I am with you there. I’m always turning the volume down while I watch this show. I’m sure that shriek is penetrating the walls and bothering my neighbors. His voice is bad enough when he’s calm, and he’s constantly shouting or whining? I like the show, though.
Speaking of whining in cartoons, my wife has (unfortunately) become a collector of anime. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, every single episode of everything she owns (hundreds of discs) seems to have the same, whiny, seven-year-old girl in it, always wailing at the top of her voice in Japanese. It makes me want to poke my eardrums with an icepick.
After a hard day at work, there’s nothing better than kicking back with some relaxing and mind-numbing episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, Jimmy Neutron, and Fairly Odd Parents. Rugrats is good, too! 
Cartoons I watch, that are normally intended for kids or young adults (this means I’m not counting Simpsons or Adult Swim cartoons):
X-Men Evolution (I don’t think it’s on CN anymore, though)
Justice League when I manage to catch it
Kim Possible, sometimes (Ron reminds me of…well…me. Also, Rufus is awesome)
Gargoyles (it’s back on the air! Saturday mornings (11:00, I think) on ABC Family
Several Spiderman cartoons that preceed Gargolyes on the same station (I’ve only caught it a couple times, and they play eps from all the different animated series, it seems)
Samuri Jack
Oh, and Wolfian, add Billy West to that list. He has done a lot of stuff too, check out his IMBD listing.
His most famous stuff includes:
Doug (he was Doug)
Ren and Stimpy (He was both)
Futurama (Fry and others)
Warner Brothers stuff (he’s basically the replacement for Mel Blanc)
Hell, Billy West has worked with both Phil LaMar AND Tara Strong.
(and looknig at Tara’s IMDB listing…WOW, she is HOT! She should do some non-voice acting, I’d love to see that face gracin g the silver screen)
Ren&Stimpy and Home Movies.
Not sure these are really kids’ shows, though…
She is, she is. And she has done some non-voice work, but not much in the last 9, 10 years. She should definitely do more, though.
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I adore Jimmy Neutron. It’s nice to see I’m not the only one.
God, what won’t I watch? I prefer cartoons to most anything else. When I wanted reality programming, I go outside.
First, the almighty Animaniacs. Yes, I have every episode taped. Yes, I have the DTV Wakko’s Wish, which I picked up a few days before the official release. Yes, I have all the comics, including the Red Cross freebie and the market test. Yes, I have a ton of other “collectible” crap. Yes, I am a sad and pathetic man. 
There’s the vast well of Looney Tunes to draw from (except the Roadrunner stuff). Jay Ward and his ilk were geniuses. The early seasons of Dexter and the Powerpuffs were good. SpongeBob, Invader ZIM, and the Fairly Odd Parents are worth their while. I’m happy they’ve all been mentioned. Nice to see Digimon Frontier get a wave, but the two seasons of Digimon Adventure were much better, and surprisingly thoughtful for a twenty-minute toy ad.
Now, there’s also:
Rocko’s Modern Life. Where are the reruns? This was the funniest Nicktoon for a long, looong time. The story of coffee, Heffer’s adoption, the romance of Shelbert and Dr. Hutchison, and for that matter, Spunky and the mop. Comedy gold. The Bigheads were too real.
Cardcaptor Sakura, in the original. Unbelieveably cute and likable. Also, they gayest thing you will ever see. Always nice to see two rivals competing for the girl’s brother’s boyfriend.
And a friend of mine is turning me onto Chalk Zone. God help me, it’s better than I realized, you just have to get used to Snap’s irritating voice. I daresay it’s the strangest thing on TV right now. This weekend had an episode wherein Rudy and Penny visit a nightclub thats headliner is a tongue on a Moulin Rouge-style trapeze. If the tongue licks you, you babble gibberish, and need a second lick to steady yourself. Penny leaves without her second lick, and Rudy spends the rest of the segment trying to tongue her. I didn’t realize how bizarre it all was until thirty minutes after it was off.
Animaniacs
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Looney Tunes (pre-60’s)
Tom & Jerry (pre-60’s)
Danger Mouse
Nick Park’s stuff (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, etc.)
Star Trek (watched 'em when they were new)
2 Stupid Dogs
Rocko’s Modern Life
& not really “children’s”:
South Park
Futurama
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (definitely not kid stuff)
Catching Adult Swim at a hotel sure helped me decide to get cable again 
I knew my watching of cartoons was not wrong. You all have just reinforced that. I watch many of the shows listed, too many to list, I think. I’ve been lately wondering if I could get DVDs of Ronin Warriors or Reboot . I loved those shows. I used to babysit two of my cousins and every afternoon, we would watch cartoons and get into debates over who was the best character on Dragonball Z . Good times. And all three of us had a different favorite on Sailor Moon , too.
This thread has 50 replies – granted, some multiple, and my beloved Samurai Jack only got 5 replies besides mine.
Five.
Oh, the humanity.
People, people, people…what’s not to love? The top-notch animation? The inspired choice of music? The unprecedented setting and character designs? The sparse dialogue? The wink wink socioeconomic satires? The brilliant fight sequences? The hammy, ingratiating performances of supreme Lord of All Evil, Aku? Jack’s over the top ally/rival, The Scotsman? Jack’s multicultural trek through the future-alternate Earth? The fantastic minions? Jack’s sword? The sly cultural references to everything from Quickdraw McGraw to The Love Boat to Lone Wolf and Cub to Rashomon to The Seven Samurai? The near genius voice work of Phil LaMarr and Mako?
Don’t get me wrong. I, too, enjoy classic Warner Brothersm SpongeBob, Powerpuff Girls, Justice League, etc. But to see one of my all time favorite cartoons barely make the top twenty referenced cartoons in this thread…
Oh. The humanity.
Sorry, Askia, would it make you feel a little better to know that one more person likes Samurai Jack? I even have a Samurai Jack desktop background…actually, I have four different ones.
YES. Thank you, Harimad-sol! We are now seven strong. Soon, very, very soon our legions will grow in strength and purpose and swamp this message board of its preening, self-congratulating, intellectually counterfeit cartoon-loving fools and we will crush the Samurai and you will install me as your beloved leader, Ak—Ooo.
I meant, (ahem) Askia. That’s what I mean. **Askia. **
When I was in college, Tiny Toons & Animaniacs were on the air.
Now, Justice League (if I remember it) and Kim Possible.
The box set for the first season of Batman: The Animated Series is out. Four discs, including commentary tracks for “On Leather Wings” and “Heart of Ice” (yes!), and a nice mini-documentary on the making of B:TAS.
I don’t have a TV in my house, but when on holiday for a week I was fortunate enough to see an entire day of the Powerpuff Girls, having never seen it before. It’s testement to the sheer amount of more ‘adult’ humour in there that I wasn’t bored of it for about 6 hours 
Askia - I agree, there is much to love about Samurai Jack. I love the - what would it be called in a cartoon - the editing? The use of split screen to propel the narrative forward, combined with slo-mo and other tropes gleaned from classic genre movies. (heh, not often I get to focus on gleaned tropes, I must say…)
What leaves me a little indifferent to it, however, is the basic premise - no matter what, it comes down to: Jack got sent to the future and every episode is either him trying to get back and getting thwarted (he can’t return or the series would end - the same frustrating premise that doomed Star Trek: Voyager) or a diversion away from the main premise, which may be fun or interesting, but is ultimately unsatisfying because it is just a diversion.
What I like about Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Lab is that they are based on a sit-com premise - here are the characters and their situation. If you like the characters, you can take them anywhere plot-wise. With Samurai Jack, he has to move the plot forward in one direction…and it is a direction that is very difficult to sustain over more than a few episodes. I would’ve much preferred to see it in a movie or mini-series length show, where the final resolution could be reached in a reasonable amount of time.
I also like Time Squad. Buck Tudrussel and Larry are my favorite robosexual couple.
Marc
I lie Samuri Jack (I don’t watch it as often as I should, I admit) but, IMO, it’s not a “children’s cartoon,” it definetly seems like the made it for adults who wanted more of an actual story-line, good voice acting, editing, etc…but also wanted it animated as oppossed to an hour-long typical TV drama ala Angel or the like.
Jeez. Buncha freaks! Y’almost put me to shame.
There isn’t much left for me to add. My favorite show to air on the Cartoon Network, though, is probably Sheep in the Big City. The show seems like it was made for me - the horrible puns, the incoherent silliness. I wish it had lasted longer. Should I be ashamed? Maybe.
Am I alone?