This thread made the 60s cartoon "Supercar" pop into my head for some reason. A bizzare puppet-like cartoon I used to watch. There wasn't much to watch on just two channels in those days.
OMG, I had forgotten about Supercar. Another favorite from early childhood, that was. As for the creepy puppets, that was the "SUPERMARIONATION" developed by Gerry Anderson, who went on to produce Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, and the live action UFO (which used spinning flying saucers on a string. Jazzy opening music, though. And I love all the pretty ladies working for SHADO )
I once showed the Fireball XL5 title sequence to an engineer friend of mine (10 years younger, had never heard of the show). His reaction: "5 million pounds of rocket thrust, guided by a guy with bicycle handlebars? Brilliant ..."
One of the Warner Brothers Studio's many contributions to the war effort. A bunch of Russian gremlins systematically destroy a German bomber (to a jazzed up version of The Song of the Volga Boatmen) and whip the @#$%& out of Der Fuhrer. Many of the gremlins are caricatures of the WB animators and office staff, so I've been told.
We are Russian Gremlins
Up in the sky we're found
Schickelgruber's aeroplanes
we smash right to the ground!
We like nothing better
than to mess up Messerschmitts,
and send their heavy bombers down
to earth in teeny bits!