eg. I was obsessed with Teenage mutant ninja turtles as a kid
Batman the animates series.
The old Tom & Jerry Cartoons. Even my kids are disappointed when they start watching Tom & Jerry and then notice that it’s the new stuff. Same with Looney Tunes.
Batman, the animated series. Sometimes I’d get home in time to watch it and I was always really excited when I realized that it was on. From my younger years then it’s definitely Thundercats. Thundercats. Thundercats! HOOOO!!!
I miss Gargoyles. I loved having Diana Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes back together again.
Marina. And, I feel you on the Gargoyles.
My favourite trope is the Xanatos Gambit.
Old Warner cartoons, notably road runner.
World Premiere toons on cartoon network.
Just end nineties cartoon network, that was the best.
Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, Wacky Races… I’ll still watch them if I stumble upon them.
Meep meep beats Acme Inc every time.
That bird probably owns stock in acme lol
Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes. Hands down.
Where in the world is Carman Sandiego
Courage the cowardly dog
The flintstones
Courage still haunts my nightmares to this day. Excellent show.
Thundercats
Futurama
Good news everyone!
Samurai Jack
Who dares to summon the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow, Aku?
Invader Zim. Haven’t watched it in years but I still quote it.
Ulysses 31 was a space travel cartoon with Greek theming.
It was a International-Japanese production and had one of the most kick-ass theme songs ever.
GI Joe
Reagan-era propaganda for children.
After showing my ex (when we were like 20yo) the Transformers movie (which holds up and is awesome), we decided to rent the GI Joe movie. All the badies had foreign accents. The plot revolved around some type of energy crisis. I even remember a corporate slogan for Amex worked its way into the TV show: never leave home without it.
The people who made that show should be held accountable for propagandizing children.
What? It was pure marketing for the toys. So was transformers. It was this whole thing in the 80s, but GI Joe was pretty much the classic example of it. But there was strawberry shortcake, rainbow bright, even he-man, and others.
Unless you’re using propaganda in place of advertising/marketing?
But the history of the GI Joe show and toys is well documented, and it wasn’t tied to political shit except indirectly, in that it was essentially all US military at first.
Mind you, it eventually jumped the shark with the snake king and such as that. But it was never done as military propaganda as the goal.
The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.
I loved it myself, but Golobulus? Kinda jumping the shark lol. Jumping the snake for sure.
Yeah a lot of older cartoons are problematic.
Tom and Jerry and pretty much any of the very old cartoons: racism
Transformers and He-man: basically made to sell toys. i.e consumerism
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I have nostalgia for my late-teens early 20s cartoon consumption. I was still watching Batman:TAS and the 90s Spider-Man series. There were flashes of high-intensity (if not well told) brilliance from the 90s Real Adventures of Jonny Quest series. I have to admit, the CGI they used was not as well executed as Reboot. Darkwing Duck, Peter Pan and the Pirates, and Gargoyles were shows what I looked back on fondly.
Daria, Clone High, and Ren and Stimpy all made an impact on me as a young adult. Daria, for its sardonic, anti-establishment stance. Clone High for its mockery of sitcoms and rom-coms and teen angst. Ren and Stimpy for pushing everything past its limit.
In the end, though, it was Samurai Jack and 90s X-Men that stood head and shoulders above them all. X-Men because it was what I collected and knew the best. Samurai Jack because it was cinematic, well- paced, and offered me something that no other TV show, movie, cartoon series, or comic book did or could: “… [a] fool [who] seeks to return to the past to undo the future that is Aku!”
If you aren’t watching the new X-Men 97 show you should give it a shot. It picks up at the end of the original run and has been pretty entertaining so far.
