Old school cartoons....

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Name some of your favorite old school cartoons and why you liked them. Hilarity ensues........


HE-MAN and the Masters of the Universe: I loved this cartoon as a kid. I even remember watching the movie with my Dad as a young tot. Fantasy always appealed to me and Skeletor was a badass .

Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Couldn't get any better than this. I loved the Mario show until they added the Super Mario World characters into it. Then the cavemen kinda annoyed me. They also showed Legend of Zelda on this show. Link was a bit annoying,but it was great to see all your favorite characters in action.

Captain Nintendo Game Master: A great show at the time. If you watch it today it isn't nearly as good though due to the fact that they changed so many characters drastically. For example:
1. Mega Man is green.
2. Simon Belmont is a fucking faggot and he has some sort of flight suit on.
3. Mother Brain sounds like Little Richard.

All great shows though.
 
Ren & Stimpy

Why?

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'Nuff said.
 
Ren & Stimpy isn't really old-skool.

I watched quite a lot of cartoons when I was younger, but I can't say any really "stuck". Maybe Mighty Mouse. Or He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Or Transofrmers.

The old Disney shit was good, but also got boring right quick
 
Stuff by Chuck Jones, like the original Road Runner. They had style and comic timing that was utterly absent in the Friz Freleng continuations.

Also, yes, they seemed much more daring and spirited than their Disney counterparts. Strangely, though, I saw a documentary where they said they always felt they were a step behind Disney in evolving the art form.
 
Nothing beats old school Tom & Jerry.
There's almost no spoken dialogue, so it's universal. You have nature's version of Rock/paper/scissor - Dog eats cat, cat eats mouse, mouse befriends dog. Everything is choreogrpahed perfectly to the music. There's all the absurd ultra-violence. Basically the motivation behind what every character does is murder or sex.

Then of course there's the one and only post apocalyptic Saturday morning cartoon from back in the day - Thundarr.

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TorontRayne said:
HE-MAN and the Masters of the Universe: I loved this cartoon as a kid. I even remember watching the movie with my Dad as a young tot. Fantasy always appealed to me and Skeletor was a badass .

Super Mario Bros. Super Show: Couldn't get any better than this. I loved the Mario show until they added the Super Mario World characters into it. Then the cavemen kinda annoyed me. They also showed Legend of Zelda on this show. Link was a bit annoying,but it was great to see all your favorite characters in action.

Captain Nintendo Game Master: A great show at the time. If you watch it today it isn't nearly as good though due to the fact that they changed so many characters drastically. For example:
1. Mega Man is green.
2. Simon Belmont is a fucking faggot and he has some sort of flight suit on.
3. Mother Brain sounds like Little Richard.

All great shows though.
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While you covered those of wich I like very well.

You missed the Thundercats. And perhaps Transformers.

I miss the shows from when I was a kid. Prolly not classics to the older folks to NMA, but Ninja Turtles, and prolly the original Power Rangers. I remember the first season of the Power Rangers very well.

Back to the Super Mario show. I have the complete collection of The Legend of Zelda show from that show.

Oh and G.I. Joe series.
 
Cartoons I used to watch as a kid:

Speed Buggy
Speed Racer
Shazaam
Hong Kong Fuey
Scooby Doo
Batman & Robin
Heathcliff
Mr. T and those 80's Gymnast Kids
Droids
Snorks
MASK
Blackstar
Defenders of the Earth

Edit: And for live action, Captain Power
 
Optimus Prime taught me how to be a good person. All my parent's did when I was a child was curse at each other, so I put my faith in a big red and blue truck.
 
Yeah. Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, and many more all deserve to be mentioned. I loved all of them. I liked Mighty Max for the longest time too. I just didn't want to turn this thread into a listfest.
 
TorontRayne said:
I liked Mighty Max for the longest time too.
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Though Optimus showed me how to be a hero, Mighty Max is still one of the only cartoons I've faithfully watched from beginning to end, without aid of recordings or re-runs.

Samurai Pizza Cats was surprisingly good too.

EDIT And how is it nobody mentioned Danger Mouse?
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Defenders of the Earth
Scooby Doo
Heman

from CN :

Two Stupid Dogs
The Mask
Johny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
Ed,Edd n Eddy
Dexter's Laboratoy
The Powerpuff Girls
Bugs Bunny
Tom and Jerry and ...

but my all time favorites are : TMNT and Two Stupid Dogs
 
Puh-lease. When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you guys meant real old school cartoons.

Old WW2 WB cartoons and anything by Max Fleischer, king of all kings.

Booboobeedoop!
 
To me, old cartoons are pretty much anything from the mid-nineties. My favorite has always been Johnny Bravo. That was only the second cartoon to feature Donny Osmond as a main supporting character, I think. He appeared quite a few times throughout the series. Plus, seeing Johnny Bravo do idiotic things taught me how not to act in public.
 
Brother None said:
Ren & Stimpy isn't really old-skool.
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Wooz said:
Puh-lease. When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you guys meant real old school cartoons.
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Are you guys clones? Do you sleep with each other? Are you related to each other in an incestuous way?

No?

You could have fooled me.

Honestly: I read over the whole "old-school" thing and just imagined someone was interested in knowing what cartoons we looked at when we were younger. See, I was half the age I am today when Ren & Stimpy was on the telly. That's way back for me. That's "old".

I often think that both of you must be the most annoying little buggers this world has ever seen. You do this stuff in class as well? At home? Everytime someone "makes a mistake" or rather "interprets something a little different than you", you feel that urge to correct it, to point out the obvious (well, that what is so obvious to you, that is)?

Phew. That must be so tiring. It must be. All that energy you waste, simply staying focussed on what other people do wrong, "misinterpret", fail to grasp.

Hey, it's your life, you know, and you do with it what you damn well please, but my advice for the both of you would be:

Form a club. A self-help club. And on a more serious note, you should both grow a bit of skin. You're old enough. Stop being so god-damn sensitive about absolutely everything, taking every single mistake and mishap so god-damn literally. Stop doing that to others and to yourselves.

Now enjoy the cartoons. Even if they aren't old-school old-school.

By the way, Wooz: Max Fleischer?

Ahahahahahahahah! *coughcough*

Wahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Aaaaaaah.

Eheh.

:wink:

P.S. Don't interpret this as flaming or trolling. It's advice. Trust me. And good advice at that.
 
alec said:
Form a club. A self-help club. And on a more serious note, you should both grow a bit of skin. You're old enough. Stop being so god-damn sensitive about absolutely everything, taking every single mistake and mishap so god-damn literally. Stop doing that to others and to yourselves.

Now enjoy the cartoons. Even if they aren't old-school old-school.
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You said it Mate ! :clap: :ok:
 
Vault 13 said:
alec said:
Form a club. A self-help club. And on a more serious note, you should both grow a bit of skin. You're old enough. Stop being so god-damn sensitive about absolutely everything, taking every single mistake and mishap so god-damn literally. Stop doing that to others and to yourselves.

Now enjoy the cartoons. Even if they aren't old-school old-school.
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You said it Mate ! :clap: :ok:
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Or not. Sensitivity, to me, would be getting bent over incidental messageboard comments because you assumed that they were made in earnest, as well as assuming that they were made with a negative slant. Nickel's worth of free advice? Relax. Roll with it. You'll live longer.

(And academically speaking, Ren & Stimpy isn't "old school," per se... more "back in the day," really.)

Other not-quite-Old-School cartoons I enjoyed thoroughly as a child were Eek! The Cat, Darkwing Duck, X-Men, Batman, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Talespin, Gargoyles, and ExoSquad. I know I'm a traitor to my 80's heritage, but aside from TMNT and Ghostbusters (and maybe Mario Bros. and G.I. Joe), there just wasn't much from my generation that did it for me. I find that I outgrew it all pretty fast, whereas the early 90's stuff really stuck with me.

*This all goes with the (unnecessary) footnote that the Warner Brothers repetoire is the foundation upon which all other cartoon appreciation must be built.

*I'm going to make special mention of ExoSquad again here. I WILL keep stumping for that show until I find someone else that remembers it. Give us our DVD collection, damn you! We've suffered long enough... *cries*
 
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