Tomorrow will be "Back to the Future" day, the exact day Marty McFly went to the future. Sadly real life doesn't reflect what the film predicted, some of them kind of do but not in the way the movie shows, but there is a cartoon that got the internet right, way back in 1995 we had Freakazoid, a cartoon from the talented people who worked on Animaniacs.
Freakazoid is about Dexter Douglas, a computer nerd who inadvertently gets sucked into his computer following a series of events including a computer bug and a cat walking over a keyboard. These series of events turn Dexter into Freakazoid a super hero with all the usual super powers but with added insanity, think PG-13 Deadpool.
Freakazoid must stop an array of evil and often quirky villains including The Lobe and Candlejack to name a couple, using insanity, fourth wall breaking and slapstick humor to defeat them rather than his other powers common in regular superheroes.
Now Freakazoid is said to be made from downloading the internet into Dexter's brain, but rather than giving him infinite knowledge of the universe has instead made him unstable, insane and packed to the brim with a mixture of pop culture references, slapstick and visual gags which is basically what the internet is now where everyone is obsessed with Pop Culture, practical jokes, crazy stunts make up the brunt of the video sites, and millions of people view pictures of cats with funny subtitles under them.
In short Freakazoid prophesied the internet, well before it reached the level that it is now, that's how you predict something "Back to the Future" take something that's new at the time and predict how it will actually pan out.
Freakazoid's humor is among the funniest there is and along with Spielberg's other creations Tiny Toons and Animaniacs set the ground work for my generation to make the internet like it is today, whether that's a good thing or not is up to the history books.
