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When I was a kid? A lot of the ones some of the younger folks mentioned weren't around when I was a kid. :P :lol: 

 

The ones I was into as a kid:

Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner (and the hour long show they had on Saturday mornings)

Jay Ward (Rocky and Bullwinkle, Tennessee Tuxedo, Hoppity Hooper, etc.)

Disney cartoons (back before CGI)

Older cartoons from the 40s, the ones that used to be shown along with movies in the theaters

And others, such as Yogi Bear, Popeye, Huckleberry Hound

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I loved cartoons growing up and even well into my 20s and even now, I will sit down and watch them:

Battle for the Planets

Voltron

Robotech (bka Macross Saga these days)

All the Hanna-Barbera cartoons:  The Flintstones, Jetsons, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo (and variations), Huckleberry Hound, Batman & Robin ...

Super Friends (recreated as League of Justice later)

Inspector Gadget

Transformers

The Real Ghostbusters

Beetlejuice

Pokeman

X-Men (before the reboot after the first movie came out)

Jackie Chan Adventures

Static Shock

Men In Black: The Series

 

More recently, I've enjoyed My Little Pony (current series), Gravity Falls, Doctor Strange, and a few others.

 

Disney-wise, I've never been a big fan, but I love Lilo & Stitch, Moana, Zootopia, and Frozen I & II.

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As a kid?  Darkwing Duck.
Now?  I don't know.... Home Movies (though it's not a current show, it's old enough and I've only watched about half the episodes) and... Darkwing Duck.  And so on and so forth.  I mostly watch anime and like other cartoons as well..... :)

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thegreatwolf

Way to many to list and thanks to channels like boomerang time era wise it's all over the place some favorites include:

 

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Digimon Frontier

Pokémon (Kanto to maybe hoenn region if I remember)

Pink Panther

Looney Tunes

Tom and Jerry

PowerPuff Girls

 

Modern wise mostly watch anime due to not watching a lot of tv the only three I can think of are Ducktales (2010s), Amazing World of Gumball, and  Big Hero 6 the series

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Diana DeLuna

I watched a ton of cartoons as a kid. All the Bugs Bunny and Hanna Barbera stuff, obv. What stands out as an older kid was absolutely The Smurfs. As a young adult, I loved Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. Hell, I still own and wear my Pinky & the Brain sweatshirt, as well as a shirt with Wakko on it. And Dot thought she was the cutest Warner kid. Nah, that title as Wakko's bar none. 🙃

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Spicy_Mochi

Speed racer and Pingu! Those were the good days

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Re-runs of Warner Bros ... really didn't like most Hanna Barbera (Flintstones and Tom & Jerry aside). We watched a lot the crap 60s stuff because it was on and we had three channels (Rocket Robin Hood, Mighty Hercules, even Spiderman back then was crap ... like a bad drug drip half the time).

 

Contemporary to my childhood... 

 

The Smurfs

Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin

The Raccoons

Tintin

Eek the Cat / Terrible Thunderlizards

Robotech ... watching now, marveling how much death I saw as a kid!!!

Droids

(all of these still hold up and I'll watch from time to time)

 

Muppet Babies

Beetlejuice

Freakazoid

Animaniacs

Tiny Toons

ALF ... animated

The Smoggies

The Real Ghostbusters

Duck Tails

Tail Spin

My Pet Monster

Fables of the Green Forest

Astro Boy ... have been looking for the Canadian dub for years!

Batman: The Animated Series

Babar

(haven't watched in years, but am sure they'd still hold up)

 

Care Bears ... too sappy

GI Joe ... loved the comics, show was too tame

Transformers ... cool toys, never a fan of the show ... trend here, shows to shill toys ...

He-Man

MASK

Tundercats

(pretty sure they're crap :)

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When I was around 4 I loved Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and anime Cardcaptor Sakura. And I remember that I also watched DuckTales 🙂

Also I completely forgot the plot but once I remembered that I watched Princesse Shéhérazade and Jackie Chan Adventures as well.

When I became older (around 8-10) I really liked to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Scooby Doo. I was a fan of Scooby Doo and even got some comics and PC games.

Then, when I was around age of 11-12 I saw W.I.T.C.H. for the first time and became a huge fan of it. I didn't have Jetix (we had very few channels on TV and no kid's channel) and the internet so some friend of my parents downloaded it for me 😃 Later I got books, magazines, a game and some other fan stuff. I even was an admin of a few fan clubs in vk.com 😁 And I'd love to rewatch it one day cause it was so cool! That's a shame it never got third season.

When I was 14-15 I watched DreamWorks Dragons.

And my last watched cartoon series that I liked were The Long Long Holiday and Disenchantment.

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DarkStormyKnight

Haha I think I'm more into cartoons now as an adult than I ever was as a kid. ATLA and Steven Universe are definitely my favorites. ❤️ 

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On 4/18/2020 at 1:10 AM, Perspektiv said:

Les Mystérieuses Cités D'Or

I love that theme tune, whenever I listen to it is sends tingles through me.

 

 

On 4/18/2020 at 3:18 PM, DarkStormyKnight said:

Haha I think I'm more into cartoons now as an adult than I ever was as a kid. ATLA and Steven Universe are definitely my favorites. ❤️ 

I still watch cartoons as an adult, and I am not embarrassed to admit it. I would much rather watch cartoons than movies which have violence or fighting in them.

 

And I found this amazing new version of the Raccoons theme tune! Well, I suppose it is not exactly new, it appears to be about six years old now.

I liked and I still like the Lisa Lougheed version that was used in the English version of the actual show for most of the seasons, but this is also a really good version which is slightly more up tempo and jazzed up:

 

Spoiler

 

 

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Animaniacs, or Voltron, depending on what age you mean. Voltron was my jam when I was very young, and I still feel attached to it more than other properties.

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On 3/22/2020 at 2:10 PM, Ortac said:

The Raccoons. This was really good Saturday morning viewing. The soft rock track that accompanies the closing credits was an amazing tune.

I love The Raccoons.  I used to watch it as a kid, but I forgot itcexisted until twenty years later when I was struggling to find employment.  It really got me through a rough patch.  I tried to get my siblings into it, but they just couldn’t get over how weird Bert’s misshapen Gonzo nose looked.

 

Did you hear they’re working on a reboot?

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When I was younger I loved Ben 10 (orginal, Alien force and Ultimate Alien), Teen titans. I still love teen titans but  I haven't really watched any of the Ben 10's again. I now really love Gravity falls and Avatar the last airbender 

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I love cartoons. I grew up on a lot of older ones like Jay Ward's stuff (superchicken was my favourite) and Hanna Barbera stuff. I also grew up on Disney Afternoon cartoons and have seen a good chunk of them like 15 times over. Darkwing duck is my ABSOLUTE favourite and always will be. I still watch a lot of cartoons and I like the new DuckTales, Avatar, Infinity Train, Batman the Animated Series, Transformers, and just everything that has really good storytelling I guess.

 

One super obscure one that I adored as a child was Tutenstein. It was like a show made by like national geographic or some company like that that was supposed to teach kids about ancient Egypt but it was sooooo good. It was about a tween girl that accidentally brought a kid mummy back to life at a museum and they have adventures and deal with Egyptian gods and stuff.

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If I'm including anime, my favorite was Dragon Ball Z, and that should surprise no one who knows me. 

If I'm excluding anime, Futurama. I enjoyed watching a lot of shows, but generally all the same. And since I started watching Futurama before I was an adult, I'm counting it as when I was a kid. And I fucking LOVE Futurama.

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long nights

The Looney Tunes, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Hey Arnold, Rocco's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, Tom and Jerry.

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J. van Deijck

Shaun the Sheep. I still love this little guy :D

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SoggyDoggy

I have an absolutely massive time range of cartoons that I have watched and my favorite list reflects it. My favorites are the OG Scooby Doo (The theme is still one of my favorites), Samurai Jack (which is literally animated art) Courage the Cowardly dog (there has still never been a cartoon villain that can top that creepy cat), Batman: the animated series (whose animation may not have aged well at its worst but far surpasses anything created nowadays at its best, and on top of that has the most kick ass voice acting crew I’ve ever had the privilege to hear and even further on top of that scripts and stories that make every individual episode Oscar worthy), and of course, the modern classics, Gravity Falls and Adventure Time. I’m kind of disappointed with the cartoons coming out right now, namely, Owl House, which I was extremely disappointed with, but so far Infinity Train has been pretty great and Villainous is coming out soon bringing with it a revival in traditional animation, so I still have hope.

 

runner up:

Avatar: the last air bender (it had an amazing story and was beautifully animated, but I think at times poorly written script made the overall story suffer and the transient nature of the show made it difficult to stay grounded in the world they depicted. It’s is still one of my favorite shows but it is just shy of being in my top favorites)

 

Edit: I just have to add Over The Garden Wall and Spider-man Unlimited to this list. OTGW is one of the most beautiful, emotional and atmospheric shows seen in the advent of modern cartoons and is as darn near close to a work of art that you can get for a kids show. Spider-man Unlimited makes it on this list not because it’s particularly good, but because it’s so awful and disgustingly 80s that you absolutely cannot take your eyes off of it even as you are cringing and itching to grab the control. 

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BodhranBace

my little ponies, friendship is magic

the pink panther

Eek the cat. not to be confused with Felix the cat, animated porno. Eek is much more ace friendly. and political

 

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On 3/22/2020 at 7:10 PM, Ortac said:

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or). This was a joint Franco/Japanese production and was truly epic. The series seemed to go on and on and never end! The theme tune was incredible too. What was really good about this show is that at the end of every cartoon, each episode featured a short real life documentary where they talked about the real places that the cartoon story was based on.

 

 

 

OMG that's it, this'll be stuck in my head for ages now! Every time someone mentions it....

 

 

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Macaron Moo
On 3/22/2020 at 7:10 PM, Ortac said:

 

Tom and Jerry, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, the Pink Panther (which also featured the Ant and the Aardvark, Crazy Legs Crane, and The Inspector cartoons), He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Inspector Gadget, Batfink.

 

Dastardly and Muttley in their flying machines. Nobody ever seems to mention or remember this. It was a Wacky Races spin off but was way better than Wacky Races in my opinion.

 

The Raccoons. This was really good Saturday morning viewing. The soft rock track that accompanies the closing credits was an amazing tune.

 

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (Les Mystérieuses Cités d'Or). This was a joint Franco/Japanese production and was truly epic. The series seemed to go on and on and never end! The theme tune was incredible too. What was really good about this show is that at the end of every cartoon, each episode featured a short real life documentary where they talked about the real places that the cartoon story was based on. 

 

Basically all of these, honourable mention to She-Ra, I basically wanted to be She Ra, still kind of do.

 

I also have a big Wile E Coyote toy I can't quite bring myself to part with, I call him my emotional support coyote as he's good for hugs! 😁

 

Additionally when I was really young I watched Rainbow Brite, later on was Garfield and Friends (Orson's Farm), Ducktales, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain and the Simpsons. 

 

There was a lot to be getting on with!

 

 

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