I usually joked about the reason why you never saw Spider-Man’s webs not attach to buildings was that the webs were attached to the top of the TV screen.

Every time I learn something new about Ralph Bakshi, it's always something batshit. I thought his antics peaked when he punched the face of the producer on Cool World for changing so much of the story. But no. Turns out it's when he evaded the Canadian police after stealing animation cells. God love him.

I love aggressive wholesomeness of Spider-Man admiring the night sky. “Fuck, I love these stars!”

Didn’t realize Rocket Robin Hood of all shows would involve a story of Ralph Bakshi trying to evade Canadian Police.

Dementia 5 sounds like if we started adding Dragon Ball-style power levels to mental disorders.

I love how this turned into a "true crime" story for a minute

All my life, whenever my sister and I would waste food, my parents would always refer to us a "Friar Tuck." I vaguely knew that was a Robin Hood character but I never knew which version they were referencing. Until now.

I do like the red villains design. It’s real creepy and fun and slightly reminds me of an xenomorph . Granted I’m a sucker for old shoestring budget cartoons so I am biased

Those aliens must be retro snobs. “It’s analog! It has a warmer sound!”

The story of Ralph Bakshi going from animation to directing his own films is a fascinating one!

I'm pretty sure it was called Dementia Five because they hoped you'd totally forget it before watching it again, but with Spiderman.

I heard of stealing plots and animations but never before did I think I would see them straight up steal an entire episode and basically turn it into Spider-Man fan fiction

On the topic of the _Rocket Robin Hood_ character bios they would reuse endlessly to pad out time, I always had a soft spot for Prince' John's, which stated that he wanted to "Destroy and Conquer the entire solar system." Aren't they mutually exclusive? I like to think that he wanted to do this in that specific order, first destroy the solar system, then conquer the destroyed rubble.

Now all we need is for Rocket Robin Hood to appear in the next Spide-verse movie.

"How do we communicate this character is a one-off cameo?" "Cameo!? Thomas Cameo! It's PERFECT! And DEFINITELY sounds like a real name that people have!"

Could be just me, but Dementia Five seems more like an adventure for Doctor Strange than Spider-Man

Was not disappointed by the Hallow-weenie cameo! I miss that guy! 😥

It's not often you see animated shows literally and almost completely recycle the same material for something else like this

Once again the story behind the cartoon is more interesting that the actual cartoon. PD If dimension 5 was all illusions, they could have revealed at the end that all was a plan of Misterio.

Phelous just casually revealing that Halloweenie is actually his own skeleton, presumably animated after his death following the events of Phelous and the Movies. Here I thought we were done with Phelan being killed and coming back again!

Backshi: "Well, I'm an international criminal. Better make a feature-length x-rated furry movie about life in the inner city, where I grew up." Dude lived a life

If Friar Tuck only eats one bite of each food and still gains weight he probably has a glandular problem and the fact that Robin makes fun of him makes him a jerk. More like Rockhead Robin Hood, amirite?

*A dimensional space cat would make sense in the Marvel universe.* There's always amazing fantasies going on over there.

25:29 "I have been falling for THIRTY MINUTES!"

heh, that story about Ralph having to escape Canadian police sounds like something out of a malicious compliance Reddit story. It is weird to see them use the actual animation assets over so blatantly, but old cartoons having the same basic plot and animation is pretty common. Some examples off the top of my head include Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry doing that piano playing episode, or EVERYONE doing that "baby wandering around while the protagonist tries to protect them" story...and I mean everyone quite literally, I've seen it done by Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Felix, it was then ENTIRE premise of Buttons and Mindy on Animaniacs, and heck I think they even did a Sonic episode back in the Dic days...

This is literally just what I used to do as a kid where when I watched a show or movie I liked to imagine it with characters from another work I liked, except this is a real thing that someone did.

Imagine if this was done today. You'll be seeing an episode of Rise of the TMNT, then later you'll watch SpongeBob and it recycle the same background, characters, and plot, but with SpongeBob in it, instead of the turtles.

I'd be totally on board with a "Garfield in Dementia Five" episode, ngl.

What do Spider-Man, a forgotten sci fi robin hood cartoon and being a fugitive from Canadian justice have in common? More than i thought!

So just so I understand, the dimensions in order are 1-3) Height, Width, Depth, 4) Time and 5) Space Cats. MAKES SENSE!

Ships are too big to wear tinfoil hats, so you gotta improvise by turning them into meteors.

If I understood that right, the secret that these aliens found out about Dementia 5, which was also the reason for that red cyclop to blow everything up, was that Dementia 5 did actually not exist?

It's funny. Years ago, Phelous answered questions I always asked about Dragon Ball Z changing dubs from Ocean, to FUNimation, back to Ocean (in Canada at least) in his review of the big green dub for DBZ. Now he's answering questions I *never* asked about Rocket Robin Hood, another show I grew up seeing occasionally. I guess it's not _that_ funny. Anyway, good content.

But who can forget when Ralph Bakshi worked with GoodTimes to produce Old Man in Dementia 5? "Nye- w- a hole appeared in this door? It looks like I'm expected!"

I remember both cartoons fondly from childhood, although I saw the Spider Man version of this episode first. I saw the RRH version during the mid-2000's, and shook my head all the way through. God love Ralph Bakshi

Considering I loved the Friar Tuck clip from the Golden Hunchback episode, it's about time we get the full story behind Rocket Robin Hood and the Spidey/Bakshi connection.

Now all I want for the next 1st April is "Wabuu and Old Man go to Dementia Five".

This isn't even stealing the plot. It's literally taking the episode of Rocket Robin Hood and putting Spider-Man's animation cels over it.

He seriously turned his ship into a tin foil hat to block the signals controlling his brain. Yup, it's the 60s.

God I love these old 60s hero cartoons, so stupid but so sincere, incredible stuff

This is my issue with Hanna-Barbera's output, considering how often they used the same concept over and over and over again... Also, that story about Ralph Bakshi was _wild_ ... truth is stranger than fiction indeed...

Ah, yes. The Spider-Man episode that let five year old me understand how a bad acid trip felt. I'd be joking, but twenty years later I verified that yeah, that was the feeling.

Fun Fact: Rocket Robin Hood also featured Ming the Merciless, the archenemy of Flash Gordon.

When Bakshi worked at Terrytoons in the mid-late 60's, his shows James Hound and The Mighty Heroes did reuse footage from episode to episode, but it was more like the Filmation model. Close ups and certain action sequences. Nothing as severe as this, though. Budget seems to be one of his worst enemies. Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures kept going over budget and behind schedule so badly that several of the 11 minute segments across two seasons were clip shows. Some even using old Terrytoons cartoon footage.

I like that when the three Spider-Men met on the set of No Way Home they ALL immediately assumed the infamous three spider pointing meme on instinct. There's a great photoshoot for it.

Whenever Halloweenie shows up it is unexpected... but welcome. I remember Rocket Robin Hood, none of the episodes, but I remember it being on when I woke up early and there was nothing else to watch. So similar experiences there. I did not know that it forced Ralph Bakshi to flee Canada for a while though. That is... not surprising, but still very insane.

Rocket Robin Hood looks like one of those old "Flash Gordon" knock-offs from back in the day. A lot of sci-fi back in the day was very pulp-y like that, and the Star Trek franchise, which existed at the time, was in it's infancy, so these kind of things had yet to die off... somewhat. Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy were heavily Flash Gordon inspired, especially in their early days, but evolved into their own things. My biggest surprise from this is that Ralph Bakshi was involved in all of this, and this was before he became a household name among animation buffs.

Phelan's end animation was more entertaining that the Rocket Robin Hood and Spider-man episodes combined.

Planet exploding in the Spider-man version Tien: Look, I can see their space parachutes! They are okay!

Ralph Bakshi reusing animation for multiple shows before Hanna-Barbera made it cool.

"Rocket Robin Hood is sooo stupid." -Wabuu

The exact same plot used between two different shows. Obviously this was a meta commentary about the repetitive format of children's programing in the 60's! You just don't watch enough Rick and Morty to comprehend how Big Brain Time it is!

Had no idea a theft of assets story would be applied to a spider-man plot

My god the lifting of the elements..hell an entire episode of another show and then just copy paste Spider-Man over it and allowing it to be aired even back then.

Thee old cartoons would often mix up "galaxy" and "solar system" as did old classic scifi.

Dementia 5 sounds like a dimension full of elderly people wandering about in confusion.

This is a great video and I agree rocket robin hood truly was part of the dark ages of cartoons

One of my favorite things about the use of the classic villains in the Spider-Man cartoon was that time that the Green Goblin tried to summon literal demons from Hell to make him into a Devil.

It makes sense, inception did teach us that time runs differently in a dream, so Spider-man was just falling to his death the whole time.

I keep hearing you say Empanada, even though I'm sure that's not actually the villain's name.

At the very least, the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon made him friends with Nova, so at least THERE he'd have a reason to get involved with cosmic-level stuff more often.

This might be the wildest use of recycled footage I've ever heard of. It almost sounds like something someone would do to make some kind of bootleg cartoon, like someone wanted to sell an illegal Spider-Man cartoon on little to no budget so they just recycled from another show and hoped no one would notice. Like when a Chinese bootleg Harry Potter book was literally just The Hobbit but with text at the beginning and end explaining how Harry Potter turned himself into a Hobbit.

"Can't find a picture of Al Guest but i imagine he looked like the Old Man from Pulse" ahahahha :D I remember i had that exact Pulse movie on pirated VHS tape (only other source of movies when i was kid was TV, everything else was bootleg tapes and stuff) And on that bootleg tape, this movie was called "Conversation over wires", it's how i remembered it, and it's was usual thing for VHS bootlegers to call movie whatever they want. I remember thinking, I would never found this movie, and now it's just a meme in Phelan's videos.

I can see the potential of such story, if it was rewritten properly... Here is my pitch: The oracle cat is an ordinary feline in appearance, but his retinae are stocking the information of a defunct solar system before its star went supernova. Its inhabitants were in a hurry and went for this weird compression method as the cat was the only readily available thing they had, because of the dying star radiations disabling their compression supports. A tyrant named Infinitas somehow went into possession of the animal. He initially wanted to gouge his eyes out and extract all the information with his technology, but the oracle cat defused the menace just by one quick glance. The amount of information the oracle cat holds is such, a prolonged eye contact can render a person mad, or fry their brain. Infinitas thought he could use the cat to quench his thirst of conquest, while he effectively was turned into a puppet. The cat used Infinitas to get everything he wanted: immortality, submission of all beings, an immense territory, the best food, a harem of female cats... It's the territorial instinct of the animal, which lead him to barge into Rocket Robin or Spiderman's life. As they're are driven to solve the growing threat, they're at first unaware that the real menace is the pet not the guy seemingly owning him...

A fan of both, I picked up on this as a kid. Also as a kid, I was confounded as to why. I was a running gag between me and my buddies.

I really liked this obscure and interesting tale. This may just be me, but I feel like the writers probably originally intended for the person who received the tiny knowledge orb to ingest it, for obvious reasons. That would have been a cool resolution, especially in the Spider-Man version. I wonder if Infinata is in the public domain now, they could turn that into a pretty cool storyline for the comics. Spider-Man accidentally becoming a living library of esoteric knowledge, being hunted by this extra-dimensional creature, etc. It would be a real hit.

Love the crazy space cat! I love all the cat jokes! This is another fun whacky episode! Please do more old school Marvel cartoons reviews!

I would love to see infinata as a modern Spider-Man villain because he has a potential to be an Eldritch type of villain

I think my favorite part of this entire review is you pointing out Frier Tuck wasting all that food in his profile segment. Every time I saw that back in the day, I kept wondering if that was a thing people did back then, like, just bite into food once and then throw it away. I even remember later seeing an episode of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids TV series where Wayne brings back barbarians from olden times and one of them actually takes a bite of a chicken leg or something like that and then puts it back on the plate.

This was great, never heard of rocket robin hood but boy this sure brings back memories! Love hearing the stories behind these things too, who would had guessed the story behind this was as much a comic book story as the show itself! Gives it a whole new appreciation!

I had fuzzy memories of Robin Hood in a rocket, a very old looking cartoon that i had to watch because there was nothing else.

This was a really good video. I was generally aware of the recycling that occurred, but not the backstory behind it. (Ralph Bakshi becoming a fugitive in Canada, etc.) What's really stupid is that they animated Spider-Man's mouth moving during the scenes where originally two characters were talking to each other. They could have had Spider-Man just THINKING these things instead of talking to himself, which would have made more sense and saved them some money/effort. 8:50 Weird that the Robin Hood episode had the aliens moving and the Spider-Man episode didn't, when it looks like nothing needed to be modified in the scene.

This is the first Spiderman episode I ever saw because I remember the fucked up imagery. I thought it was just some messed up dream my four year old self had thought up. As for the history with Ralph Bakshi my only thought it, 'Yeah that sounds like something that would happen with Ralph Bakshi.' But I am amazed they just wanted to cut costs of the show and keep it airing, in modern times they would have just cancelled the thing.

3:48 this show has the best character of all time here

This was far from the last time Ralph reused assets. There is a spider episode where he travels into another world to get some crystals needed to destroy a giant plant monster. They did it twice, Witt the onl6 difference being the nature of the monster. One time a giant daisy, another a huge rolling seed. Literally every else is reused.

Rocket Robin Hood was the bane of my existence as a kid! I swear Teletoon's entire nighttime weekend programming block in the 90s was just Rocket Robin Hood on a loop.

Ralph Bakshi is really one of the weirdest guys in the industry, but I still love hearing stories about this absolutely insane man

That iconic Friar Tuck scene is what made Thanos realise resources would run out without the Thanos Snap. So much food wasted by Future Friar Tuck. As for that exploding galaxy in Dementia 5....Well now we know where the Galaxy Hole came from. Pretty sure Baltard comes from there.

Before he was reviewing cheap Halloween decorations, Halloweenie was red while blowing up planets in Dementia 5.

omg that Garfield and Friends gag And.. man, I thought *Filmation* was cheap

Rocket Robin Hood, shown for DECADES regularly in here in Canada because it was animated in Toronto, and that was enough to qualify it for the CRTC's mandate of 35% Canadian content. Say what you will about the show; it WAS bad... but I still love it because for Canadians of a surprisingly wide age range, it is something we all remember from our childhood.

That's not the only time. The RRH episode which had that insect-guy playing the organ (Dr. Manta?) was also stolen. I can still remember the tag line from both cartoons: "The hills! They walk again!" In RRH, it took place on an asteroid while in Spiderman, it took place on an island.

I saw rocket robin hood only a few times when I was very young. Years later, I thought it was some kind of fever dream of a thing that didn't really exist until I saw you presenting the friar tuck animation loop for one of your videos many years later.

Good that it's Sunday, that galaxy would be filled with living beings tomorrow.

Unexpected Halloweenie cameos add so much to any video :)

"Who could ever forget the great reveal of Charles Cameo? Except for absolutely everyone who ever saw the episode." Ah! I see Charles Cameo has the same powers as former X-Man ForgetMeNot.

And I thought those God-awful Huckleberry Hound specials were the worst animation I'd ever seen. Nope, this takes the cake! Although the presence of Dimensional Space Cat immediately rights all wrongs. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, from the bottom of my cold black little heart, for this fine video, Phelous! I especially liked your animated bit at the end. And I swear, I will binge watch your old Halloweenie series many, many times in hopes of boosting your view count. I think those videos are pretty great. And since at least two stores near me already busted out the Halloween candy displays late in July, I'll consider Halloweenie to be seasonal watching. Keep on being amazing, Phelous. Love you, love your content! 🖤

After hearing the viillan's name so many times I've got a craving for empanadas

Am I the only one that heard “infinata” as “empanada”? Or am I just hungry?

So, they created a scarlet king like cosmic horror character, who can destroy whole galaxies with his will, just to be defeated the most anticlimactic way?

It's great to finally hear the story behind these episodes. As a kid, I figured the cartoons were probably related, but I haven't thought about them until your video. As for Spider-Man web shooting into the sky, my mother explained to me that he was actually swinging from buildings in the foreground we couldn't see from our POV, in-between Spider-Man and buildings. Keep up the great work! Always a joy to see your uploads in my subscriptions.

"A show I wish had gotten more views." Seriously, Halloweenie was so much fun!

Even as a kid I noticed that these two episodes were exactly the same. Didn't know the stuff about Bakshi, though. The animation "style" of Rocket Robin Hood and Spider-Man even inspired an animation of my own.

14:24 It sounds like Phelous dubbed that voice in the show lol. It sounds like his Clint Howard voice.

Ah, so Halloweenie was just undead-Phelous this whole time! It's aaaaall coming together...

I never did realize how many shows reuse each others plots.

What a weird concept, Robin Hood in space. Pretty wild.

The Fifth Dimension one scared the shit out of my ass. Asked Dad why Spider-Man was so scary(the episode I mean). He said they were probably on drugs...

It just dawned on me that this was a situation where the Mounties DIDN'T get their man.

I saw an episode of the Spider-Man '60s cartoon where the Hollow Earth was real and Spider-Man went there. I guess that place would make more sense for this Spider-Man, since there's always something above for his web to attach to.