# What Happened To Your Favorite Cartoons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468 "2003-07-28T17:33:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/41 "2003-07-30T18:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nevermore \* > \*\*Pink Panther, was that Hanna-Barbera? \*\* Nope, that cartoon was produced by [DePatie-Freleng Enterprises](http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Other_Studios/D/DePatie-Freleng_Enterprises/Pink_Panther/more4.html). David DePatie and Friz Freleng were also responsible for [The Ant and the Aardvark](http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Other_Studios/D/DePatie-Freleng_Enterprises/The_Ant_and_the_Aardvark/index.html) , [Here Comes the Grump](http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Other_Studios/D/DePatie-Freleng_Enterprises/Here_Comes_the_Grump/index.html) , and many other animated series. **Ferris** , the canine you’re thinking of is [Hong Kong Phooey](http://www.dfcom.freeserve.co.uk/hbw/hongkong/), as voiced by the immortal Scatman Crothers. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/42 "2003-07-30T19:19:14Z")
Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer… ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/43 "2003-07-30T22:00:07Z")
Actually, before CG got totally pissed off at our satellite company, I had Boomerang. Now we just have plain old cable and our cable company doesn’t get it. Dammit.☹ I want my Thundarr and old eps of PIrates of Dark Water back. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![toofargone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@toofargone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofargone)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/44 "2003-07-31T01:32:55Z")
I liked Black Star, and for some reason I can’t remember now Thundar the Barbarian. Loved the transformers and Buggs Bunny. There was one about earth being invaded and I can’t remember what else. Would know the name if I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/45 "2003-07-31T01:59:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exapno Mapcase \* > \*\*Does no one remember Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog and the villain Crabby Appleton (Crabby Appleton! Rotten to the core!) who appeared on Captain Kangaroo in the 1950s? > > No one? \*\* You betcha. Good stuff. Popeye, Roadrunner, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Pixie & Dixie (Jinx: I hate those mieces to pieces!"), all the Merrie Melodies, the Flintstones (Wilma!!!), Johnny Quest (big fan when I was a kid), Mighty Mouse, Moose & Squirrel, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Hercules…\ ---
**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/46 "2003-07-31T03:31:22Z")
The real problem with this thread is that the old time cartoons don’t get a fair chance. Sure, kids today can see Bugs Bunny, but only in a mutilated form. All the hacking and gluing together that has been done just KILL the episodes. As was said earlier- no swallowing earthquake pills, no guns blowing up in faces, etc. In addition, many very funny episodes (that carry with them a tremendous amount of cultural history) are never seen for reasons of having been deemed too offensive. Wouldn’t it help kids to understand the history of race relations in the US to know that as recenty as 40 or 50 years ago it was considered socially appropriate to laugh at sterotypes? Whoop. Looks like the “Soapbox Lock” key was pressed down. Back to cartoons. Bug and friends (non-mutilated) Rocky and Bullwinkle and Company Simpsons And amongst the modern lesson learning cartoons… Recess and Arthur are both not too bad. How anyone can stand horribly drawn garbage like Dexter’s lab is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Shemem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Shemem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shemem)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/47 "2003-07-31T04:22:04Z")
Anybody seen Galaxy High in, oh the last 17 or so years? That was one I enjoyed of a Saturday morning. As an aside, anyone remember the name of a cartoon that I think was on Nickelodeon and I’m pretty sure was anime-style about a girl I think was called Honey-Honey who was raised by bees and was constantly on the run from some princess/rich lady who wanted to kill Honey-Honey’s cat, if I rememeber right because it had eaten a fish that had swallowed a ring or somesuch that belonged to her? I’m thinking it was on during the era of those other strange cartoons, _Belle and Sebastian_ and _The Cities of Gold_. I can still sing the theme song from _The Cities of Gold_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468/48 "2003-07-31T05:54:56Z")
I really liked _Sonic the Hedgehog_…the version that ran on ABC, not the other ones. As far as I know, it died peacefully in it’s sleep, of low ratings. But it at least lasted long enough to bring the story-arc to a satisfying conclusion. In more recent years, _Cybersix_ really piqued my interest. Alas, fox chose to sucker punch it from their lineup, two episodes before the end of the season. It was replaced by anime battlingseizurerobots, I believe. Ditto for _Escaflowne_, during it’s brief run. I even thought the new theme song was kinda catchy, if still no substitute for the original. Least favorite? Well, let me put it this way…when the networks start a new “season” of programming in the fall, not all of the new series’ “make it.” About half of the new shows are decent, watchable, and well written. 80% of these _good_ shows are cancelled within the season, 60% of them after being shuffled around the schedule for weeks to shake the remaining audience off. The other half of the new shows are circuses. As in, “Bread and Circuses.” Mindless fighting or “game dueling” shows, which are mostly cheap Japanese imports; movie and product tie-in shows; and other mindless fluff. All in all, 40-70% of all new shows don’t make it. Most of the survivors are the fighting/product tie-ins. There are more and more of these each year, the “900-pound gorillas” from previous seasons, and the soon to be “900-pound gorillas.” Soon, there will be nothing left _but_ these shows. And when a major economic downturn hits, they’ll be dropped like the unprofitable albatrosses that they are, and they’ll take saturday mornings with them. But worse than death, grim plague, hunger’s woe, or low-budget anime glutted schedules, are those poor pillaged networks who’s _entire_ fall lineup fails. Then, we get 10 year old reruns of cartoons that didn’t sell in syndication. All the way till fall. That…and _Recess_. That damned show just won’t _die_, and they haven’t made a new episode in _two frigging years._ We get _Recess_ and _Lizzie McGuire_ on ABC, reruns on Fox, and the WB shows nothing but “Yu-gi-oh.” And don’t get me _started_ on sports preemptions. _Those_ make me want to burn Cooperstown to the ground. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-your-favorite-cartoons/191468.md?page=2)