Most episodes of a cartoon

[Drakkon]

WAtching the MAcys parade scooby doo baloon comes on and katie couric says scooby doo has the most episodes airing of any cartoon series. Is this true? I thought Simpsons was the longest running cartoon with the most episodes? Or the Flintstones...
anyone with any insight on this?

 

[Gunbuster]

Gundam, Dragonball, or something by Rumiko Takahashi

 

[BrokenVisage]

Gundam? lol, Asians and their silly cartoon names.

 

[dakata24]

detective conan... 420 eps and still going..

dont know what the appeal is with it though. it's just ok.

 

[villageidiot111]

I think the Flintstones has been on the air longer than any other cartoon, but it doesn't have the most episodes.

 

[ThEFeAR]

Apparantly its true, this was on the news a few months ago. If anyone had asked me I would have said 'The Simpsons' as well, but when you think about it 'Scooby Doo' has been around for 40 odd years (guessing) in some form or another.

 

[mugs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby_Doo

No. of episodes 371

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_simpsons

No. of episodes 362

 

[Drakkon]

so wow...looks like they are practically a tie at the moment...so they can just keep making up new characters for scooby doo and it can continue going....simpsons on the other hand can't quiet keep doing that seems like. and yeah looks like flintstons only has 166 (thank you wikipedia
i see no # of episodes for gundam but says its been running since 1981? so i imagne they are verging on 500?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: mugs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby_Doo

No. of episodes 371

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_simpsons

No. of episodes 362

wow that is very suprising. I would have never had thought Scooby had more shows that the Simpsons.

 

[Drakkon]

i think since they count ALL the incarnation of scooby and scrappy and etc thats why it gets that number up there. Simpsons has no spinoffs thus no addition of extra episodes like that. Simpsons defaintely has the most episodes of a single run of a cartoon (or is it of all tv apart from news shows?)

I'd really like to see a cletus the slackjawed yokel spinoff, or a ralph spinoff, there spinoff episode had a couple good ideas actually...