I liked The Smurfs through season six as a kid, although they started to do that weird digital animation thing somewhere around then that just looked wrong. All the cartoons in the mid-80s from Hanna-Barbera did that though. Handy Smurf's the best, yo.
Inspector Gadget was pretty good in the first season, but that Corporal Capeman might just be the worst cartoon character in history. Scrappy Doo doesn't bug me anywhere near as much as that dope.
DuckTales was great. Gummi Bears were pretty good. TaleSpin was fun. Aladdin was awesome. Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers was mostly good. Yeah, Disney had things on lockdown in the late 80s and early 90s.
Cartoon Discussion Thread
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I liked Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and later Spongebob Squarepants while growing up.
They had slipped a lot of adult jokes past the censors and the first two in particular tended to feel a lot like fever dreams in some of the more surreal episodes.
There were also Avatar: The Last Airbender and Megas XLR which were good pseudo-anime cartoons
Edit: Oh shit I knew I forgot something. Invader Zim and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy were the best nightmare-inducing cartoons ever. Thanks Platinum for reminding me <3
They had slipped a lot of adult jokes past the censors and the first two in particular tended to feel a lot like fever dreams in some of the more surreal episodes.
There were also Avatar: The Last Airbender and Megas XLR which were good pseudo-anime cartoons
Edit: Oh shit I knew I forgot something. Invader Zim and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy were the best nightmare-inducing cartoons ever. Thanks Platinum for reminding me <3
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Spoilered because needlessly long:
Children's Cartoons
Teen/Young Adult-Oriented Cartoons:
Things I still need to do: Purchase all of GITS: SAC and 2nd GIG & Invader Zim and marathon-watch Legend of Korra when I have the time.
Children's Cartoons
Teen/Young Adult-Oriented Cartoons:
Things I still need to do: Purchase all of GITS: SAC and 2nd GIG & Invader Zim and marathon-watch Legend of Korra when I have the time.
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You guys know how The Powerpuff Girls got an anime? Yeah, how long do you think it'll be until Ben 10 gets an anime?
Fun Fact: The Powerpuff Girls was originally intended for adult audiences.
Fun Fact: The Powerpuff Girls was originally intended for adult audiences.
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The best cartoons are the ones that can be watched and enjoyed by people of all ages. Kids might not understand the jokes, references, or serious material to its fullest extent, but it's still innocent enough for them to watch. Batman: The Animated Series is a good example of this, but there are comedy-based cartoons that do it right, too.
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When I see the ''modern'' cartoons, I just want to run in a forest and climb up a tree, to finally never get down. They are all based around dumb stuf like ''sharing'' or friendship'', and oh my gosh it is truly unwatchable. Sure, it is for young kids you might say, but they are these shows are really underestimating kids minds. Back in the time, they were really cool kid shows, like batman and thunderbirds, but now, because they would inlude stuff like guns and stuff, pediatricians would litterally jump on their table and rip their hairs off because it doesn't enter the new standards.
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For me, it was mostly early 2000s stuff (Spongebob, fairly odd parents, etc.), plus a bunch of other shows that I would watch if they came on but honestly I can't remember 90% of em.
Later on (as in around grade 8) I started watching adventure time, and was pretty into that for a couple seasons, but it got too abstract for me.
And... I'm just gonna be honest here. I had a sick week and barely went to any lectures (this was literally last week, I'm first year university right now), so I've basically done nothing but watch the marvelous misadventures of flapjack (and a few Halloween themed Muppets but those don't count)
Later on (as in around grade 8) I started watching adventure time, and was pretty into that for a couple seasons, but it got too abstract for me.
And... I'm just gonna be honest here. I had a sick week and barely went to any lectures (this was literally last week, I'm first year university right now), so I've basically done nothing but watch the marvelous misadventures of flapjack (and a few Halloween themed Muppets but those don't count)
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Anime was a lot more common around here as a kid. Kinda still is, since quite a bit of the non-cable stuff here has anime more than western cartoons.
Regarding western cartoons, one thing I miss are the old Looney Tunes stuff. I think it's been like forever since they aired here. Still remember the first two Looney Tunes cartoons I watched; first was when Bugs found himself on a bullfighting ring. The gag where he goads the bull with the cape and makes the bull run into an anvil got me hooked. Next short I watched was Bugs as Super Rabbit, where he goes off to join the military for WWII in the end. Didn't even know what WWII was back then.
For semi-recent stuff, Transformers Prime was pretty neat. Honestly, don't have any memories of the original cartoons, and back when Beast Wars aired here I didn't get to catch most if not all the episodes. So Prime was pretty much the first Transformers series I got into (which lead me to reading Transformers: MTMTE - awesome series, by the way, highly recommend it), and I gotta say it was pretty good. The follow-up series Robots in Disguise, not so much. The more light-hearted tone the series had felt a bit lacking compared to the situation in Prime which ended up rather dire at times.
Also, one thing I miss. SWAT Kats. Getting cable for the first time, and getting Cartoon Network, SWAT Kats was the first cartoon on that channel that I saw.
Regarding western cartoons, one thing I miss are the old Looney Tunes stuff. I think it's been like forever since they aired here. Still remember the first two Looney Tunes cartoons I watched; first was when Bugs found himself on a bullfighting ring. The gag where he goads the bull with the cape and makes the bull run into an anvil got me hooked. Next short I watched was Bugs as Super Rabbit, where he goes off to join the military for WWII in the end. Didn't even know what WWII was back then.
For semi-recent stuff, Transformers Prime was pretty neat. Honestly, don't have any memories of the original cartoons, and back when Beast Wars aired here I didn't get to catch most if not all the episodes. So Prime was pretty much the first Transformers series I got into (which lead me to reading Transformers: MTMTE - awesome series, by the way, highly recommend it), and I gotta say it was pretty good. The follow-up series Robots in Disguise, not so much. The more light-hearted tone the series had felt a bit lacking compared to the situation in Prime which ended up rather dire at times.
Also, one thing I miss. SWAT Kats. Getting cable for the first time, and getting Cartoon Network, SWAT Kats was the first cartoon on that channel that I saw.
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Just remembered- my brother used to love Oggy and the Cockroaches, and for some reason I hated that show. Looking back more recently, I can't imagine why.
And like Cthulhu said, Bugs Bunny, but most of it was old recordings my dad made
And like Cthulhu said, Bugs Bunny, but most of it was old recordings my dad made
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