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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat was your favorite cartoon growing up?
I'm comin' to get ya Beanie Boy!
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)And Mr. Magoo!
nolabear
(41,991 posts)I like smart.
trof
(54,256 posts)Even as a little kid I got his satire.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Iggo
(47,568 posts)Also, Gigantor, Kimba, Spider-Man, Space Ghost, Herculoids....shit like that.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Speed Racer is the only one I remember crying because I missed it when school hours changed.
So Speed Racer was prolly my favorite lol.
mucifer
(23,569 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Love me some Edward Everett Horton!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)I like to think that Mister Peabody was the first Doctor (Doctor Who) and Sherman was the first companion.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Wow, I didn't think anyone would remember it.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)and Curious George.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Also Rocky and Bullwinkle. My favorite Loonytoon character was Daffy Duck.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I grew up during the 90s during the fantastic heyday of Disney Saturday morning cartoons like DuckTails, Tailspin, Darkwing Duck, Gooftroop, Rescue Rangers etc...
I was also a big fan of the action cartoons of that era like TMNT, Batman, and others.
Of these though DuckTails and Batman The Animated series really stand out!
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)My local station stopped carrying it then, and I was *very* upset.
I also liked Underdog & Scooby Doo.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I hadn't thought of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent in years!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I love Snoopy!!!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)but I did love the Looney Tunes
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Didn't realize till adulthood he had a serious drug problem.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Scooby Doo, too.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)To be followed by the Marvel Super Heroes
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I got a kick out of how they could get away with so many questionable jokes for a children's show at the time. For example, they had the Red Guy never wearing pants, and there was an episode where Chicken found tampons in the girl's bathroom and thought they were cigars. And of course, who can forget Cow and Chicken's favorite dinner--pork butts 'n 'taters? The only things they didn't do on that show that were normally shown on older cartoons like the Looney Tunes was show people shooting things (hello, Elmer Fudd), smoking, and getting drunk at the bars--instead of beer, the bartenders served milk on that show.
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)and George of the Jungle (multiple episodes)...
HoneychildMooseMoss
(251 posts)The 3rd member of the trilogy!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...anyone ever seen this? It's just incredibly cool...abstract but very, well, duckish...I think of it along with 50s jazz and "modern" science fiction as emblematic of the 1950s...
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)They used to show it in math class
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)"Bacall To Arms", about a very horny wolf sitting in a movie theater watching "To Have And Have Not" with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and going absolutely nuts for Lauren Bacall. The last few seconds now seem pretty racist when I watch it but that didn't register like that back in the late 50s when I first saw it on TV.
https://ia700808.us.archive.org/16/items/ClassicRareAndCensoredCartoons/080346BacallToArmsMm.mp4
This Bugs Bunny cartoon about an opera singer tortured by Bugs was also a fav (Long-Haired Hare).
http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/631/bugs-bunny-long-haired-hare.html
"I Love To Singa" about an owl portraying Al Jolson who loves jazz (I was into classical and jazz as a kid).
https://ia600808.us.archive.org/16/items/ClassicRareAndCensoredCartoons/071836ILoveToSingaMmBr.mp4
Popeye was one of my favorites, too:
orleans
(34,073 posts)but most of all i loved the clacking sound garfield goose made when he "talked" and his beak clacked together.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Can't believe it's been on the air for its 25th season.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Loved their first 7 to 10 seasons of course.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)and maybe most of all, "Animaniacs." Even if some of the more risque references went over my head at ~9 years old.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)ok_cpu
(2,055 posts)Wacky Races
Jonny Quest
I guess I'm dating myself here....
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)despite his diminutive size, he always won the day. Doubtless he was responsible for a lot of my sassiness that lingers still.
My son's favorite was Underdog, for much the same reason.
valerief
(53,235 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)He looked at Minnie Mouse and gushed to me, "She's so beautiful!"
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)KatyaR
(3,445 posts)I didn't know it was comedy even adults could get, but I loved it. I think it still holds up today.
Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)We were easily amused back back in the day
HoneychildMooseMoss
(251 posts)The Alvin Show/Clyde Crashcup
The Bullwinkle Show
Astro Boy
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
The Pink Panther, with The Inspector
The Flintstones
Tennessee Tuxedo
George of the Jungle/Tom Slick/Super Chicken
Underdog
Linus the Lionhearted
The Beatles Cartoon Show
The Jetsons
Huckleberry Hound
Snagglepuss
Quick Draw McGraw
Secret Squirrel
Magilla Gorilla
Yogi Bear
Top Cat
Jonny Quest
Space Ghost
The Wacky Races
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Fat Albert
The Groovy Ghoulies
The Archie Show
Bongo Congo (The King and Odie)
The Hunter
Klondike Kat
sir pball
(4,760 posts)I knew what the old ultraviolence was long before I came across Clockwork Orange..
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Even some as an adult. I used to have Shake, Meatwad, and Frylock as my avatar, until I got sick of people thinking I was an adolescent male and not a woman.
I loved Mighty Mouse. I liked Popeye. I waited through the news at 5:00 for Yogi Bear and Huckle Berry Hound. I liked Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebread. I still think Cheney emulated Simon Bar Sinister as an idol.
I thought Jonny Quest was da bomb, when I was about 10.
I loved Disney features, too.
If I had cable, I'd still watch Adult swim.
lastlib
(23,288 posts)Quick-Draw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi & Boo-Boo, "Thnaggleputhth" ("Ekthit--Thtage Right!"
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)but GI Joe is a very close second.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Yes, really. I am terribly old.
A friend of my parents introduced Pogo to me. Early on, there were comic books and comic strips
sweetly, slapstick funny, with wonderfully human characters disguised as owls and alligators and rabbits and, yes, possums. Walt Kelly got more topically political as time went on, which I loved. He even took on Joe McCarthy and his ilk. (Google Simple J. Malarkey, for example.)
It all happened in the Okefenokee Swamp (sp.?) which I wouldn't have known existed if it weren't for Pogo.
chungking34
(51 posts)Even today, that show still makes me laugh. Looney Tunes is also great.
Steerpike
(2,692 posts)Best Theme Song Ever!
UncleYoder
(233 posts)Love me some Heckel and Jeckel.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I'll Just say Astroboy and Voltes V.
Otherwise I'd try to debate on adding HeMan, ThunderCats, Daimos, and others in there.