you call?
Speaker 2:
Thelma, a good name. It's Velma, by the way. It is Velma.
Speaker 1:
Getting a phone call in the middle of a podcast is rude, by the way.
Speaker 2:
Let's be turning it on. And the fact that they let it ring three times. That's a pet peeve of mine, pet peeves episode three Leading off, I'm going Scooby-Doo.
Speaker 1:
Yep, you don't have Jetson snacks either, but you still got Scooby snacks out. Yep, you know.
Speaker 2:
I'd ask Chris, but it looks like he's worried about his phone call. I'm ready.
Speaker 1:
Scooby-Doo is where it's at number one.
Speaker 3:
So gentlemen, I think you're thinking of two different time frames here.
Speaker 2:
Okay, Mark's time frame is that Is this time to criticize Thornton Mellon's son. Yet Absolutely not.
Speaker 3:
We have to.
Speaker 2:
My friend is not criticizable.
Speaker 3:
We have to criticize him, everybody's criticizable. Just for the record, according to Greg, he's breathing.
Speaker 1:
That's true, that's valid.
Speaker 3:
But I will set us up for a future episode. He left off the Flintstones, which was the predecessor to the Jetsons.
Speaker 2:
But again, that was way back in the 60s.
Speaker 3:
So was.
Speaker 2:
Scooby-Doo. Scooby-doo started in 69. Way back in the 60s.
Speaker 3:
Greg, did you know the 69 was not in the 60s.
Speaker 2:
Did you know that? That is crazy? It's not way back in the 60s.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:
So you're going, I will tell you that he's?
Speaker 2:
complaining because Scrappy-Doo isn't mentioned here.
Speaker 1:
I think that you probably like the new Wildcat too. You like Scratch better than the old school Wildcat. Oh, that's so wrong.
Speaker 3:
I absolutely 100%, am on board with saying that Scooby-Doo wins this bracket and wins this championship, because I got to tell you I would watch it morning, noon and night. It was always something different and I somehow would know who the bad person was, and it took them a little longer.
Speaker 1:
So you outsmarted Scooby-Doo? Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:
I think it was because of the substance of the day, right the original mystery machine, the original scooby-doo, hands down one of my favorites of all time agreed I agree um the new scooby-doo mysteries, all these different ones that have come about in different times. They're all. They're all okay. The original is the best. It always is. Scooby-doo wins this hands down Zoinks.
Speaker 1:
All right, exactly so what were you eating when you were watching Scooby-Doo?
Speaker 2:
Cap'n Crunch.
Speaker 1:
Fruity.
Speaker 3:
Pebbles. Okay, we didn't really eat cereal.
Speaker 1:
I mean, remember we had this, we had Cheerios, they had poached eggs.
Speaker 2:
May I please have some.
Speaker 3:
G-Chanese on my poached eggs, mother. If you guys only knew I was eating bagels and lox, my mother will come across the street and beat you. I didn't want like a fine English breakfast this morning.
Speaker 1:
I will tell you this. He had the brown beans with his scrambled eggs and links All right, I hate you both.
Speaker 3:
I am going to tell a quick story, real quick.
Speaker 2:
We did eat cereal Stop it.
Speaker 3:
I hate you both we were too good for cereal. My mother would not allow us to have cereal.
Speaker 1:
We had a real breakfast of salmon and homemade crepes.
Speaker 3:
They're pronounced crepes. Since you guys keep pounding on, I'm sitting here in defense of I'm going to tell you a story real quick.
Speaker 1:
The palatial palace that your mother lives in, literally across the street, I'm going to tell you a story about my mother.
Speaker 3:
If she could hear this, she would come across the street and kill all of you.
Speaker 2:
Did we have an RV parked out front?
Speaker 1:
Mark can tell some stories about your mother.
Speaker 3:
Oh my God, I digress Anyhow long story. Real quick. I told you before we always had Cheerios or Life or Rice Krispies or, at Best, fruit Loops. You know, mom wouldn't buy us the good sugar stuff, right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, because you all were too good dude. Unhealthy food, I'll tell you you all had the high dollar cereal. I'll tell you, you had Mueslix, the German cereal.
Speaker 3:
I'll tell two stories real quick. One of them for breakfast one morning. I have never had oatmeal in my life. To this day I still never eat oatmeal. But we had Quaker Oats because Dad on occasion would make oatmeal cookies and they were great and that's how I've had oatmeal.
Speaker 1:
I've never had oatmeal cookies made for me by my dad. Dads were amazing, so anyhow long story.
Speaker 3:
Long story. One morning, Dad decides to get up and he's going. I grew up with hot dog omelets. For God's sakes, it was a hot dog omelet day.
Speaker 1:
But Dad decided he wanted a bowl of One item that may not be posh.
Speaker 3:
He decides that Dad wants a bowl of oatmeal.
Speaker 1:
Did you all have to go to the other?
Speaker 3:
house when you ate.
Speaker 1:
It was a rental home. Stop. So Dad decides, so you had secondary income sources when you were growing up.
Speaker 3:
Dad decides to fix a bowl of oatmeal for himself. That's what he wanted. So he's sitting there and he's like this is crunchy. What are these dark specks in this oatmeal? Well, apparently you know, quaker Oats used to come in that big oval container. They still do.
And he asked my mom right, I'm thinking two-dimensional. He asked my mom, he goes did you put pepper in this oatmeal for some reason? And he's like chunking on it. And they realized mites had gotten into the oatmeal. Yeah, baby. And they're crunching down on extra protein.
Speaker 1:
Yes, that's number one. So what's the issue? Issue he was getting games.
Speaker 3:
Number two. I'll tell you there used to be a butcher shop up on Shinkalang.
Speaker 1:
I never, go to butcher shops. I wouldn't know when I was growing up what a butcher shop was. Hold on, we had to get our meat off of the road.
Speaker 3:
I was probably five or six and we went up there.
Speaker 1:
Normally we don't like shopping at Kroger, kind of like Tony Soprano, you had your own butcher shop. Oh yeah, you knew what your weekly order was. The pork store.
Speaker 3:
We go up there and I'll never forget my mom goes to back.
Speaker 1:
Yes, I mean goes in the back to get your food. Of course she can't be with the common folk I. Carmen, I was like do you have my weekly? Order already processed and ready to go.
Speaker 3:
That's now, that wasn't. Then she goes yes, I need a pound of bologna please. And I looked at mom. I was like what's bologna? We eat bologna. And the guy looks at me like high five little boy. I got you right here right, yes, so that's my story. We talking about the one time, the one time they ever had bologna.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, exactly, I gotta eat bologna now it's more expensive than anything else well so rick, scooby-doo, rick, rick killed it, but can we ask for a part two? Rick number one. Can we ask for part two of cartoon characters?
Speaker 2:
well, we can do, can do cartoon characters. That'd be a good one, rick. Another one would be TV shows from our childhood. Not necessarily cartoons it doesn't have to even be childhood, it can just be, TV shows.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, like my three sons and that kind of stuff yeah that's cool. Three's company Knock on my door. Hey, anything Rick wants to send us is awesome. Yep, rick, the challenge is out, buddy.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, send us anything, we'll do it the next time, rick, you're gonna actually be brought in. Uh live, I think it was his time.
Speaker 3:
Well, yeah but he's gonna be part of the part of the discussion very good I want to hear more about this triple lindy that you know that started in Lima. Is that?
Speaker 1:
where it was Seriously yeah.
Speaker 2:
Lindy sounds a little like Lima. There's an L in it.
Speaker 3:
So is. I am still confused about Lima.
Speaker 1:
Well, you should be I mean, we've talked about it so many times.
