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| "Super Genius" | "Boy, you 'bout as shaaap as a bowlin' ball" | "Git er goin, or I'll blow yer carcass right out from under your hat" |
Posted on 07/09/2007 7:40:58 AM PDT by Millee
For nearly a century, America has loved cartoons. We love talking dogs and courageous mice. We fantasize about giant robots and rocket rides through space. Every Saturday, millions of kids pile in front of their basement TVs, chomping sugary cereals and delighting in animated adventures: Scrooge McDuck seeking troves of gold, Elmer Fudd hunting wascawy wabbits, Tom chasing Jerry, Ren conning Stimpy, Itchy murdering Scratchy ...
When you think about it, cartoons are the first pop culture a child sees. Before they've heard an entire Raffi CD, kids have already memorized the Disney pantheon, from Chip and Dale to Baloo the Bear. Kids are picky customers, but they get addicted fast. And sometimes the shows they love are less than perfect -- badly written, poorly animated and ultimately brain-rotting -- and years later, after a kid has grown up and become a successful video-game tester, he will discover that a favorite cartoon really wasn't up to par.
Here are some of our favorite shockers, cartoons that seemed so much better when we were young. We may have spent hours, even entire weekends, following these colorful stories (we were mere tots! Who could blame us?), but now that DVDs can allow for a second viewing, we wonder what we were thinking. Hindsight may be 20/20, but regret is forever.
(Excerpt) Read more at tv.msn.com ...
Rocky & Bullwinkle were, far and away, the best cartoon; Bugs Bunny’s Loony Tunes a distant second.
That’s funny, as a kid i hated the Rocky & Bullwinkle and associated Cartoons, They seemed very weird to me at the time. The Mighty Mouse and Popeye ones were tied as a close second.
I loved the Warner Bros and the EARLY Hannah Barbera’s.
Jonny Quest was awesome! I had a crush on Race Bannon for the longest. Speed Racer was also pretty cool - had a crush on Racer X for awhile there!
You didn’t get to see Muhammad Ali fight because jihad hadn’t been declare, er. no. ACT (Action for Children’s Television) castrated tv fare and made it all “socially conscious”. Remember Yogi’s Ark where the Yogi Bear crew kept confronting polluters like some kind of anthropomorphic Greenpeace and the revamped Tom & Jerry cartoons where they were friends???
The president of ACT was sat down to watch some of these cartoons. She was not entertained but she was not offended by them either.
One of the creators of the Planet of the Apes cartoon said that they were challenged when they had the apes carrying guns, saying that children may mimic that behavior, so they made the guns much bigger and more complicated to make them appear like more unobtainable “cartoon” guns (but they were still bigger). This was an “acceptable” solution.
This critic is young. And as I indicated above, most cartoons produced after 1975 are going to suck royally. There were some interesting things done in the 1980s (including the unavailable Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse cartoons that included Ren & Stimpy’s John K. on staff).
This list is an embarassment and seems to have been compiled because of the availablilty of all of these series on DVD (which the author/site will see money from the “buy it” links).
“Transformers”
“Silverhawks”
“Pokémon”
“The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo”
“Jem”
“Goof Troop”
“Captain Planet”
Felix the Cat..!!
Oh yeah!
Bullwinkle J Moose here! [a fair approximation of voice for a 60 year old]
And Rocky and Natasha . . .
2. Popeye Cartoons produced with Bluto (or was it Brutu?) after 1955.
3. The "nice" Tom and Jerry cartoons produced from the 1960s on.
4. The GI Joe Cartoon.
5. HeMan (GAY!)
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| "Super Genius" | "Boy, you 'bout as shaaap as a bowlin' ball" | "Git er goin, or I'll blow yer carcass right out from under your hat" |
What I got the biggest kick out of is how Boris and Natasha were the only characters who seems to recognize that Rocky and Bullwinkle weren’t people (Moose and ‘Skvirrel’, as Natasha called them.) It was years later before I realize there actually was a Boris Godonov.
Always with an eye on Speed & crew.
Gee, thanks! You single? Cute? You like old fat guys? ...(sigh)...
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