Topic: What was your favourite cartoon show as a kid? (Read 83545 times)

actreal · « **on:** 25 Sep 2008, 00:00 »

Post below with your favourite cartoon show as a kid.

By kid, I mean when you were between around 5 and 12. The plan is for your post to really date your childhood.

Mine was Voltron (possibly unsurprising if you recognised my avatar).

Runners-up would be MASK, Transformers (original series) and Brave Starr.

KvP · « **Reply #1 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 00:21 »

SPOOOOOOOOOON

Surgoshan · « **Reply #2 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 04:13 »

I liked after school cartoons. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #3 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 04:17 »

I was mostly a Nickelodeon child. Rugrats, Doug and such. I also loved Dragonball Z when I was about 10 to 11.

valley_parade · « **Reply #4 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 05:12 »

Animaniacs.

tuna ketchup x · « **Reply #5 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 05:40 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 25 Sep 2008, 05:12

Animaniacs.

This. Plus Tiny Toon Adventures.

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 06:05 »

My older sisters had Commander Adama and Starbuck, I had Henry Gloval and Rick Hunter.

Muppet King · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 06:19 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 25 Sep 2008, 05:12

Animaniacs.

A grade school friend's dad did some of the animation on Animaniacs. Somewhere in my room I have a cel of Wacko.

That said...

Thundercats, G.I. Joe, Pirates of Dark Water, The Tick, Batman: The Animated Series, and X-Men were the major staples of my cartoon watching.

CamusCanDo · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 06:27 »

Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Popeye, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Topcat (actually just a shit load of Hanna-Barbera cartoons), ReBoot, Gargoyles and I'm pretty sure Dragonball Z was my last "childhood" cartoon.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 07:01 »

Can't I just say I was ten years old in '98? I watched a hella lot of cartoons. Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network mostly, like, at least 4 hours a day, there were very few shows I didn't like.

geffyb · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 07:10 »

Animaniacs
Rugrats
Doug
Tiny Toon Adventures
Hey Arnold!
Pokemon

0bsessions · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 07:45 »

I had a series of favorites and it would vary depending on my age. I was big into X-Men, Batman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, Exo-Squad, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Rocko's Modern Life and so on.

I think Simpsons might've been tops, though.

CardinalFang · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 09:26 »

Looney Tunes and Jonny Quest.

orangeklingon · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 09:30 »

when I was 5 to 12?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Real Ghostbusters, Batman: TAS, Spiderman, Looneytoons, and Tom & Jerry

BlahBlah · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 09:43 »

Spongebob was my favourite, but I also watched Ed, Ed and Eddie quite a lot, looney tunes and tom and jerry.

thehollow · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 10:40 »

scooby doo

Liz · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 12:20 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 25 Sep 2008, 04:13

I liked after school cartoons. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck.

Quote from: valley_parade on 25 Sep 2008, 05:12

Animaniacs.

Also, The Angry Beavers. Greatest cartoon ever created and it needs to come out on DVD now.

Metope · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 12:30 »

THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8pkxdBodsg

At least when I was 5-10-ish, probably not when I was 12. At 12 I was way too busy rejecting anything that might be vaguely childish to watch this awesome, awesome show.

I bet Jens will second this when he gets back from work or wherever he is, he even has the theme song as his ringtone.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 12:58 »

Pinky and the Brain, Recess, The Weekenders and classic Looney Tunes. I still watch them if the mood strikes me and I'm watching TV at 3 in the afternoon during the week/8 or so in the morning on Saturday (except for Pinky and the Brian which is never on anymore).

octodexy · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 13:39 »

Mighty Max, Angry Beavers, Arthur

Muppet King · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 13:55 »

I forgot the major ones: Denver the Last Dinosaur and Captain Planet

geffyb · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 14:29 »

Quote from: Misconception on 25 Sep 2008, 12:20

Quote from: Surgoshan on 25 Sep 2008, 04:13
I liked after school cartoons. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck.
Quote from: valley_parade on 25 Sep 2008, 05:12
Animaniacs.

Also, The Angry Beavers. Greatest cartoon ever created and it needs to come out on DVD now.

Oh God I forgot angry beavers! Norbert and Dagget ruled!

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

satsugaikaze · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 14:38 »

...Mostly anything from Looney Tunes.

I grew up hating Disney and their formulaic "good-rights-responsibility-evil-destruction-and-chaos-battle" stories. And their musicals.

And my last "childhood" cartoon was Dragonball Z. I still remember the first theme song for the English dubs! It was so funny! XD

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 15:00 »

The Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon (the dramatic one that was on on Saturday mornings)

I saw a couple episodes and liked it a lot, and then lost track of it and could never figure out when it was on. Had to substitute the goofy weekday Sonic cartoon instead, but it never filled the hole in my heart.

To this day I cannot feel any emotion that isn't RAGE or DEPRESSION and it's all because of being unable to watch this cartoon.

Epilogue: I watched a couple of episodes that appeared online when tv links websites began to take off. They were not that good. Nostalgia glasses rosy enough to obscure pretty much anything & everything in my field of vision..

Surgoshan · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 15:06 »

Quote from: Muppet King on 25 Sep 2008, 13:55

I forgot the major ones: Denver the Last Dinosaur and Captain Planet

He's Denver, the last dinosaur
he's my friend and a whole lot more!

I used to fucking love that show.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 20:45 »

Mighty Max

and probably every single one everyone else has already said.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 21:59 »

Quote from: CardinalFang on 25 Sep 2008, 09:26

Jonny Quest.

Oh man, I remember Johnny Quest. That show was awesome. Basically, my favorite cartoon changed from year to year, so here's a list of the ones I can remember in no particular order:

Rocket Power
Dragonball Z
Ed, Edd & Eddy
X-Play
Mobile Suit G Gundam

And, uh...I think that's all I can remember as far as TV-shows go.

Postino · « **Reply #27 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 00:07 »

Angry Beavers
Freakazoid
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Samurai Pizza Cats

spoot

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #28 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 12:40 »

I'm surprised no one mentioned Ren and Stimpy.

Also loved most other early nicktoons and TMNT. And the Simpsons but I probably didn't get much of the jokes until I was at least 10.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #29 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 13:23 »

Everything Nick put out I watched. Some other favorites were Talespin, Freakazoid, Mighty Max, Pirates of Dark Water and of course TMNT.

Kaeldra1 · « **Reply #30 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 19:58 »

The tick is the shit, I love that picture.

My favorite cartoon was definitely X-Men, then Spider Man, then probably stuff like tom and jerry, loony toons and stuff like that. Yeaah

I wish cartoons didn't suck now. When I have kids I'm going to get DVDs of all the old cartoons and they'll only be allowed to watch those

Oh and Reboot!!!! That was probably actually my second favorite after X-Men!

that show was fucking awesome.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 20:39 »

Dude, many cartoons that we thought were awesome in fact sucked. I tried watching Voltron recently. I wanted to kill myself.

Man, Talespin.

"Who said 'one more time'? Only I can say 'one more time'!"

Danger Mouse!

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 20:47 »

How could forget Ninja Turtles, man. I was completely obsessed with that show and all things Ninja Turtle related for years and years.

Kaeldra1 · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 Sep 2008, 21:01 »

oh wow I can't believe I forgot TMNT!!! that was a great show

octodexy · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 03:24 »

Ooh.

Cow and Chicken
Rocco's Modern Life

jodizzle · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 03:31 »

Oh man guys, come on...has no one mentioned Count Duckular? Also ARGHH!! Real Monsters! I want both of those on dvd. There are a whole bunch other people have already said, and I was pretty big into the original Pokemon series. By pretty big into I mean I CRIED if I missed it. I have a bunch of episodes still taped on VHS for the days I had to go to school before it was on.

ptitqui · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 12:01 »

Carebears, Darkwing Duck, and the old Reboot before enzo grew up.

Kaeldra1 · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 18:00 »

yeah before enzo grew up was definitely better, though those later seasons weren't bad. They just weren't as funny

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #38 on:** 29 Sep 2008, 05:02 »

Invariably funny + drama = serious.
If your show is light-hearted and silly, it would be a good idea to remember that's what's great about it. Who here want's to see an episode referred to as "a very special Futurama" where Leela deals with the emotional turmoil of being raped by Lrrr?

Jesus, I think I just /34/'d.

WriterofAllWrongs · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Sep 2008, 12:52 »

Dexter's Laboratory, Science Court, Freakazoid!, and Pokemon

Oh, also Histeria.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #40 on:** 29 Sep 2008, 19:51 »

Writer... is your avatar a drunken aviator?

Border Reiver · « **Reply #41 on:** 30 Sep 2008, 05:19 »

Daytime TV when I was growing up was boring. The best cartoon available was Scooby Doo. As a kid I watched the movies that were playing, and reruns of MASH, Hogan's Heroes and such classics as the original Battlestar Galactica (I miss Lorne Greene).

JD · « **Reply #42 on:** 02 Oct 2008, 13:48 »

Captain Planet, i can still remember the fucking theme song. AHHHHH!!! real monsters was pretty cool too.

Has nobody seen the original dragonball as a kid?

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #43 on:** 03 Oct 2008, 10:37 »

Oh also EEK The Cat and Bobby's World

negative creep · « **Reply #44 on:** 03 Oct 2008, 12:27 »

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #45 on:** 03 Oct 2008, 12:46 »

Does anyone remember that really weird show Life with Louie? It was about depressing, ugly little show about the kid version of Louie Anderson.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #46 on:** 04 Oct 2008, 21:38 »

The only thing I remember about it was Louie getting hit in the ear with a snowball.

nobo · « **Reply #47 on:** 05 Oct 2008, 06:37 »

Between 5 and 12 huh?

Smurfs
Gumby
TMNT
Rescue Rangers

actreal · « **Reply #48 on:** 05 Oct 2008, 18:51 »

Quote from: nobo on 05 Oct 2008, 06:37

Rescue Rangers

Man, now I've got that theme in my head:

Ch-ch-ch-chip and Dale! RES-cue RAN-gers!

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #49 on:** 05 Oct 2008, 19:04 »

Adding to many of the already listed shows: Johnny Bravo.

Holy shit, people, 1997 was eleven years ago.

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