Dave Mackey, who knows this kind of stuff better than I do, says that when the Columbia Li'l Abner cartoons were released on VHS a few years ago, they were not what one would expect. Instead of transferring color prints of these cartoons (which were originally made in color), someone did a tracing job on black-and-white prints. I don't have time to explain the technical end of this process so just trust me: It ruins the cartoon. Instead of seeing the work of talented animators, you're seeing what happens when minimum-wage employees trace their work, and not even every frame of it. In this case, says Dave, they were tracing material that wasn't so wonderful in the first place. So avoid those tapes, too.