# What was your childhood cartoon identity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [June 1, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504 "2022-06-01T13:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/61 "2022-06-02T23:44:40Z")
> [@Pazu](#): > > I remember liking some of the early Filmation cartoons like _Journey to the Center of the Earth_ and _Fantastic Voyage_ (does anyone else remember those?) I was also a fan of the Hanna-Barbera _Godzilla_ . However, my absolute favorites were early anime translations like _Battle of the Planets_ and _Starblazers_ , possibly because of having had access to un-translated anime like _Raideen_ and _Dai Apollon_ on local channel 44 in Palo Alto when I was very young. Sure, I remember the “brute-like servant Torg” - “Guru, Master of Strange Ways,” and “Keyop, who can only speak in clicks and whirrs” ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/62 "2022-06-03T00:02:25Z")
Chumley: “uhh Tennessee how we gonna get outta here???” TN’esse Tuxedo replies: “We will build a catapult !!” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/63 "2022-06-03T00:09:03Z")
The Merrie Melodies! “I’m wearin’ my green fedora, fedora, fedora, Not for Alice or for Annie but for Dora…” “It’s as easy as falling off a log…” “I wanna singa about the moon-a, and the June-a, and the…” ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/64 "2022-06-03T19:11:31Z")
When I was a teenager, I watched Starblazers and my all-time favorite, M.A.S.K. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/o2Z1yLO9C-Q/maxresdefault.jpg "M.A.S.K. (1985) Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Z1yLO9C-Q) But when I was younger, mostly H-B, including Banana Splits, which wasn’t a cartoon. I was recently talking to my husband, and he had never seen Captain Caveman, even though he’s just 2 years older than me. Loved Dastardly and Muttley, Flintstones, Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, Quick Draw McGraw, Scooby-Doo, Secret Squirrel and Yogi Bear. And Captain Caveman, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/65 "2022-06-03T21:53:39Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > But when I was younger, mostly H-B, including Banana Splits, which wasn’t a cartoon. _The Banana Splits_ was the first TV show that was my “favorite,” when I was 3 or 4 years old. I even had my parents mail away for a membership for me in the Banana Splits Fan Club. And, then, decades later, I watched an episode or two of the show as an adult. Ohhh, my, it was so very bad. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/66 "2022-06-04T16:53:01Z")
Have you seen the new Banana Splits movie? It’s pretty terrible, but I liked how they updated the Splits to make them into a kind of Five Nights at Freddy’s horrorshow. The movie is surprisingly gory. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/67 "2022-06-04T16:55:26Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Have you seen the new Banana Splits movie? Nope. Once I heard that it was a horror movie, I had no interest in watching it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/68 "2022-06-04T17:02:46Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Have you seen the new Banana Splits movie? It’s pretty terrible, but I liked how they updated the Splits to make them into a kind of Five Nights at Freddy’s horrorshow. The movie is surprisingly gory. I second this review. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/69 "2022-06-09T02:55:17Z")
Hanna-Barbera made many of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. As a young adult I found a book in the library with all their cartoons through the years and quickly saw a whole bunch of their shows had the repeated formula of a group of boys/girls with an animal mascot who solved crimes. Found this interesting YT that touches on it: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W6e1jBCn2k0/maxresdefault.jpg "How Hanna-Barbera Exploited The Scooby Doo Formula") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6e1jBCn2k0) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/70 "2022-06-09T03:59:27Z")
Trivia: Don Adams modeled Tennessee Tuxedo’s voice on William Powell (a detail that may intrude the next time you watch a Thin Man movie), and Howard Stern’s father was the show’s sound engineer. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-childhood-cartoon-identity/965504/71 "2022-06-09T05:22:13Z")
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