Plot
Roger Ramjet is a patriotic and highly moral — if not very bright — hero, who is typically out to save the world, with help from his Proton Energy Pills ("PEP"), which give him "the strength of twenty atom bombs for a period of twenty seconds". The world is invariably saved by dispensing violence towards the various recurring criminals who populated the series.
On government missions assigned by General G.I. Brassbottom, Ramjet encounters various nemeses during his missions. Typically he is caught, and must be rescued by his crew of sidekicks, the American Eagles: Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee (a play on Yankee Doodle Dandy). Although his Eagles appear to be children, each of them, except for Dee, flies his own individual ramjet aircraft expertly, and are obviously much more savvy than their leader.
The various recurring criminals include:
- The Solenoid Robots, who talk in barely understandable electronic voices
- Gangster Noodles Romanoff and his evil organization N.A.S.T.Y. (National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos)
- Red Dog the Pirate
- Foreign spy femme fatale Jacqueline Hyde
- Tequila Mockingbird
Most of the criminals had nearly identical bands of three or four henchmen who all mumbled different phrases at once, resulting in incomprehensible chatter.
Along the way, Lance Crossfire, Ramjet's rival for the affections of Lotta Love, is also likely to get in the way. Lance's face looks like (and his voice sounds like) actor Burt Lancaster. Inevitably when Lance and Roger cross paths neither wins (in one cartoon Lotta ends up going out with General Brassbottom, who promises the two men that he will take care of her). As is his way, Roger does not realize that they have both lost. Unlike Lance, who inevitably ends these cartoons with the phrase, "Oh, Roger — shut up!"
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