The cartoon of your childhood...
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EARLY childhood (pre-pre-teens):
Looney Tunes
Pink Panther
Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy)
Voltron
Transformers
The Littles - I recently introduced my youngins to this one... Wow, I forgot how much influence ABC had over their content, back then. Twenty-three minute morality plays, each and every one.
Batman - Yes, the live-action show, but who are we kidding?
Mid/Late childhood:
Animaniacs - Have the 5-disk set (Volume 1?) and they're as funny as they ever were. I almost feel bad that my kids may never get 2/3 of the jokes.
Batman: The Animated Series - Started getting these in the mail via Netflix for my daughter who loves The Batman (which stands head and shoulders above "The Brave and the Bold"). I'll admit, the art is more stylized, but also more refined, in the newer series... but the old ones still have a special place in my heart.*
Duck Tales - This was a (mildly) guilty pleasure of those years... and would never have admitted watching this in school.
X-Men - I was hooked from the first episode when Gambit answered a passerby's question of "How did you do that?" in his casual, N'awlins way: "With style." (And, as much as I personally love the character, Wolverine wasn't the bloody center of attention. Yes, I'm looking at you, Ratner.)
*Except for the stupid "Christmas" episode with Robin showing up out of nowhere, to (thankfully) not be seen again for a season or two later.
Basically, the weekday afternoon line-up...
Wish I'd seen more of:
Exo-Squad - I frakkin' LOVED this show. A coherent storyline across a long seasonal arc, in a 30min cartoon? Bloody unheard of... Looking back, I get a serious BS:G vibe off of that show.
[insert popular mecha animes of the last two or three decades here] - I caught snippets of Robotech, and later a few "Gundam" shows, but never enough to really get drawn in. Part of it was that I only got ABC and WPBH (PBS) where I grew up... and CBS, but only on weekends when I was up at my dad's. And later, I just couldn't get away with the broadcast times (late night, generally).
Looney Tunes
Pink Panther
Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy)
Voltron
Transformers
The Littles - I recently introduced my youngins to this one... Wow, I forgot how much influence ABC had over their content, back then. Twenty-three minute morality plays, each and every one.
Batman - Yes, the live-action show, but who are we kidding?
Mid/Late childhood:
Animaniacs - Have the 5-disk set (Volume 1?) and they're as funny as they ever were. I almost feel bad that my kids may never get 2/3 of the jokes.
Batman: The Animated Series - Started getting these in the mail via Netflix for my daughter who loves The Batman (which stands head and shoulders above "The Brave and the Bold"). I'll admit, the art is more stylized, but also more refined, in the newer series... but the old ones still have a special place in my heart.*
Duck Tales - This was a (mildly) guilty pleasure of those years... and would never have admitted watching this in school.
X-Men - I was hooked from the first episode when Gambit answered a passerby's question of "How did you do that?" in his casual, N'awlins way: "With style." (And, as much as I personally love the character, Wolverine wasn't the bloody center of attention. Yes, I'm looking at you, Ratner.)
*Except for the stupid "Christmas" episode with Robin showing up out of nowhere, to (thankfully) not be seen again for a season or two later.
Basically, the weekday afternoon line-up...
Wish I'd seen more of:
Exo-Squad - I frakkin' LOVED this show. A coherent storyline across a long seasonal arc, in a 30min cartoon? Bloody unheard of... Looking back, I get a serious BS:G vibe off of that show.
[insert popular mecha animes of the last two or three decades here] - I caught snippets of Robotech, and later a few "Gundam" shows, but never enough to really get drawn in. Part of it was that I only got ABC and WPBH (PBS) where I grew up... and CBS, but only on weekends when I was up at my dad's. And later, I just couldn't get away with the broadcast times (late night, generally).
Doug pretty much ran my childhood. He graduated 5th grade before I did but the ABC series where he was in middle school premiered the year I started 6th grade.
Strangely enough though the shows that depress me with how old and weighed down with responsibilities I've gotten are the Cartoon Cartoons, anything from TGIF, and Daria (only because I realized a couple years ago that she's no longer older than me and it caused a bit of a panic attack.
Strangely enough though the shows that depress me with how old and weighed down with responsibilities I've gotten are the Cartoon Cartoons, anything from TGIF, and Daria (only because I realized a couple years ago that she's no longer older than me and it caused a bit of a panic attack.
Transformers
Dragon Ball Z
Pokemon
Dexter's Laboratory
theres probably a lot more but these are the first that come to mind.
Dragon Ball Z
Pokemon
Dexter's Laboratory
theres probably a lot more but these are the first that come to mind.
Ho-hoooow
TMNT. It's such a nostalgic kick in the crotch.
Chip & Dale. Still funny to watch.
Disney's Alladin. One of the funniest TV cartoons in my life.
And Road to the El Dorado. Not some "for +3 years old" crap u see on TV most of the time
Batman the animated series first seasons were awesome. Dark, stylish, interesting and rather clever for cartoon. Much more serious than 3rd and 4th films. Let's not forget that one of it's writers - Paul Dini - was behind the awesome story of Arkham Asylum
TMNT. It's such a nostalgic kick in the crotch.
Chip & Dale. Still funny to watch.
Disney's Alladin. One of the funniest TV cartoons in my life.
And Road to the El Dorado. Not some "for +3 years old" crap u see on TV most of the time
Batman the animated series first seasons were awesome. Dark, stylish, interesting and rather clever for cartoon. Much more serious than 3rd and 4th films. Let's not forget that one of it's writers - Paul Dini - was behind the awesome story of Arkham Asylum
Count Duckula, Dangermouse, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Dogtanian, Thundercats *thinks*
Trap Door.. I'm sure there's more but I can't think of them offhand
Trap Door.. I'm sure there's more but I can't think of them offhand
Megas XLR
Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam
G Gundam
Power Rangers
Pokemon
Animaniacs
Outlaw Star
It was a good childhood, and I miss it. The shows now make me sad to see how far Cartoon Network, Nickilodeon, and Disney have falled. But My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic gives me hope.
Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam
G Gundam
Power Rangers
Pokemon
Animaniacs
Outlaw Star
It was a good childhood, and I miss it. The shows now make me sad to see how far Cartoon Network, Nickilodeon, and Disney have falled. But My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic gives me hope.
Dragon-ball Z when I was very young, Fantastic four g\for a short while, Courage the Cowardly Dog was always good...
I can't remember more, but there were definitely more.
I can't remember more, but there were definitely more.
I never really got into cartoons, mainly because I had a big box with all the episodes ever made of The A-team.
Alot of the Marvel Animations, including X-men, spiderman and the Hulk. And Pinky and the Brain really...And the occassional Tom&Jerry and WB Cartoons.
Loved it, but it wasn't on enough for it to properly define my childhood. I'd say what i watched the most was The Simpsons. I used to make a habit of being home by 6pm to watch it on BBC2...x EvilErmine x said:This
Greatest cartoon ever!
...and then they sold the rights to that piece of crap Channel 4.
Pretty much all of Toonami; but Tenchi Muyo is a Show I Nearly Ran home from school to see and I learned ALOT from Ruroni Kenshin (Spelling?).
Swat KATS and Captain Planet was my Main source of Entertainment before Toonami
But Pretty Much Pokemon from the Epsiode 1 till now
Swat KATS and Captain Planet was my Main source of Entertainment before Toonami
But Pretty Much Pokemon from the Epsiode 1 till now
There are many cartoons I remember fondly, and will still watch from time to time.
But only one that I will tune in to any time it's on, and which probably defined who I am to this day:
Courage the Cowardly Dog.
But only one that I will tune in to any time it's on, and which probably defined who I am to this day:
Courage the Cowardly Dog.
