Usually, the problem was that some villain stole something from a kid or kid's family, and the Pro Stars were needed to get it back. ProStars, like many kids cartoons produced by the kids' show factory DiC, seized on celebrity star power by turning its real-life protagonists-Jordan, Jackson, and Gretzky-into animated superheroes confronted by nonsensical problems to solve, which they did in equally nonsensical ways. Read More: How In The Hell Did NFL Blitz Ever Get Made? Pro Stars epitomized the celebrity marketing of the pre-Internet era, in which slick advertisements and child-friendly cartoons served the same brand-building purposes now fulfilled by vanity apps and carefully-curated social media feeds. T, MC Hammer (see above), Macaulay Culkin, and Hulk Hogan, to name a few. Indeed, the list of celebrities who got their own Saturday morning cartoon is long, hilarious, and extremely 1990s: Gary Coleman, Mr. "But from the '70s on, if you were a big, huge star, you probably had a cartoon attached to you." "It seems so much weirder right now than when I was in the moment back then," Brad Kreisberg, the live action director for the show, recently told VICE Sports over the phone. Part of the reason is that, even as a kids' cartoon, the show simply didn't work.
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