The Super Globetrotters
The Super Globetrotters is a 1979 spinoff of The Harlem Globetrotters, produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC. It ran for 13 episodes. It's five semi-real-life basketball entertainers who gain super powers. Ludicrous super powers. Nate Branch turns into water, Curly Neal retracts his limbs into his body and becomes a basketball, Twiggy Sanders can use his body as a rope, Sweet Lou Dunbar stores gadgets in his immense afro, and Geese Ausbie can duplicate himself. They fight villains, mostly by challenging them to basketball games.
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Some of the powers and costumes were taken directly from Hanna-Barbera's The Impossibles.
The whole show is parodied in a Futurama movie.
Tropes used by the series:
- Animated Adaptation
- Animated Tattoo: This was the power of Tattoo Man.
- Archived Army: In one episode the Time Lord assemebled "the greatest criminals in history" into a gang.
- Brought to You by The Letter "S": F is for Fluid Man
- Celebrity Toons
- Egomaniac Hunter: Bwana Bob
- Film Felons: Movie Man, whose gang consisted of a master of disguise, a special effects man, a sound effects expert and a stuntwoman.
- Five-Man Band
- Funny Afro: Sweet Lou Dunbar has one.
- Hairy Hammerspace: Gizmo Man
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bwana Bob"
- Me's a Crowd: Multi Man
- Transformation Sequence
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: One of the Villains of the Week was "Bull Moose" who evidently had all the powers of Teddy Roosevelt. Except for the whole Memetic Badass thing.