This came on one night while I was waiting for something else I usually watch, and I quickly decided, "if there's a cartoon in the world I'm going to hate, this has to be it." Pamela Anderson in the main voice role, flagrant and near continuous camera angles of bulging parts of female characters. I thought it had to be some rubbish like 'The Man Show'. Perhaps it was the surprising fact that no less a luminary than Stan Lee was heavily involved whch kept me looking, but at some stage in that episode I chuckled and had to admit, "that was pretty funny". The next episode something happened that cracked me up and I had to admit, "Ok, that was definitely funny."

In her normal undercover life Stripperella is an erotic dancer (concealing her true identity from her co-workers and boss by often making statements as to how she isn't Stripperella). But when the call comes from her rather hilarious deranged, over-muscled chief, she morphs into Stripperella and heads off on her supercycle to combat the episode's villan with an array of super-powered gadgets.

Her boss deserves a mention. He looks like a pro wrestler, but is clearly off in a world of his own. From memory he turns up in one episode in a ballet dress for no apparent reason, and many of his comments simply make no sense.

Stripperella isn't, I think, a great show, but it's a hell of a lot better than I was expecting. The funniest villain has to be 'Cheapo', who Stripperella combats in two episodes I've seen. An obvious take on The Joker, this evil genius is renowned for devising elborate criminal conpiracies with the goal of snaring a ridiculously paltry amount of money. For example, in one episode he and his henchmen (who he forces to share one gun between them) go on a rampage stealing pennies from fountains. He takes public transport. In another ep he devises a complex plan to break into a casino in Las Vegas which has a cache of copper bricks in a heavily protected room, ignoring the gold which is equally available.

It's the sort of show I probably won't turn off it happens to be on, but I won't make a note to watch either. If you can forgive the copious shots of bulging bikinis (and any anime fan should have a headstart here), this is a surprisingly humourous show, even if it isn't going to start a third golden age of cartoons.

I can't help the image of an 82 year old Stan Lee (whose editorials I used to read over 30 years ago as if he were some kind of superhero himself) sitting back and laughing at this parody of the genre he virtually defined.

EDIT. Having watched some episodes on repeat now , I've decided it gets old pretty fast.