I've always absolutely adored cartoons so I was hoping maybe we could start talking about them. This is just my opinion, but I've always felt that the ones created during when I was a kid or even before I was born were the best.
Hanna Barbera cartoons were always some of favorites, the tops being Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, and Hong Kong Phooey. It was funny to see some of their characters revived in Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law; I especially enjoyed what they did with Scooby Doo.
Disney did really well, too, and I still watch Darkwing Duck and Gargoyles on the box sets they've released and am still anxiously waiting to see if they'll release anything of Bonkers as well.
The first three seasons of Batman: TAS were made of God and Win. Harley was a wonderful character for the creators to dream up but she has an even worse relationship with the Joker then Excel does with Il Palazzo.
Does anyone else remember Animanics? I bought the bosxets that are out and I'm shocked with what they got away with in a childrens' show. Osama bin Laden is even in it!
Other cartoons I remember watching are Mighty Max and Road Rovers. Oh, I think the most "recent" kiddy cartoon series I thought was pretty good were the first few seasons of Courage the Cowardly Dog. I love Freaky Fred and think he'd be a good match with Sweeny Todd :il_hahaha:
Moving onto non-kiddy cartoons my favorite show of all time is Home Movies. I actually laughed out loud during some of the episodes. Please, please, please tell me someone else loves this show as well?
As for series still in production I'm a HUGE fan of the Venture Brothers. Pete White and Bill Quiz Boy and 21 and 24 are my favorites so I was devistated over the last seasons ending! The next one better start soon and I want to know Doctor Girlfriend's secret, darn it!
I typically don't like shows that are just all violence but I really like Super Jail! since the animation is pretty neat along with the oddball cast of characters.
What about you guys? Did/do you watch any of these shows or others you'd like to get a discussion going about?
Quote from: Mad Hatteress on July 26, 2009, 03:21:41 PM
I've always absolutely adored cartoons so I was hoping maybe we could start talking about them. This is just my opinion, but I've always felt that the ones created during when I was a kid or even before I was born were the best.
Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Darkwing Duck
Does anyone else remember Animanics?
Home Movies.
As for series still in production I'm a HUGE fan of the Venture Brothers. Pete White and Bill Quiz Boy and 21 and 24 are my favorites so I was devistated over the last seasons ending! The next one better start soon and I want to know Doctor Girlfriend's secret, darn it!
Those all stood out. Harvey Birdman is great, very quickle and quiet humor. Love it. Animaniacs was amazing haha I looooved that show. Venture Brothers is probably my favorite show to come out of Adult Swim.
Well in my day transformers, action force (gi joe), cities of gold, he-man and thundercats did it for me, I still enjoy watching what people have done to them on youtube.
Man i almost like all of the ones you listed, so to add to that, i also like Cartoon Network classics like The ORIGINAL old seasons of the Powerpuff Girls... Tom and Jerry are awsome too, Cow and Chicken are bizarre and fun as well, liked those more than I am Weasel, never really liked that that much...
I used to loooove a cartoon called Schnookums and Meat by some disney studio, it reminded alot of Ren and Stimpy (which i also love)...
Newer stuff like Fairly Odd Parents are gerat too, and i love The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as well...
There was a time when alot of Angry Beavers was aired, while it did i love dit, but it kinda disappeared, i should dig that cartoon up from somewhere again...
Disney Classics are some of my favorites as well, especially the ones with Donald Duck and Goofy, but the best ones are the ones with them all grouping up though, i love those old classics, beats the shit out of todays stuff with those characters...
Speaking of Disney reminds me of DuckTales, awesome series <3
Man there's so much, i need to thnik back for now and remember what stuff i used to watch...
Wonder how many of these can be found on DVD... Wish The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy had more seasons out, i have the first, why'd they stop there..? i want it all ..!
Invader Zim.
I must admit though at my age now I still watch kiddie cartoons but at the end of the day I think to myself some of them are quite funny
Can you believe that SpongeBob Squarepants has been around for 10 years already?!
I have a mild embarrassment to admitting I like this show and I keep saying how stupid it is, but it can be a laugh riot at times.
Quote from: Mad Hatteress on July 26, 2009, 03:21:41 PM
The first three seasons of Batman: TAS were made of God and Win.
You said it! Man, the writing and directing were some of the best quality ever from WB. I'll bet many younger kids just couldn't appreciate the full brilliance of it all.
Quote from: Mad Hatteress on July 26, 2009, 03:21:41 PMDoes anyone else remember Animanics? I bought the bosxets that are out and I'm shocked with what they got away with in a childrens' show. Osama bin Laden is even in it!
Loved Animaniacs. LOVED IT! Again, younger audiences probably couldn't fully grasp it all. Many jokes were only things older audiences could understand. Tiny Toons is another example of this.
I'll be sure to get a list of favs together later.
True there, Lord Il...
Kinda wish i owned those cartoons now that i think about it...
I should look for Animaniacs, hahaha...
I wish they'd hurry up and release the final season of Animaniacs on DVD; it has Mindy in Wonderland on it.
Grr... And Disney is really mean with their shows! I don't think they're going to release anymore of Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck, and DW was on his final season as well. I want to watch Malice's Restaurant again because I think it's hilarious when Negaduck freaks out after being hugged by a bunny.
I'd be happy if they showed the roiginal episodes of GI joe, they did for a while on fox kids, but it was on too damn early in the morning. I would say transformers but I watch that on Kix sometimes
Quote from: Mad Hatteress on August 01, 2009, 09:30:00 AM
Grr... And Disney is really mean with their shows! I don't think they're going to release anymore of Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck, and DW was on his final season as well.
They ARE mean. You know how they are when they release stuff for
"a limited time only" and then it
"goes back into the Disney vault forever" crap. :e_confused:
Quote from: exckilla on August 02, 2009, 03:49:37 AM
I'd be happy if they showed the roiginal episodes of GI joe, they did for a while on fox kids, but it was on too damn early in the morning. I would say transformers but I watch that on Kix sometimes
I remember seeing something about a new DVD release of the first season. I think it's called GI JOE, Season 1.1 (whatever that means).
Perhaps they've given this the same treatment they did for the recent Season 1 release of Transformers with improved sound quality.
Quote from: Lord Il on July 30, 2009, 06:06:16 PM
You said it! Man, the writing and directing were some of the best quality ever from WB. I'll bet many younger kids just couldn't appreciate the full brilliance of it all
Grah. I'm so absent minded; I meant to talk to you more about Batman.
So did you pick up the boxsets? I'm wondering because I'd love to nerd out with you about our favorite episodes. Obviously I loved any episodes that had the Mad Hatter in them but I also like the Scarecrow, Harley, the Clock King, and Baby Dahl. The Trial episode was great and the Joker was fricken HILARIOUS as the judge. I know for as a kid I took the amazing writing talents for granted but I just can't help but wonder "What happened?" when they reached the 4th season. The new character models were crap (they made my sweet Jervis look like a pedophile!) and there wasn't a single good episode. I'm probably just over-sensitive but I really though they went too far in the episode Mad Love where they show the Joker actually hitting Harley on camera before throwing her out a window.
I'm pretty freaking happy right now, though, because I came across this on Disney shopping: http://www.disneystore.com/disney/store/DSIProductDisplay?storeId=10052&productId=1237070&categoryId=64998&catalogFromSearch=10002&catalogId=10003&langId=-1
I heart DW so much.
I utterly adored Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. I just got into old Clone High episodes too. It may be the best thing MTV ever produced. Not that that's saying much, but its satire of the "teen wangst" sitcoms of the 90's is brilliant and zany. It's on YouTube. Watch it. Or buy it from like Canada...
I was fairly sheltered as a child (I watched PBS mainly) but I occasionally look fondly back on Rocko's Modern Life and the like.
Right now, I don't watch many cartoons but my favorite vaguely recent ones are Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Avatar, and WordGirl. Wordgirl may be juvenile but when I watch it with my little tyke of a nephew, it feels like a throw-back to 90's cartoons where the writers occasionally throw in a hilarious joke for adults. :watanabe: No, not those kinds of jokes.
Just watched the Darkwing Duck episode that was banned from broadcast on youtube. IMO Hot Spells really wasn't that bad, even with the devil it. He was a very silly fellow and the episode wasn't satanic at all. It's just annoying that Morgana seems to have PMS every time you see her. Besides Splatter Phoenix that show didn't have a single good female villain!
^ Jesus I remember that show, I never went much on it though, was almost tempted to buy the complete boxset of the cities of gold
^It's pretty sad; I'm twenty-years-old and still such a fantard for that cartoon.
Ugh... I decided to look at some DW fanart and found Mary-Sues galore! Tons of chicks drawing a duck incarnation of themselves, most of which have Negaduck knock up. It's a kids' cartoon for heaven's sake! It's creepy and weird!
Well I am 30, I still watch old episodes of gi joe that I do own, transformers, visionaries and the 1990's batman cartoon movie specials. Out of the retro cartoons I would consider to avoid is jayce and the wheeled riders (don't get me started on why I hate it) and the transformers clone, the gobots (sorry I mean gay bots)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I found time to watch one episode of Tintin! I was so happy to see that the set I received today had the take of my favorite Tintin comic, the Castafiore Emeralds. I absolutely LOVED it even thought the English dub isn't that great and the animation does suffer some quality issues that could've easily been fixed.
It's a bummer they didn't include the little girl biting Haddock (Kids seem to either love him or hate him), and they cut down on his interactions with the parrot, but at least they still animated the part where he gets pissed and throws his newspaper at him!
I saw the first episode of trap door, (yes sad I know) and the first part of she-ra (the one that was a movie back in the eighties)
This Tintin set is seriously rocking my socks off! What really shocked me, though, was that they kept Herge's stereotypical drawings of non-white characters. I said "No freaking way!" out loud when the Asian villain in the Blue Lotus showed up with squinty eyes and massive buck teeth like he did in the comic. I think I know why this set never got a US release.
It's strange they'll leave something like that in but they've really cut down on showing Haddock drinking and don't show him getting as mad as he did in the comics. Oh, but in Tintin in Tibet they still let Snowy get drunk and fall off a cliff! Silly puppy.
Shame he was still around and tintin aswell.
I hated it and never got o with and it was unfortunate that it was on some mornings before the cartoon I liked watching back in the 90's Sonic the hedgehog (not the stupid one). That what was one series to get upearly for, I especially liked the doomsday project (final episode) would have worked has 2 or 3 parter I felt though
^ I see, but you don't have to be such a jerk about it to someone who genuinely enjoyed the show. I liked the Sonic you're referring to when I was a kid but I still love Tintin to this day since it's a "smart" cartoon that can really be enjoyed by all ages.
I was only winding you up about tintin, no need to get personal
I apologise about my comments about tintin, just wasn't my thing though, and I will quite happily admit that.
^Wow, first you admit you were purposely trying to be a jerk, then make a fake apology, and then make another snide remark. I'm quite happy you don't like Tintin either because it would shatter the stereotype I have in my mind of the fans being intelligent and worthwhile people.
Tintin sucks.
:e_tongue: Yes, I jest.
Truth is you've gotten me curious about it. Any english Tintin fansites you know of/recommend?
Quote from: Lord Il on October 22, 2009, 03:51:09 PM
Tintin sucks.
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QuoteTruth is you've gotten me curious about it. Any english Tintin fansites you know of/recommend?[/color]
This should be very helpful and has many more links: http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/
LMAO!!!
Awesome! Thank you! ^^
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A little something I found on the internet. Merry Christmas, Hat!
:il_hahaha:
Translations are awesome.
Of course, it may have been photoshopped :/
Meh, either way, I giggled.
<3
The more I look at that image, the more I realize how much Tintin (I assume the sweater guy is the titular character?) looks like Conan O'Brien. Or his hair is a twin, at least XD
The early 90's tintin cartoon was epic. some episodes were split up into 2 parts, so we would have to wait an extra week for some stories to be completed.
Weta studios are working on a live action Tintin. Tintin himself will be CGI. I heard of this in 2007 when I was in New Zealand, though i dont know how far production has come.
Quote from: Pamplemousse on October 22, 2009, 11:07:04 PM
Translations are awesome.
Of course, it may have been photoshopped :/
Meh, either way, I giggled.
<3
From the picture it looks like it's from Tintin in Tibet. I'll go check and see if that dialog is actually in there. Yup, the panel is changed slightly. Haddock says "gong" not "dong".
Quote from: Lan on October 23, 2009, 01:55:17 AM
The early 90's tintin cartoon was epic. some episodes were split up into 2 parts, so we would have to wait an extra week for some stories to be completed.
Weta studios are working on a live action Tintin. Tintin himself will be CGI. I heard of this in 2007 when I was in New Zealand, though i dont know how far production has come.
Yeah, I have one of those two-parters on my set but for some reason Red Rakham's Treasure (I think I may have spelled the pirate's name wrong; I never could remember it) was only 22 minuets long instead of 45! I was so disappointed!
Is that the studio Spielberg works for? I know he's the one who's doing it and has wanted to for quite a long time. The movie was actually supposed to be out this year, but there were delays, so now it's due for 2011. It'll come out in Europe first and then hit the US.
Weta studios is Peter Jackson, of the LoTR fame. Spielberg and i think also Jackson are both working on it, yeah.
Cheeky bugger the apologie was sincere, take it as you wish, who really cares anyhow
It's a shame in this day and age though a few of the cartoons that were in made in the 80's/90's were remade and some of the the remakes were frankley awful, such as he-man (alright they got rid of skeletors camp accent).
Is anybody else watching Venture Brothers? It's amazing that it hasn't lost its' luster at all. I loved Johnny Quest as a kid, so this show aimed at adults is a real treat and right up my alley; heck, Johnny's even been in it!
And now some moments with everyone's favorite henchmen, 21 and 24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQM53TSliM
^ I saw that when they put it on Bravo at 1 in the morning, not a bad cartoon. I found it annoying when they scrapped the UK anime channel but looking back now when it was mainly showing ghost in the shell series repeats for some weird but good reason gi joe and the god forsaken english translates of the japanese transformer series.
I don't watch cartoons unless I bump into an interesting one. Which none of them are nowadays (except South Park). But I sure did watch alot when I was younger. I consider the 90's the golden age of cartoons in some way.
It had those Superhero cartoons done right. (Hannah Barbera simply sucked at that) Spiderman was ok, X-men was great, Batman was awesome. The Ren & Stimpy show was the real standout in that time. Those made by John K at least. It's their sick, twisted and absurd humour that I loved.
Also loved "The Tick" for being a spot-on superhero spoof.
In the 80's I remember watching Dr. Snuggles, Transformers, Ghostbusters, Visionaries, GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, The Archies, Heathcliff, The Smurfs, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Galaxy Goof-ups and Yogi's Space Race and many others.
In the end of the 80's there where also some Dutch cartoons which where pretty good. Alfred J kwak & Boes. Turned out later they where animated in Japan. Yet they don't look like Anime. Not in terms of drawing style at least.
I always liked transformers and action force (gi joe), followed prehaps by cities of gold, thundercats and godzilla
I kind of love My Little Pony Friendship is Magic now. It's a moe moe slice-of-life cartoon about uh, ponies.
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Hells yeah ponies! :ehail:
BRO HOOF
Quote from: Fluttershy on March 04, 2011, 04:12:56 AM
I kind of love My Little Pony Friendship is Magic now. It's a moe moe slice-of-life cartoon about uh, ponies.
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Why does the purple one in the center remind me of Stocking? :il_hahaha:
Quote from: Lord Il on March 04, 2011, 01:37:21 PM
Why does the purple one in the center remind me of Stocking? :il_hahaha:
It is a mystery.
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^Just too awesome for words! lol!
I knew there was something to it.
I didn't really get MLP until after a few more views. It's a very nice show and I really adore the crazy awesome character designs...although I still get a few chuckles from the neighsayers (also known as my friends)
No mention of WAKFU in this thread makes me sad. : <