# What is your All Time Favorite Cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556 "2019-12-29T18:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/61 "2019-12-30T19:57:00Z")
Seen so many in my years, love all the ones recommended to date. Here are a few more that stuck with the: Popeye in "_ **A Clean Shaven Man** _, where Popeye and Bluto give each other a shave to impress Olive. In the WB universe, let me add “_ **Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century** _” for having Porky Pig playing against type with Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck. For series episodes, my two favorite programs are Johnny Quest and Samurai Jack. For both of them there are many episodes I remember fondly, but _ **"The Invisible Monster"** _ scared the hell out of a 7-yr old me first time I saw it, and _ **"Jack and the Three Blind Archers"** _, only the 7th episode of the series, told me that I had something special here. Hope more memories are added. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/62 "2019-12-30T20:59:33Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > Am I the only person who’d choose a **Tom and Jerry** episode? I’ll come back with a specific example once I’ve had a chance to do some “research”. Nope! I love the hunting trilogy that **CalMeacham** references - they are each a masterpiece. But equally brilliant are a lot of Tom and Jerry cartoons. I think that _[Mouse Trouble](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3imrt9)_ is a definitive T&J, and it has the added bonus that Tom’s grievous injuries stay with him through the length of the cartoon. No mysteriously re-attaching tails! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/63 "2019-12-30T21:16:19Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > [Knighty Knight Bugs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knighty_Knight_Bugs) > > Has the “Whoa dragon” scene. Just found out it was the only Bugs cartoon to win an Oscar. > > Also this one, with “Whoa camel.” [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2y90](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2y90) It always amused me that, no matter what animal he was riding, horse, camel, elephant, dragon, he always spurred it on with “Ya, mule! Ya, mule!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/64 "2019-12-30T21:25:23Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > In the WB universe, let me add “_ **Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century** _” for having Porky Pig playing against type with Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck. > > . I love the two Chuck Jones Duck Dodgers cartoons (they traditionally play the first one at the start of each Boston 24 hour Science Fiction Film Marathon at the Somerville Theater), but I also like the series they made of it that ran 2003-2005 on Cartoon Network, and carried on and expanded the idea. That cartoon provided one of the few genuine laughs I had from a cartoon in years. Porky Pig (as Cadet to Duck Dodgers getting into spaceship): Use the Force, sir. Duck Dodgers: Thanks, but I think I’ll use this expensive Targeting Computer I’ve got here. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/65 "2019-12-30T21:28:11Z")
Oh ghod-You just reminded me of the Duck Dodgers episode where he acquires a Green Lantern ring. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/66 "2019-12-30T22:39:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You should write a column/blog about cartoons. I just can’t remain silent. I have to agree. If you are not writing about cartoons, then you really should write about something. You just have too much knowledge to keep it to yourself. Ever hear the expression, “Do not hide your light under a bushel?” Ummm … Whoever originally said that said it a lot better than I did. That is why you should be the one writing a blog or something and not me. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/67 "2019-12-30T22:44:52Z")
Mighty Heroes Rocky and Bullwinkle No luck finding any full [Aqua Teen Hunger Force](https://youtu.be/ZRtM4EFkxz8?t=142) episodes on youtube.☹ ---
**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:** [December 31, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/68 "2019-12-31T02:08:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > No luck finding any full [Aqua Teen Hunger Force](https://youtu.be/ZRtM4EFkxz8?t=142) episodes on youtube.☹ Yeah! “Hand-Banana”. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/69 "2019-12-31T02:29:12Z")
[Itchy And Scratchy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHRiALj8O34) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/70 "2019-12-31T03:15:08Z")
The Beavis and Butt-Head where Beavis dreams he dies and meets St. Peter is excellent. Beavis: What do you know, asswipe? St. Peter: Everything, Buttmunch. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/71 "2019-12-31T03:31:54Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Popeye in "_ **A Clean Shaven Man** _, where Popeye and Bluto give each other a shave to impress Olive. I suppose it’s just as well she didn’t express a preference for circumcised men. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/72 "2019-12-31T08:30:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah! “Hand-Banana”. Yes, that was a good one, if a little eye-opening some moments. Snippets from some really fine episodes: [Horror Santa in T-Shirt of the Dead](https://youtu.be/A_6l-WiwDdI?t=54) [Ol Drippy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGFtKltdjc) [Larry Miller Hair System For Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLl8WJu6Tg&list=PLE8F688138BC6DA99) [Carl, Environmentalist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GHQ146jcHc) [Oog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokr2i-BQHk) I can’t think of a more fucked-up-on-drugs regular cartoon than [Xavier: Renegade Angel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgUYAxIs_M) Consume a bit before that one. (can’t remember if this one’s been mentioned yet) My favourite Warner Bros might have to be Bob Clampett’s 1944 [Gremlins From the Kremlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTjrN9_awn8) Cool [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Rhapsody_(film)) info: > [@](#): > > Many of the gremlins are caricatures of the Warner Bros. animation department staff. The style is reminiscent of a 1936 Christmas card showcasing the staff as drawn by T. Hee. Among the recognizable gremlins are Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Melvin Millar, Michael Sasanoff, Leon Schlesinger (who is shown tapping the heads off of rivets with a hammer as he’s being raised by a rope), Michael Maltese, Carl Stalling, Henry Binder and Ray Katz. Freleng and Binder are also referenced during Hitler’s fake German rant at the beginning of the cartoon. What’s Cookin’ Doc? (also directed by Bob Clampett) is referenced as well. ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/73 "2019-12-31T12:49:11Z")
Maybe you should’ve used the term “theatrical short”, but whatever… The first short that comes to mind is “[Mickey’s Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ElwmWoqmg&t=214s),” but maybe I could come up with another if given time… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/74 "2019-12-31T13:06:01Z")
[Merrie Melodies “Claws for Alarm”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVYWABgdKWw) One of at least two WB shorts involving Porky and Sylvester spending the night in a house “haunted” by mice where Porky is oblivious and Sylvester spends all night saving Porky’s life (the other that I know of is “Scaredy Cat”). Anyways, the ending with Porky bashed on the head while singing “Home on the Range” and getting “stuck” on the line cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/75 "2019-12-31T14:23:38Z")
My favorite childhood cartoon, The Beany and Cecil Show. Episode title: Cecil Meets the Singing Dinosaur. The gang sails off to the [No Bikini Atoll.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88QOmxSa-IE) ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/76 "2019-12-31T16:50:32Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I don’t think I can pick one favorite, any more than I could pick a favorite food. > > I had a college professor who chose _Duck Amuck_ as the perfect example of existentialism. Almost all of the early Coyote vs. Roadrunner are as classical examples of Greek tragedy as can be found - the doomed hero failing again and again in an uncaring universe, and the catharsis we feel from identifying with him. > > But as pure cartoon, nothing beats _Hillbilly Hare_. It has all the necessary elements of the perfect Bugs Bunny cartoon - the innocent Bugs being attacked, his ultimate triumph, and especially the inescapable internal logic of the plot. It’s Bugs - of course he can tie a shotgun barrel into a bow, and of course he can dress up as a woman and have the hill billies fall in love with him instantly. And then the perfect moment, when Bugs doffs the women’s outfit, picks up a magically available violin and slouch hat, kicks the plug from the juke box, and takes over their reality with perfectly rhymed and metered song when he becomes the square dance caller. Bugs struggles, and then ultimately is master of the situation, and justice is restored to the universe. > > I can sing most of the song by heart - > > _Whirl, whirl, twist and twirl, > Jump around like a flying squirrel, > Now don’t you cuss and don’t you swear > Come right out and form a square_ > > As they are spit out of the hay baler that the song morally compelled them to jump into. > > Struggle, dominance, and ultimate triumph. There is hope for the universe, because justice has prevailed. > > Regards, > Shodan Holy Crap, **Shodan**! I was just about to post a description of this cartoon (along with the square dance sequence lyrics) asking someone to identify it. You beat me to it. This is indeed my favorite. “Grab a fence post, hold it tight…” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/77 "2019-12-31T17:10:18Z")
For those who care to see all the lyrics, they are [here:](https://www.gugalyrics.com/lyrics-1582160/bugs-bunny-hillbilly-hare-square-dance.html) Just a couple of my favorite verses to stay within fair use: > [@](#): > > Grab a fence post, hold it tight, > Whomp your partner with all your might! > Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head, > Hit him again, the critter ain’t dead. > > Whomp him low and whomp him high, > Stick your finger in his eye! > Pretty little rhythm, pretty little sound, > Bang your heads against the ground! ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/78 "2019-12-31T19:08:24Z")
Now into the brook and fish for the trout, dive right in and splash about. Trout, trout, pretty little trout, one more splash and come right out. But my favorite short is, as it is for many others, **Duck Amuck**. ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/79 "2020-01-01T21:29:25Z")
South Park ---
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> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > South Park Which episode in particular? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556.md?page=5)