Best- Danger Mouse
Worst- Dragon Ball Z.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their gazorninplatt.
Regarding that trivia question, it was actually Michaelangelo (I guess they could be confused. Besides, there was even a Ninja Turtles joke in the start.) The Warners were helping him paint the Sistene Chapel (most likely mispelled), but instead of God and Noah, they put in E.T. and…the boy that befriended him. But His Majesty didn’t mind…he was…
Steven Spielburg.
I lived in Texas for ten years, from the age of six to sixteen, and King of the Hill almost hurts, because I swear I knew those people, or people just like them. But I enjoy it. And I really like Futurama.
Best – almost anything by Warner Brothers, up until the 60s when things sort of fell apart.
Worst – I dunno. There’s too many candidates.
Best: The Herculoids (can’t believe no one has mentioned this yet), the original Johnny Quest, the old Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo (so sue me), Josie & the Pussycats, South Park, Space Ghost
Worst: Tweety Bird (even as a kid, I was always hoping the cat would get that damn obnoxious avian), Pepe Le Peu, Beavis & Butthead
Best cartoons:
- The Simpsons
- Futurama
- Beavis & Butt-Head
- South Park
Worst cartoons:
- Anything they have nowadays playing during 2-5pm
Best[list]
[li]Simpsons[/li][li]Speed Racer[/li][li]Duck Tales[/li][li]Tail Spin[/li][li]Original Donald Duck/Chip and Dale[/li][li]Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers[/li][li]Foghorn Leghorn[/li][li]Many others that have escaped my mind at the moment.[/li]
Worst
Ed, Edd and Eddy!!!
My favs:
The Tick
Bugs Bunny
Star Blazers
and yes! yes! yes! to the person who mentioned Schoolhouse Rock. On the first day of my college PoliSci class, our professor gave us a pop quiz, consisting of difficult questions that were supposed to (I think) make us realize how stupid we were about politics. The bonus was to write the preamble to the Constitution. Of course, you could hear the entire class singing to themselves as they wrote out the preamble. The prof was amazed that every person in the class got that 100% correct.
My least fav:
Dr. Katz. I thought the dialogue was hilarious, but the animation style gave me a migraine.
Pokemon. So stupid, but we watch it because the cat likes it. No kidding. He doesn’t respond to any TV at all except for Pokemon. When it comes on, he runs to the TV and tries to “catch” the characters. Watching the cat chase the characters on the screen is hysterical. He seems to especially like the yellow thing that’s shaped like a sack of flour. We keep hoping he will find another show he likes.
Best: Anything directed by Tex Avery or Chuck Jones
Honorable mention: South Park and The Critic.
Worst: All post-Flintstones/Jetsons Hanna-Barbera cr*p.
Dishonorable mention: Nearly anything Filmation put their hands to.
~~Baloo
I thought Duckman was pretty funny at times.
Also, I couldn’t stand Alf the sitcom, but Alf the cartoon was a crackup, using humor on multiple levels to provide wide appeal.
<Scene opens on a medieval town square…>
Mumbling from the masses: The King! The King is here!
Peasant woman: Elvis?
The best overall are certainly the classic Warner Brothers cartoons, with the two greatest geniuses of the medium, Chuck Jones and Tex Avery (though Avery did his best work after he moved to MGM).
Best television cartoon was probably the Simpsons, though George of the Jungle came close. It had everything Rocky and Bullwinkle had (also by Jay Ward), but by that time they had ironed out the kinks.
Worst was any of the various Hanna-Barbera abominations of the 70s. Scooby Doo is certainly up there (absolutely no charm or imagination), but things like Magilla Gorilla or Peter Potumus are pretty close behind. Dishonorable mention goes to Norm Prescott, who had a bunch of terrible knockoffs of live TV shows in the early 70s (though his Star Trek cartoon may be an exception).
Worst film cartoon series was probably Tom and Jerry (other than any of them that Tex Avery might have directed, which may be none). And that was where Hanna-Barbera got their start. Paul Terry’s Terrytoons also were pretty bad, as was Woody Woodpecker and the other Walter Lanz cartoons.
I’m partial to the PowerPuff Girls myself, but mostly because everyone tells me I look like Buttercup…
Favorites:
Daria
The Powerpuff Girls
Josie and the Pussycats
Sailor Moon
Underdog
Speed Racer
Voltron
Worst:
Dragonball z
Ed, Edd, and Eddie
Popeye
Pokemon
anything of Nickelodion-all look quite stupid
Beavis and Butthead-(but that can’t be too evil, since Daria is a spinoff of the show)
Best cartoons:
Powerpuff Girls – you had to know I’d say that. I just love Bubbles. 
Digimon – the little Digimon are too cute!
The Tick – I think my favorites were the Santa Claus ep and the mustache ep. (“Arthur! The mustache is poking my brain!”)
X-Men: Evolution – how could you not love a show with Nightcrawler and Kitty as regular characters?
Batman Beyond – I just love the whole idea behind this.
Dexter’s Laboratory – I recently started watching this, and I love it.
Beast Wars/Beast Machines – OK, technically not a cartoon I guess, but still entertaining.
Animaniacs – this one always makes me laugh.
Sam and Max – I only saw a few episodes of this, but it was funny.
Someone mentioned the old Super Mario Bros. cartoon. I hated that one, but I used to love when they’d show the Legend of Zelda episodes on Fridays. And does anyone know what happened to Escaflowne? Fox Kids took it off just when I was getting into the story.
Worst cartoons:
Pokemon – it’s the only cartoon I’ve ever wanted to smack.
Sailor Moon – I don’t know why I can’t get into this one, but I can’t.
I know there are others I don’t like, but I seem to have blocked them from my memory at the moment. 
Agreed. Kurt rocks, Kitty kicks ass, and I think they’ll be a mighty cute couple if anything comes of that.
‘She’s totally not into the fuzzy dude…’
‘Ok, I still don’t like facial hair, but the pointy ears are growing on me!’
Ok, that out of the way, I have to agree with all your ‘best’ - save Sam and Max which I was never really ever able to get into.
Have to disagree on both the ‘worsts’ though, although Sailor Moon is just above that level.
Ooo…darn…missed the bit in the middle.
Escaflowne was getting awful ratings, compared to other Fox Kids shows.
If you really want to see it, it’s availiable on tape, subbed, Fox Cut Dub, and Uncut dub.
This past summer I saw my first and only episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I was with a group of people (mostly children) so I could not discreetly sieze control of the TV. It affected me like a sharp stick to the medulla oblongata. I fear I still have not recovered. Evidently these cable networks are becoming REALLY desperate for cartoons.
Well, it’s good to meet the other person who watched and enjoyed Samurai Pizza Cats. Tho that was actually anime, (Original name: Kyatto Ninden Teyandee) belive it or not. And comparing anime to NA cartoons is laughable and bullying, so I won’t.
Hmm.
Best: (In no particular order)
Earthworm Jim (Ah, I LOVED that show. Alas . . . )
Eek The Cat/Terrible Thunder Lizards (Ditto. Actually, the Savage toons were pretty much exactly the same style of humor as EJ)
South Park (When it works, nothing is better. When it works)
Simpsons
Futurama
The Critic (who knew that Jon Lovitz could be cool?)
Duckman (The scriptwriters come to the animators rescue . . .)
ReBoot/Beast Wars (Mainframe is awesome. Both the shows started off slow, but got amazing towards the end.
Transformers (Ok, this is thanks to the magic of nostalga)
Worst: (again, in random order)
Tom & Jerry (I’m as big a fan of sadism as the next man, but not when applied to cute animals . . .)
Actually, anything that Hanna Barbera ever did.
Anything that’s a blatant uncredited rip off of a LA commedians act. (see imidiatly above, thouch actually this is bad in WB shorts, too)
Any of those utterly overrated Cartoon Network original shows, except the “cartoon geek” episodes of Johnny Bravo. (Note to Cartoon Network. For a “refrence” joke, it is not enough to simply mention or show a piece of pop culture, it must also be exploited in some way for humorous effect, or appear in an ironic or appropriate fasion)
Powerpuff Girls (Redundant, yes. But this one is so overrated, and so many people insist it’s completly devoid of anime influence, it deserves it’s own mention)
Any of those Ed Fleiss shows (Again redundant, but these are so bad, they deservet the double mention)
By comparison to the above, most toy cartoons are actually OK . . .
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“Ah, something else created by Satan . . . Japanimaition!!”
I learned my first pun, what a pun IS actually, on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
I have a collection of nearly 700 Warner Brothers cartoons I’ve taped off the television, and I like them as much as when I watched them 35 years ago.
For the newer cartoons, I think Dexter’s Laboratory is good, along with Pinky and the Brain. I liked one episode where the Brain went to a 12-step meeting of Meglamaniacs Anonymous, and sat next to Steven Spielberg.
I think one of the best Animaniacs episodes is the one with the clown who talks like Jerry Lewis, “Oy, little puppy boy!” Or the one with the Jerry Lewis director. “Oy, nice lady! This shoe is too small for your fat foot!”
As for Scooby Doo, something iritates me about those HB cartoons like Scooby Doo, The Flinstones and maybe The Jestsons: What is up with the laugh track? What the hell were they thinking when they put a laugh track to a cartoon? Plus, Scrappy Doo annoys me.
Another bad type of cartoon are those based on movies or Disney movies, specifically “Beetlejuice.” I cannot stand inconsistancy, and “Beetlejuice” is full of them. I couldn’t stand that cartoon when I was seven and I can’t stand it now. Since when did Lydia decide to like Beetlejuice in the first place? And where are Adam and Barbara?
Other great cartoons are The Simpsons, The Critic, Powerpuff Girls, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Futurama, and King of the Hill.
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im kinda surprised that Teenage mutant ninja turtles hasn’t been mentioned… still anything Groening is best, And king of the hill is definitly up there.
worst: Carebears