Now these are the Saturday morning shows I would watch – in Super Panavision.

I’ve blogged about this before – there’s a YouTube community that takes various TV and movie properties and re-imagines them as 1950’s-era motion pictures – complete with two-minute AI-generated movie trailers and stentorial narration. Fun stuff.

If South Park was shot as a super-wide-screen live-action Technicolor classic in Super Panavision 70…

Now recently I’ve come across a YouTuber who went for some impressive projects. He’s taking classic Saturday morning cartoons and re-imagining them as “dark fantasy” Super Panavision projects. And I’ll tell you this – if someone actually spent some money and put together a project like this for real, it would be a blockbuster.

Check out, for example, this guy’s take on the classic 1960’s action series The Herculoids.

And if you dig those 1960’s Hanna-Barbera action shows, wait until you see what he did with Space Ghost.

Oh man, it gets better. Let’s see what he did with the 1970’s action series Thundarr the Barbarian. Lords of light …

Okay, yeah, everything looks like a tryout for a live-action Heavy Metal movie, I get it. I mean, it’s not like he’s found some totally way-cool action series that got completely overlooked in its time … wait, he did a version of The Pirates of Dark Water???

And he also did a version of Speed Racer, but man i will never approve that version of his Mach V. No way, no how.

That being said … these are fun to watch, and they do give an idea of what would happen if someone actually made a big-budget live-action film. Well, they did do that with Speed Racer, I mean, I do remember seeing that in theaters ages ago … but maybe this version would have been better. If they updated the Mach V, I mean…