12/1/2007 - LHB | Cartoon/Videogame Show | 2004

So were the members of the Cal band who performed that brilliant halftime show plagiarists? I don't know, but here is the University of Texas Longhorn Band performing a very similar halftime show based not only on video games, but Saturday morning cartoons as well. This was performed three years before the Cal band did their show, though, and I can confidently say that Cal learned a thing or two from this performance and generally improved over the LHB. I think that the theme of this performance does serve to prove the point of why Saturday morning cartoons died. When video games exploded in popularity in the mid-90's, kids were no longer satisfied by the animated stories they were watching... instead they controlled their digital avatars to create their own adventures, breaking through the confines imposed by cartoon scriptwriters.