Like some others, I love resurrecting old old forums.
Mighty Mouse was my fave.

Gravedigger... ^_^

Wow what happened to the 90's? Unless I missed it, I didn't see:

Pinky and the Brain
The New Batman/Superman Adventures
The Simpsons
Dexter's Laboratory
The Powerpuff Girls
X-Men
Spiderman
Garfield and Friends

The Simpsons is a tad more adult-oriented, but it still applies. "Growing up" encompasses an unspecified period of time, but I know when I was 14 or 15, I was able to understand a lot of the Simpsons. The same goes for Futurama and the short-lived Dilbert, although both technically target adults as well. Some of the 00's shows are the same way, most notably Kim Possible and Samurai Jack - both are hilariously witty and fun to watch. Children won't get the full effect of the satire like (most) adults will, but they are still watchable shows.

And lastly, As Told By Ginger is supposed to be of some value - haven't seen it, but it from being nominated for the Emmy's ever since its creation... (Not that I really agree with award shows, but the Annies/Emmies are usually pretty good)

I used to watch:

The Flintstones
Tom & Jerry
Bugs Bunny
The All-New Superfriends Hour
The Smurfs
The Gummi Bears
Speed Racer (Original)
The Brady Bunch Kids
Woody Woodpecker
Popeye
Hong Kong Fuey
Jabber Jaw
Grape Ape
Atom Ant
Underdog
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Fat Albert
Scooby Doo

The Jetsons, Underdog, The Flintstones, and although it's not really a cartoon, I never missed HR Pufnstuf.


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Glad you resumed a good old thread, Eraserhead. Yeah, I grew up on Looney Tunes and Popeye..two classics. I also remember Mighty Mouse well. As a youngster, I also vividly recall that any red-blooded male mouse would have preferred Mighty's hot little girlfriend to, say, Mickey's Minnie. I believe the caped rodent was in the "Terry Tunes" stable as were those Mischievious Magpies. No, I'm not talking about Collingwood (who were robbed by the timekeepers at your Telstra Stadium). I'm referring to Heckle and Jeckle. Like Miles in "Sideways" discussing Pinot Noir, I could rhapsodise about how those zany birds could handle a mallet or make the old boxing glove-on a spring-in a box so much more than a cartoon cliche!

I really love Adult Swim now. (Hello, Aqua Teen Hunger Force!) But I also love the older cartoons like Looney Tunes (which I hardly see anymore, and this totally bums me out.) The Cartoon Network used to have a couple shows that would showcase Tex Avery cartoons and others that I LOVED! I wish they still did that. I always liked when they would explore a store that was closed and the characters on the products would come to life.(Like an Indian on a cigar box or a can-can dancer,etc.) I really wish The Cartoon Network or somebody would start showing reruns of Rocko's Modern Life. Now that was great. Especially "The Shining" spoof. "We work here, Heffer. We've always worked here." Awesome!!!

I really miss the old Warner's crowd, too. You can only see them on Boomerang here in the states, at certain times of the day.

We were kind of partial to Bugs and his friends, for several reasons...my mother's best friend in high school married a Warner Brothers cartoonist right after WWII and moved from Dallas to Los Angeles. My parents would occasionally go out to see them and one of my mother's favorite possessions was a framed grouping of Tom's pen and ink drawings which hung on the wall in our kitchen for years and years.He and his wife Anna are largely responsible for my growing up to be a commercial artist, because they were so supportive.

Oddly enough, after I grew up - I also met not a cartoonist but a Warner Brothers cartoon writer, and we have been close friends for years. Quite by accident I found he worked in the same building as our family friends. On the same floor, yet.I've been lucky enough to meet many of the present cartoonists and even be there on a day when Steven Spielberg happened to pop into the office, though I only saw him across the hall as he stepped into the elevator.

It's sad to think that new generations of computer animators will never understand how exhilarating it is to draw and ink every cell by hand. I also belong to a cartoonist's website and it seems to be gaining in popularity among people who love and or draw cartoons...so I guess there is some hope for the future. Maybe the old ways won't be entirely swept under the rug!

Kstew, do you know anyone who could work up a very simple short? I had this dream many years ago that has haunted me ever since. It's a little macabre, but not really awful, and wouldn't involve much, I think, but though I'm an artist myself, my style doesn't do justice to the picture in my head and I've never done any animation, so it's been really frustrating.

Cool McCool. "Danger is my business"

Hope the project works out, LR. Let me know what you hear! - Kate

I have to say, I was about 13 or 14 when I first saw 'Fairly Odd Parents' and I still love it (which probably says smoething about me). I was a bit of an odd child, so I loved Daria, too. Still do.

Johnny Quest all the way (the original series of course).
That was the only cartoon that I hated missing.

I grew up at a time when cartoons were pretty bad. There were old cartoons on that were good, or at least ones I thought were great, like Johnny Quest, Bullwinkle, Underdog, Loony Tunes (sometimes the uncut ones with the racism left in, so I don't know how good that was), etc.

However, the cartoons actually in production at the time (talking the 70s here) were so so so bad. I watched Superfriends a lot, for instance. Not only were the production values low but they were non-violent. The educational value was nil-- Superman would occasionally try to explain something by mumbling about atoms. I can understand a show like Fat Albert being non-violent, but a cartoon about superheroes who can't punch?

Hanna Barbara cartoons were on a lot and they were awful. Their planning meetings must've gone something like "OK, we need an idea for a cartoon. How about three bears?" "What's the gimmick?" "Uh... they have hair." "Sweet. We'll call it the 'Hair Bear Bunch.'"

I liked Scooby-Doo a lot. I had the lunchbox. Of course, Scooby-Doo was very much a formula show and, worse, it was in a long downward spiral from around the introduction of Scrappy and Scooby Dum. Sure, Scrappy is the one everybody hates but Scooby Dum was just as bad. I heard that Carl Sagan praised Scooby Doo because there were always rational explanations to the mysteries. Well, even when I was 10 I knew you couldn't make convincing holograms of a flying bull, spaceship, or whatever with a movie projector so I don't see how that counts as a rational explanation.

Some of the cartoons on now are way better than what I watched. Fairly Odd Parents is good.

Scooby-Doo
Thundercats(actually I think my kids watched this and I was watching with them)
Jonny Quest

I watched Bugs, Flintstones and Superfriends too, like Tester up there. And Hong Kong Phooey, Schmoo and and all those other lame '70s cartoons.

But what I remember most weren't cartoons but live "action" shows like Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Shazam, Far Out Space Nuts, Land of the Lost (Sleestacks! Yikes!) and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Anyone else remember Deirdre Hall on that before she made it big on Days of Our Lives?

I liked Bugs Bunny and the road runner.

I liked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He man, My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Gummi Bears, Potato Head Kids, Shirt Tails, and Muppet Babies.

Looney Tunes characters were - and still are GREAT, and still watched by my grand-children!
I also like Popeye, Yogi Bear - "I'm smarter than the average bear", and Huckleberry Hound.
Incidently, I'm sure vinyl are still available, especially those with disco and dance music. Disc Jockeys need them for scratching and fading, as CD's are no use for this.

Some of you are mentioning cartoons i have never heard of! As a kid i used to love the Ninja Turtles and Scooby Doo. As i edged into the 'pre-teen' area, i used to love running home from school just to watch Pokemon and Digimon!

Never watched much TV when younger but remember "Dungeons and Dragons", and remember being bored with "Mysterious Cities of Gold"