Super Friends: (The Legendary Super Powers Show/Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians)

Season 6: 1981-82

5(C) Colossus: Apache Chief grows to the size of Colossus to fight in space. His huge feet should have destroyed a good portion of the Earth before he managed to float in space.

Season 7 (the lost season): 1983

2(B) Two Gleeks are Deadlier Than One: Jayna and Zan put in charge of security during the night? That should have been a dead giveaway to villains that the Justice League wasn't serious about security because they weren't really meeting but android doubles instead.

3(B) Invasion of the Space Dolls: And I thought it was bad if my phone or computer ran out of juice.

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show Season 8: 1984-1985

1(A)&(B) The Bride of Darkseid: Man, Darkseid's got a serious hard-on for Wonder Woman.

2(A) The Wrath of Brainiac: So much so that he'd follow an android Wonder Woman right into Brainiac's star-ship.



2(B) Reflections in Crime: The 6th dimension: the dimension behind mirrors. Finally, a dimension nearly as bad the 5th dimension that spawned Mr. Mxyzptlk. Firestorm staring into mirror: Man, this workout is really starting to make a difference, I look just like Superman!

3(A) No Honor Among Thieves: A ticked-off Darkseid stealing your newly stolen powers and landing you in prison stripes... that's what Lex Luthor gets for disrupting Darkseid's quiet time on Apokolips. Maybe Darkseid was daydreaming about Wonder Woman?

5(A)&(B) Darkseid’s Golden Trap: Gold kryptonite can permanently strip away all of the powers that Superman enjoys on Earth? How would anyone know? There's only the one Superman to test it on and obviously, no one has.

8(A) The Village of Lost Souls: As an ice block, Zan traps Wonder Woman. A heck of a way to feel her up.

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians Season 9: 1985-1986

3 The Darkseid Deception: Darkseid rearranged his molecular structure in order to impersonate Steve Trevor for Wonder Woman? Creepy obsessed.



8 The Death of Superman: If Superman is still alive, why has he allowed the other Team members to fall into Darkseid's clutches? Seriously, he's nearly dead and greener than Green Lantern's ring, the question is how could he stop it? Give him a minute, people. Or, you know, save yourselves.

(World's Greatest) Super Friends Seasons 4 & 5

The World's Greatest Super Friends Season 4: 1979-1980

1 Rub Three Times for Disaster: If that title weren't enough... Superman would save everyone a lot of trouble by superspeed snatching stuff away from bad guys first and confronting them later. The bad guy worked so hard to get the lamp, why leave it behind in the end?



2 Lex Luthor Strikes Back: How many times can Lex Luthor, SUPerGENius, do something dumb to screw up the world, requiring the Super Friends to once again save it? Why does it take an hour for the molten metal to pour over Wonder Woman and Aquaman? Why is Aquaman holding his tits? Sun creatures that can melt fireproof material should laugh at water.

5 Universe of Evil: Nitrogen + heat vision + water = Kryptonic acid. Well, geez, if that's all it takes... Duh, always bring Kryptonite to fight an evil Superman. Would a really powerful villian try to talk you into something when they can force you?

6 Terror at 20,000 Fathoms: Nimoy needed three missiles for his plan but used one just for a demonstration to the United Nations. Did he decide he didn't want Africa, South America, or Antarctica? What's the point of a museum for one? Ejecting Robin, LOL!

7 The Super Friends Meet Frankenstein: The monster had done nothing but stand when his creator called him more powerful than imagined. Maybe his previous creations were too weak to do anything but lie there? Needing Robin to save the most powerful Super Friends? They're doomed! Getting the lousy remnants of their power to fight the superpowered monster who has the majority of their power? Robin's doomed!

8 The Planet of Oz: Aquaman to jellyfish: "Coat me in goo!" Jellyfish to Aquaman: "I don't know what kind of kink you're into, but OK." Wonder Woman lost her powers. Superman said he lost his too but managed to use them three separate times. Sigh, even Oz and powers manage to be chauvinistic.

Super Friends Season 5: 1980-81

1(A) Bigfoot: Seriously, ask for help instead of terrorizing the locals!

3(B) Rock and Roll Space Bandits: Cheesy wannabe 80's rock, about as far from hypnotic music as I've ever heard.

3(C) Elevator to Nowhere: Wow, dude, seriously. Just ask them to test out the time machine instead of tricking them into it. They like to help advance science. And they tested that other guy's time ma-. Ohhh, is that why you didn't want to ask? Or you could just buy a working time machine off one of the countless others who built machines that work.

4(C) The Incredible Crude Oil Monster: Aquaman using a net to contain oil? No one ever called him a mental giant. It's just all about his vaunted aquatic telepathy.

All-New Super Friends Hour/Challenge of the Super Friends

The All-New Super Friends Hour (1977) Season 2

They got tired of all the extra padding to make hour-long episodes. Yay! They made tiny segments with super cheesy code words and stuff. Boo!



In a safety segment, Wonder Woman lands her invisible plane mid-city to congratulate a kid for using the crosswalk.

5(C) Super Friends vs. Super Friends: Aquaman disappears mid-incoming message but reappears instantly after. Snuck off for a quick break?

Challenge of the Super Friends 1978-1979 Season 3

4(A) The Time Trap: In 70,000,000 B.C., the stuff in South Africa's diamond mines probably weren't even diamonds yet.

7(B) The Beasts Are Coming: Radiation changed Wonder Woman into a rampaging monster outside a military base near the desert. So basically she Hulked out near a base that looks a lot like General Thunderbolt Ross'.

8(A) Secret Origins of the Super Friends: Flash running back and forth through time? OK. Batman and Robin plus Black Vulcan having unexplained methods of time travel? Convenient. Hal Jordan just deciding to call himself Green Lantern? Ermmm... the Guardias on Oa must have had The green ring changing Luthor? Do the rings work for the unchosen?

8(B) Terror from the Phantom Zone: Ew, Jayna licked Zan to deactivate! Er, line the Supermobile with lead already. What's the point of Superman having a vehicle that does less than he can do by himself? It should at least protect him.

9(B) The Anti-Matter Monster: It sucks in oil with its crotch! Someone needs to teach the Wonder Twins about timing. It takes less time to dive out of the way than to use their Exxor powers to change.



13(B) Batman Dead or Alive: The water rose too fast for two hours (cue Scooby Doo physics). The Kryptonite cell had no floor so why not toss off the cage? The Wonder Twins deactivated without touching. You mean, they could do this the whole time? That would have come in so handy all those times they got locked in cages or whatnot. Then again, maybe they touched when we weren't looking; their ropes were tied differently later in the episode!

15(A) Super Friends: Rest in Peace: Anything could have killed Batman since he's human with no superpowers. As for this Noxium, it must be really powerful stuff. Really, they have a museum right in their headquarters where they also keep sensitive equipment and information? No one's ever in the establishing outdoor shots of the Hall so the museum must be very unpopular. No one bothered checking their pulses to see if they were still alive. Look, Mommy, Superman's sleeping! Their backup heroes need a lot more training.

15(B) Journey Through Inner Space: An infrared outline of Aquaman when he had a completely different physical shape? If it were that easy, science would have detected auras ages ago. Why not inject the shrunken heroes closer to the brain so the journey wouldn't take so long? Unless they were really hoping that they might not have enough time to save him... Wonder Woman was safe in the ship but over the radio, she sounds strained. Pretending she was doing the hard stuff?

16(A) History Of Doom: Luthor's pretty dumb for a genius. Massive solar flares destroy pretty everything like the ecosystems that sustain all human life, which includes bad guys. Couldn't the Super Friends go back in time and fix it themselves? They had at least three ways to time travel in a previous episode.

16(B) The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends: The department store was going to be demolished anyway, why bother going in to save anything? Revenge of Robin? LOL! A place of lots of books, how'd they guess Gotham City library versus Metropolis City Library or countless others?

Super Friends Super Funnies!

TroublAlert: Where are these amazing cameras that somehow managed to find a tiny UFO? And show some random farmers. And show tons of things where cameras aren't installed. Man, Wayne Tech is goooood.

Marvin or Super Marvin - Less super (and dumber) than the dog. Except for one miswritten segment where they seemed to have switched his and Wendy's lines just to give him a chance. I guess his superleap

How'd he get selected for junior Superfriend membership anyway? No other eager, non-evil kids within biking distance of Super Friends HQ? Maybe he came as a package deal with Wonder Dog? Maybe he's one of the few people avid enough to visit the museum at the Hall of Justice. I mean, the grounds around the building are always deserted so they can't have many visitors.

Super Marvin + Wonder Dog = cheesier Shaggy and Scooby Doo only not quite as hungry. Wonder Dog even utters: "Ruh roh!" at one point. Stop stealing Scooby's shtick!

Robin: Holy idiots, Batman! Really, Robin's barely smarter than Marvin. It's a wonder he isn't a junior Superfriend too. Batman must have doubts as well, having to tell him, "Good job!" for a routine landing on a transom. Or scolding him to, "Keep off the grass" because they must obey all laws and signs everywhere, even if Robin fell on the grass by accident.

Colonel Wilcox, their government emergency liaison, uses a microphone a la TV news reporter. One episode, he changes to a nicer uniform. The very next episode, he gets mysteriously replaced by a younger model who is still called Colonel Wilcox. A la trading in for a younger wife. Is it his son? A nephew? Did he take a much-needed rejuvenating vacation? How can I book that vacation?

Wonder Twins: Oooo, I'm just a kid and can directly call for a superhero! Oh, no, wait, they're just junior heroes and not even cool superheroes for hire like Luke Cage or Iron Fist.

Zan gets carried around in a bucket by a monkey carried in turn by his sister, Jayna. Definitely not cool. Speaking of the bucket, where does Gleek keep it, under his cape?

Zan's lame power to turn into forms of water: Ice isn't strong enough to be used as a hammer or bolt cutter or whatever. They tried to make him cooler as ice rockets and such but what was the propulsion system, farting? Those are some fiery farts. Use for mopping should make him filthy. Where does he get the powder to make himself gelatin, carrying around Jell-O? Gleek: "Mmm, lime..."

Aquaman: Summons sword-fish to cut him out of ice or ships which they'd probably break themselves trying. Makes swordfish act as knitting needles to knit weak seaweed nets. Orders blowfish to blow air like bellows. Forces giant whales to push things which are probably too heavy. Rides giant seahorses. Insists manta rays plug up jagged holes in ships on which they could cut themselves. Way to treat your friends/subjects, King of the Sea.

Moving the Earth: Several times, Superman or Green Lantern move the Earth. Never shown are what should be catastrophic, apocalyptic consequences. Scooby Doo physics at work.

Inventing shrink rays: How many times can a shrink ray be invented? At least three times on the Super Friends' watch! It's no longer inventing after the first time, just copying. Or trending, to put it nicely. That goes for you too, Lex Luthor.wasn't too bad though, if cartoonishly unrealistic.