'Nother vote for REAL Ghostbusters and Chip’n’Dale.
The former, because it was a great show (It had J. Michael-friggin-Straczynski as a writer! And it actually had an episode where they EXPLAINED Janine’s design changes!), and the latter…well, maybe Rescue Rangers wasn’t the best series ever made…Or always the best animated. Or written. Or acted… But damnit, it had Gadget Hackwrench, and that’s good enough for me!
Dangit…Almost forgot to mention The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. God, that show was magnificent. Still is.
Well only one full episode aired in the 80s, and I seriously doubt anybody could call the shorts the greatest cartoon of the 80s…
Not one mention of MASK? That show kicks the Transformers ass, and also had the best toys of the 80s!
My picks:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (what MMPR was to the 90s and what Pokemon is to this decade)
Duck Tales
MASK
David the Gnome
The Smurfs (watch it again as an adult, and you’ll get a whole new appreciation for this show…and be sure to see the Robot Chicken spoof)
I never liked Danger Mouse as a kid, and my roommate rented the DVDs last month and it still doesn’t hold up. It also has the worst theme song I’ve ever heard.
The best cartoon of the 80’s was, is, and for ever shall be, Trans-fuckin’-formers. Unfortunately, the crapfest calling itself Transformers these days doesn’t deserve to hold the Matrix of Leadership. But, the original Transformers gave us one of the best spin-offs ever, Beast Wars. It started off a little rocky, but eventually turned out to be a very well written (and vouice-acted) series. But, it’s spin-off/sequel, Beast Machines was another crapfest.
And why the lack of love for The Super Mario Brothers Super Show? I mean…on Fridays, they would show a Legend of Zelda cartoon!
for whatever reason i never actually saw Beast Wars, but i’ve heard it rocked balls. Optimus Primal is a great spin off name.
another fuckup in transformers is when they created the Headmasters and Targetmasters…really screwed up w/ that one. Also i would have to say that in the beginning Devastator (made of 5 Constructicons) rocked testes, but then it got out of hand w/ every other robot and his mother joined up to become some bigger mother robot and they would all talk like cavemen and lumber around. Predaking was cool after that but it started to get too crazy. They should’ve left the 5 in 1 robot thing to Lion Voltron. Red Lion ruled. I had that toy too, the 9 yards, could shoot it’s head off, missiles, etc etc…
Yeah, most of the post-movie episodes were no good (“Carnage in C-Minor”, anyone?) Predaking was ok, but my favorite combiners were the Technobots, if for no other reason that they were built to be smart.
But the king of all the “large robots” was Omega Supreme.
So you prefer an even crappier animated, crappier scripted, rip-off than the original? Oooookay.
Although, I looked up Gobots on IMDB…and Phil Hartman was one of the voice actors?! :eek:
So I guess Gobots had one thing going for them. But, Transformers (the movie, anyway) had Frank Welker, Judd Nelson, Eric Idle, Scatman Crothers, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, Leonard Nemoy, and Orson fucking Welles. Even the series still had Scatman (heh), Kasem, Rob Paulson and Frank Welker (both big in the voice acting biz.)
See, I am all ABOUT Crap! If it’s schlock, I’m all OVER it! My middle name is Mediocre! Actually it’s Dawn, but that wasn’t working in the context of this post.
ANYWAY, I don’t know why, the Transformers seemed more of a “guy” thing and as I was a chick, I could get behind the less tough and more girly Gobots.
Now who was it that brought up C.O.P.S.? I had totally forgot about that show - I miss that one too!
While I’m here, there was another short-lived sci-fi animated series I liked from around that time. I believe the lead character was named Jason, and that the ship they flew on was modeled on some type of Galleon (Jason wasn’t the captain, though). Any help?
Totally. I was a bit off on Beast Wars in the beginning, but by the end of the first season, they were hitting their stride. The second and third seasons, though, blow the doors off anything the original G1 show did, especially the second-season cliffhanger. Go buy the DVD boxed sets already.
The cheap-ass animation killed it. You know they were scrimping on money when each episode ended with a two-minute “filler” that could be recycled, to save the money from producing two more minutes per episode.
“Only Human,” yeah. One of the few third-season high points.
“They just don’t make terrorists like they used to…”
That’s exactly why. The Mario cartoons were crap, and everybody I knew only tuned in on Fridays for the Zelda cartoons which were 100 times better. Strangely, the best episodes of Captain N (which began in 1990) were the Zelda related episodes…including an episode where Link went with them to Final Fantasy world (they cut the scene where he found his tombstone in Elfland)
Plus Princess Zelda still holds the title as hottest cartoon character ever. I briefly dated a girl who looked a lot like her, and my dream was making it to Halloween so we could dress up as Link and Zelda…didn’t work out that way though.
