Old TV
The other day I was talking with a friend about cartoons we grew up with. He mentions RugRats and I was like… that show was on when I was in college. We found out that what I was seeing was the final seasons of the show near the end of the 90’s but still, it’s not a show I grew up with. Funny thing is, I didn’t feel old, I just felt that he was young.
Shows/cartoons I did grow up with he never watched or only heard of. Shows like Battle of the Planets, The Little Prince (I loved that cartoon), Fraggle Rock, Muppet Babies, Dungeons and Dragons, Pole Position, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, The Get Along Gang, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Commander Marc and the Secret City, Snorks, Duck Tails, Tail Spin, Rescue Rangers, The Real Ghostbusters, and for some reason I remember watching a Jackson 5 cartoon. Watching any of these shows now would be horrible I’m sure so I’m quite happy to just remember them in my head.
What cartoons or shows did you watch as a kid?
Play Asia
June 11th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
now, i’m a 90’s kid, but 80’s cartoons are far superior. the only cartoons i enjoyed from the 90’s were pokemon, digimon, dragonball z, yugioh, and sort of naruto. oh, and yu yu hakusho i guess too. what shows i really enjoy though, are the 80’s classics like thundercats and gi joe, silver hawks, transformers, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and others like that. i mean, you cant beat the 80’s in terms of cartoons. and they always had the best theme songs too. but i only grew up with two of those shows, TMNT and transformers. the others were all done being shown by the time i was a kid, and i only learned of them recently.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:46 pm
For me it was the Disney stuff (Rescue Rangers, Duck Tails, Tail Spin, et al) mostly, along with TMNT, Garfield and Friends, and probably a handful of other awful things. Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Other Mario shows. The weird Sonic.
Most of the Disney Afternoon shows though (RR, Duck Tails, etc) actually hold up well. They aren’t all 100% great, but they’ve stood the test of time better than many. I only recently rediscovered Rescue Rangers, and was delighted to be reminded how much I loved it, but also how good it still is.
June 12th, 2012 at 3:38 am
Despite growing up in New Zealand, I managed to see the majority of the same cartoons as what was aired over in the US. Earliest I can remember was Flintstones/Jetsons, Sailor Moon, Voltron, He Man, Scooby-Doo, Thunderbirds, Fraggle Rock, Dungeons & Dragons, Transformers etc.
It was the Disney era of Rescue Rangers, Tailspin, Duck Tales, Sonic SatAM, Beast Wars, Batman and so forth that I consider the pinnacle of cartoon entertainment to this day, and remember most fondly.
It was around the time of the rise of Nickelodeon than my interest in cartoons began to wane with what felt like the start of the drop in quality as I progressed through high school, and stopped watching altogether once I left home for college. Granted, that was more because I didn’t own a tv and was more interested in downloading anime and playing computer games at the time.
The only classic I never saw at all – probably due to licensing issues or something silly, was Thundercats. It took me years after being online before I actually found out what the heck people were talking about when they mentioned it!
June 12th, 2012 at 9:50 am
The shows that I remember most prominently are (not in any particular order):
-Tom and Jerry
-Rocky and Bullwinkle
-Merry Melodies
-The Pink Panther
-Starblazers (blew my mind as a kid)
-Transformers
-Thundercats
-TMNT
-Rescue Rangers
-Ducktales
-The Electric Company (which is a great watch as an adult, btw–very trippy and had Morgan Freeman)
-3-2-1 Contact (anybody remember the Bloodhound Gang?)
-Fat Albert
-Garfield
-Inspector Gadget
There are others that I saw from time to time (some mentioned by others), but none of them come to mind like these.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Jeez… let’s see some highlights:
Transformers
Thundercats
The Real Ghostbusters
GI Joe
He-Man and She-Ra
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Scooby-Doo
Garfield and Friends
My Pet Monster
Looney Tunes
Super Mario Bros. Super Show (and Zelda)
Captain N The Game Master (ugh)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bucky O’Hare
C.O.P.S.
B.O.T.Z. Master (oh god)
Goof Troop
Aladdin
Samurai Pizza Cats
Mummies Alive!
Sailor Moon
Dragonball Z (up until Cell anyway)
ReBoot
Transformers: Beast Wars
Transformers: Beast Machines
Sonic the Hedgehog (the good one)
Mega Man (all 13 episodes of it!)
Kim Possible
Transformers: Prime
June 12th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Oh and how could I possibly forget two of the all time greats:
Batman: The Animated Series
Gargoyles
June 14th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Holy crap I loved My Pet Monster! Beetlejuice was also an awesome cartoon. C.O.P.S. was a show I remember watching too. I think it was on after Ewoks when I was a kid.
June 12th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
(Big draw of breath)
Sesame Street (70s – 80s)
Electric Company (70s version)
Letter People
Ultraman
Johnny Sokko & Giant Robot
Speed Racer
Land Of the Lost (70s version)
Underdog
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Scooby Doo
Flintstones
Looney Tunes
Popeye
Woody Woodpecker
Three Stooges
Heathcliff & The Catillac Cats
The Disney Afternoon (All the shows!)
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs
Taz-Mania
Eek The Cat
Ren & Stimpy
Dangermouse
Count Duckula
Swat Kats
2 Stupid Dogs
pant…pant…pant…
And anything else I didn’t mention or have forgotten about.
June 14th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Angry Beavers? I watched a lot of those too at one point or another too. How could I forget Tiny Toons and He-Man o_O
June 13th, 2012 at 11:06 pm
TV and I were never really on a first name basis…I only really started watching TV after I figured out there was more entertainment than books. And my TV shows consisted primarily of shows that came out of Mainframe Studios; Shows like ReBoot and Shadow Raiders. In fact,those were the only two that I made a point to stay up to date on…
September 5th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
No one has mentioned Wacky Races! …just wondered, who does the image in this post belong to? I’d really like to use it for some band artwork i’m working on. If someone could get back to me on this, it would be greatly appreciated! \m/
September 5th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
I knew of Wacky Races but never got a chance to see it. The Jetsons is also one I had a hard time finding. As for the image, I just found it on the internet to be honest. I usually just look up “old photograph + X” and I usually get cool results. ^_^