We all need a teen sidekick

Posted by Dan November 14th, 2006 at 10:36am In General The Gays Vintage

Whenever I find myself remembering way too much about television shows, it makes me feel bad about myself.  I'll be able to recite entire episodes of Roseanne or Will and Grace, but my knowledge of American history is very "Lincoln freed the slaves!  George Washington chopped down the cherry tree!"

On that note, I've been thinking a lot lately about the Super Friends.

I don't remember a lot about it (it went off the air when I was six), but I remember being obsessed with it.  The premise, if you recall, was that it was basically a more kidsy version of the Justice League — the crime-fighting conglomerate of Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and others.  They fought the Legion of Doom, which was a team of all the heroes' worst enemies.

They must have gone all out with the merchandising, because all of my memories of the show have to do with toys.  I had a Hawkman action figure where if you squeezed his legs, his wings flapped.  And I remember being upset about not getting some Super Friends-related crap and throwing a fit in the toy store.

Since I don't really have that much to say about this show other than "Remember the Superfriends?", here's a quick game.  On the list of names below which is a lesser-known Super Friends recurring character and which is a DC-area gay bar?

Cobalt

Giganta

Zan 

El Dorado 

The Eagle

Apex

Atom 

Remington

The Green Lantern

Firestorm 

(answers after the jump) 

Cobalt – Gay bar

Giganta – Super Friend, actually a villian (but wouldn't it be great if it were a gay bar?)

Zan – Super Friend (one of the Wonder Twins)

El Dorado – Super Friend

The Eagle – Gay bar

Apex – Gay bar

Atom – Super Friend

Remington – Gay bar (actually called Remington's — my favorite in DC if you're ever here and homo.  It's actually the only one on this list I've ever been to besides Cobalt, which is very bump 'n' grind.  I tend to avoid it.)

The Green Lantern – Trick question.  It's both.

Firestorm – Super Friend