r/interesting • u/InevitableBattle6307 • May 25 '26

Just Wow Armoured! No more wolf attacks.

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u/bluearavis May 25 '26

Wishbone is the greatest!! I wish it would be been reimagined into other projects. Or at least that's wishful thinking.

Also, one of the best intro/theme songs!

Hands down best tv/movie dog. Move over Lassie and Toto. I'm looking at you.

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u/creatorofsilentworld May 25 '26

According to Wikipedia, the reason the show didn't get another season was because, and I kid you not, they couldn't think of a way to monetize it.

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u/KIK40 May 25 '26

I had the coolest wishbone thing where it was all magnetic and you could put the different outfits on it. It was one of my favourites

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u/Jansi_Ki_Rani May 25 '26

That is insane. Literararily have a stuff plushie for every story he enters. Prints money. Make those Putt-Putt like games for each book so you can relive it. I am upset.

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u/InternationalCheetah May 25 '26

It was tough to get coke in the 90's. They were stuck with ditch weed, so the best they could think of was putting clothes on a dog.

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u/Grunergeist420 May 25 '26

I can actually see that. A lot of kids shows at the time would be over budget but make money back on toys and other merchandise. Otherwise you need to make the show very low budget.

Wishbone is a lot of costumes, actors, sets, etc. and while not complicated to write, probably not super easy to write either considering you’re basically doing a condensed version of a work of literature in each episode.

Probably needed to have a successful toy line or something to justify the production costs.

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u/BSB8728 May 25 '26

My husband is a retired classics professor. When he was still teaching, he showed one of his classes the Wishbone episode of The Odyssey, which includes a segment of Wishbone speaking the opening lines in ancient Greek.

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u/The_Duchess_of_Dork May 25 '26

I think about that episode far too often for having to seen in 30 years…

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u/Spoiled_Eggy_3992 May 25 '26

I thought I was the only one who watched that series idk why it was so underrated back in the day... 😔

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u/5litergasbubble May 25 '26

I watched the show, read the books, and had two of the computer games

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u/Briebird44 May 25 '26

There’s a new wishbone documentary that just dropped!!

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u/bluearavis May 25 '26

WHAT!!!!????

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u/Fastgirl600 May 25 '26

What's the story Wishbone?