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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: frunK on 18 Feb 2008, 20:44
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Bad cartoons you remember growing up! GO!
Captain Planet, Dungeons and Dragons, and Legend of Zelda: The Animated Series are some epically bad ones that come to mind.
Changed the thread topic, so that people don't have to open the thread to find out what it's about. Because that's a pet peeve of mine. Thankyou! - Inlander.
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There's also a movies/books/TV forum for a reason.
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Cartoons can be general discussion too. :cry:
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Motherfucking CENTURIONS.
Man and machine! POWER EXTREME!
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Remember when they tried making action figures out of fucking Troll dolls and came up with Stone Defenders? That one warrents mention in this.
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You know what is fun? Lurking. Yep. Especially when you are new. It's nice to ease your feet into the sea before taking a big plunge. To get a feel for the water. Lurking is a lot like that. Maybe you should give it a try! No one likes to dive into a big pool of water, before testing the water, only to discover that not only is it ice cold, but also very very shallow. That could even be dangerous!
Also, you may want to take a gander at the Hi, I'm New! (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/board,6.0.html) forum. It is a great place for new people like yourself. Very helpful too.
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Hey here's an idea, how about instead of just looking at how many stars are next to my name you actually read the post and possibly add your input related to saturday morning cartoons! What do you think about that idea?
I can understand giving me hell when I actually am being a stupid newb but this is just newb bashing for the sake of newb bashing.
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I am sorry that you read my post as bashing. I was honestly trying to be helpful! Please reread it, and look into the things I suggested doing. It is almost required that all new members at least read the Hi, I'm New! forum, and/or lurk. Lurking will honestly help you get feel for the board. As with ever webboard, this one is quite unique! We do things differently around here, and it is frowned upon when someone new starts making a number of threads. Honestly, the Hi, I'm New! forum is filled with helpful hint for new posters, like yourself.
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Lurking is good. It can be okay to jump right in with the posts, but if you don't create a thread in Hi I'm New people will notice and call you out on it.
Also, it's kind of the unwritten rule that newbs don't start topics unless you have a really good idea and a fantastic first post to start it off. This topic, to me, gets about 6/10 for idea and 3/10 for execution of that idea. I would also like to share with you that I have been a member for a year now and I've started a total of six threads, including my intro in Hi I'm New. You have been here for less than two weeks and you've already started three topics.
Slow down. Ease into things. It's the best way to get people to like you so you can post topics like this later and not get flamed for it.
Also, on and unrelated and unproven note, I think people will take you more seriously once you get an avatar. Just saying.
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Also, on and unrelated and unproven note, I think people will take you more seriously once you get an avatar. Just saying.
Only if other forum-goers fail to understand the significance, irony, or sarcasm involved in the avatar.
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The Littles. I had a nightmare about the show that I remember to this day.
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Emaline, I read your post as pretty rude. Dude's doing no harm.
CONAN, THE ADVENTURER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZDiyY2ZBY)
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Oh man, the Ewoks cartoon is fucking rad. I mean, it's terrible and all but that doesn't stop me having it on DVD.
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Captain Planet and Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron Sorry missed the Bad.
I thought 2 Stupid Dogs was a REALLY bad cartoon
Those are ones I can remember getting up in the wee hours of the morning to watch.
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The Super Mario Brothers' Super Show, and Biker Mice From Mars. And the one with the Beetles...forgot it's name.
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You guys are doing it wrong. He said bad cartoons.
2 Stupid Dogs was fucking awesome.
If one person says Exo Squad, I will fucking end you all.
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Yeah, stop listing cartoons that were fun.
I think it was called Shark Attack! but whatever it was it felt like a ripoff of TMNT. It was definitely bad.
(frunK, welcome to the forums!)
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The Super Mario Brothers' Super Show, and Biker Mice From Mars. And the one with the Beetles...forgot it's name.
Beetleborgs? The rip off of Power Rangers with little kids?
And I think you are talking about Street Sharks Linds. I loved that show so much I owned damn near every toy from the series. How could I not, it had freaking jawsome action
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Yeah, stop listing cartoons that were fun.
I think it was called Shark Attack! but whatever it was it felt like a ripoff of TMNT. It was definitely bad.
I think that show was called Tigersharks. Had a dog that got fish powers and such?
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JAWSOME!!!
You would probably be thinking of Street Sharks, the toys kicked ass.
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OH DEAR GOD
I remember that one, you're not crazy. It was called Hammerman or something.
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The New Ghostbusters, and and... Yu-gi-ho!
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I don't really remember watching any cartoons that were actually terrible at the time.
However I'm pretty sure if I went back to any of them now I'd probably be embarrassed by the thought that I not only watched this but actually loved it at the time.*
*The obvious exception to this rule being Batman: The Animated Series, that remains kick ass to this day, I really need to pick up the rest of the dvds.
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Am I nuts, or did they even give New Kids on the Block a cartoon at one point?
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I remember there was a comic book, I didn't read it I just remember the advertisement in another comic.
Seriously. Didn't read it.
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JAWSOME!!!
You would probably be thinking of Street Sharks, the toys kicked ass.
Yes, that's it!
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And I think you are talking about Street Sharks Linds. I loved that show so much I owned damn near every toy from the series. How could I not, it had freaking jawsome action
harumph!!
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What was that one show that was the male version of Sky Dancers? Was it Dragon Flies or something?
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Don't knock the first season or so of Ghostbusters. That actually holds up surprisingly well for '80s cartoon fare. It went down the shitter one they put more emphasis on Slimer, but the oldest episodes are actually kind of fun.
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Congrats nonbaka you win. For no cartoon can be worse the MC Hammer and his magical shoes of funky dancing.
Not even Mr T's cartoon was that bad. And that show really pissed me off cause it got me to buy that goddamn cereal.... Heat it up in the microwave my ass, it tasted just as shitty hot as cold.
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Rocket Power
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Don't knock the first season or so of Ghostbusters. That actually holds up surprisingly well for '80s cartoon fare. It went down the shitter one they put more emphasis on Slimer, but the oldest episodes are actually kind of fun.
I think Dissy is referring to the mid 90's Ghostbusters remake, the only origional team members where Egon on the secretary and Egon stayed iin the headquaters being boss-man. Also there was a Ghostbuster in a fucking wheel-chair...what the crap I'm all for pushing the handy-capable thing but you just know there was a retarded kid out there who because of The New Ghostbusters was totally crushed when his application to join the police or firemen or NASA got turned down cause he's retarded.
Also anyone remember that one show that had Micheal Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and some other sports star fighting crime and solving mysteries or some crap? That was one for the big book of shitty cartoons that should never have existed.
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Actually, you're right, I think the first series was called The Real Ghostbusters, come to think of it.
And yeah, i remember the show you're talking about, I believe the 3rd guy was Bo Jackson.
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s a retarded kid out there who because of The New Ghostbusters was totally crushed when his application to join the police or firemen or NASA got turned down cause he's retarded.
I don't wanna come across all politically correct, but man you really could have phrased that better.
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Prostars (http://youtube.com/watch?v=px5njG8ikvo)
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Also, the captial K in the weird places is MY idea.
But seriously, I only watched the good shows back then. The Sonic the Hedgehog Animated Series (I dare say a spiritual precursor to the format and style of Firefly) [note -- NOT Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which I didn't like as much], Captain Planet, TMNT, Swat Kats, etc. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
But I also liked the Impossibles, the old Hannah-Barbara series that re-aired on Cartoon Network. That's one I'm not sure why I liked.
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s a retarded kid out there who because of The New Ghostbusters was totally TAMPON! crushed when his application to join the police or firemen or NASA got turned down cause he's TAMPON! retarded.
I don't wanna come across all politically correct, but man you really could have phrased that better.
OR I could have offended twice as many people by tossing the word "Tampon" in there!
Also I've been using the random capitol K for a while in another forum, total coincedence, i swear *shifty-eyes*
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Touché
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Samurai Pizza Cats was fucking awesome. They were cats who were samurais and they ate a lot of pizza. It was ridiculous.
Gargoyles was pretty epic as well, I need to work on getting the rest of the dvds.
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Good luck finding the third season, I don't even think it exists.
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Reboot... Most epic cartoon ever
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I can attest to Beast Wars being an incredible show. Hey Arnold! on the other hand. I never liked that show.
Also, what was the name of that blatantly Japanese Power Ranger show with the Samurai Cyber Robots?
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Was it cartoon or live action?
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Pokemon!
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I can attest to Beast Wars being an incredible show. Hey Arnold! on the other hand. I never liked that show.
Also, what was the name of that blatantly Japanese Power Ranger show with the Samurai Cyber Robots?
Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad?
edit- i never cared much for the raccoons... or any french-canadien programming.
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Samurai Pizza Cats was fucking awesome. They were cats who were samurais and they ate a lot of pizza. It was ridiculous.
OMFG I forgot I used to watch that series! It was awesome. It had cross-dressing, bad puns, unhinged female aggression, meta-humor / fourth-wall breaking, and a sweet opening song.
They're fighting crime... all over town!
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By your powers combined I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!
I always felt the show was a little racist for not including an Australian as one of the ring-bearers.
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Don't knock the first season or so of Ghostbusters. That actually holds up surprisingly well for '80s cartoon fare. It went down the shitter one they put more emphasis on Slimer, but the oldest episodes are actually kind of fun.
I think Dissy is referring to the mid 90's Ghostbusters remake, the only origional team members where Egon on the secretary and Egon stayed iin the headquaters being boss-man. Also there was a Ghostbuster in a fucking wheel-chair...what the crap I'm all for pushing the handy-capable thing but you just know there was a retarded kid out there who because of The New Ghostbusters was totally crushed when his application to join the police or firemen or NASA got turned down cause he's retarded.
You're thinking of Extreme Ghostbusters. I thought the show had some potential, but it never really lived up to it.
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I always felt the show was a little racist for not including an Australian as one of the ring-bearers.
now if only "Australian" was a race and not a nationality, your gripe might have some legitimacy.
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OMFG I forgot I used to watch that series! It was awesome. It had cross-dressing, bad puns, unhinged female aggression, meta-humor / fourth-wall breaking, and a sweet opening song.
They're fighting crime... all over town!
I watched that show too and it used to be on TV as soon as I got home from school. It needs a DVD release.
Pizza Cats intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXiJYcK4-GU
Anyone in the UK remember The Trap Door? I love the sound effects and Drutt is legendary. Here is one of my favourites, although it's probably the reason I'm scared of spiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDXJXGORC4
I watched most of the shows already mentioned and I recently got M.A.S.K. on DVD.
Working overtime, fighting crime, FIGHTING CRIME!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0BzBFWt8V8
The 80's and early 90's really produced some great cartoons and a lot of them have been released on DVD. I even saw Dino Riders has been released!
Dinosaurs + Lasers = Awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lw7o0cN5Kg&feature=related
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Rocket Power
Oh, no you did NOT!
Almost (ALMOST) all Nick Toons are inevitably awesome. You are lame.
The exception to this rule is Angry Beavers (which, sadly, I could never look away from...) (And there are others, that I probably never saw)
OLDER cartoons that make me go "Whaaaat?" are GUMMIE BEARS! My sister rented the ENTIRE SERIES from the library a few weekends ago and I was forced to watch like 15 episodes in a ROW...aaaaaaaah.
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The bad cartoon I enjoyed was Kidd Video. I even have the mp3s of the horrible synth-pop tunes they created.
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Mario! Oh yes. Anyone remember the live action dancing plumbers at the begining? Hey, I still think it's fun/funny, but looking back I wonder wth I was thinking. :lol:
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I remember when I was like 6 the local video store had origional episodes of Space Ghost and I would rent them all the time.
It was just as rediculous back then is it is now, only then it was unintentional.
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While not a cartoon, the Nickelodeon show 'Legends of the Hidden Temple' always infuriated me, even as a kid. They would make up some bullshit story about how James Madison's wife had a mystical all-seeing staff that had been recovered from the chambers beneath the White House. And with people being as ignorant about history as they are, you just knew that somewhere, some kid was watching the show and taking these things as reality and grew up to believe that a former First Lady had control over the undead.
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Does anyone remember Sharky and George?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yzm2irjLi0
The crime busters of the sea!! I names my goldfish after George, because I didn't want to appear like I was mocking him by calling him Sharky... I can't remember much about the show, but I could never forget that theme tune.
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'Legends of the Hidden Temple'
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I think we forgot about Inspector Gadget, the best theme song to get suck in your head all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeE3saeguY
And check out this vid: Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix. He combines it with the Beverley Hills Cop theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0
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And now to enter the nostalgia portion of this thread:
Speed Racer
Johnny Quest
and a truly horrible one whose title escapes me, where a family of scientists ends up in a lost world populated by cavemen (who speak english) and dinosaurs (who'd a thunk it?)
Even as a young kid these were horrible - which is why I started reading decent books at a young age...or just waited for MASH to come on at 5:00
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hatin' on angry beavers
Oh no you didn't, Angry Beavers, Spongebob Squarepants and Avatar: The Last Airbender are the only good nicktoons ever
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Do you know whats strange ? Does everyone remember that show "Arthur' he had a pet dog and he went to school with a guy who was a dog. What the hell was that about. :|
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Dude Arthur was so amazing. Do not diss Arthur.
But you have Dart as your avatar. I am so torn by you right now.
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Me diss Arthur? I believe not, I used to watch it everyday before I would go to school that or Beasties. It was a toss up.
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Oh no you didn't, Angry Beavers, Spongebob Squarepants and Avatar: The Last Airbender are the only good nicktoons ever
The fuck...? THE FUCK?! Seriously, people, what the fuck?!
Man, the first like five or six Nicktoons were pure gold! Until Doug went to Disney, it was fantastic. Rugrats was, admittedly, not one that held up too well, but it was great as a kid. Ren and Stimpy was always fun. Rocko's Modern Life was one of the best cartoons ever. Ahh! Real Monsters was fucking fantastic. From Hey Arnold on, it all went downhill (Yes, including Zim people, really doesn't hold up past your teens).
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The Raccoons was/is hands-down the worst cartoon in the history of everything. And I watched it RELIGIOUSLY.
Also, I had, and still have, many VHS collections of "classic" cartoons wherein Betty Boop employs strangely sadistic methods to lose weight and Superman is an asshat misogynist spewing WW2-era propaganda against the Japanese. He also fights the mole-people and the bird-people. Strangely, the bird-people I seem to remember lived in underground caverns. The mole-people might have, too--but that would make more sense.
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I remember watching Ronin Warriors. It was pretty cool when I was 12, but I don't think it would stand up to time. An old scientist type summons five magical warriors from another dimension with a Commodore, and they all sound like surfers. Yeah....
On an unrelated note, I just thought of Count Duckula for some reason. That cartoon was Fucking Amazing.
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Captain N: The Game Master
Though I don't remember it to well.
Also, it's probably been about every kid's wish at some point to be sucked into a video game.
Edit: I also remember that in at least one episode he was able to use the controller on his belt to "pause" the world and then jump around and do stuff. I always wondered why he didn't just do that all the time.
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because it probably had horrible repercussions on the space time continuum... or cartoon writers in the 80s were morons. one of the two.
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Mighty Max!
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I believe pausing could only work for a limited time.
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You know, I always just thought Thundercats, for all its campy glory, was at its bones a really awful cartoon. When 90% of the lyrics in the theme song of a show consist solely of the one-word title of that show, that's generally a good sign you're in trouble.
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I never liked Thundercats. I dunno why; I was as vulnerable to mass marketing and loved cartoons as much as the next kid, but Thundercats just wasn't doing it for me.
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NO.
God, no. I remember that show. Only vaguely, true, but that's about as much good as saying "I only vaguely remember being stabbed in the gut."
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I think I still have one of the action figures lying around somewhere. If I find it, I might post a picture of it.
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Street Sharks fucking rocked.
Almost as much as biker mice from mars, but not as much
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I remember the Angry Beavers show...anyone else?
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I remember that that show was, and is totally awesome.
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Gentlemen!
I present to you the worst of the Bad Late 80's Action Figure Cartoon genre(you so know it's a genre) Back when they designed the toys first, then gave them cool names AND THEN wrote a plot at the last minute!
Inhumonoids...I had almost forgotten it, but then tvlinks resurrected itself with even more retarded bullshit better then ever.
Here you go, you don't have to watch the whole thing, I would understand.
[url]http://tv-links.cc/cartoon/inhumanoids.htm[/url
Enjoy.
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Street Sharks fucking rocked.
Almost as much as biker mice from mars, but not as much
My friend and I would spend SO much time playing with those Street Sharks fighters....AND the Biker Mice From Mars toys.....TOGETHER. Man I miss those shows...although if I watched them now they'd be terrible....like The Tick, I bought season one and I tried watching it again...major dissapointment.
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Has "The Superfriends" been mentioned yet?
A friend linked me some clips from it the other day and I couldn't stop laughing. The segue-ways between scene even in the same fight make no goddamn sense, and the cheesy one-liners everyone spits out are gold to this day.
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Does Gumby count as cartoon since it's claymation? It was pretty weird.
The old Beetlejuice cartoon was another weird one and the Wonderwoman cartoon. I have nothing against Wonderwoman but I can't help but wonder how she's so strong in her own show then as soon as she's introduced to a series with male superheros she keeps screwing up and needing to be rescued. Also, her tendency to be caught in her own whip bothered me.
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Honestly, the only one that stands out in my memory as having the highest possibility of sucking was some stupid cartoon that was like "a yankee in king arthurs court" with some stupid kid, and for some reason football players? I honestly cant remember much, I know it had king arthur, some time travelling kid, and crazy pseudo japanese power up armor thing going on. I remember waking up at 6am to watch that shit.
Also, no offense to the rabid fanbase, but in a moment of weakness, I purchased the first season of Transformers the day it came out. I could not finish the first season. It was that cheesy and corny.
So, after destroying my memories of early Transformers (Except Grimlock, he was still incredibly badass), I refuse to watch ANY cartoons from my childhood, GIJoe, TMNT, Gargoyles, etc.
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her tendency to be caught in her own whip bothered me.
That's because she is a woman.
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Yeah, stop listing cartoons that were fun.
I think it was called Shark Attack! but whatever it was it felt like a ripoff of TMNT. It was definitely bad.
(frunK, welcome to the forums!)
It was Street Sharks.
My vote goes to Rocko's Modern Life. I didn't understand that show at all until I was like, 13, but that didn't stop me from watching it all the time.
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Believe it or not, there used to be a cartoon about the Jackson Five.
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Spiderman and his amazing friends is hands down the worst cartoon ever, but it's so ridicules that it's actually quite entertaining my favorite line ever from that show was when spiderman was stuck in a pit that he couldn't climb out of and then the bad guy turned on the sleeping gas in the pit and spiderman said " Sleeping gas that does it" and then proceeded to climb the walls he just moments earlier said were unclimbable and to completely ignore the effects of sleeping gas
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Are you kidding? Rocko's Modern Life was genius. Absolutely hilarious.
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So, after destroying my memories of early Transformers (Except Grimlock, he was still incredibly badass), I refuse to watch ANY cartoons from my childhood, GIJoe, TMNT, Gargoyles, etc.
I have gargoyles on DVD actually. It holds up really well as do the Batman Animated Series and funnily enough, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. I still want to see if thundercats holds up as well because I used to love that show.
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and a truly horrible one whose title escapes me, where a family of scientists ends up in a lost world populated by cavemen (who speak english) and dinosaurs (who'd a thunk it?)
I think I remember the show you're talking about. Was it on Nickelodeon? Did it have a hot cavewoman the son lusted after? Yeah, I watched it and loved it as a kid.
Also: Apparently, I was a huge fan of She-Ra Princess of Power as a kid. As a very young kid, mind you, so I don't remember it at all, my mother just likes to bring it up because she sucks.
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THE TICK. then it was live action and agh. bad choices. didn't pound puppies have a cartoon too? glow worms! the eighties were all about product tie-ins. oh wait, so is every cartoon ever.
i'm glad so many people remember street sharks! i thought it had faded into tmnt-imitation obscurity.
i didn't have cable as a child, so i watched a lot of little lulu and popeye on an old vhs. the three stooges was also on this tape, but they were live action and SUCKED, so got the fast-forward treatment.
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Sorry you fail, The Tick is awesome in all of his forms.
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I have to disagree the live action tick was perty bad but cartoon tick was pure gold
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no, agh, i remember the tick was on right after animaniacs (batman came BEFORE, i think ... well, i don't know, i just know it either preceded/succeeded some show i was really into) and i remember thinking it was the stupidest thing ever. i think i would probably like the concept now that i'm older, but 5-year-old me had nothing but ire toward the execution of said concept.
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I think they occasionally switched Batman and the Animaniacs. Sometimes Batman was on before, sometimes it was on after. I don't know, and I should remember, because I have Batman love hardcore. Maybe it was Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures.
Oh, man, and anyone remember the really painful Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon around the same era as Ninja Turtles? Man, that was bad.
What really annoyed me was when the Cartoon Network came out and they showed all those old 70s cartoons. I really hated when the whites of everyones' eyes were the color of their skin. Drove me crazy. I'm pretty sure Scooby Doo was one of the ones that annoyed me so much for that.
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Killer Tomatoes. Man, I can't believe somebody came up with that. I mean, I don't like tomatoes at all but how are you supposed to be scared of the work of a mad scientist / farmers' market patron?
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I have no idea who greenlit that tv show. Maybe it was supposed to be a green show before the whole "go green" movement was all trendy. I know that was the issue with Captain Planet.
All I remember was the gigantic tomatoes bouncing down the street, and I thought, "This is so bad."
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The Raccoons was/is hands-down the worst cartoon in the history of everything. And I watched it RELIGIOUSLY.
I was waiting for this to come up!! My uncle was an animator for the Raccoons!!! I loved that show!
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wasn't there some sort of hello kitty cartoon?
that must have been pretty bad if i don't even remember if it exists or not.
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Gargoyles
Fuck, I loved this show. I remember being little and seeing Disney on Ice (my mom had connections so we got a booth) and at the end the Gargoyles came out and kicked ass. They still play some episodes on Toon Disney at 3:30 AM.