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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.
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.
- Back From the Dead: In "The Super Globetrotters vs. Museum Man", Museum Man fires a staff at prehistoric animal skeletons in a museum and magically makes them alive again to cause terror.
- 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 (which was lampshaded by Nate: "Man, that Lou's better than travelers' cheques!").
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bwana Bob"
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: In the Title Card, we clearly see a "versus," indicating that each episode title is actually the name of the episode's Big Bad.
- Making a Splash: Fluid Man.
- Me's a Crowd: Multi Man
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: In "The Super Globetrotters vs. Museum Man", a bespectacled, brunette in the pine green shirt and dark green, plaid miniskirt who is part of a tour group wears these.
- Panty Shot: More of a frontal, panty peek matching one of the shades of green outer clothes the bespectacled, brunette, museum tourist wears as she turns to flee with the tour guide and other tourists after Museum Man brings a dinosaur back to life.
- Recycled Premise: The super hero theme of this and the fact that three of the Super Globetrotters are just rehashes of the main characters from The Impossibles.
- She's Got Legs: The bespectacled museum tourist with a dark brown bob from "The Super Globetrotters vs. Museum Man" wears a plaid miniskirt.
- 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.