02-01-2014, 07:20 PM
02-01-2014, 07:36 PM
God I love Voltron. Awesome cartoon.
02-01-2014, 07:38 PM
<--------- Do I really need to answer this?
02-01-2014, 07:46 PM
Quote:God I love Voltron. Awesome cartoon.It was good. I liked the original version even better - before it was Americanized. Do you remember the original name?
Edit: nevermind I was thinking of Science Ninja Team Gatchamnan which became "G-Force" in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsqB59YOBHA
02-01-2014, 08:16 PM
Quote:I used to watch a little Snorks in my day. It's funny, whenever I bring up the Snorks people think I'm making stuff up.
Anybody ever watch Eek The Cat? Loved me some Eek.
It never hurts to help!
Eek seems like one of those cartoons that never gets the praise it deserves.
02-01-2014, 10:26 PM
I've always been a Bugs Bunny fan, Scooby do and Pink Panther are up there too, but my all time FAVORITE has to be Peanuts. It wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon...but I never missed it when they showed them! I love me some Snoopy!!
Dr Seuss always creeped me out!!! :blink:
Dr Seuss always creeped me out!!! :blink:
02-02-2014, 10:03 AM
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02-02-2014, 11:00 AM
TMNT
The ghostbusters
The x men
The ghostbusters
The x men
02-02-2014, 11:59 AM
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That's actually the least creepy thing I've ever seen from Seuss!! :yes:
02-02-2014, 02:08 PM
Quote:I've always been a Bugs Bunny fan, Scooby do and Pink Panther are up there too, but my all time FAVORITE has to be Peanuts. It wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon...but I never missed it when they showed them! I love me some Snoopy!!I loved Peanuts too. i used to read the little compilation books of the comic strip every time we went to the library.
Dr Seuss always creeped me out!!! :blink:
As for Seuss, We were at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios a few years ago. the whole park was an attraction except for Seuss land. Funny thing is though, walking through Seuss land in the dark was probably the creepiest part of the night. They had this weird circus music playing. LOL
02-02-2014, 03:28 PM
Jacky Chan Adventures...
02-02-2014, 04:37 PM
Quote:Dr Seuss always creeped me out!!! :blink:
I've always loved Dr. Suess. But then, I've always loved creepy things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDtgnQ0fy4
02-02-2014, 05:46 PM
Anything on Cartoon Network around the year 2000 ,ark. Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, Cow & Chicken. These were the good old days before they started dubbing everything into Dutch. I also remember watching a ton of Animaniacs, Taz-Mania and Dragonball Z. At one point you could watch a single episode of DBZ 4 times in a single week.
02-02-2014, 05:53 PM
Quote:I loved Peanuts too. i used to read the little compilation books of the comic strip every time we went to the library.
As for Seuss, We were at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios a few years ago. the whole park was an attraction except for Seuss land. Funny thing is though, walking through Seuss land in the dark was probably the creepiest part of the night. They had this weird circus music playing. LOL
OMG!!! Walking through there when it's not Halloween is freaky enough...circus music would scare the hell out of me!!!
02-03-2014, 01:44 AM
I got the full compliment of Saturday morning stuff. Huckleberry Hound. Tennessee Tuxedo. Underdog. Bullwinkle and Rocky. The Flintstones. The Jetsons. I was a Saturday morning vet by the time the Pink Panther came around.
Anybody remember the Banana Splits?
Back then a kid had to make a permanent choice about which cartoons to watch. The networks used to show previews just prior to their new programming seasons. We were allowed to stay up long enough to view the kids' fall line up. We didn't have methods of recording. It was fun to go out later in the day to see which cartoons the other kids watched that day.
I know it means something else today, but did you know that cartoons created the term sugar junkie?
The grain mills needed to sell cereal, so the Madison Avenue ad men came up with animated weeklies to wrap around their commercials. They used the characters kids saw on the funnies to endorse the sugar-coated cereal.
Radio was pretty much dead in the late 1950s after entertaining folks for thirty years. So they combined animation with a lot of spare voice talent to make cartoons. Networks agreed to accept the cartoons which were produced by ad agencies, not by the networks.
The finished product was nothing like it is today. They shot as few as four frames per second back then. Quantity not quality was the norm.
Moms and dads used to sleep in on Saturday mornings back when America was still normal, so kids were brain-washed in the living room into wanting puffs, pops, krispies, and Os. Cartoons fed kids that sugar-coated cereals were the thing to do.
Honestly, it made kids feel special to have programming specifically for them. On week nights, most American kids got sent to bed after supper. Perhaps there are still those who remember dosing off to the sound of parents quietly talking, chuckling, and giggling at evening entertainment in the television room. In the morning kids woke up to see which breakfast cereal mom bought that week. It waited on the kitchen table for us. We'd sit and crunch through the hard orbs, staring silently and reading the colorful box.
It served to remind us that Saturday morning was on it's way again each week.
The Saturday morning routine had its affects on kids. We ate too much sugar. Soon the networks extended the market to sell kids vitamins. More sugar, and did kids really need to swallow lots and lots of vitamins? That could induce comas?
The parent groups cracked down on the networks, forcing them to clean up the sugar and at that point kids began to receive a different message. Special interests saw the powerful medium and began to approach it with the idea of "educating" young minds.
What killed Saturday morning cartoons was competition for the space between kids' ears. Once cartoons were used to educate rather than sell sugar-coated cereal the market dried up. The first fully programmed generation was reaching their teen age where you could no longer clug a guy over the head without actually hurting him.
At one point near the end, I believe ABC was about the last to feature animated stuff on Saturday mornings. Schoolhouse Rock. The guy that pushed it forward on air was Michael Eisner. He ended up the head of Disney.
My avatar is from the defunct Brak Show which aired late nights on the Cartoon Network. I never watched it then, but found some short wav files and discovered Space Ghost Coast To Coast too late. What they did is strip the audio portion of the former Saturday morning cartoon and re-dubbed it for a more grown up audience.
Funny stuff.
Anybody remember the Banana Splits?
Back then a kid had to make a permanent choice about which cartoons to watch. The networks used to show previews just prior to their new programming seasons. We were allowed to stay up long enough to view the kids' fall line up. We didn't have methods of recording. It was fun to go out later in the day to see which cartoons the other kids watched that day.
I know it means something else today, but did you know that cartoons created the term sugar junkie?
The grain mills needed to sell cereal, so the Madison Avenue ad men came up with animated weeklies to wrap around their commercials. They used the characters kids saw on the funnies to endorse the sugar-coated cereal.
Radio was pretty much dead in the late 1950s after entertaining folks for thirty years. So they combined animation with a lot of spare voice talent to make cartoons. Networks agreed to accept the cartoons which were produced by ad agencies, not by the networks.
The finished product was nothing like it is today. They shot as few as four frames per second back then. Quantity not quality was the norm.
Moms and dads used to sleep in on Saturday mornings back when America was still normal, so kids were brain-washed in the living room into wanting puffs, pops, krispies, and Os. Cartoons fed kids that sugar-coated cereals were the thing to do.
Honestly, it made kids feel special to have programming specifically for them. On week nights, most American kids got sent to bed after supper. Perhaps there are still those who remember dosing off to the sound of parents quietly talking, chuckling, and giggling at evening entertainment in the television room. In the morning kids woke up to see which breakfast cereal mom bought that week. It waited on the kitchen table for us. We'd sit and crunch through the hard orbs, staring silently and reading the colorful box.
It served to remind us that Saturday morning was on it's way again each week.
The Saturday morning routine had its affects on kids. We ate too much sugar. Soon the networks extended the market to sell kids vitamins. More sugar, and did kids really need to swallow lots and lots of vitamins? That could induce comas?
The parent groups cracked down on the networks, forcing them to clean up the sugar and at that point kids began to receive a different message. Special interests saw the powerful medium and began to approach it with the idea of "educating" young minds.
What killed Saturday morning cartoons was competition for the space between kids' ears. Once cartoons were used to educate rather than sell sugar-coated cereal the market dried up. The first fully programmed generation was reaching their teen age where you could no longer clug a guy over the head without actually hurting him.
At one point near the end, I believe ABC was about the last to feature animated stuff on Saturday mornings. Schoolhouse Rock. The guy that pushed it forward on air was Michael Eisner. He ended up the head of Disney.
My avatar is from the defunct Brak Show which aired late nights on the Cartoon Network. I never watched it then, but found some short wav files and discovered Space Ghost Coast To Coast too late. What they did is strip the audio portion of the former Saturday morning cartoon and re-dubbed it for a more grown up audience.
Funny stuff.
02-03-2014, 09:00 AM
Quote:I love all of the old Looney Toons and Hanna-Barbera cartoons.Man, you left out my favorite in your H&B list.
Anything featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester/Tweety Bird, Elmer Fudd or Foghorn Leghorn.
The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, The Roadrunner.
Among the more recent Prime Time series, I like King of the Hill and The Simpsons.
Roadrunner.
02-04-2014, 05:01 PM
I still remember the Saturday morning lineup from when I was a kid...
Berenstein bears, gummy bears, smurfs, Muppet babies, then I'd flip to abc and catch Looney tunes...
Muppet babies was my favorite!! Gonna have to check Netflix and see if they have any DVDs to rent
Berenstein bears, gummy bears, smurfs, Muppet babies, then I'd flip to abc and catch Looney tunes...
Muppet babies was my favorite!! Gonna have to check Netflix and see if they have any DVDs to rent
02-04-2014, 05:04 PM
Can one of you Google machine aficionados look up an old Hanna barbera cartoon...
It was post apocalyptic and the opening shows the moon getting destroyed... I liked that cartoon, but can't remember the name of it
It was post apocalyptic and the opening shows the moon getting destroyed... I liked that cartoon, but can't remember the name of it
02-04-2014, 05:19 PM
Pretty sure that was Thundar, the Barbarian. Did it have a blonde guy, a girl and a Wookie-like guy?
02-04-2014, 05:23 PM
Quote:Pretty sure that was Thundar, the Barbarian. Did it have a blonde guy, a girl and a Wookie-like guy?
I think this is what he is talking about.