Rave reviews for the 'Rocky' quasi-reboot 'Creed' have Sly looking to pass Rambo's headband onto a new generation. No matter how the potential TV show pans out -- it will never top the 1980s cartoon.

Rocky Balboa and John J. Rambo makeup a pretty good chunk of Sylvester Stallone's career. He has spent years weaving the two, very different, yet equally badass characters into the fabric of the American zeitgeist. Since he was able to successfully revive the former in 'Creed' -- and to rave reviews, mind you -- why could he not do the same with the latter?

Stallone is reportedly set to executive produce (and probably make a cameo in the pilot of) the cleverly-titled TV series 'Rambo: New Blood' for Fox, where John Rambo will bequeath his beloved knife and headband to his son J.R., which is likely short for John Rambo. Would that make him J.R. Jr.? Also, where the hell was this kid when Big John was giving the Russians, Afghans, Vietnamese, Burmese, Americans, small-town cops, and anyone else that got in his way a war they wouldn't believe? So many questions. None of them matter though -- because nothing can ever top the O.G. Rambo TV series. Yeah, the animated one. 'Rambo: The Force of Freedom' was bad AF. Just look at this dope ass intro voiced by none other than voice-over god Don LaFontaine.

Is it just me, or does it look like Rambo's jacking it right at the beginning?

 
I had completely forgot about this until recently, but I loved this show when I was younger. I even had a few of the toys. How can a live-action Rambo show even compete with the animated version, where things like Rambo straddling a nuclear warhead as it's launched, then turning it around mid-flight to aim it back at the enemy base were the norm? Two words: It can't. That literally happened in a regular ass episode (see below at 17:19).

Did he just f***ing stab that nuke too?

 
I still have a hard time believing some of the s*** that made it on TV as kids' programming in the 1980s, but that's what made the 80s an awesome time to be a kid. Granted, Rambo's animated show started as a 5 episode mini-series, was picked up as a daily cartoon, and canceled all within the same year (April-December of 1986 to be exact), but that doesn't erase the fact that network execs had balls back then. I'll let my kids watch Rambo over that bitch ass Caillou kid any day.

No matter how good or bad 'Rambo: The New Blood' is -- two things are certain:

  1. It can never top the animated series.
  2. Nothing any Rambo does will ever be as savage as this.

Watch the guy behind the wheel of the jeep.

 

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