[net.tv] Underdog

lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (08/29/83)

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention "Underdog"!

The full lyrics to the cartoon intro has appeared in the past
in SF-L, I won't reproduce them here.  The main theme was spoken:

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Look!  Up in the air!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's a frog!

A frog???

Not bird nor plane nor even frog ... it's just little old me ... UNDERDOG!

Narrator:  One of the city's most humble and lovable characters, was
	   "shoeshine boy".
Shoeshine: (finishing shoeshine): All finished, sir.
Man:	   (tossing him a coin): Thanks, shoeshine boy.  You're humble
	   and lovable.
Shoesine:  (testing coin with teeth): Bless you, sir.
Narrator:  Little did anyone know that whenever there was a call for
	   help...
Woman:	   Help!  Help, help!
Narrator:  Shoeshine boy became in real life ... UNDERDOG!

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The voice of Underdog was of course Wally Cox.  The main characters
in the program included Underdog himself, the evil Simon Bar Sinister,
and the TV reporter Miss Polly Purebred.

--Lauren--

marc@pyuxn.UUCP (08/30/83)

Why nothing in the net about Underdog.. Lovible shoe shine boy would 
be offended.. Here goes a crack at the theme...
   Ooh ah ooh, ah ooh, ah ooh
   When in this world the headlines read
   of those whose hearts are filld with greed
   who rob and steal from those who need
   to right this wrong with blinding speed
           goes
   UNDERDOG !  UNDERDOG !! UNDERDOG !! UNDERDOG !!
   speed of lightning, power of thunder, fighting all who rob and plunder..
   UNDERDOG ... UN-DER-DOG .....