# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [November 8, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/41 "2004-11-08T00:15:10Z")
I remember MASK. Vanessa Warfield & Gloria Baker were genuine cartoon hotties. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/42 "2004-11-08T02:36:33Z")
Your Obedient Serpent in - a Bob Clampett cart-oooo-oooon! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/43 "2004-11-08T02:58:08Z")
I’m young enough to be wishing for DVDs of _Animaniacs_, _Batman: TAS_, the early-90s _X-Men_ and _Spider-Man_, and probably some others. I’d love a complete collection of _Animaniacs_ if only to see their full-episode parody of _Apocalypse Now_, now that I’m finally old enough to have seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Hello\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Lady)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/44 "2004-11-08T03:24:16Z")
Oh boy! Bringing back memories! Here are some of the ones I remember: She-Ra and He-Man,Gem (loved it!!),Inspector Gadget,Speed Racer Astroboy, all Looney Tunes,all Hanna Barbera Scooby Doo, Thundercats, Smurfs, Ulysses, Captain Caveman Mr Magoo, Fat Albert, Dangermouse, Hong Kong Fooey, BananaMan Alvin & The Chipmunks, Batfink, Gummi Bears, Ewoks, SuperTed Battle of the Planets, The Moomins, Strawberry Shortcake Sounds like I watched a lot of cartoons. And those are only the ones I remember right now! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/45 "2004-11-08T03:53:54Z")
> [@tpayne](#): > > 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. Weren’t Beany and Cecil puppets? I like the classics such as Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig etc…so Warner Brothers are my favorite. The kids of today are being denied these well made cartoons which were written with a 2nd level of humor to be enjoyed equally by adults . ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/46 "2004-11-08T05:50:21Z")
Hong Kong Fooey Wild and whacky Races Bullwinkle Jetsons/Flintstones Jabber Jaw Hair Bares (and for you young’ns, that’s NOT a typo 😉 ) \*Tiajuana Toads I liked Fractured Fairy Tales, but I didn’t truely appreciate the genius in this cartoon untill I became an adult. At 34 I still get a kick out of this cartoon. Although I haven’t seen one in quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/47 "2004-11-08T05:56:20Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Hair Bares (and for you young’ns, that’s NOT a typo ) **D’OH!** Uh, Make that Hair _Bears_… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/48 "2004-11-08T06:06:58Z")
Rocket Robin Hood (great theme song) Superfriends public televison stuff that was educational, probably not very widespread and maybe only on TV Ontario, but ReadAlong and The Green Forest ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/49 "2004-11-08T06:25:46Z")
> [@professor folk](#): > > Rocket Robin Hood (great theme song) > Superfriends > public televison stuff that was educational, probably not very widespread and maybe only on TV Ontario, but ReadAlong and The Green Forest Oh yeah! **The Green Forest** is also a good childhood memory. When my family moved to Ottawa, the TV rule for two years was PBS or TVO. Probably the reason that almost all I watch now is Discovery Canada, TLC or CNN. BTW, **noname** , thanks for the link, and validating my memory 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/50 "2004-11-08T06:32:24Z")
> [@mcott](#): > > Oh yeah! **The Green Forest** is also a good childhood memory. When my family moved to Ottawa, the TV rule for two years was PBS or TVO. if you’re from Canada, you’ll probably like this link. Great nostalgic look at all those old cartoons we grew up with in Ontario. [http://members.rogers.com/ambrozic/tvo/tvohome.html](http://members.rogers.com/ambrozic/tvo/tvohome.html) ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/51 "2004-11-08T09:37:16Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > I was a child during the Golden Age of saturday morning cartoons … Hey, me too! (Or so it seems) I loved Captain Planet (and the theme song!), and I was a big X-Man fan too. I used to watch ashow about two cavemen that was somehow tie in to Eek - two cavemen, one short and fat, the other tall and thin. The tall one used to say ‘when will the hurting stop’ - can someone IDthis? I have very dim memories of a cartoon about bears that could fly - they had large butterfly wings, I think, and they lived in a mountain surrounded by a forest. No one I’ve spoken to can remember this - I’m sure it’s real. I watched Defenders of the Universe every week (where I learned that doing drugs was Wrong and Would Affect Your Schoolwork), and the similar-yet-superior Galaxy Rangers (another awesome theme song.) I spent most of my childhood weekend mornings watching TV with my brothers and a box of Coco Puffs, wrapped in our duvets. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/52 "2004-11-08T09:59:09Z")
Actual quality was pretty unimportant to me back in the late 60s. I actually preferred crap like _Bat-Fink_ and _The Herculoids_ to Warner Brothers and _Mighty Mouse_. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/53 "2004-11-08T10:56:20Z")
**Tom and Jerry**. The1940s Fred Quimby produced ones not the later travesties. Since I don’t watch kids’ TV these days I don’t know what they’ve done to the old WB cartoons, have they been censored/cut to bits? I read that they cut scenes of Mammy Two Shoes out of Tom and Jerry, is this so? No more “Thomas! Catch that mouse!” ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/54 "2004-11-08T13:51:54Z")
Muppet Babies Fragglerock Dungeons and Dragons (I think that’s what it was called. Its the one where the group of kids go on a rollercoaster and end up in a D+D fantasy world.) Transformers Thundercats He-man ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/55 "2004-11-08T15:02:33Z")
For me it was mostly Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings. I’d get up at 7:00 and watch for an hour and a half. I also liked watching the Jetsons. During the week after school my friends and I watched He-Man, Scooby Doo, the Flintstones and several of the other Hanna-Barbera characters (Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, etc.). Transformers came on in the mornings before school. ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/56 "2004-11-08T17:44:00Z")
Oh, I remembered, Captain Caveman too. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429/57 "2004-11-08T20:06:13Z")
All the Warner Bros. cartoons Rocky and Bullwinkle Huckleberry Hound et al.(remember the giant spud?) Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks Herculoids Johnny Quest( I remember being young enough to be scared by that electricity monster!) For live action I remember Roy Rogers, and Sky King. Right at the end of my cartoon watching days(67-68) there was one I liked but can’t remember the name of. There were two kids, brother and sister, and they had two halves of a magic ring, that when put together summoned a genie. There was also a flying camel the rode on. Help me out here? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-cartoons-as-a-kid/273429.md?page=2)