| abstract | - Gulliver's Gigantic Goof is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the Super Friends. This episode tackled the issue of the population problem, in which a scientist named Doctor Hiram Gulliver invents a shrink ray capable of shrinking the entire population of Earth down to two-inches tall. This of course is not considered a good thing by the Superfriends or anyone else on Earth, so he is considered the antagonist of the story. Perhaps the episode is best known for featuring the first appearance of Green Arrow, the famous archer from DC Comics. Although this was the only time he was seen in Super Friends' animation, he later appears in the Super Friends comics. Although not much of Green Arrow's character is fleshed out in this one episode, he is referred to by the narrator as a "staunch member of the Justice League of America." This episode also introduces a new city in the Super Friends universe, Harbor City; which is portrayed as being not far from Gotham City, although the exact geographical location is not revealed, keeping it quite vague. There was a Harbor City in DC Comics, but it's uncertain if it was supposed to be the same city, and it was several years later that Harbor City shows up in the comics. Despite the fact that this episode was aired after The Androids, the setting of the events would have had to have taken place before that episode, because in this episode, we see the First Manned-Mission to Mars, whereas in The Androids, we see the Mars missile launch, which not only is not the first mission to Mars, but also there is already a base on the surface of the planet.
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