Favorite Old School cartoons?
 

Lame thread topic, but it's late and there's not much else to do.

Old school cartoons for my era are stuff from the 90's like "Doug", "Angry Beavers", and "Hey Arnold"

I'm curious as to see what you guys watched growing up.

This may get moved to the Media forum, but:

I grew up with X-Men, TMNT, etc...
But I do love some of the later stuff.

My top 20.

Batman the Animated Series
Ducktales
Ren & Stimpy
The Tick
Rugrats (before Dill ruined everything)
Sonic the Hedgehog (the saturday morning one)
Animaniacs
Tiny Toon Adventures
Doug
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Rocko's Modern Life
The Real Ghostbusters
Darkwing Duck
Inspector Gadget
Peter Pan & the Pirates (am I the only one who remembers this show?)
Gargoyles
X Men
Beetlejuice
Spiderman
Transformers

Mine are these plus:

Pokemon
Hey! Arnold
Captain Planet

Angry Beavers
Rocko's Modern Life
Kablam!
Digimon
Ed, Edd & Eddy
Dragonball Z
Hey Arnold
Tom & Jerry
Looney Tunes

and a bunch more i can't remember right now.

The shows I listed are those I think have held up the best over time.

Other shows like Captain Panet, Captan N, Super Maio Bros Super Show are shows I loved as a kid but are just laughably awful when I try to watch them now.

I could never watch Captain N when eating though, because the very sight of Mother Brain made me ill. That bitch was ugly.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0...rain_super.jpg

Anyway, I only listed the shows from my early childhood (before my teens).

Hey Arnold was a good show. But that was around the time when I grew out of the Nick phase. I enjoyed watching it, but it was one of those shows that always had a message, which annoyed me even when I was a kid. Arnold kinda came across as a self righteous assh*le sometimes.

I gotta give props to Invader Zim though, one of the most brilliantly twisted and imaginative kids cartoons ever made, and it died way before it's time.

The fact that they canceled such an awesome show so they could keep showing that piece of sh*t Rocket Power is still something I haven't gotten over completely. :mad:

Rocko's Modern Life
Aaaah Real Monsters
Hey Arnold
Cow and Chicken
Old Hannah and Barbera ****.
Toonami
The Ripping Friends
Not a cartoon: Are you afraid of the dark?

I forgot about Aaaah Real Monsters, awesome show. Though I didn't like it as much as the other old school nicktoons because I found it to be a bit too gross, which as a Ren & Stimpy fan, is really saying something.

yeah, network execs aren't exactly the best at seeing artistic vision


what still pisses me off to this day is how Cartoon Network canceled Megas XLR after only two seasons :mad:

What pissed me off more than anything as a kid was when they canceled the saturday morning Sonic cartoon, the one where Robotnik was an evil, badass dictator instead of a functionally retarded person. Unlike the weekly show most people remember (the one with Scratch and Grounder and the Sonic Sez segments that will forever be immortalized in youtube poop) this one actully had a storyline, and a pretty damn good one for a kids show. Also it had the coolest intro of any kids show ever.



The last episode ended on a huge cliffhanger for the third season, which never came and pissed me off to no end. :mad:

I think it was canceled because it couldn't compete with Power Rangers, so naturally ABC replaced it with something that could... a f*cking Free Willy cartoon that nobody liked. F*cking idiots.

Hey Arnold! was the sh*t. Doug was cool too. Rugrats was cool as well, but that All Grown Up crap was a disaster. Rocket Power was cool sometimes as well. Then there's Bobby's World. I watched that show every morning before school as a kid.

Thank you all for making me feel extremely old. :p: I watched stuff like Superfriends and Fat Albert growing up. You gotta love Aquaman surfing on the dolphins in this clip:

For me Rugrats died when they introduced Dill, but it got even worse when they added that asian baby and that babysitter voiced by Amanda Bynes. But yeah, All Grown Up was the final nail in the coffin. They took a great kids show and raped it to death.

Early Spongebob is also great. But the later episodes that have come out in the last two years or so, maybe longer, well they've all sucked. Spongebob is just annoying now.

Tom&Jerry
Pokemon
a lot of overdubbed Anime
and last but not least ...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!!

No love for the Jackie Chan Adventures?

I remember back in like 4th the first anime I was ever into was Hamtaro. I remember playing the game on gameboy as well.

http://www.geocities.com/saqudysoft/...me_hamtaro.gif

Hamtaro was really a guilty pleasure for me, still good though. and those hamsters were SO CUTE!

Batman: The Animated Series
X-Men
Spider-Man
The Tick
Ahhh Real Monsters
Hey! Arnold
Rugrats (with boo boo on this one, Dil did ruin everything)
Biker Mice From Mars
Samurai Pizza Cats
Reboot (Technically not a cartoon but it was one of my favourite shows as a kid)
Beast Wars (Same as Reboot)
Bump In the Night (This was a claymation show but I loved it so much as a kid)

Ed Edd n' Eddy
Dexter's Lab
Megas XLR
Dragon Ball
Yu Yu Hakusho
Tom and Jerry
Pokemon
Jackie Chan

There are more but these are the ones I loved the most.

Not really cancelled. Krstic wanted to end the series so he could work on other projects, and I think the ending that we got is decent.

Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed Edd n Eddy, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Dragonball Z, Batman Animated Series, and even though not necessarily a cartoon, the CGI Starship Troopers series.

All staples of my childhood.

Dungeons and Dragons
Jamie and his Magic Torch
Trap Door
Hong Kong Phooey


as for new stuff:

Spongebob Squarepants
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

Aaaah Real Monsters
Cow And Chicken
Hey! Arnold
Fairly Odd Parents
Spongebob Squarepants
emmmm. i cant really think at this hour. i will come back.

Spongebob
Rugrats
Loony Tunes
Courage The Cowardly Dog (although I remember being scared of it. Because it WAS scary)
Hey Arnold

and others

I got my older brother that show for his birthday a few years ago and we watched it while baked and just laughed our asses off. You ever play the game Lee?

I was watching it on youtube recently for old times sake. I'm surprised they ever let it go on air.

And, to add a few more than I had previously forgotten about, cow & chicken, dexter's laboratory, 101 dalmations cartoon and the buzz lightyear cartoon, though I can't for the life of me remember what it was called...

I was digging around the other day, and came across this great set of classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, Merrie Melodies. Very clever cartoons. Made me laugh out loud quite a few times.
http://frederatorblogs.com/refredera...ssing-hare.jpg

Tom & Jerry never fails to make me laugh either.
"Texas Tom" is excellent. Love how he smokes his whole cigarette in one puff. Makes me laugh so hard.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4pmUNQE7ll.../TexasTom2.JPG

Man, I miss the political incorrectness of old cartoons.

Warner Bros and Tex Avery were especially guilty, but not even Disney was as squeaky clean as some people remember.

Most people think of Mickey Mouse as being a real goodie two shoes compared to Bugs Bunny, but when you look at some of his old cartoons, you realise just how much of an assh*le this guy really was.

He has quite a reputation for committing horrific acts of animal abuse and reckless endangerment, as well as enough reported cases of sexual harassment that should earn him a place in the national registry of sex offenders.

Here's a good example of him doing all of these things.



Attempted rape @ 4:20

I'll go with these

Voltron
He-man and the Masters of the Universe
GI Joe
Transformers
Wildfire
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Thundercats
Jem
Sheera, Princess of Power
Pirates of Darkwater
Daria
Beavis and Butthead

and the infamous Pinky and the Brain :)

^I have the feeling that this episode will be now rated PG15 because there's someone smoking on TV.

Anyone watched the new Tom & Jerry [ for kids aged +3] ? They chase each other very briefly, they don't hit each other and in most of the scenes they talk :yikes:

What's the use of a politically correct Tom & Jerry -_-

Anyone remember the Tom and Jerry movie?

No? Let's keep it that way.

totally got reintroduced to this a while ago. had forgotten it even existed until a few weeks ago!

http://couchsleepingbeauty.files.wor...imaniacs_l.jpg

Two shows I'd watch religiously after school when I was a kid.. anyone?

PINKY AND THE BRAIN brain brain brain Brain brain brain brain BRAIN !

One is genius, the other is insane..
Haha, still remember the theme song as well! Who could forget it?

Animaniacs, not so much unfortunately.

As soon as you said that, the theme song popped up in my head. What a fail.

I remember watching Animaniacs, but I forgot everything about them. I used to watch Pinky and the Brain religiously too :D

Pinky: "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!"

Animaniacs was an outstanding show. I also sort of remember 'Street Sharks', which was kind of cool.

Dude animaniacs was awesome. Not just for pinky and the brain either.

Compared to other kids shows at the time it was an overall well writen and hilarious cartoon.