You may think that a cartoon about a talking shark may have been a little over the top, but in an era where there was already a talking dune buggy and a caveman that solves crime a great white with a Brooklyn accent that's a drummer for a teenage rock band didn't seem all that weird.
Actually Jabberjaw is a lot more Curly from the Three Stooges than I remembered.
Let's find out who Jabberjaw really was:
Okay, wait a second, there were so many sharks running around on dry land that mankind had to build a robot police force to keep them out of buildings?
I guess that explains this:
That really is a problem ... continue.
These robots, as well as unpleasant treatment from others, frequently prompt him to utter some variation of his catchphrase (borrowed from the comedian Rodney Dangerfield): "I don't get no respect!" He has the unique ability to change his shape or adapt himself to act like various objects such as a trampoline, parachute, jack, throw rug, etc., either to get himself and the gang out of a jam, or just to hide.
Like a great deal of Hanna-Barbera's 1970s output, the format and writing for Jabberjaw was similar to that for Scooby-Doo, Josie and the Pussycats and Speed Buggy. The show also drew inspiration (in the use of a shark as a character) from the overall shark mania of the mid-1970s caused by the then-recent film Jaws. It also shared The Flintstones' penchant for making use of puns as the names of locations, people, etc., in this case, ocean-themed puns (such as "Aqualaska" instead of Alaska). Every episode ended with a musical chase sequence where Jabberjaw and the gang would run from the villains, performing zany cartoon antics in order to escape while a song by The Neptunes played in the background. - Wiki
I'm pretty sure that Shelly is actually Lori from Partridge Family: 2200 AD in a red outfit.
I'm probably mistaken.
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