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Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!

Last week we had an episode of JANA OF THE JUNGLE. I noticed it got a down-vote almost immediately. I'm guessing because the crummy VHS transfer didn't live up to the thumbnail.

To make it up to y'all, this week we'll do a similar character as she's featured in a more popular show (of which I can find decent prints).

Hanna-Barbera usually prefers characters they own outright. So it's no surprise that they used a near-copy of RIMA, a jungle babe who had previously been animated... The odd thing is that Rima herself had been animated by HB the year before. But that was part of the SUPER FRIENDS, one of HB's few major licensed properties. This version of Rima basically came-along with the rest of the JUSTICE LEAGUE characters from DC. This episode is the first of her several appearances in the franchise.

Of course, Rima wasn't created by DC comics. She actually predates TARZAN (but not MOWGLI) in literature. She only got one movie though, probably because the 1959 Audrey Hepburn vehicle flopped. DC put her into her own comic book in the '70s, and that's the version adapted here.

This the second incarnation of the Super Friends, which catered to ever-shortening attention spans by breaking the hour-long show into multiple, brief stories and filler segments. This one includes Doctor Fright / Drag Race / Plant Creatures / Fire.

I kinda' feel like the popular meme image of Batman slapping the hell out of Robin applies. Seriously, Dick! Sit this one out and let ol' Bruce 'adventure' with the hot, half-naked blond without you along as a third wheel!

Also, just how damned fast IS the Super Friends Batmobile? That sucker seems to be able to get across the continent in no-time.

From October 1977.
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