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Kidd Video was a saturday morning cartoon in the 1980s that was quintessential of the decade. The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (played by live-action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called The Flipside. They were rescued by a fairy named Glitter, and subsequently spent each episode of the series either helping to free the denizens of the Flipside from Master Blaster's rule, or trying to find a way back to the "real world". Master Blaster flew around the sky in a giant jukebox, and his henchmen were a group of anthropomorphic cats called The Copycats.

The show was dominated by a MTV-esque, music video theme; each episode featured at least one action sequence set to a popular song, and the heroes would often distract their enemies by showing current music videos, and sneak off while the enemies were entranced. Each episode also ended with a live-action music video by Kidd Video and his band (the band was also called "Kidd Video"). Other pop cultural current events featured heavily in the show as well; the characters often break danced to relax, rode on skateboards, and one episode was devoted entirely to video games. The visual style of the cartoon itself was heavily influenced by the more surreal videos showing on MTV, and by album artwork of the era, by artists like Roger Dean.

The band itself was comprised of:

• Kidd Video: Lead singer and guitarist
• Carla: The latina drummer, who begins most sentences with the phrase "Ay caramba!"
• Whiz: The nerdy bassist, who had a pet robot toolbox named "Toolbot" in the second season
• Ash: The clumsy keyboardist

The band was created specifically for the show, and although they did perform their own songs they did not provide the voices for their cartoon counterparts. The one exception was Robbie Rist, who provided the voice for the animated Whiz and also played him in the live-action segments (as well as singing and playing bass in the band).

Main Cast

• Bryan Scott ... Kidd Video (voice)
• Steve Alterman ... Ash (voice)
• Robbie Rist ... Whiz (voice)
• Gabrielle Bennett ... Carla (voice)
• Peter Reneday ... Master Blaster (voice)
• Robert Towers ... Cool Kitty (voice)
• Marshall Efron ... Fat Cat (voice)
• Susan Silo ... She-Lion (voice)
• Hal Rayle ... Toolbot (voice)
• Cathy Cavadini ... Glitter the fairy

Miscellany

The band's yellow Subaru Brat was sucked into the Flipside along with them, and transformed into a giant yellow vehicle (reminiscent of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine) called the Kiddmobile when the band members turned into cartoons.

Glitter, the fairy who saved the band members when they first arrived in the Flipside and serves as their guide, gains temporary super-strength and super-speed whenever she sneezes. Most episodes, at some point, involve the band getting stuck somewhere and having to find pepper, pollen, chalk dust, or some other kind of powder to make Glitter sneeze so she can use her super-strength to save them.

When the series was re-run in syndication in later years, all the music videos had to be removed to avoid paying royalties. The pop music that played in the background during certain animated sequences was replaced using original songs played by the band.

External links

• Kidd Video at the Internet Movie Database
• Kidd Video Flipside: A Kidd Video Fanpage
• 80's Cartoon Central - Profile of Kidd Video
• We Ain't Cool - Article on Kidd Video

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