Hammerman

This is an example of why working in a coffee shop is great. You spend your time working with friends, basically just hanging out all day, pulling espresso shots, steaming milk, pouring coffee, in other words: business as usual. Eventually, at some point during an eight hour caffeine fueled shift, casual conversations begin to go in directions you'd never expect them to.  Today, it seemed that no matter how hard we tried, Mason and I could not shake the topic of cartoons whose concepts were so outlandish we thought we'd made them up ourselves. For example: Hammerman. Remember Hammerman? I do. If you were born sometime during the eighties, I bet you do too, and that's too bad, because it's a cartoon probably best left forgotten. If the concept of a cartoon starring MC Hammer wasn't enough to jog your memory, check out the video above.

To its credit, Hammerman did manage to bring the concept of a non-tokenized black superhero (I'm looking at you Black Vulcan) to Saturday morning cartoons almost a decade before Static Shock would debut on the WB. However, that doesn't change the fact that Hammerman was little more than an attempt to cash-in on the popularity of Hammer's #1 hit single "U Can't Touch This." Is there much more to Hammerman? Not really. the whole show was basically just a shallow marketing gimmick, which is probably why the series only lasted for thirteen episodes before it's cancellation.  All in all, Hammerman ranks as one of the weirdest cartoon concepts of the late eighties, along with Disney's Gummi Bears and Pro Stars, the Saturday morning smash hit featuring the crime fighting team of Wayzne Gretzky, Micheal Jordan, and Bo Jackson.