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This is the dumbest cartoon ever made. Nothing will ever come close.

James Norcross, former astronaut, is elected president of the United States. He's also a superhero named Super President. He has a sort of Batcave place through a secret door in the Oval Office.

Despite the fact that his name is Super President, only one person knows that President James Norcross is Super President, his advisor Jerry.

Super President came under fire from critics and TV watchdog groups, including Action for Children’s Television, for its depiction of a national leader who was an invincible superhuman (especially since it debuted less than four years after John Kennedy’s death).[2] The National Association of Broadcasters said: “An all-time low in bad taste, with the President of the United States in a Superman role. NBC was responsible for this direct ideological approach to totalitarianism. We fear that there may be other broadcasters who are irresponsible enough to keep it in circulation”.[3]

In The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows, David Perlmutter says that the show is “perhaps the worst animated program in the late 1960s (its producers admitted it themselves)” and calls the superhero president “arguably the most implausible superhero narrative idea ever invented”.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_President

Most of the full episodes are unavailable, but this one, which includes 60s kids commercials and a slightly less stupid but still stupid cartoon as part of that half-hour programming block called Spy Shadow about a spy who has a living shadow that can help him out.

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