# What Was Your Favourite Cartoons As A Child? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107 "2011-04-12T16:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 12, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/21 "2011-04-12T20:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Bugs and his Looney Tunes cohorts were it for me; everything else was a distant second. (for a point of reference, I’m 40 years old). This. Except that I’m 42. Some of the also-rans were Scooby-Doo, but only the first season or two, which focused on scares and not stupid sidekicks. The Pink Panther. Tom and Jerry. As an older kid/adult, I really like Rocky & Bullwinkle. I even liked the movie! ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/22 "2011-04-12T20:13:31Z")
The Muppet Babies were at the top. When I was a kid, I remember thinking that the best cartoons were on ABC, followed by CBS and then NBC. Looking at some random Saturday morning lineups from the 80s, though, I don’t know why I thought this. Other than Bugs Bunny, Laff-A-Lympics and the Real Ghostbusters (all ABC), I think anything that I’d want to watch now would have been on CBS. EDIT: I’m 32, to give a frame of reference. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/23 "2011-04-12T20:17:42Z")
[“There’s No Such Thing as a Sea Serpent”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPVi7LEtfM) from Beany and Cecil. To me, this was the greatest ever. ---
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I always watched the \*Magilla Gorilla \*show after school at maybe 8-10 years old. This included the titular shorts, as well as _Peter Potamus_; _Mushmouse & Punkinpuss_; _Breezley & Sneezely_; _Yippie, Yappie, & Yahooie_; and some others. I recall being quite fond of them, but looking back they weren’t really all that good. \*Speed Racer \*was also a favorite. I got into Jay Ward when I got older. ---
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> [@mlauzon](#): > > As the title says, what cartoons did you really enjoy as a child?! I have a tonne, but didn’t really know about Saturday morning cartoons until the fall of '83; the only cartoons I knew of previous to that – and happened to be my favourite at the – time were: > > The various holiday specials > Rocket Robin Hood > Hercules > Spider-Man > The Flintstones > > And then in '83 I was introduced to Saturday mornings, ah the '80s when toy commercials lasted 30 minutes. 😛 I must have had a very similar (obviously Canadian) childhood. But although I watched gobs and gobs of RRH and Mighty Hercules, that doesn’t mean that they were great (then or now). The rare occasion that I got to see “Super Friends” or something like that was like a trip to paradise. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/26 "2011-04-12T21:39:14Z")
Scooby Doo Fat Albert The Roadrunner Flinstones Jetsons ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/27 "2011-04-12T22:19:22Z")
_Star Blazers_, on TBS. ---
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Looney Tunes (esp. Road Runner & Coyote) Voltron Robotech (esp. Macross Saga) Jetsons Inspector Gadget Snorks ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/29 "2011-04-12T22:46:41Z")
Bugs Bunny Jonny Quest Scooby Doo ---
**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:** [April 12, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/30 "2011-04-12T23:23:09Z")
Speed Racer Kimba the White Lion Pink Panther ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/31 "2011-04-12T23:25:28Z")
Bugs Bunny, et. al. Rocky & Bullwinkle, et. al. Underdog Mighty Mouse Pink Panther Flintstones Jetsons Not much love in the thread for Disney cartoons. I guess because they weren’t on Saturday morning TV. When my daughter was a tyke and VCR rentals were in vogue, we’d rent tons of old Disney compilations which I’m sure **she** would list as her childhood favorites even though they were made even before **my** childhood. She grew up with afternoon episodes of Goof Troop, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Rescue Rangers, etc. but enjoyed the old Micky and Donald and Goofy and Pluto shorts. They aren’t particularly edgy (yeah, like kids care :rolleyes:) but are well-drawn, richly colored, scored by pros, and still enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/32 "2011-04-12T23:37:24Z")
When I was very young, Voltron. As I got a bit older, the Disney Afternoon (Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Tail Spin, etc.), and Animaniacs. I also liked the Transformers and the Go-Bots, but hardly ever watched them… I think they must have been on before I got home from school, or something. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/33 "2011-04-13T00:24:00Z")
As a wee little kid: Muppet Babies The Littles Garfield Scooby Doo Thunder Cats & He Man (though mostly because boys I was friends with liked them) As an older kid-young teen: Animaniacs Tiny Toons Rocko’s Modern Life Daria Darkwing Duck ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/34 "2011-04-13T00:26:12Z")
Looney Tunes, Bullwinkle, Archie, Fat Albert The worst were the Bozo cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107/35 "2011-04-13T05:51:37Z")
35 posts in and I’m the first one to mention the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You people sicken me! :mad: Lol, but seriously, in descending order from best to less best: -TMNT -Muppet Babies -Astro Boy (To think I used to get up at 6AM EVERY MORNING to watch this one…) -Darkwing Duck -Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers -Duck Tales -Disney and Warner Brothers Fare Older Childhood: -Beast Wars -Beavis and Butthead (age 10 onwards) -Duckman -Sailor Moon -The Simpsons -Doug -Rocko’s Modern Life Then there’s a bunch I like in principle, like Samurai Pizza Cats, or ones that I watched a lot because they were Canadian, but were actually the worst pieces of shit imaginable. Really, had someone smeared their feces over some celluloid and played it on CBC, it probably would have annoyed me less than _The Raccoons_ or _The Smoggies_. ---
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Frankenstein Junior and the Impossibles The Herculoids Birdman and the Galaxy Trio The New Adventures of Superman Spaaace Ghooost! ---
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I was always into airplanes so **Skyhawks** was heaven for me. I would snap that up in an instant if it ever was available. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wlOF1CG6vsk/hqdefault.jpg "skyhawks-intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlOF1CG6vsk) ---
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Linus the Lionhearted Bugs Bunny Rocky & Bullwinkle Beanie & Cecil ---
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> [@mlauzon](#): > > As the title says, what cartoons did you really enjoy as a child?! I have a tonne, but didn’t really know about Saturday morning cartoons until the fall of '83; the only cartoons I knew of previous to that – and happened to be my favourite at the – time were: > > The various holiday specials > Rocket Robin Hood > Hercules > Spider-Man > The Flintstones > > And then in '83 I was introduced to Saturday mornings, ah the '80s when toy commercials lasted 30 minutes. 😛 I loved it when both RRH and Spider-Man fought the red bug guy from Dementia Five! It was like my own little pre-school acid trip. ---
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Classic 90s Nicktoons: Rocko’s Modern Life Hey Arnold! Rugrats Angry Beavers Doug Others: Looney Toons (especially Bugs Bunny) Scooby Doo (but none of that garbage with Scrappy) Tiny Toons [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favourite-cartoons-as-a-child/578107.md?page=3)