Bazooka Saw a Sea Serpent

While camping, Bazooka sees a Cobra flight pod get "eaten" by a giant sea serpent. In reality, this "sea serpent" is a Cobra submarine planning to steal everything it devours. But when it goes out of control, the sea serpent goes on a rampage and the Joes must stop it from destroying New York.

"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle." The Sunbow run closed every episode with a public-service spot delivered by a Joe character, addressing kids on a real-world hazard or virtue. The cartoon's deeper ethic, threaded into the writing across the run, was that Cobra's worldview was based on fear and the Joes' was based on responsibility.

1. Sunbow Season 1 daily run (1985). 55 episodes aired Monday through Friday in afternoon syndication, September to December 1985.
2. Production code: 600-29
3. Studio: Marvel Productions / Sunbow Productions / Toei Doga
4. Originally aired: October 31, 1985 in afternoon syndication.