# "Children" cartoons that you watch. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490 "2004-08-12T04:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/21 "2004-08-12T13:38:56Z")
I like a lot of the cartoons on Cartoon Network. I’m also a huge fan of **SpongeBob SquarePants**. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/22 "2004-08-12T14:35:58Z")
Ed, Edd and Eddie. BUTTERED TOOOAST! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/23 "2004-08-12T14:58:07Z")
Definitely seconding _Samurai Jack_! Also _Justice League_, _Teen Titans_, and that Xmen show (though I haven’t seen it on CN lately…) Old WB cartoons still crack me up, as do _Tom & Jerry_ still. > [@Tengu](#): > > Strangely I can usually kind of tolerate Transformers: Energon now. I’m not sure why. :eek: Your will must’ve been broken! Quick, go buy the _Beast Wars_ DVDs and re-learn what a good Transformers show is! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/24 "2004-08-12T16:22:24Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Now, a couple of years ago, I had pneumonia. While I was on the sofa, nearly delerious, at 5 AM, watching the Cartoon Network, a show came on about some East Indians living in America. There were two brothers, and one of them was a skateboard dude, which was a radical departure from his family’s Indian culture. What I remember of it was freakin’ hilarious. I have no idea what it was called, and I’ve never seen it again. I know I didn’t hallucinate it! Does it ring a bell for anybody? I think that originally aired as one of a group of cartoons that people could call in and vote for; whichever got the most votes was made into a series. The cartoon you describe (I can’t remember the name either) was my favorite. The “Sacred Cow” character was my favorite! I also like watching the Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Spongebob Squarepants, and Ren & Stimpy. I still have a few episodes of Ren & Stimpy on VHS from when it was running on Nickelodeon. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/25 "2004-08-12T16:27:41Z")
I am the oldest person I know who watches the _Dragonball_ series. Maybe it’s pathetic, but I still think it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/26 "2004-08-12T16:39:07Z")
Powerpuff Girls, Spongebob SquarePants and Jimmy Neutron. Brilliant, all three of them. So many lines and references are wated on children. Fortunately, though, it keeps them quiet all the same. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/27 "2004-08-12T16:47:01Z")
I don’t know that I would watch them by myself - I don’t watch a lot of TV - but when my kids are having quiet time and want me to sit with them, we watch: - Powerpuff Girls - really funny - Dexter’s Lab - also great - Teen Titans - actually pretty good; I like Raven’s deadpan delivery - Totally Spies - don’t like it - no grown-up “in” jokes - Billy and Mandy - don’t like it - can’t get past the whole Death thing - Kids Next Door - not bad - Bugs Bunny - everyone’s favorite - including mine. Bottom line is that there must be an undercurrent of adult-inflected humor involved. If not, I just read the book I have with me while the kids sit on my lap… ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/28 "2004-08-12T16:53:04Z")
It’s not like I tune in regularly, but I will watch **Arthur** and **The Proud Family** when nothing else is on. I liked the Cartoon Network when most of the cartoons it featured were older. In college I’d tune into the noontime hour of **Smurfs**. They also showed **Thundercats**. Late night, I’d watch **Popeye** and **Josie and the Pussycats**. But once I started grad school, the programming became newer and thus not as good. I only watch the CN now for the first hour of adult swim. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/29 "2004-08-12T18:00:21Z")
Someday Cobra will beat G.I. Joe, someday… I’m ashamed at the lack of Scooby Doo responses! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/30 "2004-08-12T18:11:15Z")
Unfortunately I don’t have cable so my toon watching is extremely limited. I did love **Clone High** , **Samurai Jack** and **Dexter’s Lab** though. Joan is quite hot. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/31 "2004-08-12T18:30:27Z")
> [@Sir Dirx](#): > > :eek: Your will must’ve been broken! Quick, go buy the _Beast Wars_ DVDs and re-learn what a good Transformers show is! Did they manage to not put the Beast Wars shows on the DVDs, then? Otherwise, I’d think what you have on your hands there is maybe the worst cartoon in existence. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/32 "2004-08-12T19:33:02Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Did they manage to not put the Beast Wars shows on the DVDs, then? Otherwise, I’d think what you have on your hands there is maybe the worst cartoon in existence. While I’ll admit the first season of **Beast Wars** started a little rough, I have to say the rest of your post is bordering on heresy… ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/33 "2004-08-12T20:48:39Z")
Sooo many. Sailor Moon (for the plot. Seriously!) Pokémon Static Shock Yu-Gi-Oh! Megaman NT Warrior Teen Titans Justice League Danny Phantom Fairly Odd Parents The list goes on and on. By the way Tara Strong and Phil LaMar are to cartoons what Kevin Bacon is to movies. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/34 "2004-08-12T21:08:28Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > I am the oldest person I know who watches the _Dragonball_ series. Maybe it’s pathetic, but I still think it’s cool. I may be the oldest person in the world who often have the theme song for the new Digimon series running through her head. AND, I know all the words. I forgot to include it in my earlier list. Last night Zoe finally got her beast spirit. When she transformed, I exclaimed, “Oh, cool!” then I had to look around and make sure my 6 yo was still in the room…I am such a geek! > [@FriarTed](#): > > I like all those. I have a friend who is a real-life version of Lor in Weekenders except that she (my friend) is gay. Of course, maybe it just hasn’t kicked in with Lor _L_ Could be. Of course currently she had this huge crush on super-jock Thompson. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/35 "2004-08-12T21:17:40Z")
“Kim Possible” give me an erection. Is that wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/36 "2004-08-12T21:30:45Z")
> [@Sir Dirx](#): > > :eek: Your will must’ve been broken! Quick, go buy the _Beast Wars_ DVDs and re-learn what a good Transformers show is! I’m not unaware of Beast Wars. I love it. I just…don’t hate Energon. I USED to, but then I ended up watching a couple episodes waiting for Teen Titans and it grew on me. Like a fungus. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/37 "2004-08-12T22:10:49Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Recess is a pretty good cartoon and I watch it whenever it comes on. I also enjoy the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. My wife isn’t so into it though and questions me all the time “Why does Death sound like he’s from Jamacia?” > > Marc Why can’t Death sound like he’s from Jamaica? I hate the show for the most part, but I always thought that was a cool idea - if only he sounded more like your average reggae singer and less like Sebastian from _Little Mermaid_. I don’t know enough to say that his accent sounds fake, but I’m really betting that it does. Otherwise, everybody else already named the good stuff. Except…Mad Jack the Pirate! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/38 "2004-08-12T23:56:33Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > “Kim Possible” give me an erection. You and several thousand other geeks out there. 😉 (Not me, but I’m _sure_ they’re out there…) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/39 "2004-08-13T00:24:48Z")
When visiting my son and grandkids, I spent a fair amount of time watching cartoons with the boys (sometimes joined by granddaughter Amanda, who’s outgrowing cartoons). The boys like Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, the Fairly Odd Parents, Spongebob, Dexter’s Lab, and Jimmy Neutron, and formerly were fond of Rugrats. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in recent years was a two-hour special of the Fairly Odd Parents in which Timmy ends up shipped into the cable company’s TV complex of channels, in pursuit of an e-mail he didn’t intend to send and of the Evil Babysitter – each channel being a recognizable parody of one of several decades worth of cartoons, from Tom and Jerry through the Flintstones to Teen Titans and Pokemon. It was so well written that an intelligent child would find it funny but an adult catching the references would also enjoy it both for humor and as homage to the animation industry – brilliant piece of work. I watched it with the boys thinking that I’d be bored by their cartoon but would at least be sharing something with them – my grandson Brandon and I were swapping guesses about what cartoons would be parodied next before it was over, and enjoying it immensely. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490/40 "2004-08-13T00:32:49Z")
I pretty much what my daughter is into. -Ed, Edd, and Eddie. Ed cracks me up “Whoop, there it goes…my brain stopped.” 😃 -Samurai Jack -Fairly OddParents -Justice League -Jackie Chan Spongebob is good occasionally as is Jimmy Neutron, though the Jimmy Neutron movie bored both me and my daughter into stopping it. I used to watch Batman and Batman Beyond when they were on and would gladly pony up for a dvd set when they come out, as I did for the huge Looney Tunes boxed set. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-cartoons-that-you-watch/259490.md?page=3)