Favourite cartoon?
 

I'm not talking about the Simpsons or Futurama or South Park or Family Guy, or any other "animated series". I mean the cartoons we watched as kids: the Looney Tunes, Hanna Barbera, Yogi Bear type things. Hell, even the weird Polish or Czech cartoons they used to put on during afternoons on Irish TV, with the fateful words "Well, we're running a little ahead so here's a cartoon" and we'd all cross our fingers for Bugs Bunny or Porky Pig but instead get some incomprehensible drivel about a badly-drawn pencil chasing a magnet or something. Man they were strange!

My own favourites I would narrow down to
Top Cat (YAY!) --- think this was known as Boss Cat in the USA
Pink Panther (A sterling example of how a cartoon with no words AT ALL could be fantastic)
Road Runner (Meep meep!)
Daffy Duck in anything
Yosemite Sam ("When ah says whoa mule, ah MEEEANNS WHOA!")

Others I'll probably think of later.

Care to share your memories of childhood cartoons? Or maybe you still watch them...? :pssst:

Nope, he was Top Cat here too. I used to like him a lot when I was little.

I used to also love Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (talk about fucking weird):

All of those were totally bitchen. I'd add Felix the cat.

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On a non-cartoon related subject I also dug Davey and Goliath. Don't hate. LOL

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From the Looney Tunes my favorite was the rooster. We called him Sofronije, here in Serbia. What the hell was his original name, in English? I can't remember.

I loved this Hungarian cartoon, Gustav. But only when I got a little older I understood how great it really was


Notice the subtle (or not so) proletariat propaganda.

Also, the Italian La Linea was really popular here. Genius



Pink Panther was also my favorite and many more.

I'm almost certain you're referring to Foghorn Leghorn. Great character indeed.

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Yes, that's him. Foghorn Leghorn! No wonder I didn't remember it.
Anyway, the dubbing was so great, all our best actors did it. And thanks to nostalgia, I rarely watch these cartoons in original English, even though now I can. Otherwise I hate dubbing, and luckily, only cartoons were dubbed here.

Dungeons and Dragons:
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He Man, only because She Ra was hot:
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Not including nostalgia, simply what I enjoy most now:

#1.
The Venture Bros.
Because everything about this show.






Runner up:
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at law

Because:


Who is voiced by Stephen Colbert.

Heyyy Real Monsters!

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Home Movies
Metalocalypse

I should have read the OP. My bad. Stuff I watched as a kid can be summed up like any kid who grew up in the 80s and 90s I guess.

Home Movies is my all time favorite cartoon. Coach McGuirk is just too funny.

Dude, I can't believe nobody said Batman: The Animated Series from the nineties. That show was brilliant, and not just in a nostalgic way. Each episode was like its own little movie. The art direction was great with its noir feel. The voice acting was top notch. I mean as much as I love Heath Ledger's Joker, Mark Hamill's Joker is just imprinted on my DNA at this point I've seen so many episodes. And I'll never be able to take Christian Bale seriously after the guy who did the voice for Batman on that show. He had the most badass voice that sounded like it could still melt a girl's panties right off her crotch. And then it helped to launch all the other DC cartoons. Sweet.

If I was going off of strictly stuff I watched when I was real little it would be either Rugrats or Rocko's Modern Life. Early 90's Nick was the illest

Smeenus...those are classics. I think that those plus a few more Looney Tunes cartoons are the best of the best. I've grown a pretty good appreciation of voice actors over the years. I'm starting to become a nerd about it. Billy West, John Dimaggio, Charlie Addler, Mark Hamill, Tress McNeil, Mike Henry, June Foray, Mel Blanc, Mourice LaMarche, Robert Paulsen...these guys are, and for Mel were, amazingly talented in what they do. They're what makes cartoons for me. Here are some of my favorites cartoons, bold highlights my personal top ones...

Ren and Stimpy
Adventure Time
Family Guy
Looney Tunes
Cow and Chicken
The Simpsons

Hey Arnold
Ahhh! Real Monsters
Spongebob Sparepants
Archer
Aqua Teen hunger Force
Yogi Bear
South Park
Bobs Burgers
The Oblongs
Invader Zim
Harvey Birdman
Angry Beavers
Batman Animated Series
Spiderman 67' 81' and 94'
Tom and Jerry
Droopy
The Pink Panther

I know I'm missing something. Oh and **** Scoobie Doo

I don't know about "**** Scoobie Doo" but I've never been that big a fan either. It's one of those shows that you can watch like once a year and be entertained, but since all the episodes are exactly the same it's pretty much impossible to watch it regularly.

I just can't stand that kind of campy comedy that should be left to cartoon animals. All the scenarios just would never happen ever in real life. The humans are idiots and Scooby is a ****ing dog who likes sandwiches. It just annoys me. For some reason i can believe it when they're all animals but the stupidity of the people just makes me mad.

Dude Exoskelton your list is amazing. Except for Aqua Teen, it was really funny for the first 3 seasons but then the show went downhill imo. As for Scooby Doo, you gotta admit that theme song is really catchy. That song gets etched into my brain if I hear it.
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Looney Tunes will always hold a spot for me, way to many memorable episodes. I was really little when I used to watch that on the regular though. I need to go back and watch some soon.

As for some more old favorites

- Dexters Laboratory
- Courage The Cowardly Dog
- Toonami block back in the day

I knew forgot something. Curate the cowardly dog is great but I also forgot one of my all time favorites... Rockos modern life!

Yeah Looney Toons is pretty much universal. You'd have to be dead to not love Looney Toons. Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote were definitely the best. No words, no plot, just gag after flawless gag.

Yeahyuh, I can't help but instantly think of Wile E Coyote whenever I see an Acme store.

I also really liked Tazmanian Devil, he was such a bad ass

I never saw this episode when it originally aired, but it's still pretty shocking even today and hilarious.

Kids cartoons I'll enjoy and chuckle at even now?

Rocko's modern life.
Spongebob squarepants.
Iggy and the cockroaches.
OLD,OLD school tom and jerry. (the ones where you sometimes get the fat black maid's legs in the background...)

Nobody mentioned your idol because I meant (whether I said it or not in the OP) cartoons as in funny cartoons -- your Roadrunner, Tom and Jerry, Pink Panther, Loony Tunes, Duckula etc. Not "animated shows", which includes really the Simpsons and FG though we'll let those slide as they're so popular. I'm talking about things that make you LAUGH, when SILLY things happen like anvils dropping on people or characters running off the celluloid, that sort of thing. I wouldn't consider Batman a cartoon, more an animated show, and I think the difference needs to be noted.

Now, what's that strange hissing sound coming from that metal ball, you say?
Why --- BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!
:D
Now THAT's comedy!

Edit: I just checked. I DID say it, I in fact made it quite clear. Yay for me!

Pink panther is the dullest cartoon ever put on tv IMO. As a kid I saw the pink panther everywhere (lunch boxes..stickers etc) but when i actually saw the show I didn't get why it was famous.

Favourite Simpsons scene.

Oh come on! I LOVE the Pink Panther! He's just the epitome of cool and suave. The great thing about PP other than the music is that there is no, zero, nada dialogue in the cartoons, and yet they're really funny. I can't see why you think it's dull --- compared to T&J maybe; everyone isn't running around blasting into ironing boards or falling off cliffs --- but PP I always sort of saw as the cartoon for the more sophisticated, savvy viewer. Love the guy! :thumb:

For me, my top 3 favs of all time, has to be, in no particular order...

DangerMouse
Tom & Jerry
Wacky Races

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Hey Arnold

Definitely one of the most watched cartoons of my childhood. I still have this damn song in my head to this day:

Didn't like Hey Arnold purely because of the shape of his head...

Clam it football head!

Just completely wierd

Hey Arnold was awesome, and everyone in that show had weird heads and faces.

That show reminds me of Doug, which was another classic nick toon.

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Popeye. I started eating spinach because of him and mum was proud.

Marine Boy, the Citizen Kane of animated series
Johnny Quest
Hector Heathcote
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Top Cat (Boss Cat in the UK)
Tom and Jerry
Mickey Mouse short films, especially those featuring Goofy
Abbott and Costello animated series
Deputy Dawg
Secret Squirrel with Morocco Mole (that name must've been deliberate)
Shazam
Captain Pugwash
Mr Benn
Pixie and Dixie
The original The Jetsons
Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound
The Flintstones
From the eighties, The Raccoons and Inspector Gadget

I also liked real puppets, like Twizzle and Thunderbirds, but it's probably another thread.

What he said. In fact, I was sure I commented on this ... must have gotten moderated :P
To the above I'd add my favorite clip, the "Mecha Shiva"


Venture Bros, in case you haven't guessed, is my favorite cartoon too. Awesome on so many levels, on all levels in fact.
I only regret not being able to watch it with my Polish friends, it's first of all full of US pop culture references that most of them simply don't get, and 2nd - it's also very hard at times to understand. The language is great, many memorable lines but there are times when there are 3+ people talking at the same time and there's background music that is kind of too loud to be in the background...
Other than that, Yac approves.