Cartoons/shows you enjoyed watching as a kid

All of the kids shows that pollute television these days are trash. Three words prove my case: "Cow and Chicken". I had the misfortune of being tricked into watching 5 minutes, and my intelligence dropped by 20 IQ points, landing it somewhere in the mid 200's.

Why aren't classics from my childhood shown on TV more often? At least they had a story you could follow (or required a minute amount of intellect + sense of humour to appreciate).

Some of my old favourites from child hood:

- Looney Toons (OBVIOUSLY). Daffy Duck pwns all.

- Tin Tin

- Basil Brush. BOOM BOOM!

- Twins of Destiny (dubbed in English. Originally 'Les Jumeaux du Bout du Monde' in French). Totally kick ass series.

- King Babar (the series). Pompadour was a crack-up.

- X-Men animated series. Rather clever for a kid's series (discrimination in society, violence as a means to an ends, duty, the meaning of friendship), and it was pretty faithful to the comics. At least more faithful than the movies...

- Transformers (naturally!)

- Pinky and the Brain. "So what are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?"

- Wind in the Willows. I also loved the book. TOAD OF TOAD HALL!

- Spiderman

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


I'm curious as to the what superheroes and T.V characters members here grew up with.

 

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Its just nostalgia.

I used to love Mysterious Cities of Gold.

 

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Nick:

I don't think so. Compare something like 'Cow and Chicken' (meaningless bullshit just meant to kill time) with something like 'King Babar' (which always has a moral behind the story), and you'll see a huge difference.

 

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Maybe, I've never watched 'Cow and Chicken'. But there was some real crap on the TV too when I was a kid.

I just remember the good stuff.

 

Nick:

Oh yes, no doubt about it. But it seems that now, ONLY crap is on TV. And I'm not just talking about kids shows, I'm talking about everything on Australian TV. I feel like I'm trapped in a cage full of retardism, and there is no escape. 5 channels full of boredom and lameness, just fighting each other to be the first to kill my brain cells.

 

Well I don't know about Aussie TV. With digital & satellite, there are far more channels now. Lots of space to fill.

Its harder to pick out the real gems from an ever increasing ocean of crap.

 

The Animaniacs were good. I especially loved Pinky and the Brain. That was probably my favorite. Batman, the animated series was pretty good too. There was also this cool show where there's a main character named "ZZ." I forget what it was for. Zip Zoolander, maybe. And he controlled a motley crew of robots and would fight crime with them and whatnot. I would get up extra early in the morning for that show.

 

Favourite Cartoons:
Spiderman and friends
The Centurions
Grandizer
Sky commandos
Gobots
Robotech
Thundercats

 

I always enjoyed watching these cartoons; Spiderman, Basil Brush, X-Men and anything from Looney Tunes.

 

when i was a kid most shows were still in B/W although some was in color but i wander.
my favorites:
cartoons - popeye, looneytunes (bugs bunny, roadrunner, yosemite sam)
series - superman, andy grifith, disney, lost in space, star trek TOS

 

hi vega

Good call with these..

they were well good.

there was another show which i liked but i cant really remmber it

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zak

 

My favourite cartoons when I was a kid... Well, that wasn't too long back but these cartoons seem to have almost disappeared:

The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest
The SwatKats
Dexter's Lab

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The Smurfs
Bugs Bunny

 

Flintstones

 

Clangers
Button Moon
Fireman Sam

All 3 so good!

 

Bucky O'hare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_o'hare
the Mysterious city's of gold
the Jetsons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons

 

Casper,Scooby-Doo,Tom and Jerry,Bugs Bunny

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good times

 

ohh,i forgot..i still enjoy watching Bratz & The Powerpuff Girls

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Astro Boy
Thundercats
Biker mice from mars
The animals of farthing wood
The wind in the willows
Voltron
Transformers
Tin Tin
Babar
Duckula
The Busy world of richard scarry
Looney tunes (the older the better now - although I used to prefer the newer ones as a kid)
Franklin
He man and the masters of the universe
Rocko's modern life
Ren and stimpy
Widget
Pirates of darkwater
Captain planet
Super ted
Banana man
Roger Ramjet

Non cartoons;
Puddle lane
Pete and pete
T-shirt or t-bag or some weird shit like that
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
The kids of degrassi street (forerunner to the classic degrassi junior high and degrassi high series)
Sesame street USED to be great

Cartoons I always hated;
Disney cartoons, hannah barbara (except maybe the snorks) and japanese crap (except astro boy obviously, and voltron if it was japanese which seems likely).

You are correct ofcourse that cartoons today are horrible. They really are.
Spongebob is OK, and there are some great adult animations like the simpsons(although it's not so great anymore), south park, king of the hill etc, but children's programming is just sickening to look at.
To think what future generations will look back on with nostalgia, dragonballz? Angela anaconda? Angry beavers? Wtf?
The current 20 - 30 year olds were the last truely inspired generation.
And the current 0-20 years olds are the first uninspired generation since the dawn of time. The long legacy of rock paintings and fairytales and quality TV abruptly ended very recently, and we have no way of knowing how severe the rammifications will be. We have to wait for these little shits to grow up, seriously have a look at them, these children today, it's not looking good.

 

Jeez! I'm so old! I loved The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Speed Racer, The Partridge Family (I had a crush on David Cassidy, I had no idea I was gonna be gay

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) Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, Family Affair, Flipper and HR Puff-n-Stuff. And Leave it to Beaver of course. I forgot that one.