What was/were your favorite cartoon character/characters as a kid??????

[debm55]

Was it Fred, Bugs, Daffy, Betty, Tom and Jerry or others that you liked to watch?
I liked Bugs.---What's up doc? and Yogi and Booboo and Ranger-Forgot his name.

[Turbineguy]

1. Mighty Mouse

"Here I am to save the day!"

[Karadeniz]

49. Mine, too!!!!

[unweird]

2. Mighty Mouse

Straight up badass.

[yellowdogintexas]

59. Me 3! Loved those "grand opera" cartoons!

The voice actors were phenomenal!

[hlthe2b]

3. I only liked the old classics including those you mentioned and Mighty Mouse, Top Cat, etc.

Basically, anything AFTER the Jetsons and the Flintstones such as "scooby doo" and the like did not appeal to me.

[debm55]

6. Me either. Didn't like scooy doo or that little Scooby he had with him. Liked To watch Top cat and

his sidekick Barney.

[Biophilic]

4. Crusader Rabbit. We had to tweak the rabbit ear antenna

On the top of the tv to get half way decent picture. It was worth the effort.

[debm55]

7. I don't remember that one. Around what year was that?

[yellowdogintexas]

61. 1950 - 1957

I have vague memories of seeing those cartoons. I probably did not even see them until maybe 1954. I was 6.

Edited to add: there are some Crusader Rabbit cartoons on You Tube. I decided I should look since I found a treasure trove of old cartoons a couple of months ago. At the time I did not think about Crusader Rabbit

[debm55]

65. Thanks yellowdog. I was born in 1955, explains why I didn't remember.

[Squeaky41]

11. and Babs

I have the DVD set of all the shows.Dim









Ner had wait

[Biophilic]

16. Yes!! I loved the tiger. They were both great.

[no_hypocrisy]

56. Rags, not Babs

[Conjuay]

73. don't forget "Rags" the tiger

Crusader Rabbit came on just after “The Modern Farmer”. Considering it was a NYC broadcasting network (WOR, I believe) it was remarkable to see agricultural programing.

[Stuart G]

5. Nancy & Sluggo. (very long ago) Also cartoons about Daffy Duck. (also Winky Dink)

[debm55]

10. Daffy was funny. Didn't he say "you're despicable"?

[Sneederbunk]

8. Itchy Brother of King Leonardo.

[yellowdogintexas]

62. those are on You Tube. Remember Ode O Cologne the skunk Chief Minister? nt

[ItsjustMe]

9. Road Runner

[debm55]

12. I always wanted wiley to win once. BEEP BEEP

[Stuart G]

13. Oh My...I forgot...My favorite toon was Wiley E. Coyote...He never gives up!!! Try, try again!

As a kid, I went to cartoon shows. I felt for poor Wiley E., because he never caught RR.


I must add this: I met Chuck Jones once (he directed Road Runner & Wiley toons) got his autograph. Did NOT
tell him how much I loved Wiley E. Looking back, I certainly should have. But that was a long time ago.
At least I met him, and that says a lot.

[debm55]

67. StuartG, were you at a cartoon fest?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

14. Snagglepuss, Yogi Bear , Deputy Dawg...

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

15. I loved Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog

It cracked me up that they used a time clock.

[Freddie]

39. "Mornin' Ralph" "Mornin' Sam"

Those were hilarious. Also loved Foghorn Leghorn.
For some reason the “Harvey” cartoons (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman the Mouse) totally got on my nerves.

[yellowdogintexas]

60. One of my favorites from the Warner Bros studio

Obviously Ralph was an inspiration for Wil E

[poli-junkie]

17. Pink Panther; Sylvester & Tweetie Bird.

[debm55]

22. Tweetie bird. We and tons of kids had a canary named after Tweetie.

Pink Panter was cool. Liked the background music.

[Stuart G]

33. Met Fritz Freeling once who directed Tweety & Sylvester toons.

He directed the first Tweety & Sylvester toon that got an Academy Award 1947...filmed named " Tweety Pie"

[debm55]

40. Stuart, Did you get his autograph? Some of the originals had Bugs looking like a standing rat. Micky

Mouse in Steamboat Willy looks nothing like the way he appears today. He had stick arms and legs

[Stuart G]

58. Fritz's autograph is on a cell that I bought. I have that one up on the wall in the basement.

[Different Drummer]

18. Any of the Jay Ward/Bill Scott programs...

Rocky and His Friends
George of the Jungle
Dudley Do-Right
Uncle Waldo

Also:

Linus the Liohnearted
The King and Odie
Underdog
Wacky Races
Jonny Quest
The Fantastic Four

[debm55]

25. Oh I loved Rocky and bullwinkle. That whole show was terrific and in some ways more tuned to adults-

Boris and Natasha, Sherman and Mr. Pebody. Fractured Fairy tales.

[FuzzyRabbit]

53. My father loved Rocky and Bullwinkle.

I didn't get much of the humor. Too young, I suppose.

[debm55]

54. Fuzzy, Boris and Natasha were cold war characters. I liked to know who wrote the script for the

show, because they had a knack for appealing to both young and old.

[Different Drummer]

26. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my all-time favorite cartoon character.

Yosemite Sam!

[debm55]

28. He was funny.

[IcyPeas]

57. I had a Yosemite Sam ring in the 60s

I found this picture on eBay going for $14.99.

[debm55]

66. Icy did you keep yours?

[IcyPeas]

68. no... no idea what ever happened to it.

if only we had held onto all our stuff from the 60s.

I used to have this vinyl Beatle handbag too (the red one) got it for christmas. Can't find any with a price though.



https://beatlebilia.com/memorabilia/



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[no_hypocrisy]

19. Deputy Dawg, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Rocky the Flying Squirrel,

Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny

[rzemanfl]

20. Casper the Friendly Ghost. n/t

[Diamond_Dog]

21. Any Looney Tunes cartoon

And the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

Never liked Scooby Doo.

[revmclaren]

23. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Johnny Quest, Space Ghost...

I think the 60s had the best lineup of cartoons IMHO.

[debm55]

27. Doesn't Race Bannon look like Mike Pence? I didn't watch --my brother did. That purple spider thing

scared me.

[Tetrachloride]

30. Race Bannon is suave.

and don’t forget the Electric Monster.

2 of my top 4 Johnny Quest.

Road Runner , Warner Brothers
Tom and Jerry
and honorable mention The Flintstones

[debm55]

34. I remember when Wilma had Pepples, my group of friends sat around and were wondering if the baby was

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going to be a girl or boy. Oh to have that as your major worry now.

[LakeArenal]

24. Bullwinkle Edit to add: Itchy and Scratchy

[Raven123]

29. Woodstock

[debm55]

31. as the flying ace?. Yep. Snoopy and Woodstock were very laid back.

[Raven123]

36. You got it!

[Mike Nelson]

32. All of the ones...

... mentioned above! And, I will add Felix the Cat and his Magic Bag!

[electric_blue68]

75. I have vague memories of a particularly as I remember it SURREAL Felix the Cat Ep...

He was being ?

transported (advance science) to and from Earth to the ?Moon, and back by a ?"mad scientist", and when he went elsewhere in his place was stuffed "doll" replica with x'd out eyes. (told ja - surreal!)

Ring any kind of bell?

[Mike Nelson]

80. It was surreal...

... Felix' big enemy was The Master Cylinder - from outer spaces. The mad scientist was his friend Poindexter or his uncle The Professor.

[electric_blue68]

82. Cool! I'll have to try and find eps lists/descriptions 👍

[debm55]

83. My only memory of Felix was as a wallclock. But we all have our favorite memories to share. I was a

little too young to remember Felix then, but I appreciate those saying they liked him. I don't know if what you are saying is true. Maybe someone can help me outt. Thanks.

[electric_blue68]

95. I looked it up. Can't seem to get descriptions of S2 eps but I read S1 descriptions...

3 of them might fit the scenes I saw.

[getagrip_already]

35. Definitely bugs......

You realize of course, that this means war........

[debm55]

38. LOL

[Polly Hennessey]

37. Tom and Jerry, Yosemite Sam, Mr. Magoo,

and The Roadrunner.

[debm55]

44. Polly, Dagnamit, I wish Wiley would have caught the roadrunner once,.BeepBeep

[Wicked Blue]

41. Huckleberry Hound

[debm55]

43. Wicked Blue,Huckleberry Hound Doggie. Like him too. Do you remember his sidekick? Was it the possum?

Or the muskrat? Maybe I'm thinking of Deputy dog.

[Wicked Blue]

64. Augie Doggie, I think

And a Huckleberry HOUND dog howdy to you!

[debm55]

69. Wicked, back at ya!

[brewens]

42. It would depend on what years. I love all the WB and Hanna-Barbera classics, but also was

stoked about the super-hero cartoon like the Fantastic Four. Space Ghost! LOL

[debm55]

46. True, But by the time I reached a certain age, I didn't watch them anymore. By then most seemed

geared to boys, except for Josey and the pussycats---didn't like that cartoon show.

[GreenWave]

45. The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!

[frogmarch]

47. Felix the Cat

Felix the Cat is widely considered the world's first animated film star. He first appeared as 'Master Tom' in an animated short titled Feline Follies, released by Paramount Studios on 9 November 1919, a full nine years before Mickey Mouse's debut in Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928).

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/100-years-felix-cat

[debm55]

71. frog, thank you for that, I always thought Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon short. Have you

ever seen the original of Master Tom? I saw Steamboat Willie and MM is totally different. Is it the same for Felix? Felix the cat, the wonderful,wonderful cat.......

[frogmarch]

77. I am trying to remember if

I ever saw Felix in an animated cartoon. It seems to me I only saw him in comic books. I don't think I ever saw Steamboat Willie or MM. But I do remember Felix in comic books. I still love him.

[sanatanadharma]

48. I had a thing for Mary Jane early in life

[debm55]

50. Is that an original that is yours? I remember the giant mouse

[sanatanadharma]

51. Image from the internet

The mouse was not giant, Mary Jane shrunk to his world with either magic sand or magic words.

[debm55]

52. Oh, I get it and those the doormouse outfit. He was a regular size mouse,but she was now small. Did

Mary Jane ever get back to her normal size?

[FuzzyRabbit]

55. Woody Woodpecker and

Bugs, Daffy, and other classics.

I did not like Hanna-Barbara and anything newer as much as the older classic cartoons.

[yellowdogintexas]

63. Warner Brothers are the best in terms of a collection

Those old bawdy Tex Avery cartoons were out of sight.

as far as individual characters
Mighty Mouse
Beany & Cecil
Bugs
the entire cast of Rocky / Bullwinkle

[Laffy Kat]

70. The usual for my age: The Bugs Bunny Show, Mighty Mouse, Yogi.

"Jetson's" and "Flintstones, etc.; then, "The Fantastic Four" and "Johnny Quest" when I was a little older.

[debm55]

72. Laffy, Doesn't Race Bannon look like Mike Pence?

[Laffy Kat]

76. Except Race was 1000x cooler than Pence.

It was Hadji I was in love with.

[Wolf Frankula]

74. The Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Flinstones

And the Ranger was Ranger Smith.

Wolf

[debm55]

78. Wolf, thank you. For some reason I thought it was Ranger Rick. But I do know Yogi's girlfriend's

name--Daisy. I got a Daisy stuffed animal one Christmas.

[electric_blue68]

79. No one's mentioned - Gumby!

Bugs:& co, Daffy (thuffering thukatash!) & co, Road Runner (occasionaly felt sorry for Wil E Coyote), Jetsons, Flintstones, Felix the Cat, Yogi, some Betty Boop.


What cartoon was the "Tasmanian Devil" 😄 part of?

And there was one ep with Sylvestor, or Daffy (not Wil Coyote) where he kept being ?killed/blown up bc if some nefarious attempt, and found himself riding a curvy ?escalator down to Hell?! 😄

[debm55]

85. Oh yes gumby and wasn't his horse pokey? Did you like Gumpy? I think Taz just showed up., sort of

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like a cameo. but I don't remember him having his own show, but I could be wrong. Maybe a poster can help us out. He usually appeared with Bugs and Daffy. Oh by the way, when I first met my husband it had a sticker but on by the car company. It was Taz spinning around in the cyclone of dust. The name of the car--Duster. I forget what company made it.

[electric_blue68]

88. Not sure Yes he was the bendy guy with Pokey the horse 👍

[debm55]

89. The stop action animation was different for the time and gave it a slower feel. Characters weren't

runny around. My cousins watched it and had the figures made out of very heavy rubber. You could twist them but they wouldn't stay. I was fascinated by the technique they used. In fact Rudolph was made with this type of animation.

[electric_blue68]

90. Definitely different. If they wouldn't stay put then how could they be photographed?

.Am I missing something? 😄

Rudolf - was that the first stop motion animation for that story? I remember it from TV.

[debm55]

91. Watch Rudolf or Gumpy, they are moved by staff.filmed, moved, filmed. I did it in school with

my students. It makes the motions not as following as a filmed cartoon would be.

[electric_blue68]

97. Oh Yeah I know how 👍 stop animation works. While not 3D type...

I did a few pushing cut paper around to reveal otger images, or text.

But you said

"the figures made out of very heavy rubber. You could twist them but they wouldn't stay".

Mad me think if you twisted it for a single shot position it wouldn't stay long enough to take it.


Then there was the time I drew on 800 blank index cards for about a 3 min animation. 🥰

[debm55]

98. I did that too, We lived near an amusement park. Kennywood, near Pittsburgh. They had these booths

in the arcade, where for a penny, you could turn the handle and watch a movie, I slowed it down and saw that it only appeared to move as the reel turned and there were individual pictures, just slightly different. Went home and tried it. The faster you moved the crank, the more the people appeared to move. There were some naughty ones mixed in next to the cartoons. I didn't use 800 pieces of paper. I believe the first one was of a horse running. There is a name for it, but off hand I can't remember.

[debm55]

100. Just looked it up it is called Horse in Motion created in 1878 by Eadweard Mvybridge.

It is the first motion picture.

[electric_blue68]

96. 😄 cool sticker! (Duster - ha!)!

[debm55]

99. That was put on by the car company, you knew it was Taz because he would work himself up to a

cyclone fit and his arm and legs were sticking out. Just looked it up it was a Plymouth Duster.

[Xoan]

81. Rocky and Bullwinkle

[marked50]

84. Mister Peabody-n/t

[RobinA]

86. Cecil the Sea Serpent

and Snidely Whiplash. Oh, and the Roadrunner.

[debm55]

87. Robin, what was the kid's name? Oh, by the way BEEP BEEP

[pansypoo53219]

92. old bugs bunny . fav muppet oscar.

[Mad_Dem_X]

93. Bugs Bunny, with Daffy Duck a close second.

I've always loved their sarcasm.

[debm55]

94. I didn't care for Scrooge McDuck. Did you?

[Harker]

101. Bullwinkle. Mr. Jinks. Sylvester.

Huckleberry Hound. Underdog.

I'm still anthropomorphising at 63.

[debm55]

102. I am surprised no one put Popeye and Olive Oil. And was it Brutus or Pluto?

[Harker]

103. Brutus at first, then Bluto later, I think.

I'm in the "Popeye creeped me out" camp.

I had a hard time understanding his dialect, and canned spinach was anathema to me.

My new favorite game is identifying which lounge posts are yours by title.

Good and fun memories! Thanks, debm55.