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Le secret des sélénites (1983)

So bad, or, well, weird that you have to love it

When I first saw this cartoon, way back in 1983 (I was an adult already), I thought it was a few decades old even though it was actually recently made. It's made in a way that seemed very different than most American cartoons, very hokey and a lot of it seemed unmotivated (like, why do the characters vibrate and twist?). But something kept me from switching it off. And the more I watched it, the more my brain melted, with various lobes turning off until I almost *liked * it. Now, more than 25 years later, I can't tear my eyes away from it, and I even forced my (grown) daughter to watch it so that she, too, could be subtly altered by it (I think it knocks your IQ down for good).

But something always bothered me about the catchy theme song, and now it has come to me: its refrain is *awfully* reminiscent of the refrain to Helen Reddy's 1975 "Emotion".