If only the show itself looked as good as the intro...

ianl said:
If only the show itself looked as good as the intro...

You see this a lot with many anime TV shows and Japanese-animated American TV shows during the 80's-90's. The intros are full of high energy designed to grab your attention, but the animation in episodes themselves weren't nearly as fluid. I think it's because of the very nature of television where too often you have to deal with tight budgets and tighter deadlines.

akira625 said:
You see this a lot with many anime TV shows and Japanese-animated American TV shows during the 80's-90's. The intros are full of high energy designed to grab your attention, but the animation in episodes themselves weren't nearly as fluid. I think it's because of the very nature of television where too often you have to deal with tight budgets and tighter deadlines.

Budgets, deadlines and more specifically, who's on animation duties for the episode (which, for anyone who has watched these old cartoons will know, were never properly credited for reasons mostly not talked about and mostly only speculated). Those go a long way into evaluating the quality of an episode's animation, even for western cartoons.