Fill in your own blank if you want, but I'll tell you why I'm a huge loser.

At the top of my screen, I just saw an ad that one of the greatest shit-shows ever produced is coming to DVD.

That's right: Rocket Robin Hood is coming to DVD!!! Crappy cartoon fans rejoice!

This show was years before my time---it actually ended it run thirteen years before I was born---but it was still one of my favorites as a kid. I didn't know it was a Canadian show until we moved here and saw it was on a ton of channels at un-godly hours of the morning. (Filling those Canadian Content laws no doubt.) I remember watching it early mornings back home in England, thinking it was just some really lame yet comforting American show. (Like you guys could create something this fantastic...should have known better.)

For anyone unfamiliar with Rocket Robin Hood, it was pretty much what it sounds like: a  re-telling of the Robin Hood story set in the future. Robin and his merry men flew around New Sherwood Forest (a fuckin' asteroid!!!!) wearing jet packs, pissing off The Sheriff of N.O.T.T. and kickin' ass with these crazy electro-stick things. The year 3000 never looked so awesome and 60s vintage at the same time.

If you've never seen it before, don't expect much. Imagine a slightly less produced version of Hercules.....that one with Newton....set to flashy space explosions and strange techno-colours. Its piss by later standards (not to mention many pre-produced standards), but it had the greatest theme song of all time.

So all ye of little cartoon knowledge, do yourselves a favour and check this show out. Its a classic that shouldn't be passed up.

"Come gather 'round me.

Space travelers surround me.

Hark now to the ballad of Rocket Robin Hood.

I may well confound you, astound you, spellbound you,

With heroes and villains, the bad and the good.

Watch now as our rockets race here from afar.

For now, with our Robin, we live on a star.

(Three. Two. One. Blast off!)

Band of brothers, marching together.

Heads held high in all kinds of weather.

With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise,

Beyond the Earth...beyond the skies!

At the side of Robin, take your stand,

With the gallant leader of our band.

Send a joyous shout throughout the land!

For Rocket Robin Hood!!!!!"

....that's why I'm a loser.

Thanks for reading,

-The Big Bad