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Favorite Cartoons
fivegallery:
I haven't seen a topic covering this, so...
I still enjoy a good cartoon, damn the recommended ages!
Lately I can't get enough Adventure Time, just the right amounts of random, hilarious, and creepy. Plus, it's set in colorful post-apocalyptic magic wonderland. It reminds me of how much I enjoyed cartoons as a youngster. Easily the best one on now, in my opinion.
So what're your favorite cartoons, and why?
Pilchard123:
The original Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry cartoons. Phineas and Ferb. I don't watch many, although I would if I had a TV. Never watched Adventure Time as episodes, although it looks quite good from the clips I've seen around the net.
LTK:
Phineas and Ferb is by far one of the best modern cartoons I have the opportunity of seeing, among the ones being marketed for kids. Among those not, there's Futurama, which I adore, but there are very few other programs where I would fight someone over the remote to be able to watch it. I also enjoy Spongebob Squarepants, but those have had so many reruns that I've pretty much seen them all.
I've also enjoyed the first Avatar animated series, though not on tv, because Disney are really the only ones capable of dubbing cartoons well in Dutch. I pirated them instead. Can't bring myself to pirate the second series, although I would like to see it.
As a kid, I watched cartoons like a maniac. Cartoon Network was my absolute favorite; it's such a shame we have to pay for the channel now. And all the modern cartoons are really tame compared to the old ones. Phineas and Ferb is great for its time, but it doesn't hold a candle to what I watched as a kid. The Cartoon Cartoons were fantastic: Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd & Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog; I loved every single one of those. Just Johnny Bravo got a bit stale after a while. I get the feeling that modern cartoons are made with the hypothetical hyper-sensitive moral guardian in mind, looking over the shoulder of whoever's trying to enjoy the cartoon. It's such a shame. I mean, Courage was downright terrifying most of the time! I Am Weasel was butts, butts, butts, butts, butts! The Powerpuff Girls had a cross-dresser as one of the most powerful villans! Do you know how much that blew my little mind at the time?
Alas, those things are deemed to be more than the frail, sensitive minds of children can handle. Although some cartoons do a really good job despite the censoring. I mean, look at My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I catch the new episode on youtube every week, and it's downright astounding how they took one of the most exploitative, stereotyped, moneygrubbing series of toy commercials and turned it into a massively popular series with real characters with actual personalities. It's still a show for little girls, you can't get around that, but taken for what it is, Friendship is Magic is a really great cartoon.
Wow, who knew I had such strong feelings about this?
riccostar:
Scooby Doo.
I've always loved Scooby Doo, the character of the show has always made it so endearing and a pleasure to watch. On Comcast's on demand a couple years back I managed to find a treasure chest of the old projects and even some Scrappy stuff.
ackblom12:
I don't know, with all of the great cartoons on today I have a hard time arguing that the 90's were that much better. Though the 90's and current were a hell of a lot better than anything that came before. Anyone that can actually re-watch a lot of the 80's cartoons and actually tell me they're still great are clearly broken.
Gravity Falls
Bob's Burgers
Archer
Phineas and Ferb
Avatar and The Legend of Korra
Adventure Time
And those are just a very small number off the top of my head for modern days.
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