# What were your favorite cartoons as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429 "2004-11-07T00:49:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/1 "2004-11-07T00:49:43Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284973) thread, which got me looking into the amusements of my 80s childhood. What cartoons did you used to watch after school or on Saturday morning? Which ones do you remember most? Which do you only have a fuzzy memory of and aren’t sure really existed? I have very fond memories of [She-Ra](http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/heat/80/pop/) and Muppet Babies. I want them back. One show I thought I’d made up is [M.A.S.K.](http://www.kryptonsite.com/mask/), because none of my friends knew what I was talking about. Does anyone else remember this one? Don’t you think cartoons were so much _better_ back then? What happened to them? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/2 "2004-11-07T01:02:48Z")
_eyes username_ I think my favorite might be obvious. I don’t have a very good memory but aside from Looney Toons, I do remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/3 "2004-11-07T01:14:37Z")
Looney Tunes, Pink Panther, Scooby Doo. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/4 "2004-11-07T01:35:13Z")
I was a child during the Golden Age of saturday morning cartoons - right when limited animation didn’t look so limited anymore and just before cable killled off the genre. We had Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Taz-Mania, Super Mario Brothers 3, Captain N - The Gamemaster, Little Shop (a cartoon version of the musical Little Shop of Horrors), Eek! The Cat, X-men (I didn’t really watch that, though), Fantastic Max, Sonic the Hedgehog (too soap operatic), The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (hilarious, that’s the one I liked) Beetlejuice, Animaniacs, Raw Toonage (Disney’s animated sketch comedy), A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Hanna Barbara’s first self-parody), Attack of the Killer Tomatos, Batman the Animated Series, Little Rosie (Rosanne’s cartoon. Not great but fun as a curio), Earthworm Jim, Captain Planet (I know it’s cool to hate it now, but that scold of a show was intense), Back to the Future, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures (I found out about the movies later), Freakazoid!, and Hysteria!. There was alot of garbage I left out (like Denver the Last Dinosaur and Pro-Stars), and I tried not to include syndicated cartoons that played during the weekdays (though I probably made a couple of slip-ups). Anyway, like I already said, I think I was lucky enough to experience the pinnacle of Saturday morning cartoons. 80’s cartoons were too serious. We had action oriented shows like Ghostbusters and TMNT, but they never took themselves as seriously as GI Joe and He-man did. And these days, the SatAM landscape is dead thanks to cable networks like Nick and CN luring all of the good cartoon talent. I think stuff like Zim, Fairly Oddparents, and Powerpuff Girls are as good as anything in the old days, but things were so much more satisfying when they were all concentrated into a giant five-hour block. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/5 "2004-11-07T02:03:05Z")
To this day, I’m convinced I’m the only person to ever see a bizarre little cartoon called _Inhumanoids_. It’s probably at least partly responsible for my twisted imagination today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/6 "2004-11-07T02:13:25Z")
Bullwinkle was probably my favorite, but I also remember liking Beany and Cecil a lot when I was very small. We’re talking the early 60’s here, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/7 "2004-11-07T02:23:01Z")
Childhood: _Pink Panther, Speed Racer, Herculoids, Space Ghost_, and any number of Sid and Marty Krofft shows. As an adult, I still liked _Pink Panther_. Once, in college, I remember tuning in to Saturday morning cartoons one horrible morning while still under the effect of the various poisons I’d dumped into my system the night before… and watching an episode of _Inhumanoids_. I did not understand it. In my addled state, I remember finally deciding that it seemed to be about construction workers who’ve accidentally tunneled their way into Hell, and now they have to deal with the consequences of their actions by catching the horrible things that escaped and making them go back, somehow. I was actually kind of surprised when I tuned in the following weekend, cold sober, to see how they were doing, and discovering what the show was really about. I also really liked _BraveStarr_, because it was so incredibly demented. A science fiction adventure cartoon… that was also a _Western_, set on the far-flung mining planet of New Texas, about a Native American sheriff and his talking cyborg horse, and the alien mutant outlaws they fight in order to protect the space miners, the space saloonkeeper, the space general store owner, the space schoolmarm… man, I loved that show. Used to laugh myself sick, every episode, but I also wondered what the producers were thinking when they okayed the thing, and whether or not the writers were trying to produce an adventure show, a comedy… or _both…_ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/8 "2004-11-07T02:41:11Z")
Does anyone remember Animaniacs or Freakazoid? (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/9 "2004-11-07T02:43:22Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Does anyone remember Animaniacs or Freakazoid? > > (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) Yes. I classify those under “Stuff My Kid Liked When She Was A Kid.” Although I thought some of the stuff they did on both cartoons were rather clever. Particularly the episode of _Freakazoid_ where, for no apparent reason, they switch (in the middle of the cartoon) from “superhero action” to “Busby Berkeley Style Epic Musical.” ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/10 "2004-11-07T02:51:36Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Does anyone remember Animaniacs or Freakazoid? Yeah, I mentioned both in that giant paragraphless block of text up there. And you’re forgetting the exclamation point on “Freakazoid!”. > [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > Yes. > Although I thought some of the stuff they did on both cartoons were rather clever. Particularly the episode of _Freakazoid_ where, for no apparent reason, they switch (in the middle of the cartoon) from “superhero action” to “Busby Berkeley Style Epic Musical.” Are you talking about the “Hello Lobey” number? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/11 "2004-11-07T03:10:16Z")
“Rocky & Bullwinkle”, “Space Ghost”, “Crusader Rabbit” “Hoppity Hooper”, “Heckle and Jeckle”, to name a few. Looking back, “Crusader Rabbit” was probably the most cognitively dissonant of the cartoons I watched. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/12 "2004-11-07T03:20:52Z")
I was a child of the '60s. Cartoons began on Saturday morning at 6 with Popeye and finished at noon or 1 when American Bandstand came on. I was privileged to watch the WB cartoons on TV before they got butchered by the politically correct. I got to see the Harvey cartoons - anyone remember the ones that had a song at the end where you’d follow the lyrics with a bouncing ball? Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Little Lulu… where the heck are they now? I saw all of these when they were new: The Flintstones, Beany & Cecil, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Underdog, Spider-Man, The Pink Panther… I think the reason why cartoons seemed to be better then is because they were still being drawn by hand. They didn’t try to be clever, they were a level of clever unto themselves. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/13 "2004-11-07T03:20:59Z")
“Eighth Man,” “Johny Quest” (ever notice that Dr. Denton Quest and Race Banyon seemed to er, prefer the company of other men?), “Colonel Bleep” and-OG help me- “milton the Monster.” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/14 "2004-11-07T06:11:52Z")
We didn’t have cable, so I was always a little miffed about having to watch He-Man instead of the obviously more role-model-iffic She-Ra. (I seriously dug He-Man, however.) Also Thundercats, with _even fewer_ female characters so when you wanted to play Thundercats you’d have to take turns being Cheetara. I also liked the cartoon standbys that were still playing (but at the time jumping the shark) as I was a child - both the Smurfs and Scooby Doo acquired “baby” characters while I watched. Even then I knew that Scrappy was full of crap. (I remember being really pissed off about the Oliver North trials because they superseded my Scooby Doo for ages.) The Care Bears movie came out when I was five or so and I still remember how much that thing scared me. It is extremely strange to me that the Care Bears seem to be back. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/15 "2004-11-07T06:13:14Z")
Oh, and I remember ever so clearly the disappointment that was my life every Saturday early-afternoon when goddamned Soul Train came on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/16 "2004-11-07T06:20:22Z")
For myself, living in Regina as a 5 year old, I remember _Battle of the Planets_, otherwise known as _G-Force_. Damned if I can find a link to anything relating to it now, though. Someone else must remember **Zoltar** , the bad guy, I hope? ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/17 "2004-11-07T06:36:52Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Does anyone remember Animaniacs or Freakazoid? > > (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) Yes! I loved Animaniacs. I think I’d love it even more if I watched it today, 'cause I get more of the references. Freakazoid was a bit too wierd for my tastes. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/18 "2004-11-07T07:14:13Z")
> [@Hamish](#): > > To this day, I’m convinced I’m the only person to ever see a bizarre little cartoon called _Inhumanoids_. It’s probably at least partly responsible for my twisted imagination today. 🙂 I remember **Inhumanoids** – it was part of Marvel/Sunbow’s expanded animation efforts, after they struck gold with **G.I. Joe** and **Transformers.** They (Marvel) had a rotating lineup of shows, IIRC, including **Gem, Construx,** and the afformentioned **Inhumanoids.** Earth Force, D-Compose, the magnet creature which split into opposite poles, the trees that walked around, a-yup. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/19 "2004-11-07T07:58:59Z")
What **pizzabrat** said. Some of those cartoons I haven’t thought of in years. I completely forgot they made a cartoon version of “Little Shop of Horrors”. Not to mention “Little Rosie”. Anyone remember “Camp Candy”, John Candy’s cartoon? I seem to remember it was pretty okay. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/20 "2004-11-07T08:23:39Z")
Another fan of _Crusader Rabbit_. I also liked \*Fractured Fairy Tales \* and ,Og help me, _Super Chicken!_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429.md?page=2)