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Title: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: fivegallery on 23 Nov 2012, 10:46
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?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Pilchard123 on 23 Nov 2012, 12:49
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.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LTK on 23 Nov 2012, 14:03
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?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: riccostar on 23 Nov 2012, 14:36
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.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 23 Nov 2012, 14:50
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.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: pwhodges on 23 Nov 2012, 14:55
When I was little in the early 1950s we had a film copy (Pathé 9.5mm type, silent, of course, although it was one of the first made with synchronised sound) of this 1928 classic, which I have remembered fondly for my whole life; also some others, which I cannot now identify:

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: fivegallery on 23 Nov 2012, 16:09
Heh, yeah, I've heard from many folks that 90's was the best (and I agree that most of Cartoon Network's programming then is pure gold) but there've been a ton of great cartoons the last decade.
I agree that Archer is fantastic, with some of the best writing for a show I've ever watched.
Other good ones of the -00's were Invader Zim and Flapjack.

The only ones I can do that are pre-90's is Scooby-Doo, and at that only the originals. I feel like some of the stuff from way back is something you probably had to grow up on.

Anyone ever see Perfect Hair Forever? Really bizarre retro Adult Swim show that parodies anime, but pretty hilarious.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 23 Nov 2012, 16:13
the 80's has a few shows that stand up well (David the Gnome comes to mind) but some of the "classics" from the time are horrible if you try to watch them again. Transformers, He-Man and TMNT for example, all utter garbage.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 23 Nov 2012, 19:26
There is a sort of nostalgia filter looking back on the cartoons from our childhood, and like Ackblom said, a lot of the ones from the 80s and 90s are actually crap, some have withstood time (Thundercats! HO!). 

But the thing is, this kind of sums up the last ten years of Cartoon Network (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FHElMpAK6E4/UHO2-ftsxPI/AAAAAAAAAVc/nzfU4d4HWVo/s1600/cartoonnetworktheater.gif). I will admit that Adventure Time is pretty much the best cartoon at the moment, but I wouldn't say it was my favourite. In fact, I don't think I have a favourite cartoon... Swat Katz...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: BobTheApple on 23 Nov 2012, 22:17
There are three I find myself always coming back to, and pretty much always happy to watch...

Futurama, because it has been pretty much consistently funny despite being cancelled and picked up again years later. I can only think of three or four dud episodes, and those still seem to pull out a chuckle or two.

Avatar: The Last Airbender, because it is perhaps one of the best examples of storytelling in a western television show in the last decade. I could really go on for hours about the amazing levels of depth and nuances in this show. It said so much about war and morality and gender and family and friendship and power and romance and honor, and it's not given nearly the level of credit it deserves. As for The Legend of Korra, its sequel series... I'm not pleased so far, but I am reserving my final judgement until I see the next season at least.

Young Justice. I am a HUGE fan of comic books, and especially the original run of Young Justice, and later Teen Titans, so I may end up judging this a little less on the actual show and more on the fact that COMICS! But it does have some really good writing and a lot of subtle character and plot development. At times, it feels like it has an episode of the week sort of structure, and I normally prefer things that are a lot more continuous in plot, like A:TLA and a lot of anime, because the rewards at the end of the series or season seem that much sweeter. However, the subtlety with which the writers have introduced a lot of the plot elements is exquisite.

I also like a lot of the 90's and early 2000's cartoons because that's what I grew up with. It's one part nostalgia and one part suddenly getting all the adult references.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Nov 2012, 05:47
Looney Tunes.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Nov 2012, 07:06
Yeah, but we're close to the same age. 

Also the entire Rocky & Bullwinkle show.  Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr. Peabody, Dudley Dooright,...very adult grown-up senses of humor in all of them. 

And on Saturday morning, there was the popeye show.  Now, I hated the popeye cartoons from the late 40's on - it was the cut-and-paste of the era.  The 50's and 60's were worse!  But every once in a while they'd dig out an old black and white Fleischer episode from the 30's.  My god, those were gems.  Hilarious, uncensored, and just... brilliant.  They were using a 3-d technique for backgrounds years before Disney...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Pilchard123 on 24 Nov 2012, 09:41
Quote from: BobTheApple on 23 Nov 2012, 22:17
It's one part nostalgia and one part suddenly getting all the adult references.

There's a section on most entries on TVTropes called "Getting crap past the radar" that deals with exactly that.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 24 Nov 2012, 11:16
Looney Tunes was was one of my earliest cartoon loves. So happy we had a giant collection of them on VHS when I was growing up.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: fivegallery on 24 Nov 2012, 12:09
Ah, I forgot about Looney Tunes!  Pretty good overall, except for the oddly racist episode here and there, and those don't see airing or rereleases anymore anyway.

And I've always been a fan of the shows that sneak some grown-ups humor past the censors.
Ren and Stimpy was one of my favorites like that, what with space madness, traveling rubber nipple salesmen, and that horse guy.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LTK on 24 Nov 2012, 12:21
Ren and Stimpy was one of my dad's favourites, and it's morbid as fuck. You can't convince me that it's in any way suitable for kids.

Does anyone ever get to watch Duck Dodgers? Thought that was hilarious as well, but it only airs on some obscure channel I can't remember.

Quote from: TheEvilDog on 23 Nov 2012, 19:26
In fact, I don't think I have a favourite cartoon... Swat Katz...
Swat Kats. I watched that, what feels like a million years ago, and I can remember absolutely nothing other than that it was awesome.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 24 Nov 2012, 14:10
The new Duck Dodgers or the older one?

One of the cartoons that I still enjoy is Mighty Max. I had pretty much all the playsets when I was little
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LTK on 24 Nov 2012, 14:15
The new series. I don't remember ever seeing the old one.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 24 Nov 2012, 17:07
Quote from: Blue Kitty on 24 Nov 2012, 14:10
One of the cartoons that I still enjoy is Mighty Max. I had pretty much all the playsets when I was little

Oh god, Mighty Max! I loved that show! Can't believe I forgot about it.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Nov 2012, 17:12
Quote from: LTK on 24 Nov 2012, 14:15
The new series. I don't remember ever seeing the old one.

You sad, sad person.

"Oops, had the silly thing in reverse."
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 24 Nov 2012, 18:50
Quote from: TheEvilDog on 24 Nov 2012, 17:07
Quote from: Blue Kitty on 24 Nov 2012, 14:10
One of the cartoons that I still enjoy is Mighty Max. I had pretty much all the playsets when I was little

Oh god, Mighty Max! I loved that show! Can't believe I forgot about it.

Every episode is up on Youtube, YOU CAN RELIVE IT
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bev on 25 Nov 2012, 06:12
Regular Show
Rocko's Modern Life
Futurama (the old eps)
South Park (same as above)
Ren and Stimpy
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Beavis and Butthead
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Nov 2012, 07:26
I'm kind of weird when it comes to South Park. I don't watch it for a couple of years, then I start watching it again and stop after a few episodes because it feels like the same stuff repeated again and again.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 25 Nov 2012, 09:17
Yeah, SP has kinda jumped the shark by using the same subtle moral compass paired with satirical humor but simply inserting whatever current event is all the rage.

Yay, ReBoot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot)!
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Nov 2012, 09:30
Oh cool, ReBoot is getting rebooted  :-D
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Lupercal on 25 Nov 2012, 10:16
I loved Ninja Turtles and the obvious copies of those (Street Sharks, Biker Mice From Mars etc)

I remember fondly loving The Mask/Ace Ventura cartoons too, weirdly enough. And Pokemon, of course. And Digimon, which nobody apart from me and my best friend seemed to watch.

Fairly Odd Parents was another show that I caught quite late I guess, although for the life of me I can't remember how old I was when I watched it properly.

I see freakin Ben 10 everywhere - is it any good or just new-age crap?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 25 Nov 2012, 17:11
The original Ben 10 was pretty good, Alien Force and Ultimate Alien are needlessly dark and dramatic, and the new Ben 10: Omniverse is looking to be pretty good.

And don't get your hopes up for Reboot, they've been looking to continue/reboot it for years.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 25 Nov 2012, 17:16
I'm not real convinced they'd be able to strike that gold again anyways.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: de_la_Nae on 25 Nov 2012, 21:47
Someone mentioned Mighty Max. Good! Though I rewatched a coupled episodes on Youtube, and boy that body count gets really high really quickly. Though I did recognize when I was young that it could get kinda dark.

I watched the hell out of Digimon for the first three series...es? Serii? I don't know. 3 was the best, though I haven't given any of the others a shake and probably never will at this rate, so...grain of salt.

Also while I never followed the comics (talking to the wrong sibling for that I'm afraid), I did see the first...half of the first Young Justice season? That sounds right. I liked it quite a bit, but I have to bust it down a bit on account of how they handled that Weatherman (or whatever his name is) robot. I mean whatshername killed it on the principle that 'oh don't worry it's not alive'. But that strikes me as difficult to make work what with...their respected team supervisor is a sentient robot.  :psyduck:


You know, it probably doesn't hold up, and I don't remember it very well, but I do remember really getting a kick out of the Mutant League show.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Pilchard123 on 26 Nov 2012, 10:47
I used to love the original Pokemon. Looking at it now, it's almost so bad that it's good.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 26 Nov 2012, 11:23
This thread really got me thinking about the shows I used to watch as a kid, and it's shameful how many of them I forgot about.
Batman the Animated Series.
Biker Mice From Mars.
Skeleton Warriors.
COPS.
Conan the Adventurer.
Defenders of the Earth.
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.
Prince Valient.
Mummies Alive.

Man. Saturday and Sunday mornings were amazing.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: dr. nervioso on 26 Nov 2012, 11:59
I think you all are forgetting someone

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZYkM3Iuq7n6Jmecy0U-OqqcXdyW1WIPqHuIqwBAeX3OGvjwrNfA)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 26 Nov 2012, 18:51
Quote from: dr. nervioso on 26 Nov 2012, 11:59
I think you all are forgetting someone

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZYkM3Iuq7n6Jmecy0U-OqqcXdyW1WIPqHuIqwBAeX3OGvjwrNfA)

Lizzie McGuire? :psyduck:
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: fivegallery on 26 Nov 2012, 21:09
Quote from: Bluesummers on 26 Nov 2012, 18:51
Lizzie McGuire? :psyduck:

Nah, man!
Daria!

It's truly a shame we've forgotten that one.

And I had forgotten about Batman the Animated Series as well. Mark Hamill as Joker rules.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 26 Nov 2012, 21:47
Quote from: fivegallery on 26 Nov 2012, 21:09
Daria!

I know, I know...it's just, no one knows who Lizzie McGuire is either. Not that I ever liked Hilary Duff...it's just a shame that everyone remembers the train wrecks, no one cares about people who actually accomplished something without fucking their lives up.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bev on 27 Nov 2012, 01:18
Daria, god I HATED that show. She was the pre-hipster hipster.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Nov 2012, 07:16
Quote from: Bev on 27 Nov 2012, 01:18
Daria, god I HATED that show. She was the pre-hipster hipster.

Uh oh...

(stands outside the blast radius)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 27 Nov 2012, 08:15
DUCK AND COVER!

(dives under a table)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: de_la_Nae on 27 Nov 2012, 09:06
Yeah okay, I can see that. Mind I've only seen bits of the show, but I would say that's a little dismissive of it (at least from my anecdotal evidence). The graduation speech is gold, for example.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Carl-E on 27 Nov 2012, 15:55
I couldn't understand why my girls didn't like it so much.  Turns out they were a little young to have a sufficiently developed sense of irony. 
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 27 Nov 2012, 16:15
Hmm, I definitely understand that Daria is a model for some of the Hipster aesthetic, largely because hipsters co-opted a lot of punk aesthetic, but I don't think the subject of the show was hipsterish at all. Daria herself was a lot more HS punk/metal than anything else.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Nov 2012, 18:00
I'm just hoping Kugai doesn't see this thread...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: riccostar on 28 Nov 2012, 20:37
I've always liked the Jetsons actually.  Boomerang is a great place for television.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Asterus on 29 Nov 2012, 14:28
For me, cartoons will always be whatever was showing around the late 90's, around when I gave up TV. Nowadays, I only remember the names, not the shows. Shows how memorable they really were XD
A few I actually remember anything about were Sagwa, Courage the Cowardly dog, Dexter's Lab, Ed Edd and Eddy, Cow and Chicken, Cubix (Technically not animated, but it showed on Saturday mornings) scooby doo, and Liberty's children.
I'd say I gave up cartoons back then, but I really didn't. I picked up anime almost a decade later.
Funny little story, but Pokemon, sailor moon, and Yu-gi-oh will always be classified as both anime and cartoon to me, depending on sub vs dub. Just depends on what audience they were trying to target, I guess.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 29 Nov 2012, 14:36
For everyone who grew up in the 80s and 90s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkiKR-yhA0&playnext=1&list=SP4EE3C879EF170BD1)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Asterus on 29 Nov 2012, 18:43
Can we have a spoiler synopsis for the US viewers?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 30 Nov 2012, 11:08
Its basically 100 intros from cartoons from the 80s and 90s. Just an hour and a half of listening to classic shows.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bev on 08 Dec 2012, 20:21
Can someone please tell me what the deal is with Adventure Time? I watched the first few episodes and tried to get into it but it has no real intro, you're just thrown into the storyline. I also can't really see what the appeal is, I want to like it because it looks like my kinda show something just isn't right...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 09 Dec 2012, 15:24
SPOOOOON!
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 09 Dec 2012, 22:00
Quote from: Bev on 08 Dec 2012, 20:21
Can someone please tell me what the deal is with Adventure Time? I watched the first few episodes and tried to get into it but it has no real intro, you're just thrown into the storyline. I also can't really see what the appeal is, I want to like it because it looks like my kinda show something just isn't right...

It works best if you take a hit of acid about three minutes before the episode starts, but if you're all out of the good stuff, just imagine some kid on his computer, playing an RPG, and gets sucked into the game. Kinda like tron, but for D&D geeks. It's an ~ADVENTURE~ O__O
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Dec 2012, 09:59
Quote from: J on 09 Dec 2012, 15:24
SPOOOOON!


Ahhh!  The tick!  I loved that! 


Another one my kids didn't get...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blyss on 10 Dec 2012, 12:35
Hmmm - Dungeons and Dragons always gets love for being such a great cartoon from my childhood, Thundarr the Barbarian, Space Ghost (before it was a parody of itself), Johnny Quest...

Yeah, I'm old.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 10 Dec 2012, 12:59
Johnny Quest is one that got played on re-runs an awful lot when I was a younger and I loved the shit out of it. Having watched a shit load of it also makes The Venture Brothers all the funnier.

Space Ghost I was... slightly less fond of. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was just such a better use of that license.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 10 Dec 2012, 20:04
I sell adventures and adventure accessories.

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6843899392/h06CF463C/)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Asterus on 10 Dec 2012, 20:42
So when you say "sucked into the game", do you mean in an Erfworld sort of way, or a .Hack/Sword Art Online sort of way?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Dec 2012, 21:12
Quote from: Blyss on 10 Dec 2012, 12:35
Hmmm - Dungeons and Dragons always gets love for being such a great cartoon from my childhood, Thundarr the Barbarian, Space Ghost (before it was a parody of itself), Johnny Quest...

Yeah, I'm old.

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :-P
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 10 Dec 2012, 21:27
Quote from: Asterus on 10 Dec 2012, 20:42
So when you say "sucked into the game", do you mean in an Erfworld sort of way, or a .Hack/Sword Art Online sort of way?

More like...um...he's a character in the game, and there are no player-controllers. Yeah, sorry, the "sucked-into-game" metaphor was a bad choice of words. It's kinda like, if an RPG had an autonomous storyline...and was goofy as fuck.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Dec 2012, 08:53
Dungeons and Dragons was really one of the best shows at the time. Its just a shame they never finished it, just one more episode! If they had completed that episode, it would have been a rarity in cartoon series of the time, where there was a definite ending, rather than a return to the status quo and the adventures continues.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Asterus on 11 Dec 2012, 18:35
Ok, so more like Ragnarok online if the genre was comedy instead of action/adventure ^.^
...
Yes, I will keep using anime as an example :P
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bev on 11 Dec 2012, 19:36
OH OH OH!!!

Banana man was the SHIT!!!!
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Petula on 19 Dec 2012, 00:46
When I was a small kid I loved the Care Bears. Don't ask me why, but I did (maybe that's rather something for the confession thread)...growing older I fell in love anime - namely with 'the vision of escaflowne' and 'InuYasha'.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 19 Dec 2012, 06:33
Quote from: Petula on 19 Dec 2012, 00:46
growing older I fell in love anime - namely with 'the vision of escaflowne' and 'InuYasha'.

Escaflowne the series, or the movie? Because that movie was trippy as hell.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 19 Dec 2012, 08:03
anybody remember exosquad?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Bluesummers on 19 Dec 2012, 19:50
Quote from: J on 19 Dec 2012, 08:03
anybody remember exosquad?

I don't think so. I remember Captain Planet, if that helps.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 19 Dec 2012, 20:58
Quote from: J on 19 Dec 2012, 08:03
anybody remember exosquad?

I remember it, but more for the fact that we couldn't quite get the channel clearly rather than the plot of the show.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 20 Dec 2012, 15:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKyY2DTEco

the interesting thing about exosquad, is that the premise is basically the same as battlestar galactia; humanity creates a genetically engineered slave-race, which rebels against them. then, after 50 years of peace the neosapiens launch a surprise attack & conquer the human homeworlds, leaving only a few warships free to try to retake them.

how can you not love a kid's show about post-slavery racism & resentment, which opens up with a 5-parter titled 'The Fall of the Human Empire'?
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blyss on 20 Dec 2012, 17:59
Oh yeah, I just remembered another one - STARBLAZERS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers) (AKA Space Battleship Yamato)  This was literally my first experience with anime, and I absolutely loved it.  The problem was that where I lived, this was not a regular occurrence, because the local stations only had a few episodes, so I only got to see like the first 4 episodes of the series over and over.  I still have yet to see the entire series, and I will be setting about trying to do that now.

But my little 10 year old mind was blown by this cartoon, and I have loved anime ever since, even though I didn't know it was anime at the time.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 20 Dec 2012, 18:55
Quote from: J on 20 Dec 2012, 15:29
how can you not love a kid's show about post-slavery racism & resentment, which opens up with a 5-parter titled 'The Fall of the Human Empire'?

Oh I tried watching it, believe me. But at the time it showed, it was on S4C, which was a Welsh/English channel, and because I lived in Ireland, we didn't get the best of signals (It was the kind of set-up where if you looked at the aerial box in a strange way the signal would go). So the rare occasions when I could watch it, the picture was so bad I often wondered if they were in a permanent blizzard (It was also on Saturday mornings which meant I had be to up at the rugby or the football club, so that just really cut down on what I could watch).
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: dps on 25 Dec 2012, 16:53
Quote from: Blyss on 10 Dec 2012, 12:35
Hmmm - Dungeons and Dragons always gets love for being such a great cartoon from my childhood, Thundarr the Barbarian, Space Ghost (before it was a parody of itself), Johnny Quest...

Yeah, I'm old.

I watched the first episode of Johnny Quest on its original broadcast in 1964.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: jwhouk on 25 Dec 2012, 18:41
Got me beat there.

Wacky Races, Yankee Doodle Pigeon, Hong Kong Phooey, Laff-a-Lympics, Jabberjaws.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 26 Dec 2012, 07:17
when i was a kid, we had some tapes of the old fleischer bros superman shorts, and they were awesome. i think my earliest memories of anything animated come from those tapes.

to this day, whenever i think of superman, this is the music i hear in my brain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjdnCC6n4xk). anyone else with me on that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Wd3225Vjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyZ3TMGXcU
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Dec 2012, 17:41
I'm afraid my memories of superman go back to (reruns of) the 50's black and white live action show. 


With George Reeves as the man of steel.  No relation to Christopher Reeve. 
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 07 Jan 2013, 20:32
Quote from: Bev on 27 Nov 2012, 01:18
Daria, god I HATED that show. She was the pre-hipster hipster.

Miss Powers would like a word with you



Oh, and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrM0E9pag8E
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 07 Feb 2013, 21:15
Necro to remind everyone of how great Cartoon Network was in the 90's. It's sad how much of Johnny Bravo I recognize in the real world now.

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 08 Feb 2013, 10:05
Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Dec 2012, 17:41
I'm afraid my memories of superman go back to (reruns of) the 50's black and white live action show. 


With George Reeves as the man of steel.  No relation to Christopher Reeve.
same until WB started up the superman animated series.  Then the JL and JLU shows.  He then killed people in the new JLU movies which surprised the hell out of me and seemed out of character.  Then I remembered that he's not batman as far as killing people.  But I never saw him kill anyone in the old live action show or the animated show in the 90s/2000s.

Quote from: ackblom12 on 07 Feb 2013, 21:15
Necro to remind everyone of how great Cartoon Network was in the 90's. It's sad how much of Johnny Bravo I recognize in the real world now.


Cartoon network has a couple of good shows now.  Though the classics like johnny bravo was good and still comes on boomerang.  also PPG are coming back later this year.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 10 Feb 2013, 08:16
Gravity Falls is coming back with all new episodes this Friday and I can't wait.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 03 Apr 2013, 08:23
guess what is just being put on netflix (either currently or soon)
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7234073088/hB22B6672/)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 03 Apr 2013, 08:36
You forgot the Justice Leagues and some Batman shows. I've been going through Justice League and it's still really good.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 03 Apr 2013, 08:48
Quote from: Blue Kitty on 03 Apr 2013, 08:36
You forgot the Justice Leagues and some Batman shows. I've been going through Justice League and it's still really good.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m84cvclkBF1r22okho1_400.gif)

I really need to get the netflix
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Boiled Dove on 03 Apr 2013, 09:23
Quote from: jwhouk on 25 Dec 2012, 18:41
Got me beat there.

Wacky Races, Yankee Doodle Pigeon, Hong Kong Phooey, Laff-a-Lympics, Jabberjaws.


Muttley was awesome. as was Grape Ape. I probably tried to jump into a filing cabinet as a kid.

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 03 Apr 2013, 09:50
Whenever I think of Jabberjaw I think of this short that Cartoon Network made
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: mtmerrick on 03 Apr 2013, 21:07
*puts in TailSpin dvd*

=D
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Deathjester on 12 Apr 2013, 18:53
Archer
Invader Zim
Avatar (last airbender and legend of Korra)
Futurama
South Park
I'm sure theres something I'm missing...
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Danni on 03 May 2013, 19:48
Adventure time is good, but by far Regular Show is my favorite.

Unless they started making new episodes of Teen Titans.

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: TheEvilDog on 03 May 2013, 20:04
Quote from: Danni on 03 May 2013, 19:48
Unless they started making new episodes of Teen Titans.
Teen Titans! Go! - Supposedly its going to start airing around July. The same voice actors have come back.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 03 May 2013, 21:27
Good

Maybe they'll grow some balls this time and hook Raven up with Starfire   :D   ;)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Danni on 03 May 2013, 21:34
technically speaking, a Raven/Starfire hookup wouldn't require any balls at all.

That show "titans go" has started here a few weeks ago, so far at least its far more silly than the original, not much actual heroing.  Seems they've taken the "funny" parts of the original and made a series of that.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 03 May 2013, 21:40
[GalenVoice]Oh dear[/GalenVoice]
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 May 2013, 06:12
Teen Titans GO! is a pale comparison to the old Teen Titans cartoon. It's nice that they have the old voice cast, who seem to have never left, and I do enjoy the art style by the awesome Dan Hipp, but I don't like anything else about it. The comedy is more hit and miss, mostly miss, and it feels like the 11 minute episodes run on for too long. I think it would have been better if they just made New Teen Titans shorts that were on during the DC Nation block.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Danni on 04 May 2013, 18:03
Agreed, like they tried to distill it down to just the silly.  Problem being that with out a serious (relatively) hero show for contrast, the silly  alone doesn't stand up.

Ah well.  My 8 yo seems to tolerate it.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 May 2013, 20:27
A nice theory I've heard is that we've been clamoring for new Teen Titans for so long that CN finally relented and made this, then going, "What do you mean you don't like it? It's Teen Titans just like you wanted"
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 04 May 2013, 20:48
[KoshVoice]Yes[/KoshVoice]
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Boiled Dove on 07 May 2013, 07:37
My 14 year old seems to be reliving grade school with my Netflix account. WE are now watching Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

It is entertaining.

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 07 May 2013, 08:23
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7386880512/hFE01CD7B/)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Boiled Dove on 07 May 2013, 09:17
 :-D
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 07 May 2013, 09:56
There's also Dexter, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Mandy
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Boiled Dove on 07 May 2013, 11:00
I never could handle Ed, Edd, and Eddy. I did introduce the family to the Power Puff girls years ago.

Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 07 May 2013, 16:12
Oh no, I meant in Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. I think Dexter and the Eds are even in the same episode.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: K1dmor on 07 May 2013, 16:32
 Mojojojo is in Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends too.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 07 May 2013, 18:57
Quote from: Blue Kitty on 07 May 2013, 09:56
There's also Dexter, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Mandy

wait, which dexter do you mean
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: K1dmor on 07 May 2013, 20:35
Quote from: J on 07 May 2013, 18:57
Quote from: Blue Kitty on 07 May 2013, 09:56
There's also Dexter, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and Mandy

wait, which dexter do you mean


This one of course:
 
(click to show/hide)

Quote after direct post 'cause page breaker.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: J on 07 May 2013, 21:04
win!
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 07 May 2013, 22:09
For the continuing adventures of such luminaries as The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter et al, try here. (http://ppg.snafu-comics.com/)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Boiled Dove on 08 May 2013, 06:33
Holy Crap that is awesome. Should I thank you in advance for the time I'm about to waste on that site?

Yes I have noticed the cameos from other CMcC shows in Foster's, there are a lot of cultural references that he throws into his shows.



Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: K1dmor on 08 May 2013, 16:57
 And don't forget Grim Tales (http://grim.snafu-comics.com/) (same author), there you can find Billy&Mandy&Etc, PPG, etc. It's like a "sequel" of the one that Kugai posted.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 08 May 2013, 17:59
Thanks K1dmor, I do follow that one as well and was thinking of mentioning it in another Post.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: ackblom12 on 19 May 2013, 11:18
I would just like to remind everyone that Gravity Falls is incredibly good.

The only issue I have with it is that Gruncle Stan tends to make me a bit uncomfortable. He's Super Jew in every negative sense of the term, both personality wise and physically. He was even a Vampire for Summerween. His portrayal is so over the top stereotypical that I can't quite get a handle on if I think it rides the line between parody and horrible well.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 19 May 2013, 11:40
Yeah, it's one awesome show. The only problem is that there is horrible downtime between each episode.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 20 May 2013, 09:46
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6z63daCEB1ram9cto2_500.gif)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: LeeC on 22 May 2013, 17:05
has anyone seen the show Dan vs?  I caught a bit of it the other day.  Seems oddly dark/adult for kids.  Like trying to blow up an animal shelter with the animals still inside.  These characters are oddly relatable too.  I started googling some and sure enough once I googled their cat and sure enough rule 34/36 hit and it was weeeeeeiiird.  Anyone watch this show and can shed some light on it?  apparently every episode Dan declares war on something.
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Blue Kitty on 24 May 2013, 19:14
The show is terrible, but god damn this is adorable
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/006a09cc38def41c977545fede6b712f/tumblr_mlrw012VG61sntzh8o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Favorite Cartoons
Post by: Kugai on 24 May 2013, 19:51
Ummmmm

Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhh






*Smiles and backs away slowly*