Let’s not forget the classic Freakazoid!! I also used to love Hysteria. Any show with a character named Big Fat Baby can’t be all bad.
Marc
*"Get set, get ready,
Here come Ruff and Reddy.
They’re tough, but steady,
Always rough and ready.
…"*
frickin’ young punks.
Cartoon Network airs an hour of Looney Tunes every Saturday morning at 8:00 AM in my time zone (mountain). Check the website for more schedule information. If you get Boomerang they air half-hour segments each weeknight (except Friday) at 8:00 PM mountain. They also sometimes air segments on Saturdays. The times vary from week to week.
You guys watch “Big” Kid shows. I have a 4 year old and a 20 month old, therefore I watch “Little” Kid shows.
Here are the ones we watch, ranked in order from favorite to least favorite:
***Jo Jo’s Circus
Seasame Street
Bear in the Big Blue House
Stanley
The Koala Brothers
Madeline
Broom!
Between the Lions
In the Box
Teletubbies *
Barney ****
- As soon as our kids are older, we are going to burn every single tape we have of these, and flush the ashes down the toilet! We then will never speak these words again. NEVER!!
I love the editing and storyboarding, too. It’s what first drew me into watching. Its premise is one of the reasons I do see it as a children’s cartoon. Its basic premise is so freaking simple… “I want to go home.” Which was also the basic premise of such TV shows as Land of the Lost, the Incredible Hulk, Gilligan’s Island. My kindergarten students love it. Children, or at least children of my generation (I’m 34), would tune in to see what would happen next week after week, year after year.
There’s an observation by author/illustrator Scott McCloud in his cartoon illustrated book Understanding Comics that Americans don’t like stories that meander much – we’re pretty goal oriented in our storytelling expectations. But what makes the narrative tradition different in classic European odysseys, Japanese epics and African and Middle Eastern oral folklore are those inimitable occurances that happen during the journey. What you call ‘diversions’ I call part of the journey home.
I’ve seen all 48 episodes to date, and Jack’s final four episodes are set to air this September. So maybe you can tune back in, knowing that the premise will finally be resolved. Embrace the diversions-- they’re just the experiences we all have as we journey to the end of our own stories.
It is still the best cartoon series ever done!
I love most cartoons.
Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Dragonball, Dragonball Z, the Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, lots of Anime, Family Guy, Sealab 2021, the Brak Show, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Tiny Toon Adventures, Freakazoid, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Dangermouse, Duckula, Fairly Oddparents, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Jimmy Neutron, any Looney Tunes, the revitalized He-Man, original GI Joe and Transformers, Justice League, Teen Titans … any of the superhero WB shows, really… and the short-lived but brilliant Earthworm Jim.
That said, I can’t stand King of the Hill or Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and will change the channel to avoid watching them.
Lessee… Spongebob, mostly. Also Ed, Edd & Eddy, Cow & Chicken and I.M. Weasel. If there’s nothing else on and nothing else to do, I’ll watch Cartoon Network by default unless Dragon Ball Z, GT, or any form of Gundam or Scooby-Doo is on. I’ll watch Dragon Ball, because A) fights are, at most, three episodes long and B) It’s fun to look for things they censored for the American audience.
Oh, and of course all the old-school Warner Bros. and Disney cartoons.
Practically the only thing I watch is cartoons and old movies on TCM.
For those of you who miss Nickelodeon’s Angry Beavers and Rocko’s Modern life (two of my favorites), you can find them on the new Nicktoons cable channel, along with other faves like Invader Zim, Aaaaaagh Real Monsters, and Animaniacs.
I wish Cartoon Network would bring back Cow and Chicken. That’s still one of my favorites. Well, actually, any cartoon with Charlie Adler’s voice talents are my favorites. heh
Hi all,
I got a 2 year old(will be 3 Sept. 11th) and it is the greatest reason for getting away with watching cartoons. My wife and I can name what Sponge Bob episode it is with in the first minute. My daughter loves everything from SB to All Grown up to Rocket Power and everything in between. Yay Nickelodeon(and Nick2 that runs three hours behind Nick). I have probably seen every Jimmy Neutron and Fairly Odd Parents episode that is out there. My wife loves Cosmo and as a doll sitting on top of her monitor. I am big into anime and everyone asks why I like cartoons. I explain that anime is like American movies, in that, there is everything for everyone. Drama, Sci-fi, kids shows, etc… I am also keen on Max and Ruby, I used to have an albino rabbit.
Heh I am such a fan of anime I have had ANIME for my license plate the last 7 years. Anime is not just an obsession… it is a way of life! 
CandidGamera, I forgot about Earthworm Jim! Eddie and his interpretive dances! Opposite Jim and the edge of the universe which is actually just a snowglobe! Awesome!
I also like Samurai Jack, but I’m too poor to afford the DVD that just came out 
. I guess I’ll throw that on the list along with the new Adult Swim DVDs and the LoTR set.
I still have a fondess for Loony Tunes, Scooby Doo, Ren and Stimpy(the original, not that crappy remake SPIKE did), Animanaics. I also had quite a fondness for Batman: the animated series.
Recently a friend let me borrow her Invader Zim DVD. Unfortunatly, then I became hooked on it and ended up downloading all the remaining episodes so I could get more. The only one I haven’t seen in Gameslave 2.
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I would dearly love to know which things were changed/censored in anime for American audiences. An ex-boyfriend told me of a few changes made in Sailor Moon, but that’s all I know.
Harimad-sol: In Cartoon Network’s version of Dragon Ball, there are some things wihich are very obviously changed. Look for objects covering naughty bits that look superimposed. Also, in the Fortuneteller Baba storyline, Goku has to fight a mummy in the “Devil’s Cauldron”. But what kind of cauldron has a toilet paper roll holder mounted on the side? Keep an eye out for it, it’s not easy to miss.
Ah, thanks. I remember the Devil’s Cauldron, though. My cousin said, “I don’t think that’s really a cauldron.” Ya think?
I’m 18 and watch Recess, and it seems weirdly enough to be the most entertaining program on my TV at times.
I love South Park, Family Guy, and The Simpsons, but I don’t consider any of them “children’s cartoons.”
I didn’t care for the first season of Justice League at all, but I’m enjoying Justice League Unlimited so far. Batman: The Animated Series was brilliant, of course. Most of the cartoons I loved as a kid seem unwatchable today: Super Friends, G.I. Joe, Transformers (except the wonderful movie), Voltron, Robotech.
Other than that, I have no patience for most of the original Cartoon Network programming (lots of ugly animation, like Ed, Edd, and Eddy), I think the Adult Swim stuff is made for a college/hipster/stoner demographic that I’m just not part of, most anime leaves me cold, and Disney and Nickelodeon are two channels I have absolutely no use for.
Ah, yes, Samurai Jack. In my opinion, it’s television’s version of Fantasia - visually stunning, dramatically boring. Word Man pretty well pegged the central flaw of Gilligan’s syndrome (Oh, no! He didn’t go back in time! Again!), but there are a few issues I’d like to mention.
For an action story, SJ spends a lot of time repeating the same activity. There’ve been too many episodes where Jack faces off against the Usual Robot Army just as I flip over to the Weather Channel to catch the Local on the Eight. And nine minutes later, after I got in at the Nine and had to sit through tractor ads and the extended outlook for the Middle East to find out if it’ll rain tomorrow, I turn back to CN and Jack’s still slicing the same robots in half. And he’ll keep with that battle until about four minutes before the credits roll. Only then will he learn that villagers have reprogrammed the robots to fight Aku, or get captured and escape down a sheer rockface, or hop on his bike and make a getaway. Until the four-minute mark, he’ll always be chopping those same robots in half. This is the only time the story ever twists in an SJ ep, whereas two or three things should have happened to keep the story off balance. Result: no tension, ennui aplenty. I should not be able to take a potty break in the middle of an action show knowing full well that I won’t miss anything as long as I’m back by 7:26.
Then there’s Aku. He’s not a good villain. He’s not at all frightening; instead, he’s a silly blowhard, more like Mojo Jojo than anything else. He has no motivation to speak of, no lost love or male pattern baldness that pushed him over the edge. And he’s very accessible for the ultimate evil. Anyone can breeze right into his lair without being stopped by so much as a secretary, much less an army of deranged killer minions.
And since Aku’s open-door policy means he’s not an unattainable goal, more often than not Jack briefly faces off with him at the end of the episode. That’s when Gilligan’s syndrome kicks into high gear. Jack must be stronger, so he overpowers Aku no sweat and has him at his mercy. But the show can’t end yet, so Jack must be stopped, usually by a sneak attack from the rear. (For a guy who can dice up robots flying in from all directions for seemingly hours on end, Jack is darned susceptible to a rabbit punch.) But Aku can’t win AND the show can’t end, so instead of dispensing with his opponent while he’s helpless, Aku wanders off jabbering like an idiot. Cue credits and horrible theme song.
And then there’s the chicken episode. I watched that and wanted to throw something hard at the TV afterwards. I mean, what the hell? He’s a supertough chicken with all his mad samurai skills, and he can’t peck the Italian lardo’s eye out? And he’s going to eat the shrimp and risk Coily the Spring Sprite making him eat manure at the bottom of the bay until a crustacean-hating fight promoter happens along to diss him? Come on.
Samurai Jack is an important show for the future of how TV action cartoons look, and a very pretty one. But the structure doesn’t advance much beyond the typical stoic swordsman fighting a mostly faceless evil. For a great action show, you watch Paul Dini and Bruce Timm shows, like Superman and the various versions of Batman. These have deeper character insights and more varied action. SJ’s good but doesn’t measure up to them well.
I’m being facetious. Action shows aren’t usually my cup of tea, nor are they for many others, and this page is just listing silly stuff you like to watch. SJ is nice, but I only watch it when I want to watch TV and nothing else is on. It’s likable enough, but not a show I love.
I forgot GI Joe. I even watched the animated movie they made 10 years back, even it if was rather wierd.
I still have about 20 toys, but stopped collecting once they stopped with the cool designs, instead deciding to focus on cannons that fire plastic missiles and little sound effect boxes. Sigh And I never did get the huge mobile command post with the artillery piece in the middle.
G.I. Joe: The Movie is from 1987!
And if you’re interested in buying more toys, check the buy/sell/trade forum on http://www.yojoe.com . Then there’s always eBay for good deals, and I’m selling most of my G.I. Joe collection as well (check my sig if you wish)!