Favorite cartoon?

topic posted Fri, January 30, 2004 - 10:37 AM by  albertoforer...
For me it's Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.
Of course, if we're talking more than 1 show, I'd
have to go with all the Warner Bros. stuff..
  • Scooby Doo - pre Scrappy, I hate Scrappy.
    School House Rock

    Really, the Warner Bros. stuff isn't even comparable...they were so brilliant.
    • schoolhouse rock ... rocks!! among my favs were:

      lolly's adverbs (get your adverbs here!)
      conjunction junction (what's my function?)
      suffrin' before sufferage (the 19th amendment struck down that restrictive rule!)
      no more kings
      • I love the

        Verb: That's what's happening!
        I Got Six!

        Which ironically is not the best vocab...I have six, would be proper...I got six means I was given or I have aquired six...somehow.
        • oh yeah, i forgot how much i loved Verb. did you hear the Moby cover of it for Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!? not into Moby so much, but his cover kicks ass.

          funny you should mention "got" - in the mid 1970's, there was one mother in the neighborhood who always had it in for me. one day i said "he's got his bag" and she kept saying "No, he doesn't 'got' it" and I kept insisting he did. Well, she was simply trying to impart on me that "got" isn't proper English. Why the heck she didn't just come out and say "excuse me, but 'got' isn't a word" i would have immediately picked up on what she was trying to do.

          this is the same neighbor who fed me carob for the first time. carob in the 1970's was soooo disgusting and gross i didn't eat it again for almost 20 years!!
      • <schoolhouse rock ... rocks!! among my favs were:

        lolly's adverbs (get your adverbs here!)
        conjunction junction (what's my function?)
        suffrin' before sufferage (the 19th amendment struck down that restrictive rule!)
        no more kings >


        Don't forget... "I'm just a Bill" (and I'm sittin here on Capitol Hill...)

        I loved that one.
      • I own Schoolhouse Rock! (on VHS, must really upgrade to DVD) LOVE IT!!!

        I'm just a Bill, yeah I'm only a Bill...
        Elbow room, elbow room! Gotta gotta get me some elbow room!
  • Afternoon re-runs of Hanna-Barbera (early 70s)

    The Banana Splits
    Top Cat
    Secret Squirrel
    Yogi Bear
    Scooby-Doo
    Huckleberry Hound
    Josie and the Pussycats

    and especially the Flintstones and the Jetsons!

    "Yabba dabba do"
    and
    "Jane his wife..." [sound of chopsticks song]
  • Oh there are SO many...but here's my way-too-long list (no particular order):

    * Hong Kong Phooey
    * Josie and the Pussycasts
    * Laff-a-Lympics
    * Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy, of course)
    * Superfriends
    * Underdog
    * Superchicken
    * George of the Jungle
    * Pixie & Dixie
    * Huckleberry Hound
    * Yogi Bear
    * Ricochet Rabbit
    * Deputy Dawg
    * Rocky & Bullwinkle
    * Flintstones
    * Wacky Races/Penelope Pitstop (the name of my childhood bassett hound)
    * Looney Toons/Warner Bros/Etc.-I actually really loved the ones that had no characters in them but were like travel logs, but silly. Does anyone remember those? I think those were from the 40s originally but got a lot of play in the 70s.
    * Hercules - from the 60s but shown in the 70s too.

    For that matter, I guess several on my list are probably hold-overs from at least the 60s. I rather liked the 60s Superman/Batman/Aquaman/Flash/Green Lantern etc. single toons from the 60s that were sometimes stilla around in the 70s.

    And I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock! I still know the preamble and can sing most of the other ones as well. In fact, have to make this post just a bit longer to say some stuff about it.

    First off, I remember all the ones that were on through the early 80s (well...ok...'82) very well and they did actually teach me stuff that I used, maybe some of it only for school. You know, not sure that being able to recite the preamble makes me a better person at my job or anything....but I am glad I still know it. :-)

    But I have a friend who I met as an adult, just after I turned 30, actuall, who was friends with Bob Dorough. Bob wrote a large amount of the Schoolhouse Rock material. She actually sang on Conjunction Junction and Elbow Room. This friend was a recovering hippie who had been kind of underground for years at a time, never watching much TV, or around kids much other than her own son who was well out of the mainstream. So she really had no idea until she talked to me and some of my friends that anyone was even familiar with Bob's work or still remembered any of it!! I told her that it had taught an entire generation about things that they might not have learned so easily if not for cool cartoons and catchy songs.

    ok...I'll shut up now...for a while.
    • Wow. Way too many to choose from. I have to say among my very top favorites are
      Underdog
      Mighty Mouse
      Scooby-Doo (Pre-Scrappy!!!!!)
      Spirit of '76
      George of the Jungle
      Looney Toons
      Kimba the White Lion
      Tennessee Tuxedo
      Quick Draw McGraw (Remember "El Kabong!"?) :D
      Dastardly and Muttley (I liked Muttley best! *hehehehe*)
      etc., etc., etc.

      I absolutely LOVED Schoolhouse Rock, but it was actually more of a "commercial", than an official "cartoon". (I know, I know, picky, picky, picky. :P )
      • Oh, and I loved Danger Mouse. But I think that was more of an '80's cartoon. ?

        I almost forgot, too, I loved Mission Magic. (I think that was the name... I'm a longtime Rick Springfield fan... :P *drool* )
        • Yeah, Mission Magic was the name. Had a teacher (Miss Tickle) who was a sorceress, and her cat Tut-tut, who'd become real (he was a statue at the beginning of each show), and off they'd all go on one magic adventure in time.

          Liked Danger Mouse as well.
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    There where so many, but here are a few of my favorite:

    Underdog: I like the way he always spoke in rhyme.
    Mighty Mouse.
    The Superfriends. I like it best when they fought against the Legion of Doom. I liked seeing more of the different heroes of the Justice League, plus all the cool villains. (Although the gimmicks the villains used to escape week after week got to be a bit contrived.)
    Space Ghost.
    The Hair Bear Bunch. I liked how they had all that stuff (TV refrigerator, comfortable beds) hidden in their cave, and their “air motorcycle”
    Hong Kung Phooey. The Kung Fu craze was sweeping the country at the time. I liked how he always had to look things up in The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, and how he captured the bad guys either a) completely by accident, or b) with the help of his cat Spot (which he never noticed). His car was cool as well. Just bang the gong and it could transform into almost anything.
    Scooby Doo. I liked how Shaggy and Scooby were always eating, and their quick-change disguises. I wish the movie would have brought this out more.
    School House Rock.
    Wheely and the Chopper Bunch. Da Da Da Da Ta Da…Charge! And at the end, when the Chopper Bunch got what was coming to them, the little motor scooter would say “I told ya’, I told ya,” to which Chopper would respond with something like “Oh, go muffle your carburetor!” (or a similar phrase; it varied from week to week.)
  • Hm....off the top of my head...

    1) Wacky Races - if only for Dick Dastardly and his sycophantic canine sidekick Muttley (like also the one with Yankee Doodle Pigeon)

    2) Hair Bear Bunch - the big hair...the thrill of giving the Man the bird...oh so '70's!!!!

    3) Superfriends - CHEESEtastic...betcha that the Justice League can't turn up chars as memorable as Marvin, Wendy and (the one and only) Wonderdog

    4) the original He-Man & the Masters of the Universe cartoon
  • Oooh Ooh, I have a couple :

    Bat Fink and Karate
    Gigantor
    • OK, many of those started in the '60s! (But hey--I watched reruns of some up until I was out of COLLEGE!)
      My faves: Underdog/Tennessee Tuxedo, Tom & Jerry, Bullwinkle, Looney Tunes, THE MUPPET SHOW, pre-Scrappy Scooby Doo, the Pink Panther, "Queeks Draw" McGraw & Baba Louie, Hong Kong Phooey, Davy & Goliath, Gumby...But HATED the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff like the Bugaloos, HR Pufnstuf, etc!
      • I LOVED Davey & Goliath! Gumby was great. And I loved most of the Krofft stuff, too. The thing is, I don't think of those as "cartoons". To me they just tend to fall into the "children's shows" category.



        I think it's interesting how we all seem to agree on one thing. Scrappy doo sucked!!!!!!
  • OH MY GOSH! Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was definitely a favorite! The introduction music was great too :-)

    Other old school favorites:

    Mush Mouse and Pumpkin Puss
    Magilla Gorilla
    Richochet Rabbit and Droopalong
    ? Hippopotous and So So
    Yip Yappy and Yahooee
    Hong Kong Fooey
    UNDERDOG!!!!

    Oh I could go on forever!
    • <Jenga sez: ? Hippopotous and So So >

      Was it Peter Potamuss? He had a really loud sneeze: yiyiyi yi...yaaaaaaaaa!!

      I think his sidekick was a monkey.

      I just saw the Lancelot Link thread... I was fascinated by those chimps...
  • Well, let's see...

    Scooby-doo (b.s.)
    Banana Splits
    Dynomutt
    Dastardly & Muttly
    Groovie Goolies
    Fat Albert
    Warner Bros.
    Pink Panther
    Anything by Jay Ward
    ORIGIONAL Fantastic Four (no stupid robot!)
    Thundarr the Barbarian

    and of course...

    Schoolhouse Rock!