The live action version starring Seinfeld’s Puddy, Patrick Warburton, which only lasted nine episodes but, happily, a new version starring Peter Serafinowicz starts this Summer. Funny, flippant and definitely not just for kids, The Flea was like a Saturday morning Kick-Ass, only more amusing and with less Nic Cage. Although the show was generally just silly for silliness’s sake, there was some more direct Super-lampooning, as Batman became cowardly gadgeteer Die Fledermaus, while Captain America and Wonder Woman got a twofer with the show-throwing temptress American Maid. The first cartoon to prove superhero parodies could work on the small screen, creator Ben Edlund’s heroes were two preposterous ‘pajama policemen’: lunking blue meathead The Tick and his weak-but-willing sidekick Arthur.
The Tickįrom Sunbow Entertainment, the animation studio that brought you Bucky O’Hare (just as good as you remember) and Visionaries: Knights Of The Magical Light (nowhere near as good as you remember), comes The Tick (even better than you remember). You’re right, they don’t make ‘em like that any more. A few more details to wet your whistle: Bucky’s ship is called Righteous Indignation, a ‘Betelgeusian Berserker Baboon’ is a key character and you get to meet a talking dog called Commander Dogstar. – Sentient Protoplasm Against Colonial Encroachment – who stood against the evil militarism of the Toad Empire, headed up by haywire computer program KOMPLEX and its legions of warty amphibian goons. Bucky and his gang were part of Team S.P.A.C.E.
Based on the cult ‘70s comic by Larry Hama, the show stayed true to its joyfully bonkers source material, keeping Bucky a talking green space hare, his crew a mix of telepathic cats, human kiddly-winks, four-armed-and-one-eyed pirate ducks and robots who like to say “Calamity and woe!”. Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on your view of earworms – the show lived on thanks to its startlingly catchy theme tune that squatted in the frontal lobes of fans for the next two decades. It’s heart-breaking that Bucky O’Hare’s TV outing lasted only 13 episodes.
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