september 7, 1987: two major events occurred in my life. (1) my family moved into a new house (down the street). (2) “the comic strip” aired, a show was composed of three mini cartoons in a half hour. one of the cartoons was the single-most bad ass twist on the animal based hero team: tiger sharks.

thundercats was the cartoon for the old house, but tiger sharks was hip and cool, like the new house. unlike thundercats (who were born cats) or the silver hawks (who were made into bird-cyborgs), the tiger sharks could enjoy secret identities and normal lives. that is, until they dive into a fish tank of science and transform into half fish, half human hybrids!

watch the video and get a glimpse of how fucking cool these guys were. you’d
think being limited to fighting under water would hamper their ability to stop land-based crime. you’d be right! but they fought villians worse than anything we got on land: pirates.

capitan bizarrly and his band of evil pirates roamed the seas, leaving only evil in their wake (and the water they left the wake in was evil). he was more evil than mumm-ra and mon-star combined.

but alas, the show was too good for this world. it was canceled october 16, 1987. it ran 30 episodes in 39 days, then left our world forever. RIP tiger sharks, and their comic strip brethren: karate cat, camp mini-monsters, and street frogs.

i’m not sad about street frogs, though. they sucked!