# Which cartoon series do you love most from your childhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112 "2003-01-07T05:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/21 "2003-01-07T22:09:15Z")
Robotech!!! Especially The Macross Saga. I was about 8 or 9 when this came out, and I remember thinking “Finally! A cartoon series that doesn’t lie about death!”. I got the Macross Saga on DVD for Christmas last year. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/22 "2003-01-07T23:40:35Z")
[The New Adventures of Flash Gordon](http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/n/newflashgordon.html) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/23 "2003-01-07T23:58:21Z")
Wake me up when they rerun _Time for Beanie_ and _Captain Video_. ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/24 "2003-01-08T00:19:24Z")
Garfield! Used to get up every morning for that. If anybody knows where I can download episodes, I’d be grateful. ---
**Author:** ![freajnt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@freajnt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freajnt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/25 "2003-01-08T01:47:29Z")
Oh yeah, Johnny Quest was so cool. George of the Jungle and Roger Ramjet were faves also. Looney Tunes, of course. And Roadrunner. I also really loved The Beatles cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/26 "2003-01-08T01:49:21Z")
The Real Ghostbusters - this one actually came out when I was in high school, but I still watched it. It was very smart and funny, with good occult references - until they kiddified it and turned it into “Slimer & Friends”. Also, I’d like to see the lions Voltron again. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/27 "2003-01-08T02:50:15Z")
Looney Tunes Speed Racer The Wacky Races ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/28 "2003-01-08T02:56:06Z")
_Tiny Toon Adventures_ I’d love to see the episode with the Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs again, just for the Slugmobile. _Animaniacs!_ was good too. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/29 "2003-01-08T03:49:25Z")
I loved all the space/Apocolyptic cartoons of the 80s. _Voltron_ (but just the one with the lions, that other Voltron sucked), _Thundar, He-Man_ (they were basically the same thing, only Thundar’s partner looked like Chewbacka), _Robotics, Jace and the Wheeled Warriors_, and my overall favorite… _Robotech_. God, I loved that fucking show! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/30 "2003-01-08T04:53:20Z")
Since others have mentioned Looney Tunes, I’ll just whisper [sub]Merry Melodies[/sub] and Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, the only true descendants of the originals. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/31 "2003-01-08T05:44:38Z")
Obviously _Loony Tunes_, as well as _Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse_ - the greatest opening theme ever (Peter Gunn) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/32 "2003-01-08T06:15:57Z")
I love _Animaniacs_. I would buy that on DVD if they ever put it out. Same with _Batman: The Animated Series_. I have the one DVD that has been put out and I keep hoping for more. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/33 "2003-01-08T06:59:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jake \* > \*\*Capt’n America! “All those who have chose to oppose his shield must yield!” > > Can’t beat that. These weren’t “Cartoons” but still pictures with a real mouth voicing the words stuck in the pictures somehow. Terrible!! But funny. 😃 > > I think “The Hulk” was in there somewhere. Anyone remember the theme words to that one? > > I grew up in a cheap age. 😉 \*\* Well, I’ll give that lyric a try, but there are some funky parts I never felt real confident about. I’ll **bold** those: _Doc Bruce Banner, Belted by gamma rays, Turns into the Hulk ( **Ain’t he un-glameraze?** ) Wreckin’ the town with the power of the Hulk Who’s that monster clown? **Who is that lovable** The ever-lovin’ Hulk!_ [sub]They also did Thor, Iron Man, Spiderman, and Prince Namor, the _Sub-Mariner_, IIRC[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/34 "2003-01-08T07:02:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Mapp \* > **My favorites were the early Japanese cartoons–I guess you could call them proto anime–_Speed Racer_, _Astro Boy_, and especially _Kimba the White Lion_, which was my favorite show when I was 8.** What’s the matter, didn’t you care for _Gigantor, Marine Boy_, and _The Amazing 008 Man_? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/35 "2003-01-08T07:34:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Peyote Coyote \* > **I remember back in the late 60s/early 70s when Saturday morning was paradise. You could get up at 7 a.m. and catch a monster movie like Godzilla and then a bunch of great cartoons like “The Impossibles,” “The Herculoids,” “Space Ghost,” “The Justice League of America,” “Road Runner,” a half-hour or more of Looney Tunes, “Birdman,” “Scooby Doo,” and the original Jonny Quest.** Sounds like you need to get the Boomerang channel from Cartoon Network. What you just described is pretty much their daily line-up. The bits they show on the real CN make me wish I had a sattelite dish and could get the channel, until I watch the Superfriends again and realize that it really wasn’t all that good. (Except for Solomon Grundy, of course, who was and remains a total bad-ass.) Speaking of the cheap-o Marvel cartoons, my favorite theme was **Iron Man** : Tony Stark makes you feel He’s a cool exec with a heart of steel, But Iron-Man, he’s jets ablaze! He fights and he fights with repulsor rays! Amazing power! That’s Iron Man! A-blazing power! That’s Iron Man! ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/36 "2003-01-08T07:38:47Z")
Ducktales, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Garfield. Didn’t like many others. I seem to remember liking a cartoon called: Spaghetti and Meatballs. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/37 "2003-01-08T10:55:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fiztig \* > \*\* > > _Mysterious Cities of Gold_ > A touch of history mixed in with myth and doused in a little sci-fi = Great Stuff. > > \*\* I always loved that show as a kid. Particulary the title song. Did they ever find the cities of gold? And where could I find some of those? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/38 "2003-01-08T11:00:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by buckgully \* > \*\* > > Also, I’d like to see the lions Voltron again. \*\* Thank you for answering something I’ve been wondering about for years. I remembered something from my childhood, a show invovling 5 lions that turned into a robot. Everyone I would ask, people would tell me “Power Rangers” but I knew it was long before that. Now I know. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/39 "2003-01-08T11:00:18Z")
I liked _Dogtanian and the three Muskehounds_; _Dangermouse_ and _Garfield_. And Looney Tunes, of course. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112/40 "2003-01-08T11:01:39Z")
HAHAHAHA, HPL likes the Power Ranges!! jk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cartoon-series-do-you-love-most-from-your-childhood/147112.md?page=3)