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Updated on January 7, 2009 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

We at Jabootu vow to make the site more green this year!

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  • BeckoningChasm

    I never watched that show (and I don’t feel a bit deprived) but the opening sure implies that the kids with the rings do all the work. “Hang on, guys, we need someone to, you know, fly around for a while! Let’s summon Captain Planet!”

    Also, what was the “Heart” ring supposed to do?

  • The Rev. D.D.

    If I recall, Mati (sp?) mostly used the Heart ring to calm down animals that were in danger of whatever environmentally-unfriendly catastrophe was going on at the time, and then lead them out of it. And to help summon Captain Planet.

    So, yes, he was the Planeteers’ Aquaman.

    You’d think he’d have just used it to fill the bad guys with love of the planet…but then, the cartoon would’ve been over.

    Every time I think of Captain Planet nowadays, I remember Robot Chicken‘s bit with Ted Turner running around painted blue and green and killing “polluters” whilst screaming, “CAP-TAAAAIN PLANEEEEEEET!!!” And then I giggle a little.

  • Personally, I’ve always thought that it was a little disturbing that they gave the kid from South America the Heart ring.

    Though it would’ve been intensely amusing for Mati, corrupted by the power of his ring and sick of being the Aquaman of the Planeteers, arranged for the rest of them to wake up to find one of their number the victim of an old-fashioned human sacrifice (given he was usually portrayed as of Mayan or otherwise Mesoamerican descent, from what I gathered….)

    Also…

    http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164

    What more needs to be said?

  • I have what I’m guessing is the end credit song to this on my MP3 player. It claimed to be the theme song, but I think it’s a liar.

  • Bruce Probst

    I am disappointed that Gaia couldn’t be bothered to come up with a ring for someone from Australia. I’m thinking maybe “the power of BEER!”.

  • Plissken79

    There were many terrible cartoons from that era (Denver, the Last Dinosaur, anyone? It was not enough that he was a dinosaur, he had to play the guitar as well), but Captain Planet has to be one of the worst.

    Interestingly that the rings were given to four regions of the world, and one (then) country, the Soviet Union. I wonder why the Commies got that distinction

  • Joel Strewth

    “Protect the environment, or I’ll f**king kill you! CAP-TAAAAIN PLANEEEEEEET!!!”