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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue with German Sub-Titles DVD

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue was a half-hour animated television special aired simultaneously on NBC, CBS and ABC on April 22, 1990. This special brought together a number of famous cartoon characters, representative of the line-ups of all three networks, as well as syndication -- the Muppet Babies and Garfield (CBS); Winnie the Pooh and Tigger (The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show), and Slimer (The Real Ghostbusters) (ABC); ALF, The Chipmunks, and The Smurfs (NBC), and Huey, Dewey and Louie (Ducktales) and Michaelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) from syndication. The purpose of the program was to make youthful viewers aware of the dangers of drug use, and was a joint production amongst the various studios involved, overseen by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, with the main animation provided by Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia Productions and Wang Film Productions.

The plotline centers around a teenage boy named Michael, already struggling with drugs, who is pressured into using harder drugs by his unsavory friends. Also harassing him is Smoke, a malevolent symbolic representation of drug abuse, dressed in a business suit. Michael's younger sister Corey worries about him; her room is littered with familiar toys and merchandise, including a Baby Kermit alarm clock and stuffed Winnie the Pooh. Through some form of psychic connection and mythical anthropomorphism, the various toys, books, and posters of licensed characters awaken to assist her. Once aprised of the situation, through a clinical definition by Chipmunk member Simon of the chemical affects of marijuana, other characters, apparently manifesting from thin air or from the labyrinths of network cross-promotion, join in.

The Muppet Babies are most prominently featured in a sequence in which Kermit, now sans clock mechanism, is suddenly joined by Baby Piggy and Baby Gonzo. Piggy is more interested in romance, while Kermit, 'thanks to the power of imagination,' takes Michael on a psychedelic tour into his own tortured mind. The trip shows the effects of illegal substances on the brain, or rather, Baby Gonzo's lurid artistic conception. The trio are soon compelled to 'abandon brain.'

Other highlights, as an array of animated characters lecture Michael incessantly, include Bugs Bunny's impersonation of an officer of the law, Winnie the Pooh showing a surprising awareness of precisely what 'drugs' are, a musical number 'Wonderful Ways to Say No' which includes an admonition not to be tactless to drug dealers, Baby Piggy spitting Michael out of her mouth, and ALF demolishing The Berlin Wall.

Alvin

Simon

Bugs Bunny

Daffy Duck

Michaelangelo

Tigger

Winnie The Pooh

The Dealer

Brainy Smurf

Theodore

Michael

Papa Smurf

Garfield

Baby Piggy

Corey

Smoke

Hewey

Dewey

Louie

Baby Gonzo

Slimer

Baby Kermit

Alf