my goodness, i was looking on "Youtube" at some old goodies that i used to watch. memories!!! he-man, she-ra, rainbow bright, today's special, eureekas castle, fraggle rock, muppet babies, david the gnome, snorks, the smurfs...on and on it goes! cartoons nowadays totally suck, but what we had growing up was truly awesome! so tell me, what was your fav cartoon/show growing up? Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
In the weekends i would get up at **** o' clock, to watch saturday morning cartoons. all the old skool ones, MASK, Transformers, He-Man etc.
And that Hulk Hogan, WWF cartoon! Anyone remember that?
Anyway, my favourite cartoon was Rambo And The Forces Of Freedom! I loved anything with Rambo... I had all the action figures from the cartoon! Except for that damn White Ninja, that was impossible to find....... oh White Ninja, you still haunt my dreams!
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Smurfs, Shirt Tales, Get Along Gang, Rainbow Brite, Looney Tunes, Beany and Cecil, Flintstones, Fraggle Rock...
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
I used to watch them all, He-Man, those Marvel comic cartoon that used to come on at some uncinvillised hour on a Saturday morning for 10 measly minutes of The Incredible Hulk or Spiderman & his Amazing Friends (which, at least, would be shown in its entirety).
Jay Lee, you're thinking about Hulk Hogan's Rock n' Roll Wrestling there. And the white ninja must be on e-bay, you can buy anything there, only last week I purchased some politican's souls for a bargain price
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Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kash: Jay Lee, you're thinking about Hulk Hogan's Rock n' Roll Wrestling there. And the white ninja must be on e-bay, you can buy anything there, only last week I purchsed some politican's souls for a bargain price
I know.... unfortunately I blasted all the other figures to bits with my air rifle in my angry teen years, so I wouldn't make much sense to buy it now Posted by Rainbowbrite22 (Member # 2288) on :
i loved so many cartoons now i snatch up what ever i can get from the 80s early 90s some of my favs care bears rainbow brite smurfs snorks popples jem and the holograms shera pound puppies flintstone kids wuzzles fraggle rock heathcliff 90s rugrats rocko s modern life doug stuff like that Posted by DuB1978 (Member # 7950) on :
For me it doesn't get much better then Gobots and Voltron.And what was that one cartoon about the bears that lived in trees and drank magic stuff to make them super?
Posted by dvscheshire (Member # 8017) on :
gummy bears i think is what you are talking about
Posted by saturnchick (Member # 7524) on :
Scooby-Doo The Smurfs Insepctor Gadget Adventures of the Lost Pup She-Ra Beverly Hills Teens Jem He-Man Thundercats Transformers Heathcliff Ducktales Alvin and the Chipmunks The Flintstones The Jetsons Josie and the Pussycats Care Bears Muppet Babies Fat Albert Pound Puppies
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
One of my favourites was 'Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors', it had the greatest opening song!!
Mask The Mysterious Cities of Gold Thundercats Ulysses 31 Dogtanian and The Muskahounds Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers Tailspin Darkwing Duck Dungeons & Dragons The Pink Panther
Does anybody here actually collect the DVD box sets that have come out?
I'm going to be honest, and say that I've got the following:
Transformers Season 1 Dungeons & Dragons Complete Box set Chip & Dale Seasons 1 & 2
I'm just collecting them for my future kids. Honest.
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Posted by dvscheshire (Member # 8017) on :
ha ha i got my daughter into chip n dale cartoons as well as all the original looney tunes
Posted by goresnet (Member # 6592) on :
I enjoyed about all that have been mentioned, and some that haven't. G-force Turboteen Kid Video
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Robostory ("I want to rust." Robot Moron.) Starblazers Belle and Sebastian Lucky Luke Count Duckula Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
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Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Oops, I forgot about Care Bears, Wuzzles and Pound Puppies!
Posted by DuB1978 (Member # 7950) on :
Does anybody remember that one cartoon "Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics"? Man i loved that stuff,The teams consisted of: The Scooby-Doobies (the blue team) The Yogi Yahooies (the red team) The Really Rottens (the green team)
They just started airing the Boomerang network in my area so I get to watch some great old cartoons.
Herculoids-they just stopped airing this last week but it was great while it lasted. Banana Splits Johnny Quest Wacky Races Penelope Pitstop Dynomutt Hong Kong Phooey Atom Ant Tom & Jerry Top Cat Flintstones Jetsons Thundarr The Barbarian Huckleberry Hound Yogi Bear Popeye Swat Kats Pink Panther
Bob
Posted by dvscheshire (Member # 8017) on :
dont forget richie rich lol
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Ah, yes, the Wuzzles ("Two parts in one!"), I remember them. What about Hoppotamus, who like Tammy Bakker wore large amounts of eye-shadow?
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Watched Laff-a-Lympics (a concept well ahead of its time) all the time when the USA Cartoon Express was at its zenith. I was a Yogis fan and the episodes were worth it when they came out on top (surprised they didn't try to put the Flinstones or Jetsons or the rest of Scooby's inner circle apart from Shaggy and made it really all-encompassing. But what he do have is just fine, really).
It's amazing looking back at all the cartoons that came out in the 80s at just how well so many of them hold up today; indeed, most of them could be run today and you wouldn't be able to tell they're 20 years old. Of course, there're always exceptions; Jem looks a little too dated having tied a bit too much into the MTV craze, and G.I. Joe comes off a little too unrealistic to today's viewers given that no matter how much ammo was expended, no one ever so much as scratched their arm. But by and large, there's still a pretty good track record at work with them as a whole. Another plus is that even when the core concept was supposed to be geared towards one sex, the other could often enjoy it just as well; I myself will readily admit My Little Pony and Friends was a guilty pleasure. The only major cartoon of the 80s I didn't actually see for the first time in the 80s was Dungeons and Dragons, whose run had ended before I became a Saturday morning regular, and no local station reran it. Seeing the reruns on Jetix and YouTube, though, have hooked me on that as well (if only the people who put together that wretched movie some years back had looked here for inspiration, they'd've had something salvageable).
While most animation historians would be quick to point out that artistically 80s cartoons are well below what came out in the Golden Age, they're still much better than what TV animation had given us in the decades prior. And there's no denying the writing was much better, as smarter minds like Michael Reaves, Douglas Booth, and J. Michael Straczynski gave us intelligent, thoughtful scripts each week. They weren't afraid to look deep or be scary if they wanted to be, and I'm sure many of you have nightmares of some kind from one show or so that's stuck with you for years.
Officially, my top 10 from the decade is:
1. Ducktales (the best TV animation ever got, there wasn't a single bad script in 100 episodes. While there's often a good lesson to be learned, they didn't pound it over your heads as other shows may have, and every character was likeable and imitable. Not to mention the theme song is easily the best of the decade, and I'll bet 90% of Generation Y still know it word for word)
2. The Real Ghostbusters (while it may have slipped a bit once the network moved in to make it more kid-friendly, it never really went completely off the tracks. As noted, they wrote taut, intelligent stories at their peak, and weren't afraid of scaring the audience and giving us imagineative ghosts, topped of all by Samhaine from the Halloween episodes, who gets my vote as the very best TV cartoon villain ever created (my vote for the single scariest moment of the decade comes from the first season's Mrs. Rogers' Neighborhood, where the demon Watt possesses Peter to bypass the containment unit's security system. Losing one's free will is a concept kids do find frightening, the scene as animated makes it clear the experience is agonizing on the very likeable Peter, and Egon's One Chance of the Week--setting their equipment on different frequencies to try and seperate Watt and their comrade--is believeably dangerous even knowing it's going to work in the end)).
3. Inspector Gadget (repetitive isn't all bad, and DiC's ultimate show proves it. Even knowing Quimby will be blown up by his assignment every week makes it no less funny. Claw's a believeably intimidating villain, who let's not forget attempts genuine murder against Gadget each week--can't get away with that today, nor with the sometimes obsolete cultural stereotypes sometimes seen, nor the repeated endangering of minors every time Claw learns Penny's on to him. Meanwhile, Gadget himself is endearing despite his utter brain-deadedness, as is the perfect character to render in animation).
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (while it may not be an interpretation along the lines of what Eastman and Laird intended, it's more amusing to watch than the authorized version of a few years ago. That's another problem of today's cartoons: the element of fun is gone, and this one enjoyed itself as few others have. And you have to admit you've got to love all the 4th wall moments when the Turtles turned to the camera and commented on the plot, another facet that's stuck with me over the years).
5. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (another great theme song coupled with intelligent scripts that could well have been Milne's. And the voice cast was probably the best assembled in any cartoon series; John Fiedler and Paul Winchell continued to be fabulous as Piglet and Tigger, Jim Cummings proved a great successor to Sterling Holloway as Pooh, and other additions like Peter Cullen, Ken Sansom, and Hal Smith add a lot of flavor to their own roles)
6. Thundercats (the best pure action cartoon of the decade, with probably the best recurring villain of an 80s cartoon in Mum-Ra, who at least kept his schemes reasonable and never fell to pre-success gloating as other heavies like Skeletor and Shredder often did. His transformation to his "Super Pharoah" form was also a bit unnerving as a child)
7. Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (another strong winner from DiC, with another memorable theme, a great performance by a still great Mel Blanc, and Heathcliff's perfect foils for the second half of the show that previous encarnations of the character on cels didn't have)
8. Dungeons and Dragons (as noted, it wasn't until later I found it, but it's so good that it leaps up the list anyway. Kudos to the staff for taking the right direction with the concept and not being afraid to push the envelope with Saturday morning standards & practices (by the way, the persistent urban legend that the last episode had them finding out they were dead is just that, a legend. It actually would have been a cliffhanger with Dungeon Master offering them the choice to go home after they redeemed Venger or continue in the Realm. The script is available at writer Michael Reaves's official site if you're interested).
9. My Little Pony and Friends (although it's only in this high position when Glo-Friends is the second half show; I didn't really like Potato Head Kids or Moondreamers that much at all (with this in mind, I should say the funniest part of any 80s cartoon's opening credits comes from the Glo version when Starnose runs head on into the overhanging log at "Will you find your heart's desire?" given there's no way I can tell that he could have possibly missed it (and then suffers insult to injury by having Brasher and Smasher run right over him as they continue pursuing our heroes)). Ponies itself taught me as an aspiring writer the value of an effective cliffhanger, which was a novel way of handling the material and were usually fairly effective for younger age groups.
10. Dennis the Menace (very good adaptation of Ketcham's strip; having multiple stories per episode kept the comic strip feeling as well. One has to wonder how well Phil Hartman might have done had he kept animation voiceovers as a side job, as his Mr. Wilson and Mr. Mitchell were top notch).
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Posted by Johnson's underpants (Member # 7680) on :
couldn't let this thread go without mention of The Littles... and my sister was a fan of the short lived Monchhichi's.
Posted by imawalkingcorpse (Member # 1675) on :
Scooby-Doo, GI Joe and Transformers were the main one's I watched. I also liked Tom & Jerry.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
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Posted by JCWBobC (Member # 2525) on :
It looks like they stopped airing Richie Rich also. I forgot to list Scooby Doo, which my older set of twins absolutely love.
Bob
Posted by dvscheshire (Member # 8017) on :
mighty mouse! wow i remember the monchichi's
Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on :
Here is my favourite cartoons.
Transformers. M.A.S.K. He-Man. Godzilla-great untill they introduced Godzuki. Captain caveman. Battle of the planets. Wackey races. X-men.
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Dogtanian and the three Muskerhounds. Alexander Dumas classic story...with mutts.
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Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Around The World With Willy Fog was another classic.
Was this ever shown in North America? What about Dogtanian and The Three Muskehounds, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses31?
These cartoons were huge all over Europe.
Posted by goresnet (Member # 6592) on :
Personally, I had never heard of Dogtanian, but I bought the complete series for my wife, a Brazilian Beauty, because she remembered watching it in her youth. I also bought her ISIS, which I also never heard of (born in 76), but that's a different post!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
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Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Added to my collection:
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Cool. All these toons had excellent theme tunes, especially Defenders Of The Earth, its something when you can remember the lyrics to Dogtanian and not some song you just heard five minutes ago.
bought the Ulysses 31 box set a few months ago, haven't had a chance to watch all the episodes yet, but another classic cartoon. I was pleasntly surprised to rediscover Ulysses and remember that the stories were well written and studio's didn't hold their audience in contempt.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I liked Spider Man and Thunder Cats...
Posted by dvscheshire (Member # 8017) on :
ok, i have to add these even though they weren't cartoons
1. New Zoo Review 2. The Banana Splits 3. HR Puffnstuff
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Does anybody remember "The Raccoons"
Just came across the intro on youtube. A total blast from the past.
The Raccoons Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
This is another one hitherto undiscussed: Maxie's World ("Good times are happening in Maxie's world.") Does anybody recollect that one?
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Yeah, only used to watch it because it preceeded Spatz. I always thought Sad Sack was the Milton Waddams of the group, and that one day he would just snap.
Remember Telebugs?
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Spiderman & Thundercats still hold up, great comics & cartoons.
The Racoons was an interesting one, remember the anti-smoking episode?
Sure, I remember Maxie's World, but lets just keep that to ourselves, OK? For it was, after all, one for the laides.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
There is another one that I have uncovered: Police Academy. This was quite brief. Did anybody see this too and if so, then what were your thoughts concerning it?
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Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
Reasonable enough. In fact, I saw this before I saw any of the films. While nothing that overtly stands out, it is fairly well done and captures the essence of the characters.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
I remember the Police Academy cartoon, never really bothered to watch it though. It looked pretty poor in comparison with the films.
Anybody remember Ox Tales? I can remember watching it during the summer holidays.
Thundercats Voltron Silverhawks Heathcliff Inspector Gadget Jem The Centurions Madballs Tigersharks Visionaries Inhumanoids Q*bert Pac-Man Super Mario Bros. He-man She-ra The Get-Along Gang Darkwing Duck Chip N' Dales Rescue Rangers Duck Tales Dragon's Lair The Real Ghostbusters The Legend of Zelda C.O.P.S M.A.S.K Robotech Gundam Wing Dinosaucers Sectaurs Denver the Last Dinosaur Casper Scooby-Doo Looney Tunes
..there's probably more, but those are most of the ones I watched regularly
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Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
There is another one that you can add to the list incidently: Babar.
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