11 Bizarre '90s Cartoons That Only Ran One Season

There was no shortage of environmentally-friendly kid's shows from the nineties, from Ted Turner's Captain America to Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, it's almost as if a Democrat were in power.

Even the NBA wanted to get in on the action. Pro-Stars was a Saturday Morning Cartoon from the same Italian-American production team as Wish Kid. There was a strange push in the decade more than any others for athletes to transcend into other media, often with hilariously awful results. While the generation that grew up on Space Jam has a soft spot for it, others are flabbergasted by its popularity. The only concept, it seemed, that athletes would sign on board for were projects that feature them as larger-than-life heroes.

As such, we were subjected to Shaq-Fu, Steele and Pro-Stars, in which Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Bo Jackson were superheroes.

Like most celebrity-infused animated shows, they came packaged with live-action intros with the players. But they are often in separate sound studios, clearly giving as little effort as possible. They didn't even voice their own likenesses, who fought crime, kept kids out of gangs and helped them prevent littering. It runs the gamut of standard "Keep kids in school and away from drugs" PSA messaging.

Apart from being preachy and cheaply thrown together, the show also suffered from extreme product placement, working Jackson's "Bo Knows" Nike campaign into the theme song. When it comes to eco-friendly entertainment, one probably didn't have to look far to find plenty of double standards in their advertising.