{"id":81,"date":"2006-04-26T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/the-amazing-chan-clan\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T18:51:08","slug":"the-amazing-chan-clan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Chan Clan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never caught this show when it was originally on &#8211; partly because I didn&#8217;t have the right channel and partly because the show only lasted for the briefest of periods. I did discover it later and find a place in my heart for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melaman2.com\/cartoons\/singles\/mp3\/amazing-chan.mp3\" target=\"_new\">cheesy theme song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short version is that Hanna-Barbera decided to turn the character of Charlie Chan into a cartoon, fighting crime Scooby-Doo style with his ten kids and their dog.<\/p>\n<p>A much more interesting read is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2006_04_25.html#011387\" target=\"_new\">this blog post by Mark Evanier<\/a>, the only guy fast enough to keep up with Sergio Aragon\u00c3\u00a9s. Evanier was unfortunate enough to script the first Chan Clan comic for Gold Key Comics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Portal.gif\" alt=\"wiki\" \/><strong>WikiWikiWhack:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Evanier\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Evanier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergio_Aragon%C3%A9s\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Aragon\u00c3\u00a9s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Amazing_Chan_and_the_Chan_Clan\" target=\"_blank\">The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never caught this show when it was originally on &#8211; partly because I didn&#8217;t have the right channel and partly because the show only lasted for the briefest of periods. I did discover it later and find a place in my heart for its cheesy theme song. The short version is that Hanna-Barbera decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}