Skeletor appeared in 71 of the 130 episodes of the 1980s "He-Man" cartoon (33 episodes in the first season, 38 in the second) and in 9 of the 93 episodes of the spin-off "She-Ra", for a total of 80 appearances, and also in "The Secret of the Sword" and "". While he was occasionally seen as a bumbling figure whose plans were always foiled by He-Man and his friends, his intentions to conquer Eternia were taken seriously by He-Man, and sometimes by She-Ra. He-Man regarded Skeletor as his arch-foe, and Skeletor's plans were sometimes ruined through the fault of his minions rather than by his own incompetence.