The Brown Hornet

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The Brown Hornet was a show-within-a-show (or more accurately, a cartoon-within-a-cartoon) on the Filmation animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids from 1979 to approximately 1984. The Brown Hornet was a show that Fat Albert's gang watched on a barely-working television in their clubhouse.

The Brown Hornet was a bumbling superhero who always seemed to thwart the evil-doers and teach viewers a valuable lesson in the process. In each opening, The Brown Hornet and his sidekicks Stinger and Tweeterbell the Robot were facing certain doom until the Brown Hornet used his superpowers to save them all. But at the end, the group faced a new threat.

In one episode of "Fat Albert", one of the gang is seen playing a Brown Hornet video game at a video arcade.

Contents 1 Inspiration 2 Voice cast 3 Other Media 4 External links

[edit] Inspiration

The Brown Hornet's name is a play on the name of the live-action hero The Green Hornet, but in character, the Brown Hornet is closer to a parody of Space Ghost, being a space-faring, caped superhero.

[edit] Voice cast

The Brown Hornet - Bill Cosby

Stinger - Lou Scheimer

Tweeterbell - Erika Scheimer

Announcer - Norm Prescott/Lou Scheimer

[edit] Other Media

The Brown Hornet appeared in the South Park episode "Imaginationland."

[edit] External links

• The Museum of Black Superheroes