Best cartoons evar? :O

[vecraude]

Well roaming back to the good ol' days of teenage mutant ninja turtles and the recent discovery of a webpage with the entire first season of swat kats I thought "if this is what I enjoyed back then, maybe others in my groups have seen them too and can talk about em?"

Now I was only born in '88 and as such my timeline only dates far back to the ol days of zelda cartoons and enjoyment at the super mario brothers super show, of course with things like rocko's modern life and gargoyles filling my life later, but for now lets all take a step back and remember the old days when you were still just a kid, and the favorite TV shows you would watch.

It could be live action too like the batman TV shows, dr.who, MST3K, or any of the other great shows too.

I had a time where I had a religion down, every saturday morning between 8:40 and 9:00 AM I would jump out of bed, turn on the TV, flip it over to my cartoons just in time to catch saturday AM sonic, every saturday for 3 years straight XD.

and during the weekdays I got to look forward to the batman animated series RIGHT after I got off school, I always ran home just to see what kind of situation batman would get wound up in and how many fights through the episode there would be lol.

 

[Sabre]

Batman, Spiderman, and X-Men were the sh!t. I also watched The Simpsons, back when it was awesome.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

The cartoons I watched most when I was a kid were Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo

 

[zeus9860]

The cartoons I watched most when I was a kid were Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo

QFT, baboon and weasel, courage the cowardly dog, ed edd n eddy, dragon ball z, tom and jerry, looney tunes, samurai jack and in rare occasions samurai x. (most of them used to show in cartoon network channel)

Even though, i considered baboon and weasel + cow & chicken annoying series, don't consider them to be equal as the other ones i mentioned in terms of fun.

 

[FER]

everything prior to year 2004 except for Adventure Time and maybe MegasXLR and others (dunno which year samurai jack came)

Personally, I loved Transformers, Beast Wars, Mazinger Z, Grendizer and Silver Hawks. Well basically everything was good.

 

[Jelly]

Ed, Edd 'n Eddy was the best imo. Closely followed by Johnny Bravo & Courage the Cowardly Dog.

 

[Stoned]

Ed, Edd 'n Eddy was the best imo. Closely followed by Johnny Bravo & Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Oh lawd, quoted for TRUTH!

 

[Thothie]

Gods... Let me date myself horribly now...

First off, I should say, my generation were the masters of watching cartoons so bad they were good. Hanna Barbara gave us shows like The Herculoids and a little later, Thundar the Barbarian. Even the anime, such as Star Blazers (ie. Star Cruiser Yamatto) and Battle of the Planets (ie. Ninja Force Gatchaman) were extraordinary painful.

The only cartoon of any real value I remember of the era, I only got to see when I was in the UK (which was about half my life from ages 0-14), and that was Galaxy Express 999. The animation style was wonky (although hand crafted), but it was the only children's television show to really explore some actual morale quandaries, examine consequences of actions and philosophy, both on the personal scale, and societal, despite being clearly crafted for very young children. There's nothing like it these days - so I sometimes subject my friend's kids to it, when they make me sit them. Maetel's eternal journey of repetitious self-matricide was a bit disturbing though.

There was a recent effort to remake it (Space Symphony Maetel), but they failed pretty miserably in catching the spirit of the thing. Seemed more an effort to tie up some loose ends that, really, had already been tied.

By the time Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, G.I.Joe, Voltron, Thundercats, Galaxy Rangers, He-man, and the various other pop-culture classics aired, I was getting a little too old to watch them. That didn't stop me, but it got to the point where I found myself turning them off mid-episodes more often than not, with the usual, "Why the f*ck am I watching this crap?". (Actually, He-Man I couldn't watch at all - that was just... Way too much homoerotisism packed into a half-hour for me.)

But then... At around 1984... Something incredible happened...

F*cking ROBOTECH happened!

Now, you have to understand, that even though we had cable at the time, that left us with about 30 channels, only 3 or 4 of which ever aired action cartoons. There was no internet. None of us had access to the range of cartoons and anime you guys grew up with... As such, Robotech, was just a mind-blowing experience. None of us were ready for it: Morale gray areas, plausible romances, real character development, the death and mourning of main-line characters, multi-f*cking-generational consequences (even if they were contrived from gluing three separate series together). Nothing like it had ever been done in adult television in America, let alone children's television. It just swept through all our lives like some blazing inferno, burning away everything we'd seen before.

...Which, had the unfortunate consequence, of more or less ending all cartoons for me, as nothing else on American television could compare. It did open me to the world of anime, but there, again, was no internet a the time, and as it was still a relatively new phenomenon, I had to drive all the way out to Little Tokyo to get my grubby hands of fan-dubbed and subbed VHS tapes, or trade with local unsavory otaku.

These days getting Anime while surfing the net is about as unavoidable as getting porn, and even sans the net, you can find all sorts of shows, of all ranges of quality. Children still get hit with the crappiest lowest-common-denominator stuff (as that's just what we think of our kids out here in the US), but it doesn't take much digging to find a diamond in the rough. But if I wanted to go into finest cartoons of "all time", rather than just my youth, I could fill a whole other thread. Lady X, and several of my ex's, have introduced me to all sorts of productions that are at least as far beyond Robotech, as Robotech was beyond Herculoids, and in a few cases, such works of art as to make all other media, save mayhaps the finest theatrical productions, seem pretty laughable.

 

[FER]

Sadly, the transformers cartoons show should make you feel less embarassed than if you watch the transformer movies by Michael Bay. The animated 1986 movie went as far as to kill most of the main characters just to open way to a new line of toys, now thats balls!
Beast Wars on its last episodes ended up with most characters dead.

I could never get to watch robotech because i was looking more to the robots that the plot, so i just skipped it.
Tough Phantom 2040 had some nice cyberpunk morale values and by that time I could actually notice that.
Strangely enough I never watched much anime save from very few back in the days. Nowadays its way to populated with stupid crap and geek attemps at deepness so nerds "get it" (I blame the godawful evangelion nerdgasm, watching that only made me feel confused and angry)

BTW Rocko's Modern Life rocked.

 

[zeus9860]

Phantom 2040

Man oh man, this was like addictive to me when i was like 5-6 years old. Had a game for sega megadrive 2 + a videotape of this dude, used to watch/play it all the time. Weird moments i must say...

 

[Thothie]

Sadly, the transformers cartoons show should make you feel less embarassed than if you watch the transformer movies by Michael Bay. The animated 1986 movie went as far as to kill most of the main characters just to open way to a new line of toys, now thats balls!
Beast Wars on its last episodes ended up with most characters dead.

Yes, that is truly sad. Only Michael Bay could dumb-down the Transformers - a feat I had previously believed impossible. The Canadian CGI cartoons were pretty funny though. Beast Machines got a little sureal... But I still love the Beast Wars scene, where they're tossing all their firepower trying to open the door of the original Transformer's ship, and not making a dent, and you get,
"We can't make a scratch on it! It's die-cast construction!"
Rat-trap looks straight up-camera and with a wink, "It’s a lost art."
Man, the effing flimsy plastic Transformers they try to pawn of to kids these days...
(Although, TBH, ours were at least half plastic.)

Same crew made a CGI of Starship Troopers (Roughneck Chronicles) that was also, sadly, better than any of the movies. They were also, of course, responsible for Reboot.

Little known fact: Orson Well's last role was as Unicron, the planet eating robot, in the 1986 Transformers movie. Fear the irony...

blame the godawful evangelion nerdgasm, watching that only made me feel confused and angry

Meh, the Evangelion series basically boils down to Voltron's formula of "Robeast of the Week" (albeit, with much richer social interaction and world)... But... Oh gods... Please tell me someone didn't smack you upside the head with the Death and Rebirth movie!?

Now, while that movie is undeniably deep, it is in the worst way imaginable. I put it up there with Pink Floyd's the Wall as far as mindf*ck movies are concerned... Many have theorized that it was put together as a revenge response to all the hate mail and death threats the artists received for the "happy" ending to the original series. This is the very, very, not happy ending.

I have a copy with the director's commentary though, and I have come to the conclusion that's the only way to watch the film.

Some clips of the directory commentary, up until the mind-f*ckary begins. You just can't beat lines like, "Ah, a handful of baby batter! Now that's just good cinema!" (Also: Bewbs at 1:10)


I missed Phantom 2040 though... I'll have to look that one up.

 

[vecraude]

Believe it or not I loved watching beast wars, roughnecks starship troopers, and reboot all while growing up XD they had some good material to em. OH anyone remember when they used to air the street fighter and mortal kombat cartoons? ridiculous cartoons those were.

nb4YES! YES!

and also

furries, making cartoons awsome since 1993

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31loiB_oI6A

 

[Age]

The cartoons I watched most when I was a kid were Cow & Chicken, Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo

QFT
Johnny Bravo was my role model.

 

[Monika's_BFFEx0255]

Courage the Cowardly Dog was my favorite back in the day for me.

 

[Thothie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6uJqtgBOZ4

 

[Stoned]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6uJqtgBOZ4

what

 

[The Man In Black]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6uJqtgBOZ4

Sadly, makes more sense than the ending to Evangelion. Nothing says bloody murder like a cheery tune.

 

[Sabre]

How could I forget Rocko's Modern Life? That show was awesome, they're starting to re-air it now I think. Also one of the writers was a guest speaker in my class on Tuesday. F*ck yea.

 

[FER]

Yeah, its had so many adult jokes hidden in it, now that it understand them its just so funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htX_lKAp ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNa_NsMR_4

 

[Drathamus]

I'll just leave this here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjWCT4NPHI

 

[Thothie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFKHBygDZMY

 

[Drathamus]

I really enjoyed the old animated cartoons on the good Cartoon Network.

Entertainment turned to crap once they started rolling in anime instead of good 'ol stuff like Reboot :-(

 

[Thothie]

Well, if you're referring to Toonami's airing of the last three seasons of Sailor Moon, that was actually my ex's fault, believe it or not.

She organized the [-editz-] campaign and the Kellogg's procott, which lead to Kellogg paying for CN/DIC to dub the last of it and bring it back to air.

Granted, I don't think there was ever a time when Reboot wasn't aired side by side with some anime or other on CN, though I couldn't tell ya for sure.

 

[Drathamus]

Hmmm... interesting... I guess she's to blame?

I didn't like how Toonami became the iron fist of Cartoon Network, and slowly began taking over the channel with bad shows (Code Lyoko, anyone?).

 

[Sabre]

Well while Cartoon Network may kinda suck, Adult Swim kicks ass. Metalocalypse, The Boondocks, and Venture Bros., anyone?