August 21, 200719 yr atticus7, I love Courage the Cowardly Dog. Courage rocks. :thumb: I also like the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's A Monkey, Fairly Odparents, Avatar The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Kids Next Door, Duck Dodgers But my favorite right now is Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. Pretty cool cartoon and one that always makes me laugh with my kids.
August 21, 200719 yr The Looney Toons and Tom & Jerry are the best cartoons in history. I could watch Bugs and company all day long....and have when the Boomarang Network used to have the June Bug marathons. Most of the new cartoons over the past 20 years are not for me. Too gross, not funny, too far 'out there'.
August 21, 200719 yr It's funny that you all talk about the Smurfs because I had to write a paper about them and how they are communist propoganda. Sounds crazy, but there is actually tons of stuff on the internet about it...check it out, lol.
August 21, 200719 yr That looks horrible. On a side note, the creators of the show are members of the band The Aquabats, the former band of Travis Barker. While I love Barker, I admit his immaturity showed with Blink-182, and it seems his ex-bandmates have found a way to channel their inner stupidity.
August 21, 200719 yr One man's opinion... CHILDREN's cartoons went by the wayside when they became nothing more than unabashed advertisements for toys and related products. He Man/MOTU comes to mind; so does Pokemon.
August 21, 200719 yr Author Of course, I loved He-Man, but the commercial advertisements were annoying.
August 21, 200719 yr I would have to add to the list: 2 angry beavers Cow and chicken Bevis and Butthead What! I loved that cartoon. Probably one of the better Nicktoons out there. Now, "Fairly Odd Parents" is my fave and the best Nicktoon ever. Worst, "Kappa Mikey":sleep:.
August 21, 200719 yr I'm with you Ram! I loved getting up on Saturdays as a kid and watching Popeye, Bugs, Daffy and the gang. I don't know when cartoons started being just for adults but think that it's sad that kids now days miss out. I'm pretty sure all Looney Tunes (Bugs, Daffy, Yosemite Sam, etc..) were created for adult viewing. For the old movie houses I think.
August 21, 200719 yr I'm pretty sure all Looney Tunes (Bugs, Daffy, Yosemite Sam, etc..) were created for adult viewing. For the old movie houses I think. Actually, they were both for kids and adults. There were certain things in the older cartoons that only adults would pick up (WWII propaganda in the '40s, for example, or the various pop culture references you would find in Bugs Bunny and the like). By the same token, the cartoons were designed with humor in mind and cute animation that drew kids in. It was definitely with The Simpsons that the cartoon genre (at least, cartoons watched by a mainstream audience) had a wedge driven into it marking adult cartoons as opposed to children's programming. It was kind of intentional on Groening's part, as he wanted to draw a clear line between his show, which is written more like a sitcom, than the half-hour advertisements that had taken over the cartoon world with crap (IMO, anyway) like Transformers and He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Personally, I think the ground laid by The Simpsons and then driven over by stuff like Ren & Stimpy (in the John K years), South Park, Beavis and Butthead, and now, the stuff you see on Sunday nights on Cartoon Network's [adultswim] lineup is the only thing that's saved cartoons as we used to know it from the unwatchable kiddie stuff.
August 22, 200719 yr Personally, I think the ground laid by The Simpsons and then driven over by stuff like Ren & Stimpy (in the John K years), South Park, Beavis and Butthead, and now, the stuff you see on Sunday nights on Cartoon Network's [adultswim] lineup is the only thing that's saved cartoons as we used to know it from the unwatchable kiddie stuff. Agreed, but I hope you don't count Aqua Teen Hunger Force as one of those that are watchable. I know it is supposed to be quite quirky, but it's just too much.
August 22, 200719 yr Agreed, but I hope you don't count Aqua Teen Hunger Force as one of those that are watchable. I know it is supposed to be quite quirky, but it's just too much. Too much is correct. It's absolutely hysterical. Then again, I've always had a love of the absurd.
August 22, 200719 yr atticus7, I love Courage the Cowardly Dog. Courage rocks. :thumb: I also like the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's A Monkey, Fairly Odparents, Avatar The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Kids Next Door, Duck Dodgers But my favorite right now is Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. Pretty cool cartoon and one that always makes me laugh with my kids. My son and you would get along just fine. Those are all his favorites.
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