I disagree with that on the grounds that Narutards probably don't keep extensive spreadsheets on the writers for each episode in each season and fight with IMDB over air dates and writers.
That's because there's no need to. All that shit is well-documented in Naruto's case. You can damn-well bet that if IMDB was missing writer credits on 75% of the Naruto episodes and said half of them aired years earlier than they actually did, somebody would have corrected it.
Now, if IMDB had rebuffed them, odds are they probably would have given up rather than come back a year later with proof. ("Proof" here is "This guy made the same educated guesses I could have, but did it in a book.") But that says more about my own tenacity and stubbornness than my approach to Thundercats in particular.
And while editing every single episode is pretty onerous and I've clearly put more effort into it than most, I'm not the only guy out there correcting erroneous information on IMDB. Somebody appears to have corrected the record and stated that Bob McFadden, not Doug Preis, was the voice of Lynx-O (an understandable mistake as Preis joined the cast around the same time Lynx-O was added, and you wouldn't figure Lynx-O had the same voice as Snarf), and thankfully the site no longer says that James Lipton wrote the theme song.
Anyhow. I like Thundercats. It was the cartoon I glommed onto at an early age, moreso than its contemporaries like He-Man and Transformers. It's the one I'd be late for school to watch, once they put it on at 7:30 in the morning. I spent the next 5 years or so enjoying it with my brother and cousin on my extensive but incomplete VHS collection, and then recorded every episode off-the-air when it reran on Cartoon Network.
It was interesting watching it in my teens -- I can state definitively that, for the most part,
the last two seasons sucked -- but when it was on it was on. Starr and Lawrence did great mythology episodes, and while Overgard contributed some truly execrable excrement (Exile Isle, Circus Train), he was also responsible for some really great batshit insanity that really set the show apart from its peers (Sword in a Hole and the various Mandora eps -- yes, even the one where Snarfer gets captured on his way home with Mexican takeout).
And its relative obscurity among its peers is notable too -- He-Man and Transformers have had theatrical movies and multiple relaunches, while Thundercats got a half-assed DVD release and didn't get a relaunch until this past summer. It hasn't gotten the attention or the care that those series have.
And that's probably where Perry's murder comes into it -- when he died and Bissette wanted a list of his credits, I thought it was a disgrace that you couldn't just punch his name into IMDB and find them. And once I got started giving him an entry, and separating his existing credits from the other Stephen Perry, I just kept going.
I suspect I'm not done yet. Crichton's book is fascinating as hell and has given me more than just airdates to correct -- for example, the other day I submitted an update to IMDb to note that Julian P Gardner is Jules Bass writing under an alias.