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The year was 1992. The Renaissance Age of Animation was still relatively young, and despite Disney making headway into the television market with The Disney Afternoon and a few Saturday Morning Cartoons, they still had serious competition from the likes of Warner Bros, Turner Broadcasting (who had just launched a scrappy little cable channel called Cartoon Network), and Nickelodeon.

Enter Raw Toonage.

Born from Disney's aquisition of the rights to the Belgian comic Marsupilami, as well as the Development Hell that Bonkers was going through at the time, Raw Toonage was an Animated Anthology experiment that ran during the CBS Saturday Morning block in the fall of 1992. The show's format essentially predated Animaniacs by one year (in fact, future Pinky and The Brain writer Tom Minton worked on the "Totally Tasteless Videos" segments), though Raw Toonage usually added a different Framing Device to the mix each week.

However, the show only lasted twelve episodes on CBS before being cancelled. It ultimately spawned two spinoffs, though: Disney's Marsupilami, and Bonkers.

Segments included:

  • The host segment: The aforementioned framing device, appearing in most (but not all) episodes. Each time it would feature a different Disney character.
  • He's Bonkers: Basically, these are the cartoons that Bonkers D. Bobcat starred in before joining the police force. (Most of these shorts would later be repackaged as compilation episodes of Bonkers.)
  • Marsupilami: Disney's laid-back version of the titular creature, who hung out with a gorilla sidekick named Maurice.
  • Totally Tasteless Videos: This segment was kind of a toss-up. One week, it could be about a caveman who is also a Private Detective; the next week, it could be about haunted poultry.

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 "Just what I needed, another beautiful woman in my life. I did everything I could to get rid of her."

[Cuts to the caveman getting her a chair, brushing his teeth and getting his hair done]

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 "As long as rap stars and blue elves have their own cartoon shows, I'll be around!"

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