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Do you enjoy the cartoons nowadays? It is really hard for me to get into stuff like Bleach and Death Note and the rest of the anime and the only cartoons I enjoy nowadays is stuff like South Park, Boondocks and Futarama, but a lot of that stuff is aimed toward adults. So nowadays, all I can do is flip the channel on Boomerang! and hope I can enjoy the good old days of cartoons... do you remember those days? When there were PSA's and the characters in every cartoon did not have big eyes and small mouths.

So out of nostalgia, I've compiled a list of 50 cartoons from my childhood that I really enjoyed.

N.B. These are mostly cartoons that ran for Generation X and Y or before the year 2000 and most likely do not show anymore. Didn't include stuff like The Simpsons, Futarama, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, etc. because that stuff is still running strong today.




50. Swat Kats


49. Hong Kong Phooey


48. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids


47. Darkwing Duck


46. Freakazoid!


45. Pound Puppies


44. The Angry Beavers


43. Catdog


42. Josie and the Pussycats


41. Top Cat


40. Speed Racer


39. Popeye the Sailor Man


38. Tom and Jerry


37. The Jetsons


36. Secret Squirrel


35. TaleSpin


34. Animaniacs


33. 2 Stupid Dogs


32. Alf


31. Beavis and Butthead


30. Gumby


29. Speed Buggy


28. Gargoyles


27. Rugrats


26. Garfield and Friends


25. Scooby Doo: Where Are You?


24. Rocky and Bullwinkle


23. Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers


22. Muppet Babies


21. The Adventures of Jonny Quest


20. The Flintstones


19. The Pink Panther


18. Samurai Pizza Cats


17. Tiny Toons


16. Transformers


15. Dexter's Laboratory


14. Charlie Brown


13. The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh


12. The Real Ghostbusters


11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


10. The Smurfs


9. Ren and Stimpy


8. Duck Tales


7. Aahhh!!! Real Monsters


6. Kablam!


5. Hey Arnold!


4. Looney Tunes


3. Doug


2. Captain Planet and the Planeteers


1. Rocko's Modern Life


Discuss the cartoons you enjoyed as a child and still hold dear to you.
Last Edit: August 12, 2008, 10:59:39 pm by Strangeluv
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rocko's modern life was the best seriously. but you put the wrong images for rugrats and garfield.
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Batman: The Animated Series was one of my favorites as a kid, I'm kind of surprised you don't have it up there.
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Since I grew up in Poland, and we only had 2 tv channels at that time, there wasn't much variety in cartoons, but they were actually a family event! Every night there would be a cartoon airing right before bedtime, so that all the children could watch it with their family before going to sleep. It was pretty fun and very memorable. It's kind of sad how now the world is so different... but anyways,

My two favourite childhood shows were:

Muminki


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Gumisie
I recently downloaded seasons 1-3 of the show (in English unfortunately) but I love it! I'm surprised at how well this cartoon still stands up today. It's so much better than modern cartoons and much more wholesome - although there are quite a few adult jokes strewn about, which I'm only now getting. Of course as a child you were oblivious to them, but this is pretty funny.
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Yeah. I dunno. I never used to watch "action" cartoons much, which explains absence of Batman, Technoman, Galaxy Rangers, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Beast Wars, G-Force and company, unless there was comedy added to it, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Samurai Pizza Cats. Aside from that, I only liked Jonny Quest and a few others. I was more into slapstick comedy like Rocko or shows about "real life"-ish shit like Charlie Brown, Doug and Hey Arnold.
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the 90s was the "peak" decade for cartoons before the fcc demanded more educational shit in 1999.

that, and networks allowed a lot more adult humor as one of disney's techniques was to have a family friendly broad appeal while still sprinkling in jokes here and there.  Rocko's Modern Life actually had a reference to JFK assassination and Hey Arnold featured a lot of things that would be considered "taboo" today (like Phil punching out Hitler in the veterans day episode and the pretty mature Mr. Hyuhn Vietnam back story).

anyways, besides the ones already mentioned i have a huge boner for anything loony tunes and i also liked aeon flux and the one fucking season of sam and max.  the video game cartoons were hilariously bad (captain n, super mario, sonic, zelda) but they are forever engraved in my childhood.

the 80s brought on some really ridiculous cartoons specifically TURBO TEEN (a teenager drives off the road and gets zapped by some experimental ray and whenever he's subjected to intense heat he turns into a FUCKING CAR that his black friend and lily white girlfriend ride around in to stop crime JESUS CHRIST) and the star trek series.
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My favourite childhood cartoon was The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, based on the anamatronic toy/childrens books, where Teddy and his friends Grubby and Gimmick search for the Treasure of Grundo by seeking out the Hard-To-Find city and battling the Gutang Warriors, while rescuing Prince Aaron and Princess Arusia and then being all around good friends and having some cool adventures in the episodes thereafter.
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My family was pretty poor when I was a kid, so we only really got the few free ontario channels, like Global etc.
Therefore, I only got to watch a few cartoons. Shows as a kid to me weren't too huge an influence, however here is what I watched:
Transformers, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, Inspector Gadget, and we'd rent some from Jumbo Video occassionally. Mostly we watched shows like Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Power Rangers, and Mr. Dress-Up. Then at lunch, we'd come home for soup, The Flintstones, and this austrailian cartoon about a platypus and stuff.
When I was a teenager though, all the good stuff came on. Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Batman the Animated Series, Transformers: Beast Wars (called Beasties in Canada lol), Sail--sail---gulp--sailor moon..., and uh uh uh The Secret World of Alex Mack.
Honestly, there never was a good time for cartoons / tv. It's always awesome NOW. Look back, and you see how absolutely terrible it was.
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I can only really remember Beast Wars, Digimon, Medabots, K-Kim Possible (that's a little more recent, though), uhhhhhhh Power Rangers even though it's not animated, The Underdog (they showed it really early on weekdays), Dungeons and Dragons...

uh yeah we didn't have cable.
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Yeah Strangeluv I agree with a lot of your list. I used to watch Nickelodeon a LOT so yeah...

Doug was one of my favorite shows. I loved Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, CatDog, Rugrats, and Hey! Arnold. The shows I mainly watched on Cartoon Network were like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Looney Toons, Batman: Animated Series, and Dexter's Lab.

I don't know man, like I really wish there was a turn-back time button. I say this A LOT because seriously, a lot of parts of life get shittier as you age. You can still have loads of fun, but I don't know, most people can't find fun in the simple things anymore. And even if you are having fun, it's not as "filling" at times.


I just remember being a kid (born in 1991), and I would just have the best time of my life waking up on Saturday morning to watch cartoons.
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the 90s was the "peak" decade for cartoons before the fcc demanded more educational shit in 1999.
Pfft. I always preferred the sixties and earlier with the whole Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies as well as the Disney shorts. Cartoons have never gotten better than that.
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Hey Arnold! was the best show in the whole world. Too bad the movie sucked.

Also: Doug (before it went to Disney...) and SpongeBob Squarepants.
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I remember Swat Kats! And, uh... Mummies Alive. And 2 Stupid Dogs, and Gargoyles. Wow, this brings back a lot of awesome memories! I loved these things when I was younger.
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I've been noticing lately that the TV netowrks have pretty much done away with the monumental weekly event of Saturday morning cartoons. You'll only find it on the family or kids networks now, but I remember when I was a kid you could watch entertianing TV on a Saturday from 6 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon without ever changing the channel. It was a glorious thing. But of course your folks would never let you just sit there the whole time, but the fact that the stuff was on was the best part.

Stupid parents groups, trying to blame TV for why thier kids are fat.
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I miss that stuff, man. Saturday morning cartoons... just wait until Saturday and watch cartoons all Saturday. That was my fix.
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Oh man.... Thanks for ruining my day (again) strangeluv. Now I'm full of nostalgia.

I have GOT to torrent some of this shit :sad:

(I really HATED Freakazoid though :\ )
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Tom and Jerry should be the number 1 cartoon ever... also swat cats jeez man this does bring back memories.

also also Rocko's modern life had so many sexual / adult jokes in there
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Oh yeah I used to watch Tom and Jerry a lot too! Along with Top Cat.

Man, the memories I get from this. It makes me really want to be back there.
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Pretty much the majority of Strangeluv's list is the stuff I watched when I was still shittin' green.

Though even today, Looney Toons is still one of my favorites.  :fogetlaugh:
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Strangeluv I would probably just post your exact same unedited list over again.

However I also liked action cartoons like Gargoyles and the Marvel cartoons etc.